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OpenPGP for GMail: Mymail-Crypt for Gmail™ (via: Chrome Web Store)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/27

Interesting: Chrome Web Store – Mymail-Crypt for Gmail™.

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Encryption, GMail, Google, Power User | Leave a Comment »

.NET 4.5 versus 4.0 and C# 5 versus C# 4, or the funny way how StackOverflow closes good answers

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/27

I’m more and more amazed (actually I’m not, this is how life on forum-like communities when moderatorss take over) about which StackOverflow questsions get closed, and which ones stay alive.

It seems the best way is to ask longer questions way beyond what most moderatorss can grasp.

Closed:

Still open:

A great point in the comments of the first question is that

you can technically can write .NET 4.0 / C# 4 applications on a .NET 4.5 / C#5 equiped machine and deploy them on machines that only have .NET 4.0 and C# support.

Don’t. I learned that in the .NET 3.0/3.5 and C# 3.0/2.0 era that combining is bad as the version matrix allows for subtle combinations that are hard to test.

.NET 3.0 with C# 2.0 applications written on a system that had .NET 3.5 and C# 3.0 installed would occasionally fail on systems that only had .NET 3.0 and C# 2.0 installed.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Interesting Linux incoming mail setup using EXIM and Procmail (via: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/27

Very interesting: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ – user-ordner@domain.de- Eine Anleitung für Exim-Benutzer ….

Will try that when I build my next Linux based mail server.

Edit: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ – Tagged Mail bei der Arbeit.

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Linux, Power User, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »

PowerShell – Special Characters And Tokens (via: Welcome to Neolisk’s Tech Blog)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/27

This and next week, a few PowerShell posts appear on my blog.

Victor Zakharov, also known as Neolisk collected all the Special Characters and Tokens used in PowerShell on one page (they are scattered around the PowerShell documentation if documented at all).

The page is so immensely useful when learning PowerShell that I’m really glad I found it.

It is even better than Less Than Dot – Blog – A Cheat Sheet for All the *{_(%#$] PowerShell Punctuation.

–jeroen

via: PowerShell – Special Characters And Tokens – Welcome to Neolisk’s Tech Blog.

Posted in .NET, Development, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

4K / UHD televisions are getting quite cheap. $500 for 39″ (via: Jean-Luc Aufranc – Google+)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/26

Jean-Luc Aufranc – Google+ – 4K / UHD televisions are getting quite cheap. $500 for 39″,….

Interesting as a Retina MacBook Pro should be able to drive 4K displays.

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Mac, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Pro, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Read the new DropBox Terms of Service, and consider opting out of the new “Forced Arbitration” section (via: @Consumerist)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/26

If you use DropBox, you might want to consider to opt out from the new “Forced Arbitration” part of their revised Terms of Service.

This is why: Why You Should Opt Out Of Forced Arbitration, In 3 Sentences – Consumerist.

Or switch to copy.com which offers more storage, and not such a legal limitation in their ToS.

Though the 2 gigabyte Twitter promotion has ended, they do give you: Read the rest of this entry »

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PowerShell aliases (via: Top Ten PowerShell Aliases for DOS Commands)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/26

In most programming environments, I tend to avoid abbreviations, especially since command-completion and parameter-completion makes it easier to write readable code.

Same fore PowerShell: the PowerShell ISE has great completion features.

Other people tend to use abbreviations, especially since many PowerShell aliases make it easier for people coming from a cmd or bash background.

Two Get-Alias commands I use quite often for researching aliases:

  • Get-Alias -Definition <name>
  • Get-Alias | Sort-Object Definition

The former gives you the CmdLet for an alias.
The latter all defines alises sorted by the CmdLet definition.

Two aliases that I tend to avoid are these:

While you are at it, there are also parameter aliases. Read Weekend Scripter: Discovering PowerShell Cmdlet Parameter Aliases on TechNet Blogs to learn more about these.

–jeroen

via: Top Ten PowerShell Aliases for DOS Commands.

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The OS X 10.9.2 (Mavericks) fix for the SSL issue is out; Apple’s #gotofail weekend – Ashkan Soltani.

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/25

As a follow up of When using Apple Hardware, be prepared for security updates. iOS already there, OS X and others will follow. #gotofail:

This is a must read: Apple’s #gotofail weekend – Ashkan Soltani, and cortesi – Exploiting CVE-2014-1266 with mitmproxy.

especially since the OS X Mavericks fix is out:

–jeroen

via Norbert Rittel and Kristian Köhntopp.

Posted in Apple, Delphi, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Software Development, xCode/Mac/iPad/iPhone/iOS/cocoa | 3 Comments »

Windows Service: Stopping/Starting from the console with a delay

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/25

When stopping Windows Services from the command line using `net stop`, then you often get time outs like these:

C:\Windows>net stop "FooBar Survur"
The FooBar Survur service is stopping.
The FooBar Survur service could not be stopped.

C:\Windows>net stop "FooBar Survur"
..
The FooBar Survur service could not be stopped.

Neither the `net stop`, nor the `net start` command allows for specifying a time-out, so it uses the default time-out of 5 seconds. Which often is not long enough.

Luckily, both the Windows sc command and the free 3rd party Windows Service Manager (SrvMan) are able to stop these services.

Note that both tools: Read the rest of this entry »

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Link clearance: history of Pascal / Object Pascal / Delphi Language / FreePacal / …

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/25

This post lists a lot of links related to the history of Pascal / Object Pascal / Delphi Language / FreePascal / etc.

No mentioning of Pascal should start without Niklaus Wirth. At the time of writing he is still alive, hopefully he still is a the time of publication.

Link clearance.

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Posted in Apple Pascal, BitSavers.org, Borland Pascal, DEC Pascal, Delphi, Development, FreePascal, History, Object Pascal, Pascal, Software Development, Think Pascal, Turbo Pascal, UCSD Pascal | 7 Comments »

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