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Archive for April 21st, 2014

Fighting Cargo Cult – The Incomplete SSL/TLS Bookmark Collection (via: Danimo’s blog and Kristian Köhntopp G+)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/21

Thanks Kristian Köhntopp for sharing a link to Fighting Cargo Cult – The Incomplete SSL/TLS Bookmark Collection | Danimo’s blog.

–jeroen

Posted in OpenSSL, Power User, Security | Leave a Comment »

Fonera Simpl Wireless Settings : Fon Support

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/21

Somehow my Fonera insisted that WiFi channel 2 was a good choice.

It isn’t so I forced it to be on one of the good 1/6/11 channel choices.

This links describes where those settings are: Fonera Simpl Wireless Settings : Fon Support.

–jeroen

Posted in Fonera FON2100A, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Today I learned… :) I didn’t know about this syntax for properties… (via: Roman Yankovsky – Google+)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/21

Interesting: Roman Yankovsky just wrote about a property syntax that I didn’t know about either:

Today I learned… :)

I didn’t know about this syntax for properties:

FStrings: array [0..1] of string;
property String0: string read FStrings[0] write FStrings[0];
property String1: string read FStrings[1] write FStrings[1];

Now I hope someone finds out in which Delphi version this syntax was introduced.

–jeroen

via: Roman Yankovsky – Google+ – Today I learned… :) I didn’t know about this syntax for….

Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development | 10 Comments »

Chrome’s Click to play feature can avoid “Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night, with monsters.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/21

A while ago I came across this very neat bug report:

Issue 224182 – chromium – Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night, with monsters. – An open-source project to help move the web forward. – Google Project Hosting.

It isn’t so much a bug report, but a big annoyance with many browsers and web-sites: they auto-start playing video or audio (or other “active” content) as soon as the page loads, even in a background window.

The Chrome’s Click to play feature can help avoid this: you can configure this to the individual site and plugin level to select which ones to auto-play or block.

It increases your security, speeds up browser load times at the cost of a click here and there to enable a sites active content (on some sites: a lot of clicks, but alas: they should redesign to be less dependent on active content).

–jeroen

–via: Issue 224182 – chromium – Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night, with monsters. – An open-source project to help move the web forward. – Google Project Hosting.

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