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wget for nirsoft

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/11

Since they require a referer:

wget --referer=http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ -m -np http://download.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_1.20.10.zip
wget --referer=http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ -m -np http://download2.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_enc_1.20.10.zip

The latter has password nirsoft9876$

The filenames change over time (the 2016 archive of http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ shows http://download.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_1.20.5.zip and http://download2.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_enc_1.20.5.zip

Need to check out if I can automate this, as they seem to keep a SysInternals link http://download.nirsoft.net/sysinternals4.nlp

–jeroen

Posted in NirSoft, Power User, SysInternals, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/11

Anyone having experience with “Pass is the standard unix password manager, a lightweight password manager that uses GPG and Git for Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X.”?

Source: Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager

–jeroen

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How-To: Automatically change your Mac’s display resolution when running specific apps [Video] – via: 9to5Mac

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/11

Yet another reason I love SwitchResX: : How-To: Automatically change your Mac’s display resolution when running specific apps [Video] | 9to5Mac

A few years ago, SwitchResX helped me switch my Mac machine to 1360×768 and 1888×1062 « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks | Leave a Comment »

Experiments in Uniform Memory Management – grijjy blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/10

TL;DR of [WayBack] Experiments in Uniform Memory Management – grijjy blog:

the closest we can get to uniform memory management is to use object interfaces

The reason is that cross platform memory management in Delphi is a mess.

Via: [WayBack] Erik van Bilsen – Google+ I share some results of my quest for a uniform memory management model across all platforms. For some reason, it also touches on old-school linked lists and new-school messaging…

–jeroen

 

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Delphi Error: E1026 File not found: ‘Controls.res’ – Google Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/10

As since E1026 is [WayBack] documented as x1026 since Delphi 2007 probably because it can manifest itself as W1026 as well, I thought Delphi Error: E1026 File not found: 'Controls.res' also be related to F1026: When the Delphi XE5 commandline compiler fails with error F1026: File not found: ‘False.dpr’

But it wasn’t.

Then I thought it might have to do with Unit Scope names.

Often an upgrade of a pre-XE2 project where old names of units (like Controls [no WayBack]) were used in stead of Unit Scoped [WayBack] prefixed units (like Vcl.Controls [WayBack]) wrongly makes the Unit Scope Names list in Project > Options > Delphi Compiler empty.

Such an empty list causes the normal mapping of unit name to scoped unit name as described in Unit Names Alphabetical List with Unit Scopes [WayBack] to fail. That results in a F2613 Unit ‘%s’ not found [WayBack] or rarely a F1027 Unit not found ‘%s’ or binary equivalents (%s) (Delphi) [WayBack].

So that wasn’t the cause either.

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Using BC4 OSX with Version Control Systems

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/10

A great thread about Using BC4 OSX with Version Control Systems, -Tools and IDEs.

Some highlights:

–jeroen

Posted in Beyond Compare, CVS, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Mercurial/Hg, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, SourceTree, Subversion/SVN, TFS (Team Foundation System) | Leave a Comment »

Always a good idea to run firewalled

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/09

I just tried to quit Delphi when Refactor Rename screwed up again:

—jeroen

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DELL 9200 blinking orange power button LED

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/09

I had distributed my DELL 9200 machines over some family and friends.

After 10+ years, one of them was showing the [Wayback/Archive.is] “blinking orange” power button LED. Usually this means a power supply issue and in this case [Wayback] these are tower machines compatible with a regular ATX power supply.

So the fix was a basic power supply exchange like mentioned here:

Note: if you have steady orange power button LED blinking, then you need to check the main-board capacitors as this video below shows.

–jeroen

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Software Design Patterns Are Not Goals, They Are Tools

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/09

From a while ago: Software design patterns are tools, not goals. Use them as such, and only when you actually need them, not before.

Recommended reading!

via: Oh, hell yeah – Richard Haven – Google+

–jeroen

 

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Sorting visualised with traditional folk dancing

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/08

Some really cool YouTube videos below nicely visualise different sorting algorithms are in the playlist below.

They are an extension of https://www.youtube.com/user/AlgoRythmics/videos

It impressed me more than the audible playlist I wrote about in Fun to watch/listen to: Sorting Algorithms (slower, grouped and ordered) – YouTube, likely because the various steps in each sorting algorithm are much more clear.

To me it’s also more entertaining than Sorting | Visual.ly, even though the latter even more clearly show the various operations in a sorting algorithm.

Not all algorithms are covered; https://www.toptal.com/developers/sorting-algorithms/ has many more of them and to my surprise, Heap Sort beats Quick and Quick3 sort on various distributions.

Discussing sorting seems a never ending story…

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] Best description of Bubblesort i’ve ever seen °.° – Fabian S. Biehn – Google+

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