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Archive for April, 2014

Michael Panzer – Google+ – Tip: Syntax highlighting everywhere Occasionally, I get…

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/11

IntelliJ plugin “Copy on Steroids”.

Michael Panzer – Google+ – Tip: Syntax highlighting everywhere Occasionally, I get….

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PIN number analysis

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/11

Frequencies of pin numbers. 1234 is most popular, but do not rule out MMDD and DDMM combinations, or YYYY ones.

via: PIN number analysis.

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VMware Front Experience: ESXi-Customizer

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/11

Interesting:

ESXi-Customizer is a user-friendly script that automates the process of customizing the ESXi install-ISO with drivers that are not originally included. Unlike other scripts and manuals that are available for this purpose ESXi-Customizer runs entirely on Windows and does not require any knowledge of or access to Linux.

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Requirements:

  • The script runs on Windows XP or newer (both 32-bit and 64-bit) including the latest version Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2.
  • For customizing ESXi 4.1 Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) or Windows Server 2008 R2 and administrative privileges are required.
  • You need to have a copy of the original VMware install-ISO. It is available at VMware (free registration required to download). The script currently supports ESXi version 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5.
  • For ESXi 4.1 you need to have a OEM.tgz file with a custom driver.
  • For ESXi 5.x you need to have a OEM.tgz, a VIB file or an Offline Bundle ZIP file.
  • A good source for ESXi 4.1 and 5.x community drivers is Dave Mishchenko’s vm-help.com site. See the ESXi 4.1 Whitebox HCL and the forums there.

–jeroen

via: VMware Front Experience: ESXi-Customizer.

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How to force Outlook to use a given proofing language all the time (via: spell check – Super User)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/11

Seems this works so far: spell check – How do I force Outlook to use a given proofing language all the time? – Super User.

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Windows Explorer – copying path/name of files and folders (full/short; regular/UNC; unix/cygwin): Path Copy Copy – Home

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/11

This Explorer extension is brilliant: Path Copy Copy – Home.

It works in Windows XP and up (including 7, 8 .x, 20xx Server, etc).

The Open Source is done in Visual Studio with C++.

–jeroen

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Posted in C++, Development, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation, or why you should reset passwords, certificates and request new credit cards.

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/11

In layman’s terms/pictures: xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation.

If you still don’t get it: anyone with any HTTPS connection to a once vulnerable system could copy data out of that system. There is no guarantee that data did not contain your identity (username, password, public key, credit card check-digits, etc) or server identity (private and public key).

Since often you cannot prove a system was using OpenSSL, there is no way to prove your data didn’t get copied.

–jeroen (who just discovered this is post #2000 on my blog; ain’t this cool? <g>)
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MacBook Fn/Option/Ctrl keyboard shortcuts

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/11

I know that Apple likes “design”, but boy their desing resulted into Mac OS X having lots of Fn/Option/Ctrl/Shift keyboard shortcuts.

Being a keyboard person (before the DOS era), I love to learn new keyboard shortcuts to make my life easier, while vendors are step by step hiding information about them.

I will update this table over time to reflect even better the ones I use most regularly.

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Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, SpotLight | Leave a Comment »

Grootte ‘webdisk’ – Google Groups

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/10

Wow, I totally missed that the disk quota at my ISP got increased to 10 gigabytes. A couple of years ago. Yay!

In article ,
Sledge HaMMeR   wrote:
>On 19-10-11 23:37, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>> Nee. De quota output is correct. De “df” output is heel wat
>> anders, dat is voor alles wat er op die share staat.
>>
>> (dus 10GB)
>
>Okay, dus de webruimte is vergroot naar 10GB, dat is wel erg feestelijk!
>Wanneer is dat gebeurt ?
>Is dat exclusief 5 x 1200 mb popboxen, of zitten die daarin?

Het is homedirectory cq webruimte, heeft niks met mailboxen te maken.

>Of is dat inclusief de snapshots ?

Nee

Mike.

via Grootte ‘webdisk’ – Google Groups.

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On turning “W1025 Unsupported language feature: ‘customattribute'” into a compiler error.

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/10

On turning W1025  into an error [WayBack] Why is “W1025 Unsupported language feature: ‘custom attribute’ “only a warning?… – mezen – Google+:

Stefan Glienke's profile photo

+Fabian S. Biehn This question has been answered by Nick already.
However you don’t need to turn it on in ALL projects. You change it in the base configuration, tick the Default checkbox in the bottom left corner of the settings dialog and from then on every new project will have this warning treated as error. However for existing projects you have to change it retrospectively.
You can even pass this option to the commandline compiler as explained here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/360947/587106

[WayBack] compiler construction – Delphi 2009 where is the ‘treat warnings as errors’ option? – Stack Overflow

On a related note, if you are using the command line compiler (DCC32.exe) the switch is -W^ to have warnings treated as errors. If you are using this, it’s important to note that the default command shell in Windows (cmd.exe) treats the caret (^) as an escape character, so you have to use -W^^ instead if you are executing the compiler directly from the command line, a batch file or even the from the Pre-Build or Post-Build events in the IDE.

It’s also worth mentioning that you can have only certain warnings treated as errors. The switch to do this on the command line would look something like this: -W^^WARNING-NAME. You would substitute the string that is associated with the warning you are wanting to have treated as an error.


The point about -W^ being problematic within BAT files is a good one. Using -W^^ works if you are modifying the compile line directly. Otherwise, I found that using surrounding double quotes "-W^" works, for example when building an env var that contains all compiler parameters, that env var being subsequently passed to dcc32.exe. Tested with XE, XE2, XE3, XE4.

SET CompilerParams=-B -M "-W^" -U"..\Source;%dcuoutdir%;%DUnitPath%" -I"..\Source\inc" "-N0%dcuoutdir%" -DDebugMode
"%dcc%bin\dcc32.exe" %FuTFolder%ADDTests.dpr %CompilerParams% -U"%FuTSource%" %ExtraPath32%>%DCCLogFilename%
if errorlevel 1 %Alerter% %DCCLogFilename%

 

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Why every now and then the “Is feedly blocked?” message dat https://feedly.com? (via: feedly: your news. delivered.)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/10

Anyone know why every now and then Feedly displays the message below, but running it a couple of minutes later, it just loads fine?

No changes on my system whatsoever: it even repeats at various systems that do not have Adblock or other tools installed.

Error message:

Is feedly blocked?

Feedly is not able to load. It is probably because one of your extensions is blocking it. If you run Adblock, HTTPSEverywhere, Awesome screenshot etc.. please make sure that feedly.com is white listed.

Ask a question

–jeroen

via: feedly: your news. delivered..

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