rd /s /q C:\
Because some people like to try out things based on a one line recommendation.
–jeroen
Archive for October, 2015
Great Windows tool to reclaim hard drive space
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/25
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Audio Examples: MP3 vs. AAC/M4A vs. Opus Fraunhofer, LAME, etc…
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/24
Audio Examples: MP3 vs. AAC/M4A vs. OpusIn this previous thread we discussed the difference between the LAME and Fraunhofer CBR MP3 encoder at low… – Georg Holzmann – Google+
Source: Audio Examples: MP3 vs. AAC/M4A vs. Opus In this previous thread we discussed…
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DYMO Drivers and Downloads for my LabelWriter 400; USB extender to get it connected to a VM under VMware ESXi
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/23
DYMO Drivers and Downloads has the Windows drivers for my LabelWriter 400:
- Readme: http://download.dymo.com/usermanuals/read_me/dls8.5.1.en.pdf
- Download: http://download.dymo.com/dymo/Software/Win/DLS8Setup.8.5.1.exe
I’ve had this LabelWriter for a long time, but I retired my physical Windows XP PCs a while ago so I needed to get it connected to a Windows VM on my ESXi rig.
The rig and printer are almost 10 metre apart (bruto distance through cable ducts) which is beyond the maximum USB distance of about 5 metre. A repeater or Active Cable can get around that limitation. Basically these repeaters are bus powered 1-port hubs. I already had good experience with a 5 metre extender combined with a 7-port external powered USB hub to connect the XP machines to some USB printers in the printer closet (a 5 metre USB cable sometimes would fail; the repeater always worked).
So I bought a 33ft 10M USB 2.0 A Male to A Female Active Extension / Repeater Cable, fed it through the cable ducts and added these devices to my VM:
- Connect the USB repeater to the ESXi host, thereby attaching all the devices on the repeater and hub to the host as well.
- A virtual USB controller to the VM.
- To the correct VM: add each individual leafed USB device (the repeater and hub won’t show up as ESXi maps only the leaf devices).
Now I can print my 36mm x 89mm Dymo 99012 (or compatible) labels again (:
–jeroen
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Please review your DFM files before you commit to version control
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/22
Recently I bumped into it again with one of the more current Delphi XE* versions and Delphi 2007: the IDE changing the DFM files without reason.
This time it was in a multi-team environment with many branches and DFM merge hell.
A few examples of properties and components getting changes:
- The Explicit* properties on components not using either Align or Anchors (unlike the article from JED Software: D2006: What on earth are these Explicit* properties in my DFM suggests), often compound components like TabSheet, most often with useless documentation and these values:
- ExplicitLeft = 0
- ExplicitTop = 0
- ExplicitWidth = 0
- ExplicitHeight = 0
- TImageList property Bitmap.
Warren P suggests to review your DFM changes before committing to version control and I completely agree: it is the only way to ensure they are indeed unwanted changes.
There are some stop-gab things you could try, but these only partially help
- Eric Grange uses a Resource based ImageList with design time editors. I wish that was open source, and I’m not alone on this (:
- André Mussche suggests to use DDevExtensions to switch of saving Explicit* properties but that kills all of them, including the ones you need.
–jeroen
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Happy back to the future day.
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/21
Is today back to the future day ?
Only on October 21, 2015 it is.
–jeroen
via: October 21 – Futurepedia – The Back to the Future Wiki.
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Need to research when build.force files are generated
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/21
It’s not reproducible yet, so I need to find out why under some rare circumstances, devenv.exe (the Visual Studio IDE) generated build.force files. Sometimes the build then fails, most of the times it succeeds.
Hopefully this has to to with non-project references.
Research links:
- .force file extension :: all about the .force file type.
- visual studio – VS 2012 rebuilds project although nothing has changed – Stack Overflow.
–jeroen
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Collection of cool hidden (and not so hidden) features of Git and GitHub:… – via G+ Ilya Grigorik
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/20
Thanks Ilya Grigorik for sharing this which I found back recently:
Collection of cool hidden (and not so hidden) features of Git and GitHub.
–jeroen
via: Collection of cool hidden (and not so hidden) features of Git and GitHub:….
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How to turn off YouTube’s new autoplay feature – CNET
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/19
A while ago, YouTube started to automatically play the Next video after your current one was finished. I didn’t notice the Autoplay setting to be persistent after browser sessions as between tabs it isn’t synchronised and I hardly restart my browser (as I usually have like a hundred research tabs open).
So I adapted the steps from: How to turn off YouTube’s new autoplay feature – CNET
To disable the feature, click the blue Autoplay slider switch that sits at the top of the right-hand column of Up Next videos. It’s that easy, and when I turned it off, YouTube remembered I did so after both browser and system restarts.
Into:
- Close all but one YouTube window
- Change the setting
- From
- To
- From
- Close your browser
- Open your browser
–jeroen
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LG Nexus 4 Screen Repair & Disassemble – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/19
I needed to perform a LG Nexus 4 Screen Repair & Disassemble – YouTube.
Thanks FixEz.
Tools needed – see also the PDF Nexus 4 Disassembly Guide or Nexus 4 Motherboard Replacement – iFixit.:
- TTT-9004: SKU# 5-0013 Torx 5 screwdriver
- TTT-9007: SKU# 5-0016 Small Philips screwdriver
- TTT-9010: SKU# 5-0010 Plastic opening tools or SKU# 5-0007 Plastic Triangle Opening Tool
- TTT-9013: SKU# 5-0222 Spudger
- TTT-0921: SKU# 5-1370 Fine Tip Curved Tweezers
- Bow dryer or heat gun
Note that something SKU# 5-0721: 16-piece repair toolkit is a good start on this: it contains all but the blow dryer or heat gun.
–jeroen
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On Teaching Programming | OpenSTEM Pty Ltd
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/18
Very interesting read:
Being involved with teaching young students to code, I have come to the tentative conclusion that many coding kids have not actually been taught programming. This has been going on for a while, so some of this cohort are now themselves teaching others. I have noticed that many people doing programming actually lack many of…
–jeroen
Source: On Teaching Programming | OpenSTEM Pty Ltd
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 