Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/18
For historic reference: [WayBack] Why is the atmega chip reset three times during programming? – Arduino Stack Exchange.
It is to ensure the device is being reset, no matter which driver you use and how odd that driver behaves.
So what you are seeing there is
- first a brief toggle of DTR by the IDE to force a reset,
- then
avrdudeopening the port and DTR going low,- then finally the IDE toggling DTR again one last time to force a final reset.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/18
Cool stuff: [WayBack] Desktop Duplication API in Delphi – CodeProject.
It is based on:
There is also a GitHub repository: Delphi/DesktopDuplicationAPI at master · tothpaul/Delphi
Via: [WayBack] Little demo for the Desktop Duplication API – Paul TOTH – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/17
It looks like many Dell machines suffer from this: devmgmt.msc indicating an unknown device with identification ACPI\DELLABC6.
The odd thing is that the tool known for 10+ years as Dell Detect, but got renamed into SupportAssist does not detect that Windows needs drivers for it.
So a bunch of posts:
They lead to these download:
The first of these works on a Dell Precision 7710 perfectly fine.
The odd thing: without the driver, pressing Fn+PrtScr (turn off/on WiFi radios) just works (for details on that key combination, see [WayBack] How to Turn the Wireless Devices on a Dell Notebook On and Off | Dell US or[WayBack] Dell Precision 7710 Mobile Workstation Keyboard Guide | Dell US)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/17
I live in a street that has a non-ASCII character in it: Pyreneeën.
I’ve reverted back to entering the street name as plain ASCII for a simple reason:
Too often the ë gets mangled into encoding gibberish, similar to the é example in [WayBack] When Good Characters Go Bad: A Guide to Diagnosing Character Display Problems as these characters are very near both in UTF-8 and in the [WayBack] Unicode Characters in the Latin-1 Supplement Block:
I’ve seen these encodings, where only the top encoding is correct; the degeneration gets worse moving downwards, a classic Mojibake:
# encoded UTF-8 (hex.) 0 ë 0xC3 0xAB1 ë 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0xAB2 ë 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0x83 0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0xAB3 ÃÂë 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0x83 0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0x83 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0x82 0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0xAB4 ÃÂÃÂÃÂë 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0x83 0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0x83 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0x82 0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0x83 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0x83 0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0x82 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0x82 0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0xAB5 ë 0x26 0x65 0x75 0x6d 0x6c 0x3b
The last one seldomly happens, the first one relatively often, just like [Archive.is] fd.nl did a while on their finanancial pages.
These mistakes become sort of understandable (but not forgivable) when you look at the below table-fragment (the full table is at[WayBack] Unicode/UTF-8-character table – starting from code position 0080).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/17
Comments that are not emitted to the output:
The most platform-independent syntax is
(empty line) [comment]: # (This actually is the most platform independent comment)
Thanks nick-volynkin for answering this at [WayBack] syntax – Comments in Markdown – Stack Overflow.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/14
Every now and then, I learn a “new” feature that has existed for a very long time.
This time it is about the Copy as Path feature from Windows Explorer context menu:
shift key, then right click any file or directoryCopy as PathThis was introduced in Windows Vista ([WayBack] How to Get Windows Vista and 7’s “Copy as Path” Option in Windows XP Context Menu? – AskVG).
By default the Copy as Path is not in the context menu: you have to press the shift key. In the past, I used tools like ClipName from the PC TimeWatch people – Freeware « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
Seems I do not use that any more for just copying one filename, only for copying multiple.
Related:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/14
CitiZen nmap output: beagleboard with these open ports:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/14
Reminder to self: see if this is till a thing in spreadsheet applications: [WayBack] The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection.
That 7 was "=2+5" in the CSV, but it got much worse.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection #Security – ThisIsWhyICode – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/13
Out of the box, Delphi does not support record properties because of two lacking features:
Paul Toth worked around both at [WayBack] DelphiTips/RecordProperty at master · tothpaul/DelphiTips · GitHub
He uses an intermediate helper where he redirects the get/set methods to from a property registration call.
Note that in the past, Pieter Zijlstra did a similar thing, but bumped into a Delphi 2010 problem where the status indicates it is till open: [WayBack] QualityCentral: 77635 – Open – The new RTTI of D2010 causes components with published record properties to fail to stream in.
Source: Yes ! I’ve published a Record property it could be nice to have this feature…
Via: [WayBack] Yes ! I’ve published a Record property it could be nice to have this feature in Delphi, but we need RTTI for record properties to simplify the code (an… – Paul TOTH – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/13
Reminder to self to check out these schematics and find out how I got them in the first place.
Related: UPS Pico in Raspberry Pi as CD changer in pre 09/2002 E46 BMW 320i touring, “switchless nicd nimh battery charger circuit diagram”
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 