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 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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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+:
+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
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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.
–jeroen
via: feedly: your news. delivered..
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/10
Not only for Windows 7 SP1, as it works on newer Windows versions too:
The article lists many steps, but these are the ones you don’t want to miss:
Both scanning and cleaning can take quite a while, and you often have to reboot afterwards.
You automate parts of the non-administrator process, but the automation task does not support the “Cleanup system files” option. Normally I’d rather see what it wants to cleanup, so I have not used this automation way yet..
–jeroen
via: Disk Cleanup Wizard addon lets users delete outdated Windows updates on Windows 7 SP1.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/10
I just discovered that almost 2 weeks ago, the FastMM code repository added support for these defines in Mac OS X in Commit [r67].:
This is great news!
Note: this is not a full FastMM release, but since the original change by Sebastian Zierer has been done about half a year ago, the code is pretty stable.
Thanks mnasman for mentioning this on Delphi Redit, and Ralf Stocker for announcing this in the Non-Tech newsgroup.
–jeroen
via: FastMM / Code / Commit [r67].
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/10
One of the frustrating things about using a Mac, is the pain to find keyboard shortcuts for everyday tasks.
Having had RSI in the early 1990s, I’ve learned to use the keyboard for virtually everything. So I’m used to find keyboard shortcuts on most operating systems, or write scripts to make common tasks easier.
On most *nix or Windows systems, those shortcuts are either there, easy to enable or tools are there to enable them.
For OS X, somehow this seems much harder, so I’m always glad to bumped into answers to questions like
Is there a keyboard shortcut to move a window from one monitor to another? – OSX/Ask Different.
From the answers in that question it is clear this is not built-in behaviour in OS X.
Also the answers show a few tools that can (some free, some paid). So those are on my research list.
But I’m already glad to know that these tools are available.
I’m also going to dig a bit more into Hands-on with OS X Mavericks: Multiple-display support | Macworld, as I’m sure there are some subtle things with multi-monitor setups that I’ve not yet found myself.
–jeroen
via: osx – Is there a keyboard shortcut to move a window from one monitor to another? – Ask Different.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/10
Some interesting UI Automation examples: The managed way to retrieve text under the cursor (mouse pointer).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/09
This turned out to be much more manual work than I hoped: renaming a VM and the VMDK used by the VM in ESXi.
If you prefer to do all steps by hand on the command-line plus two vi sessions for the vmx* files and the main vmdk file: Just one more esxi-guy: How to Rename a Virtual Machine with the CLI in esxi 5.0.
If you have vCenter, you can do it from the guy. Note for Free ESXi users: vCenter is a payed product, but there is a trial of vCenter.
A bit less manual work, but a bit more scripting from the console (if you are comfortable with that) is at Howto: Rename a VM – Yellow Bricks to which you might want to add the script mentioned at Rename multiple files by replacing a particular pattern in the filenames using a shell script – Stack Overflow.
You can also script from vMA or vCLI: VMware KB: Renaming a virtual machine disk (VMDK) via the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) or vSphere CLI (vCLI).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/09
Just in case his blog is not yet on DelphiFeeds, there is this interesting post by Stefan Meisner – Google+ – DDDebug Memory Profiler heading towards 1.0 Version.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 