Archive for May, 2017
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/31
[WayBack] cov.fefe.de – The Isoblog.
(it was Scheduled for 09:00 UTC, but after all these years, WordPress.com at random still suffers from the “missed schedule” bug)
Brilliant move. Der Spiegel never had a chance, and even Der Postillion is in awe. (Context).
Yes, cov.fefe.de is the same content as blog.fefe.de.
Via: [WayBack] #covfefe punkt de http://blog.koehntopp.info/index.php/1833-cov-fefe-de/ – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Background:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/31
A while ago I bumped into applications that write alternating UTF-16 and UTF-8 to files without checking what type of encoding the files were using.
So here are some notes to at least save some of the contents.
TODO: figure out how to strip the BOM.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/30
Since Google has a hard time searching G+: [WayBack] Anyone ever encountered a “[dcc32 Fatal Error] F2084 Internal Error: DBG3133″… – G+ – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers:
Anyone ever encountered a [dcc32 Fatal Error] F2084 Internal Error: DBG3133 in XE8 or newer?
I get it in XE8 version 22.0.19908.869 intermittently on a huge* project when compiling or building.
If it occurs, I have to:
- restart the IDE
- delete all DCU files
- build
Without deleting the DCU files, even a build throws the error after restarting the IDE.
The project never throws an AV while compiling as described in [WayBack] QC #127380: F2084 Internal error AV0B8A47D2-R3E1D3CF8-0 when compiling project unless the IDE runs out of memory (which I now resolved with DDevExtensions).
Every now and then on compile it also throws [dcc32 Fatal Error] F2084 Internal Error: MA1243.
For the other error, the same solution applies: if you don’t, then the next one is a [dcc32 Fatal Error] F2084 Internal Error: DBG3133.
Both errors occur during the Linking stage.
–jeroen
*huge as in that I needed DDevExtensions to work around [WayBack] Is there any tool that clears the Delphi memory overhead when a “build all” switches to the next project in a project group? XE8 constantly runs out of memory… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/30
ILMerge has all sorts of drawbacks with things like XAML, WPF, NHibernate, dynamically loaded assemblies and reflection.
Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #2 from CLR via C#, Third Edition | Microsoft Press blog has an interesting approach based on adding a callback to the AppDomain’s ResolveAssembly event with some steps so you can embed assemblies as resources which you then – unlike ILmerge- dynamically resolve.
Those steps require a bit of manual labour which is taken away by MiloszKrajewski/LibZ: LibZ, the alternative to ILMerge.
The repository on github even compresses your assembly resources.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, C# 6 (Roslyn), Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/29
The upshot? For $500, Calyx will send you a little wifi hotspot with a Sprint SIM in it that comes with a year’s worth unlimited, anonymous, unshaped, unfiltered 4G/LTE bandwidth on Sprint’s network. Unlimited as in, I downloaded 60GB with mine and it didn’t break a sweat.
Source: I have found a secret tunnel that runs underneath the phone companies and emerges in paradise / Boing Boing [WayBack]
via: +Joe Hecht
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/29
Basically the Google Drive sign-in user interface is a wrapper around Internet Explorer.
If you have tight Internet Option settings, then your sign-in can fail without telling you why:
There is a older list of exceptions to add to the Internet Options Application Development: sign in to google drive … stuck in one moment please, but since Google has moved quite a few domains around (they now for instance use 1e100.net for part of the traffic).
The easiest way is to get the URLs right is to play back what Google Drive sign-in does from within Internet Explorer. These are the steps:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26
Source:
History repeating itself: [Archive.is] 31607 – C:\nul\nul crashes/BSOD then, now it’s this:
Via:
All versions prior to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 seem vulnerable.
So add $MFT to this list:
Oh BTW: history repeated itself this year too. With NUL
In short, Steven Sheldon created a rust package named nul which broke the complete package manager on Windows:
BTW: one of my gripes on learning new languages is that they come with a whole new idiom of their ecosystem: rust, cargo, crates, all sound like being a truck mechanic to me.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26
There are various arguments for using Google DNS (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4) or Open DNS servers or not. A few are listed here:
It basically comes down to two things:
- DNS speed
- CDN speed (Contend Delivery Network providers like CloudFlare, Akamai, etc)
If your DNS server isn’t close to you, it might select a CDN server that is far from you. If you rely on CDN, then you need to weight in that factor.
This is how I decide:
- devices not needing CDN: use Google DNS or Open DNS
- devices needing CDN: use Namebench to pick fast DNS servers that are nearby based on Namebench reports with “Recommended configuration (fastest + nearest)”
–jeroen
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