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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/06
Source: FRITZ!Box
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/05
Copy had some advantages and disadvantages. For instance, it was better handling long file names, character encodings in filenames and a lot easier to configure over a CNTLM proxy than DropBox, but unlike DropBox didn’t keep history of changes.
Alas no more copy.com as of 20160501: [WayBack] Barracuda Copy – Copy End-of-Life.
They suggest using [WayBack] Mover with OneDrive as target: [WayBack] Barracuda Copy – Moving Your Data from Copy
Note that Mover has many more connectors, including cloud storage ones (Box, Copy, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Yandex.Disk are free):
[WayBack] Connectors • Mover: FTP, Dropbox, Box, GoogleDrive, Copy, Egnyte, Amazon S3, SharePoint, MySQL the list goes on!
For me it means it’s time to think about what kinds of cloud storage I want to use and how to share what data with others at which access level. As I’m already contemplating on how to use ZFS, I now have two storage concepts to think about.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/05
Interesting:
Simon Wicki originally shared: really cool playback tool for showing step by step stuff in terminals. http://showterm.io
–jeroen
via: really cool playback tool for showing step by step stuff in terminals. ….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04
Source: Intermittent Technology: Home Server/Storage/Lab Setup Part 1.1 – x: HDD Preperations
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04
We just purchased an iMac yesterday to view our travel videos. The thing is, all the videos we have stored on our external Hard Drive are in the .MTS file format (AVCHD). The thing is, the Mac or
Source: iMac won’t recognise .MTS videos on my hard drive, how can I play them? – Ask Different
Should work with Humax originating .TS files as well….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04
I wrote about this before, named it a cardinal sin too, but I seem to have to repeat this:
When your product thinks the license is validate and quits without allowing the customer to save its work, then you’ve committed a cardinal sin.
Yes, I can talk about cardinal sins: I’ve been named after the artist Hieronymus Bosch (:
For me it is OK if a product checks for binaries that do not to the product (and not signed by the vendor) in the product directories and fails to start, or to present a nag screen that takes a while to disappear, or even to limit functionality.
But:
Given some recent posts and the fact that over the course of 10 different versions I lost days of work and at conferences I usually get multiple questions from people having suffered from this, I really had to bring this up again.
Posted in Delphi, Development, Licensing, Software Development | 7 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04
Back in the late 80s and early 90s of last century, engineers Richard E. Berry, Cliff J. Reeves set a standard that still influences the user interfaces and user experience of today: the IBM Common User Access.
I mentioned CUA a few times before, but since an old client of mine managed to throw away their paper originals in a “we don’t need that old stuff any more as we are now all digital” frenzy, I wanted to locate some PDFs. And I promised to write more about CUA.
If anyone has printed versions of the non-PDF documents below, please donate them to aek at bitsavers.org or scanning at archive.org as they are really hard to get.
A few search queries I used:
The PDFs I think are most interesting:
Posted in BitSavers.org, Development, History, IBM SAA CUA, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Software Development, UI Design, Usability, User Experience (ux) | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/03
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/03
A while ago I bumped into this: As of Windows 7 (and probably Vista), the standard Windows Common Item (Open and Save) Dialogs expect the main thread to be initialised with STA because it is easier to support apartment threading in single-threaded apartments because COM provides synchronization on a per-call basis and the Windows GUI APIs are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
Windows XP and Server 2003 didn’t enforce this for the classic Windows Open and Save Dialogs, so it only appeared when the software below got run on Windows 7 in a way too late time frame (but the market share of XP is still high).
The reason is that when using Delphi, the TOpenDialog and TSaveDialog will use the classic Open and Save Dialogs on Windows < Vista and fall-forward to the new Common Item Dialogs handled by TFileOpenDialog and TFileSaveDialog (both will not fall backward).
When you have your COM initialisation done wrong, your application appears to hang. Amidst the plethora of threads started by the COM subsystem, these two dead-lock:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/03
Every once in a while, I need to see which EXE paths.
In [Wayback/Archive] this particular case, I wanted to see which [Wayback/Archive] Spring.Tests unit tests instances of [Wayback/Archive] Spring4D were running.
This case I needed to see which DevEnv were running (because somehow I got my .csproj bindings wrong).
Since [Wayback/Archive] tasklist nor [Wayback/Archive] pslist would cut it, I wrote two small batch files:
[Wayback/Archive] list-running-processes.bat:
| :: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849832.aspx | |
| PowerShell Get-Process |
[Wayback/Archive] get-Full-Exe-Path-of-a-Running-Process.bat:
@echo off :: http://superuser.com/questions/768984/show-exe-path-of-running-processes-on-the-command-line-in-windows if [%1] == [] goto :help PowerShell Get-Process %* ^| Format-List Path goto :eof :help echo Syntax: echo %0 ProcessName echo Shows the full EXE paths of any running process with the ProcessName name. echo Example: echo %0 DevEnv echo Shows the paths of running Visual Studio processes
PowerShell to the rescue here: Both batch files use the PowerShell [Wayback/Archive] Get-Process cmdlet.
First I used [Wayback/Archive] Get-Member to see what Get-Process could return:
PowerShell Get-Process ^| Get-Member
Then I [Wayback/Archive] filtered the Path from Get-Process to figure out which Spring.Tests processes were running:
PowerShell Get-Process Spring.Tests ^| Format-List Path
resulting in:
Path : C:\Users\Developer\Versioned\Spring4D\Tests\Bin\DelphiXE\Spring.Tests.exe
The second batch file escapes the pipe (|) by using a carret (^), so it is passed from the command-line to PowerShell.
–jeroen
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