Archive for October, 2019
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/28
[WayBack] Delphi code completion fail with anonymous methods – Stack Overflow.
It also often fails by inserting end; inside if/then/else statements having a proper begin/end blocks.
The reason is that code completion uses a different parser than the regular Delphi compiler.
Chances of these issues to get fixed are close to zero, because another part of the problem is that there is no formalised Delphi language grammar, not even at Embarcadero itself.
I wish there was an Embarcadero sanctioned grammar (see [WayBack] “The arguments that won the day for us here were about strengthening the ecosystem and becoming the best tooled language on the planet. They were about … – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+). Actually I had that wish like in the end of the 1990s, but I cannot find my forum post archive back.
The best reverse engineered grammar is DelphiAST: a well maintained open source project implementing an Abstract Syntax Tree for Delphi.
Via: [WayBack] SO…/delphi-code-completion-fail-with-anonymous-methods I have seen this question and I am curious. There is an… – Alberto Miola – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/28
Interesting tool that I needed one day to figure out how to recover from a certain NTFS partition having become RAW [Archive.is/WayBack] TestDisk, Data Recovery:
TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software: certain types of viruses or human error(such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
TestDisk can
- Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
- Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
- Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
- Fix FAT tables
- Rebuild NTFS boot sector
- Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
- Fix MFT using MFT mirror
- Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
- Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
- Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.
TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/27
[WayBack] Eef Meijerink op Twitter: “Krijg je binnenkort ongevraagd een anti-abortus folder in je brievenbus? Die kan gewoon retour afzender: Antwoordnummer 1139 3900 VB Veenendaal Ik zeg doen!”
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Ik ben trouwens verwonderd dat je voor een kleine anderhalve ton in EUR je alle Nederlanders kunt spammen: [WayBack] Anti-abortusfolder in de bus bij iedere Nederlander | Politiek | AD.nl
––jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/25
Today I found out I most likely have rectal cancer.
I got that result by following up on my changed bowel habits, eliminating causes one by one.
Soon I will know for sure and follow proper treatments.
So as part of cancer awareness month:
Please follow up on changes in your bowel habits.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/25
By default, Chrome uses the same proxy server as Internet Explorer: the system one that your Chrome settings page accesses from chrome://settings/search#proxy through this command-line call:
"C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" C:\Windows\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL C:\Windows\system32\inetcpl.cpl,,4
There is no GUI way inside Chrome to change this, but there is a command-line parameter: --proxy-server="ipaddress:port"
So create a new shortcut to Chrome, then you can change it.
This comes in very handy if you want to test
- some sessions through for instance Internet Explorer going through HTTP Fiddler (that defaults at localhost:8888)
- other sessions through Cntlm (that defaults to localhost:3128)
Some background information:
–jeroen
Posted in Chrome, Cntlm, NTLM, Power User, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows-Http-Proxy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/25
If you find out bookmarklets like the [WayBack] Press-This or [Archive.is] SubToMe do not work on some pages but to on others.
Often it’s not the bookmarklet, but a combination the site disabling CSP (Content Security Policy) and browsers not coping well with that, see for instance:
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/24
For my link archive: [WayBack] Is there a way to use the JVCL’s TJvXxxAppStorage to store float values as strings (e.g. “10.152”) rather than hex dumps and also control the decimal separator… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+ with a solution by Achim Kalwa:
+Thomas Mueller You may try this:
type
TMyStorage = class(TJvAppRegistryStorage)
protected
procedure DoWriteFloat(const Path: string; Value: Extended); override;
end;
TJvAppRegistryStorage = class(TMyStorage);
...
Implementation
{ TMyStorage }
procedure TMyStorage.DoWriteFloat(const Path: String; Value: Extended);
var
SValue : string;
FS : TFormatSettings;
begin
FS := TFormatSettings.Create;
FS.DecimalSeparator := '.';
FS.ThousandSeparator := #0;
SValue := FloatToStr(Value, FS);
DoWriteString(Path, SValue);
end;
And you need to set
StorageOptions.FloatAsString := False;
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/24
For first time BIND named users on OpenSuSE there is often confusion on the relation between these directories:
/etc/named.d//var/lib/named/
For example here someone else struggled: [WayBack] Re: Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Split DNS? Solved
This is how I inferred the workings:
The /etc/named.conf.include is re-generated at named start by running /usr/share/bind/createNamedConfInclude by including files that both match NAMED_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES in /etc/sysconfig/named and exist in the /etc/named.d/ directory.
At named startup, it also copies everything from /etc/named.d to /var/lib/named/etc/named.d
For details see
–jeroen
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