Fazit:
You’ll probably want a standard OS for day to day tasks, and only use Tails if you really need to remain anonymous.
–jeroen
via A Quick Test Drive of Tails, a Privacy Focused Linux Distribution.
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A Quick Test Drive of Tails, a Privacy Focused Linux Distribution
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/05
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pickhardt/betty: a command-line like tool like Google Now/Siri for *nix and Mac OS X (requires ruby)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/05
Fun project with potential: pickhardt/betty that was pointed to me by Ilya Grigorik – Google+.
Betty is a natural language (for now: English based) front end for tools like curl, find, wc, whoami, find, etc.
It requires ruby, and runs on *nix or Mac OS X (where it uses osascript for iTunes).
–jeroen
via: Ilya Grigorik – Google+ – Betty is an english-like interface for your command line:….
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Interesting discussion about generic Dictionaries in Delphi (via: Steve Maughan – Google+ – TObjectDictionary Advice Needed)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/05
There is an interesting G+ discussion thread about generic Dictionaries in Delphi.
It covers the stock TObjectDictionary in the Generic.Collections unit, Spring4D, performance characteristics like O(1), O(log n), etc, and implementation details like fill factors and hashing algorithms.
Worth reading at Steve Maughan – Google+ – TObjectDictionary Advice Needed I’ve been using Delphi for….
Since TObjectDictionary hasn’t changed much since the introduction of generics in Delphi, this discussion is valid for at least Delphi XE and up (and probably Delphi 2010 and 2009 as well).
I’m not sure about these last ones as like Andreas Hausladen, I’m cutting back on the Delphi versions I regularly use, which for now are mainly XE6, XE3, XE and 2007).
–jeroen
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; a semi-colon starts a comment line in a .reg file (via: Windows Server content from Windows IT Pro)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/05
Thanks John Savill from Windows IT Pro:
To include comments in a registry file, place a semicolon (;) at the beginning of the line, as shown below:
; This will delete the key below because of the - sign
\[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SavillTech\key\]
–jeroen
via: How do I place comments in a .reg file? | Windows Server content from Windows IT Pro.
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permissions – Delphi – setting Full Control on Registry Key – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/02
One of those StackOverflow gems: permissions – Delphi – setting Full Control on Registry Key – Stack Overflow.
–jeroen
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Text Formatting Notation Help – Atlassian JIRA
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/02
Too bad Atlassian don’t specify that the {code} tag now supports more languages.
The trick is to specify an invalid one (like JSON, for which you can use javascript), then it emits an error telling you which languages are supported:
Available languages are: javascript, sql, xhtml, actionscript, none, html, xml, java
(Yes I know there is a JIRA MarkDown plugin, but not every customer installs plugins at will)
–jeroen
via: Text Formatting Notation Help – Atlassian JIRA.
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Cutting Cherry Tomatoes / Ideale manier om cherrytomaatjes te snijden – Lifehacking
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/02
Brilliant way to cut cherry tomatoes /
Briljant: Ideale manier om cherrytomaatjes te snijden – Lifehacking.
–jeroen
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This week: five BASICs for the 6502, to mark the 50th (via: mos6502 – Google+)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/02
Basic@50 would not be complete without This week: five BASICs for the 6502, to mark the 50th… from mos6502 – Google+.
–jeroen
via: Happy 50th birthday BASIC! (via: BASIC at Dartmouth) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
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Interesting thread on IP geolocation and providers (via: Dan Sohad – Google+)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/02
IP geolocation is hard, and very dependent on where you are in the world. Providers giving different or confusing results are not exceptional.
See the struggle at Dan Sohad – Google+ – Hi! I working in a IP locate app. I’m using as “motors”: … where Dan Sohad tries a Delphi implementation.
–jeroen
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Great overview of how Chromecast works (via: Ilya Grigorik – Google+)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/02
Thanks Ilya Grigorik for pointing me to Chromecast: Understanding its Potential beyond Video Streaming | The EWD Files.
Great overview on how it works accompanied with nice diagrams like this one:
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