[WayBack] Google Chrome Web Browser 69 changes: most are not talked about (like excess whitespace, address bar search algorithm changes).
–jeroen
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Google Chrome Web Browser 69 changes
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/15
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Just in case you are wondering where these “Trending on Google” posts in your stream come from…
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/14
[WayBack] Just in case you are wondering where these “Trending on Google” posts in your home stream come from and how to get rid of them: https://plus.google.com/settings… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
For my link archive:
https://plus.google.com/settings
–jeroen
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XS4ALL Software download site
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/14
When you want to download actual known amounts of bytes, then use the [Archive.is] XS4ALL Software download site which has plenty of files in both sizes that are powers of 1024 and powers of 1000, so you can use the units that fits you best:
- [WayBack] Binary prefix – Wikipedia
- [WayBack] File size – Wikipedia
- [WayBack] Units of information – Wikipedia
I usually run commands like these:
traceroute download.xs4all.nl & wget -O /dev/null http://download.xs4all.nl/test/2GiB.bin
traceroute download.xs4all.nl & wget -O /dev/null http://download.xs4all.nl/test/10GiB.bin
The first is for speeds up to ~100 megabit/second, the latter for speeds up to ~1 gigabits/second; wget examples based on [WayBack] linux – How do I request a file but not save it with Wget? – Stack Overflow.
From the xs4all shell servers, you have about 1 gigabit speed. At home it is about 80 gigabit.
Since the download is over a longer period of time, you get a better estimate of average speeds than regular speedtest varieties do.
100MB.bin 2014-05-28 22:18 95M
–jeroen
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Privacy Badger was blocking fsdn.com CDN domains
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/14
Not sure why Privacy Badger blocked both fsdn.com and a.fsdn.com (if someone knows how to find that out: please let me know), but these are CDN domains are used by Slashdot and sf.net, so I have put a.fsdn.com from red to yellow (no cookies).
I have not unblocked s.fsdn.com, which redirects to sourceforge.net over TLS.
Related:
- [WayBack] Tech – FAQ – Slashdot
- [WayBack] Ask Slashdot: Should I Expect Tracking When Subscribing To News Sites? – Slashdot
–jeroen
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Short link to find your Google nickname based profile link
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/14
Browse to http://plus.google.com/me and it will get you to your Google Plus nickname URL profile link.
–jeroen
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When Google Search returns one link twice in the results, thinking it was published on two different dates.
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/13
I laughed when https://www.google.com/#q=visual%20studio%20code%20indent%20settings%20per%20file%20type got me the first link twice (see below screenshot).
But I was glad that that link to [WayBack] visual studio code – How to set per-filetype tab size? – Stack Overflow.
This one:
- pointed me at [WayBack] Editor Config for VS Code – Visual Studio Marketplace “Extension for Visual Studio Code – DEPRECATED – See Read Me for more information”
- which got me to [WayBack] GitHub – editorconfig/editorconfig-vscode: EditorConfig extension for Visual Studio Code
- that allows to specify [WayBack] EditorConfig types of configuration files:
EditorConfig is a file format and collection of text editor plugins for maintaining consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs.
In addition, it taught me how to configure the settings.json with md specific settings, which – despite the IDE indicating the JSON is invalid – just works: markdown indentation is now 2 character positions.
"[md]": { "editor.tabSize": 2 }
The search result:
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chrisrolliston/CCR.PrefsIniFile: TCustomIniFile decendants for Delphi wrapping the Android, iOS and OS X Preferences APIs
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/13
If you need cross platform settings storage: [WayBack] chrisrolliston/CCR.PrefsIniFile: TCustomIniFile decendants for Delphi wrapping the Android, iOS and OS X Preferences APIs
Via: [WayBack] In my application I use System.Win.Registry unit file to read or write to Windows Registry. Now that I have added MAC paltform I need an equivalent method to edit the plist file… – Dimitra Ger – Google+
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Happy Day of the Programmer!
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/13
Happy Day of the Programmer!
Enjoy this little gem: [Archive.is] Harvey Green’s answer to What are the best examples of software bugs that became features (a.k.a. misbugs)? – Quora
This is from an anecdote by Ken Demarest, one of the original developers who worked on Wing Commander I on the PC…
… we were getting an exception from our EMM386 memory manager when we exited the game. We’d clear the screen and a single line would print out, something like “EMM386 Memory manager error. Blah blah blah.” We had to ship ASAP. So I hex edited the error in the memory manager itself to read “Thank you for playing Wing Commander!”
via many sources that usually forget to mention the full source:
- [WayBack] Quick fix genius … – CodeProject – Google+
- [WayBack] Videogames, it’s a real dirty business 12 Bizarre Tricks Game Developers Used To Make Things Work – Dorkly Post
- [WayBack] Thank you for playing Wing Commander! – Imgur
Thanks [Archive.is] Harvey!
Some more links referenced by the above worth browsing on a day like this:
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roll a dice – Google Search
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/13
Source: roll a dice – Google Search
Inspired by [WayBack] Sure, Google. Sure.
–jeroen
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TIdHTTPWebBrokerBridge example for a standalone Indy based SOAP service
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/12
Since I tend to forget what bits and pieces are needed for TIdHTTPWebBrokerBridge, the below code piece from:
- [WayBack] Creating SOAP server at runtime [Edit] – embarcadero.delphi.webservices
- [WayBack] Delphi 7 Indy Standalone Web Services/SOAP Server
The [WayBack] WebReq.WebRequestHandler Function returns a reference to the global [WayBack] TWebRequestHandler object. This object manages all the Web modules in the application, and creates Web request and response objects when the application receives HTTP request messages: TWebRequestHandler keeps a pool of active Web modules. In response to a request from the application, TWebRequestHandler creates a request object and assigns it to one of the active Web modules.
The code below is the Indy counterpart of hooking up a classic WebSnap WebBroker (you could also hook the Web.WebBroker.Application.WebModuleClass to TMyWebModule instead of the WebRequestHandler.WebModuleClass, as Web.WebBroker.Application.WebModuleClass is a TWebApplication which inherits from TWebRequestHandler).
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 