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Archive for February, 2015

[NL] Crucial BX100- en MX200-ssd Review commentaar: Samsung EVI 850 een serieus alternatief – Tweakers

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/21

Grappig in het Crucial review commentaar:

Kijk je naar de MX200 vs Evo 850 dan krijg je bij Samsung 5 ipv 3 jaar garantie, significant betere prestaties en een software suite met onder andere secure erase, overprovisioning en 1click optimalzatie settings voor Windows.

–jeroen

via Crucial BX100- en MX200-ssd Review – Conclusie: meer concurrentie – Tweakers.

Posted in Hardware, Power User, SSD | Leave a Comment »

The way a wiki should work: List of Delphi language features and version in which they were introduced/deprecated – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/21

This is the way a wiki should work:

List of Delphi language features and version in which they were introduced/deprecated – Stack Overflow.

Thanks Simon Stuart for asking, and many others (especially Johan) for providing the info.

Note the version that is missing (;

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 1, Delphi 2, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 3, Delphi 4, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Visualisation of the 6502; awesome pictures – via: mos6502 – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/21

visual6502 pictures via: mos6502 – Google+.

I’ve edited their post below to embed all the links.

–jeroen

Original post with embedded links and edited for readablity:

This week, a new visualisation of the 6502, upcycled from an old favourite. Xray6502 uses the data from the visual6502 project to animate the flow of data values around the chip in rainbow colours. Wladimir has put the code up on github[1], and shared some animations on the 6502 forums too – see our featured link.

You may know that visual6502 is a transistor-level simulation of the NMOS 6502 for your browser.  We still see it referenced from time to time[2][3], to explore the circuit and to illustrate exact cycle by cycle behaviour of the chip, and also used to teach the workings of microprocessors in universities[4…7].  It first saw daylight when Greg James presented his findings at SIGGRAPH back in 2010[8], but Greg had been tracing the circuit for much of the previous year. Barry and Brian Silverman had been constructing the circuit simulator and the presentation as a web site. Later that year visual6502.org went live, and went through a series of performance improvements, enhancements and a few bug fixes. It now hosts several simulations, a wiki of notes about the 6502, and several other die photos.

Because visual6502 is open source, it’s been used before for related projects: Michael Steil has published perfect6502[9] which is a C port of the simulation.  Elsewhere we find visual2A03[10] which expands the simulation to the CPU chip in the NES. (But note, to save on duplicated effort, this is a real 6502 simulated, not the one with decimal mode ripped out[11] which is actually in the chip.)

Now Wladimir joins in, with this data-tracing visualisation – what can we expect next?  Have you played with your visual6502 today?

via mos6502 – Google+.

Posted in 6502 Assembly, Assembly Language, Development, Power User | Leave a Comment »

G+ now has completely stopped working: “Unusual traffic from your computer network” – Search Help

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/21

This is getting ridiculous: G+ now completely stopped working. No CAPTCHA every couple of seconds after my laptop wakes up, but the screenshot below.

The  “Unusual traffic from your computer network” – Search Help isn’t helping much either.

My computer isn’t sending automated queries. The Google related tabs (some 50+) in Chrome are, as they frantically try to refresh themselves when my laptop wakes up.

This is a Google and Chrome design decision:

  • each tab runs in a separate process
  • each tab keeps being active even when not visible
  • Google chooses to have each Google related tab to talk to Google Plus

It’s not my choice that this overloads the G+ system, so don’t bug me with that!

–jeroen

 

Posted in G+: GooglePlus, Google, Power User, SocialMedia | Tagged: , | 2 Comments »

Liz Kimber: My first computer, is responsible for who i am today.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/21

Liz Kimber hits the nail on the head:

My first computer, is responsible for who i am today.

That’s one of the reaons I bought both an Applle //e and //c last summer (:

–jeroen

via: Alen Cox’ computer history reshare – Google+.

Posted in //e, About, Apple, Apple ][, Personal, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Binary builds of Win64 and Win32 OpenSSL (via: Shining Light Productions)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/20

The quickest way to get Win64 and Win32 binary builds of the youngest OpenSSL, you should get them from Shining Light Productions – Win32 OpenSSL.

Despite the link name, you can get the Win64 binaries from there too..

Besides binaries, they also have the source to build them from, and any other redistributable you’d need.

They run on virtually any Windows version, though I only used them on NT based Windows versions of XP/2003 and younger.

Two notes:

  • you usually need the Visual C++ 2008 redistributables, of which there is both an x86 and an x64 version (the OpenSSL installer just tells you it is missing, and assumes you know if it is the x86 or x64 one).
  • unless you are a software developer wanting to link to OpenSSL, the “Light” versions of the installs suffice.

–jeroen

via: Shining Light Productions – Win32 OpenSSL.

Posted in OpenSSL, Power User, Security, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 1 Comment »

One line browser notepad (via: Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/19

Smart, it works in any modern html5 capable browser:


data:text/html, <html contenteditable>

Be sure to look at the blog post and comments at Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga : One line browser notepad as they explain why this works, and how to extend it in a couple of really smart way.

–jeroen

via: Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga : One line browser notepad.

Posted in Chrome, Development, Firefox, HTML, HTML5, Internet Explorer, Opera, Power User, Safari, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | 1 Comment »

Mac OS X: Replicating md5sum Output Format (via: Raam Dev)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/18

Mac OS X has md5, but no md5sum.

I agree with Mac OS X: Replicating md5sum Output Format that the second way of emulating md5 is better than the first one.

So here it is:


#!/bin/bash
/sbin/md5 -r "$@"

view raw

md5sum.bash

hosted with ❤ by GitHub

–jeroen

via: Mac OS X: Replicating md5sum Output Format – Raam Dev

Posted in Apple, bash, Development, Hashing, 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 Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, md5, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Scripting, Security, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Creating an ICO file from multiple PNG files: IcoFX versus ConvertICO.org

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/17

For Windows Vista and up, you need at least these icon resolutions:

  • 16×16
  • 32×32
  • 48×48
  • 256×256

For Windows XP / 2003 Server and earlier, you’d only need the 16×16, 32×32 and 48×48 resolutions, and if you support older video hardware, include them in 24-bit, 8-bit and 4-bit color depth.

For younger versions you might consider adding 20×20, 24×24, 40×40, 64×64 and 128×128 as well to support higher DPI modes.

You need to include and various other sizes for other operating systems.

Getting at them, I usually start with an EPS file, then downscale to the right resolution, and save the resulting files as PNG images, then assemble those together.

A while ago, I had some icons with nice long diagonal line, then I found out the hard way I should not have used ConvertICO.org. I often prefer on-line tools over off-line, especially for actions I rarely do (this is one of them). It saves you from installing software, and on-line sites usually get better over time.

In this case, I shouldn’t have gone online: Just look at the jagged edges in the 200% zoom below: the image on the right is from ConvertICO.org, on the left it is from IcoFX.

What you clearly see is that ConvertICO messes around with the 256×256 image (it doesn’t mess around with the other resolution), but IcoFX doesn’t mess around.

So now I switched to IcoFX. Not on-line, but a great free tool. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 2 Comments »

The Pro from DrawAttention: whiteboard laptop sticker that fits on your shell

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/16

Cool: The Pro from DrawAttention.

Developer at work

Developer at work

 

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