Archive for April, 2014
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/19
Both VMware Fusion and Workstation can give you the error “There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation” if you expand the virtual disk of a virtual machine.
It occurs when there is less free disk space available on the host disk containing the virtual disk than the newly requested space of the virtual disk. In short: you must have enough room to store the original virtual disk plus the expanded virtual disk. This holds for VMware Player too.
This is a real problem if your main system has SSD only (like a Retina MacBook Pro) where there is an even bigger fight for disk space than HDD based hosts.
It is one of the reasons not only my main system has an SSD drive, but also an external USB3 SSD drive to temporarily make more room available.
–jeroen
Posted in Fusion, Power User, VMware, VMware Workstation | Tagged: virtual disk, VMware Fusion | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/19
Reaver-WPS is an excellent tool to test the security of your WPA/WPA2 secured network against the WPS vulnerability.
Getting Reaver 1.4 (which contains wash to scan WiFi networks) to compile out of the box on OS X Mavericks (which is 10.9; why can’t they keep a successive version number in the product name?) didn’t work.
So I downloaded the adapted source pack from one of the comments in Issue 245 – reaver-wps – Support for Mac OS X? – Brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup – Google Project Hosting (as the diff still not has been applied to the codebase)..
wash will detect most, but not all networks. I’ve net yet tried WireShark, wpscan and wspy yet (they re supposed to get all of them).
To speed up the checking process I tried on install aircrack-ng to associate a Mac with the target network. Compiling aircrack-ng on a Mac from source didn’t work at all. But after installing MacPorts, I could get the MacPorts version of aircrack-ng to work. The bad news: I could not get aircrack-ng to associate to the network.
So these were the commands I used: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Monitoring, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/19
GExperts 1.37 (commit 875, but no tag yet) now supports Delphi XE6 and XE5, and ahost of older Delphi versions. Binary downloads are available at Download | GExperts
These were the release news items:
In addition to what is in those items, 1.37contain a substantial speed improvement and some other fixes from me (I hope this fix also will get in later) in the Grep Search.
It is likely that this will be the last GExperts that support Pre-Delphi-2007 versions (currently 2006, 2005, 8.02, 7.1 and 6.02).
It is not clear if there will be a GExperts for Appmethod, as Appmethod does not provide functioning command-line compilers like I already blogged about in Spring4D now has projects for Appmethod, but it cannot support Appmethod in the automated build engine.
You can get an Experimental GExperts version for Delphi XE6..6.02 (that includes a source formatter) from Experimental GExperts Version » twm’s blog.
From Thomas Mueller (the author of the experimental GExperts versions), there are also a few other interesting blog posts you probably will like:
–jeroen
via: Download | GExperts.
Posted in Appmethod, Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi 8, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Development, Software Development | Tagged: GExperts | 6 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/18
Boy, I wish I had found this far earlier:
- in Windows Explorer this is called cut & paste:
Ctrl+X & Ctrl+V
- in Mac OS X Finder this is called copy & move items here:
Command+C & Command+Option+V
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/17
Windows 8.1 Update has the search icon and power off button at the top right side on the home screen.After the interesting piece at Microsoft Abandons Windows 8.1: Take Immediate Action Or Be Cut Off Like Windows XP I decided to make sure it is installed on all my Windows 8.x systems. That wasn’t so easy as “apply this update”.
There are various reasons the update can fail (at least one is even lying, see below) and there is no obviously automated way to check it has been applied.
First of all, two checks to see if Windows 8.1 Update is installed. From my question Batch file: how to check if Windows 8.1 update is installed – Super User I learned this simple statement:
reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v BuildLabEx
If it returns a value of 17031 or higher, then Windows 8.1 Update is installed. The second and third scripts at How to differentiate Windows 8.1 Update 1 from Windows 8.1? are elaborating on that version number.
But for the average user it is even easier: on the home screen, check if the search icon (magnification glass) is visible. See the image on the right.
Potential error messages
Quite a few users get error messages when installing the update. Some of them are these: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 8.1 | Tagged: Update Installation, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/17
via Gas and Electra usage map of Amsterdam I ended up at Interactieve kaarten van Amsterdam.
Nice! Comparing the energy usage of your household with others in the city.
–jeroen
Posted in LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/17
In every new update, Flickr either seems to hide, or move useful options away.
About a month ago, this was the case with the “View All Sizes” of a photo. Having multiple sizes of a photo is one of the key features when Flickr was introduced. There is even a naming scheme for these resized photos.
A very useful option when you need thumbnails (for instance when you write a blog).
It later got resolved, but now the option is tucked away like 4 mouse clicks (on various areas of your screen) deep:
When selecting ‘download/all sizes’ a ‘view all sizes’ link now appears.
If there is nothing wrong with your typing skills, this is a very quick workaround: add `/sizes` at a specific part of the photo URL.
For instance, these URLs: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Flickr, Power User, SocialMedia | Tagged: flickr, sizes | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/17
+This is why I Code has pointed me to a really nice app called CSS Vocabulary which interactively shows you what is what in CSS.
Click on the CSS code or the column with CSS syntax elements on the right to see their correspondence.
The app is written by About Ville – Foolproof by design and source code is at the sakamies/css-vocabulary · GitHub repository.
The blog entry is at CSS Vocabulary – Foolproof by design.
–jeroen
via: This is why I Code – Google+ – “A small app to browse through which is what in css. Has….
Posted in CSS, Development, Software Development, Web Development | Tagged: CSS syntax elements | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/17
Thanks Stefaan Lesage for pointing me to boldport: Beatiful functional circuits.
Just look and be amazed at how awesome electronic circuits can be.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, Hardware Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/17
Thanks User Andrew Hare – Stack Overflow for answering this on Stack Overflow.
I’m pretty sure it works in all .NET and C# versions starting with 2.0.
Here is a hack-ish way to do it without having to load the entire output string into an XmlDocument: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
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