Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/05
… simply hold the refresh button and then tap on Request Desktop Site. The page should refresh and you should be redirected to web.whatsapp.com and you should be looking at a QR code on the screen of your iPad.
If you know it’s “simply”.
Source: How to Use WhatsApp on iPad
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/05
From [WayBack] 1. Presenting Your Presentation – Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances [Book]:
PowerPoint Opens Minimized
THE ANNOYANCE: I can’t get my presentation to open properly when I double-click it. I can see the PowerPoint icon on the taskbar, but it won’t maximize or restore. How can I view the presentation?
THE FIX: Your slide show is set to display on the secondary monitor, which is no longer attached to your computer. Open PowerPoint from Start → Program Files and select File → Open to open your presentation. Then select Slide Show → Set up Show and choose “Display slide show on primary monitor.”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/04
A few people recently discovered the beauty of record helpers:
Record helpers can help any value type (which includes enumerated types) so you can add functions to enumerations.
Class helpers can help class types.
There are no interface helpers and likely won’t be there for a long while.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/04
[WayBack] Hi there, this is pure curiosity only; but this compiler behaviour seems odd to me. What do you think?… – Agustin Ortu – Google+
The problems start when you prefix the outer class which you have to when using inner consts ([WayBack] Oh nice. Feel free to QP. Fails at least in Delphi XE8. … – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+).
The big problem in both cases is a formal language specification. The lack of a formal language specification makes it very hard to predict the effect of use cases or generate them for testing.
So this post is yet another request: Please Embarcadero/Idera, come up with a formal language definition for Delphi.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/03
Raspbyerry Pi 3 are very versatile. Not just for your light weight Linux installation or Windows 10 IoT, but also for Android experimentation.
On my research list is [WayBack] Raspberry Pi | RTAndroid:
Raspberry Pi 3 This page provides a device-specific tutorial for installing RTAndroid on the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. Single-board computing devices
It’s an Android 7 (codenamed Android N, now Android Nougat) distribution with Raspberry Pi images (nowadays Raspberry Pi 3, but should run on older as well). Which means you do not have to upgrade your phone to use more recent versions of Android to program against.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Fixed by Code: Running Delphi applications on Raspberry Pi 3 and [WayBack] A bit of ravings: https://fixedbycode.blogspot.dk/2016/12/running-delphi-appl…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/03
I copied the tables from [WayBack] Memory Performance Information (Windows) as even Microsoft managed to let information “disappear” for EOL products (the en-US version already “disappeared”):
System Memory Performance Information
The following table associates memory object performance counters with the data returned by the memory performance functions in the MEMORYSTATUSEX, PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION, andPROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX structures, and with the corresponding information displayed by Task Manager.
Memory object counter (unless otherwise noted) Structure Task Manager Performance tab for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Task Manager Performance tab for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Available KB MEMORYSTATUSEX.ullAvailPhys andPERFORMANCE_INFORMATION.PhysicalAvailable Subtract usage value shown in Memorygraph from Physical Memory (MB): Total Physical Memory: Available None MEMORYSTATUSEX.ullTotalPhys andPERFORMANCE_INFORMATION.PhysicalTotal Physical Memory (MB): Total Physical Memory: Total Committed Bytes PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION.CommitTotal System: Page Filefirst value (in MB) Commit Charge: Total Commit Limit MEMORYSTATUSEX.ullTotalPageFile andPERFORMANCE_INFORMATION.CommitLimit System: Page Filesecond value (in MB) Commit Charge: Limit Free & Zero Page List BytesWindows Server 2003 and Windows XP: This performance counter is not supported. None Physical Memory (MB): Free Not applicable None PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION.CommitPeak None Commit Charge: Peak None PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION.HandleCount System: Handles Totals: Handles None MEMORYSTATUSEX.ullAvailPageFile None None Pool Nonpaged Bytes PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION.KernelNonpaged Kernel Memory: Nonpaged Kernel Memory: Nonpaged Pool Paged Bytes PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION.KernelPaged Kernel Memory: Paged Kernel Memory: Paged Pool Paged Bytes + Pool Nonpaged Bytes PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION.KernelTotal Kernel Memory: Total Kernel Memory: Total Processes (Objects object) PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION.ProcessCount System: Processes Totals: Processes Thread Count (Process(_Total) object) PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION.ThreadCount System: Threads Totals: Threads Cache Bytes + Sharable pages on the standby and modified lists PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION.SystemCache None System Cache Cache Bytes + Modified Page List Bytes + Standby Cache Reserve Bytes + Standby Cache Normal Priority Bytes + Standby Cache Code BytesWindows Server 2003 and Windows XP: Except for Cache Bytes, these performance counters are not supported. None Physical Memory (MB): Cached Not applicable
Process Memory Performance Information
The following table associates process object performance counters with the data returned by the memory performance functions in the MEMORYSTATUSEX, PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION, andPROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX structures, and with the corresponding information displayed by Task Manager.
Process object counter Structure Task Manager Processes tab for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Task Manager Processes tab for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Handle Count None Handles Handles Page File Bytes PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX.PagefileUsage Commit Size for all processes except the System process. For the System process, Page File Bytes is always 0. VM Size for all processes except the System process. For the System process, Page File Bytes is always 0. Page File Bytes Peak PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX.PeakPagefileUsage None None Pool Nonpaged Bytes PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX.QuotaNonPagedPoolUsage NP Pool NP Pool Pool Paged Bytes PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX.QuotaPagedPoolUsage Paged Pool Paged Pool Private Bytes PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX.PrivateUsage Commit Size VM Size Thread Count (Process(<image name>) for the specified image) None Threads Threads Virtual Bytes MEMORYSTATUSEX.ullTotalVirtual – MEMORYSTATUSEX.ullAvailVirtual None None Virtual Bytes Peak None None None Working Set PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX.WorkingSetSize Working Set (Memory) Mem Usage Working Set Peak PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX.PeakWorkingSetSize Peak Working Set (Memory) Peak Mem Usage Working Set – PrivateWindows Server 2003 and Windows XP: This performance counter is not supported. None Private Working Set Not applicable None PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX.QuotaPeakNonPagedPoolUsage None None None PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX.QuotaPeakPagedPoolUsage None None None MEMORYSTATUSEX.ullAvailPageFile None None None MEMORYSTATUSEX.ullTotalPageFile None None
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/02
I totally missed the passing of Michael Scott Kaplan some 2 years ago, so a belated R.I.P. is in place.
Obituary for Michael Kaplan, Michael Scott Kaplan, 45, passed away Wednesday, October 21, 2015, in Redmond, WA, after a brave battle with MS for 25 years. He was a lead software developer for Microsoft.
Source: [WayBack] Michael Kaplan Obituary – Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz | Cleveland Heights OH
Michael was the leading source on i18n, L10N, Unicode, sorting, normalisation and other things having to do with languages, representations and writing.
Besides that he was a really nice guy of which I enjoyed his MSDN materials.
Other people enjoy that too, so I’m glad his writings have been archived: [first archive.is, second archive.is, WayBack] Sorting it All Out: Archives
Here are some additional links:
More on miloush.net:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/02
Sometimes your Atom installation gets so unstable that the quickest solution is a reinstall. For that you need to get a list of user-installed packages, then re-install them.
On Windows your Atom Package Manager apm is here (but not in the path), where the first is version specific and the latter the most recent version:
%LOCALAPPDAT%\atom\app-1.18.0\resources\cli\apm.cmd
%LOCALAPPDATA%\atom\bin\apm.cmd
On Mac OS X, it is here and in the path:
/usr/local/bin/apm
/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/node_modules/.bin/apm
Save your packages:
apm list --installed --bare > package-list.txt
Install packages:
apm install --packages-file package-list.txt
For my own memory, the settings folders:
%USERPROFILE%\.atom~/.atom–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/02
Still on my research list (because: way too many other things to do and initially Google Home wasn’t available outside the USA*): [WayBack] Actions on Google | Actions on Google | Google Developers: Actions on Google lets developers build experiences for the Google Assistant.
via: [WayBack] Get started now. This turns your Google Assistant into a Concierge with many contacts and colleagues who can help you to get things done… – Sebastian Mauer – Google+
–jeroen
* [WayBack] Country availability – Google Store Help via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/01
It is a lot (~300 megabyte compressed download!), but worth it.
Here are the links:
sha256sum UberPdfSdk-1000-0000.tar.gz 215aed6e5b99bd4a923a2916708163df7bffc47e36508d51dac34cd9a4a74337sha256sum UberPdfSdk-1000-0000.zip 608a90fd6b8f352b4d1f9f59d0d1853a957179e7272ce9a58db78bb52ef6b6e3And the quote from [WayBack] LAUNCHED https://uberpdf.org/ … – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
LAUNCHED https://uberpdf.org/
…
337 MB of source and utils in 2,308 Files, 910 Folders before you build (not counting 3rd party source UberBuild downloads).
It’s a start, with much to come.It will get easier now that UberBuild is clean.
I will be updating the docs and website in the next few days.
Special thanks …
I already see room for improvement (such as a setup screen for extra compilers such as Delphi and Free Pascal to keep folks out of shell scripts and from hunting for help in the documentation).
…
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 