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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/21
These NirSoft tools helped me finding out about some crashes that never made it to the event log:
At first I thought my own software development caused them, but In the end they were caused by buggy video drivers.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/21
It’s been in the System.Array class forever, but remarkably few people do know that it can throw you a NotSupportedException (for instance when calling Add, Insert, Remove, etc).
It does because it implements IList, but not all methods implemented from IList are valid.
And it also indicates that, as the IList Properties allows for IsFixedSize to return false.
A similar case is there for IsReadOnly: then you cannot even modify the values.
Ever since I started teaching .NET/C# classes almost 15 years ago, I warned:
beware when you use IList as not everybody implements all methods.
–jeroen
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Posted in .NET, .NET 1.x, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, C# 6 (Roslyn), Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/20
Studenten van de Universiteit van Eindhoven hebben een stopcontact ontwikkeld dat bestuurd kan worden met een app en op basis van beweging en tijdschema’s apparaten aan- en uit kan zetten. De Aucasi Socket verschijnt aanstaande zondag op Kickstarter.
Source: Studenten Universiteit Eindhoven ontwikkelen slimme stopcontacten – Beeld en geluid – Nieuws – Tweakers
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/20
In the 2009 past, sdelete used the -c parameter to zero wipe clean a hard drive and -z would clean it with a random pattern.
That has changed. Somewhere along the lines, -c and -z has swapped meaning which I didn’t notice.
This resulted in many of my virtual machines image backups were a lot larger than they needed to be.
The reason is that now:
-c does a clean free space with a random DoD conformant pattern (which does not compress well)-z writes zeros in the free space
Incidently, -c is a lot slower than -z as well.
TL;DR: use this command
sdelete -z C:
Where C: is the drive to zero clean the free space.
–jeroen
Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Fusion, Hyper-V, Power User, Proxmox, Scripting, sdelete, Software Development, SysInternals, View, VirtualBox, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/20
I wrote two tiny batch files that would dump the environment variables from the registry.
Various reasons:
- Environment variables can be stored in two contexts: System and User (SET will show them all at once and for instance combine PATH up to 1920 characters).
- Environment variables can be set to auto-expand or not, which you cannot see from a SET command (REG_EXPAND_SZ versus REG_SZ).
show-user-environment-variables.bat:
reg query "HKCU\Environment"
show-system-environment-variables.bat:
reg query "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment"
Filtered results:
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Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows NT, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/19
A solution for:
The problem with Google Now’s predictions though is that sometimes they can be inaccurate from the start or take a little longer to adapt to change. Moved your home? Switched jobs? Went for a month or two to a vacation house? Google Now might stubbornly want to keep your old addresses.
Source: PSA: Manually Assign Any Coordinates As Your Home Or Work Address In Google Maps And Google Now
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/19
Interesting as foldable bills and around 12 plastic cars plus a few coins fit in: Very Small – Slim Leather Wallets by Bellroy.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/19
See all the data your browser reveals about you by visting a website.
Source: What every Browser knows about you
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