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Archive for February 4th, 2020

I love installers that can download and install in parallel threads….

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/04

[WayBack] I love installers that can download and install in parallel threads. Embarcadero and Zypper can learn from this. – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+

Most Linux distributions have package managers that can do this (apt and yum can), but OpenSuSE zypper (actually ZYpp) cannot even download packages in parallel:

Embarcadero is in the same state as zypper.

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Development, openSuSE, Power User, Software Development, SuSE Linux, Tumbleweed | Leave a Comment »

Delphi: Bezier in FMX

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/04

In case I ever need to do some Bezier curve coding in Delphi: [WayBack] GitHub – zhaoyipeng/FMXComponents: Firemonkey Opensource Components

Via: [WayBack] Interesting set of components for FireMonkey – Christen Blom-Dahl – Google+

–jeroen

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TL;DR: Raspberry Pi models 1..3 become hotter and hotter under load; no housing gives best cooling.

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/04

[WayBack] TIL Raspi Kühlkörper bringen nix. Lego schon.  – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Background information: [Archive.is] Mein Raspberry Pi 3 und sein Problem mit der Systemtemperatur · Un*xe

–jeroen

 

Posted in *nix, Debian, Development, Hardware, Hardware Development, Linux, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian | Leave a Comment »

 
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