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Archive for March, 2016

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Copy.com replacement – which one to choose?

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/23

As copy.com will go down on 20160501 (about 6 weeks from now), I’m searching for alternatives.

These tables weren’t really useful when digging information for my use cases:

Use cases

This is how we use copy.com (where our installed machines have Windows, Mac OS X and Linux on them) now:

  1. Sync and share between our scanner VM, the various machines of my wife and me (using the different accounts for each user) and including off-site/in-cloud storage.
    This holds for about 20 gigabytes of data and grows about 1.5-2 gigabytes per year.
  2. Sync project documents between various business contacts and myself (the documents that aren’t part of versioning systems yet).
    Not much data yet (100s of megabytes as most people tend to use DropBox for this even though Copy.com has the option of setting permissions)
  3. Sync and share my BIN directory tree with tools where my own user has read/write permissions and other users have read-only permissions.
    This holds for about 2 gigabytes of data.
  4. Sync and share my installer directory (ISOs, MSIs, DMGs, etc) between my main Mac and Windows machines and various other ones.
    This holds for about 40 gigabytes of data and grows faster than any of the others.

Dropbox doesn’t cut it for various reasons:

  1. It sucks at long filenames (especially on Windows).
  2. It won’t properly handle various encodings (like between Windows and Mac).
  3. Often it hangs on local-sync (although copy.com also does that, but less often).

What to choose?

On my shortlist to experiment with are Google Drive and Mega.nz, although it’s not clear if Mega.nz handles syncing well (Ken Logon thinks it looses data) and it’s security might not be good (although that’s a statement by Kim Dotcom who has stakes).

Any others? Or should I choose a mix of tooling?

Tencent/Weiyun might be useful for ISO images of installers (like the ISOs MSDN doesn’t have any more): Download Tencent/Weiyun 10TB cloud storage english language files

–jeroen

PS: later (20160402) via KPN stopt 1 augustus met cloudopslagdienst Up – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers

Posted in Copy.com, DropBox, Power User, SocialMedia | 1 Comment »

Lots of nice short programming videos by Charlie Calvert – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/23

The youTube videos by Charlie Calvert – Google+ pointed me to Online Code Editor – Codeanywhere.

Then I found out he has a while bunch more videos. about various programming topics.

I’ve known Charlie for a long time: from his Borland days (and book writing at SAMS, which is now Informit) through the days at Microsoft (he left in 2010) and now he is teaching at Bellevu College.

To follow him, check out @CalvertBC

Interesting! There are lots, below is just s short list.

–jeroen

 

 

Posted in Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Intel mastermind, Silicon Valley statesman Andy Grove dead at 79 – Fortune

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/23

Source: Intel mastermind, Silicon Valley statesman Andy Grove dead at 79 – Fortune

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New experimental FastMM version was committed to https://github.com/gabr42/…

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/22

The comments show some nice links to comparison overviews of hashing algorithms.

New experimental FastMM version was committed to https://github.com/gabr42/FastMM4/tree/Locking_Improvements.New in this version:- Slightly simplifie… – Primož Gabrijelčič – Google+

Source: New experimental FastMM version was committed to https://github.com/gabr42/Fa…

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development, FastMM, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

RAD Studio 10 next stop: Berlin (via: The inheritance tree of all Fire Monkey objects) but would you really trust it?

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/22

Apart from the very interesting poster: the next stop is RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin Version 24.0.22718.6766.

Apparently, I missed the previous RAD Studio 101. Berlin rumour and Tim Anderson mentioning Berlin in New Delphi and C++ Builder Roadmap promises Linux server support « Tim Anderson’s ITWriting as in the Delphi roadmap for 2016 it’s still called BigBen.

The docwiki start page is there, just not open for the public yet: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Berlin/en/Main_Page. Like right before Delphi 10 Seattle, it’s only available for writer, l10n, RADBeta, ConnectBeta, Employee.

Similarly, https://sourceforge.net/p/radstudiodemos/code/HEAD/tree/branches/RADStudio_Berlin/ is not there: it was added 20160311.

Still the TLS issues have not been solved, so the very bad SSLLabs rating of F stays stays the same as at before the start the 10 Seattle era.

Also apart from some comments, there still is no central official statement of the recent web-site breaches.

I’m not sure what an eminent new Delphi version can be of use when you can’t be sure your account data is secure and the product download is valid (i.e. not tampered with).

In other words: would you really trust a new Delphi version? I won’t yet, at least not for now.

–jeroen

Source: The inheritance tree of all Fire Monkey objects.

RAD Studio 10 Berlin FMX hierarchy

RAD Studio 10 Berlin FMX hierarchy

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 10 Seattle, Development, Software Development | 1 Comment »

NHibernate, LINQ, Oracle and the placement of Take: avoid “Specified method is not supported.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/22

Even though as of 12c R1, Oracle supports a row limiting clause, NHibernate 4.2 with Oracle.DataAccess.dll 2.112.3.0 does not support that.

When you let it generate the SQL for a LINQ Take call to limit the number of results, you get an exception like this (full exception and stack trace are below):

System.NotSupportedException was unhandled by user code
  HResult=-2146233067
  Message=Specified method is not supported.

The place where you Take is important, as this does fail:
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Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, .NET ORM, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, C# 6 (Roslyn), Database Development, Development, NHibernate, OracleDB, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Capture tmux output – the much less painful way | Rico’s Tech Memo – copy full tmux buffer to file…

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/21

Simple steps to Capture tmux output – the much less painful way | Rico’s Tech Memo

Note the last line under 8) is a literal command: type it as such and it will save to that file.

–jeroen

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Solving VMware Fusion 6 and Windows 7 VM performance issues | Shogan.tech

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/21

Add these entries to your .vmx file:

MemTrimRate = "0"
sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE"
prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = "TRUE"

Works in VMware Fusion 5, 6, and 7. Probably 8 too.

–jeroen

via Solving VMware Fusion 6 and Windows 7 VM performance issues | Shogan.tech.

Posted in Fusion, Power User, Virtualization, VMware | 2 Comments »

What is 1e100.net? – Google Help

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/19

LOL:

Most typical Internet users will never see 1e100.net, but we picked a Googley name for it just in case (1e100 is scientific notation for 1 googol).

Source: What is 1e100.net? – Google Help

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Highest peak power so far for 1060NP71 3.250kW: 2424 Watt

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/18

At 20160703, we had the highest peak power this year so far: 2424 Watt. It was for just a moment, but still (:

Source: 1060NP71 3.250kW | Live Output

–jeroen

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