An interesting discussion about the Delphi ARC compilers and Free versus DisposeOf is at Ondrej Pokorny – Google+ – Just realized: For me the most dangerous thing in ARC is….
Archive for March 12th, 2014
Delphi ARC: Free versus DisposeOf (via: Ondrej Pokorny – Google+)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
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Lots of 2.5, 3.5 and 5.25 conversion brackets, cages and hot-swap bays
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
To get me some ideas on what is available on the market right now: ADATA, CORSAIR, CRUCIAL, PLEXTOR, SAMSUNG, INTEL & OCZ SSD (SG OFFICIAL DISTROS WTY).
For ZFS, this seems the controller of choice:
- IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller for System x – Forum – Tweakers.
Het grote DIY RAID NAS topic deel 3 – Opslagtechnologie – GoT.
PCI-e 8 Port HBA for ZFS – Suggestions for 4TB+ support – [H]ard|Forum.
For high-density data,
- a 15mm 2.5inch 2TB drive: Toshiba MQ01ABB, 2TB – Prijzen – Tweakers.
- 1TB and 1.5TB drives of various heights: Interne harde schijven – Prijzen en Specificaties – Tweakers.
For fast data:
- SSDs around 1TB: Solid state drives – Prijzen en Specificaties – Tweakers.
Everything needs to fit in something like this HP XW6600. For Raid-Z3 you need many drives according to Raid Calculator | Raid Disk Space Utilization Calculator | ServeTheHomeSTH – Server and Workstation Reviews (as it can loose 3 drives: ZFS Raidz Performance, Capacity and Integrity Comparison @ Calomel.org) another calculator for risks: RAID Reliability Calculator – Simple MTTDL Model – ServeTheHomeSTH – Server and Workstation Reviews.
You can also use the below bays for instance for Finding Uses for Old 2.5″ Hard Drives | | Que.
A few remarks on 2.5inch disk solutions:
- Delock 5.25 Wechselrahmen für 4 x 2.5 SATA HDD.
Has no fan, fits quad drives up to 14.5mm height. - MB994SP-4SB-1_ToughArmor Series_2.5″ SAS/SATA CAGES_ICY DOCK.
Has fan, fits quad drives up to 15mm height. Read the rest of this entry »
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VMware Front Experience: How to make your unsupported SATA AHCI Controller work with ESXi 5.5
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
Interesting: VMware Front Experience: How to make your unsupported SATA AHCI Controller work with ESXi 5.5.
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Interesting Spring4D based `function TDataSetExtensions.Select(): IEnumerable` on reddit
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
Very interesting helper function:
function TDataSetExtensions.Select<TResult>: IEnumerable<TResult>–jeroen
via: Reddit: Delphi sorcery: Spring4D roadmap : delphi.
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On the 25th anniversary of the web, let’s keep it free and open (via: Tim Berners-Lee’s guest post on the Official Google Blog)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
Today, on the 25th anniversary of “the web“, be sure to read Tim Berners-Lee‘s guest post Official Google Blog: On the 25th anniversary of the web, let’s keep it free and open.
Then – after watching his below video message – please help to keep the web free and open.
–jeroen
Greeting from Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on the Web’s 25th anniversary on Vimeo on Vimeo
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$120 Raspberry Pi Bundle with LCD Display, Expansion Boards, Cables, and Accessories (via: Jean-Luc Aufranc – Google+)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
Jean-Luc Aufranc. is a great guy with lots of knowledge in the embedded world (read his resume).
I’ve been interested in Raspberry Pi experiments for a while now, so I was glad that today he pointed me to this very nice kit:
$120 Raspberry Pi Bundle with LCD Display, Expansion Boards, Cables, and Accessories
You can get it through DealExtreme, which I will do soon.
(I just saw how a guy is using a massive amount of Raspberry Pi and custom ASICs to mine for BitCoins)
–jeroen
via Jean-Luc Aufranc – Google+.
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CodeRage 8 replays – Embarcadero Technologies – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
For my own link archive: CodeRage 8 replays – Embarcadero Technologies – YouTube.
Lots of nice sessions, including these REST sessions:
About the REST support in Delphi: make sure you take a look at the REST Debugger application, as you get full source code for it and is an excellent starting point to see how the REST components work together (it is written using the FireMonkey UI framework so it runs on a Mac as well as on Windows).
David I explains more about the REST Debugger here: Sip from the Firehose : Using the REST Debugger will help you prototype your Delphi and C++ REST apps.
Jim McKeeth has a really nice video about it as well on XE5 REST Debugger Supercharged | The Podcast at Delphi.org which describes how to use Delphi the Delphi REST tools to use KimonoLabs to scrape data from web sites:
kimono : Turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in seconds.
–jeroen.
RestDemo folder with many examples that connect to many social things (Twitter, FaceBook, DropBox, etc).
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History: run HD image with Borland’s Turbo Pascal 5.5/6.0/7.0 and Microsoft’s QuickPascal 1.0 in VMware Fusion
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
Edit 20250102: added various “[Wayback/Archive]” archival links, VMware information, amended TUWA location, and added alternative csboot.zip download location on the Internet Archive (the Wayback Machine download is broken and the original gone)
A really long time ago, I posted in [Wayback/Archive] history – What features contributed to the evolution of Pascal? – Programmers indicating there was a [Wayback/Archive] Hard Disk Image of MS-DOS 6.22 with Pascal for Computer Studies. In fact, that is an IMG file of a DOS hard disk. And this posts shows how to use it with VMware Fusion on Mac OS X. The is a hard disk image contains:
- A full version of MS-DOS 6.22 (MSDN Original)
- Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0 (main)
- Borland Turbo Pascal 6.0
- Borland Turbo Pascal 5.5
- Microsoft QuickPascal 1.0
Edit 20250102: does not work under VMware Fusion when you run Apple Silicon. Not figured out a performant alternative yet. Will try figuring out later.
DOS on a Mac
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 