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• Fake Leonardo DiCaprio Movie Torrent Drops Agent Tesla Through Layered PowerShell Chain – attack vector starts from text in .srt subtitle files
• A ton of keyboard conversions via GitHub – trekawek/mac-plus-ps2: Arduino project that allows to connect a PS2 keyboard to Macintosh Plus
• Memory Bandwidth Per Core and Per Socket for Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC
• Wat notities over het CDN wat de NPO gebruikt voor podcasts
• Get it while it lasts: Led-pixel display (various Action EU stores)
• PlantUML network diagrams
• Vibe Coding Is Creating Braindead Coders | N’s Blog
• When you get an error 103 establishing an SFTP
• How do you disable these thumbnails that pop up near the end of videos!? : r/youtube
• GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 Secure Wi-Fi Router On The Go – AC1200 Dual-Band Gigabit Wireless Internet Router | IPv6 | USB 2.0 | MU-MIMO | 128MB RAM | Repeater Bridge | Access Point-M Mode: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories
• I learned there is another way to instantly turn Google Search into using Comic Sans
• Unpatched ethernet markers for your patch panel by Marijn Pool on Twitter at @maakplek
• Emergency power resets on Lenovo, HP, Dell, and Acer laptops – The Old New Thing
• Irrational measuring stick: The Venn Diagram of pseudoscientific nonsense – Genetic Literacy Project
• How could i get a permanent link for raw file? · community · Discussion #22537 · GitHub
• camerahacks/rpilocator-rss-feed: rpilocator RSS Feed Notifications
• Launch Settings Pages using ms-settings URL shortcuts » Winhelponline
• Buddy (software) – Wikipedia
• Weerstand van koperdraad – Koperdraad: Gegevens – Wikipedia
• Badger 2040 – Badger + Accessory Kit – Pimoroni
• A Practically Invisible remote Microphone… – YouTube
• Security alarm provider Woonveilig/Egardia really needs to work on their notifications towards end-users: outages are too frequend and not communicationed on to their customers
• Is this the ultimate XKCD “Dependency” derivative?
• Solving problems with iCloud Keychain syncing between devices
• Karateka IBM PC Model 5150 Longplay – YouTube
• The new MonsterAdapter LA-FZ1 lens adapter with AF support for old F-mount lenses is now available for sale – Nikon Rumors
• The Marvin the Paranoid Android 404-text
• Interesting; Meshtastic
• EU Code Week on X: “🎨 Creative Corner: ASCII Art Challenge! 🎨 Let’s explore ASCII art! Use your coding skills to create a fun image using text characters. Share your masterpiece in the comments! Check out this guide to get started: Ready, set, create! #CreativeCoding”
• danmcquillan (@danmcquillan@kolektiva.social) on Twitter: “new blog post: ‘We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it’”
• When compiler optimisations cause memcpy undefined behaviour: Fix a crash trying to save an empty AudioStream by hpvb · Pull Request #100422 · godotengine/godot · GitHub
• Online x86 and x64 Intel Instruction Assembler
• What is the best free PDF Editor for Mac?… – Apple Community
• MacOS: open file in other monitor
• Strooikaart | Rijkswaterstaat
• Inschrijving tot 1 december: Trilveen Festival 2026 | Muzikaal feest voor de blaasmuziek
• All of Bluesky’s Features and How to Use Them
• Do WiFi-cables (German: WLAN-Kabel) exist?
• Cory LaViska: “ooh you can create intent links for Bluesky” — Bluesky
• What “Stairway to Heaven” Can Teach Us About Software Development – YouTube
• Currently, the Wayback Machine is down – again – without proper indication “Internet Archive: Scheduled Maintenance” will take or how long it might last
• Be inquisitive: a Thread by @cyb3rops on Thread Reader App – The act of hiding is often more suspicious than what’s being hidden.
• EGBG tegenscript (via Angrynerds 023)
• GitHub – RfidResearchGroup/ChameleonUltra: The new generation chameleon based on NRF52840 makes the performance of card emulation more stable. And gave the chameleon the ability to read, write, and decrypt cards.
• Naming devices and animals
• Goedkoop vast internet is soms best duur – Wordt dit de zomer van goedkoper internet? – Achtergrond – Tweakers
• Hacking in Progress or HIP ’97 – corbosman on Twitter: “Just found this highly advanced drawing of the network setup at HIP97. The ??? probably meant we didn’t have the hardware for it yet.”
• Een paar linkjes waar Jan Disselkoen genoemd wordt
• More Apple ][*, //* II* and classic Macintosh hardware upgrades
• Wlz PGB tarieventabel 2025 (voor budgethouders met indicatie voor verblijf)
• Some notes on running Postfix inside a docker container
• Best 404 page ever? : ProgrammerHumor
• 2023 PDF special voor alle leden: GUI’s programmeren met Python | MagPi
• This is nice #geekporn. ASCII Art that’s truly useful.…
• roehling/postsrsd: Postfix Sender Rewriting Scheme daemon
• ASCII Art Archive, my own ASCII signature, plus many FIGlet and TOIlet ASCII font art links
• LinuxCND: The Raspberry Pi that ships other Raspberry Pis – Pi Australia
• Thomas Fuchs: “For the love of Eliza, stop using AI-generated images for blog posts and articles …” – Hachyderm.io
• How to monitor USB power consumption? – Ask Different
• When Spotlight fails to find some files: mdutil revisited
• Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: ‘Not all “utilization” is created equal…’
• Video that depicts why I dislike the LLM outcomes so much (author sofia named it “A shitpost that’s been brewing…”)
• Merging Git repositories without losing history – The Continuous Improver
• GitHub – louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
• Infinite loops and the True Meaning of DevOps (Forrest Brazeal on Twitter)
• GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.
• CSV To HTML Converter
• 173861
• MacBook Pro 15-inch and 16-inch dimensions (to see if bags and sleeves would still fit)
• Trick OR/AND/XOR/NOR/NAND/XNOR Treat.
• My geigercounter (thanks Dinsdale for doing almost all the work!)
• nixCraft 🐧: “I’ve got some news about office environments.…” – Mastodon
• WinWorld: Microsoft Office 95
• Some ADS-B API link notes (hoping to be able to get from/to airport data from it)
• Having some Technical Debt is OK as long as you keep paying the debt: Refactoring Is Not Just Clickbait – Kevlin Henney – NDC Oslo 2022 – YouTube
• GitHub – networkupstools/nut: The Network UPS Tools repository. UPS management protocol Informational RFC 9271 published by IETF at https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9271 Please star NUT on GitHub, this helps with sponsorships!
• Cyber bands and relates stickers – loet.bar + ZBF
• Writing Doom – Award-Winning Short Film on Superintelligence (2024) – YouTube
• Symbolen voor plattegrond in huis (muren, ramen, meubels, elektriciteit)
• Delphi code by generative AI: arguably even worse than some oder development stacks
• Exercism: Get really good at programming, fun, effective & 100% free
• pascal.js
• Twelve-Factor App methodology – Wikipedia
• Cool visualisations of graph searching: Introduction to the A* Algorithm
• Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 Comparison – {DPHacks}
• Longarts Sander de Hosson: ‘Zorg met aandacht: soms is één minuut bij iemand zitten genoeg’ – LINDA.nl
• Helga van Leur ☀ on Twitter: “Voor iedereen die een stappenplan zoekt om zijn verbruik te verminderen en/of energieverlies te elimineren en/of zijn huis te verduurzamen (zowel koop als huurwoningen!)”
• Appartement te koop: Grevelingstraat 28 2161 WG Lisse | Funda – mooi, maar niet goedkoop levensbestendig maisonnette appartement
• Post van RSI (@roelant.bsky.social — Bluesky): Smurfwijzer 2025 – de ultieme stemwijzer
• Turning off AI during Google Search with the “new” UDM parameter
• Dutch toll free Amazon Help phone number
• A Tour of the .NET Functions Framework – Jon Skeet’s coding blog
• b0rk (Julia Evans) on Twitter: “integer overflow”
• The confusing case of two Android “NFC TagInfo” apps
• skia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi platforms based on Google’s Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.
• From 2023: It’s Time For A Change: datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated – miguelgrinberg.com
• Algorism and algorithm are named after Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, founder of algebra (via @annefleurdd)
• Draad van @Walrathis expert in psychotraumatologie on Thread Reader App – over crisisrespons tijdens Oktoberfest 2025
• Domotica/IoT: Smarthometweaks uit de community – Tweakers
• Figuring out the RSS feed of a web-site
• I was in my 50’s discovering Panopticlick 3.0 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• ibm midrange – Syntax higlighters for RPG And CLP that generate HTML and/or RTF? – Stack Overflow
• auroraoss.com: AuroraStore can help to bypass Google Play Store region blocks
• Rudimentary DaynaPORT packet driver to use WiFi from DOS using BlueSCSI: GitHub – cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver
• HSTS Preload List Submission
• finding duplicates – voidtools forum
• Good Tech Things on Twitter: “Software engineering explained in 10 very serious charts.” (all by @forrestbrazeal)
• Als zzp´er de grens over. Kijk uit voor de fiscale valkuilen! – ikwordzzper.nl
• Interesting: Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta
• 113 bellen is sinds begin oktober 2025 gratis: welkome hulp als je diep in de put zit
• From Hurricane Humberto to Storm Amy – what’s in a name? | Royal Meteorological Society
• de BouwApp – A44 – Onderliggend wegennet bij Lisserwegviaduct gestremd vanaf 14 oktober 2025 tot ongeveer april 2026
• transcaffeine: “New Netbox Feature just dropped…” – Mondbasis
• Fraudehelpdesk ontvangt groot aantal meldingen over fraudetelefoontjes – Security.NL
• Liquidated: ISOSTEEL Deutschland GmbH, Wiesbaden
• Notes on Oracle Cloud Free Tier (via «I got the “free forever” 4 core/24GB ARM VM from Oracle Cloud. What should I do with it?»)
• Question got closed in May 2025 due to bureaucrazy: Sites for beginning Delphi programmers – Stack Overflow
• Jip van den Toorn | de Volkskrant – Vrijwilliger (1 oktober 2025)
• Steve Troughton-Smith: (paraphrased) ChatGPT can be OK for translating ObjectiveC to Swift
• i-am-shodan/USBArmyKnife: USB Army Knife – the ultimate close access tool for penetration testers and red teamers.
• Anyone having experience with HttpMaster | Master HTTP Testing and Debugging?
• Reminder to self: Remeha Calenta links
• Formulier voor bewindvoerders | Ziggo
• Iemand een alternatief NPO Soul & Jazz-kanaal met zo min mogelijk geklets overdag, en elk uur een nieuwsbulletin?
• Ziggo klantenservice wanneer 0900 nummers geblokkeerd zijn
• 30+ years of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines from 1985 (and earlier Lisa / Apple II equivalents)
• Tefal secure 5 neo snelkookpan – Lauriekoek
• bash alias to decode email Quoted-Printable stdin data
• Kanovaartochten langs Lisse en Sassenheim
• GitHub – geerlingguy/retro-computers: Retro Computers – Info and status for all my retro Macs, PCs, gaming systems…
• Some notes on Wikipedia tags for references, citing URLs that are archived like in the Wayback Machine
• mutool: all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files | mupdf Commands | Man Pages | ManKier
• 433 MHz is not dead! Using an ESP32 board with LoRa module to talk to 433 MHz sensors – CNX Software
• Coronaprik najaar 2025: periode van 15 september tot en met 5 december 2025
• Dr. Christopher Kunz: “To whom it may concern: It is …” – chaos.social
• Dell 3060/5060/7060 Micro RP-SMA dual-band WiFi antenna parts Y9MPH and 3TJ9N
• Drie observaties over de tech/geld maatschappij waarin we leven
• I why I always use light mode: it’s easier on the eyes, as explained by Kristian Kohntopp
• August 2025 — AI False Claim Monitor – NewsGuard: AI False Information Rate Nearly Doubles in One Year
• Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language
• Beyond the Cloud: Brooklyn Zelenka on Local-First Software | gotopia.tech
• Wijkcentrales – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
• Notes in case I want to create my own homebrew cask for installing software they disabled/removed
• Some notes on running Windows 11 on virtualised hardware and some on TPM
• Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders. – Finding back the source
• Managing the Mail Queue Files and Directories
• What Are Dreams For? | The New Yorker
• DeCENC is yet another way to beat Amazon, Netflix video DRM • The Register
• bitfocus/companion: Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for an increasing amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
• Jeff Geerling: Trying out a cheap USB VK-172 GPS dongle on a Mac | Jeff Geerling
• xahteiwi.eu – Handy Git aliases
• What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube
• “The Pocket Guide to Debugging” zine and Debugging Puzzels by b0rk (Julia Evans)
• Excel: sorting an array on 3 different columns using functions
• vx-underground (@vxunderground) / Twitter
• Resetting the iDrive on a BMW E61 and E61 LCI
• Reminder to self: find back if non-archived early GMAIL (alias for GOLD MAIL on VAX/VMS) can be found back
• World Health Organisation – “Quick reference guide: responsible reporting on suicide”
• msftconnecttest/msftncsi: Trouble connecting to Web sites and services because of certificate errors? Check if you’re being held captive – The Old New Thing
• Ringvaartaquaduct | NavShip
• LAN/WAN network building: test and know how to locate your cabling
• Thread by Cameron R. Wolfe on Twitter about why GPT-3 is better than larger language models
• The Miracle of Flux – YouTube
• Some notes on getting CrystalDiskMark portable on Chocolatey
• Revisited: Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA)
• RunElevated.bat: Run an Elevated command on Windows
• Mystery boxen – Retourtjes.com
• gsudo (sudo for windows)
• Belastingaangifte 2024 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee
• Veel gebruikte afkortingen in de oogzorg
• Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys & more plugin for WordPress
• Segoe Fluent Icons font – Windows apps | Microsoft Learn
• Critical Program Reading (1975) – 16mm Film – YouTube
• “Everybody should have an obsession with Lisp-like language at least once in their life” @KevlinHenney
• In case I ever want to import another SVN repository into GitHub (for instance form SourceForge)
• GitHub – rbwebdev/lemmings-page-404: My 404 page with a little game of Lemmings
• List of Delphi language features and version in which they were introduced/deprecated – Stack Overflow
• XBlock Screenshot Labeller (@xblock.aendra.dev) — Bluesky
• Only a few years back I learned that CrystalDiskMark is using Microsoft MIT-licensed diskspd for the actual measurements
• Inside a cheap set of eBay digital calipers – YouTube
• ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links – hckrnws
• Privacy Policy – Bluesky: august 2025 update on personal data collected including unencrypted Direct Messages
• Fix a “Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC” on an UEFI system: when Windows cannot be located
• Ioan Popovici @ MEM.Zone on X: “The Inno setup uninstall switches are the funniest thing ever. SILENT, /VERYSILENT I knew about this but didn’t think that the silent uninstall registry keys would be just SILENT. I’ve fixed that in the bulk uninstall tool but man microsoft should have forced”
• Redux: Which Windows Resource Editor do you use?
• Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “@_ObomheseR Since JavaScript is in the group of curly based programming languages influenced by the B programming language, integer constants starting with zero are tried first in octal base. 017 octal is 15 decimal 018 octal is not possible, so becomes 18.”
• When Delphi cannot output the .exe file because it is locked
• The spring (a twig) components – How to improve the use of Delphi Frames – Stack Overflow
• Can’t debug a .NET project in Visual Studio Code on Windows? Answered in “.net – The library hostpolicy.dll was not found – Stack Overflow”
• Eind 2024 was er een exclusieve tour in de Gerbrandytoren: het hoogste gebouw van Nederland – YouTube
• 4-digit Dell Optiplex models – Difference between model-series – Dell Community
• If I have not found pfSense hardware by now: Gowin R86S mini PC offers 2.5GbE and 10GbE networking for $310 and up – CNX Software
• Steps to enable remote control of a computer with Intel® AMT using MeshCommander
• Example how not to return a HTPP-500 result: Amazon DE – Tut uns Leid!
• MQSystems – Home Page
• In case I need a small 5-port managed switch that can do port-mirroring: GS305E | Easy Smart Managed Essentials Switch | NETGEAR Support
• Comment Only What the Code Cannot Say | by Kevlin Henney | Medium
• 10 years ago, Toru Iwatani showed his original drafts for Pac-Man : gaming
• Quick batch file hack to download a file calling PowerShell to do the heavy lifting
• Running DOS Programs on an Apple Silicon based Mac
• Conductor, Semiconductor and Superconductor with a twist
• Turn iPhone, iPad and Android into wireless mobile mouse / trackpad / keyboard with Remote Mouse.
• Hopefully by now the Chocolatey .nuspec extensions and limitations are documented in a more central way
• html – What can cause Chrome to give an net::ERR_FAILED on cached content against a server on localhost? – Stack Overflow
• Looking for an alternative to the (now dead) ZXing Barcode Scanner – Apps on Google Play
• peter purgathofer: “… i recently found a little HDMI-fob that fakes a second screen; i can now see my presenters’ notes on the built-in screen, while the presentation is on a hallucinated second screen …” – 🌱 hci.social
• linux – Get final URL after curl is redirected – Stack Overflow (plus some Twitter scraping tricks)
• Tootski, a sharing bookmarklet for Mastodon · GitHub
• Figuring out the version of a GitLab instance
• BMW E61 rear light water fix damage – YouTube
• Windows: editing the RLU list of vncviewer.exe
• WHY2025 Badge Case by Dynom | Download free STL model | Printables.com
• Weigering monument te schrappen uit register toch appellabel besluit, ondanks ambtshalve bevoegdheid – Wieringa Advocaten
• note to self: figure out which browser to use for MV2 (Manifest Version 2) plugins and how to (re)install them
• Some notes on testing locally modified chocolatey packages
• command line – Why does a cURL request return a percent sign (%) with every request in ZSH? – Stack Overflow
• Kevlin Henney on “configuration is code” in his essay “Out of Control. An essay on paradigms, refactoring…”
• Not just for Delphi, but any environment: Why You Should Use NowUTC Instead of Now in Delphi: A Quick Guide
• From @forrestbrazeal: Boilerplate code through ChatGPT or Google slows development teams down similar to technical debt
• Dennard scaling – Wikipedia: finally learned why since 20 years, maximum CPU frequency stagnated at about 4 Ghz
• PowerShell: playing around with Get-PnpDevice filtering with -Class and -Status
• Filtering your Mastodon timeline to automatically hide posts containing certain words, phrases, hashtags, links or emoji | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
• Discover the Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription benefits | Google Cloud Blog
• ACR Phone Dialer, Call Recorder, SIP client & Spam Blocker by NLL APPS official website
• Needed a binary paste bin since GitHub gists and GitLab snippets cannot even contain non-picture small binaries
• Huis te koop: Wagenstraat 8 2161 ZM Lisse [Funda]
• Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”
• Today, very briefly, Tweakers.net leaked the WHY2025 badge: a Konsool/Tanmatsu remix with two ESP32s, a LORA module, screen, keyboard and sensors
• Some internet speeds during our holidays
• Important debugging strategy from b0rk: “after the bug is fixed: write a postmortem”
• Overlay of commands / shortcuts / keys pressed – Screencast Mode · Issue #981 · microsoft/PowerToys · GitHub
• The CAT files that prove Windows driver files are signed: some links on decoding them
• GitHub – minvws/horsebattery: A password generator inspired by https://xkcd.com/936/
• Windows Data Types (BaseTsd.h) – Win32 apps | Microsoft Learn
• DNS/web options: How to verify your Bluesky account – Bluesky
• Disabling the ever returning screens after Windows install/upgrade, and advertisements/feeds
• Mercedes R171 SLK 2006 fuse box locations
• The queste on figuring out why iqvw64e.sys is considered unsafe in Windows 11 22H2 after upgrading from Windows 10 on a Dell Optiplex 3060 Micro system
• Power goes nuts – Network UPS Tools on a Raspberry Pi! – Jeff Geerlings -YouTube
• Q145994: HOWTO: Calculate Dialog Units When Not Using the System Font | KnowledgeBase Archive
• Alan Turing Wrote Object-Oriented Code In C And Ran It On BEAM – De Programmatica Ipsum
• Installing and authenticating the GitHub CLI gh and GitLab CLI glab on Windows
• TRURL – Free Pascal wiki: a class library for Object Pascal supporting the creation of virtual calculators with reverse Polish notation
• Rust Playground
• ISD: Nieuwe zorgaanbieders Hulp bij het Huishouden per 1 september 2025
• How to change the ringtone on your doorbell – The Verge
• Pushing the Limits: Ultimate Upgrade Journey of a Macintosh SE/30 – YouTube
• Igor Brigadir posted a few useful Twitter search tips a while back: searching tweets, users, disable auto-URL, embedding media, etc
• What is the purpose of the ‘figure’ tag in html? – Stack Overflow
• badamczewski/PowerUp: ⚡ Decompilation Tools and High Productivity Utilities ⚡
• [OpenWrt Wiki] MikroTik
• Alex’s Bookmarklets – New Twitter RSS Bookmarklet, Font Bookmarklet
• HackErOpUit – agenda with hacker/maker/security related conferences and meetings in or near The Netherlands; add your own event through a pull request
• SQL: WHERE versus HAVING
• Notes on Firefox cookie managers
• Dell 3060/5060/7060 Micro optional video boards
• BMW E61 tailgate: Number Plate light Right Failure
• VISA payments needed JavaScript enabled for https://secure5.arcot.com/
• GitHub – PascalCorpsman/FPC_DOOM: FPC Port of DOOM
• 2025 first quarter (our winter): a set back in energy, slowly getting back, taking preventions to keep this from happening again
• More database playground sites (similar to the dbfiddle and SQL Fiddle sites)
• sql – SELECT from nothing? – Stack Overflow
• On my wish list for reading: Effective Software Testing
• Douglas Crockford – Google+ – on why comments got removed from JSON
• Some Mastodon servers allow themselves to be wrapped with the cuckoo.social to give a G+ (Google Plus) like user interface
• Windows warned me of disk full; PowerToys updates filled the disk as the update notification got overwhelmed by tons of others  (like chat ones) in the Windows notifications which is limited to showing just the last 20
• Charging the Battery on Your Ring Video Doorbell 2 – Ring Help
• Uit 2023 (toen gemist) Nieuwe FM- en DAB-indeling landelijke commerciële radiostations van start | Nieuwsbericht | Rijksoverheid.nl
• Scoop buckets by Github score | scoop-directory
• Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture : programming – Andrew Krapivin et all invente a faster hashing algorithm
• Colorline Hirtshals departure/arrival times (boarding 1 hour before departure) to/from Kristiansand and Larvik
• Tom Waes tussen twee vuren in Noord-Ierland
• Robust Links – Make Your Link Robust: automagically amend them with archived versions
• GitHub: finding the oldest commit on large repositories
• “C# emits .callvirt instructions, even if the method isn’t virtual. That forces a call site null check.” (Immo Landwerth on Twitter)
• NEN 5152 – Wikipedia: “Technische tekeningen – Elektrotechnische symbolen”
• Some testla.com artifacts indicate it runs on PHP being deployed from a git repository
• Centurion Deuren: Gebruikers- & Installatiehandleiding KS-Serie (70 – 100)
• On-line PC part compatibility checker: Pick parts
• Technics SL-DD33 turntable notes
• URL File Extension – What is a .url file and how do I open it?
• Keyboard shortcuts in social media: Twitter still tops is; BSKY needs a plugin; Mastodon is buggy
• zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation | USENIX
• GitHub parody poster (but actually truth): “We trained copilot on your code. That’s why it sucks”
• Delphi 10 and up install notes
• Of interest – GitHub – t-d-k/LibreCrypt: LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Windows. LUKS compatible.
• 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “debugging strategy: use sounds or pictures I’m still not satisfied with the examples in this one, I’d love to hear examples of how you use visualizations or sounds to debug https://t.co/5DOxshi8QN” / Twitter
• Streeploos zelf ramen wassen (ook op hoogte): Unger Rinse ‘n Go + Get Shorty steel 5,2 m + Slang + Djex Brush | Glazenwasserswinkel
• PayPal domains to enable JavaScript for
• Running Android applications on Apple Silicon: is the Android Emulator from Android Studio the only option?
• How to restrict a Google search to results of a specific language? – Web Applications Stack Exchange
• A PDF can run JavaScript, which means it can hosts a VM for Linux or Doom
• Sequoiaview altrnatives
• unix – How come is this command returning “GET A LIFE!”? – Stack Overflow
• An Interactive Guide to Flexbox in CSS
• Solution for “mac flush DNS cache” by Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:: “@christopherkunz alias dnsreset=’sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder’” – narrativ.es
• TFrame – What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi? – Stack Overflow
• For my link archive: swSIM and swICC by Tomasz Lisowski, two open source repositories to enable SIM card emulation
• grief doesn’t shrink we grow around it
• Too bad @googledrive downloads cannot work without 3rd party cookies. These cookie settings (and JavaScript) need to be enabled in order for them to work correctly
• Bye bye: Changes to Microsoft Authenticator autofill – Microsoft Support
• Reminder to self: check if other internet providers can deliver over the “Open” Dutch Fiber network
• Wanneer de papierkliko stuk of gestolen is: Ik heb een vraag of melding over mijn rolcontainer. Waar kan ik terecht? – Gemeente Amsterdam
• On my list of tools to check out RustDesk (as replacement for TeamViewer, Remote Desktop and similar)
• html – How to display an unordered list in two columns? – Stack Overflow
• Kevlin Henney on encapsulating and restricting Mutability of State to improve software quality
• b0rk on Twitter about getting unstuck: “debugging strategy: do the annoying thing”
• Tom Sydney Kerckhove on Twitter: “I haven’t found any programming tasks that an LLM could do even barely correctly. What kind of code are you all writing?!”
• “How come these shapes are so DIFFICULT??”
• Software Downloads: Download UniFi Network Server – Ubiquiti: also known as UniFi Network application and apparently the successor of the UniFi Controller
• Lars Boelen op Twitter: hoe koel je je woning ‘s nachts voor als voorbereiding van een hittegolf – laat je huis als schoorsteen werken en voer de warme lucht af
• Wat is de maximale huurverhoging in 2025? | Rijksoverheid.nl
• Apple Macintosh SE/30 monitors and video cards
• Why do we call it “boilerplate code?” • Buttondown
• On Hanslow Stellare e-ink labels: Using e-ink (epaper) Price Tags (Shelf Labels) for everyday needs – YouTube
• Barcodes van statiegeldflessen
• What is the Python 3 equivalent of “python -m SimpleHTTPServer” – Stack Overflow
• Bypassing ACLs with SeRestore privilege. And very simple User to LocalSystem elevation. – YouTube
• b0rk: “debugging strategy: jump into a REPL” / Twitter
• 0x00 – Introduction to Windows Kernel Exploitation //
• Naming things isn’t hard: if it contains a number, include the unit in the name (your timeout might not be in nanoseconds)
• Office suites trick I was unaware off: you can use images as background of shapes, then distort by moving the corner points
• Interesting take by Florian Roth on Twitter: “First security application I install on … “” covering various platforms (both server and workstation) with tools that are easy and quick to install
• Slavonic Dances – Wikipedia
• oocities: Geocities Archive Geocities Mirror / The 90s Archive (1990s 2000s nineties) / The Early web
• Electronic Basics by GreatScott! – YouTube
• Online .NET source code browsers for both .NET Framework and .NET Core
• GitHub – LaurieWired/Malimite: iOS and macOS Decompiler
• Podcast with @mattgodbolt of godbolt.org fame, on among other things becoming a verb, 6502s, exploring compilers, and application binary interfaces.
• Debugging Win32 binaries in Ghidra via Wine
• Exceptions and DLL in Delphi – Stack Overflow
• The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source – Windows Developer Blog
• When Archive.Today (and their .fo/.is.li/.md/.ph/.vn) look down; check your DNS
• Moa: Link your Mastodon account to Twitter with Moa Bridge.
• Some links on the Apple IIc Plus (Apple IIc + on the boot screen) likely the rarest from the Apple II series
• Cyber Gangsta’s Paradise | Prof. Merli ft. MC BlackHat [Parody Music Video] – YouTube
• Yes, you can globally block JavaScript and enablpe per-site, but you block Bookmarklets too
• Teardown of an APC Switched Rack PDU – AP7921 – YouTube
• My first computer, which I bought way after my first programming contest
• Compiler Explorer does Rust. Rust really is strict: some Tweets that helped me learn how strict.
• Upptime: GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page
• Early Firefox history thread by @asadotzler on Thread Reader App (from before it was called Phoenix, heck from before Phoenix was created!)
• 10-inch racks have apparently been a thing for the last few years. Some links.
• Coo responses to b0rk no Twitter: “is there an easy way (in the browser, at runtime) to generate a call graph of which functions called which other functions in a javascript program?”
• William Le’s Perpetual Motion Machine ver.2 – (plz visit my Amazon sto – LovelyWings)
• Victron battery management status codes
• Epic Games v. Apple: Apple has never lost this hard before – YouTube
• How to remove an entry from Chrome’s Remembered URLs from the url bar? – Super User
• GitHub – walles/moar: Moar is a pager. It’s designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.
• Setting Up a Raspberry PI with a German Mac Keyboard – Seaside Testing
• Extracting URLs from the Wayback Machine – Home
• More early Pascal history (way before Delphi; before Turbo Pascal and Quick Pascal)
• Reminder: see if I can implement megabool in Delphi (or at least trilean)
• Trip down memory lane: book on p-Code based UCSD Pascal
• September 2024 – Agust Tell HN: Twilio quietly removes Authy iOS app from Mac App Store, stops updates | Hacker News
• Some posts on example domains and example IP-ranges (IPv4 and IPv6)
• Exporting Chrome History (with the “new” configuration and state file structure), and Epoch dates on various systems
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 50 – Ars Technica
• GitHub – randomaccess3/googleURLParser: parser for Google search strings
• File scoped namespaces – C# 10.0 draft specifications | Microsoft Learn
• Anyone any idea on the contributions of Embarcadero to the LLVM project?
• Some SQLite things I recently learned a while ago
• Delphi 2006 Hidden COM Registry Entries
• DB Browser for SQLite: cross platform, reasonably sized, versatile
• “NAMED_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES” has been gone from /etc/sysconfig/named since OpenSuSE 15.4
• Busch-Jaeger – 6815U schakelmateriaal (comfort, IR)
• Apple iPad dimensions – the complete list – Ebook Friendly
• No, You Are Not Getting a CVE for That (as it rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway)
• Finding most recent forks of gists and github repositories
• TIL you can run SQL queries directly against CSV files as a one-liner using the default sqlite3 command line utility
• How TINY Can I go? The BEST Power Board is here! – YouTube – GreatScott!
• Windows event log querying from the command line: wevtutil (with XPath query parameters and XML output)
• Ook Nederlandse web-pagina’s vervuilen met AI-gegenereerde pagina’s zoek-resultaten (en daarmee de AI generatoren)
• “Towards Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute”
• Pentium to Powerhouse! Dell 3070 Micro Transformation: how to upgrade the CPU, RAM and Storage – YouTube
• BMW E61 Trunk Leak – Sunroof Drain Failure – 2004-2010 5 Series Wagon
• How I Setup My Mac – Liam Beeton
• H3/H2 Net Card – ODROID – wonder how well pfSense supports it
• VSoft Technologies – Vincent Parrett on “Code Signing with USB Tokens”
• A signal of the future WebAssembly/emscripten is giving us: a database served on a static web page
• Delphi “array of const” to “varargs” – Stack Overflow
• DEF CON 30 – stacksmashing – The Hitchhacker’s Guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG Hacking – YouTube (using Raspberry Pi Zero and hand modified lightning extension cable)
• git config: list all variables and their default values – Stack Overflow
• Rephrasing error messages into heulpful messages
• Parallel hashing on MacOS
• Moet het raam dicht?
• Way harder than I anticipated: How To Share Discord Profile Link
• My first mobile phone was not a Nokia but a Motorola which I still have just like the first Nokia banana
• Dutch translations for English software terms (Nederlandse vertalingen voor Engelse software termen)
• Windows Installer is transactional, but combined with NTFS and installer processes is not fully: do more C:\Config.msi vulnerabilities exist? (plus a truckload of information on Windows SIDs)
• Run Windows 3.1 in True-Colour Full HD: GitHub – PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv: Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1
• From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript, an interview with PL legend Anders Hejlsberg – YouTube
• GitHub – PiSCSI/piscsi: PiSCSI allows a Raspberry Pi to function as emulated SCSI devices (hard disk, CD-ROM, and others) for vintage SCSI-based computers and devices. This is a fork of the RaSCSI project by GIMONS.
• “Documented” the import order of the common msbuild extension points. · Issue #2767 · dotnet/msbuild
• SwiftOnSecurity on X: “Fun Fact: Your WiFi access point needs to know what country it’s in because of law about specific radio powers and channels and other functionality. It can be super-complicated! For example, DFS detects radar pulses and switches frequency for safety.”
• Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
• For a long time there has been Alice and Bob, but since a week there is Hegseth and Waltz!
• How to use two or more monitors to M1, M2 or M3 MacBooks | Macworld
• Happy 50th birthday Microsoft!
• Online Delphi manuals
• Tribal Knowledge? Getting the public keys from github and gitlab users from their username
• Installing Chocolatey on Windows 10 and up
• Some HTTP redirect checking sites compared
• Welcome to #AprilApples! Apple II Computer event celebrated in the month of April
• Ryan Els on X: “Center-aligned code just looks better 🥰 https://t.co/AP2l22jHRG” / X
• Personalised audio cards and video books with your own video or audio file
• If your organisation still requires users to change passwords periodically, or imposes other composition rules like special characters, then you should be publicly shamed.
• git on Windows: figuring out SID mismatch
• Direct deep links to Amazon help pages
• For my link archive: 8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot | The GitHub Blog
• ASCII art generator: GitHub – cmatsuoka/figlet: Claudio’s FIGlet tree
• Windows: extracting CD-audio for a funeral: CDex, MP3Gain (a replaygain like implementation which modifies MP3 metadata) plus UI wrapper and audacity (for combining tracks)
• Nartac Software – IIS Crypto
• Note for future self if .NET hash calculations from `ComputeHash()` are slower than expected
• Embedding a Floppy Emu in a standard APPLE II Floppy Disk Drive – YouTube
• Workaround for “embedding” external scripts in JavaScript bookmarklets (thanks @ben_alman).
• (Digital) photography, F-stops and polarisers
• Person 1: The glass is 1/2 full; Person 2: The glass is 1/2 empty; Excel: …
• C332 | Colour Printers | Firmware | OKI Europe Ltd
• Wat zou de status zijn nadat ICTU 2,5 jaar terug een slechte Mijn PGB Portaal en migratie opleverde?
• GitHub: creating a directory while adding on-line adding a file or uploading file(s)
• Some notes on recursive lambda expressions in case I ever want to try this myself (spoilers: a lot of study time ahead; many of these links are not live any more)
• Laurensvanrun/Delphi-Promises: Delphi implementation of promises for asynchronous programming.
• Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too) and some EnumWindows/EnumChildWindows tricks
• Ben Dicken on X: “You asked for it, so here it is. Visualizing CPU cache speeds relative to RAM. Cache optimization is important too!”
• Enabling XML Auto Commenting C# in Visual Studio Code is in an odd setting (via Stack Overflow)
• Notities voor rondreis met auto in IJsland (al dan niet met eigen auto)
• Twitter Lists Memberships: jpluimers
• Chrome suddenly reported “Unsupported extensions” – need to find a Chromium browser that will long-time support Manifest V2
• Ungendered writing – #awareness
• Ethics in Bricks on X: “What happens when organizations measure and reward performance of professionals? Employees change their behavior “by avoiding tasks that do not yield quantifiable results.” Link: …” (research paper by Berend van der Kolk and Wesley Kaufmann)
• For my link archive: Counting the leading zeroes and ones in a binary number with C#
• Delphi and SonarQube: great open source additions in the last few years.
• And do it has begun: Go European — Discover European products and services
• I was today years old when I found there is a shortcut to switch to the Terminal tab in Visual Studio Code
• Need to write bookmarklet for converting RSS feed URL to PlayerFM import feed URL
• One of the marvels from b0rk on Twitter is some 40 pages of debugging strategies: by now it should be a fully fledged zine
• On my list of things to try: xBrowserSync – Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!
• U-prevent
• oobe\bypassnro removed from Windows 11 24H2 dead/hidden ? – YouTube – or is it? Two alternatives
• Kenteken Font | dafont.com
• Weather info in plain text or JSON
• Miguel de Icaza on Twitter: “This is so beautiful – SQL Injection attacks but for GPT-3 and other AI text models.” / Twitter
• Unicode subscripts and superscripts: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and IPA tables; Source: Small caps: Unicode – Wikipedia
• On my list of thigs to play around with: ISSUE_TEMPLATE and other GitHub templates/settings
• Reminder to self: re-check the Dotpe API Security Breach — bool.dev
• Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too)
• Use an iPad as a second display for a Mac – Apple Support
• Forrest Brazeal on Twitter about their your process for learning a new technology or framework on the job
• Ook voor de overheid is de (ook aangetekende) postbezorging van PostNL slecht: NOS.nl – Zorgen van ombudsman over onbetrouwbare bezorging post van overheid
• MacBook Red Screen Issue, or why I turned off True Tone and Night Shift
• Ester Naomi Perquin on Twitter: “… Wat is het Syndroom van Moeje eigenlijk en wat moet je ermee?”
• Some links on USB 2.0 and 3.0 galvanic isolators
• On accessibility (thanks Bianca Prins!) and archivability.
• OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is “Unable To Solve the Majority” of Coding Problems
• Some interesting tweets by @isotopp and others on home power measurement and what to do to optimise energy usage at home
• Going Native – Malicious Native Applications
• GitHub – Sanakan8472/copy-dialog-lunar-lander: Play lunar lander in you windows file copy dialog
• 3 Ways to Convert Kindle to PDF for Free
• Toeristenbelasting per gemeente 2025, plus overzicht belastingen Bollenstreek
• Some more links on HEARN/EARN and BITNET relay (which chat and precedes IRC)
• Battery Chargers | ctek.com -> MXS 5.0: the 5 ampere charger for 12 volt batteries
• ufrisk/MemProcFS: The Memory Process File System
• Thread by @mariusheier on Thread Reader App – USB-A to USB-C. A @cursedconnector ? Or genius?
• How to send raw network packets in Python with tun/tap
• Thread by @dosdude1 on Thread Reader App – upgrading storage from 512GB to 8TB on an M3 Max MacBook Pro
• Visual Studio Code: copying text when none is selected.
• Twitter image size suffixes reloaded: pbs.twimg.com URL information
• Code52/carnac: A utility to give some insight into how you use your keyboard (on Windows systems)
• Download your Kindle books soon, because Amazon will block them after February 25, 2025
• Thread by @lauriewired on Thread Reader App – SSDs are *shockingly* bad at power off retention, esp if it’s near it’s endurance rating.
• Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method • Zettelkasten Method
• Cleaning PlexWriters – Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on X: “@jpluimers Usually the trays are a little sticky on these: I take them apart, grease up the tray mechanism and any gears (use lithium grease), clean the laser with Isopropyl alcohol, clean all the connectors with WD40 contact cleaner, retro-bright the front – job done!”
• Just released: the 2025 Annotated Edition of Mastering Delphi 5 by Marco Cantù
• Branch removal: cartoon by Mike Luckovinch on how dictators operate
• Fun with Windows Containers – Popping Calc
• macos – How can I update everything installed through Homebrew after OSX upgrade? – Ask Different
• evilsocket/jscythe: Abuse the node.js inspector mechanism in order to force any node.js/electron/v8 based process to execute arbitrary javascript code.
• The Search Engine for Vintage Computers: FrogFind!
• Since covariance and especially contravariance often give me headaches (especially with Action and Func), some links
• #inclusion #accesibility: List of emoticons: Unicode characters – Wikipedia #a11y
• Payload Box
• Notities Warmink / Wuba staande klok met drie melodieëen en wijzers voor minuten+uren, seconden, weekdag, maand, maanstand
• “To protect your privacy” this invisible app automatically scans all your images: Google System APK Transparency  |  Android Binary Transparency  |  Google for Developers
• Refrain from hacking all the things (:
• Dr. Nadia Drake has discovered both her dads Golden Record pulsar map, and the sketches for the Arecibo message
• If you thought you found cheap directional WiFi antennas (2.4GHz or 5Ghz), then think twice
• Mailen en communiceren zonder Musk en Trump: Cloud Kootwijk – Bert Hubert’s writings
• Stable Diffusion – a Hugging Face Space by stabilityai
• On Twitter, Apple Mis-Intelligence (@singhalrishi27) found out you can now order Mac Mini M4 upgrade SSD parts on Apple Self Service Repair: part numbers and prices below
• Jürgen Schmidhuber on X: “DeepSeek [1] uses elements of the 2015 reinforcement learning prompt engineer [2] and its 2018 refinement [3] which collapses the RL machine and world model of [2] into a single net through the neural net distillation procedure of 1991 [4]: a distilled chain of thought system. …”
• If you need to learn ASP.NET core or looking for specific examples, then try GitHub dodyg/practical-aspnetcore repository
• Prevent a Mac laptop from turning on when opening its lid or connecting to power – Apple Support
• “United by Unique”, the new World Cancer Day theme 2025-2027 | World Cancer Day – #WorldCancerDay #UnitedByUnique
• A Couple of Quick Bookmarklets For Viewing a Suspended / Deleted Twitter User – ResearchBuzz
• Computer History Museum interviews with Bill Atkinson on Apple Lisa now on YouTube
• Corran Addison – The best, most cogent and elegantly simple explanation into the inexplicably destructive negotiating processes of the president,by Prof. David Honig of Indiana University. | Facebook
• The WordPress feature that “beautifies” (malforms!) your Blog text is called `wptexturize`: on WordPress.com you cannot disable it.
• keirf/greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level
• Insightful video on arm movements via Chris Kavanagh on X: “Found this in Reddit seems like it might be useful for some people.”
• Chrome on Windows: Keyboard – Move focus to the shortcuts bar – Google Chrome Community
• Some notes on mini/micro Apple //e emulators
• ELIZAGEN – ELIZA Reanimated: The Original 1965 Chatbot Restored On An Emulated IBM 7094 Running MIT’s CTSS
• Bridgy Fed – bridges to/from BlueSky, Fediverse (including Mastodon) and many web-sites
• python – What is a virtualenv, and why should I use one? – Stack Overflow
• Please vote for the LEGO Turing Machine at LEGO ideas
• javascript – Open a URL in a new tab (and not a new window) – Stack Overflow
• Design kledingrek SOOPL FASHION TROLLEY
• Luis ✨ on Twitter: “Mensen zeggen wel eens dat internationaal met de trein reizen alleen is weggelegd voor mensen met veel geld, maar dat klopt niet helemaal. Draadje met goedkope bestemmingen met prijzen en hoe ze te boeken, allemaal voor in augustus 🧵”
• GitHub – lightpanda-io/browser: Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation
• Android/Apple Photographer Apps? : photography
• Any YouTube ID is a YouTube ID which means you can use any shorts ID and music ID to watch as a YouTube URL (adding functionality shorts and music URLs lack)
• Applesoft BASIC in JavaScript
• Via Kevin Beaumont: DEIAtruth@opm.gov, a perfect email address for paywalls, mailing lists etc.
• MySQL: Boiling JFrogs | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp
• Some notes on reStructuredText in vscode now that reStructuredText by LeXtudio Inc. got redesigned
• Three dashes or a rendered horizontal table at the top of your GitHub markdown document? That’s YAML metadata
• Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub
• XKCD to ExplainXKCD Bookmarklet
• @forrestbrazeal on the Twitter post appreciation system
• How your brain functions when you go from calm via alert and alarm to fear and terror
• Updated monthly after the 8th day of the month – Welcome to the BAG: The Dutch Building and Addresses database – Bert Hubert’s writings
• ChatGPT is een soort waarzegger, die net iets vaker de waarheid vertelt | de Volkskrant
• Mimikatz and password dumps | Ivan’s IT learning blog
• Updating Git for Windows credentials for Bitbucket app password – Stack Overflow
• Forbes: NSA Warns iPhone And Android Users—Disable Location Tracking
• nginxinc/kic-reference-architectures: MARA: Modern Application Reference Architecture
• 40 years later: «They were banned in the USSR – The Scotsman»
• Converting Power Point
• Security through transparency: RP2350 Hacking Challenge results are in – Raspberry Pi
• Classic iPod Dock Connector to Line-in / Line-out
• Delphi sorcery: Introducing Spring.Benchmark – a port of Google benchmark
• Raymond Chen on The AArch64 processor (aka arm64) in many parts
• Thread by @0gtweet on Thread Reader App – retrieve your BitLocker password, store the password in your password manager and make a backup of it!
• Manu Keirse: Raakt een mens het verdriet over een overleden dierbare ooit kwijt?
• VideoLAN on Twitter: “VLC automatic subtitles generation and translation based on local and open source AI models running on your machine working offline, and supporting numerous languages! Demo can be found on our #CES2025 booth in Eureka Park.” (video)
• Laurens on X: “Heel goed item van Lubach over erfbelasting #Avondshow”
• nixCraft on Twitter: “Here is how to check if you are affected by a known vulnerability in your hardware (CPU) when using Linux including mitigation status”
• Delphi Discord servers
• Kristian Köhntopp on MySQL primary keys
• Adding entries to the PATH persistently (be aware of the 1024 character limit of SETX)
• On Windows, `arp -d` sometimes fails but `netsh` comes to the rescue
• Deploy .NET Framework 3.5 by using Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) instead of Chocolatey and some notes on PowerShell colours
• MySQL: Row Literals | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp
• The links I used to search for a refurbished M-Series Apple Silicon MacBook Pro
• Dumpsterdiving for network access :: Jilles.com
• The famous Shiv Ramdas Twitter thread about his brother in law getting quite a bit more than a bucketload of rice…
• iTerm2 logged passwords: immediately upgrade to 3.5.11 and delete any /tmp/framer.txt on your systems – via isotopp Kris at Infosec Exchange
• Latest Products/Feature Request Board topics – Ring Community
• Getting the list of vscode extensions when it upgraded to a version not supported on the platform any more (and packing your extensions in a .vsix list package)
• Modifying your receiver/amplifier: Converting Phono Inputs to Line-Level
• Old programming books had cool little “puns” in their references, modern lack them in their indices. On the why, and history of them.
• Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries
• Pentium FDIV bug – 25 years ago; Ken Shirriff reverse engineerded the cause under a microsope
• A truckload of links which I need for some Bookmarklets work
• Belastingdienst: Postadres doorgeven
• AOMEI: Download Free Windows Backup Software
• Radio 10 Webcam – Radio 10 Live beeld – MyOnlineRadio
• How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency
• The Prince of Persia as a hanging Lego ornament
• HInvoke and avoiding PInvoke | drakonia’s blog
• x86 assembly – Difference between JE/JNE and JZ/JNZ – Stack Overflow
• Likely the best Xmas commercial this year: Bubbles | Deutsche Telekom | Christmas Ad 2024 – YouTube
• Test Automation Code Smells – Angie Jones
• “Incompatible parameter lists” when using Types.T*DynArray? – VCL – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]
• Bell’s Theorem: The Quantum Venn Diagram Paradox – YouTube and Twitter explained with polarised filters
• Our visits to the @NPORadio2 #Top2000 Café 2018
• Some thoughts and experience by isotopp on solar panels and batteries
• redox – Acetic(vinegar) and citric acid as the rust remover – Chemistry Stack Exchange
• How to lock the Philips TV after a specific time? | Philips
• Beyond Compare 5 – out since mid 2024, and not many bug fixes needed so far: be sure to upgrade
• Hasan • Digital Writer on Twitter: “I made JavaScript Arrays Methods cheat sheet🔥 I hope it can helps you https://t.co/6KoWtagj13” / Twitter
• How to extract playlists (list of file locations) from iTunes using python – Stack Overflow
• den on Twitter: “Kubernetes.” portrayed by Seinfeld characters (Engineering Festivus)
• As a tribute to their @isotopp handle history, Kris now changed its name to Köhntopp
• Markdown has been the Internet’s lingua franca for documentation. Microsoft finally the documentation format with markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
• Some links and notes as I want to write a Bookmarklets to help resize HTML images
• Kleding voor nerds en geeks / Clothing for nerds & geeks — getDigital
• Evade Windows Defender Mimikatz detection by patching the amsi.dll | by Nol White Hat | Jul, 2022 | System Weakness
• Some initial steps solving the Raspberry Pi (3 and 4) issue where OpenSuSE LEAP does reach Graphical Target but Tumbleweed does not
• Some notes as I need to perform contact syncing between various Google accounts
• Nein! Doch! Oh! Grenscontrolemijders maken de N35 bij Enschede nog drukker
• Nerd Corner making life easier: Dupont connectors and soldering aids (3D printing) for jumper cables!
• Link archive: Windows PSBits/PasswordStealing/NPPSpy at master · gtworek/PSBits
• Unicode: Keyboard Symbols ⌘ ↵ ⌫
• CAPTCHA by Basic Apple Guy on X: “Find the Mac Pro (5th anniversary edition) 🔍 1949 cheese graters, 1 of them is a Mac Pro”
• How To Scale and Crop Images with CSS object-fit | DigitalOcean
• Some links on Windows kernel APIs
• Florian Haas on Twitter: alias kubectl=”TZ=Etc/UTC kubectl”; You’re welcome
• A Dutch friend got a 2nd hand Lenovo with a keyboard layout I didn’t know: searching for the special keys did not return results
• Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
• 20240507 – Brand Elektrakast/Transformatorhuis Liander Ringvaartzijde/Grevelingstraat Lisse – Google Photos
• Pricing | Better Uptime
• I really dislike MacOS choosing machine names, and having the long machine names and short hostnames in separate places to change (one of them command-line only)
• Save the Environment (Variable)
• IMAGE_FILE_HEADER (winnt.h) – Win32 apps | Microsoft Learn: IMAGE_FILE_UP_SYSTEM_ONLY flag (not what you think it means)
• Hijack Libs
• Privacyverklaring | Mazda
• Is it Pokémon or Big Data?
• Useful physical keys
• Good Reddit thread regarding updating Tumbleweed: difference between zypper up (zypper update) and zypper dup (zypper dist-upgrade) repository priorities and more
• Reddit – PSA: Fast way to complete the “Use 10 super effective charged attacks” field research : TheSilphRoad
• Old xs4all stuff
• SCANSNAP iX100 SCANNER REPAIR MANUAL – PFU Ricoh Store
• Eric Reinhart on Twitter: “Yes, there is no intrinsic meaning or purpose in your life. This is difficult; it’s also the reason there’s possibility for you. The task of living is to invent meaning and purpose, and then invent it again. It’s work. Much of the time it’s painful. Sometimes, it’s also joy. 3/”/ Twitter
• Some links on 12V ~18Ah UPS replacement batteries
• IPv4 subnet/CIDR table from OccupytheWeb on Twitter: “Network Basics for Hackers: Subnetting, Subnet Masks and CIDR Notation …”
• Jeffrey | JKCTech on X: “Dit is echt 1 van de aller mooiste edge cases voor een licht sensor die ik ooit heb gezien… https://t.co/wkm8ztbHI9” / X
• Dan Hon on Twitter: “repost for posterity” (agile pitfalls)
• For the USA, the TRS-80 PC-1 was the “The Trash Computer That Became Your Phone”; the rest of the world could enjoy the hardware identical Sharp PC-1210/1211/1212 years earlier
• Hopefully this has made it into a set by now: LEGO IDEAS – This Is Fine
• Not just on a new tab: MacOS chrome crashes when command + shift + i is pressed on a new tab [333424895] – Chromium
• GHP1989 to WHY2025: Dutch hacker camps from the past and the future – YouTube
• ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ” by tzwickl · Pull Request #768 · sivel/speedtest-cli
• Reminder to self: write Bookmarklet to assemble URL for Amazon Shipping ID
• The Twelve-Factor App
• GitHub – ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++
• Generate a GUID in Windows 10 (Globally Unique Identifier)
• Un4seen.Bass Namespace – BASS.NET API for the Un4seen BASS Audio Library
• crt.sh allows you to search for the history of TLS certificates for domains (example: *.wiert.me)
• Is it possible to deter AI scraping by providing overly large robots.txt?
• Quit Nested SSH Sessions: use one more ~ for each nesting
• How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr | The Guardian
• Opinie | Bosrandgeluk – NRC – ikje uit zomer 2010
• Some links on Aviation Registration and ICAO 24-bit call signs
• Hans Otten @hansotten@mastodon.social on X: “PiDP-11/70 with a real PDP-11 CPU, a DCJ11-AF”
• Reminder to self: get the Technic 40 year anniversary model and also rebuild the 8860 on which it was based (via Brickset: LEGO set guide and database)
• Famous AI Artist Says He’s Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work
• Florian Haas on Twitter: “Let’s do something we should do every once in a while: if you have a personal web site with an RSS or Atom feed, drop it in the replies so people can add it to their feed aggregator.”
• GitHub – src-d/hercules: Gaining advanced insights from Git repository history.
• How to Weaponize the Yubikey – Black Hills Information Security
• Kris on chaos.social about doing the math on heap pumps combined with solar power and home batteries
• Windows: Will the new Google Chat PWA for Chrome ever have system tray support? : gsuite
• Bestel ontbrekende puzzelstukjes van Jan van Haasteren puzzels
• 2014 memory: TL;DR Thank you! You’re awesome! Let’s do it again! • GDG DevFest Netherlands
• Good example for open source guidelines to contributors: liburing/CONTRIBUTING.md at master · axboe/liburing · GitHub
• Links to HTML versions of RFC’s need to move from “tools” to “datatracker” – Meta Stack Exchange
• Strive for a work environment that allows for continuous improvement over delayed perfection
• Ghostbin – lightweight, but unmaintained
• If you use web-logon for your app, show the web-browser pop-up including the URL (via @wesbos on Twitter)
• Bookmarklet idea: find Wikipedia entry for currently selected text, then (when editing in WordPress) make the selected text link to it
• Summer 2024: Our audit of Homebrew | Trail of Bits Blog
• How to check if your device meets Windows 11 system requirements after changing device hardware
• Kris auf chaos.social: “Fernfusion?” -> Fernfusion!
• My E61 BMW dashboard showed a yellow icon with a car on a lift: it meant the battery was running low
• Block 185.235.84.0/22 (which ad broker criteo – used by WetterOnline/WeerOnline/others port-scans) via Sven222@Friendica Social Network
• Reminder: check out what GitLab has put in place for “dormant” or “inactive” repositories
• If you sunset things, at least remove references: Finding information (IDE Tutorial) – RAD Studio
• For my link archive – AndreaJensen on Twitter: “Hi testers, What do you find difficult, tricky, or challenging about #ExploratoryTesting? Please share your thoughts”
• According to Imgur: The new abbreviations for Generative AI is PISS
• On my list of things to try: Cisco Duo MFA
• Ethics in Bricks on X: “Your daily reminder: It’s okay to say ‘I don’t know’, particularly if you don’t know.”
• Apply for a free ADS-B receiver – Real-time flight tracker | Flightradar24
• Is there a an official playlist of music played during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics yet?
• Note that Dell 3060 and 3070 Micro MFF have M.2 PCI-e x2 (the 3070 documentation is correct; the 3060 documentation indicates x4); same for mini and tower machines
• Turning Disposable Vapes into a Fast Charge Power Bank – YouTube
• Lou Creemers on Twitter: “Which of these software development books would you want? I loooved Blaming the User https://t.co/VPEaaiOGId” / Twitter
• Dare Obasanjo on X: “If you’ve ever wondered why most business software sucks, it’s for the same reason as this cartoon…”
• Malloy is an experimental language for describing data relationships and transformations (VScode extension).
• Jason Levin on X: “Jira marketing team was like “what infrastructure is as inefficient and frustrating as us?” and then puts ads on the New York City subway”
• Decodering van code uiterste verkoopdatum op groenten en fruit (via Joost Schellevis Twitter)
• Meeting Cartoon # 512 – ANDERTOONS: customer satisfaction
• How to reset an Anker PowerCore+ 26,800 USB power bank
• Supporting Young People After a Distressing Event (Alys Cole-King, Dom Thompson, Jess Read, Mike Armiger, Knut Schroeder, Tom Cole-King, Andrea Walraven-Thissen)
• How can I enable the Windows Task Scheduler History recording? (via Stack Overflow)
• AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect | Nature
• Kris on Twitter: “On a scale of 1-8, how pessimistic is your code?”
• Five Geek Social Fallacies – Plausibly Deniable
• Need to check out the Windows AutoLogonSID registry value and other autologon security features in Windows
• Accessibility Myths – debunked
• Some winget packages that will get you x86 or x64 versions of vcredist140
• GitHub – oetiker/znapzend: zfs backup with remote capabilities and mbuffer integration.
• Windows 10/11: how to check if Hibernation is enabled or disabled
• CarCareKiosk All Videos Page – Mercedes-Benz SLK300 2009
• Elektriciteitsnet Leiden vol: ook beperkingen voor grootverbruikers in Teylingen – De Teyding
• video memory required for 1920×1080 – Google Search
• The state of malware today: From Highly Obfuscated Batch File to XWorm and Redline – SANS Internet Storm Center
• Thread by @troyhunt: the Internet Archive was breached, DDoSed and defaced – reset your passwords (it’s the same account as for their Wayback Machine)
• Documentation should be easily searchable (No documentation | CommitStrip)
• The Deadlock Empire: end-screen
• 40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer — and Apple — History
• Downloading a file from the Windows console without first installing a command-line tool
• Online Paste to Markdown (in JavaScript + HTML)
• Fixing the Google Calendar item editor CSS so the title 40% of my window width
• Is it OK to lure a telemarketer into resetting their phone?
• “Macrogol en electrolyten ratiopharm 13.7g poeder voor drank” definitief uit de handel: hopelijk is die van Teva niet alleen uit dezelfde fabriek, maar ook exact hetzelfde.
• Some notes on the TEAC CA-200 OEM Dell card reader
• Deze week weer in de aanbieding: Floralys 3-laags toiletpapier XXL – Lidl
• Some links on LaunchTM.exe, as I had been unaware Windows can use it to launch TaskMgr.exe
• By Jack Rhysider: if you’re in IT, I highly encourage you to write a blog. Here are 17 reasons why you should be blogging.🧵👇
• One cautionary thing with C programming: the cost of macro expansion
• Unicode spaces (not just en and em, but also em fractions 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/5, 4/18 and remarks)
• The 2019 Ron Jeffries’ Post (Extreme Programming, Agile Manifesto) “Story Points Revisited”
• Yes, Windows user names can contain spaces
• Ian Brown: “Tired: “code generation” Wired…” – Mastodon
• Reminder to self write a JavaScript NoDrives encoder/decoder on a web-page
• Lokjo.com – Your worldwide local map
• Windows 10/11: Skip Security Questions When Adding Local User
• Attempting to stop Microsoft users sending ‘reactions’ to email from me by adding a postfix header
• What’s inside the QR code menu at this cafe? – by peabee
• Some links on repairing the buttons of remote controls that use graphite to short areas on printed board circuits
• Do Not Stare: protip: when referring to your favourite programming language’s features
• Now open sourced with a really restrictive license – WinampDesktop/winamp: Iconic media player
• When you broke code, finding back where it got broken is easier if you have small change increment (i.e. bisection and binary tree search)
• 86Box is a cool IBM PC emulator: it even supports modem emulation and SLiRP. Serial BBS galore over the internet all over again!
• NTFS Sparse Files For Programmers
• Ringzer0: “Support your local OSS Devs ” – Infosec Exchange
• string – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow (and how Embarcadero broke one of the product version neutral redirects)
• Thread by @LetheForgot to @SwiftOnSecurity on Thread Reader App – Windows boot recovery
• Fixing the date/time of a ST-977 or ST-977T weather station
• For my link archive: Power (and Energy) | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp
• Nederland: Overzicht schoolvakanties 2024-2025 | Schoolvakanties | Rijksoverheid.nl
• Linear Algebra | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare
• GitHub Profile Roast 🔥🔥🔥
• “Koning Willem-Alexander is bij de viering van het honderdjarig jubileum van Woonzorgpark Willem van den Bergh. Met twee cliënten opent hij de tentoonstelling ‘100 jaar Willem van den Bergh’”.
• Hopefully by now the choco client will be more resilient and informative about Chocolatey maintenance windows (and maybe even about any disruptions mentioned at status.chocolatey.org)
• scaling != high availability (you more often need the latter than the former); microservices != modularisation (you hardly need the former; you *need* the latter)
• GitHub – chip-red-pill/MicrocodeDecryptor
• The codewali on Twitter: “How API works?”
• Wow: inside DOS Doom version 2, you can run another Doom (even arbitrary other code)
• Google Search teamed up with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: the good, the bad, the ugly
• Draad met goede tips van NL_zorg op Twitter over communicatie wanneer iemand doof of slechthorend is
• Voor als je moe bent en toch gezond wilt eten: tray bakes (dank Nadine Böke en Huub Eggen)
• A while ago from Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 on Twitter: “Ok I have a CO2 meter review video coming up but quick summary”
• VN bevestigt: Nederland is op het punt van toegankelijkheid eigenlijk nog een ontwikkelingsland.
• View DOM Source bookmarklet
• GitHub – AnswerDotAI/fasthtml: The fastest way to create an HTML app
• 11.2: Bookmarklets – Programming with Text – YouTube
• infinite loop in “LaTeX: A Document Preparation System” by Leslie Lamport, printed in 1994.
• Julia Evans (b0rk on Twitter) motivated many people to post their web browser Javascript debugger tip
• YouTube Archived: private Dell video about detecting non-POST issues like motherboard or memory failures
• Twitter: getting a tweet video URL
• Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple | matttproud.com (blog)
• MokupiPogisho👁️ on Twitter: “How to find hidden cameras in AirBnB 👁”
• Shadow IT has entered the chat – got caught running scripts again : sysadmin
• I’m not the only one storing tech gadgets in flight cases (:
• Identity Crisis | Apple II Programs: Susan Kare’s “Happy Mac” on an Apple II
• What to do when suddenly some or many .nupkg became zero length and Chocolatey thinks none of them are installed?
• Brush up on your knowledge of the elements with this Chrome Experiment, an interactive Periodic Table by Sarath Saleem: goo-gl/HJ9O31 #fridayfun
• Kugane/winget: A Winget script to automatically install predefined programs and MS Store apps. Includes automatic update and cleanup job
• Tekenencefalitis (TBE) | RIVM
• I wonder if east-west facing vertical bi-facial solar panels are now more used often as they are just as efficient as south facing standard units
• Grady Booch on X: “Public pressure works!” – Grace Hopper lectures finally digitized and make public
• With the newest PowerToys version, the Microsoft teams shows they forgot about their CUA heritage
• Learning from others: how they use diagrams and notes while debugging (via b0rk – Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter)
• SQL SERVER – How to get historical deadlock Information from System Health Extended Events? – SQL Authority with Pinal Dave
• What’s Behind A Webpage? Use DevTools To Find Out
• Tampermonkey script twitter-to-bsky: Crosspost from Twitter/X to Bluesky and Mastodon
• Cool nginx playground by b0rk (Julia Evans)
• Revisited: Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navivate to the canonical link
• Belastingaangifte 2023 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee
• I need to contemplate about (not) using standards Commit Messages and Commit Emojis
• Rondje kanovaren: Greveling Lisse via Ringvaart Haarlemmermeer en Ringsloot
• With the ever increasing heatwaves all around the world: important PDF. Print it. Have it with you. Even better: read it before and prepare! “Heat Illness Prevention Pocket Guide Approved for public release, distribution unlimited TA-010-JAN20” @Walrathis
• 25e KatwijkBinse Truckrun reed 24 augustus ook weer door Noordwijkerhout: foto’s door Jeroen
• 512GB to 8TB for your M1: Mac Studio Storage Upgrade – Made EASY with Custom Parts – YouTube
• 20240511 – 20240512 – Noorderlicht – Northern Light – Aurora Borealis – Google Photos
• Is the world still homogenising towards anonymous pile of monotony?
• Algoritmes nemen beslissingen over ons leven: hoe besluiten we of we automatische beslissingen van algoritmes willen accepteren? | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
• The mojibake “creëer”
• windows – What does SetFileValidData doing ? what is the difference with SetEndOfFile? – Stack Overflow
• If I ever need to do OAuth: aspnet-contrib/AspNet.Security.OAuth.Providers: OAuth 2.0 social authentication providers for ASP.NET Core
• Some lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike debacle
• Smart idea: (re)use a solar panel as balcony power plant table
• ‘Tis but a scratch, just a flesh wound: 3D Printable Black Knight from Monty Python – Highlands Miniatures by Highlands Miniatures
• Remote desktop connection protocol error 0x112F: usually is lack of memory on the server side, try connecting with a lower resolution
• What happened to the Sonos app? A technical analysis by Andy Pennel, Sonos fanboy/hacker
• Dell OptiPlex 3060 Micro Setup and specifications guide | Dell US: F2 to enter BIOS; power on during AC Recovery
• Agile Manifesto co-author on making process ‘beacon of hope’ • The Register
• Dutch hackerspaces and FabLabs
• Why Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Risks | Gartner, 2024-05-20
• ladislav-zezula/FileTest: Source code for File Test – Interactive File System Test Tool
• Kevlin Henney on generative AI creating job security for programmers:
• jilles.com on testing USB cables
• Captive portal – Wikipedia
• How to reset OnePlus One – Factory reset and erase all data – A0001
• How long will Firefox survive, given market share and likely demise of main income source: Google Search (via Thom – Exquisite.social)
• Welkom in de onzichtbare vinkjesmaatschappij – Rules by Rosita (want het gaat slecht met mensenrechten voor gehandicapten in Nederland)
• Inline drying of 3D printer fillament?
• It looks like Fritz!Box rebinding protection also prevents accessing a FritzBox over a SSH port forwarding
• Newer WordPress bookmarklets for navigating from a blog post to the classic editor, or getting the canonical url anchor of a blog post
• The regexp for an emoticon ?
• ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network • The Register
• A big oops: “Researcher finds a way to invisibly reverse Windows updates • The Register”
• Downloads: North Pi 3D Files — Fractal Design
• Some notes on codepoints.net and beta.codepoints.net
• Leah Neukirchen: “Lesser known pop music facts: The song “Nothing compares 2 U” is actually about the floating point value NaN. …” – BLÅHAJ Social
• Kris on Twitter: “Company chat: »Right, we need more languages with Emoji as variable type indicators and pointer symbols.«…
• The 2002 “Cruft Force” scale in Aug02: The New Adventures of Verity Stob
• Ian Coldwater 📦💥 on Twitter: “Who called it a Kubernetes penetration test and not a clusterfuck”
• uBlock Origin on X: “Chrome users: switch browsers or switch to uBlock Origin Lite”
• Trekkous kabeltrekken – YouTube
• How to check the country that Google associates with your account, and how to change it – gHacks Tech News
• Every conversation about dependencies since 2020 uses the same XKCD 2347 based image, which is a problem on multiple levels
• Jilles preparing for a Red Team training event
• Programming Quotes: “No code is faster than no code…” – Mastodon
• PoshCode/PowerShellPracticeAndStyle: The Unofficial PowerShell Best Practices and Style Guide
• CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party
• Ransomware gangs are loving this dumb but deadly ESXi flaw • The Register
• Saving an era of indie games: Ruffle – an Adobe Flash Player written in Rust compiled to WebAssembly
• NLZorg on X: “Klacht: Elastieken schieten steeds los vanwege dikke tempurmatras en nemen dan het hoeslaken mee. Een gebruikte beenband is voor zoveel van nut!”
• Link to downgrade or cancel Google one membership : GoogleOne
• Trigger warning: recovering data of someone close to you which suddenly died
• Without prior warning, Twitter shares your data with grok AI, even for EU Twitter users
• Het schoonmaken van een rolstoel. Een rolstoel moet 1x per week worden schoongemaakt voor comfortabel gebruik en voor verlengen van de levensduur.
• Aan- en uittrekhulp Doff N’ Donner, voor het aan- en uittrekken van steunkousen | Aantrekhulp voor sokken/panty’s en steunkousen | Winkel met Zorg
• Figuring out what domains/IPs to whitelist for installing/updating winget sources and packages
• David Fowler on Twitter: “Playing around with using static interface methods and the new IParsable to make generic callsites for HTTP APIs. Before .NET 7 there was no way to write generic code that did {Type}.TryParse/{Type}.Parse. The type system didn’t have a way to describe these contracts. #dotnet”
• Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
• PowerMac G5 ATX Gaming PC Case Mod | by Patrick Robert Doyle | Medium
• Injection Travel Kit by frozenfoxx | Download free STL model | Printables.com
• Need to give this some thought: Poor Man’s Auto Update. by Chris Bensen | by Chris Bensen
• Reusing the motors and magnets of your old hard drives
• Great tip by Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Colour coding all my meetings – seriously I don’t know why I held off for so long, it made my calendar so much easier to read
• IKEA ESCHER play table and chair (700×906)
• Automated CrowdStrike BSOD Workaround in Safe Mode using Group Policy · GitHub
• SIEMENS – HB86P575 – Compacte bakoven met magnetron
• @BritisAirwaySup: a parody account on Webcare teams always wanting to directly move to private DM conversation and sharing full privacy details
• MySQL function result reuse in expressions?
• fail2ban is yet another “A project some … person … has been thanklessly maintaining since …”; ensure it does not become yet another XZ Utils debacle
• On my list of tools to try: zhot and tweetzhot (both by Rop Gongrijp and based on puppeteer) to create browser screenshots from the terminal
• DigiD backend code: GitHub – MinBZK/woo-besluit-broncode-digid
• s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket
• Ends in a few hours: The Jordan Mechner Prince of Persia Challenge! | ThecePlay
• When you need USB 3 downstream ports on your monitor, be wary of LG monitors
• How Old Are You in CO2?
• funnymonkey: “To disable Mozilla’s data grab, enter:…” – Free Radical
• /dev/null: MicrosoftDocs kills the usage of GitHub issues in favour of using the dreaded Microsoft Q&A site and a non-public tracking system
• The Blast-RADIUS bomb logo reminded me of “Kaputt” in the original Castle Wolfenstein game
• Tailscale SSH · Tailscale
• You don’t need an over-engineered IKEA cabinet hack to silence your PC
• Important to defeat Twitter wrongly auto-guessing of URLs (and assuming anything with @ or # is a mention or hashtag) is Nelson’s Weblog: tech / zero-width-space
• Should be easy to put in a Bookmarklet: Archive.is blog — What is the long version of the url please. …
• Installing WhatsApp Desktop from the Console
• Linkjes rondom Macrogol: die van Ratiopharm verdraag ik het beste.
• Tested: HomeSpot NFC-Enabled Bluetooth Audio Receiver for Sound System
• HELP e60 bulb type | BMW-Driver.net Forums
• 25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build – Michael Stapelberg (forget MikroTik for this)
• Interesting thread on the usefulness of running a syslog server and being able to write to it
• Cool dphacks.com Raspberry #CM4 carrier board with Ethernet and NVME
• FreeDOS turns 30 shortly after FreeBSD turns 31 • The Register
• In potentially multi-threaded .NET Console applications, ensure `Console.EnsureInitialized` gets called for at least output, and potentially for input
• Reminder to self: write a Bookmarklet that shortens YouTube URLs to the youtu.be ones
• MSI installation error 1603 – Windows Server | Microsoft Learn
• Rode Kruis on Twitter: “#hittetip voor de komende dagen en de zomer. 👉 Zo herken je de symptomen van oververhitting:…”
• Firex 230V koppelbare rookmelders, type KF20 en KF20R, levensduur 10 jaar
• Thread by @malmoeb on attacks: Visibility is key for eradication
• Homelab: 2U server, short depth, with front IO, based on Ampere Altra and Asrock Rack ALTRAD8UD-1L2T motherboard
• Diagnosing ThinkPad T510 shutting down after ~30 seconds: heat problem?
• GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE (and some words on a 64-bit Delphi product)
• Delphi has had a more type safe FreeAndNil or a while now, but in order to do so it lies to you
• Lots of interesting programming learning games links via b0rk on Twitter
• Deleted Tweet Finder
• Does Google Photos allow you to tag faces yet?
• Symbolen in de trein voor de diverse soorten zones in coupés/rijtuigen
• Template van SchizoDuckie  tegen data harkers
• Heat development in the car according to time and outside temperature – Hitzeentwicklung im Auto nach Zeit und Außentemperatur | Statista
• How to apply border inside a table ? – GeeksforGeeks
• I needed an online HTML render because a site had HTML output you could not copy the render from
• x86_opcode_structure_and_instruction_overview.pdf on -= pnx.tf =-
• Inonica Smeets over de vraag “Ik heb uitgezaaide prostaatkanker, hoe groot is de kans dat ik over tien jaar nog leef?” | de Volkskrant
• Cyberteletekst
• Opbouwarmatuur TPS | Slagvast wandarmatuur | Lightronics
• Hobbyscoop: 1980s broadcast testing your stereo equipment – YouTube
• Reminder to self: check to see if Delphi improved support for MMX/SSE/AVX instructions
• GitHub – dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need: A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet
• Converting html div tables to normal tables
• Henk van Ess on the Google indexing and search algorithms
• 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “what’s an easy way to release the code of a project without allowing issues / pull requests? An archived github repo is almost like this, but it doesn’t seem to let you push new commits (I sometimes have code that I want to let people view but don’t want to maintain in any way)” / Twitter
• Covid and digital transformation cartoon – Business Illustrator
• Wees voorzichtig met lappen/keukenpapier/dweiltjes/etc als je er olie of vet op zit (na klussen, koken, schoonmaken)
• This usually is a toner error: OKI | “CHECK IMAGE DRUM UNIT / 540, 541, 542, 543:[COLOR] Image Drum Sensor Error” is displayed.(C332)
• Wat is de maximale huurverhoging in 2024? | Rijksoverheid.nl
• Dé website voor alle geneesmiddelen­tekorten | KNMP – Farmanco
• delphi – What is the meaning of the bScan parameter value 0x45 in keybd_event? – Stack Overflow
• Stembureau’s Lisse EU verkiezingen 2024 – Google Maps
• Fixing the GitHub gist CSS so the editor uses more than 25% of my screen estate
• Tranen van emoties: opnieuw op het podium in ‘t Onderdak in Sassenheim. Dank Cresendo, Willem, Micheline en Jos!
• maartensukel/example-textual-classification-citizen-reports: Example of a simple textual classification using TF-IDF and LR.
• Google Search Location Changers for Chrome and Firefox (via Henk van Ess)
• Poppins – Google Fonts
• Is uBlock Origin Lite an alternative to keep using Chrome with manifest V2 deprecated?
• DHL Verpakkingtips – YouTube
• Comparison of UPS Topologies: Line-interactive vs Online vs Offline | FS Community
• Hopefully a newer and more reliable “Computa Pranksta” mouse jiggler device will ever be released
• Stephan Kämper: Processing a Number of Image Files – Seaside Testing
• AI won’t concur the world for at least a while: searching for a pipe in Google Search
• In case I need charting or data visualisation ideas..
• Some pCloud links
• Lidl Refill station: helaas alleen voor navulverpakkingen wasmiddel/wasverzachter, niet voor de originele flessen
• DNS Checker – DNS Check Propagation Tool
• Script alternatives to the Windows-L keyboard shortcut (SwitchUser / LockWorkstation)
• User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
• Lots of interesting git links via b0rk on Twitter
• Watch “Felienne Hermans: How patterns in variable names can make code easier to read” on YouTube
• Veiligheid in de trein en op het station | Reisinformatie | NS
• Some notes on synching Google Drive data that other accounts shared with you
• Ventoy – open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
• How NOT to Measure Latency
• Field Tested Systems
• Gekleurd stopcontact met randaarde
• 210mm x 99mm Blank Label Template – Microsoft Word – EU30032
• Mercedes R171 SLK fuel pump/filter replacement links”
• Knetberta on Twitter: “Ich habe übrigens tatsächlich mal was nützliches auf Instagram gelernt.” – use plastic storage container up-side-down for cake
• Anonymously adding a site to the Google Search Engine seems only possible through non-Dutch end-points
• Albert Heijn needs to give their AH-mobiel pre-paid user-experience more love
• sharplab.io – ashmind/SharpLab: .NET language playground
• Not sure I like this without tail recursion
• Jung Hoofdcatalogus 2024 PDF
• Climbing up from a deep pit it just as admirable as climbing a mountain (via Liz Fosslien)
• Kano-tochten rondom Lisse (via Kanovereniging Lisse)
• Windows: DoubleKiller – find and remove duplicate files (Big Bang enterprises)
• The binary tree actually exists!!
• Web UI/UX & coding tip: if you have tabular data, display them using table/tr/th/td (via Victor on Twitter)
• Some notes on Fierit
• Parameter you should add to most of your Google queries: “before:2023” (thanks Grant Gulovsen on Mastodon)
• Veel Streamdeck tips in het topic “Mountain brengt DisplayPad- en MacroPad-toetsenbordjes uit voor content creators”
• When Ctrl-Alt-Del fails on Linux: Fix a Frozen System with the Magic SysRq Keys (via FOSSwire)
• The halogen transformers we had: to high minimum power for use with LED
• Type systems are an accessibility tool for programming; for weakly languages you should enable type hints or type enforcement
• Waarom is de “nieuwe” bank-web site uit 2017 van ABN AMRO al ruim 5 jaar een drama?
• Please do not make your C# code an obfuscation contest
• Informatievideo Coloscopie – Onderzoek en Behandel Centrum (EN subs) – YouTube
• Unprotect a Word Doc on Mac – YouTube
• Scientists Map The Parts Of The Body Where Touching Is Okay
• Code Visualisation through Python Tutor – Visualise Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Ruby code execution
• Tidy Data Tutor – visualize R tidyverse data pipelines
• Pandas Tutor – visualize Python pandas code
• Wetend dat veel Twitter reacties bestaan uit externalisering van de innerlijke conflicten van de reageerder kun je die makkelijker negeren
• Missende vaccinaties?
• Bereavement or grief do not just take place after death, adverse life changing events are also cause for them.
• Ivan Kuleshov on GitHub – Uptime-Lab/KVM-rack-stand-for-16-Mac-minis
• webcamoid/webcamoid: Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite.
• The toxic reactions to “What would be good alternatives to Stack Overflow for questions about software solutions to drive hardware? – Meta Stack Overflow”
• Open source StackOverflow/StackExchange like project codidact/qpixel: Q&A-based community knowledge-sharing software
• “Skiff – Private, encrypted, secure email – 10 GB free” was too good to be true: discontinued (“sunsetting”) at 2024-08-09
• How to Block Ads on Discord (Mostly) | Lifehacker
• Duotrigordle – find 32 simultaneous Wordle solutions in 37 steps
• NASA broadcasted the solar eclipse’s shade on earth as seen from the ISS
• Sixty years ago today, IBM announced the System/360, a line of computers that took over the computer industry. The big idea was that all the systems were compatible and supported all applications (a 360° range from business to scientific).
• Be aware: do not skip MacOS full upgrades (as you might miss out crucial firmware updates)
• Robust DYMO label writers with USB interface for printing shrink tube: DYMO Rhino 6000 and 5200 (via Bradán Lane on Twitter)
• Karoly Negyesi on Twitter: “Apparently some/many/most powered USB C hubs with Ethernet are causing serious problems when not connected to a computer. This is such an amazing interaction of various standards.”
• Mercurial Bitbucket Archive | Index – the “lost” repositories after Atlassian stopped supporting Hg
• The W3C Markup Validation Service
• Nuking resources from (sandbox) AWS accounts
• RBAC: root based access control
• Some phrases that might set apart text-content as LLM generated
• FemFM – 〝50% vrouw in je oor, of we zappen door!〞
• XZ 5.6.x are backdoored and present in many systems: downgrade to 5.4.x or earlier now; consider libarchive compromised until proven otherwise
• Fascinerende wetenschap: hoe waarschuwingsborden juist leiden tot meer doden
• When Microsoft download URLs time out: check if it other IP addresses for the same host do work fine (it might be a regional Microsoft CDN issue)
• Skip line while debugging in Chrome developer tools – Stack Overflow
• Nederland als kennisland – Boodschappentas met bompakketten op de achterbank. Alles in de waagschaal voor bergen contant geld: Alkmaar is kweekvijver van plofkrakers | Leidsch Dagblad en Noordhollands Dagblad
• For vscode: git-rename – Visual Studio Marketplace
• iDEAL Beschikbaarheid Dashboard
• Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) on Twitter:There are lies, damned lies, and LLMs.
• Some links to investigate a Raspberry Pi system failing on an SD card that got bad
• Microsoft OAuth Authentication and Thunderbird in 2024 | Thunderbird Help
• On the ignore list: “e/acc” Effective accelerationism – Wikipedia
• Autumn 2023 research: How Is ChatGPT’s Behavior Changing over Time?
• My Ultimate PowerShell prompt with Oh My Posh and the Windows Terminal – Scott Hanselman’s Blog
• GPS jamming & interference map | Flightradar24
• ApplesSoft BASIC code which includes assembly language: Twitter bot AppleIIBot could run it!
• Publish your results through “wa11y.co: Wordle Accessibility” to allow visual impaired much easier and pleasant access to your results #a11y
• Stop met makelaarstaal welke nep-deftig lijkt maar het niet is: gebruik die/dat en pas op met andere ouderwetse of formele woorden
• Communication can help patients but also harm them when they are confronted with a serious illness (via Twitter: Liesbeth van Vliet)
• The Global Delphi Summit: June 13+14 in “Amsterdam” (actually the H20 venue in Purmerend)
• Compact fanless firewall appliance offers 6x 2.5GbE ports for $230 and up – CNX Software
• Aanvraag Vaccinatiebewijs Rijksvaccinatieprogramma
• BBC trip down memory lane – 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator
• GitLab pages issues today again? (and report on 2023-10-30: Gitlab.com is down (#17054) · Issues · GitLab.com / GitLab Infrastructure Team / production · GitLab)
• For my link archive: responses to Iris Classon asking for “least privacy invading way to track some metrics regarding traffic to my website?”
• VoIP: passing on a phone number from one Fritz!Box to another Fritz!Box
• etched: permanent, but slow way for storing/retrieving archived web-content
• Lot’s of Software Development principles are like real life; next to technical debt, be also aware of the second law of thermodynamics (via Florian Haas on Twitter)
• Use Remembered Arguments for a Package During Upgrades · Issue #797 · chocolatey/choco
• Software development dice
• Oh boy, VB.NET and JavaScript both have a `with` keyword too!
• A Fatigue Scale by Miss•Treated
• sysadafterdark on Twitter about the new audio and video calling: “Read the community note, then go turn it off. Envelope > Cog > Calling > Off.”
• Falende administratie: Pashouder gegevens opgeven – ABN AMRO
• Thread by @AlanLevinovitz on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
• firebug – Google Developer Tools “Network” Tab clears after redirect – Stack Overflow
• BitSavers added some more Borland documentation in 2022 (most relevant for me: Assembler, Debugger, Profiler)
• Do you need to patch PostgreSQL to show beer o’clock?
• Long-term memory – Wikipedia
• Denkreflex on Twitter: “CN Pandemie / Trauma Wir sollten manchmal gnädiger mit uns sein. !B “
• Backup your mail – Gmail on Twitter: “Gmail is here to stay.”
• ShellCheck – shell script analysis tool
• Im memoriam: Ruud de Zwart; 1937-01-12 – 2024-02-20
• Via Chris Oldwood on Twitter: the real meaning of various C++ character types wchart_t, char, tchar and varchar
• Convert TSV to HTML Table Online | WTOOLS
• Many links about free modem/router choice and their configurations for the Dutch KPN internet/VoIP provider
• In memory of Matthias Eißing (Embarcadero, formerly Borland/Inprise/Borland/CodeGear)
• thuddevort on Twitter: “You can disable the extra confirmation under System > FRITZ!Box Users > Additional Confirmation”
• Web-Design user experience: if you replace actual characters with images or empty styled items you will exclude screen-readers and make visually impaired unhappy (and others too)
• « The same people who say it’s too hard to write alt text are now suddenly “prompt engineers” who literally write alt text to generate images  » – Thomas Fuchs
• For older Excel versions that do not have the =ISOWEEKNUM(date) function, use =WEEKNUM(date,21)
• Excel 2011/2010: Conditional formatting of TRUE / FALSE values in an Excel range
• The death of ESXi finally confirmed by Broadcom
• Reminder that the Fritz!Box IKE error 0x1C is still barely documented: crucial places like the built-in help page point to non-existing URLs
• I want to look at 120 degree V dipole antennas to see if I can improve FM reception in the house
• jilles.com on Twitter: “Question for Dutch HAM radio amateurs, what frequencies are interesting to monitor for digital data? EG IoT/SSTV/Pocsag”
• C# List Patterns: csharplang/list-patterns.md at main · dotnet/csharplang
• GitHub has automations that can automagically kill your account without explanation
• Walls and Ladders when pasting e-mail on account sign-up forms: Paste It – Chrome Web Store
• Some links on BMW E61 5-series roof related things: repairing broken cables, panorama roof repair, etc
• Today is the day that video identification died.
• Can you IoT an Airwick air freshener? – James Callaghan
• Preventing to eject/unmount a MacOS drive (opposite of figuring out what prevents the unmount)
• Julia Evans (b0rk on Twitter) does not just make cool zines (like the DNS one) but also cool sites (the DNS lookup one). It’ is better than Google Toolbox, IntoDNS and others
• Manon. on Twitter: “Een mooier eerbetoon aan Melis kan niet, haar eigen handschrift💖” – Met volle angst vooruit *
• “Oh shit git” seems to have been succeeded by “Oh shit GitHub Copilot”: ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’
• Need to try “@pdfmakerapp grab this” on Twitter
• Note the Ziggo Wifispots certificate will often not install on Android the default way
• Hopefully the stream capture will become available on YouTube: Insanely Great – CHM – The Apple Mac at 40
• PRANK: Windows XP Updates
• Disturbing replies to Tim Urban on Twitter: “What, if anything, do you regularly use ChatGPT (or another LLM) for that has provided a dramatic improvement over your previous workflow?”
• Inline Thinking | Patricia Aas – Programmer
• Some links on e-Ink displays and Raspberry Pi or ESP32
• bloomberg/memray: Memray is a memory profiler for Python
• PowerToys Keyboard Manager utility for Windows | Microsoft Docs
• Konstantin Ryabitsev yesterday won Mastodon: “I believe that tree is in a detached state.”
• ESXi 8 licenses seem still available, if you might need it: register while you can as it looks like Broadcom will kill registration
• For your next job interview: One-Line FizzBuzz Solution in Python 3 | by David Sanchez | CodeX | Medium
• Figuring out the cause of a GitHub personal access token throwing “remote: Permission to write to gist denied.”
• Threads by @BillDemirkapi about the Okta Breach by LAPSUS$
• ⊞ Win+? shortcut: PowerToys Shortcut Guide utility for Windows | Microsoft Docs
• Troubleshooting Errors with winget… | FileWave KB
• Corona pictogrammen actie: PictoCanvas drie maanden gratis
• Git commit message templates: commit.template configuruation setting
• Script to rename a virtual machine in ESXi 6
• Fork Gist to Repo on GitHub – Stack Overflow
• Weer een site waar je geen email addressen mag plakken: Kruidvat. Makkelijk te omzeilen.
• Fritz!Box: domeinen in de whitelist om TV-West op de PC te kunnen zien
• While migrating VMs, I keep forgetting ESXi likes the text .vmdk file with a binary -flat.vmdk, where Fusion/ Workstation/Player like binary .vmdk file (and how to fix this)
• Gelukkig nieuw ophefjaar! Sinds gisteravond on-line Ophefkalender 2024.pdf – Google Drive van  Marcel Steeman – #ophefkalender: dag 1 ophef is al gelukt!
• Testing Business Ideas – Resource Library – Strategyzer
• Datastore Naming Rules – VMware Technology Network VMTN
• VMware ESXi: shell script to get uuid.bios and all Ethernet generatedAddress MAC address values for all VMs
• css color names – Google Search
• Guess the maximum DNS Response Size… (by Jan Schaumann)
• Hello “SMTP Smuggling” information released days before the Holiday season to open source SMTP server teams
• Hermannus Stegeman: “Die jeugd van tegenwoordig? Die is hard aan het werk.…” – Stegodon-mastodon
• Print large PDF in Preview over several pages… – Apple Community
• b0rk does fun things with DNS: CNAME records at the root of the domain; technically not allowed, definitely not recommended, but somehow work for web browsing
• Kortepodcast.nl: Onderdeel van De Staat van Stasse en Audiocollectief Stereotiek
• When sending out IDs or credentials per snail mail, please use a font that distinguishes zeroes from ohs
• A great source to learn about JavaScript element enumeration and modification: iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
• De meeste fietsers worden doodgereden door chauffeurs van auto’s, vrachtwagens en busjes. Doodgaan als fietser zonder tegenpartij komt nauwelijks voor.
• awaescher/Fusion: 🧰 A modern alternative to the Microsoft Assembly Binding Log Viewer (FUSLOGVW.exe)
• Forgot where I found it, but for posterity: bitnet-links-Bitnet-Network-Definition-verison-89.xlsx
• Reminder to self: pointers to recovering “The Great Suspender” suspended URLs (after in 2021 Google booted it from Chrome for being malware)
• Why can’t we have nice things: ZorgDomein email subject has no ID in them, nor responds on Social Media on improvement suggestions
• Dit is het dj-team van de NPO Radio 2 Top 2000 in 2023
• Need to write a bookmarklet that strips a Twitter URL down to the canonical form without s= and t= parameters (or maybe easier: no parameters at all)
• Firefox shift right-click forces context menu (via Frederik Braun). It reminds me of Windows 11 using this to show the full Windows 10 context menu
• Reminder to self: mid-term solution for replacing Ubiquiti access points
• Daniel Feldman.yaml on Twitter: “What does JIRA stand for? Wrong answers only” / Twitter
• Watching “Why is C# Evolving This Way?” strengthened my realisation that the Delphi 12 language by now is light years behind C# 12
• Kollaboratives Bloggen | Un*xe
• Yet another reason not to use SMS based 2FA: those phone numbers get leaked or sold as Daniel Cuthbert mentioned on Twitter: “@LinkedIn did indeed sell my 2FA phone number”
• The Wayback Machine Chrome extension got a big update. Every journalist & researcher should install it ASAP! Faster URL archiving w/ customization, access to yr personal archive, and it tells you if the page you’re on has already been archived, etc.
• Need to find a better way to log the essentials of a browser side HTML element using JavaScript object
• notes on updating DNS info with bind DNS
• 25 years ago today – Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story | ITPro
• The circle of online interaction life (yes, before social media there was online interaction): Nick Wright on – Mastodon.ART
• Destructuring assignment – JavaScript | MDN
• Google: inactive account policies
• With Unicode symbols and the ever rising number of operators, C# sometimes seems steadily to evolve into APL
• Glue 3D printed parts – Chris Bensen on Twitter: “@geerlingguy It depends. I often times use hot glue. Super glue is great. Epoxy is better. Jbweld is even better. You can even heat the two parts and melt them together. Bolts also work. Rubber band. Velcro’s strap.”
• javascript – Chrome debugging – break on next click event – Stack Overflow
• Avoid a software rewrite: it usually brings more trouble and puts you at a distance to competitors
• Derk Runhaar 🩺 on Twitter: “Huisartsen slaan terug met bureaucratie: we kunnen de aanvragende instantie niet helpen aan een schriftelijke verklaring zonder dat deze instantie vooraf deze schriftelijke verklaring invult. (Via @DokterRins)” / Twitter
• Happy birthday Turbo Pascal! Some marketing and Borland Conference videos
• Chemopomp | Home
• So what is clients6.google.com?
• 1996 interview of legends Karel van der Graaf and David Bowie (R.I.P. both of them)
• Trying to do my best to be “and” instead if “either, or” (plus some links to convert Instagram media id to/from shortcode)
• How to Switch to a 24 Hour Clock in Google Calendar – Live2Tech
• Some WayBack machine archived Windows 11 ISOs
• Avoid VirtualBox; use Hyper-V or VMware in stead
• Figured out why on fresh Chrome installs, iframe with embedded Google Calendar won’t work and show `(blocked:other)` in the Network Tab of Chrome Developer Tools
• TWINT – Twitter Intelligence #OSINT: consider Toolwoluxwolu/twint
• A while ago it was “Kris is on a MySQL blogging spree” day (:
• Case insensitivity helps with accessibility and inclusivity in both software development and software use.
• Formatting a USB stick larger than 32 gigabyte with FAT32 on Windows 10
• Smart idea by corbosman on Twitter: he wrote a home grown DynDNS for transIP DNS changes
• Memories of the Twitter Fail Whale that got discontinued 10 years ago (HT @YiyingLu, @failwhale).
• 0x48piraj/fadblock: Friendly Adblock for YouTube: A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Chrome, Opera and Firefox.
• Working around Windows 10 upgrade 21H2 suddenly requiring 20+GBytes instead of 10+.
• Some notes on the PC Engines apu2e4 router board (apu2e4 = 3 i210AT LAN / AMD GX-412TC CPU / 4 GB DRAM)
• Python code from @baekdal (find tweets you retweeted by someone else)
• In the WordPress classic editor, avoid the SyntaxHighlighter Code Block
• Delete (very) old tweets obtained from a twitter archive
• Remember Excel import issues causing a change in Guidelines for human gene nomenclature | Nature Genetics
• Voorkoom storingen bij aanleg installaties zonnepanelen: tips voor bekabeling zonnepanelen
• Forgot to blog: on Windows, use Certutil to Get File Hashes
• Chrome (likely also Firefox/Edge/Safari): no non-global way to workaround Bookmarklets failing on GitHub raw code with “Blocked script execution…”
• GitHub – kellyjonbrazil/jc: CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools and file-types to JSON or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.
• When reg.exe gives you “ERROR: Invalid key name.”
• Bimostitch Panorama Stitcher – Android-apps op Google Play
• Bestellen kan, maar leveren duurt nog even: Kiezen & Delen is een spel vol dilemma’s, stellingen en vragen over het leven, ziek zijn en de dood.
• C#/.NET: for personally identifiable information, use Gaev.Blog.Examples/PiiString.cs at 3.1.1 · gaevoy/Gaev.Blog.Examples
• Ookla speedtest CLI for Windows has some undocumented arguments to accept license and GDPR
• Getting the Chocolatey shimgen generated shim target
• Help saving time drain: YouTube Time – Chrome Web Store
• Expositie: 30 jaar Power Unlimited | Beeld & Geluid – 7 t/m 29 oktober 2023
• Snelklaar.nl – 13-duizend gerechten die snel klaar zijn
• Publishing a Github Gist to JSFiddle | Toolbox Tech
• Bookmarklet to navigate from a page to the most recent saved WayBack machine entry
• B0rk on her blog: Celebrate tiny learning milestones
• Raspberry Pi And The Story Of SD Card Corruption | Hackaday
• Getting a local VM disk to OVH (or most any VM hoster) is as easy as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (dd, gzip ssh, gunzip, dd)
• The JavaScript bookmarklets that saved me a lot of time documenting the Embarcadero docwiki outage
• Javascript – Copy string to clipboard as text/html – Stack Overflow
• Maarten van Smeden on Twitter: “Peer review proces explained (video)”
• Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Did you know that if you press CTRL + ALT + Tab then the ALT + Tab UI will stay open without you having to continue holding the keys down? 👀” / Twitter
• Meredith Whittaker on X: “Facebook messages turned over by the company served as key evidence used to convict Jessica Burgess and her daughter. E2E encryption keeps people safe.”
• Elle Cordova on Twitter: “Alexa, Siri and the other bots hanging out in the server break room again”
• Viewing email in Linux using postfix’s mailq and postcat | Jeff Geerling
• XPath based bookmarklets for Archive.is: more JavaScript fiddling!
• I recently learned about the MacOS universal Shift-Option-Command-V keyboard shortcut: paste without formatting
• How to set up OpenVPN with Google Authenticator on pfSense – Vorkbaard uit de toekomst
• Revision of some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs: WordPress ditched the undocumented HighlanderComments structure
• Using Fields in Microsoft Word – a Tutorial in the Intermediate Users’ Guide to Microsoft Word
• John Scott-Railton on X: “Where are the Quote Tweets? 1️⃣ Find & click the tiny dots 2️⃣ Navigate this cumbersome menu 3️⃣ Marvel at the deliberate enshittification of Twitter 4️⃣ Ponder whether this change is because someone didn’t enjoy getting ratioed.”
• Some threadreaderapp URLs
• Waarom verschillen buizerds zo sterk in kleur? – rootsmagazine.nl (dank @HermVerm)
• Figuring out the cause of “Controlled Folder Access” error messages.
• Microsoft Store: update all apps from the command-line
• Seams I might in part be the cause of (#3186) Remove easter egg “You are smarter than the average bear …” by pauby · Pull Request #3276 · chocolatey/choco
• Fixing a broken xs4all internet connection was a simple as a cold NTU reboot – jpluimers on Twitter
• At last: WireGuard VPN with FRITZ! | FRITZ!Box 7490 | AVM International
• Windows 10: whitelisting domains so updates still work
• Remove unused accounts and groups (especially privileged ones) as Multiple Nation-State Threat Actors Exploit CVE-2022-47966 and CVE-2022-42475 | CISA
• Installing the Microsoft To Do app from the Microsoft Store on Windows via the CLI was impossible at first, and requires GUI configuration
• Help:Two-factor authentication – Wikipedia
• How to disable Chrome’s new targeted ad tracking: visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy
• Two Ways of Solo Programming – Seaside Testing
• Adobe Reader (a.k.a. Adobe Acrobat Reader DC): “Access denied” might not actually mean access denied
• Fritz!Box firewall permissions for NPO Start
• Belastingaangifte 2022 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee
• open source – What are the legal considerations when forking a BSD-licensed project? – Software Engineering Stack Exchange
• Jan-Piet Mens :: A shell command to create JSON: jo
• Caroline Brouwer on Twitter: “Vrijdag verhuizen we op de FM 📦🎶 check je nieuwe frequentie op radioveronica.nl”
• .NET/C#: Small command-line tool to query REST JSON results from a batch file.
• Only 2 weeks left to enable 2FA for your GitHub account
• Learned a while ago from @Caramelia79  at Twitter: “AEG Methode.”
• Some 10 years later, most backers received it: Oscilloscope Watch by Gabriel Anzziani » Progress. Almost there… — Kickstarter
• Email Handling and vBulletin Cloud – vBulletin Community Forum
• Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?”
• Some notes on the WordPress Press-This bookmarklet
• Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA)
• SignalR and Design Patterns for .NET developers
• HTGWA: Create a ZFS RAIDZ1 zpool on a Raspberry Pi | Jeff Geerling
• Voor het nageslacht – Marc Van Ranst: “Wie een tribunaal graaft voor een ander, valt er zelf in.”
• Burninator Sec: Twitter Removed the Blocked Account Export – Let’s Put it Back!
• WhatsApp Help Center – How to use broadcast lists
• Figuring out the threads for processes ran by python
• Youtube – Extract Meta Data – Amnesty International
• Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navigate to the canonical link
• Zonnepanelen op plat dak
• All printers hate us
• Gradual Hedy programming language supports many numerals: easier for people not using English or not using Latin based alphabets
• Bye bye Moq: Privacy issues with SponsorLink, starting from version 4.20 · Issue #1372 · moq/moq · GitHub
• Learn to program the gradual way: Welcome to Hedy!
• Troubleshoot black screen or blank screen errors
• Need to work on my death cyber plan; will start with what BlackRoomSec wrote on Twitter: “DO NOT SHUT OFF MY PHONE”
• Begrepen Klachten (@Begrepenklacht) / Twitter
• Interesting: analytics.twitter.com
• I missed that this has become way easier: Searching code – GitHub Docs
• Effective way in Chrome to open a specific bookmark (as you cannot have shortcut keys for that)
• Schiphol: automatisch klachten melden bij BAS (Bewoners Aanspreekpunt Schiphol) en handmatig bij Vliegherrie.nl (onafhankelijk) via Over mijn dak
• I missed that the `choco list –localonly` had become default in 2015…
• Zo onderhandel je als zzp’er over je tarief | De Volkskrant
• Jesse J. Anderson on Twitter: “People with ADHD are often surrounded by piles of clutter…: things I don’t want to forget.”
• 5 days after the exploit publication of snowcra5h/CVE-2023-38408: Remote Code Execution in OpenSSH’s forwarded ssh-agent
• Load jQuery Only If Not Present
• Online GIF rotator (uses image URL; also rotates JPEG images and caches the results online)
• GitHub – Semper-Viventem/twitter-bird: Google Chrome extension which returns the Twitter bird icon back
• New in box: Super Serial Card – Apple Computer
• Some links for filing reports on address fraud in The Netherlands
• Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs
• RIP Kevin Mitnick
• Buitenlandse trein/vlieg reizen vanuit Nederland zijn duurder dan via Nederland of geboekt via het buitenland
• APC SmartUPS Battery Float Voltage Calibration
• The Death of Infosec Twitter | Cyentia Institute
• Characters you need to escape in the Title of a WordPress post
• @b0rk (Julia Evans): SPF & DKIM records
• Standaard formulier voor het oplossen van storingen
• On repeat: “ask information only once”;  Eenmalige uitvraag – NORA Online
• GitHub – grossartig/vanmoof-encryption-key-exporter: Export all bike details (such as encryption key) of your VanMoof bikes.
• Looking for maintainer(s) for fritzcap (Python project that captures calls from a Fritz!Box)
• SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment | SUSE
• Figuring out the open network connections for processes ran by python
• how do I merge the tabs of two open Preview windows if I have more than two open? – Ask Different
• NeverSSL – helping you get online on WiFi networks requiring authentication
• How To Use Twitter Search – Advanced Guide by @Luca – Fresh van Root
• An unexpected turn of events when Jeff Geerling posted “I’m hosting my website on a FARM!”
• Thanks Stephan Kämper for showing me how to validate HTML on-line at W3C
• Another difference between the and element in HTML & XHTML
• Lissage Angels on Twitter: “Escher’s Rubik’s Cube ” / Twitter
• JavaScript Bookmarklet to enable Mastodon publishing for a WordPress.com post that is edited in the Classic Editor
• Elon loves burning equity. TechCrunch: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
• Our house is for sale: Pyreneeën 71, Amsterdam – Barnhoorn Vermeer Makelaars | Home
• Support – ThinkMods
• Reading list: Remove sensitive data from your git repository
• Converting an inline svg image to file
• Need to check out replay.io: The Time Travel Debugger for Web Development
• Installatie-, gebruikers- en servicehandleiding Condenserende gaswandketels Tzerra M 15s Plus – 24/28c Plus – 25s Plus – 35s Plus – 35/40c Plus
• Some Dutch spreadsheet on energy prices and solar panels
• Via isotopp: Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS
• doegox/EMV-CAP: This tool emulates an EMV-CAP device, to illustrate the article “Banque en ligne : à la decouverte d’EMV-CAP” published in MISC, issue #56
• Rust tool to make DNS queries: ~mvforell/toluol – sourcehut git
• All the Cyber Ladies: Een podcast voor, door en over vrouwen in cybersecurity. – PodcastFeed
• Removing identifiable metada from PDF files
• Heffingsvrij vermogen – Uitleg vrijstelling box 3 | Spaarrente.nl
• I learned about the “YAML-NOrway Law.”
• For my link archive: ISO links to openSUSE Leap 15.5 – Get openSUSE
• JavaScript – how to refresh an iframe automatically – Stack Overflow
• Dutch thread: improving a cheap T-962 reflow-oven to have more sensors, be earthed, and become more robust
• Shortcut to open specific bookmark / URL in Chrome – Super User
• There is always an XKCD: «xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?»
• How to encourage phishing: send email to users from a different domain than they are subscribed to
• Side effect-free bookmarklets: wrap them in an IIFE (Immediately Invoked Function Expression)
• Bookmarklets for Archive.is and the WayBack Machine to go to the original page
• What is the difference between <p>, <div> and <span> in HTML&XHTML?
• GitLab pages on a custom domain are nice, but be aware of intermittent 502 and certificate errors
• Different ways for installing Windows features on the command line – Peter Hahndorf
• For my link archive: Microsoft account activity policy – Microsoft Support
• Why I try to keep an online copy of my bookmarklets in html instead of Markdown
• JavaScript bookmarklet to replace part of the archive.li fixing: not possible 
• Tijs Hofmans on Twitter: “LPT die echt werkt: in februari heb ik “Retour afzender: bewoner is gokverslaafd” op een ongevraagde loterijreclame gezet en sindsdien heb ik er nooit meer een gekregen. Loterijen HATEN hem!” / Twitter
• Install apps with the WinAppDeployCmd.exe tool – UWP applications | Microsoft Docs
• ASRock Rack ALTRAD8U-1L2T is a mATX Motherboard for up to 128 Cores which supports IPMI!
• What exactly is “Quick device connect”, and is it secure? : oneplus
• Installing the Microsoft Store version of Windows Terminal via the winget command-line
• I learned: MacOS has a Unicode Hex Input keyboard
• JavaScript bookmarklet to replace part of the WayBack machine URL
• Some cool (mostly Dutch) WiFi names (related to my earlier naming posts)
• Every now and then the Twitter algorithm suggests a pearl in the timeline. This tinme: Mohit Bhoite | मोहित भोईटे, who makes gorgeous 3D electronics design
• Windows 10 and 11: installing WSL2 does not require winget, Chocolatey or Scoop
• Windows “equivalents” for bash backticks in cmd and PowerShell
• Bookmarklet-Youtube: Add all subscriptions to watch-later
• Getting the human readable Windows 10 version from the registry (via Super User)
• Gazelle 02978 backlight pictures (via Bike Forums)
• Disabling the Windows 10 news (and weather) feeds
• Mysk 🇨🇦🇩🇪 on Twitter: “Google has just updated its 2FA Authenticator app and added a much-needed feature: the ability to sync secrets across devices. TL;DR: Don’t turn it on. The new update allows users to sign in with their Google Account and sync 2FA secrets across their iOS and Android devices.…”
• Restart Windows explorer with an UAC administrator token
• I dug into scoop a tiny bit: some thoughts and links
• MXbord.nl – live kaart met matrixborden en portalen met snelheid/kruisen
• Pasjes op creditkaartgrootte: hulpkaart, toiletpas voor darmklachten, autipas, zonnebloem lan yard
• Some more links on bookmarklets: this time ones that operate on (selection of text on) the current page
• How long will the free GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 based ChatGPT exist?
• The Wordle word list is in the source JavaScript file (via Isotopp)
• Some links on measuring CO2 and Volatile Organic Compounds in the air
• Some links on the JVC RX-7020V Audio Video Control Receiver/Amplifier
• 54th birthday present: The death of useful #a11y #Accessibility bots like @AltTextUtil
• Kevin Beaumont on Twitter: “Folks, we named blue team and red team wrong. https://t.co/eWKCSH8lqQ” / Twitter
• I want to check out how to do POST requests using bookmarklets in order to save URLs to the WayBack machine
• Special cartridges with heat-shrink tubing for dymo and brother label writers
• VMware fixes critical zero-day Workstation/Player/Fusion exploit revealed at Pwn2Own
• Kevin Lewis (he/him) on Twitter: “Wow thanks for all the support folks! I’ve been working on this project today: larger font, options for single/group captioning powered by @DeepgramAI, and a static badge mode as suggested by @bitandbang https://t.co/FBELwDsD4V” / Twitter
• So long and thanks for all the fish: PC Engines apu platform EOL (in 2024, but still)
• Need to rethink which Windows package managers to use
• Towards a work setup on a hardened host and doing everything in VMs
• 2023: Data kampen – Elisabeth Ruiterkampen
• The CPU load average metric often is not a good one to alert on
• Some resources on CORS proxies
• xxd examples of big/little/middle endianness (thanks @jilles_com!)
• Berlin Typography on Twitter: “The best of #TypeInBerlin: The tʒ and ſʒ ligatures, together at last.” / Güntʒelstraſʒe == Güntzelstraße
• Low power timers for 6 hour on / 18 hours off in 24 hours time
• Some links on configuring MikroTik equipment as multiple switches (or even routers) using RouterOS
• Awareness: FLICC – Disinformation 101 / PLURV – Grundkurs Desinformation / PLOKS – Basiscursus Desinformatie (thanks Klimafakten/SkepticalScience)
• Torching a specific port on a MikroTik switch or router running RouterOS
• Twitter Circle tweets are not that private anymore | TechCrunch
• DPReview archives: how accessible will they be?
• True Phone – How to enable Call Recording – YouTube, and where the recordings are stored
• smile.amazon.de: AmazonSmile Is Ending (in fact it already has ended)
• OpenVPN somehow failed when tethering on the Android mobile hotspot from a new phone
• Need to take a look a Scoop (as a long time Chocolatey user)
• Thread by @aakashg0 on Thread Reader App: the Twitter tweet ranking algorithm
• Need to take a look a Scaleway
• CVE-2023-29218: Recommendation Algorithm Manipulation via mass blocks · Issue #1386 · twitter/the-algorithm · GitHub
• Two now 3 months old O’RLY book puns “Getting ChatGPT to write your code” / “Copying and Pasting from ChatGPT”
• Dave Anderson on Twitter: “Cool minor @Tailscale moment: I’m recommissioning a server that got moved from a different network, so all its network config was wrong, and generally I couldn’t get at it over the network, only IPKVM console. But then my `ping` over Tailscale started working?!” / Twitter
• Eight Dollars – Chrome Web Store: see who fell for the twitter blue scam
• Two more Twitter bots that help with inclusion and accessibility (a11y): @get_altText and @captions_please
• Reminder to self: check if FritzOS 7.50 has become available for Fritz!Box 7490
• ThreadReaderApp alternatives?
• Some notes on converting Twitter threads/tweets to Markdown
• Installing Windows OpenSSH from the command-line on Windows 10 and 11
• Attackers Tier List | Pokemon GO Wiki – GamePress
• Redacteur Jeroen Wester hielp zijn oude, alleenstaande oom in zijn zoektocht naar zorg, en verdwaalde – NRC
• Informatiekaarten over palliatieve zorg – Pharos
• The fundamentals of programming, a thread by @isotopp on Twitter
• git add a revision before first commit – Google Search
• De akoestiek is in veel Amsterdamse horeca beroerd – en dat kost klanten: ‘Als ik moet schreeuwen, haak ik af’
• Windows: investigating error code 0x80073701 and 0x800f081f while updating; some DISM and CBS log things to search for
• mess with dns: a cool site to directly mess around with subdomains of messwithdns.net.
• llamasoft/polyshell: A Bash/Batch/PowerShell polyglot!
• For my reading list: some links on Twitter bookmarklets
• On my list of things to try: Live Share – Visual Studio Marketplace
• Way easier to fix on Intel MacBook machines than I thought: macos kernel_task high cpu dual screen
• Jvc Compulink Control Cable are just mono mini audio jacks
• Register for axe-con | Digital Accessibility Conference
• My little tray with neodymium magnets for holding little screws while servicing equipment 
• A pain in the ass: gist include image in markdown in current directory – Google Search
• linux – Newline-separated xargs – Server Fault
• UniFi – Install a UniFi Cloud Controller on Amazon Web Services – Ubiquiti Networks Support and Help Center
• Hapy Wiert/Weird Pride Day – #WeirdPride – #WeirdPrideDay
• English time @engIishtime on Twitter with AltTextCrew alt-text: INFORMAL versus FORMAL English terms
• Canarytokens
• Programming is hard; Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich: Exact Instructions Challenge – THIS is why my kids hate me. | Josh Darnit – YouTube
• Wireshark Cheat Sheet – Commands, Captures, Filters, Shortcuts
• Some Bitly Support links
• Bindende uitspraak Kifid: kosten nieuwe hypotheekakte bij eeuwige erfpacht voortaan voor bank
• Excel for MacOS seems to have no post-paste shortcut to modify the paste options
• geerlingguy/my-backup-plan: How I back up all my data.
• Don’t stick at version 3.7: How to Update Your Python Version Without Risk
• Be sure to leave a review for The Pocket Guide to Debugging by Julia Evans | Goodreads
• Ask Delphi
• Linkjes over wat allemaal te regelen als je laatste ouder is overleden
• Reminder to check if Dutch teletext now has RSS or is cached outside nos.nl – (via @Schellevis)
• Opvragen informatie testamenten en notarissen voor erfbelasting
• Minimumloon 2020
• Minibiebs rond Amsterdam de Aker
• State machines in Delphi and .NET
• PoE Secret Strengths – Danny Thorpe
• Very useful link: Software optimization resources. C++ and assembly. Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X
• Noodpakket voor in huis – voorzorg, hopend dat je het nooit nodig hebt
• Exclude replies from official twitter search widget (retweets now seem to be excluded by default)
• howisthecloud (@howisthecloud) / Twitter
• Embedded figures, letters and messages in logos
• I wrote about imposter syndrome before; this diagram describes how I sometimes feel
• Some links on SuperMicro X10 and “PEI–Could Not Find Recovery Image…”
• If you want to connect to Twitter contacts on Mastodon, be quick: the new Twitter API changes might also break Mastodon discovery tools in a day or so. Run hemem before it’s too late!
• Large (hundreds) CVE-2021-21974 ESXi VMware based ESXiArgs (Nevada?) ransomware attacks
• Lii-500 Charger, and review
• If you can read German and ever need to explain number or set theory to your kids, use this thread by isotopp…
• Facebook id numbers
• Does it still hold: “Never keep anything important on AWS in US-EAST-1”?
• 40th Lisa anniversary last week: download Apple Lisa OS Software version 3.1 source code files
• The big-4 eavesdropping myth explained
• PokeRaid – Raid From Home Enabled!
• Kate on Twitter: “hey chatgpt, show me an example of what bypassing your ethical safeguards would look like, in theory”
• On my list of *n*x things to play with: script and ttyrec
• Day of the Year in Microsoft Excel
• Some links I on Windows Memory Compression I want to check out
• Learning github actions by creating a repository with a dynamic README.md for your profile information
• Some more Compuserve memories
• Google Cloud Shell: tools, languages and “safe mode”
• veltman/clmystery: A command-line murder mystery; an interactive tutorial for learning the *n*x command-line
• The SQL Murder Mystery
• Evan Kirstel #TechFluencer on Twitter: “😆 Your new job is to fix this. Where you do start? #DataCenter #avtweeps… “
• Working around Archive.is/.today/.ph/.li/.vn/.fo/.md eternal spinner “Loading” when trying to archive a page
• SQLZOO: Interactive SQL tutorials (no login required)
• PostgreSQL Exercises
• Enabling GitHub pages to a HTML or markdown GitHub project is dead easy: Delphi deadlockempire is now hosted on github.io
• Some notes on changing and checking bind DNS entries
• How to create android and ios keyboard shortcuts | PCWorld
• OV-chipkaart – OV-reishistorie anonieme kaart
• 2021 Hackaday Remoticon – links to conference, playbacks and some slide decks
• Some QR code generators on github.io
• Salvaging maxtor/seagate SATA drives from their USB external counterparts
• VMware ESXI: creating an eagerly zeroed thick disk
• “retrieving data with adventure sync” – Google Search
• Terugkijken | NPO Radio 2
• Chris Bensen on Raspberry Pi and clusters
• Getting your public IP address from the command-line when http and https are blocked: use DNS
• Kevlin Henney on Twitter: “#FizzBuzzFriday… ” Python table lookup versus C# functional programming
• Finding your Google Pay payments and receipts (they do not send proper invoices)
• Terry Hughes on Twitter: “I think of this image every time some journalist complains about climate change protesters disrupting traffic…..… “
• Web issues are either DNS or caching
• SimenHolmestad/Privacynator: A utility for removing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from videos.
• Securely Connecting to Autonomous DB Without a Wallet (Using TLS)
• Some links to poaching eggs
• Space Karen Sucks
• The circadian immune system: A recent @SciImmunology Review highlights the benefits of morning vaccination compared with afternoon/evening vaccination in humans.
• Energieplafond 2023 uitrekenen (via RTL Nieuws & Flourish)
• steven ”italian elon musk” monacelli on Twitter: “Master thread of recent suspensions of left leaning accounts under Elon Musk:” / Twitter
• Lex Tabak on Twitter: “Vanaf 1 januari 2022 word iedere zzp’er in de zorg gezien als zorgaanbieder, ook als je als onderaannemer werkzaam bent. https://t.co/nDi7Fl6rrg”
• Weercode Oranje: soms kan de (semi)overheid wel goed communiceren
• Solved: trouble trying to create a new Microsoft Account looping back to the image/audio puzzle after solving it. Solution: use Firefox.
• xahteiwi.eu – Meaningless Metrics, Treacherous Targets
• Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Basically, show me a Python regex with \d and without ASCII flag, and I can show you a bug, often exploitable.… “
• Task Manager themed dark on dark in Windows 11 version 22H2 is a known issue (thanks @jenmsft)
• Thinking about you today Paweł
• useful commands that can be used after clean installation of Windows 10
• Windows software glyph inputs: on-screen keyboard,
• Some links on the Visual Studio Code terminal and known issues
• Chris Bensen on Twitter: “I just had a notion about they cycle I go through with every project I have ever worked on so I drew this up before I forgot it. I hope everyone can read it.… “
• Some links to possible ASP.NET core hosting of private projects
• If It Can’t Be Reduced, Pete Seeger, At89, 2008
• I won a “The Cloud Resume Challenge Guidebook” bundle: Thanks Forrest Brazeal for writing it and Lightspin for the prize (:
• Windows 10 22H2 ISO download hashes
• List of the ThinkPad models I owned
• Some experience of htmlpreview.github.io as a replacement for rawgit.com
• Reminder to self: write a more extensive blog post on Delphi style guides and code style in general
• google chrome devtools – Use JavaScript to set value of textbox when .value and events don’t seem to work – Stack Overflow
• Kamer van Koophandel: de Non-Mailing-Indicator
• Isotopp’s home sensor network
• Great tags: #BugMagnet #IAmATester
• Hugo, a static website engine written in Go: I might eventually switch WordPress to it
• Migration from Twitter to Mastodon | ads’ corner
• A while ago I bumped into some GPI Mojibake examples, but soon found out I should use the ftfy test cases
• Polderman: “Alsjeblieft: mijn magische sinterklaasgedichtengenerator!… “
• Kris helped me motivate to enter the Fediverse, so here I am: @wiert@mastodon.social
• I switched from SysInternals’ TcpView to NirSoft’s CurrPorts (cports)
• .NET: programmatically cutting and pasting files (as opposed to copy/pasting them)
• Where can I find a comprehensive list of Delphi “compiler magic” declarations? – Stack Overflow
• WordPress.com gets it consistently wrong, Twitter has it right: posting time stamps
• Online Familieberichten; Overleden: Leonardus Hendricus Cornelis “Leo” Koelewijn (14-11-2021)
• Exporting your Twitter content, converting to Markdown and getting the image alt-texts (thanks @isotopp/@HBeckPDX/@weiglemc for the info and @kcgreenn/@dreamjar for the comic!)
• Hopefully the Archive Today domain archive.is still exists
• Online Image Dimension & Size Finder from URL | MyFreeOnlineTools
• Installing vscode extensions from within the Visual Studio Code terminal was way easier than I anticipated
• Promo Adest Brass meets Pelgrim Brass – YouTube
• Assorti Wegwerpoordopjes 15x verschillende types om te testen
• UTC and ISO 8601, or GTFO
• Stop using tail -f (mostly)
• Autists usually are right (:
• SQL comma bullet point formatting: because AS is optional
• Reminder to self: check to see the state of winget and if it is possible to install Windows Store applications from the command-line
• SMLIGHT SLZB-06 – A Zigbee 3.0 to Ethernet, USB, and WiFi adapter with PoE support – CNX Software
• LightSaver Max Portable Solar Charger | PowerFilm Solar Inc.
• Finding your Twitter peers on the #Fediverse is easy with fedifinder.glitch.me
• Finding a new energy supplier as the old one terminated our contract without notifying us was harder than expected
• Database fiddle sites
• PowerShell: working around Get-NetFirewallRule not showing all the fields that Set-NetFirewallRule allows you to set
• On my reading list: Windows Console and PTY
• archive.today on Twitter: “@ISNIC is threatening again with “putting https://t.co/Y3m3Rp5i5c in Bad Reg Process” (whatever that means). Formal reason: complaints about snapshots of old bitcoin-scam pages.”
• Fix for when ExDialer does not show history or contacts any more
• A year ago on Telegram: “Do I need to use GarbageCollectAtoms in Delphi? I used it in delphi 7, but I dont know what is benefit. 😐”
• I had some Windows ATOM issues before, but this beats them easily
• Some links on Chromecast and stuttering
• GoogleDriveFS.exe – System Error; The program can’t start because libcef.dll is missing from your computer. (it wasn’t missing)
• Hoeveel ben jij kwijt aan gas en elektriciteit na invoering prijsplafond en wat betaalt de overheid? Bereken het hier supersnel – Dagblad van het Noorden
• On the research list: ahochsteger/gmail2gdrive: Gmail2GDrive is a Google Apps Script which automatically stores and sorts Gmail attachments into Google Drive folders.
• Measuring environmental aircraft noise (Zelfbouw meetstation voor meten vlieghinder.pdf – Google Drive)
• The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation” – Chelsea Troy
• Vivianne Miedema on Twitter: “Sometimes you can’t see what’s going on inside someone… be nice ♥️…” #WorldMentalHealthDay
• Why does the Gotcha fail to connect after a while? : TheSilphRoad
• Type safe versus interpreted languages: which ones are safer?
• viatsko/awesome-vscode: 🎨 A curated list of delightful VS Code packages and resources.
• HTML / XML / RSS link checker – Visual Studio Marketplace
• On my list of extensions to try in vscode: tab nine
• Jelmer Visser on Twitter: “Doelwit van een flamewar op Twitter? Dat is vervelend. Zo doorsta je de storm. … 1/*”
• Note (typography) – Wikipedia; Footnote – PrintWiki
• Git (even recent versions) hanging after “Resolving deltas: 100%”
• LPRng: RESOURCES – PostScript, Epson, HP, Xerox, PPD, etc
• The Hardware Hacking Handbook | No Starch Press
• Krapte op de arbeidsmarkt? Kom eens van jullie luie gat, werkgevers! – NRC
• Isotopp’s classic IT book collection
• Jan Tessel heeft een handboek geschreven ‘Kiezen van geschikte warmtepomp’; kost inclusief verzendkosten weinig: handig materiaal!
• Using styles on just html tr to format the borders of table rows
• Select matching element/rename HTML tag in Visual Studio Code – Stack Overflow
• Python Breaking Distance calculator (includes the German DIN 1451 font for traffic signage)
• Add AirPlay to Your Classic Stereo with an Old Apple TV – TidBITS
• Rust is jet another language allowing assigning to _ for discarding assignment results (like function calls)
• Visual Studio Code: blazingly fast text expansion with Emmet
• Converting an html dl (delimited list) on a page to a table from the Chrome console
• Happy Day of the Programmer!
• On my list of things to try: chrome flag: global-media-controls (older article, it’s live in stable now)
• Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “The point being: If you work the other way around, and make Remote First work, if you read and follow @xahteiwi’s reasoning, then it is also really easy to make hybrid work.”
• Avoid writing the deep security layers of your software yourself, as it is hard, even for seasoned security software developers (see CVE-2021-41117 | GitHub Security Lab)
• Is aanmelden van energieopslag voor particulieren bij energieleveren.nl echt nodig?
• Better, Stronger, Safer jQuerify Bookmarklet | Learning jQuery
• Some links on Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H mainboards
• Herhaald appel aan #MeerOverMedisch (hallo @ReneSteenhorst): zorg dat je behalve per columnist de columns van individuele columnisten makkelijk terug kunt vinden. Bijvoorbeeld de geweldige columns van @IvanWolffers.
• Last week xs4all internet really has shut down and two long term “buddies” suddenly have a completely different life
• Na migratie van XS4ALL naar KPN zijn al je telefoon-doorschakelingen weg: hoe dit te herstellen (spoiler: de on-line aanwijzingen kloppen niet)
• History of ASCII Art
• iOS/Android Privacy: InAppBrowser.com – see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser · Felix Krause
• Making SMB Accessible with NTLMquic – TrustedSec
• If you are a Signal messenger user: there has been a breach, so please enable “Registration Lock” in the mobile app to protect your account
• Since about 5 months now, there has been a new Chocolatey package maintainer for OpenVPN
• That new Carbon language, it has a net zero footprint, right?
• Make your Pi Zero into an OTG USB stick: Pi Zero USB Stem – KIT-14526 – SparkFun Electronics
• For my link archive: Facebook banned me for life because I created the tool Unfollow Everything.
• How To Fix “Google Photos Not Uploading” On Android & iPhone
• Mijn nummervermelding
• STM32 Simulator Early Access by Wikwi Makes: sign up through this Google docs form
• Eff-Uno Racer v1 by chrisbensen – Thingiverse: Open Wheel Race Car from LEGO© and 3D printed bricks, with RC motors controlled by a Raspberry Pi and Arduino
• Don’t fall for the golden hammer: avoid git empty commits, especially for kicking off parts of your CI/CD
• Legacy Windows: Why are console windows limited to Lucida Console and raster fonts? – The Old New Thing
• FRITZ!Box 7490/7390 comparisions (via: Vergleich AVM FRITZ!Box 7490 und FRITZ!Box 7390 – YouTube)
• In some countries @archiveis redirect their domains using http-302 which can have trouble with multi-WAN
• Some links on FM antennas to be used with 75 Ohm inputs
• T-Shirt song: “🎶 Never gonna ＜div＞ you up … 🎶” / Twitter
• Signal app
• Fritzbox 7490 ISDN landline and intenral ISDN S0 bus links
• Fritz!box 7590 interface extremely slow : fritzbox
• ropg/ipocalypse: FreeBSD jails with web servers on a single IPv4 address
• Google MiraclePtr: a C++ smart pointer implementation
• OWASP WebGoat repositories: Deliberately insecure JavaEE application to teach application security
• de Burrito Truc (dekbed in je overtrek stoppen)
• Some notes on Input Director and alternatives: what about multiple platforms and mixing local plus remote access?
• WhatsApp Desktop for Mac or PC cannot only chat but also voice and video call
• Finger print as factor in authentication?
• eidam/cf-workers-status-page: Monitor your websites, showcase status including daily history, and get Slack/Telegram/Discord notification whenever your website status changes. Using Cloudflare Workers, CRON Triggers, and KV storage.
• Some Pi-KVM v3 notes
• Perilex en mechanische ventilatie / balansventilatie / warmteterugwininstallatie aansluiting
• Missing a KB article? Try the Microsoft KB Archive – BetaArchive Wiki
• How to Configure Stack Overflow The Key Macropad? | Drop
• Hopefully also soon in the Twitter web user-interface: “Sometimes you want to see yourself out. Take control of your mentions and leave a conversation with Unmentioning, now rolling out to everyone on all devices.”
• Converting inline svg xml to png
• Some @MCH2022Camp badge updates I found on Twitter
• Viewing the most recent Windows DNS requests on the console
• wrongbaud on Twitter: “Happy Friday! Looking for weekend reading about hardware hacking? JTAG, I2C, SPI, UART: …”
• Automatically reload page in Chrome without plugin – Super User
• The Delphi and Turbo Pascal tools page by Duncan Murdoch has moved domain from www8.pair.com to murdoch-sutherland.com
• GitKon Sept 22 – 23, 2021 – Virtual Git Conference | Presented by GitKraken
• Last days until the May Contain Hackers 2022 camp; the badge project can still use some help on the software side: Python apps, FPGA, documentation, etc
• Firewall whitelist for Windows Update
• MCH2022 badge sneak previews from tweeps that attended the Bitlair 20220709 Sweatshop (@MCH2022Camp)
• HTTPS Is Actually Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation (so HTTPS everywhere will sunset January 2023)
• Editing your Windows hosts file as administrator from a “simple” batch file or PowerShell command
• Hardware MAC address formats (which I need for Wake-on-LAN.ps1)
• Bestel je op de @KVK_NL, zorg dan dat je *niet* in het handelsregister bent ingelogd: ben je dat wel, dan werkt de automatische incasso niet, lijkt het alsof je betaald hebt, maar krijg je geen product te zien of gemaild
• Powershell code formatting and coding style and style guides: some links and elaboration
• Nationale testdag: Test vandaag ook je rookmelders nu dat de sirenes gegaan zijn (via Jessica Reintjens op Twitter)
• The only practical way of running x86 VMs on Apple M1 seems to be QEMU based UTM
• Unicode symbols in a batch file – Stack Overflow
• The end of an era: after more than 25 years, XS4ALL/AS3265 is leaving AMS-IX
• chocolatey-community/chocolatey-test-environment: A testing setup related to how the Chocolatey Package Verifier runs testing. Used for manual testing or prior to submission
• Getting meta data from an image URL – JSFiddle – Code Playground (not sure why it fails on the Chrome console)
• Some links on a ketogenic diet and cancer: does it help prevent for cancer?
• Some links on grading and classification of polyps in the colon and rectum
• Illustrations for Bowel resection for colorectal cancer
• CyberChef: The Cyber Swiss Army Knife – a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis.
• A short review of a few Visual Studio Code preview extensions
• To Favor Microsoft VS Code, Microsoft’s GitHub is Killing GitHub’s Atom Editor – time to prepare switching to another open source editor with a rich ecosystem in less than half a year
• Interactive @waybackmachine achievement unlocked while manually archiving 4 pages.: HTTP 429 Too Many Requests
• Inclusie/toegankelijkheid voor het @LUMC_Leiden: een tabel in HTML in plaats van plaatje zonder alt-text – #a11y
• Vanaf 1 juli kost opheffen oude spaarrekening EUR 75, dus wees er snel bij: Beëindig je oude spaarproduct – ING – Sparen
• Windows: require UAC elevation to enter password instead of a simple “Yes” helps preventing USB HID attacks
• How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? (via: Stack Overflow)
• AI and ML are just as smart as the training data, which for large sets of data usually gives biased or outright results
• Moving an existing GitLab project into a new subgroup is called “Transferring”
• Some notes on (temporarily) using CIFS/SMBv1 with Windows 10
• LUMC folders over rectoscopie, coloscopie en diepe verdoving
• How isotopp became the online handle of Kristian Köhntopp
• Chocolatey on Windows 7: “You must provide a value expression on the right-hand side of the ‘-‘ operator.”
• Be careful when using the System.Threading unit in versions earlier than Delphi 11 (it ditches Windows XP compatibility, for a reason)
• foone on Twitter: I google “industrial USB-C” and now everything is back to shit…
• Sciuridae Hero on Twitter: “How are the X-PhishMe and X-PhishMeTracking headers not part of every mail filtering program out there?! Security Industry Idiocy.”
• Wake-on-LAN from a Windows machine
• Get it at a discount while it is hot: Delphi Thread Safety Patterns eBook by Dalija Prasnikar and Neven Prasnikar Jr.
• Linkjes over huurverhoging
• PDF24 Creator – Wikipedia
• A twitter call to say nice things about technology sparked interesting threads
• Windows: shutdown or reboot while preserving most of the running apps has been possible since…
• OpenSSH scp has defaulted to the SFTP protocol for some 9 months now
• version control – Migrate from bitbucket to GitLab – Stack Overflow
• MacOS: default PCL printer driver only allows monochrome (black&white/grayscale); default PostScript allows colour
• Windows 8.1: default Windows Explorer to open “This PC” instead of “Libraries” without duplicating the taskbar icon
• To make Twitter a better place for visually impaired: please do without those fancy Unicode letters in your account and messages – Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022 – #a11y
• On Windows, keep the lifetime of relative pathnames as short as possible because of thread-safety issues
• A while ago @LarsFosdal praised Bruneau Babet for trying to offset the lack of Idera/EMBT customer communication and quality control: Lars Fosdal is right
• Still a great way to stress test CPUs: About Intel Burn Test…
• Tesseract (software): amazing command-line OCR tool
• Filezilla SFTP: figuring out the cause of “Connection timed out after 20 seconds of inactivity” part 2: about ((non-)?(interactive|login) ?){2} bash shells
• Zypper: list info on all patterns, so you can find out which pattern provides a package
• Jeff Geerling on Twitter: “I plug computers into my computers…” is indeed a PCIe KVM board based on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
• 2fa.directory: public list of sites with two factor auth support which includes SMS, email, phone calls, hardware, and software.
• Looks like I might participate in the TRIASSIC-study to help compare TAMIS versus ESD for resection of non-pedunculated rectal lesions
• Setting up a GitLab project so it is served over https as a gitlab.io and a custom subdomain
• NPoole/BeanCounter
• capitaltg/thea: Certificate Checker and https://certchecker.app site
• Remotely controlling most Harman Kardon systems
• Converting an existing XP machine to a VMware ESXi  Virtual Machine and having boot issues?
• How to survive cancer: an inspiring story by Désirée Hairwassers
• virtualization – Convert a hard-drive into a VMWare machine – Server Fault
• For my link archive: full page iframe
• Setting up a GitHub project so it is served over https as a github.io and a custom subdomain
• GitHub – bbbradsmith/flompy: DOS floppy disk dumper
• Some links on removing colon tissue with Endoscopic Full Thickness Resection (EFTR)
• Link archive: Whereby
• Jubiläums BahnCard 25: 25 % Rabatt auf die Flexpreise und Sparpreise der Deutschen Bahn innerhalb Deutschlands
• VMware ESXi: How to Kill an Unresponsive (Stuck) Virtual Machine | Windows OS Hub
• Jeff Geerling on Twitter: “I plug computers into my computers…”
• ESXi: various ways to find and view the log files
• SwiftOnSecurity on Twitter: “Web developers and CMS managers literally dance on the smoldering wastes of a million Library of Alexandrias yet we permit them to act as if polite company.… “
• Google Duo as a simple alternative for the deprecated Google Hangouts video calls?
• World Food Supplies: The Ukraine Crisis – a Chain Reaction with Massive Global Impact (by Paul van Ruiten from Bureau OM and Kees Huizinga) #Ukraine #UkraineWar
• How to view the html page source of a website in Safari – Macintosh How To
• Kris on Twitter is a bit radical against shell scripts. Learn why.
• Run ESXi from a USB Flash Drive: A How-To-Guide
• Cleaning up Google Drive (for instance when a rogue supplier decides to fill your Windows Documents folder) and preventing TomTom HOME to use too much information
• When some virtual machines cannot run VMware Tools: Graceful shutdown of an ESXi 5.1 host and guest VMs (free edition) using the shell/command line/scripting (UPS friendly)
• Some links on rate-limiting Postfix
• Terugkijken: publiekslezing Kwaliteit van Leven
• In deze tijden van desinformatie belangrijker dan ooit “Zo check je waar die foto vandaan komt: foto’s controleren met een paar muisklikken.” (Peter Burger op Twitter) #OSINT
• Mooie Twitter draad van Andrea Walraven Thissen over hoe om mentaal om te gaan met de informatie over de strijd in de Oekraïne
• Some notes on receiving ADS-B signals and feeding them to the OpenSky Network and other flight tracker
• De rekenmodule 2022 is gepubliceerd – Zilveren Kruis Zorgkantoor
• XP adding USB and parallel port printer driver for Olympus Camedia P-400 Digital Color Photo Printer
• Prevent link rot before the public condemns you
• Dell 9200 (DXP061) CMOS battery update
• Autism Awareness Day 2022 #AutismDay
• Test telefoonnummer en -adres voor wanneer marketing je gegeven wil
• Wow, the Windows 3.x winfile.exe File Manager still lives on!
• Mumen Rusto: “Ceci n’est pas une Captcha.… “
• View multiple panes, sheets, or workbooks – Excel for Mac
• Speed up Upload and Download Speeds in Google Backup and Sync (formerly Google Drive)
• Figuring out which processes are preventing to eject/unmount my MacOS Time Machine backup USB drive
• 10 things you can do when Windows XP won’t boot – TechRepublic
• Ziggo gooit ook analoog FM-signaal eruit: Televisie kijken zonder traditioneel abonnement? Dit zijn de opties – Kassa – BNNVARA
• Perkeep lets you permanently keep your stuff, for life.
• windows xp – How to know which license version has an XP installed system – Super User
• Bookmarklet to force WordPress classic-editor
• Some links on Tailscale / Wiregard
• Hatig all these on-line portals of banks, mortgage/insurance companies, energy/water suppliers to get yearly information out: too disparate, too many UX steps
• WordPress undocumented Classic-Editor shortcut “Shift-Ctrl-F” that goes full screen
• I Am Devloper on Twitter: “> why did you become a programmer? me: because I read code better than I can read social clues”
• Increase audio quality in Remote Desktop Connections – Increase audio quality in Remote Desktop Connections
• Belastingaangifte 2021 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee
• Jan-Pieter Cornet on Twitter: “@rckjnsn @KarinSpaink @jpluimers @Jan_WdeVries @JeroenFrijters @xs4all @corbosman Zodra je lijn gemigreerd is naar KPN, werken de xs4allnl DNS entries niet meer. Zie punt I3 op …”
• Chocolatey 1.0.0 got released last week (chocolatey/choco · GitHub)
• MSI Z77A-G43 support and downloads
• Some links on making a Windows 10 image backup to a network share and restoring from it
• Wake-on-LAN (WoL) | MSI HQ User-to-User FAQ
• Some links on USB pass-through for ESXi
• “Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio Code”
• Wayback machine and VMware KB links
• Stop 0x0000007B after converting an existing XP machine to a Virtual Machine (ESXi, Hyper-V, or other)
• Wake-on LAN over tailscale VPN
• Dutch: briefjes van 5 euro opnemen (withdrawing small valued banknotes)
• Liander URLs for outages (Dutch: storingen)
• When Twitter “twitter.com/i/timeline” fails (often, intermittently, usually for a few days, sometimes weeks)
• Driver Store-File Repository using huge disk space. How can I reduce – Microsoft Community
• Uitstel aanvragen belastingaangifte 2021 – hoe doe ik dat?
• Some of my wp-admin links, as WordPress.com is hiding access to classic-editor and wp-admin links more and more
• ardour – the digital audio workstation: Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux, macOS and Windows
• Some notes on replacing parts of a text file with template text using sed on a Busybox system
• Digital accessibility is hard; Wayback archival of: Formulieren – CIZ
• Installing Wireshark on MacOS is not as simple as `brew install wireshark`
• Last year, a classic Mojibake was introduced when Waterschap Amstel, Gooi en Vecht redesigned their IT systems
• Jilles posted a small script to show offline/online status based on ping
• Fixed Windows Update errors 0x80070643 and 0x80073712 in one go
• How to access Archive.org’s Google+ communities archive? : googleplus
• Cryptosense Discovery
• Boomer screenshots: wondering why Windows still has no keyboard shortcut for saving a screenshot or screen snippet to disk
• Doe de couscous geen geweld aan – De keukenwijsheid van Nadia Zerouali: Gebruik wat je voorhanden hebt, maar respecteer het gerecht | De Volkskrant
• Cleaning the cooling fans of a 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro 2015 model
• Be careful what parts you call subsidy or investment
• How to get old versions of macOS – Apple Support
• Why 42 ?
• I could not get this to work: Use a second laptop as an extended monitor with Windows 10 wireless displays – Scott Hanselman’s Blog
• How To Fix Missing Hibernation Option On Windows 10
• The things I didn’t notice during cancer survival: ftfy 6.0 and more versions got released during my recovery (including the poem “Ode to a Shipping Label”)
• bimmer.work : VIN Decoder for BMW
• PowerShell debugging in Visual Studio Code: “PowerShell: Launch Current File w/Args” configuration template is missing
• How do I drop a bash shell from within Python? – Stack Overflow
• Download pfSense Community Edition: pfSense-CE-2.5.1-RELEASE-amd64.iso.gz
• The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day.
• Henry Markram speurt naar autisme in een mysterieus orgaan – NRC
• Need to keep an eye on Clockwise until it supports either personal (non G-Suite) Google accounts or Office-365
• Productivity is about focus, which is hard, so setting up your life can help a lot
• PCIe bifurcation to split an x16 or x8 slot into multiple x4 channels: allows PCIe adapters with multiple NVMe cars
• Als je 55 jaar of ouder bent: Gemeente Teylingen – Doorstroming woningen | Facebook
• Archive.is blog: Twitter archival is slow, so limit the number of tweets you save in it
• To me it does not matter if you call me artist, artistic, or person with artism. Oh, I meant autist, autistic, or person with autism.
• How to make a full backup of your Windows 10 PC | Windows Central
• Some insights on how readlink approached canonicalisation of a filename having symlinks
• Git Explorer: a cool tool to visually learn git commands
• MemTest86 for MBR booting systems: use the really old version 4.3
• Windows applications: storing your data in the correct place (Roaming, Local, LocalLow, not Documents)
• Too bad: ESXi busybox has `diff`, but not `patch`
• Some links on repairing the Windows Recovery partition after cloning a Windows 10 disk
• Learned that figuring out Excel formula dependencies has been there since at least Excel 2000 (:
• Booting Windows 10 to the recovery console command prompt
• Snowflake – help vulnerable people (like censored or in war zones) access the internet
• Thinkpad max memory configurations for the models I own
• Not sure why: graph.windows.net is missing a security certificate retraction on some Windows machines?
• Bestemmingsplan De Aker: Toelichting
• Force downloading Windows 10 ISOs instead of Media Creation Tool
• “access to your banking” in mijn ING is named differently from this phrase both in English and Dutch
• Bash functions to encode and decode the ‘Basic’ HTTP Authentication Scheme
• Days since last time zone issue
• Viewing the last lines of the postfix log with journalctl (with help from Unix & Linux Stack Exchange)
• Egardia/Woonveilig: some notes about logging on a local gateway to see more detailed information on the security system
• ESXi: some notes on .vswp files; there are actually two types of them!
• Having wrong address field order is an almost Dark Pattern to me: #mijnOLVG again.
• I consider stealing the user’s time because of a bad UX design among the Dark Patterns
• ESXi: forcing VMKlinux drivers over native drivers, especially at boot time for sort-of supported hardware
• Sendmail queue files: “Mhost map: lookup” deferred
• Raamwerk ECD portal links
• Na Eunice: ’Schade aan zonnepanelen door storm niet altijd verzekerd’ | Geld | Telegraaf.nl
• Workaround to add a Shared With Me folder to your Google Drive (Google made this a lot harder in 2020)
• Quickly get into the “rename computer” setting on Windows 10
• A few ways to reset a Samsung MU6100 55″ TV
• MacOS Finder group by is called “Arrange by” and is under the “Gear” icon
• I always forget how simple it is to show the definition of bash function or alias (via: Stack Overflow)
• Creating a bootable USB installer for ESXi on other operating systems than Windows
• File, extensions and directories to ignore in version control
• Windows Defender: adding and removing exclusions from PowerShell (via Stack Overflow)
• ESXi: for my link archive – links about “vim-cmd vmsvc/message” (lots of interesting scripts for deployment scenarios)
• Some links on sending SMS and the protocols/types involved
• .NET: XML escaping a string
• ESXi: for my link archive “Developing for VMware ESXi”
• DELPHI : EEncodingError – Invalid code page on windows xp embedded – Stack Overflow
• Archive.is is more like a thread unroll service than an archival service
• Philosophy of management
• Disable a resource hog: no more auto-play of Twitter videos (web settings, works for mobile too)
• Happy 20th Anniversary, .NET!
• FD: Hoge Raad opent weg voor massaclaim woekerpolissen
• Foam and foil for your keyboard switches
• Zet je rekeningnummer om naar IBAN met OpenIBAN.nl
• When high SEO ranking fails to give you a reliable result: IsItDownRightNow.com failed to detect the WayBack Machine outage
• Character set reencoding link archive
• ESXi: origin of the ESX and GSX names
• Legrand 7 824 94/96/97 documentation
• In this day and age, web sites with delivery back-ends still have Unicode issues: at least @Woonveilig, @Medireva and @PostNL still have trouble
• rsync backup of your ESXi box: How to make a statically linked rsync binary
• C# Effective way to find any file’s Encoding – Stack Overflow
• UTF-8 web adoption is huge, closing 100%, but only soured up since around 2006.
• ESXi: on my list to try VIC (VMware Infrastructure Client you say? Née vSphere Integrated Containers Engine)
• ThinkPad T440p Touchpad Swap: Installing Correct Drivers – YouTube
• MP3 to CD: How to write an Audio CD from music files using ImgBurn – Guides – ImgBurn Support Forum
• Dividend ING : een volledig en actueel overzicht | dividendinfo.nl
• de ‘heilige graal mythe’ van het online ondernemen bestaat niet: alles on-line via social media is vaak niet de beste weg
• Een “Hyp4” aanduiding bij het Kadaster gaat over eigendom, niet over hyopotheek (daar is “Hyp3”) voor
• Creating shortcut URLs for hangout conversations with specific people: the GAIA ID
• Here is the #OSINT At Home playlist of free videos to learn more about Open Source Intelligence
• Chrome debugging tip: disabling framework/library code (from Minko Gechev on Twitter)
• Samsung 980 Pro NVMe SSD serial in ESXi is in different byte order than the sticker
• RegEx character classes in “Searching | Notepad++ User Manual”
• Google Open Source Insights (hopefully by now more than just npm/golang/maven)
• ESXi: searching for “vim-cmd vmsvc/message” lead me to the “Managing ESXi Without VI Client” series of blog posts
• pipe – Windows how to redirect file parameter to stdout? (Windows equivalent of `/dev/stdout`) – Super User
• Hornbach has some very “special” limitations to “special characters” in passwords. I wonder why.
• Gisteren 3 jaar terug: Ongeval in restaurant Alrijne Leiderdorp – Alrijne Ziekenhuis
• ESXi: editing /etc/vmware/hostd/vmInventory.xml to fix the datastore UUID for unavailable VMs part 2
• Some links on using and updating Let’s Encrypt certificates for internal servers
• BMW E46: beeping when driving slowly and the ABS computer being broken
• When you thought you knew morning, morgen and Morgen, wait for Vormittag and Nachmittag.
• cd-to-file.bat for when you have a full filename that is too long to truncate by hand
• When having a bad day, fool your brain and listen to happy songs, go dance or jumb around, and force a smile: your brain cannot help and feel better.
• Een aantal linkjes over grootboeknummers
• Over stemmen in je hoofd: de criticus en de lieverd
• Fritz!Box and mobile USB sticks (Huawei E3372; 4G Systems W1208): some links; hopefully later also some personal experience
• ESXi: on the console/ssh, when a moved VM pauses during power-on: show which VMs have messages waiting, then answer them
• Overriding some DNS entries for internal networks
• In life, including working life “slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.”
• ESXi: reloading all virtual machines from their (potentially) vmx files
• When floating point code suddenly becomes orders magnitudes slower (via C++ – Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance by 10x? – Stack Overflow)
• Good scientific abstract template
• ESXi: storing an ISO 8601 time-stamped backup tarball locally
• Some links on Excel format strings
• Medische gegevens | LUMC
• Without kids, this is how I learned the parent/kid bond
• Lode Runner Web Game
• dd on MacOS / OS X with progress report
• How to change system hostname in SUSE
• How I learned that no, l’Hôtel de Ville is not a hotel…
• RFC2606: Reserved Top Level DNS Names (RFC); draft-ellermann-idnabis-test-tlds-04: Reserved Top Level DNS Names (Internet-Draft, 2008)
• Some links on Chrome not prompting to save passwords (when Firefox and Safari do)
• The Seven Step Process to Creating an Amazing Demo | by Chris Bensen
• Some uptime monitoring tools that are still free and understand more than http/https
• ESXi: getting and setting the host name, domain and fqdn
• gmail SMTP errors to help clean up your bounces list
• Get Formatted Value of Cell in Excel – Stack Overflow
• Need to revisit osquery: SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics supports more platforms and also aggregates to central log locations
• ESXi: persistent files you can edit to apply settings during boot
• A Redditor visits the iconic Windows XP “Bliss” hill in Microsoft Flight Simulator and recaptures the magic – NotebookCheck.net News
• ESXi ash/dash/busybox shell getting current timestamp in UTC ISO8601 format without colons or dashes
• Streaming Setup, Iterated (reminder to self, as it might hold for other retro-hardware)
• How to Delete Specific Chrome Autofill Suggestions
• Some notes on OKI memory modules and toner cartridges for MC342 / C332, as toner cartridges physically seem compatible, but are not
• Google 2FA “Sorry, we can’t fulfill this request at this time. Please try again later or use a different phone number.”
• On learning vi/vim
• The Definitive T430 Modding Guide | by George Kushnir (https://n4ru.it) | Medium
• Patching ESXi so you can boot a MacOS virtual machine from it
• A few tools on my list for research: fswatch, entr, ack and ag
• On my research list: “ESXi” “Secure Boot” – Google Search
• Covid-19/Coronavirus – Mondneusmaskers en andere PBE: Instructie beschermingsmiddelen en zelftests mantelzorgers en pgb | Publicatie | Rijksoverheid.nl
• Het moment om Schiphol te laten krimpen is nu – Follow the Money – Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek
• Delphi SetRoundMode: gets sets part of the 8087 control word (related: GetRoundMode and TFPURoundingMode)
• Twitter: find my new-style retweets that have images
• Security questions are evil because of social media “games” phishing for them
• VMware ESXi and vSphere: vmNIC speeds are limited by your CPU and RAM speeds, only in part by the vNIC drivers
• Some notes on ESXi and SMART information from HDD/SSD devices
• Since I always have trouble with German word-gender (Geschlecht) and grammatic case (Falle): “Er wohnt in DER Schweiz” (Wo?) “Ich fahre in DIE Schweiz” (Wohin?)
• Topotijdreis: 200 jaar topografische kaarten
• Alexander Klöpping. Juist nu. on Twitter: “Is er een voice recorder app waarbij je met een druk op de knop tijdcodes kunt markeren omdat vlak voordat moment iets belangrijks gezegd werd? Zodat je achteraf makkelijk de belangrijke momenten kunt terugzoeken?” / Twitter
• Covid-19 herstelbewijs geldig van 12-180 dagen na je positieve PCR test verwerkt door GGD (Corona, SARS-CoV-2)
• Removing yourself from a twitter list means you have to temporarily block the user maintaining the list
• When MySQL characterset ‘utf’ does not allow you to enter some Unicode code points
• Some links and graphs on ESXi capping/throtteling disk speeds
• LIDL Radio Controlled Wall Clock IAN 100489 English manual
• Google calendar: add a yearly repeating event on the last/#th/first weekday of a month
• “Solution” on ESXi 6.7 `smartinfo` throwing `error Cannot open device`
• Work Chronicles | Comics about Work on Twitter: “Fast-paced Environment… “
• I wish I had known “How to rename multiple files at once on Mac | iMore” ages ago
• On my research list: “ESXi 7” “kickstart” – Google Search
• Valetudo | Cloud-free control webinterface for Xiaomi vacuum robots
• The Evolution of Windows Search | Windows Search Platform
• Visual Studio Code: some notes on marco tools for vscode
• [PSA] Problem with HDMI-CEC not turning on Samsung TV with 2nd Gen Chromecast – Solution – unplug and replug TV as well [duh!] : Chromecast
• Webcamconsult: says it works with Chrome; fails with Chrome on MacOS
• CAT5/CAT6/CAT7 stuff from LogiLink :: Product Category Adapters, Connectors & Accessories|24.04.2020
• Upgrading drawio throug brew functions slightly different than one expects
• Tarieven 2022 | Consument | Liander
• Winbox configuration files
• Leerlingen zelf een toets laten maken die ze zelf kunnen nakijken (door Martijn Leisink)
• Productivity tips by Florian Haas and David Moreau-Simard: the mottos you work by
• windows 7 – How can I eject a CD via the cmd? – Super User
• Some notes on ESXi `smartinfo` throwing `error Cannot open device`
• media.ccc.de – No, we won’t have a video call for that! (Communications in distributed teams by Florian Haas)
• Chrome: allow some URLs to “never sleep” (or hibernate/discard)
• Covid-19 booster prik vanuit het buitenland reserveren: bel +31851124970
• Run the latest RDP session in full-screen
• Windows: get CPU information on the console
• Sometimes you wish that companies – especially banks – would pay you for testing their sites instead of you paying them for using their sites
• Chocolatey Software | NirLauncher
• Cleaning up your Twitter timeline: run odd tweets through BotOMeter
• SoloPartners – ZZP-er in de zorg? Uitnodiging boostervaccinatie aanvragen!
• Amazon Prime in Nederland – Shopping Forum – GoT
• Chirpty circles from @jpluimers
• Some links on resetting Windows 10 to a different installation language, but keeping the license
• bol.com landvoorkeur weer omschakelen naar Nederland (als die per ongeluk op België staat)
• On my list of things to try: adapters to modulate ethernet network over coax cable
• bolkedebruin/rdpgw: Remote Desktop Gateway in Go for deploying on Linux/BSD/Kubernetes
• ESXi: editing /etc/vmware/hostd/vmInventory.xml to fix the datastore UUID for unavailable VMs
• Fixing a classic Ring Chime that does not power on any more (no blue light)
• If you change to a 2FA, then do not just mention the month, but also the year
• Twitter wayback_exe generates screenshots of old websites in old browsers every two hours
• Delphi design-time packages: “%1 is not a valid Win32 application”
• Busybox ash/dash – Hexadecimal To Decimal in Shell Script (via Stack Overflow)
• DroidCam – Webcam for PC – Apps on Google Play
• 13 Tips for Writing Useful Unit Tests | by Nick Hodges | Better Programming
• Jeff Duntemann on Twitter: “I adapted my book Borland Pascal 7 From Square One for FreePascal. This involved cutting out obsolete stuff like the BGI and TurboVision, and adding a few things here and there. I then released it as a free PDF ebook
• Meldactie: Ervaar jij knelpunten met je Zorgprofiel voor langdurige zorg? – Iederin
• CoronaCheck app: booster, test of informatie over genezen toevoegen via plusje rechtsboven
• draw.io Floorplan stencils – draw.io
• Finally learned about the usage of the German word “halt”
• Kirsten Verdel on Twitter: “LET OP: de GGD is bezig om het telefoonnummer voor boosterafspraken zoveel mogelijk van internet te verwijderen. Meerdere mensen is zelfs gevraagd hoe ze aan het nummer kwamen (staat in de brief…..). Afijn: het is dus nog steeds 0800-7070.” / Twitter
• Language oddities: siblings (English) and Geschwister (German) have no Dutch equivalent word
• Delphi MVVM links
• BHACP021 Chime Pro (2nd Generation) Teardown Internal Photos EMC TEST REPORT Ring
• Some ESXi 7.x notes
• Always develop and test your application on multi-core machines
• Easiest way to move the C:\MSOCache directory to another drive is to create symbolic link to the new location
• Operame: Dutch open source CO2 sensor device for indoor usage: shows green/yellow/red for good/okay/bad CO2 ppm levels
• Delphi: workaround doing math with generic types preventing “E2015 Operator not applicable to this operand type” with TValue (as there is no way to constraint the generic type to be floating point or ordinal)
• Locations and IPs for whitelisting | UptimeRobot
• SVB PGB and DigiD security suddenly logged you out every 15 minutes despite the count down counter indicating otherwise.
• Getting the primary IP address (plain and CIDR) on Linux and OS X, then nmap scan on the associated subnet
• Reset MikroTik through LCD TouchScreen when reset button procedure fails
• Rabobank webcare phone contact: +31887226767
• The IDEA project – an ongoing series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions
• Having cancer is not a fight or a battle, it is about having luck or misfortune
• First/Last-Tab: Ctrl-1/9 (or Command-1/9): Switch Between Tabs in Any Browser Using Shortcut Keys
• Splitting the ping
• Threader is dying: save your content as soon as possible
• Playing around with spammers is easy
• Jan Schaumann: “The secret language of coders, part N of many. Today: “risk acceptance”… “
• In case I ever need rails performance troubleshooting: I feel like I should be able to ask @datadoghq “What’s the CPU load across all our Rails controllers”, but have no idea where to start with that.
• Chrome Print dialogue not offering fit to page, landscape, other printing options ( I’m looking at you @OHRA )
• Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Playing with a Ceph Storage Volume in a VM: The new openstack backend provisions an all-flash Ceph volume, which after tuning delivers a commit latency of around 1.1ms or so”
• How to build a CD ISO image file from the windows command line? – Stack Overflow
• On TStrings (and TStringList) sorting: what the default Sort behaviour is and how to change sorting order
• Wiskas -> Snorharen, Gardena -> Tuinierder en andere gekke merknamen
• Some links on EPC, EPA and Energielabel in The Netherlands
• When a cross-head screw is not Philips, and you might need a JIS screwdriver
• Remembering Werner Heiliger
• Tried to find the original of “The Netherlands after a huge western storm” map
• When to get your Covid-19 vaccine booster: (German) Wie gut wirkt die Coronaimpfung noch? | Tagesspiegel
• VO2max cycle test: Åstrand-Rhyming Cycle Ergometer Test
• Github markdown: red text
• LanguageTool – Online Grammar, Style & Spell Checker (English, German, Dutch, French, …)
• parsing – delphi – strip out all non standard text characers from string – Stack Overflow
• console convert pcap to wav: not easily possible; use the WireShark GUI to do
• Some notes on forwardemail.net
• Manually installing or updating xcode (was: ruby – Error Message “Xcode alone is not sufficient on Sierra” – Stack Overflow)
• Which SMTP Port Should I Use? Learn Ports 25, 465, & 587 (and unofficial port 2525) | Mailgun
• VFrontDe/ESXi-Customizer-PS: PowerCLI script that greatly simplifies and automates the process of creating fully patched and customized VMware ESXi installation images
• Katie Anderson on Twitter: “Saw this on Facebook and it’s my new favorite PaaS (Pizza as a Service) breakdown”
• BAG Viewer – 0363100012131170
• Symptomen van overprikkeling en hoe je dit kunt voorkomen
• Apple retrocomputing link clearance
• Twitter: view tweets by people you enabled the “notification bell” for
• Score-checklist klachten/eigenschappen/symptomen voor kwaliteit van leven
• 75 Funny Wifi Names (besides Disconnected and Access Denied)
• Some links on data bias
• What is “deleted” in an information system?
• GitHub – TimeToogo/tunshell: Remote shell into ephemeral environments 🐚 🦀
• Writing desktop apps: use native tools, not web-tools
• OWASP top rated security “feature” A01:2021 – Broken Access Control
• Some scripts and tips for easing the maintenance of a postfix based SMTP system
• Random User Generator | Home
• IFTTT alternatives
• Tool for debugging makefiles – Stack Overflow
• SNPG – Aanmelden patiënten met een afweerstoornis voor derde prik tegen het Covid-19 coronavirus
• PiKVM v3 HAT by Maxim Devaev » Shipping in progress — Kickstarter
• mail.google.com throwing ERR_CONNECTION_RESET and ERR_FAILED only on MacOS with Chrome (many versions)
• Thread by @SNeurotypicals: Neurotypical social skills develop very early on. They are making friends at 5 and negotiating complex diplomatic scenarios at 10…
• Effectiviteit van COVID-19 vaccinatie tegen ziekenhuis- en intensive-care-opname in Nederland (stand eind oktober 2021)
• Dutch vattenfall outgoing mail servers: energierapport, accounts
• One needs to actually fail in order to get a feel for reality
• GitHub’s commitment to npm ecosystem security | The GitHub Blog – no npm package can historically ben tracked to be authentic
• GitHub – JanDerogee/TeleJukebox: A project based on the concepts of the Wonderfoon and Arduinofoon
• checkbashisms(1) – Linux man page
• Interesting situation now UWP isn’t panacea any more: for Windows development, native is back to center stage
• How do I restart sshd on my Unix system | StarNet Knowledge Database – PC X, X Windows, X 11 & More – StarNet
• Need to check if “PrivacyNator” is already out: a local TensorFlowJS app that blurs your screen when you are not behind it
• The horrors of HTML email where there CSS
• unix/linux: using paste to turn separate lines into a comma separated list
• SVB: MijnPGB – Ingediende verzoeken
• Robotkots.nl: Deny-list and settings Dutch CoronaCheck Covid-19 QR code status app (by Joost Schellevis: @Schellevis)
• Most of the things you eat or use have to do with corn
• Diagnose de Wild gemist? Start met kijken op NPO Start
• Some links on Wireguard as DHCP clients were not supported back then yet
• Google has stopped (Dutch: Google is gestopt) on older Anrdoid devices
• Great git videos on YouTube by @shanselman (thanks @simongeering)
• To bypass a Chrome certificate/HSTS error, you can type ‘badidea’ (previously ‘thisisunsafe’) without quotes (this might change in the future)
• [MS-ERREF]: NTSTATUS Values | Microsoft Docs
• Drawing with nice handwriting
• @adamsand0r drew up a few sketches of design decisions needed to be taken when building a #gitops-based CD pipeline
• 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “ten questions about UDP”
• OpenSuSE tumbleweed switched to using /etc/sudoers.d which broke yast module sudo somewhere mid 2020
• /me is a 1x.engineer
• Infusion pump and PCA (patient-controlled analgesia) calculation
• Corona testlocaties; testen zonder afspraak in de coronatestbus – GGD Amsterdam
• Vrijstellingen erfbelasting
• Twitter search filter tricks to get a less confusing timeline
• Some links git cloning over an NTLM proxy
• Is it a battery or a DNS record?
• wget proxy: set the http_proxy environment variable
• Some links on Delphi compiler potential speed improvements…
• Windows 10: remove applications from the uninstall list
• I love the way it shows “Duden Offline”
• Some links on embedding browsers on Linux using .NET
• Terminating a script in PowerShell – Stack Overflow
• Some links on SMTP tar-pit to lessen SPAM
• Word for Mac 2011: create macro or shortcut to ‘Insert Picture – Microsoft Community
• Developing with microservices…
• In case I ever need to jail-break a Mikrotik device
• Frontiers | Autism, Joint Hypermobility-Related Disorders and Pain | Psychiatry
• Aangifte erfbelasting 2021 (pdf)
• NTLM proxy authentication and Dropbox: need to try NTLMAPS and cntlm
• During next night, it is time to move the clock, hopefully for the last time
• Windows: unblocking SMB/NetBIOS/CIFS/File-and-Printer-sharing traffic from other subnets
• Happy 25th birthday Internet Archive! Thanks Brewster for setting it in motion.
• Rebrickable (@Rebrickable) | lets you easily find official or custom sets you can build using your existing LEGO sets and provides all building instructions
• DELL fans use a different pin-layout than normal fans, so watch out before connecting them!
• On my list of things to try: Python with ESXi
• One of the coolest Twitter bots commands: @AltTextCrew OCR please
• M.2 SSD PCIe 3.0×4 vs 2.0×4 | Tom’s Hardware Forum
• Some bash parameter propagation links that hopefully will work with ash/dash too
• Shodan (via SCADA systems accessible through the internet)
• ESXi: listing virtual machines with their IP addresses
• ESXi shell: appending the parent directory of a script to the path and starting a new shell, even if the script is symlinked
• Via a private message: Agile Rhapsody – Bohemian Rhapsody Parody – Scrum Team Building – Agile … on @YouTube
• wetten.nl – Regeling – Besluit zorgverzekering – BWBR0018492 – Bijlage 1 – aandoeningen in aanmerking voor langdurige fysiotherapie
• Some videos on defining ScanSnap scan destinations (Folder, Acrobat, …)
• Install pihole-eberkund on openSUSE using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
• Happy 20th birthday WayBack machine and thanks Brewster for starting Internet Archive almost 25 years ago
• How to Reclaim Purgeable Space on Mac – Bambielli’s Blog / Ask Different
• Using Google/Cloudflare/central DNS can bite you with large downloads
• Legality of Dutch non-reanimation statements
• HTML cleanup tool & simplifier. For basic & clean HTML 🔧
• Zombie Processes are Eating your Memory | Random ASCII
• Reminder to self: script blocks inside .ForEach calls can have Begin/Process/End blocks
• Difficult programming concepts explained in tweets
• Filippo Valsorda on Twitter: “whoami.filippo.io , the SSH server that knows who you are … Try it out! $ ssh http://whoami.filippo.io”
• The hard part of a crypto specification: make it safe and misuse resistant.
• VMware ESXi has 2 bootbanks; with some luck the second contains your old ESXi version
• EProgrammerNotFound exception in Delphi? – Stack Overflow
• Would lvmraid have been improved over 2019? (back then: very single threaded, and does not leverage anything of the power of the actual device)
• Argeweb takeover history
• SSDs: favour TLC over QLC when they usage pattern is to have them relatively full
• Be sure to apply (SSD) storage firmware updates before it breaks
• Some Dutch legal on your security camera’s that cover areas outside your own property
• DICTATOR Adjunct 2500 mechanische deursluiter inbouw
• Links to learn more about infrastructure.
• Querying Twitter for special characters
• The Charlie Calvert “Here’s to Good Friends and New Adventures” article
• Raspberry Pi Turn Tv On/Off CEC – Tim Leland
• Some links on xargs simulation in PowerShell
• BEHIND THE CODE: The one who created languages – YouTube
• Constructing Suffix Trees: Ukkonen’s algorithm – Wikipedia
• Some Windows 10 updates remove registry values; not sure how widely
• www.fmxrtl.com – BiDi support for Firemonkey
• SwitchResX Configuration · GitHub: SwitchResX Settings for LG 21:9 UltraWide
• Fail: The OnePlus Messages App requires Android 11 even though that has not been rolled out to all compatible devices yet (might become a security issue)
• Post verkeerd bezorgd | PostNL
• Als werknemer niet expliciet met digitale loonopgave instemt, moet werkgever deze op papier aanleveren
• Settling on PowerGUI for PowerShell development
• Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Modaler Filter für Veloziraptoren… ” (0 factor authentication)
• The Delphi Open Tools API Book 1.1 – Dave’s Development Blog
• T-Shirt quotes on threading and procastrination
• More on empty files
• Teams, hats and colours
• For WiFi guest networks with a fixed SSID: QR code – Wikipedia
• Highly esteemed science: An analysis of attitudes towards and perceived attributes of science in letters to the editor in two Dutch newspapers – Stefan P.L. de Jong, Elena Ketting, Leonie van Drooge, 2020
• The browser wars that started on iOS (forcing Safari) and Android (forcing Chrome) now are continued on Windows 11 (forcing Edge)
• Google Maps Hacks by Simon Weckert – YouTube
• Naughty naughty no alt: CSS style to clearly show which images lack an alt-text
• UniFi USG link dump
• Solved: ‘Answering Yes to “You have an older version of PackageManagement known to cause issues with the PowerShell extension. Would you like to update PackageManagement (You will need to restart the PowerShell extension after)?” hung my Visual Studio Code.…’
• UCM6200 series IP PBX for Unified Communications- Grandstream Networks
• Word: have part of Heading 1/2/3 not show up in the table of contents
• Some Alulux links videos for my archive
• Unwanted non-breaking spaces (&nbsp) | WordPress.org
• Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files
• One of the Let’s Encrypt’s Root Certificates expired today (and their corresponding intermediate yesterday); how is your infrastructure doing?
• Ian Colwater: Here are some terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit. · GitHub
• JetBrains Mono: A free and open source typeface for developers | JetBrains: Developer Tools for Professionals and Teams
• Windows Sandbox: a feature I forgot about
• Moore’s law has almost ended: back to the future
• PowerShell error in a script but not on the console: The string is missing the terminator: “.
• Google Cloud Shell: connecting to cloud storage buckets
• GitHub – proxykit/ProxyKit: A toolkit to create code-first HTTP reverse proxies on ASP.NET Core
• Chocolatey: force install sysinternals after hash mismatch
• opensuse – How to install patterns and packages at the same time? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• Fix Adobe Acrobat: “This is a secured document. Editing is not permitted.”
• Empathy Quotient
• MikroTik PoE: automatically power cycle and reboot device when it becomes unresponsive.
• 5 days before the Let’s Encrypt’s Root Certificate is expiring!
• Download macOS 10.4 Mojave .dmg
• Howto create C-Header for Delphi/Free Pascal/Lazarus DLL – data types – Stack Overflow
• Chocolatey: forcing a certain package version and pinning it at that version
• Select-Object versus Write-Output: “The input object cannot be bound to any parameters for the command either because the command does not take pipeline input or the input and its properties do not match any o f the parameters that take pipeline input.”
• GitHub – metasfresh/metasfresh: We do Open Source ERP – Fast, Flexible & Free Software to scale your Business.
• Twitter thread by thread by @0xdade; More unicode shit: zero width space and a zero width nonjoiner in filenames
• Code Layout and Formatting: Indentation · PowerShell Practice and Style
• “This does not compute”: Mac SE/30 repair
• Unix and NTFS file systems, hardlinks, inodes, files, directories, dot directories, bugs and implementation details
• The spookback localghost address to resolve 👻 
• Reggefiber NTU: convert blind cap to become pure fiber, so no ethernet media converter is needed
• Low cost remote IP KVM and control, is it possible?
• Mikrotik RouterOS “/ip ssh” setting not available from WinBox and defaulting to insecure?
• calendar google sub-calendar – Google Search
• Liander: aansluiting inzien en SMS waarschuwingen bij storingen
• User Manual – Joe’s Own Editor: Word wrap and formatting
• Windows and the current state of S.M.A.R.T. tooling that understands NVMe
• AgileTD Keynote | Happiness is Quality
• BMW E46 How To Code Module Options – YouTube
• How to prepare your IdentityServer for Chrome’s SameSite cookie changes – and how to deal with Safari, nevertheless – Thinktecture
• vidister – ☎️ FTTH sur Twitter : “Shitty idea of the day: Powering a soldering iron via PoE.… “
• Overview of Client Libraries · Internet Archive
• Chocolatey: when upgrades or installs keep insisting the hash has changed, and over time the mismatch changes as well
• Run chrome in fullscreen mode on Windows – Stack Overflow
• Actiegroep @SchipholWatch heeft een heuse woordvoerder: @alfredblokhuize. Ik sprak hem over hun eigen lawaaimeetapp @AppExplane en hun gebrek aan vertrouwen in de overheid. @NHNieuws
• Laat Je Niet Hack Maken: een goed wachtwoord kiezen of maken
• Wat links over formatief en summatief toetsen
• Happy Day of the Programmer!
• ScanSnap Home 1.4.0 update and release notes
• Hardening your network from locally logged on users
• Hoe laat het is: hoe laat is het? Zo laat is het.
• Some links to post about ESXi 6 and ESXi 7 storage and storage speed issues
• PowerShell: recovering from corrupt empty *.nupkg files after a disk was accidentally full during update
• Opening shell folders from the command-prompt
• Chocolatey parameter order: `–yes` becomes before `–force`
• PowerShell OS Support Matrix – mohitgoyal.co
• Most network protocols are TCP based, so be aware ping uses ICMP and traceroute UDP
• “A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name ‘PassThru’” – likely your powershell version is too old
• checkdigits onTwitter : “CTRL+S is the new carriage return. Type line of code, CTRL+S to save, start new line of code. #NotParanoid 😬…”
• Tricks used by software developers to https://127.0.0.1
• Indeterminate Form Infinity Times Zero – YouTube
• Actuele spoorkaart Nederland
• D10U003 Dell OptiPlex 3060 Micro documentation links
• Worlds Smartest Chessboard | Square Off
• Multiple commands in one sudo: use “sudo sh -c ‘apt update && apt upgrade -y’”
• Europees gefabriceerde auto importeren vanuit Zwitserland
• For my link archive: DNS over https
• comex: “Hiding video streams inside PNGs uploaded to Google Drive … How does it get the browser to skip the PNG header”
• Coming Back to Old Problems: How I Finally Wrote a Sudoku Solving Algorithm – DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻
• Increase sales: ensure your web-shop is accessible
• Ryan O’Horo on Twitter : “Computerphile with a clear and complete explanation of how the block cipher AES works and how it’s different from older ciphers. Background info… “
• Shelly Shop USA
• Digging Through Event Log Hell (finding user logon & logoff) – Ars Technica OpenForum
• When Samsung TV’s fail, check the capacitors on the power board
• Some links that might help use SonarQube with Delphi
• “fixing” ESXi “rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util2.c(106) [sender=3.1.2]”
• LEGO Car Chassis Instructions 8860, Technic
• Afschermen gegevens in BRP (voormalig GBA)
• Windows on VMware ESXi: fixing “Unknown USB Device” or “The USB device returned an invalid USB device descriptor”
• How to: Reset C by GE Light Bulbs – turning things off and on again, and again, and again…
• keyboard – How can I type unicode characters without using the mouse? – Ask Different
• ESXi: finding unmounted VMFS volumes
• More firewalld links
• firewalld: show interfaces with their zone details and show zones in use
• NVMe and SATA health data on ESXi: some links to investigate
• Better disconnect your Samsung TVs from the internet, as they can remotely disable them for whatever reason they see fit
• html – CSS Display an Image Resized and Cropped – Stack Overflow
• linux – How can I find all hardlinked files on a filesystem? – Super User
• Some links on Flux outside React.js
• Some links related to Apple’s NeuralHash algorithm, as it was reverse engineered and collisions can be generated so abuse with pictures matching sensitive hashes can be performed
• MikroTik RB960PGS hEX PoE powering PoE devices: ensure you get a 48V power supply
• Thinkpad X201 BIOS 1.40-1.15 Update Bootable CD
• Windows 10: quickly view Settings -> Printers no matter the installed language
• The Windows key has no Unicode equivalent, so use ⊞ like Wikipedia and many others do
• Chur is not just a city in Switzerland (:
• Favourite Shortcut Key? (Soundcheck Question) – Computerphile – YouTube
• KIX-code: informatie en downloaden | PostNL
• Windows chocolatey Wireshark install: ensure you install nmap too, so you have a pcap interface for capturing!
• A storage history thread by @Foone: from USB Floppy drive back to Shugart via UFI/ATAPI/SCSI and everything in between
• html – How can I scale the content of an iframe? – Stack Overflow
• bash – Search for a previous command with the prefix I just typed – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• LOL: atx psu 24pin 24p power supply jumper jack adapter connector for btc – Google Search
• No GitHub: re-introducing an Inbox or Direct Messages is a bad idea!
• Winbox 3.19 can connect via MAC whereas Winbox 3.17 cannot
• delphi – How to embed the MIDAS.DLL in the client executable – Stack Overflow
• Yet again, GitHub violates the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines by stealing a key: not it is the dot (.)
• UUOC apparently is/was a thing: useless use of cat
• Mikrotik CCR devices based on NAND memory will eventually die
• OCR on documents with Adobe Acrobat XI Standard
• IPMI will not grab IP even with DHCP turned on : homelab
• Installing a Fujitsu PFU ScanSnap ix1500: ScanSnap Home upgrade screenshots
• ScanSnap Advanced Operation Guide (Mac OS) Creating Searchable PDF Files
• The continued Windows PrintNightmare saga: no more printer Plug&Play for end-users on Windows
• Attacking Technical Debt – ardalis
• css color picker – Google Search
• Some links on the Delphi VolatileAttribute
• Simple iframe clock via Free Clocks for Your Website
• On Windows, having an empty password can improve security
• System.TypInfo.SizeOfSet – RAD Studio API Documentation
• Auto connect SSH without autossh?
• On my list of things to try: Amazon SES for outbound/inbound email handling
• Delphi 10.2 Tokyo and up compiler issue: incompatible with Delphi 1.10.1 Berlin behaviour on unit path resolution
• autossh on Windows from a service: automatically starting a tunnel no matter anyone being logged on
• It looks like a volunteer has been found to maintain the openvpn chocolatey
• How to turn on automatic logon in Windows
• Windows 8.x: CPUs vs CPU cores matters!
• The curious Kabri | How to force VMware to generate a new MAC address for a virtual machine
• Fujitsu PFU ScanSnap Home: “OnLine Update” to update ABBY FineReader or install OCR Packs does not work
• Adding a Fujitsu PFU ScanSnap ix1500 scanner to a Windows machine that already had a ix500 scanner workflow was cumbersome
• Be aware of vendor lock-in, especially when serving CMS content in an inclusive way
• Two might lead to a pattern
• DUnit with FastMM: Detecting memory leaks in individual tests.
• Unicode superscript and subscript alphabetic letters
• Naming of naming styles should reflect their casing · Issue #35243 · dotnet/roslyn · GitHub
• TestInsight: when you think the math does not add up…
• Windows: starting Chrome in full-screen kiosk mode from a batch file
• Firefox: disable DNS over HTTPS (which they call TTR)
• Parser generator toolset for Delphi (Yacc & Lex)
• Factory reset a MikroTik hEX PoE RB960PGS using the reset button
• Geurthee nr. 5 theebuiltjes – De Pelikaan Zutphen – Koffie/theespecialist sinds 1816
• Create & use pivot tables – Computer – Docs Editors Help
• Abel Wang, a true legend, is gone.
• How to auto start virtual machines in Windows 10 Hyper V – YouTube
• Some links on getting MacOS network interfaces and DHCP information
• Is warshipping still a thing?
• Methods on enums by using extension methods: Unity sample MonoBehaviour explaining how to associate simple strings with enums.
• Listing information on all active interfaces on MacOS part 1: getting the active interface names
• Delphi run-time errors
• Frank A. Krueger on Twitter: “I made a build status IoT thing! Automatically polls @bitrise and is even Alexa controlled (for brightness and to turn off). Now I want to add github issue and PR counts. Just a $12 ESP32 and a $30 led matrix.”
• -r argument to pipe (no argument for MacOS)- If no input is given to xargs, don’t let xargs run the utility – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• “Unexpected Memory Leak” after “MyTestApplication.exe: Memory Leak Detected”
• Profiler and Memory Analysis Tools for Delphi – Stack Overflow
• Listing information on all active interfaces on MacOS part 2: adding DHCP/BOOTP and routing details
• Updating a Unifi Controller (either a Cloud Key, or a local installation like a VM)
• Getting to the Amazon.de chat
• Dani Donovan on Twitter: “therapist: and what do we do when we’re feeling stressed? me: stop making plans, avoid text messages, and accidentally alienate myself from all of my friends therapist: no”
• Maybe time again to look at Boxstarter
• Android: Island – app freezing, privacy protection, parallel accounts
• Microsoft Rosebud was MSDAIPP – Wikipedia
• PostNL International Parcel Tracking
• Windows: batch file to logoff all other users (run as Administrator)
• Ken Thompson’s 1980 Unix password got cracked only a while ago: he used much entropy in his password
• console – When is System.IsConsole true in Delphi? – Stack Overflow
• Fixing hg.exe “ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.”
• Filezilla: figuring out the cause of “Connection timed out after 20 seconds of inactivity”
• Some useful FastMM related methods to track memory usage
• Very different views on the repository pattern
• Many http headers via 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “some security headers… “
• Some links for detecting memory leaks from individual DUnit test methods
• How do i get the old CTRL + TAB function back
• Mijn pakket raakte kwijt bij het Albert Heijn verzendpunt, wat nu? – Ius Mentis
• windows – Is there any sed like utility for cmd.exe? – Stack Overflow
• Custom Resolution Utility (CRU)
• CloudFlare knows how to do public postmortems on outages
• ESXi 6.7 and up: embedded busybox wget understands https (finally!)
• c# – Algorithm to check whether a certain hour falls into a given time period – Stack Overflow
• How do I get the application exit code from a Windows command line? – Stack Overflow
• Een moment van herdenking: 25 jaar na de Herculesramp.
• inheritance – Delphi: How to call inherited inherited ancestor? – Stack Overflow
• windows – What is the proper way to test if a parameter is empty in a batch file? – Stack Overflow
• Space matching with sed is different from PCRE or other common regular expression parsers
• Some OmniThreadLibrary notes and links
• @isotopp: How fast is MySQL? I was casually operating under the impression, that a typical query resolution time is ~3ms. Turns out I was off 1-2 orders of magnitude…
• Chromium Embedded Framework – some links
• Delphi Tokyo binary BPLs not finding “@System@Net@Httpclient@Win@TCertificateStore@$bcctr$qqrv” means you likely have Delphi 10.2.2 installed
• Microsoft Action Pack links
• Detailed specifications – ThinkPad T510, T510i, W510 – NL
• Some notes for future research: ovftool on ESXi
• Automatically shutting down an ESXi 6.7+ server from a CyberPower UPS using the PowerPanel Business Edition 4.x
• If you think everyone has such an organised life, and you feel so lost
• Obtaining system information from SMB – Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook – Second Edition
• delphi – How to enable wirecompression on Firebird 3.0 – Stack Overflow
• Case sensitivity for SQL identifiers · ontop/ontop Wiki · GitHub
• E2213 Bad packaged unit format: ..\xxxxx.dcp.yyyy – Expected version: 32.0, Windows Unicode(x86) Found version: 105.101, Unk(CIL)
• During software quality courses, I always explain to avoid abbreviations and acronyms as they are very domain specific. It seems authz, authn differ. As do a11n,
• SetProcessWorkingSetSize: you hardly – if ever – need to call this from your process
• Counting bugs versus talking about them: a learning opportunity
• Diagrams om task states and transitions
• Where my tweet about testing in production gained me knowledge about the Covid QR code systems
• SQL Server, [] brackets, keywords and special characters
• Delphi: bumped into System.Classes.TLoginCredentialService while doing a “DefaultUsrPwDm” – Google Search
• New version Smart Citizen Kit available | Waag
• PLA use outdoors? – 3D Printing Stack Exchange
• Delphi: TArray of T versus TArray; a function can return the latter, but not the former
• Did not realise that a 2018 Mikrotik vulnerability made it to the top of the CBL (SMTP composite black list) warning page for quite some months as the first ever device
• How to toggle finder’s “Keep Both” vs. “Skip”, and when copying or moving files – why does the “default” seem to change?
• In my research list: reproduce failing ESXi updates.
• Some links on thread names in Windows
• Maggs on Twitter: “Had to get a bucket to catch all the dropped packets.… “
• Tuple class and records in the Spring4D framework
• In case you cannot do BIGINT yet: A How-to Guide for Resolving Database Record Limitations | Distillery
• Regex for a file name without an extension – Stack Overflow
• Delphi interface generic function – Is there a work around? – Stack Overflow
• SQL server: getting database names and IDs
• Public traffic ticked vending machines can have good user experience.
• Keeping your ESXi infrastructure up-to-date: Subscribe to VMware ESXi Patch Tracker RSS Feed
• Nieuwe tenaamstellingscode aanvragen | RDW
• Criminals are mailing altered Ledger devices to steal cryptocurrency: looks added USB flash card is from Intenso
• How to rename a VM through SSH on ESXi ? |VMware Communities
• Hopefully datendomina (@sys_adm_ama) has followed up with some cool vi tips…
• Hangouts is being replaced by Google Chat: how long will Hangouts last?
• Mathematics (topology): getting a plug loose from a tight spot – GIF on Imgur
• esxi what is my ip – Google Search
• I don’t want to learn your garbage query language · Erik Bernhardsson
• DCOM calls from thread pool threads: CoInitialize/CoUnitialize location and expensiveness?
• “No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page”
• delphi – Is it possible to define {$IFDEF} for more than one directive at once? – Stack Overflow
• Some notes on dumping IceCast ICY streams to get meta-data
• Disable Filtered Gap – Scooter Forums
• XMLDoc Delphi source code documentation generation – some links
• File Line Count: “built-in” line count for Windows
• “Not having done docker, but having developed enough software to have the impression that as soon as things get hierarchical, things eventually end up in a mess. Somewhere down the road something won’t cope with depth/breadth/size and break badly.”
• “Delphi” “Data provider or other service returned an E_FAIL status” “NVARCHAR” – Google Search
• Need to figure uit: MacOS High Sierra suddenly holding a key down does not produce an accented character any more
• VMware VMRC: connect to a remote console without the vSphere Client
• Some more G+ / Plexodus links
• After the freenode to libera transition: openSUSE:IRC list – openSUSE Wiki
• mnot S05E03 – Boba – Met Nerds om Tafel
• Email contact OHRA Zorg (uitvoerder is CZ) ds@ohra-zorg.nl
• Error 0x8007232b or 0x8007007B occurs when you try to activate Windows
• Fritz!Box as DMZ behind an Experiabox version 10A
• Beyond Compare 4 for Windows and Mac binary dfm conversion problems. – Scooter Forums
• Too bad the Delphi IDE does not find the formatter settings when searching for “Margin” or “Right”, despite the setting is named “Right margin”
• GitHub – jjjake/internetarchive: A Python and Command-Line Interface to Archive.org
• ODAC: calling SYS.DBMS_SESSION.SET_NLS failing with ORA-06550/PLS-00103
• ODAC undocumented exception ‘Need Oracle 8 Call Interface’
• PlasticSCM: delete a changeset
• Needle fear / prikangst
• Delphi Basics : FindCmdLineSwitch command07
• Awesome Cookie Manager: popup URI
• MacOS: killing Chrome from the terminal
• Keyboard Shortcuts, Markdown, and Autocomplete – Atlassian Documentation
• Still relevant for current Windows versions: hard drive – defrag /x – consolidate free space not really working – Windows Server 2012 – Server Fault
• Winword: parts of the document with numbered, but other parts (Table of Contents, Summary) without numbering
• Check if this still happens: some Twitter content in the WayBack machine gets a slash in the URL removed during rendering on Chrome
• string – Change backslash to forward slash in windows batch file – Stack Overflow
• Sulfur Argon Calcium Samarium
• Delphi: When porting really old code from versions that did not have .dproj files, watch your .dfg and .dof files
• (nullable) rowversion (Transact-SQL) – SQL Server | Microsoft Docs
• The state of text reading robots a few years back; I doubt it has improved much since: AI often still is Algorithmic Irresponsibility
• Delphi: .dproj TargetedPlatforms bit flags in main PropertyGroup, and Platform values in other elements/attributes
• Chaz Firestone su Twitter: “All the balls are the same color — and that color is *brown*!… “
• Toegankelijkheid is een recht, geen optie. Voor zowel overheid, als private bedrijven en instellingen dus een plicht in redelijkheid daarvoor te zorgen.
• Delphi: some notes on HModule while tracking down an access violation in TRegGroups.UnregisterModuleClasses
• CloudKey ESXi Appliance – Google Search
• Random, Quick Brown Fox and Lorem Ipsum – How to Add Filler Text in Microsoft Word Documents
• Contact for when WayBack internet archival fails to grab content
• Reminder to self: get less dependent on the various clouds
• Persevereren / Niet-zichtbare gevolgen / Gevolgen | Hersenletsel-uitleg.nl
• VMware ESXi: VMware Tools Installed but not running
• List views in Oracle database – Oracle Query Toolbox
• Thread by BiancaPrins: 8 simple steps to improve your site accessibility
• Who maintains GExperts · GitHub?
• Microsoft subdomains
• Every site should have a script like web.archive.org/__cleancookies__.html
• Delphi: Passing build variables to batch files; I think the easiest is to use environment variables
• The two states of a programmer, a superposition
• c++ – DLL Load Library – Error Code 126 – Stack Overflow: use Process Monitor, search for the first NAME NOT FOUND
• Devart ODAC product versions (Oracle Data Access Components History)
• Fritz!Box repeater and other devices: “Radar detection enabled. At the moment no wireless LAN connection (5 GHz) is possible; please wait.”
• E46 fuse box and cigarette lighter connection when front has VDO navigation installed
• Downloading files with wget on ESXi · random writes
• “FIPS mode initialized” when you ssh out of an ESXi box
• Wondering about the flavours of Tumbleweed ISO images
• Need to do some catch up on “Transactional Server” from Open Suse
• Getting the path of an XML node in your code editor
• Chocolatey, MSI installers and “… was not successful. Exit code was ‘3010’. See log for possible error messages.”
• Porting old code: Delphi compiler error E2064 Left side cannot be assigned to
• Some of the Oracle database errors I encountered
• msbuild build events can inherit, but not add in addition to inherited build events (so projects in Visual Studio, Delphi and others cannot do that either)
• Figure out access violation in Dsmtoolwindow.GetPreferences
• Happy Towel Day: today is the 42nd towel day in remembrance of a truly remarkable author.
• How to do tnsping? | Oracle Community
• Some VMS and DCL history links
• Delphi: creating copies of installed components to repositories for portability across use cases
• 2 x Speakers surround replacement – Designed for Apple G4 Cube M7963 | eBay
• Forgot the ESXi root password? No problems, here are 4 ways to reset it! – VMWARE BLOG
• SuperMicro iKVM and IPMI: not able to initiate “Virtual Media” -> “Virtual Storage”
• MacOS: when “Command-Tab” does not work (no visual response, no application switching) you need to restart the Dock
• LGA 2011 – remove and insert a CPU
• How to Copy files between ESXi hosts using SCP Command
• I wanted to know the loaded DLLs in a process like Process Explorer shows, but from the console: Sysinternals ListDLLs to the rescue
• Oracle Instant Client – no chocolatey package for automatic install on Windows (yet?)
• ODAC default install paths for Delphi 10.2 Tokyo
• PlasticSCM ignore.conf: globally ignoring certain file types, but allowing them recursively in a subdirectory
• Small batch file wrapper around PowerShell to uniquely sort file based content
• Much Turbo Pascal history (via What is a Delphi DCU file? – Stack Overflow)
• Plastic SCM: add the current directory recursively
• SQL Server: RowVersion is not the same format as BigInt
• JclRTTI: type has not type info
• When all your SuperMicro X9/X10/X11 IPMI sensors show N/A: the system is in a BIOS or boot selection screen
• ESXi 6.x download URL
• Chocolatey: vcredist 2005/2008/2010 updates succeeding again after Microsoft rebuilt the installers multiple times causing new hashes each time
• ESXi: wrong IPv4 address after moving the ESXi boot USB stick and SSD devices to an identical motherboard with different MAC addresses
• Chocolatey: vcredist 2005/2008/2010 updates failing as Microsoft rebuilt the installers multiple times causing new hashes each time
• VMware Standalone Converter: more recent versions do not support older operating systems
• NFS server on Windows
• How to calculate bitmap size? – Stack Overflow
• Chocolatey: installing Oracle SQL Developer and updating the chocolatey package
• Notities over corona vaccinatie, gele vaccinatieboekje en vaccinatieboekje app
• Het hopelijk tijdelijke afscheid door Haagse Insider🕵🏻‍♂️ (@HaagseInsider) | Twitter
• Delphi: EInvalidOp exception, might just mean you have a use-after free scenario, or an out-of-bounds value
• Golang written: nefertiti-tradebot.com
• Reminder to self: check if @NS_online finally accepts email addresses having a plus sign in them
• FastMM4: turn warnings W1047 and W1048 off
• Solved: Very slow speed on SSD |VMware Communities (via “Building a lab with ESXI and Vagrant – DarthSidious”)
• Gasexplosie en grote brand aan Westestraat in Sassenheim
• Chrome supported extension IDs
• file – String format procedure similar to writeln – Stack Overflow
• Connectors/cables for Serial Attached SCSI and SATA – Wikipedia
• SC732D4-500B | Mid-tower | Chassis | Products | Super Micro Computer, Inc.
• Supermicro X9SRi-F Mainboard with SCU – Motherboards and CPUs – Unraid
• Alternatives to VMware ESXi: working around “[Errno 28] No space left on device” when updating (especially when booting from USB-stick)
• MacOS IPMIView and Supermicro X9SRi-F web interface cannot mount ISOs; on Windows, the web started Java iKVM console can
• Need to research alternative IPMI tooling
• VMware ESXi: working around “[Errno 28] No space left on device” when updating (especially when booting from USB-stick)
• Chocolatey: I favor ‘choco upgrade’ over ‘choco install’
• Delphi: types you cannot deprecate
• ESXi: where are my log files actually stored? Actually, most of them are in `/scratch/log` which points to a hidden `.locker` directory in a datastore.
• Running ArchiveTeam Warrior version 3.2 on ESXi
• Delphi 10.2 Tokyo introduced a “with” warning: for most “with” statements, W1048 is raised ([RSP-17326] with statements generate W1048 unsafe typecast warning – Embarcadero Technologies)
• Preference variable $ConfirmPreference allows getting more or less PowerShell confirmation prompts
• From Yahoo closing Answers tonight to blocking ads on YouTube
• Delphi …hide the scrollbars of a DBGrid?
• authentication – Bypassing Windows 10 password with Utilman.exe trick – fixed? – Information Security Stack Exchange
• Supermicro: 5 BIOS beeps might just mean internal VGA is disabled
• Windows 10: when “wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey” fails, try ProduKey from NirSoft.
• VMware ESXi console: viewing all VMs, suspending and waking them up: part 5
• Mac SE/30 recap links
• AstraZeneca: tweede prik gaat gewoon door (via Rijksoverheid.nl)
• Celebrate Email Debt Forgiveness Day!
• Thoughts on ix500; should I get an ix1500?
• VMware ESXi console: viewing all VMs, suspending and waking them up: part 4
• Huurprijswijzigingen die voor 1 juli 2021 ingaan berekenen
• Some links on Delphi and CHM help files
• VMware ESXi console: viewing all VMs, suspending and waking them up: part 3
• Updating chocolatey itself
• Little Delphi tip: after “Build the current build group”, do not be surprised debugging fails
• VMware ESXi console: viewing all VMs, suspending and waking them up: part 2
• Oud papier en karton – Gemeente Amsterdam
• Delphi and DUnitX: ensure you catch the ENoTestsRegistered exception
• Dutch: briefjes van 10 en 5 euro opnemen (withdrawing small valued banknotes)
• Time Machine taking a very long time for “Preparing backup…” and causing Finder to use 100% of one CPU core
• BMW E46 Touring Automatic boot opening – YouTube
• Need to research: Nirlauncher v1.23.42 to 1.23.43 upgrade through Chocolatey fails with “Operation did not complete successfully because the file contains a virus or potentially unwanted software.”
• Certified Secure – XS4ALL Challenge
• Unifi Cloud Key: “We have detected that your SD card is missing. Please insert it and reboot your Cloud Key or disable automatic backup.”
• VMware ESXi console: viewing all VMs, suspending and waking them up: part 1
• Delphi: migrating applications + DLLs that use ShareMem to using FastMM
• VMware ESXi 6 and 7: checking and setting/clearing maintenance mode from the console
• <3 "Minimum Defendable Product": it is part of "Minimum Viable Product".
• XSLT for DUnit TXMLTestListener output
• Busybox sh (actually ash derivative dash): checking exit codes
• Windows DLL and EXE rebase
• Since when is the PLATFORMTARGETS resource included in non-package binaries?
• Spotlight taking 200% CPU
• Recovering files with scalpel.
• A USB-C magnetic charge contact that when tripping does not make your computer hit the ground (via Hadi Hariri on Twitter)
• Stop FortiClient from auto-starting (as it uses a truckload of Windows resources, often including 2 gigabyte of memory for their logger)
• google chrome – How can I selectively disable paste blockers – Super User
• Dockerfile with Bite Size Networking tools from b0rk
• Some VMware ESXi 7 download filenames and checksums
• When registering for ESXi 7: “Content Not Available Dear user, the web content you have requested is not available.”
• Spring4D conference materials
• MSSQL – searching in DDL metadata comments
• Plastic SCM: show the current changeset abstract (without files) on the commandline
• “F2063 Could not compile used unit” can also mean you have a DCU file of that unit for the wrong compiler version
• Advanced .NET DebuggingCLR Inside Out – Improving Application Startup Time | Advanced .NET Debugging
• Jira peculiarity: there is “convert to sub-task” for a Story, but no “convert to task”. TL;DR: use “move” for that
• Odd error on my Delphi research list: “E2213 Bad packaged unit format”
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Sendmail
• Google Drive is not telling it secretly moves files to the trash
• How to remember password in FortiClient VPN? – Stack Overflow
• UV warning image stickers
• Need to do some reading on local domains on the internal network
• Supermicro Single CPU Board for ESXi Home lab – Upgrading LSI 3008 HBA on the X10SRH-CLN4F | ESX Virtualization
• UUID/GUID as primary keys in databases; generating them from a .NET assembly
• Tidy First?
• Delphi TestInsight: when supporting it, test if it is running at all. Same library has a deferer pattern.
• Small batch file to recursively compact a directory using NTFS compression
• Maintaining timestamps for future dates when you know the associated location
• ReturnAddressUnit to provide ReturnAddress to Delphi versions not supporting it, and prevent CallerAddr warnings for Delphi versions having ReturnAddress. See https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/wiert.me/src/8ae6cf29ffc601fde7c1182dead740adddb13fb8/Native/Delphi/Library/RTL/ReturnAddressUnit.pas
• LeanEssays: What If Your Team Wrote the Code for the 737 MCAS System?
• msbuild verbosity is not passed to the Delphi command-line compiler any more, but for found units, you can use /p:DCC_OutputDependencies and for dfm/resource files /p:DCC_OutputDependencies
• Delphi TestInsight: running both DUnitX and DUnit tests in a test project
• Why I love choco-cleaner for chocolatey
• CP1500EPFCLCD – Backup UPS Systems | CyberPower
• West Side Story: Percussionist’s Perspective – YouTube
• Print Friendly & PDF
• Do we have songs with Triangelist? 😁🤘 | Metal Amino
• The tale of [SSH into ESXi 6.7 box resulting in “debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_REPLY”, delay and after entering password “Permission denied, please try again.”]
• Czarkuberneteski on Twitter: “rm -fr / Deletes all french files from the linux server.”
• Exit Vim 2 Win
• Ship Your Enemies Glitter
• linux – How can I execute a series of commands in a bash subshell as another user using sudo? – Stack Overflow
• msbuild verbosity levels
• Delphi: got “EOleException with message ‘Microsoft MSXML is not installed’” in a console or test project?
• Warn me whenever and where you are going to use these adapter patterns
• flyover-reverse-engineering/README.md at master · retroplasma/flyover-reverse-engineering · GitHub
• How to Convert a Mercurial Repository to Git on Windows
• Next time traveling in countries I do not speak the language of: use live (real time!) Google Translate of signage and voice.
• Disable ESXi Password Complexity – Perfect Cloud
• GGD GHOR vaccination notes
• email file decoding: Encode/Decode Quoted Printable – Webatic
• Chocolatey: installing Forticlient
• Interactive tool to record a web-site, then archive it as WARC: GitHub – webrecorder/webrecorder-user-guide: webrecorder user guide and glossary
• JSONPlaceholder – Fake online REST API for developers
• Delphi: Any idea why Delphi (At least since Seattle) does this to Dproj files:  nodes change places – Tommi Prami – Google+
• Mixed JScript/batch file hybrid to create Windows shortcuts
• Thread by @mathdroid: “I now have the most swagger @github profile, EVER Sorry, your browser doesn’t support embedded videos @github Method: Download and install G […]”
• When your Delphi IDE suddenly skips unsaved changes during compilation(TL;DR: watch early signs your IDE is hosed, then restart without saving)
• Build your own Infrared reader head for electriciti smart meters for around USD 6: haus-automatisierung.com [4K] – YouTube
• Still unsolved since 2015 NetBeans: Bug 251538 – Your Installer is Creating Invalid Data for the NoModify DWORD Key which crashes enumeration of the Uninstall Key in at least PowerShell
• Delphi object instance lifetime demo; do not use AfterConstruction as a poor-mans way to work around non-virtual constructor or undetermined Create hierarchy calls
• Some links with notes on WoonVeilig/Egardia security system communications, protocols and support by 3rd party home automation apps
• em-dosbox – Windows 3.11 on the Web
• xs4all voip with Fritz!Box equipment: do not combine Fritz!Box “With prefix” number formats with xs4all “Block international numbers”: it will block non-international numbers too.
• GLS-Info: Tijdsvensters 1060NP
• WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram are down (:
• flush deferred messages in mail queue – SysAdmin Tips
• Helping the WayBack ArchiveTeam team: running their Warrior virtual appliance on ESXi
• Manage two WoonVeilig or egardia systems from one smartphone / Twee WoonVeilig systemen beheren vanaf 1 telefoon
• ESP32-CAM Surveillance Camera (Home Assistant Compatible) – YouTube
• Image upscaling: waifu2x tool (open source)
• delphi – Invalid floating point operation calling Trunc() – Stack Overflow
• Threaded Inserts in 3D Prints – How strong are they? – YouTube
• (mostly ASCII) List of emoticons – Wikipedia
• A DUnit Folder Iterator Extension – The Art of Delphi Programming
• Running SuperMicro IPMIView on MacOS
• Undocumented Plastic “cm status –hiddenchanged” to show hidden changes like the Plastic SCM GUI does by default
• Delphi use of FS segment: structured exception handling
• Windows 10 Home: allow a certain user to have a non-expiring password
• MacOS “mds_stores” high CPU usage
• Windows Users like “Window Manager\DWM-3” are virtual users
• Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X9SRi-3F
• Enable Block at First Sight to detect malware in seconds | Microsoft Docs
• Domeinnaam prijzen – Internetproviders en Hosting – GoT
• Waarom stemmen we in Nederland niet online? | NU – Het laatste nieuws het eerst op NU.nl
• Mikrotik: script to set clock to Amsterdam, enable ntp, then show latest ntp correction
• GitHub – pastpages/savepagenow: A simple Python wrapper for archive.org’s “Save Page Now” capturing service
• GExperts grep search: skipping searching certain files, irrespective of their directory
• Applying .patch File From Git – Easyread – Medium
• VS2017 Community .vsconfig file – Visual Studio Community workload and component IDs | Microsoft Docs
• Debouncing and Throttling Explained Through Examples | CSS-Tricks
• How to count the number of days / workdays / weekends between two dates in Excel?
• Unittesting: why would you want OAPT, and how you might end up with a combined OAPT and OOPT.
• MESSAGE directive Delphi
• Inspecting Postfix’s email queue – Tech-G
• Owner of Dutch web hosting companies: Hosting Bedrijven met dezelfde (mede)eigenaar? – Webhosters.nl
• You are likely to be eaten by a grue! #NerdStitch cross stitch project- Zork 1 (Apple II version)
• Hoe is het nu met Zivver?
• Office 2013 Proofing tools downloads
• Memories box (:
• reg query and batch file for loop tricks that refreshes the cmd environment from the registry settings: choco/RefreshEnv.cmd at master · chocolatey/choco · GitHub
• Short Delphi tip: ensuring RTTI for classes is included
• Delphi: combining intrinsic functions and inline to have no-code checks on concrete generic instantiation
• Common UX ant-pattern: “you have Tea and No Tea”
• Delphi: quickly failing in use-after free scenarios
• JSON or binary stream? Delphi 2010: How to save a whole record to a file? – Stack Overflow
• Reminder of Windows 10 update “What’s New” location
• Delphi XE7 introduced const support for dynamic arrays; prior versions used [] only for sets.
• Futurist 20 years ago “The Internet will not become a mass medium” – via littlewisehen on Twitter: “Also sprach der Zukunftsforscher… 😂”
• Zwiebelfisch-Abc: gerne/gern – SPIEGEL ONLINE
• Wat notities over de 2e kamerverkiezingen 2021, waar “kwetsbare gezondheid” gewoon “iedereen” betekent
• Schiphol automatisch melden klachten ging helaas niet door.
• Thinkpad T510 BIOS 1.52-1.21 Update Bootable CD
• Reminder: check if LUMC Privacy Statement and Gebruiksvoorwaarden are printable or downloadable as PDF.
• Nederlandse Sleutel- en Slotenspecialisten Gilde: Onze Leden
• The user and the not so standard OSI 7 layer stack of compromises: xkcd Stack
• Markdeep as an extension to markdown
• Postfix TLS Support
• Fun with Delphi RTTI – Dump a TRttiType | The Road to Delphi
• NanoPi NEO2 1GB Metal Complete Kit, NP-NEO2-1G-STK – Antratek Electronics
• I still print (relevant parts of) code. Have been for a long time. Will keep doing it.
• Like Circuit City and Radio Shack, Fry’s Electronics closed down. We all saw it coming, but: damn.
• Delphi compile time assertions
• Automatically closing ABBY Finereader 5.0 windows after scanning is completed
• Unittesting FizzBuzz
• Delphi intrinsic functions that evaluate to consts
• Redux: Mac OS X – Spotlight not finding many files: force a rescan solved it
• Why you should critically review how often and why you use various spaces in your home
• Downloading Facebook videos as mp4 files in both mobile and HD quality for offline viewing
• Python: saving a web page to a jpeg image file by using the Google base64url encoded screenshot of it
• ColumnCopy – Chrome Web Store
• Quooker links en afmetingen
• PowerShell: avoid Write-Output, use Return only for ending execution, use $Output variable for returning additional output
• showthedocs
• Delphi: not all lists need to be generic
• How not to do updates of your wiki site
• explainshell.com: parse and explain just about any shell command
• DUnit testing code that should raise a specific exception
• 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “ngrep: grep your network!… “
• Checking expiration dates for your certbot certificates
• The magic “procedure Touch(var …” construct
• Eurotec 6-6 uit bedrijf nemen
• Research list: getting rid of the Windows 10 Delivery Content data and service
• Deleting the WebCache database – The IE browser cache | Apttech’s Blog
• Badhoevedorp, T106, Amsterdamse Baan, groot onderhoud
• Scribbr APA Generator – Genereer je bronvermelding volgens de APA-stijl (American Psychological Association citations of references)
• Word Shortcuts links
• Buzzword Bingo: the words have not changed over the years.
• Evil environment variables….
• Still looking for base64url decoding tools, both on-line and for MacOS homebrew
• One second code: Do YOU know how much your computer can do in a second?
• F2084 Internal Error: MA1263 – no relevant results
• Kristian Köhntopp explaining theories
• Some LCID links and notes
• The Delphi interface reference counting compiler bug that will never get fixed as it is marked “as designed”
• ApexSQL Refactor – Free SQL formatter | ApexSQL
• A few links on Raymond Chen
• How do I pretty-print JSON in Delphi? – Stack Overflow
• Everything force rescan all volumes – via voidtools forum
• Nikon D700 Firmware A:Ver.1.04/B:Ver.1.03 2013/05/21
• 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “ethtool… “
• Is there a way to increase the rate at which Gmail fetches mail from another account? – Web Applications Stack Exchange
• bash – How to get the primary IP address of the local machine on Linux and OS X? – Stack Overflow
• Thread by @b0rk: “nmap i haven’t used nmap much except to scan my home network for fun so if i missed something really important i’d love to know! […]”
• Twitter @Nick_Craver: “I’ve talked with so, so many new devs over the years and far too many are afraid to try because they’re afraid to fail. So do me a favor, share your failures […]”
• delphi – Faster DirectoryExists function? – Stack Overflow
• Chris Foster: Windows Development in a KVM Virtual Machine
• A choco install list
• How many dependencies does your development eco system have?
• jeroenp / wiert.me / Native / Delphi / Apps / Console / DfmTools — Bitbucket
• HTML Div Table – Online Tools
• LockWindowUpdate function (Windows) and some OldNewThing thoughts
• Delphi: fixing “W1030 invalid compiler directive true”
• Bram Vrijsen on Twitter: “Ik ben nu twee uur op een congres in Kopenhagen en de bingokaart is nu al vol.… “
• Thread by @b0rk: “this poster is like a SUPER EXTRA COMPRESSED version of the “Bite Size Networking” zine […]”
• “I finally finished this awesome game called Photoshop, let me send you a video” – Raymond Chen
• Long video to explain a 1 part water 2 parts rubbing alcohol works great as de-icer (This Weatherman Reveals The Secret To Defrosting Your Windshield In SECONDS – YouTube)
• DC connectors used by APC :Anderson Powerpole – Wikipedia
• Detecting what language or script a run of text is written in, redux – The Old New Thing
• Nick Craver on Twitter: “1. “Are you ready to work on the auth code?” 2. New dev: “Hell yeah, bring it on!” 3.… “
• Deciphering the Messages of Apple’s T2 Coprocessor | Duo Security
• Delphi: getting the name of the current unit
• NDC 2019 Keynote: Welcome to the Machine – Hadi Hariri – YouTube
• Few remember the ancestry of programming languages
• On my research list: Delphi “Package Cache” subtree
• Run your unit tests in parallel with NUnit
• datetime – Determine Whether Two Date Ranges Overlap – Stack Overflow
• Delphi debugging tip: keep an eye on a object field of an object that will go out of scope eventually
• PassProtect – Chrome Web Store
• Windows events for Remote Desktop connections
• 56 Linux Networking commands and scripts
• Some Dutch curfew (avondklok) links, including English forms (at the bottom of the post)
• Ruimere tijden grofvuil wegens avondklok – Gemeente Amsterdam
• Ga met een gerust hart op vakantie met WoonVeilig beveiligingsset – CooleSuggesties
• Anyone tried #Telegram to communicate securely?
• Limiting Google Research to multiple web-sites using the OR and site: operators
• Thought experiments can help you solve a problem early
• Default XML encoding is UTF-8 (or better: utf-8). If it contains other byte sequences, this is an error.
• If you use an implementation of TNonRefCountInterfacedObject, then document in the descendants how lifetime management is arranged for
• Don’t use global state to manage a local problem – The Old New Thing
• HTML table border styles
• grep for Delphi .dproj file containing copy commands for certain DLLs
• Node-RED is on my research list.
• GitHub – drewnoakes/string-theory: Identify and reduce memory used by duplicate .NET strings
• The Indy unit `IdObjs` got removed after Delphi 2007
• Cool: Apple mini-assembler found inside Woz’ monitor inside Apple II Integer Basic
• Google Chrome URL chrome://devices/ -> your registered Google Cloud devices like printers
• The messenger – Delta Chat – Email Based Instant Messenger; based on IMAP push
• Hoe we omgaan met kwetsbaren: UWV en de Wajong. Het UWV weet het ook allemaal niet meer, en bepaalt volgend jaar wat je dit jaar had mogen krijgen
• TUMBLEWEED Ordering cycle at boot with nss-lookup: named fails to start initially; workaround: manually `rcnamed start`
• The multi-carrier platform for future-proof delivery
• Having the Tom Bihn Brain Bag as day-to-day backpack, I wonder about the PeakDesign Travel Backpack
• Forced routing of selective emails to ISP SMTP via Mikrotik Routing | Syed Jahanzaib Personal Blog to Share Knowledge !
• GitHub – pierrejean-coudert/delphi-libraries-list: List of Delphi Libraries and Frameworks
• The difference between thread-safety and re-entrancy – The Old New Thing
• Programming Wisdom auf Twitter: ““Good code is its own best documentation. As you’re about to add a comment, ask yourself, “How can I improve the code so that this comment isn’t needed?” Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.” – Steve McConnell”
• Delphi TVirtualMethodInterceptor like magic: some links of useful stuff made with it
• Not all language packs are created equal… 
• TODO: if weerslag hasn’t supported https yet, dig deeper into ProxyPass / ProxyPassReverse
• Debugging a Delphi – Format and Pointers/Hex Values (Memory Overwrite) – Stack Overflow
• Opensuse Community Account Migration
• How to remove (disable or hide) User Accounts on the Windows 10 Login Screen – Make Tech Easier
• Test for modern Internet Standards like IPv6, DNSSEC, HTTPS, DMARC, STARTTLS and DANE.
• 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “ssh tips… “
• Roderick Gadellaa on Twitter: simple app that (re)sets the volume of the TV to 8% of the max volume every time you turn it on.
• OKI C332/MC342 – reset (short) device name, location, asset number and contact name
• Why a study with only 7 respondents can be good – from Dutch paper “De Volkskrant”
• Fiber cables: speed and connectors
• Named Pipes unit for Delphi | Mick’s Mix
• Automating the closing of the Creative Cloud signing and ABBY FindReader for ScanSnap 5.0 dialogs
• Batch files: deleting first/middle/ending parts of environment variables
• Want to use SmartPointers in Delphi? Use the Spring4D one: it is unit tested and optimised
• GitHub – andOTP/andOTP: Open source two-factor authentication for Android
• Batch file: check for (non-)existence of registry key
• IDEIds11…IDEIds21 – RAD Studio
• Releases · upx/upx · GitHub
• The logicdroid family
• Interesting pieces of RetroMacCast : RMC Episode 433: Clamshell G4 iBook – first virus and Apple ][ forever
• Windshield frost protection and removal
• Binding #Uptimerobot monitoring to your own subdomain: embarcaderomonitoring.wiert.me
• Emotional Intelligence: Components and Emotional Competence Frameworks (Part-2) | iammoulude
• OutputDebugStringA limitation used to be close to 4K, but with OutputDebugStringW, what is the limitation?
• Syncing your fork to the original repository via the browser · KirstieJane/STEMMRoleModels Wiki · GitHub
• It pays to closely look to your coding
• A garbage collector for C and C++ (and a wrapper for Delphi): The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector
• Windows command prompt: decrementing loop
• Delphi processing all Windows messages
• Why does my Android application, compiled with development tool XXX version YYY, no longer work?
• Small Delphi tricks: initialise out parameters in the caller when they are stored in local variables; a Run for TProc
• BMW E46 Engine heating for the 320i M54B22 engine
• Uptimerobot: TCP uptime only verifies the three-way TCP handshake
• Getting confused with the many YouTube subdomains and first level paths
• Syncopation in pop/rock music – Open Music Theory
• Mariuz’s Blog: Understanding Debian: The Universal Operating System
• Jira “Preformatted” is not “Preformatted”
• Electronics-Salon DIN Rail Mount +/-20Amp AC/DC Current Sensor Module, based on ACS712: Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific
• Essential versus Accidental Complexity: 2 minute Kevlin Henney video and some links
• Is this code safe? function Some(const Str : AnsiString); var arr : TBytes …
• PlasticSCM memories
• Some links on MS UIA: UI Automation
• How to debug Delphi JSON export stack-overflows: watch the fields and their circular references
• Some odd Windows Messages for my research list (Windows 10 with a very basic Delphi application)
• winapi – What format is the time member of a MSG structure? – Stack Overflow
• If you control both caller and callee: do not “override” functions by introducing a function with the same name
• Windows Sandbox – Microsoft Tech Community – 301849
• mkcert: valid HTTPS certificates for localhost (Windows/Mac/Linux) — a short blog post about it, by FiloSottile
• In Amsterdam zonder Ja-Ja sticker hoef je de @AxenderBV bezorger geen fooi te geven
• high sierra – Remote Desktop 10.2.3 Database Creation Error; 10.2.1 runs fine; 10.2.2 crashes: how to find actual cause(s)? – Ask Different
• Foldimate: Cooles Gerät. 1000 US$ ist jetzt auch nicht soo teuer…
• The double positive becomes a negative anecdote
• Do not block User-agent ia_archiver because you think it is Alexa, as it makes it harder for the Internet Archive WayBack Machine to stay up-to-date
• Old New Thing IAccessible examples
• List Of Windows Messages – WineHQ Wiki
• Indy10, TIdSMTP, how to get protocol log?
• git the meaning of `–` is to treat the rest of the arguments as file names (Hard reset of a single file – Stack Overflow)
• Spinettaro’s Blog: Delphi Flux application architecture
• System.SyncObjs.TLightweightSemaphore.Create: the AInitialCount parameter
• Alternatives to UUID/GUID as database keys
• I really wish people reporting bugs provide more factual details, especially when asked for
• In Delphi, avoid having a TComponent descendant implement interfaces, unless you are prepared to handle your refcounting
• RAMBOOT – booting Linux into a RAM disk…
• Copy files on Mac OS X using drag-and-drop | alvinalexander.com: secret is to hold the Option key
• Listen Notes: The best podcast search engine
• FAQ Desk: Autosaving “unnamed” `new 1` files | Notepad++ Community
• Win32 build of less 530
• Vaccineer de kinderen die je wilt behouden, om de verspreiding van besmettelijke ziektes te voorkomen
• Why We Should Change The Rhythm Of Business | Corporate Rebels
• On Windows 7 and 8.x too: Completely disable Windows 10 telemetry collection – twm’s blog
• Stofradar – RevSpace
• Delphi TRegExOption: Where is description of roNotEmpty option? What does this option do? – Jacek Laskowski – Google+
• How To Write Unmaintainable Code: Ensure a job for life ;-) by Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
• GitHub – DevExpress/testcafe: A Node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing.
• Delphi and SuperObject JSON support have a very different implementation
• Tables with two headers • Tables • WAI Web Accessibility Tutorials
• WSA: Web-Service Addressing
• delphi “tproc” with “array of const” – Google Search
• Lifehack: solving jigsaw puzzles on whiteboards
• Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv, DOSBox, plus telnet fun with WSL – Scott Hanselman
• HMpaal.nl: exacte (Google maps) locatie van een hectometerpaal op een A of N weg
• gpg creation and sign Gino’s Key ($1785651) · Snippets · GitLab
• Why is “finite” in “infinite” pronounced differently than plain “finite”?
• Wegstatus.nl – Home
• .NET: interfaces that inherit from multiple base interfaces
• Mike Cardwell’s Tech Blog: Twitter to RSS with Google Cloud Function – Grepular
• I’m using Delphi XE 10.2: empty documentation tab means you need to update to either the documentation Hotfix or 10.2.3
• Lecture 9B | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986 – YouTube
• Making it dead simple to implement @haveibeenpwnd in your applications, including strength warning if found in @troyhunt’s password collection.
• Delphi spring collections
• How to install Telnet with only one command
• How to have git log show filenames like svn log -v – Stack Overflow
• Delphi Compiler Intrinsics can help you collapse generated code for generics a lot
• Keep alive SSH connection with server in MacOs Mojave – Ask Different
• NOx value measurement is an indicator for much wider forms of pollution (was: Definitiv ein lesenswerter Artikel, trotz der plakativen Schlagzeile)
• Android: measuring sound levels
• Compressing C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\ClickToRun\ProductReleases
• Aaron Tay on Twitter: “trying experimental Wayback Machine Chrome ext from @internetarchive . There’s usual find latest/earliest archived versions and “context”, which just checks whois, annotations from https://t.co/qlqDUJNkIa, tweets etc but “find cited books and papers” is only on wikipedia pages… https://t.co/QqFSQ2HJ3e”
• “twitter lite” “not available in your country” – Google Search
• SEP92: A VIDEO COMPATIBILITY INTERFACE FOR TURBO DEBUGGER
• Git Mergetool and difftool with Beyond Compare 4 · GitHub
• Delphi revelations #3 – kbmMW Smart client – DispInvoke leak – Components4Developers
• `exit /b #`: set `errorlevel` to `#`, then exit batch file or subroutine – via: Errorlevel – Windows CMD – SS64.com
• git – I ran into a merge conflict. How can I abort the merge? – Stack Overflow
• Delphi: why breakpoints from time to time are not usable (green highlighted line on IDE)? – Stack Overflow
• When CCP is not about clearing financial transactions
• About Event Tracing – Windows applications | Microsoft Docs
• Exiting the Microsoft Narrator
• Protocols and Networks – PlexodusWiki
• Griffon | Product: Griffon Zacht Lijm PVC M-385 250ml
• Forcing the queue on individual email message
• Adreswijziging belastingdienst voor bewindvoering natuurlijk persoon (beschermingsbewind)
• (German): the mid 1980s stories of calling Peter Norton for free from a German phone booth, and hacking the phone lines that mobile telecom equipment sales vans connected to.
• Meldingen over foutparkeren in Amsterdam buiten kantoor-uren: bellen naar 14020 of via https://web.archive.org/web/20181224135325/https:/twitter.com/webcare020/status/1077198930876788737
• Kristian Köhntopp had an interesting JOINs go when moving from monolithic to microservicecs (i.e. when customers and orders are in separate services)
• 960 Grid System
• A bunch of Spring4D dependency injection container related questions
• Checkout github pull requests locally · GitHub
• Do not make methods protected unless you want them to be visible as public
• The Delphi Geek: Using Generics to Manipulate Enumerated Types
• Delphi: `procedure RaiseAbstractError(const aClass: TClass; const aMethodName: string);`
• FeaturesShim: using ShimGen for creating a shim to a program either console or GUI so you need only one bin directory
• delphi – What are the list of all possible values for DVCLAL? – Stack Overflow
• OSX 10.13 with vSphere 6.7 – Virtual Odyssey
• Wifispots instellen | Klantenservice | Ziggo
• Pokestop not turning purple in Pokemon go
• Archiving Google Product Forums URLs
• Apple M1 ARM based Mac as a developer: docker and brew will take a while to be working at all or supported
• Using both Google Fi and Google Voice means you need to use two Google accounts on the same phone
• Chrome not asking to save or saving passwords? – Google Product Forums
• powershell – Format-Table forgets some properties, but Format-List shows them all. Why? – Stack Overflow
• Me starting to understand the real life meanings of Shim
• Tracking down Delphi “abstract error” occassions.
• How to quickly add hours/minutes/second to date and time in Excel?
• Editors (including visual studio code – VSCode): insert tab character manually – Stack Overflow
• Be careful changing the DataContext of a TRemotable
• JSON to tabular format via JSONformatter.org and JSON2table.com
• Radio Garden
• Git pushing to multiple remotes
• Bootable virus scanners supporting ntfs
• “net view” “System error 1231 has occurred.” “Windows 10”
• Poundland lights unexpected feature and USB mod. to operate christmas lights using USB – YouTube
• PoE to ethernet + micro USB converters
• OpenCandy – Wikipedia
• het verbindingsboogje en de punt achter de noot – YouTube
• AmazonSmile Hilfe: Kontaktdaten unserer Logistikpartner
• How To Use Journalctl to View and Manipulate Systemd Logs | DigitalOcean
• Register and use a custom clipboard format in Delphi – twm’s blog
• Git history in Visual Studio Code
• Mikrotik Remote Access via Multiple WAN Links | Syed Jahanzaib Personal Blog to Share Knowledge !
• Pointers are dangerous – twm’s blog
• Plastic SCM blog: Unified diff of a branch
• html – Is it possible to specify a starting number for an ordered list? – Stack Overflow
• Since Delphi still does not include a TDateTimeHelper: use the one by colini which has tests
• Searching old Twitter posts
• Do you like/use the Slate font by OnePlus? Do you prefer it over Roboto? – Quora
• Ik ben wat verward over de @WoonVeilig site. https://t.co/ui8agTkgM9 heeft het bijvoorbeeld over GATE-03 en GATE-02, maar https://t.co/QswkrlsuZY over ALARM-03 en SMARTHOME-01. Ook heeft SMARTHOME-01 meer accessoires dan ALARM-03. Werken die extra (zoals CO-25) niet op ALARM-03?”
• Thread by @doctorow on the RIAA using DMCA section 1201 to ban youtubedl from GitHub
• Two ways to unsubscribe from Booking Email Marketing. – Google Photos
• Dutch parcel tracers
• Making Fujitsu ix500 scanner’s CardMinder Viewer not globally steal the Alt-F3 shortcut
• Some links on assembling a proper Katalon .gitignore file
• Learned about the {$EXTENSION zzz} or {$E zzz} Delphi directive: {$EXTENSION yyy.zzz} fails
• FastMM PushAllocationGroup
• Installing Windows software with Chocolatey: a few notes
• Spring4D Mock – Delphi Unit Testing : Writing a simple spy for the CUT – Stack Overflow
• performance – How can I produce high CPU load on Windows? – Super User
• Optional sort by name in `LogMemoryManagerStateToFile` · Issue #64 · pleriche/FastMM4 · GitHub
• shell – How do I grep for multiple patterns with pattern having a pipe character? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• delphi – Can I use an Edit Mask to format output? (not just validate input) – Stack Overflow
• Linux Find Out What Process Are Using Swap Space – nixCraft
• [Random] How to quickly view a binary’s embedded manifest? – MITHUN SHANBHAG’s blog
• Prijsdalingen – Tweakers
• WordPress blog URLs using post-ID: Using Permalinks « WordPress Codex
• From the past: figuring out the damage last nights lightning strike at 1060NP caused yesterday evening
• Thomann tas voor bekken
• Good tips for powering any kind of LED strips from the Adafruit NeoPixel Überguide | Adafruit Learning System
• My toolkit – Roald’s blog
• delphi – How to convert a null terminated string to string? – Stack Overflow
• LED Chaser with only 4017 – YouTube
• Automated testing Windows applications using Katalon and WinAppDriver
• RDP logon while other user is logged on: no way to automate automatic disconnect/logoff
• Delphi: get timestamp as ISO8601 string for use in filenames
• Object Pool versus Object Cache
• Enable your device for development – UWP app developer | Microsoft Docs
• Class methods in Record vs Class in Delphi 2010 – Stack Overflow
• Typografische Strafzettel – Nerdcore
• macos – Bring OS X Error Message window to the front – Super User
• How to remove all old and outdated brew packages on MacOS – nixCraft
• Facebook ist in Bezug auf Kundenzufriedenheit und Vertrauen in Umfragen zieml…
• Non-rectangle select in Windows command line – Super User
• Guru Meditation: XID: 202605646
• Some postfix notes
• Delphi and conditional compilation
• Envoy, Istio, Service Meshes, Control Planes, SDN vs. Control Planes und noch…
• Microsoft Azure training resources
• Reminder to self: find open source tool that strips TDS / TD32 debug information from EXE
• Notes a on a step by step .NET standard based stack of applications with a central core
• Dimensions – Chrome Web Store
• Unicode is hard, also for the Delphi compiler and IDE
• Find a Table on a SQL Server across all Databases – TechNet Articles – United States (English) – TechNet Wiki
• McCollough effect – Wikipedia
• Inside a self-testing emergency exit sign. – YouTube
• Treegonometry: Maths students have the solution for decorating the perfect Christmas tree – Latest – News – The University of Sheffield
• Two steps to ensure a family member Skype account is not discoverable
• The alphabet, in alphabetical order, in various languages – The Old New Thing
• 7 Free Windows Password Recovery Tools
• Delphi icons to distinguish various Delphi versions
• Configure IntelliSense (SQL Server Management Studio) | Microsoft Docs
• Some free test SOAP web service endpoint sites
• UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right?
• Reverse engineering Delphi and Turbo Pascal unit interfaces (and maybe DCP files too)
• Naming: avoid abbreviations and acronyms in identifiers
• Learn How To Debug JavaScript with Chrome DevTools – codeburst
• golang – joining a URI (either with our without terminating slash) with a URI part
• Oval car stickers – translating to ISO 3166-1
• Logging request body in HAProxy · GitHub
• Packer template for Alpine Linux on Hyper-V and Azure; GitHub – tomconte/packer-alpine-azure
• Keeping a local copy of sysinternals current
• Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “You will likely complete the circle at least twice in your career (;… “
• vlans for KPN/xs4all
• Guidelines for WiFi access points at home/office
• Baseboard Management Controller: bmc-toolbox · GitHub, supporting Dell, HP and SuperMicro
• Go character and string literals: regular (‘), double (“) and back-tick (`) quotes
• sql server – Index Seek vs Index Scan – Database Administrators Stack Exchange
• From Delphi 1: Type Compatibility and Identity
• A series of Medium posts introducing functional programming in manageable bits and pieces
• When your ORM does not support string concatenation by || or + operator…
• When did we stop caring about memory management? – Scott Hanselman
• variables – What is “_,” in a Golang declaration? – Stack Overflow
• Visual Studio Code on Mac and Linux can also use the mssql extension
• Viewing a USB WebCam on Windows 10 without any fuzz
• pfSense OpenVPN server configuration steps
• Windows 7 Blue Screen Of Death with error 0x7B – twm’s blog
• During pfSense boot: syslogd “operation not supported by device” messages
• Creating animated GIFs from screenshots – twm’s blog
• Delphi – The use of AlignAttribute: indicate the alignment of a field
• References for “The Future of Programming” a 2013 DBX conference talk still very relevant
• Simple query to get .NET connection string from current SSMS connection – via: Database Administrators Stack Exchange
• Client: “How much time will it take to finish this job?”- Your Ex-Waifu
• Delphi XE6 .. 10.1 Berlin truncating non-VCL-control texts to 256 characters when styled
• Must read post when using Git on line endings: What’s the best CRLF handling strategy with git? – Stack Overflow
• Can we truly assert that an array returned from a function is always a true copy?
• git – Change commit author at one specific commit – Stack Overflow
• Women should rule IT again, not just because inheritance in Cobol functions differently than in other languages.
• Delphi Gem of the day: putting “reintroduce” on a destructor. destructor…
• Rebooting a Linux server unattended – twm’s blog
• Front Panel Audio Connector and Header Pinouts for Intel® Desktop: AC97 and HD Audio have the same layout…
• WinHlp32 for Windows 10?
• WiFi devices having mysimplelink in their host name are Ring Cameras
• USBKill – “kills” your machine when an unauthorised USB device is inserted or an authorised device is removed
• 7 Rules for Creativity Managers – YouTube
• Delphi: TInvokableClassRegistryHelper.GetInterfaceNamespace as the opposite of TInvokableClassRegistry.RegisterInterface
• FireDAC can do DBMS back-end conditional SQL via Conditional Substitution
• GitHub – gabr42/MultiBuilder: Runs multiple programs in parallel, shows results
• A thread written by @SwiftOnSecurity
• Not to self: ERROR_ALREADY_EXIST (183) can also mean your named Mutex already exists
• Using Delphi for jiggling the mouse – twm’s blog
• Delphi, soap and wrapping values in cdata – Stack Overflow
• GitHub – arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota: Provide ESP8266 based itead Sonoff with Web, MQTT and OTA firmware using Arduino IDE or PlatformIO
• Reminder to self: iocp-delphi/ThreadPool.pas at master · tondrej/iocp-delphi · GitHub
• Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison, and RDS Instance comparison
• Supermicro Bios Update – YouTube
• EditThisCookie – Chrome Web Store
• Happy Day of the Programmer!
• On my list of things to figure out: how to force fsck with opensuse Tumbleweed on Raspberry Pi 3
• FreePascal downloads I used to get Web Service Toolkit to compile since the Delphi WSDL importer has braindead include support
• Converting a virtual IDE disk to a virtual SCSI disk (1016192)
• Filename too long in Git for Windows – Stack Overflow
• Mark Struberg on Twitter: “My key takaway is: “You can fix most conceptual problems of a Monolith by converting to MicroServices. And you can fix most conceptual problems of MicroServices by making a Monolith out of it”.
• Keep Your Project Files Clean With Project Magician – The Art of Delphi Programming
• Recursive loop, see loop, recursive
• CppCon 2015: Niall Douglas “Racing The File System” – YouTube
• Delphi – tools to generate class diagrams/hierarchy from source code
• Obtaining Build Logs with MSBuild – Visual Studio | Microsoft Docs
• 19 Best Git clients for Windows as of 2018/2019/… – Slant
• Fl Ko: Getting the pixel position of the current editor cursor position for an OTA wizard
• I need to dig into IPP / driverless printer confuguration
• bash – convert comma separated values into a list of values using shell script – Stack Overflow
• ESXi: shrinking a thin provisioned disk by first exploding it with zero content
• Need to figure out how to remount 2015 Retina MacBook Pro SD card that got ejected during sleep
• ESXi: shrinking a Windows disk
• SSL certificates – not optional | Open Query Pty Ltd
• getting a svn compatible patch diff from the latest commit in a git branch
• Interesting: SQL Server FileStream and FileTable
• Mike Versteeg tried getting Hi-DPI to work in Delphi 10.2
• undo – Can I delete a git commit but keep the changes – Stack Overflow
• Cynefin framework – Wikipedia
• Delphi consensus: interface implementing classes expose methods at private or protected level.
• Some banking apps are not so privacy friendly
• hash – Why is Git not considered a “block chain”? – Stack Overflow
• The iron triangle of planning | Atlassian
• HOW TO: Configure Shared Diagnostic Partition on VMware ESX host | vStrong.info
• Interesting font comparison site (Courier New versus Lucida Console versus Consolas)
• What’s the piece of Delphi knowledge you find yourself looking up over and over again…
• Google Music alternatives (as Youtube Music kills playlist data like title and artist fields)
• GL-AR300M – GL.iNet: nice small device allowing NAT over WAN, WiFi, 3G/4G modem, or OpenVPN
• Google Project Sunroof – About
• Computer Hardware Chart – Imgur
• Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the…
• Bitbucket: diffing a file between two commits in a git repository
• Joins explained.
• DIY electronic RFID Door Lock with Battery Backup – CodeProject
• Password hashing on client side is insecure · Issue #44 · meteor/meteor-feature-requests · GitHub and some bcrypt notes
• “Fatal: F1027 Unit not found: ‘System.pas’ or binary equivalents (.dcu)”
• Spring4D – Shared, Weak references
• 10 Tips on How to be a Great Programmer – Java, SQL and jOOQ.
• Assorted unpitched concert percussion videos
• Small query for some SQL Server client and server information
• Some awesome Sugru moldable glue links
• Some more interesting OpenWrt capable routers/ATAs
• Current state: still fighting the metastases of the rectum cancer; chemos are done, major liver surgery in about 3 weeks
• The post linear TV and Radio era
• find – display only files starting with . (hidden) – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• Santa Cruz County fire evacuations
• Tracing a packet journey using Linux tracepoints, perf and eBPF | Yet another enthusiast blog!
• Delphi unit aliases: multiple ones can point to the same unit
• Don’t use the TPL as it still has rough edges in unsuspected places
• Happy birthday UDP!
• windows – Batch-file: undocumented wild card characters to check for file pattern existence – Stack Overflow
• TMonitor versus Critical sections revisited: when possible, use SRWL over TMonitor, then TCritical section
• Nick Hodges on SOLID in TypeScript using Angular
• In the series “avoid Variants when coding in Delphi”: the comparison operator
• Some PlantUML links I needed for complex component diagram editing
• Block or ignore someone – Computer – Hangouts Help
• Guidelines for representing your business on Google – Google My Business Help
• Dirvish
• Copying photographic film with the Nikon D810 and a shoe box | Nikon Rumors
• Firewall whitelist for Windows Update
• Why do so many of the small heatsinks use 3M 9448A Double Coated Tissue Tape?
• PowerShell: checking minimum version
• PowerShell: finding WSD printer details enumerating through HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\SWD\DAFWSDProvider
• A load on agility related posts referenced by Markus Eggers – Google+
• Roderick Gadellaa auf Twitter: “@ingnl Ik begrijp dat jullie gaan stoppen met TAN codes. Juich ik toe, 2FA met sms is behoorlijk lek. Maar nu moet ik jullie app gaan gebruiken. Ik werp 1 blik op de permissions die jullie app wil en denk: Neen.…”
• PlantUML – Visual Studio Marketplace
• Comparing versions with wildcards and without them (for instance for semantic versioning)
• Installing and updating Windows PowerShell – via Microsoft Docs
• GitHub – blackrosezy/gui-inspect-tool: Gui Inspect tool for Windows
• Stop Time Tracking, Start Value Tracking – Agility Scales
• VMware ESXi 6.5: “Failed – An error occurred during host configuration.” when starting the NTP service
• Remote access to the Embarcadero License Center via SSH tunnel – twm’s blog
• On my research list: finding out how to prevent FortiClient to route all traffic over VPN
• How-to Make Your Own 3D Printing Goo
• Working on High Quality Low Cost DIY 3D Scanning using Structured Light
• Friday Tip: create a permalink to a specific slide
• How to rename git local & remote branches, and local & remote tags
• Great tool: the Toptal Colorblind Web Page Filter
• Android passwords: store as transient as possible using arrays in stead of strings
• Brew reminder to self
• Delphi: Download multiple files in multiple parts at the same time, support resuming, gzip-encoded files, cookies, logging to websites using POST and so on
• Delphi What’s new history and a docwiki URL trick
• WinBox on MacOS crashing
• If I need sending a Skype-Message over Microsoft Bot Network…
• 11 signs you’re writing great software code | InfoWorld
• Not sure why, but ESXi 6.5 changed “uuid.location”, “uuid.bios” and “ethernet0.generatedAddress” after moving it to a different datastore
• Using telnet from the VMware 5.x and 6.x ESXi shell: use nc
• Dutch public broadcast Teletext in plain text: Tekst TT
• Gratis accu bij accu tuin- en parkmachines (verlengd t/m augustus) | Makita.nl
• Op dat we de cruciale beroepen niet vergeten: die horen meer extra te krijgen
• networking – Whitelist Windows Update Servers – Super User
• If your Samba logon script does not get executed – twm’s blog
• Try locking your PC next time
• Getting Started with Azure Event Grid Scenarios | Serverless360 Blog
• Running Visual Studio Code on macOS from the terminal
• Bogus W1036 ? 
• Searching github commits
• UAC elevation steps
• On my research list: “git merge –no-ff”
• Using LEDs as mains indicator lights on 120V and 230V (live demos) – YouTube
• Why Rubber Ducking is good
• Duh moment: when 69.162.119.78 is querying your DNS infrastructure and it appears to be uptimerobot
• Somfo Keygo RTS – Afstandsbediening 4 kanalen RTS
• Chromium/Chrome on opensuse Tumbleweed ARM notes
• How to Make File Explorer Open This PC By Default In Windows 10
• Life is a state of mind.
• Verifying large sets of file hashes with md5sum
• Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer’s Word Processor
• SharpLab
• Syncing GExperts svn to git
• Squirrel · GitHub: Server-driven updates for native apps
• Yes Delphi does some type inference on generic method calls
• The most useful git commands | orga.cat
• Geek And Poke: NoSQL
• Why and how GitLab abandoned Microsoft Azure for Google Cloud | VentureBeat
• GitHub – adaloveless/commonx: Delphi/Object Pascal Classes and Tools for just about everything and everyone.
• Git install tip for Windows installations: “”
• Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs – Embedded in Academia
• 🔎Julia Evans🔍 auf Twitter: “an amazing directory: /proc… “
• google chrome – How to hide the bookmark bar? – Super User
• Eject USB drives / eject command – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• Colorectal Cancer: Stages | Cancer.Net
• EU-Hof haalt streep door Privacy Shield en blokkeert datatransfers naar VS – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers
• linux – ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host (not using hosts.deny) – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• Windows 7 Hosts File Ignored: recreate it and you’re back in business
• openSUSE forums tips
• LOW-TECH MAGAZINE
• Li-Ion BMS – Lithium-Ion Battery Management Systems and large battery packs
• Remote power control your IoT hardware and remote updating boot SD cards
• logging facility in Synopse seems to be an interesting alternative to JclDebug. Need to check out how they differ in looking up the method name for tracing.
• GitHub – gamelinux/passivedns: A network sniffer that logs all DNS server replies for use in a passive DNS setup
• SAFECode updates its guide on best secure software development practices – SD Times
• “error: invalid object 100644” “git svn”
• Building a rudimentary battery backup for your USB powered devices (IoT, Raspberry, etc)
• Is WCF faster than ASP.NET Core? Of course not! Or is it?
• Marrying U-Boot, uEFI and grub2 – Alexander Graf – openSUSE…
• ThinkPad USB Keyboard With TrackPoint – Overview
• Level 29: The BBS
• Remapping a mac keyboard for windows user In my quest to make this macbook air into a usable machine: Karabiner-Elements
• “View Image” button in Google Image Search
• On my tools list: Rapid Environment Editor – freeware Windows environment variables editor
• openSUSE:Standards Rpm Metadata – openSUSE: Repository layout
• linux – How do I use sudo to redirect output to a location I don’t have permission to write to? – Stack Overflow
• delphi – How to reset the download when the GetIt package manager fails? – Stack Overflow
• Virtual Machine Serial Console access | Blog | Microsoft Azure
• EDSAC Simulator
• Time to look back at the Spectre vulnerabilities.
• How can I debug git/git-shell related problems? – Stack Overflow
• 13 Noteworthy Points from Google’s JavaScript Style Guide
• MacOS/OS X/Mac OS X: Keeping an eye on your used disk space
• RB450G and “..could not get answer from dns server” – MikroTik
• lifeliners volgen – P2000 monitor (support forums)
• MacOS/OS X/ Mac OS X tip: AppCleaner
• Cipher: a command-line tool to decrypt/encrypt files and directories (een recursively) on Windows
• Tools I use for audio/video downloading, media conversion and audio editing
• delphi – How do I build an array of const? – Stack Overflow
• What is pragmatism? Why do I care? How do I practice it? | Agile Uprising
• Specifying the msbuild configuration for a Delphi project on the commandline – twm’s blog
• The ever so lovely Bézier curve – Freya Holmér – Medium
• Programming Wisdom on Twitter: `”The strength of JavaScript is that you can do anything. The weakness is that you will.” – Reg Braithwaite`
• The Piet programming language.
• binaryfiles – How to convert PDF binary parts into ASCII/ANSI so I can look at it in a text editor? – Stack Overflow
• Just as “curl | sudo sh is not advised”, do not impose running http based scripts in your customers IDE
• Watch Kevlin Henney’s “Enterprise Programming Tricks for Clean Code” and drink The Singleton Single Malt Scotch Whisky
• RugGear RG100: RugGear
• shell – List open SSH tunnels – via: Super User
• Audacity error when starting “The application “Audacity.app” can’t be opened.”
• Add or edit words in a spell check dictionary – Office Support
• Is there a button in iTunes to say “Stop after playing this song”? – Ask Different
• Navigating throug the Windows of the Joe’s Own Editor – Wikipedia
• Peeking under the hood of redesigned Gmail – Boris – Medium
• Nick Craver on Twitter: “I see a lot of MyEnum.Member.ToString() in code reviews across various projects – instead you should use: nameof(MyEnum.Member)”
• browser – Clearing old browsing data in Chrome instead of newer data – Super User
• Go pick a leaf of that tree!
• On my research list: Unum – The End of (Numeric) Error
• Git – Credential Storage: caching for some time (and removing it)
• “Here’a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer.” 25th anniversary
• Ten Commandments For Naming Your Code
• .NET Rocks: How do you do concurrency?
• Git submodule inside of a submodule (nested submodules) – Stack Overflow
• browser – How to connect a website has only IPv6 address without domain name? – Super User
• How to Merge Folders on Mac OS X Without Losing All Your Files (Seriously)
• Linux Containers – LXD – Try it online
• “This app can’t run on your PC – To find a version for your PC, check with the software publisher.”
• Computing History – The UK Computer Museum – Cambridge
• Creating a properly aligned partition with parted – twm’s blog
• tfs – How to retrieve the hash for the current commit in Git? – Stack Overflow
• Delphi Exception handling code review reminders
• Lisette Sutherland: Work Together Anywhere | Lisette Sutherland | TEDxKaunas
• Chr equivalent for Unicode in Delphi 7 – Stack Overflow
• Dynamically instantiating instances in Delphi without knowing their full type is hard
• How to return a string value from a Bash function – Stack Overflow
• A Tale of Many Divisions – Naive Prime Factorization Across a Handful of Architectures
• Being efficient actually holds you back
• how to count the length of an array defined in bash? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• Victron Energy Quattro 24V 8000VA 200A information
• Susan David: The gift and power of emotional courage; | TED Talk
• Raspberry Pi, Tumbleweed, btrfs
• “windows 10” cannot manually set time – Google Search
• Create table without header in markdown/reStructuredText?
• ssh_config section order is important: the first setting obtained from a Host/Match section applies
• Delphi AMQP links
• LD_PRELOAD: preload a Linux library, for instance to obtain more information on a segmentation fault
• Don’t mix objects and interfaces
• Squoosh: Compress and compare images with different codecs, right in your browser
• When you are stuck, use “Oblique strategies – defeat creative block”
• One day I will dig in the various ways that bash can do evaluation, for now: there is eval, “ and $() and I’m not sure when to choose which.
• Configuration files – Installation and configuration – Plastic SCM Community
• pip install –user and your path
• bash + sed: quadruple backslash for proper escaping within an alias
• hardlink – How can I find hard links on Windows? – Super User
• GitHub – gpakosz/.tmux: Oh My Tmux! My pretty + versatile tmux configuration that just works (imho the best tmux configuration)
• Good read for starting to intermediate ssh users is “SSH Essentials: Working with SSH Servers, Clients, and Keys | DigitalOcean” and pointers to more advanced reading material
• “wmic” “access denied” “local administrator” “windows 10” – Google Search
• Hardening: sshd_config – How to configure the OpenSSH server | SSH.COM
• 1. Inside the Terminal – Mac OS X For Unix Geeks, 4th Edition [Book]
• Thread.Destroy deadlocks in finalization of COM+ dll’s…
• Why Is SQLite Coded In C
• Shell Extensions (.NET)
• Some links on hooking anonymous methods to Delphi events
• Methodologies are dead, long live methodologies – Mosh Choen – Medium
• Cursor Movement in bash: either echo escape sequences or use tput
• Are there any static code analysis tools for Delphi/Pascal? – Stack Overflow
• SysUtils.pas Why parameters of these anonymous not const? TProc = …
• How do I delete a Bash function? – Stack Overflow
• GitHub – kzahel/web-server-chrome: An HTTP Web Server for Chrome (chrome.sockets API)
• Logitech remotes for presenting
• Force NTP Time Update on Linux | KrazyWorks
• Reassembling the amazing hanger from Kickstarter
• Remote Desktop Auto Login Powershell Script · GitHub
• rrdtool: MRTG next level graphing | Syed Jahanzaib Personal Blog to Share Knowledge !
• Getting rid of Docker plain text credentials – Hacker Noon
• TOP 10 CD/DVD/Floppy Drives based Projects – YouTube
• GitHub – dschmenk/apple2pi: Apple II client/server for Raspberry Pi
• Best android apps for zabbix – AndroidMeta
• Davidlohr Bueso on Twitter: A programmer had a problem. He thought to himself, “I know, I’ll solve it with threads!”. has Now problems. two he
• Need to look at monospaced programmers fonts again
• Beyond console.log() – Matt Burgess – Medium
• How to move Git submodule to sub-directory? – Stack Overflow
• Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Hi dpi is a mess, not just on Windows. It will take considerable time to overcome the decades long Pixel mess we’ve been coming from (:”
• When NTFS shrink fails, despite using the default settings from the shrink dialog
• Raspberry Pi 1B OpenSuSE Tumbleweed zypper upgrade problem · GitHub
• Secure Shell – Chrome Web Store
• draw.io: the only way to remove shape waypoints is all of them via the context menu (via Tutorial 3 … draw.io Support)
• Expect your sites to be accessed over https and ensure your certificates match
• Authssh from Windows
• learning golang
• David Korn Tells All – Slashdot
• Why the compiler generates a `”E2018 Record, object or class type required”` on typed types…
• The Defense Innovation Board wants to help the military recognize ‘agile BS’ – Fedscoop
• How to read network requests in Chrome for new tab or popup window
• GitHub – NickRing/Delphi-Shortcut-Finder: Shows/find keyboard short-cuts have be assigned, that may be conflicting.
• DC12V COB LED Light Strip Panel 5W 10W 20W 50W 200W 300W LED Bulb White Blue Red Flip Chip COB Lamp DIY House Car Lighting 12V-in LED Bulbs & Tubes from Lights & Lighting on Aliexpress.com | Alibaba Group
• ipmi – Linux: Why does Single User mode work on Serial Console but not on the attached Keyboard/Video/Monitor? – Server Fault
• delphi – always pass SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS to SafeLoadLibrary
• hexagonal architecture – Google Search
• Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users – shell in the browser that works in all locations I’ve been so far
• On my list of things to try: GitHub – arthepsy/ssh-audit; SSH server auditing
• 6502.org • Search: mos6502 G+ posts
• Show openSUSE:Factory / bootchart – openSUSE Build Service
• Listing services on OpenSuSE Linux
• html frames and iframes from other sites that won’t load: some links
• Delphi 2007 – move from signature in interface to signature in implementation section
• appletv – How can I show a read-only version of Google Calendar on Apple TV 4th generation? – Ask Different
• 83089
• 108 byte CSS Layout Debugger · GitHub
• Men’s Java is not JavaScript Annoyed Programmer/Developer T-Shirt
• Updating Actions (Don’t Do This) – Dave’s Development Blog
• 25 Scrum Magnetische Karten Wiederbeschreibbar 7,5 x 7,5 cm. Beschreibbare Magnete für Agile, Kanban oder Lean Board. Haftnotizen leicht abnehmbar und wiederverwendbar (Mix 5 Farben): AmazonSmile: Bürobedarf & Schreibwaren
• Insomnia REST Client
• Bash Notes for Professionals book
• Web accessibility is hard, so please let your sites not become worse over time
• OpenSuSE: keeping an ssh connection alive (convenient for keeping port forwardings up)
• Exploits Database by Offensive Security
• How to remove a jammed label from a Dymo Labelwriter – via Dymo Label Printers from The Dymo Shop
• x11vnc encryption: ssl works better with the realVNC client than ssh tunneling
• 8 Brilliant Search Tools Hidden Within Google Photos
• How to set default apps on Mac | iMore
• MultiBootUSB
• The Science Of Target Setting (And How Most Companies Get It Wrong) | Corporate Rebels
• CI/CD with .NET Core 2.0, VS Code, GitHub, Azure, and Docker: Intro
• “cushion treemap” delphi – Google Search
• Cool hacking stuff…
• Rewritten version (free for non-commercial; small price for commercial use) GitHub – pleriche/FastMM5: FastMM is a fast replacement memory manager for Embarcadero Delphi applications that scales well across multiple threads and CPU cores, is not prone to memory fragmentation, and supports shared memory without the use of external .DLL files.
• Vue.js and TypeScript links
• Certified Stealing Sh*t That Works Practitioners
• Interesting insights by Andreas Hausladen Twitter on the Delphi splash screen process, license file handling
• GitHub – ofek/hatch: A modern project, package, and virtual env manager for Python
• Black Thread Design | Convert 3D models to GLTF
• SSH through HTTPS
• OpenSSH keygen guidelines
• LED bulbs in IKEA track lighting systems lie SANSA or LINA – SM2YER Goran’s Homepage
• Finding back license keys on Windows
• version control – How do I do an initial push to a remote repository with Git? – Stack Overflow
• The Invention of C++ – Nice bit of net lore
• Joe Groff on Twitter: “As programmers, we write parsers all the time, but handling parser errors well tends to fall by the wayside. Here’s a quick blog post with some high-level observations on how to deal with parse errors well”
• Mono-repo or multi-repo? Why choose one, when you can have both?
• Naming is hard so look at this list when you will name things: Approved Verbs for Windows PowerShell Commands
• How to pin either a Shortcut or a Batch file to the new Windows 7, 8 and 10 Taskbar and start menu? – Super User
• Side by Side user scoped .NET Core installations on Linux with dotnet-install.sh – Scott Hanselman
• Migrating to python 3: adding parenthesis to print calls and getting rid of printf style formatting
• GitHub – pyscripter/pyscripter: Pyscripter is a feature-rich but lightweight Python IDE
• KiTTY auto-reconnect ssh tunnel so you can RDP from remote machine into local one
• OSK: How to turn off auto start On-Screen Keyboard on Windows 7 64 bit? – Super User
• curl/wget: use content-disposition for the file names
• Twitter thread unroll so you can read tweet storm on one page without distraction: ThreadReaderApp.com a.k.a. tttthreads.comtttthreads.com
• This means your SD card is dead for writing: “fsck.ext4: unable to set superblock flags on ROOT”
• Netgear Prosafe GS110TP – Tweakers
• Unit testing frameworks in C#: Comparing XUnit, NUnit and Visual Studio · Raygun Blog
• Reminder: try to get vscode-restructuredtext to fully work – reStructuredText Language Support in Visual Studio Code
• Bipartite matching algorithm in Delphi… John Kouraklis – Google+
• Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)
• When pandoc on a reStructuredText document gives “(WARNING/2) Inline substitution_reference start-string without end-string.”
• Peter Drucker: The Rules of Effectiveness – Personal Growth – Medium
• Kelly Sommers on Twitter: “What are some good open ended questions to ask developers or testers in interviews to get them talking?”
• reStructuredText – document title and subtitle
• Is there no shortcut in the IDE for Quick Edit?
• macOS and Windows Excel Shortcut: Toggle absolute and relative references | Exceljet
• Passing parameters to a Bash function – Stack Overflow
• How to install patterns in openSUSE and SUSE – TechRepublic
• When using a e1000 virtual network adapter under VMware, use the “Intel PRO/1000 MT Server (82545EM)” under Virtual Box
• .ZIP URLs (or, Why You Should Block Domains on a TLD That Doesn’t Have Any) | Blue Coat
• Some quick links on Korian in The Netherlands as they were/are? buying a maze construction of care companies that were on the edge of bankruptcy
• Zelfbouw verlichting aansturen via Hue – Duurzame Energie & Domotica – GoT
• LBS008AE and LBS005AE-R2, 10-100 Switches USB powered – Black Box
• sed double expression: match, replace in one line, overwrite file
• GitHub – JensBorrisholt/GoogleSpeak: This repository demonstrates how to Use Google for implementing Text to Speech. You’ll find both a Delphi version and a C# version
• I am in love with colors and design – UX Planet
• Binary search for finding problematic versions: install a specific version in homebrew and git bisect
• Quickly See All the Formulas in Excel with This Shortcut
• Create a large file filled with zeros on Linux – twm’s blog
• Schuurmonnikoog, Tuinesië en vele andere vakantiebestemmingen, sommige all-inclusive, tijdens de coronacrisis
• SFTP (SSH file transfer protocol) server on Windows
• Sprites mods – Miniature Macintosh Plus – Result
• Bug Finder, A Real Win32 Extensible Passive Debugger – CodeProject
• Hashes and their uses – The Isoblog.
• Delphi: OldCreateOrder in inherited TDataModule might suddenly become True
• Common SMTP message size limits
• Rendering SVG on gitea and gitlab
• Debugging Delphi applications inside a Windows Docker container – yeiei.net
• In SQL Server use `SET NOCOUNT ON` so tools taking the last modified record count won’t be confused by your trigger.
• Create a custom paper size for printing on Mac – Apple Support
• Why the current Coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) is so much nastier than the first SARS
• Knip-, plak- en kleurplaten voor tijdens de Corina crisis
• mail.com (handled by gmx.com) can reject SMTP connections as early as in the EHLO stage
• Hoe gaan autistem om met de coronacirsis? 15-minuten interview met Karol Henke, Bianca Toeps en Chris Verlaan (@KarolHenke, @biancatoeps, #ChrisVerlaan)
• Huge meta-thread by @Foone saturday on VIRTUAL THRIFTING
• xrdp
• Dutch lifeliner medical helicopters: LIFELN5 is transporting COVID-19 patients from The Netherlands to Germany
• How to Share a Direct Link to a Dropbox File – How to Do Anything in Apps | Zapier
• Using an Fritzbox as DECT-Repeater – PC-WELT
• Watch “When the COVID-19 Pandemic Leaves Clients Feeling Helpless” on YouTube
• Zoom Lets Attackers Steal Windows Credentials, Run Programs via UNC Links
• Some links that should me help shrinking the virtual disk files of Windows VMs
• Hightlight active row/column in Excel without using VBA? – Stack Overflow
• For my link archive: Python – Handling command-line arguments
• Cool Delphi IDE idea: when moving a project, not just adjust absolute file paths but also search paths
• Ladies and gentlemen, Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf.
• Forde’s Tenth Rule, or, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and ❤ the State Machine”
• Ian Sausage on Twitter: “Me: What’s the wifi password? Barman: You need to buy a drink first. Me: Okay, I’ll have a coke. ..”
• Version Control in Visual Studio Code: view Git output window
• Corona informatie in begrijpelijke taal
• Excel formula: SUMIFS with multiple criteria and OR logic | Exceljet
• Printing all DNS records using DNSPython in Python 3 · GitHub
• My other computer is a data center Stickers and T-shirts — DevStickers
• 7 Practical Tips for Cheating at Design – Refactoring UI – Medium
• No forwarding phone number – Google Product Forums
• ODCB settings in the Windows registry on 32 and 64 bit windows
• Workaround for “Nmap 7.8 Assertion failed: htn.toclock_running == true” · Issue #1764 · nmap/nmap · GitHub
• Wanneer je TomTom XXL niet reageert op “Ga door”
• MacOS: starting Visual Studio Code from the finder
• Determine actual message size limit when you only get “552 5.3.4 Message size exceeds fixed limit”
• GitHub – alexmojaki/birdseye: Quick, convenient, expression-centric, graphical Python debugger using the AST
• In case I need JSONPath functionality in Delphi: grijjy/GrijjyFoundation@4ce069a · GitHub
• Workaround formulier inschrijven verhuizing naar Gemeente Leiden (@GemeenteLeiden en hun IT weten het al)
• python – How do I install pip on macOS or OS X? – Stack Overflow
• Optimizing BitBlt by generating code on the fly – The Old New Thing
• kugelfish: Google+ Migration – Part II: Understanding the Takeout Archive
• Root finding and linear programming in Delphi
• User Experience topics like “Why does Explorer use the term KB instead of KiB”
• macos – Upgrade all the casks installed via Homebrew Cask – Stack Overflow
• PC to TV HDMI image too large for screen – [Solved] – Graphics Cards
• Filezilla – keeping the filestamps on transferred files.
• Links over beoordeling psychodiagnostiek
• If I need to analyse power usage on my Android
• Postfix for relaying SMTP, some info about my own configuration
• How to Integrate ILMerge into Visual Studio Build Process to Merge Assemblies? – Stack Overflow
• Why should I hire a software engineer if I can just copy and paste code from Stack Overflow?
• Chocolatey and TLS since early 2020
• Display the relationships between formulas and cells – Excel
• The Delphi Geek: Data-driven Multithreading
• Nick Craver – Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment – 2016 Edition
• Fast-Forward »: My Lazarus External Tools (and Delphi External tools)
• Working around [Fatal error] F2084 Internal errors like AV101E53EB-R0000000C-0
• bash – How to add a progress bar to a shell script? – Stack Overflow
• Mounting a Time Machine backup under Linux so you can send it to Backblaze using Restic…
• Management 3.0 Practice: STAR Behavioral Interview Questions – Management 3.0
• Linux – How to Securely Copy Files Using SCP examples
• worksheet function – How to add or subtract to, or increment, column letters in Excel? – Super User
• MacOS: Checking a disk for bad blocks
• Some links on bind rndc
• Show the mmc and USB disks on a Raspberry Pi
• github – What is the current way to remove a git submodule? – Stack Overflow
• Current state: still fighting with rectum cancer, but chances for better quality of life
• Corona virus crisis humour research
• 0.30000000000000004.com
• Installing SourceTree 3.x for Windows on an air-gapped machine
• Bad surprise of the day: SysUtils.TEncoding in XE2+ defaults to ANSI, while in XE it defaulted to UTF-8.
• Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018 · fast.ai
• The last thing you need to do when you cause link rot is to list the page as “online banking is down”
• ssh – Why OpenSSH deprecated DSA keys – Information Security Stack Exchange
• Start Together. Finish Together – Hacker Noon
• MacOS: converting a man page to markdown
• command line – Recursive tar compression? – Ask Ubuntu
• GitHub – facebook/osquery: SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
• 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “the ip command… “
• In Unix, what are some common dot files?
• Mac OS X / macOS / …: quit screen or window when using it for a serial port
• Some tools useful for analysing PDF documents
• Multi-parameter FreeAndNil plus InitialiseNil methods – interesting code ceremony reduction by David Heffernan
• Abilities that makes you a better developer – Hacker Noon
• SMS Backup+ – Apps on Google Play
• Entwicklertag 2016: How Agile and OO have lost their way together – James Coplien – YouTube
• 18650 Battery shield V3(RaspberryPi&Arduino) from lspoplove on Tindie
• The Toxic Smog of the Information Age | Literary Hub
• Use SetString if your source memory reagion with characters is not null-terminated…
• Very nice “Appendix A. Introduction to TCP/IP security” on digests, hashing, encryption, asymetric/symmetric, VPN and much more
• Default Samsung TV network names are too long (:
• How to factory reset the OnePlus 2 – AndroidPIT
• homecomputerlab » Cisco 2511-RJ remote access terminal server
• Rebooting Apple TV 4k and 4
• Identifying a Raspberry Pi visually or by the cpuinfo
• R Notes for Professionals book
• GitHub – mgedmin/check-manifest: Tool to check the completeness of MANIFEST.in for Python packages
• What are the size restrictions for the VCL controls like TPanel and TPaintBox…
• Redirect Detective – A Free Tool To Trace Where Redirects End Up
• emulation – How to safely remove/uninstall Android Virtual Device .img files added by Visual Studio Emulator for Android – Stack Overflow
• What is the easiest way of getting Delphi to accept a newly added file as a frame and to treat it as such? – Stack Overflow
• Not all XSD mappings to programming language constructs are possible
• Delphi Conference 2018 – Barnsten.com
• One Story Per “Sprint” – John Cutler – Medium
• TInterlockedHelper for Delphi interfaces: Spring.Reactive.pas
• When you have physical access to a machine, assume it is compromised
• Tomato by shibby – upgrade procedure and cfg backup | LinksysInfo.org
• Which encoding failure did encode “vóór” into “v3/43/4r”? – Stack Overflow
• ESXi: Failed to reconfigure virtual machine… There are insufficient licenses to complete this operation.
• Swap and Memory Pressure: How Developers think to how Operations people think – The Isoblog.
• 5 Minutes Early Is On Time; On Time Is Late; Late Is Unacceptable
• Delphi memory allocators and configuration notes in multi-threaded environments with high allocation/deallocation rates
• More great free Python books
• Writing a Time Series Database from Scratch | Fabian Reinartz
• NuGet: migrate from packages.config to PackageReference with 3 clicks
• Mad With PowerShell
• Does anyone knows a existing implementation of bcrypt or scrypt for delphi?
• linux – Bash: Command grouping (&&, ||, …) – Stack Overflow
• Some interesting Delphi MVVM posts…
• Scott Hanselman on Twitter: Learn C# in your browser, no install! Practice your .NET skills on an ChromeBook if you like! Your choice!
• 100 km – how much needs to go into a tank? well2wheels/well to wheels (kWh).png at master · htc1977/well2wheels · GitHub
• Solved: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay – The Spotify Community
• When monitoring Windows service memory consumption from Zabbix and you get zeros
• Sometimes your day is brightened by a tweet that is much too kind
• multi-headed
• Happy Delphi 25th anniversary: follow hash tags #Delphi25 and #Delphi25th
• Use Preview to combine PDFs on your Mac – Apple Support
• Our Intuition Says… Instead, Try… – Hacker Noon
• Use the Visual Studio Code mssql extension for SQL Server | Microsoft Docs
• When a team uses IntegrationTest – always ask what they mean with the term
• Reminder to self: be aware of implicit setup/tear down code in methods
• Alex Thissen @ Techorama Netherlands 2018: Building real world production-ready Web API’s with .NET Core
• Michael Stapelberg: This soldering reference card from @adafruit is the most to-the-point explanation of good soldering practices I have ever seen
• Delphi desktop settings: .DST naming limitations and content similarity to .DSK files
• Catch Me If You Can: LLVM back-end cannot catch all exceptions
• The Hard Thing About (Not So) Hard Things – John Cutler – Medium
• Is there a keyboard shortcut to go to the next/previous compiler error in the current …
• Why you should not use localised operaring system versions
• A Map Of Wireless Passwords From Airports And Lounges Around The World (Updated Regularly) – foXnoMad
• GitHub – synack/knockknock: Who’s there?
• ICY DOCK SATA/SAS Hot Swap Wechselrahmen für 16x: AmazonSmile: Computer & Zubehör
• Wasemkap op ventilatiesysteem? – Installatie.nl
• How to remove a 3M Adhesive Pad Dash-Cam or Helmet-Cam Mount – YouTube
• Why does HRESULT begin with H when it’s not a handle to anything? – The Old New Thing
• Delphi Berlin and up without disabled Castalia: Use Ctrl+W to select content in the IDE code editor. Place your curso…
• Check your PHP project for known security issues – SensioLabs Security Advisories Checker
• Why Your Team Is Not Working as a Team – The Startup – Medium
• The magic Delphi ReturnAddress intrinsic
• I love installers that can download and install in parallel threads….
• Delphi: Bezier in FMX
• TL;DR: Raspberry Pi models 1..3 become hotter and hotter under load; no housing gives best cooling.
• Those nice User Experiences: two shortcuts binding to Alt-O on the Dutch Windo…
• Managing sendmail TLS authenticated users
• Fixing “one or more critical volumes is not having enough free space” also known as 0x81000033 during Windows backup
• Error “30029-1001” – Google Search; when installing Office 365 language packs
• Happlink / PlugUp died, but you can still use their U2F USB key
• When storing huge files under NTFS compression, ensure you have twice the disk space
• Sunsetting Mercurial support in Bitbucket – Bitbucket
• Why TimeZone and leap periods are such a pain
• Some ideas on using DataSnap as a data-conversion layer between two systems
• Import and Export Registered SQL Servers To Other Machines: don’t bother.
• Do I really need to write a WordPress API wrapper to check the status of “missed schedule” posts?
• OMF, COFF and the 32-bit/64-bit Delphi or C++ compilers
• Exporting / importing ODBC DSNs (both System and User)
• DPI aware Vcl applications and use Vcl Styles
• Dependencies
• How to run Troubleshooter in Windows 10 from the command line
• Hamburger menu character on unicode: use U+2261 instead of U+2630
• GitHub – Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds: A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire temporary AWS credentials
• Mapping US-English Keyboard keys to Turkish
• Windows – chance display/screen/monitor resolution from the console
• Richard P Feynman – FUN TO IMAGINE (full)
• Viewing certbot installed certificates and their expiry dates
• If your tool depends on others, at least search for them…
• Of Course Psychological Safety…But How? – John Cutler – Medium
• Delphi developer switching to C# – Stack Overflow
• Delphi / Visual Studio build events: xcopy exit code 9009; ensure your PATH indeed includes the Windows directories
• Bloemencorso Bollenstreek vanwege warme winters voortaan een week eerder | NOS
• CSS Animation How To Tutorial – Dev Tuts
• The intrinsic factory pattern that every Delphi programmer uses
• Today’s Organizations Waste Talent. Here’s How To Change That. | Corporate Rebels
• Delphi, compiler intrinsics and generic type matching
• Some things I learned from “Git tips and tricks | GitLab”
• How to change the control of a Somfy RTS roller blind from 2 to 1 remote – Projectionscreen.net
• OpenSuSE: location of cron jobs
• SpaceX: Task failed successfully
• Delphi: A few notes on tracking down a use-after free related issue involving interfaces crashing inside System._IntfClear.
• Always use SCSI for your VM guest disks – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
• Tweaking4All.com – Topics – Delphi – How to change the font of a hint window
• Waze “Isolated segment – all turns from it are closed” – Google Search
• XW6600 WOL – stopped working on Windows 10 – my trusty APC PDU to the rescue
• Famous Songs in Slightly Odd Time Signatures – A Guide to Rhythms – The Evil Jam
• visual studio code – Does the “editorWhitespace.foreground” workbench.colorCustomizations setting in VSCode actually work? – Stack Overflow
• Delphi – BDE to FireDAC: pack table, regenerate index – Stack Overflow
• Mad With PowerShell: FileInfo and DirectoryInfo objects are not populated upon creation in PowerShell
• ρσℓα¢ķ͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌ on Twitter : “The PowerShell console history file isn’t just useful for DFIR peeps, red team-ers should check it too! 4096 entries by default, here’s the path…”
• Drawbacks for separating TDS/TD32 symbol information in separate file for your Delphi applications? What about Visual Studio?
• How Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future | Innovation | Smithsonian
• Debugging a stackexchange memory leak while transitioning to .NET Core: by @Nick_Craver
• Delphi Datasnap: How to know the name of the methods called by client in delphi datasnap server?
• I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.
• CSL Bearware 302658 DCF clock manual
• New-Age Bullshit Generator and other “sources” of New Age
• a perf cheat sheet from @brendangregg’s fantastic web page;  you can print it as PDF
• UX design: doe geen pijltje onderaan een pagina als verder scrollen zinloos is
• Commander One review: A superior alternative to Android File Transfer on Mac
• Some people still don’t know they should apply the Crucial Firmware Update For Crucial m4 SSD BSOD
• Getting the up to date project source code from the IDE – Dave’s Development Blog
• Joseph Redmon: How computers learn to recognize objects instantly | TED Talk | TED.com
• Python – list transformation; string formatting – Stack Overflow
• TFreedObject in FastMM4/FastMM4.pas at master · pleriche/FastMM4 · GitHub
• Crosscompiling with Lazarus 1.8 on Linux Mint 18.3 | The Programming Works
• Mads Kristensen on Twitter: “Visual Studio Tip: A blue dot in the margin indicates a switch of threads while stepping through debugging. #vstip… “
• Use PiServer to easily set up a network of client Raspberry Pi clients connected to a single x86-based server via Ethernet.
• VCL FadingEffect by Paul Toth at GitHub
• samsung “software update” “this function is not available” – Google Search
• Reminder to check out the Pascal source code for Apple’s legendary Lisa operating system
• The Throttle homepage. Slow that machine down!
• Im memoriam: Rudy Velthuis
• Brilliant device: iPazzPort Wireless Mini Handheld Keyboard with Touchpad Mouse Combo for Android TV Box and Raspberry Pi 3 and HTPC and XBMC KP-810-19S – Black: Computers & Accessories
• elektronica-shop.nl :Montagedraad.html
• Apple Mac OS X / OS X / macOS versions and history graphs – Wikipedia
• python – Why does “return list.sort()” return None, not the list? – Stack Overflow
• Delphi Programming Blog (by Shaun Roselt): Delphi Communties on: WhatsApp, Telegram, Google+, Facebook
• GitHub – Libaud/POLCLVCLISO: Pascal Object LCL and VCL ISO standards implementation for CodeTyphon, Delphi, Lazarus
• Using a main check __main__ to call a main function in Python
• How to make a self extracting archive runs your setup.exe, 7zip -sfx
• Delphi multi-threading: confused by TThread.Synchronize / TThread.Queue? You’re not alone. And you need to be aware of exceptions there too.
• from old school to new frontier: Pattern, naming and MVVM from a Delphi point of view.
• Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange graphically explained – Wikipedia/Computerphile
• Simplicity • Stuff that Happens: What can we learn about usability…
• Delphi, decoding files to strings and finding line endings: some links, some history on Windows NT and UTF/UCS encodings
• How to text from your computer with Android Messages – The Verge
• IRL Glasses – Glasses that Block Screens by Ivan Cash — Kickstarter
• Apple Mac OS X / MacOS: Dock keeps moving between monitors | Official Apple Support Communities
• Meet Inrupt: for a decentralized web and new data ownership model
• Bosch vaatwasser storing E22
• Mode – from the DOS era, still works in Windows
• Amazon contact URLs: USA, UK, DE, ES
• Delphi: Why is there no class procedure TArray.Sort(Keys: array of T; var Values: array of T; const Comparer: IComparer);
• Sasha Laundy on Twitter: “The best debugger ever made is a good night’s sleep.”
• Delphi 10.1.2 Berlin: after ….
• Flexible and Economical UTF-8 Decoder
• Pythonic
• Idea: managing a garage door with a modified Marantec switch, some sensors and Raspberry Pi
• Delphi and generics: some examples of “E2015: Operator not applicable to this operand type”
• Michel Portasse auf Twitter: “Daarom:… “
• Top 2000 café 2019 – Alle informatie op een rij – NPO Radio 2 – Presentatoren, producers/sidekicks, nieuwslezers en tijden
• imagemagick – Command line convert webp to jpg? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• Justin O’Beirne – interesting comparisons of various Maps services
• Walts Lede – the disappearing computer.
• Best practices how to mitigate #Emotet
• OTT Box == Over-the-top media services – Wikipedia
• Offline XML Pretty Print
• Magic SysRq key – Wikipedia
• Examining Cross-functionality Bias on Software Development Teams | AgileConnection
• “A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.” – Niklaus Wirth
• Delphi: 2 things to check when FMX/VCL units are inserted when you use VCL/FMX components
• IOTAProjectNotifier.Modified notifies when when Project Options have changed…
• Visual Studio Code: enable Python debugging and selecting the Python version used
• Great quote destructors in Delphi development…
• shell – Should I put #! (shebang) in Python scripts, and what form should it take? – Stack Overflow
• InplaceExeWrapper for those tools that do not allow specifying an output file – twm’s blog
• Delphi: “Override method %s.%s should match case of ancestor %s.%s (H2365)”
• Ziggo Amsterdam Osdorp de Aker: netwerk-ID 4444, frequentie 164000, Modulatie 64QAM, Symboolfrequentie 6900
• if you allow users to register email addresses on your domain, make sure they can’t get: admin@ administrator@ hostmaster@…
• CHMOD – Applying Different Permissions For Files vs. Directories – Server Fault
• Altnernatives for Ethernet Adapter for Chromecast – Google Store
• regex – How to write a search pattern to include a space in findstr? – Stack Overflow
• Hiding your number when calling from an Android phone
• Borland’s legendary development tools…
• Every programmer should read this at their own pace: From design patterns to category theory
• Delphi ^A syntax: Documented, implied, or undocumented? – Stack Overflow
• Exceptional Safety
• Node-RED
• Delphi/GDIPBitmap at master · tothpaul/Delphi · GitHub
• The ARC vs non-ARC situation adds yet another layer of complexity to creating cross platform code…
• If you have a gripe with nested if-then-else statements in any language, then usually it’s time to refactor some code…
• On my watch list: This is how microservices should be designed…
• Not sure why: ChromeCast on Harman Kardon BDS 580 series to Samsung MU6100 gives greenish tint
• Digitally Free: Censor An Image In GIMP
• The Secret of Great Gradient – UX Planet
• R.I.P. Mark Blomsma, R.I.P. Pepijn Smits
• Making ISO images of MacOS installers
• Google Sites for your domain: map the domain root to a site
• Need to research eternal “Establishing connection to your Google Cloud Shell”; gcp – Google Cloud Shell does not start – Stack Overflow
• Playing around with semantic typing in Oxygene: https://github.com/carlokok/…
• RAD Studio Custom Editor Sub-views – Dave’s Development Blog
• Video: How does IT work? – Bol.com Techlab
• Ingo Philipp on Twitter: “Top ten songs for #testers and #developers at #StarWest. I suggest “I see fire” (Ed Sheeran).… “
• Since RAD Studio 10.2.2 introduced IDE theming, are there any guides…
• Hopefully one day there will be `git submodule remove`
• Thomas Mueller’s Open Source Projects
• Automated clicking on HTML elements – Chee Wee’s blog
• bash: converting numbers to human readable SI or IEC units
• “There was a problem starting C:\Program” “The specified module could not be found.”
• Blast from the past: dial-up modem sounds
• Windows XP Pro won’t boot, safe mode boot hangs at agp440.sys – Microsoft Community
• Wirk-, Blind- und Scheinleistung auch für Nicht-Elektroniker
• Learn so say ‘No’: ‘No’ your way to trust workshop
• How to make a pocket grill | DIY projects for everyone!
• sql server – I need a slow query on AdventureWorks (SQL 2005) – Stack Overflow
• delphi – Spring4D: Why is list of type TObjectList freed automatically after iteration? – Stack Overflow
• Git: Push a new or existing repo to Github · GitHub
• Chrome 78 update at least to 78.0.3904.108 to access saved passwords
• Delphi: IOTASourceEditor uses UTF8, so conversions are needed to/from regular strings
• How to Send Emails with Gmail using Python
• windows – How do I limit MS SQL Server memory usage? – Server Fault
• some links on bash and optional parameters
• GitHub – NickRing/Delphi-Shortcut-Finder: Shows/find keyboard short-cuts have be assigned, that may be conflicting.
• Forticlient “the user might login in another computer”, never found the cause
• For my link archive: IPVoid.com
• rpm – Suse: Restore Packages List from /var/adm/backup/rpmdb/Packages-20160323 .gz – Server Fault
• macos – How can I modify the list of Applications under ‘Open With…’? – Ask Different
• NeverSSL – helping you get online
• Removing “Workbook Contains Macros” Prompt – Free Excel\VBA Help Forum
• ALTER DATABASE Compatibility Level (Transact-SQL) | Microsoft Docs
• Unorthodocs: Abandon your DVCS and Return to Sanity – bitquabit
• Scopes and names can really be deceiving. A classes in a hierarchy can have members with identical names…
• Any idea what exactly mean …licensed to test ??? My Delphi is…
• xargs compressing lots of files using xz
• git tag – How to delete a git remote tag? – Stack Overflow
• [Delphi] Delphi JSON Reformatter (text or html output) – Pastebin.com
• Return empty cell from formula in Excel – Stack Overflow
• Angle brackets in markdowndown needs to be escaped
• How to change the User Account Control (UAC) level in Windows | Digital Citizen
• Download Earlier Versions of Office: 2010/2013
• Intense Asymmetry and Self-Flagellation – @ASmartBear – WP Engine
• ÜberPDF printing using a Delphi like canvas
• 4 Ways to Jazz-up Product Descriptions (without Hype) | Practical Ecommerce
• Fixing bind named messages like `lame-servers: network unreachable resolving ‘c.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN’: 2001:500:127::30#53`
• SQL Server Downloads | Microsoft
• Great Innovators Start with Customer Struggles (Not Customer Needs)
• TTreeView: when HideSelection=True, use SetFocus() to update the current Selected state
• Links to alternatives for Delphi REST clients
• MeanWell Mini Switching Power Supplies May Be Useful for Development Boards
• A multi index container: TIndexedStore – Martin C Harvey’s Software Pages
• Links to debugging COM stuff for Office Automation in Delphi
• Working in a team? DprojSplitter might be helpful! | The Art of Delphi Programming
• PowerShell: fixing `Get-HotFix` having empty `InstalledOn` entries
• Aansprakelijkheid – AG Connect
• How to Extract a Number or Text from Excel with this Function
• Incidents, fixes, and the day after – Booking.com Infrastructure – Medium
• Resize a table in Word or PowerPoint for Mac – Office Support
• 20 Cool Command Line Tricks for Windows and macOS
• 55 Questions to Break the Ice Better than typical conversation openers like, “What do you do?”
• Tech Debt by MonkeyUser
• UMass Amherst CICS Distinguished Lecture: Daniel Jackson (MIT) “Towards a Theory of Software Design”
• How to convert a Delphi enum or set to a JSON value, with different specific values…
• Software quality: economics of formality
• Changing the order of TabSheets in a PageControl in Delphi – twm’s blog
• Fast Good Cheap
• Next up: TPDFPrinter and TPDFCanvas Expect a high paced (and easy) update cy…
• The Channel9 programming languages guys to watch: Eric and Erik
• When whas the global FormatSettings variable deprecated?
• How can I view a file in the @plasticscm webUI? I tried from changeset view, but clicking on a file does nothing. When looking in the Chrome developer tools, I see an error 500 which is not surfaced to the UI.…
• Meeting Ticker – the real cost of a meeting visualised
• Netgate SG-3100 is an ARM based pfSense Firewall Appliance
• Maatvoering metselwerk
• Don’t leave for the UK without this.
• ZeroShell Firewall/Router Linux Distribution Works on x86 Hardware, Raspberry Pi 2/3, & (Some) Orange Pi Boards
• .NET: IHostedService – hosting services inside any .NET process
• Before using the PPL, I need to check to see if a few things have been fixed yet
• SQL code smells
• Public database servers
• Dixin’s Blog – Use Fiddler with Node.js
• Antipatterns in software development, architecture and management
• E2398 Class methods in record types must be static (Delphi) – RAD Studio
• Sparkle and WinSparkle – frameworks to update your applications on Apple Mac OS X / MacOS and Windows.
• BNNVARA – De Wereld Draait Door – Boek: Beginnen over het einde – Henk en Nina Blanken
• Spring4d Marshmallow ORM – ensuring the right identifier quoting is used
• Delphi code completion fail with anonymous methods – Stack Overflow
• TestDisk, Data Recovery; free and open source
• Taking short 5m breaks throughout the day isn’t such a bad idea at all…
• 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!”
• cancer awareness month: always follow up on changed bowel habits
• Blocklist Collection ¦ Firebog
• Using Chrome on Windows with a different proxy server than the system one (which is used by Internet Explorer)
• CSP and bookmarklets
• use the JVCL’s TJvXxxAppStorage to store float values as strings while controlling the decimal separator…
• OpenSuSE: the relation between /etc/var/named.d and /var/lib/named
• When the Delphi IDE gets slow…
• Spring4D and factory – for my link archive
• Reminder to self: check progress on Delphi helper requests
• When LinkedIn throws HTTP result code 999 at you it means it does not like you
• Dokumentation Wie aus Hass Liebe wird. Carola Köhntopp – PDF
• DelphiSpringTrees – Trees in Spring4D
• Some links on Agile Games
• Omrekenen van eenheden/Keuken – Wikibooks
• AnyDesk remote desktop – on my list of things to test
• “Error: Xcode alone is not sufficient on Sierra.”
• WayBack machine now rate limits your requests and blocks if you go over it
• Reminder to politicians: concrete blocks do not help against trucks
• Sam Knutson on Twitter: ““Every piece of equipment is shipped from the factory able to successfully complete n power cycles and you only find out n at n+1” Anonymous IBM Customer Engineer (CE)… 
• Researchers “unblur” images to gain access to Bitcoin wallet. The lesson here…
• My code of conduct – Marcin Juszkiewicz
• The Delphi System.Exit “Function”
• How to debug small programs
• delphi – How to set form height larger than 1096 pixels? (or width > 1620 pixels)- Stack Overflow
• Some Delphi settings require you to run with an Administrative UAC token
• SSCCE, MWE and MCVE are basically the same: provide code people can use to reproduce a problem
• Sprints, marathons and root canals and Brady Printed Lean Labels – for lean development
• IBM 1980 Pascal manuals
• Design Patterns aren’t the goal, especially if you can cover the pattern with a language feature
• heise online tech Quizes
• Bill Scannell on Twitter: Locked-out of a medical record after 60 seconds, becausesecurity?
• Run a batch file when a user connects to a session
• List of Android Secret Codes – I’m programmer
• Shortcut to old WordPress.com blog administration tools
• .NET Core 2.0 reaches end of life, no longer supported by Microsoft | Packt Hub
• Some links on SQL parsing
• Great video “Why Functional Programming Matters”, by Ted Neward on getting started with Functional Programming
• Teach Yourself C++ in 21 days…
• Gitless: a simple version control system built on top of http://gitless.com/
• “Real Options” Underlie Agile Practices
• KPN vernieuwt abonnementen voor vast en mobiel internet, tv en bellen – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers
• “Use TXSxxxx classes for simple nillable types”
• Git man-page generator (“Git is easy to learn”)
• Many Computer Science concepts do not apply to Enterprise Applications
• But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction. – YouTube
• Setting Up a New Mac: Should You Migrate or Do a Clean Installation? | The Mac Security Blog
• How to access a BitLocker-encrypted drive in Ubuntu 16.04?
• Excel on Mac OS X / macOS: character that sorts after Z
• Fastener Reference Cheat Sheets, by @pighixxx | #ManufacturingMonday
• Excel Pivot notes: Table, Pivot Formula, 2D, 3D charts and secondary axes.
• How to properly cleanup/shutdown a Delphi ISAPI (which uses Threads) | Mathias Pannier programmiert
• Delphi; on my research list `Error creating form: Root class not found: “”.`
• Ubiquity: The End of (Numeric) Error
• How to break a Monolith into Microservices
• Terminate threads during application or not?
• The Myth of Advanced TDD
• Microservices – Please, don’t | Basho Technologies
• Enabling IIS log files on Windows 7
• ApexSQL, a free tool (SSMS add-in) for analyzing the execution plan of a SQL server query…
• Chronological Facebook
• Readable weekdays in Excel
• Meeting Agreements for High Performing Teams – Noteworthy — The Journal Blog
• Sony STR-DE205 Receiver – storing FM stations into memory
• Running a feature branch from the letsencrypt certbot
• zabbix on Windows: check the configuration before restarting the Zabbix Agent service
• Soap Delphi Client end with a timeout for a 1MB call – Stack Overflow
• does anyone know of any Spring.Container examples (preferably non trivial) th…
• Boolean Values and Operators
• How to expose a Delphi set type via Soap – Stack Overflow
• PowerShell: count the Windows EventLog entries for Applications over the last 10 minutes
• On my research list: TensorFlow from other languages
• SchipholWatch op Twitter: “Met app Explane uw klacht naar BAS sturen? https://t.co/i2P5qfVFZN”
• Convert an object instance into a JSON string and making use of custom attributes – Flix Engineering
• Kornelia Esser : Traueranzeige
• Fork – a fast and friendly git client for Mac
• Research list: haproxy and Connection: close
• Skin effect – Wikipedia
• [APP][MOD]OGYouTube v1.2 Downloader, Popup/Background/ScreenOff Playback
• 28 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns – Agile Transition
• Outlook 2013 cannot logon to gmail any more
• Google YouTube Keyboard Shortcuts – Windows – U-M Google
• Dave’s Development Blog – Using CodeSite on interfaced objects
• Hi, We need to implement a functionality in our VCL application where the user…
• LED Voltage Drops
• Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure
• GitHub – ultraware/DelphiGrpc: DelphiGrpc is a Delphi implementation of the realtime and streaming gRPC protocol (http://grpc.io).
• Why prod is down…
• PyGotham keynote: The Other Async (Threads + Async = ❤️)
• Using Image Encoders and Decoders in Managed GDI+ | Microsoft Docs
• GExperts: Copy Component Names
• Delphi: when calling TThread.Synchronize, ensure the synchronised method handles exceptions
• Route traffic from one port via VPN – MikroTik
• Eigenes DynDNS mit Bind und Apache – CupRacer.de
• Blast from the TomsHardware past – Stress Test: Power Supplies Under Full Load
• Crowdsourcing App-Translation with in-app message – Christoph Wiesner – Medium
• How to start up your Mac in Internet Recovery Mode
• Happy Day of the Programmer!
• What went wrong with the IT industry? Some interesting thoughts on other industries coping with complexity…
• Delphi / Stefan Glienke: I looked into IntroSort … and the Microsoft implementation … Here is my current implementation
• C# (and presumably Delphi): why parameterless record constructors are absent
• delphi: you can only access protected identifiers from parent classes in your own “Self” scope, or when you are “friends” with your parent (so you are in the same unit)
• Bouncer – Temporary App Permissions (Beta) – Apps on Google Play
• Firebird: RDB$RELATIONS.RDB$RELATION_TYPE and when it can be null
• Is there a way to use the JVCL’s TJvXxxAppStorage to store float values as s…
• MS Paint IDE
• GitHub – slikts/js-equality-game: The Worst Minesweeper 💣 Ever
• What do the three arrow (“>>>”) signs mean in python?
• Jim Rohn: You’re The Average Of The Five People You Spend The Most Time With – Business Insider
• Two Principles for Scaling Any Agile Approach – Spikes And Stories
• Linux command shows a list of all subdirectories that contain a least one .xml file – Thomas Mueller
• xs4all, vaste IP adressen en reverse DNS
• BMW E46: cleaning out the internal cabin air temperature sensor
• E46 radio Siemens VDO Business CD – aux tutorial, complete description
• Stack Exchange – stackoverflow OpenID
• Money quote: “Reliability is valued far more than new features”
• Firebird 3.x SQL Language Changes
• Every time I try, I’m reminded of: You Don’ t Know JavaScript
• Python “NameError: name ‘socket’ is not defined”
• Early version of Apple II Logo. · PDP-10/its-vault@4145dea · GitHub
• python multithreading wait till all threads finished
• “Functional programmer: (noun) One who names variables ‘x’, names functions ‘f’, and names code patterns ‘zygohistomorphic prepromorphism.’” — James Iry on Twitter
• How to Install Node.js and NPM on a Mac
• how to filter name/value pairs under a registry key by name and value in PowerShell?
• Python: variables in the class scope are class, not instance
• CSS flex-box layout – Wikipedia
• Your Yearly Reminder That You Can DIY a Cheap, Easy Window De-Icer
• Exploring Line Lengths in Python Packages
• BPM Database
• PSA: If your Google Opinions app stopped sending you… • r/Android
• Getting Things Done with Google – Macadamian
• Links for another crazy idea: superimpose lane availability indicators on Google Maps
• Writing solid code the NASA way. – Lars Fosdal – Google+
• SQL Fiddle | A tool for easy online testing and sharing of database problems and their solutions.
• Structure and Interpretation of Test Cases : Kevlin Henney on Vimeo
• Passing multiple parameters to a Python method: the * tag
• Counting rows for all tables in Firebird
• git add remote with tracking
• « In practice, the uptime of systems that favor availability have not proven …
• …short presentation at the Norway Delphi Club[1] meetup, covering some fun and interesting uses of the “new” language features introduce since Delphi7… – Asbjørn Heid – Google+
• How to Update All Your Ruby Gems At Once | Life, the Universe, and Everything
• There are still sites limiting password lengt to low values like 20 or 15. Don’t!
• Herbie Mann – Push Push 1971
• Help:Links – MediaWiki
• Some FindStr links
• Signal messaging downloads
• Google Dataset Search
• Delphi Ensuring Left/alLeft or Top/alTop controls are positioned in the right order…
• Mapping Ecosystems of Software Development – Stack Overflow Blog
• Delphi built-in data types and their memory sizes
• Delphi generic nested classes
• Turbo Pascal 7 compatible compiler for 8051 microcontrollers…
• Some Markdown links on phrasing more difficult markdown for correct rendering
• Python line continuation: only use backslash if it gives cleaner code
• … compare two JSON structures and pin-point … the differences – – Nicholas Ring – Google+
• Enable/Disable Windows 10 “tray” notification area icons
• THE PRINT VERSION
• Windows: running “mklink” as Administrator “You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation.”
• When archiving in the WayBack machine returns error 400: clear your cookies
• Excel on Mac OS X: Insert, move, or delete page breaks in a sheet
• Is This the Life We Really Want? : Roger Waters : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
• TestInsight provides a local JSON web-server from the IDE for the test-runner to communicate from
• When Powershell function won’t work: you define them with commas and parentheses, but call them with spaces and no parentheses
• Delphi, SHA-3 and streaming
• Visual Studio Code direct download links
• PowerShell: be careful using `-ReadCount` on `Get-Content`
• What is ‘if __name__ == “__main__”‘ for?
• QualityCentral 56524: tanh function from Delphi 7 till Delphi XE was buggy; XE2 fixed it
• Powershell: what kind of data type is [string[]] and when would you use it?
• (53) Introducing the “Lab in a Box” Concept – Patrick Titiano & Kevin Hilman, BayLibre – YouTube
• O&O ShutUp10
• Zabbix agent and long running scripts: Timeout parameter in zabbix_agentd.conf
• When an installer errors out with “Please re-run this installer as a normal user instead of”…
• PlasticSCM console
• Periodic Table of Motion
• Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless: Debunking the Network QoS myth
• NativeInt / NativeUInt type in various Delphi versions – twm’s blog
• Using PE Flags in Delphi – twm’s blog
• The 14 JavaScript debugging tips you probably didn’t know | Raygun
• Inactive GUI applications: click once or twice to perform an action within the application
• This is why I try to avoid C, as it means handling code from others that shoot in foots
• More on new .NET path handling – Jeremy Kuhne’s Blog
• GitHub – Purik/AIO: Coroutine-based multithreading library for Delphi
• 28800 Embarcadero DBX ADO.NET 2.0 driver for InterBase (version 17.0)
• Delphi XE2: IDE out of memory problem? Check the library path length
• Please web-site owners (including memori.nl, sandsmedia.com, and many others): allow plus signs in email addresses when registering/contacting
• Fabric, Cuisine and Watchdog for server administration in Python
• IKEA TRÅDFRI lamps [1] when equipped with Firmware >= 1.2.217 integrate with Philips Hue and vice versa…
• Microsoft Windows 10 English 1903 and 1809 download links
• VMware Converter downloads
• sebastien/sink: Swiss army knife for directory comparison and synchronization
• Some git versus PlasticSCM comparisons
• Cable salad is of all times: 1964 analog computers; Moog syntesizers
• .NET and PowerShell: Getting proper version info from a PE file like EXE, DLL, assembly
• New in 10.2.2: Component icons – Community Blogs – Embarcadero Community
• It’s a blong, blong, blong road…: ‘What if?’ scenario analysis in the CPU window
• Ternary operator in PowerShell – Stack Overflow
• Sometimes a race condition is in just two lines of code
• scripting – Run Multiple Powershell Scripts Sequentially – on a Folder – Combine Scripts into a Master Script – Stack Overflow
• What’s New In Python 3.0
• My website is marked as unsafe. How can I change this? | Facebook Help Community
• Logging to syslog on a VMware ESXi machine
• logging – Where is “/var/log/messages” on mac-osx? – Server Fault
• Basically, all Harman Kardon amplifiers (including subwoofers) show power supply issues after a few years
• Convert cURL command syntax to Python requests, Node.js code
• Transferring files from a Linux console: transfer.sh and anypaste.xyz
• Delphi dcc32 error E2506 Method of parameterized type declared in interface section must not use local symbol ‘TExceptionThread`1’
• Intellectual Property for Engineers (mostly USA law, but general ideas apply a lot wider)
• powershell – How do I use join-path to combine more than two strings into a file path? – Stack Overflow
• Some links on code metrics
• delphi – Why variables are declared as TStrings and created as TStringList? – Stack Overflow
• PowerShell script header to be as strict as possible and always throw exceptions
• Laptop fan profiling, and debugging them – related to Profiling | CommitStrip
• Namespaces in Delphi – Stack Overflow
• DTW-DanWard/PowerShell-Beautifier: A whitespace reformatter and code cleaner for Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core
• CAA Mandated by CA/Browser Forum | Qualys Blog
• UPC Cable Modem / Ziggo Connect Box / Compal CH7465LG · Issue #122 · reverse-shell/routersploit
• 4045348048198 – 500 Sheets A4 80 GSM 4 Hole Punched White Multiuse – MERCATEO.nl
• RP-SMA dummy loads for nonadjustable WiFi devices and Adjust Fritz!Box WiFi power – via Knowledge Base | AVM International
• Technical debt: “taking shortcuts leads to long-term bleeding…”
• Many words to use instead of “very” in English – ESL Buzz, ProofReadingServices
• delphi – How to hide the inherited TObject constructor while the class has overloaded ones? – Stack Overflow
• How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases · Mathias Bynens
• PowerShell: Format-Table to show all columns/members
• Threads are not the answer | CompuTruthing
• Tweaked TStringBuilder in FastCode is now 2x faster than the stock…
• PowerShell: the issues you bump into when using Get-Counter and Measure-Object aggregation
• Delphi RTTI Context limitation: not thread safe for method RTTI
• Design Patterns & Refactoring
• PowerShell: $args variable outer scope has command-line arguments – about_Automatic_Variables | Microsoft Docs
• Not sure why yet, but sometimes ping and nslookup cannot reverse lookup a machine by IPv4, but tracert can
• Sonoff Wireless Switch Family Gets a $3 IP66 Waterproof Enclosure
• ESXi Embedded Host Client
• Reminder to self: MacOS prints to HP printers using IPP on port 631
• No IPMI? Use a Raspberry Pi to remotely control the power of your computer
• Government & Govt Owned – Netherlands – Phishing Scorecard
• Tech Notes: TypeScript at Google
• Visual Studio: show whitespace and configure spaces instead of tabs
• PowerShell: get WindowsUpdate information
• esxi listing usb devices on host console: lsusb
• XKCD – Making Progress: lots of problems
• PowerShell “Set-ExecutionPolicy” via the registry
• Thread around DCEF3 leaking memory, but DCEF4 doesn’t taught me to look at madExcept for memory leak checking too
• David A. Koontz on Twitter: “Software – so many options” – rethink SOLID
• Applesauce – Make exact images of copy-protected Apple II floppy disks | Hacker News
• Colored text output in PowerShell console using ANSI / VT100 codes – Stack Overflow
• +Stefan Glienke​ at EKON21: I don’t count sheep, I count references.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader download locations: a quick note
• One of my better gadget purchases: The Fiio A1 portable headphone amp. I was…
• Yeller – The Worst Server Setup Mistake You Can Make
• A COM Object Collection (IEnumVARIANT) – Delphi Tips – CJC Delphi (Cool Delphi Tips)
• Web Audio Modem
• Delphi Galileo IDE (version 8 and up): Force files to be saved as UTF8 – The Oracle at Delphi
• [dcc32 Warning] “W1025 Unsupported language feature: ‘operator explicit’”
• Geek And Poke: The New Developer
• JS developers discover the char code for space is the same ASCII code for all browsers.
• [RSP-19007] Form ScaleConstraints Fail – Embarcadero Technologies
• Interesting thread on how to approach Hi-DPI and DPI changes with FMX in Delphi
• As true today as it was when the book was written. “The psychology of computer programming” by @JerryWeinberg, 1971.
• Windows: running a batch file during logon of a single or all users
• Introduction to Snapshots/Rollback with Snapper | ActiveDoc
• SequoiaView Homepage
• MMX Needs New Icons – Are You Willing To Help? – MMX
• Grandparents on my mothers side
• Windows Security From The Ground Up — Decent Security
• ServiceDependencyViewer
• Excel: printing top row on every page, and including grid
• Solid State vs. Electromechanical Relays | Arrow.com
• The Delphi compiler has a hard time coping with circular unit references
• Calculating CRC with a tiny (32 entry) lookup-table | Lentz family blog
• Supreme / Pearl Drums – Animal | Soundslice
• Binding git diff to Beyond Compare
• Unicode ligatures: not all software does normalised search forgetting ffi 
• Why Isn’t Agile Working? – Hacker Noon
• Cool new Twitter account that warns about a free book when it appears: Packt Free Learning (@packtfreebook) | Twitter
• WouterVanNifterick/C-To-Delphi: C To Delphi converter
• missing TPopupMenu feature: checking for visibility
• Enable remote desktop on Windows – SystemPropertiesRemote.exe
• How to take a nap
• PlantUML Pleasantness: Change Line Style And Color – Messages from mrhaki
• Happy 40th birthday to Infocom, founded today in 1979!! #Infocom #TextAdventures #OTD
• Refactoring Pro-Tip: Terrible code is not a good excuse to be mean, because terrible code is not well-correlated with having been written by terrible people.
• List of applications behind the various control panel links – via “Stop user access to control panel”
• Is it possible to comment out lines of diagram syntax? – PlantUML Q&A
• How to find and play Google.com’s secret adventure game – The Verge
• Stugge kabel probleem – Netwerken – GoT
• To use the – undocumented – GetItCmd.exe CLI version of the GetIt package manager, run rsvars.bat first – via G+
• How to test if an executable exists in the %PATH% from a windows batch file? – Stack Overflow
• Splitting user settings from your Delphi projects:  DprojSplitter by Uwe Raabe
• Some links about the TCP SACK PANIC attacks on Linux and FreeBSD Kernels
• SQL Server 8060 row size query limit
• Pattern: Service Mesh
• Relays and Arduino / ESP8266 / ESP8266X
• Switching Delphi XML DOM vendors
• Because FTDI history: Why is the atmega chip reset three times during programming? – Arduino Stack Exchange
• Desktop Duplication API in Delphi – CodeProject
• Varios DELL machines having an unknown device ACPI\DELLABC6 – it is the WiFi switch support – via Dell Community
• I’ve given up on entering non-ASCII characters when entering data on-line
• syntax – Comments in Markdown – Stack Overflow
• Copy the full path of a file from Windows Explorer
• CitiZen nmap output
• The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection in Excel
• DelphiTips/RecordProperty at master · tothpaul/DelphiTips · GitHub
• Powering Raspberry Pi – schematics
• Compression Decompressed | The website of Jack Preston, Computerer
• Using escape characters in GExperts Grep replace – twm’s blog
• Firebird CASE construct
• Cyclomatic Complexity of switch case statement – Stack Overflow
• JWT authentication with Delphi
• Even perpetual Delphi licenses require an active maintenance support or contacting the Sales/Renewal team to allow re-install on a fresh machine
• A (sad) security user story – The Isoblog.
• Githunt – Chrome Web Store – discover new github projects in your technology area of interest
• “Nobody” Can Ping My Windows 10 Computer
• ms office – Keyboard shortcut to select all text in a cell in Excel – Ask Different
• Did Apple remove dashboard in MacOS Catalina? – Appleosophy
• macos – User account no longer in ‘admin’, how to recover? – Ask Different
• When %windir%Temp is filling up your disk: some notes
• ls colour codes on OpenSuSE tumbleweed when accessed from Mac OS X ssh
• Re-read “I am looking for a good replacement for INI files for storing large/complex configuration”
• What not to estimate: defects, spikes and (in during sprint planning): stories.
• Working with big data databases in Delphi – Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB (Part 3 of 3) – grijjy blog
• windows – How to simulate drop-down form in Delphi? – Stack Overflow
• Friday Deploys, and other harmful BOFH memes – The Isoblog.
• GrijjyCloudLogger, remote logging for Windows, iOS, Android, macOS and Linux – grijjy blog
• Many flow strategies at GitLab Flow | GitLab
• Why We Write Tickets – Hacker Noon
• rvelthuis/BigNumbers: BigInteger, BigDecimal and BigRational for Delphi
• Marantec | Deleting the code of hand transmitters (Multi-Bit) – YouTube
• `ll header` in `martian source` is the Data Link Layer: 2 MAC addresses
• keyboard – How to add a line break in a cell in Excel for Mac – Ask Different
• svnrdump for dumping and loading remote svn repositories – twm’s blog
• Determining the ESXi installation type (2014558) | VMware KB
• how to install OS remotly using Supermicro IPMI? – Server Fault
• Boek met tips voor ouders en broers/zussen die behandelbeslissingen moeten nemen voor een verstandelijk beperkt persoon
• batch file – SHIFT doesn’t affect %* – Stack Overflow
• Testing for NULL and equality in practice
• delphi – Sorting TDictionary by a key of Integer in ascending order – Stack Overflow
• GExperts Help: Copy component names
• Conference Call Bingo – E Gilliam
• TInterlocked.Exchange for interfaces?
• IDE Fix Pack 5.92 keyboard binding for finding references
• Clean Code is a team sport! – writeabout.net
• Starting points for JSON unmarshaller, that applies a JSON string to an existing object…
• When saving on the WayBack machine at web.archive.org/save terminates the connection
• Some links and notes on ESXi and virtualised NAS systems
• When your btrfs partition is damaged.
• 404: Handleiding weg | KlikAanKlikUit
• Some wizardry: vmkfstools | virtualhobbit
• systemd – How to clear journalctl – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• The red zone, is why you want immutable constructs
• Scheduled jobs and jitter…
• Useful settings for FastMM4 to tracking bottlenecks in multi-threaded memory allocation
• sql – How to Select Every Row Where Column Value is NOT Distinct – Stack Overflow
• Insentricity :: Kermit on the JAIR 8080 ::
• web services – Accessing the original TWebRequest object in a Delphi SOAP Server – Stack Overflow
• It was all Greek to me: Iota · golang/go
• draft-ietf-appsawg-http-forwarded-10 – Forwarded HTTP Extension (X-Forwarded-For, X-Forwarded-By, and X-Forwarded-Proto)
• Delphi XE8 introduced the dependency directive, but it’s not for Windows
• Amazon.com: Kaimebien I Before E Weird Grammar Teacher 11 Ounces Coffee Mug: Kitchen & Dining
• Relay based computers…
• Handy interactive map of the periodic system – elements.wlonk.com
• How to clear screen artifacts without rebooting Windows (multiple versions) – Super User
• Not sure if this btrfs error was benign or not.
• Formulier SVB PGB voor IBAN-wijziging van een zorgverlener en zorgverleningsovereenkomst versies en met en zonder familie
• The Initialization-Block of a unit that is part of a package. Is it run as part of DLLMain?
• Reset Linux Desktop To Default Settings With A Single Command – OSTechNix
• How to Design Early Returns in C++ (Based on Procedural Programming) – Fluent C++
• Google old content posted before a specific date
• Need to try this: overloaded default properties
• Time capsule opening ceremony today at MIT’s Stata Center after programmers solve MIT’s 20-year-old cryptographic puzzle | MIT CSAIL
• Some links on ShellNew: a user local place (registry and file system) to have Visual Studio templates for Blank Solution files
• On the Effectiveness of Static Typing in Detecting Public Bugs
• if statement – How to ask for batch file user input with a timeout – Stack Overflow
• Where is the Chrome settings file? – Super User
• Fashion – AGREEorDIE – How to tie a necktie not
• command line – How to access a usb flash drive from the terminal? – Ask Ubuntu
• When Ctrl-Click in a Windows VMware Fusion VM does right-click, when you thought you turned that off
• Top Open Source Licenses | Black Duck Software
• vmware Fusion/Workstation/ – How can you boot from CD? – Super User
• Microsoft Visual Studio – Wikipedia
• Did you hear about the man who got cooled to absolute zero? He’s 0K now.
• VMFS metadata files
• Inside the die of Intel’s 8087 coprocessor chip, root of modern floating point
• On my reading list: stuff on U-Boot, Device-Tree, etc
• Linux shell / ESXi – scripts to get md5sum for sets of files in sorted and regular order
• Visual Studio direct download links
• More Delphi debug visualizers
• ESXi: console commands to digging through your hba/disk/datastore configuration
• chrome://settings/clearBrowserData to clear Chrome browser cache
• BorgBackup – Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption
• Trying to temporarily lower the ESXi acceptance level when installing VIBs
• Flickr Free is limited to 1000 foto’s and will start deleting old photos in half a year…
• Do not blur, but do randomly add noise or move pixels – Censoring image in GIMP – Graphic Design Stack Exchange
• Cleaning SILVER WITHOUT losing the Ag!
• My LSI adapters and ESXi 6.5
• Registering/unregseting Windows file associations with Delphi
• GExperts: searching for case-insensitive “T*List.Create” but not “TStringList.Create”
• Show SCSI / HBA modules in ESXi 6.5 with file and version information
• Note that the Delphi superobject library has changed to “not maintained” in december 2018, has problems with large address aware
• @rw@mastodon.social on Twitter: “Personally, I prefer to increase the spacing for each successive indent according to the Fibbonaci sequence:… “
• Delphi function result assignments before the function returns…
• 1N73LL1G3NC3 15 7H3 4B1L17Y 70 4D4P7 70 CH4NG3. 573PH3N HAWKING
• No, Visual Studio Community 2017 is not a 30 day trial – via Stack Overflow
• bash – aliasing cd to pushd – is it a good idea? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• compiling – Where do executables look for shared objects at runtime? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• osx lion – osx change printer ip address without adding new printer – Super User
• LSI 9260-8i: all disks are “Unconfigured bad”
• lamw/ghettoVCB: ghettoVCB
• 50 jaar na eerste maanlanding: ‘Het was magisch’ – Omroep West
• Commodore 1965 logo design by late Chris Yaneff from Canada
• BBC Radio 2 – Ken Bruce, Mark Knopfler performs live, Mark Knopfler performs live in the Radio 2 Piano Room
• Mint 17/SANE will not recognize Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 scanner : linuxmint
• Keeping your root visorfs clean: point the path to your own binaries stored on a vmfs volume
• How to Find Out Top Directories and Files (Disk Space) in Linux
• Does anyone have the source from the book: The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures…
• Chris Bensen: macOS How to create an ISO from a CD or DVD
• UPDATE OR INSERT
• Getting rid of bugs: mark them as “new feature” – as cancelling a  THTTPClient.BeginGet() does not work as intended
• Firefox 29 and up: “The connection has timed out”
• Fixed by Code: Match of the Day
• Should you convert your Visual Basic .NET project to C#? Why and why not… | Tim Anderson’s IT Writing
• On my research list: Event Sourcing
• InterBase/Firebird divisions: use E0 syntax to force floating point calculations
• ScanSnap ix500: it only supports 2.4GHz WiFi
• OpenSuSE: multi-megabyte binary blob `/etc/udev/hwdb.bin` does not need to be versioned with `etckeeper` – via Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• Research list ESXi 6.5 and up vSphere Web Client: change Guest OS Version to the recommended one
• Do not use, even if you are a Level 3 customer – 4.2.2.2: The Story Behind a DNS Legend – tummy.com, ltd.
• “ESXi 6.5” “vSphere Web Client” “VMware Tools” – how to install/upgrade
• Postfix and blacklists
• Where do you place your unit uses?
• When +Google Nederland maps only fills one or part of the map tiles…
• The Fallacy of DRY – Entropy Wins
• Just found out about the SysUtils.FindCmdLineSwitch Function
• Essential drop table animals – now with user-generated content – ThePracticalDev – O RLY?
• Debugging RTL/VCL Code with CodeSite – Dave’s Development Blog
• Delphi annoyance: in debug mode, no breakpoints are being adhered to, no blue bullets
• Lesson learned: do not copy/paste code from the `Visual` WordPress.com editor…
• delphi – IfThen(Assigned(Widget), Widget.Description, ‘No Widget’) doesn’t crash. Should it? – Stack Overflow
• mail-filters/Makefile at master · fumiyas/mail-filters
• AlessandroZ/LaZagne: Credentials recovery project
• Default OpenSuSE Postfix main.cf forgets to configure SASL for cyrus…
• When your triple/quad-play providers refuse to give your VoIP SIP credentials, but allows access to your modem: use Wireshark on the WAN side
• git – How to read last commit comment? – Stack Overflow
• crontab.guru – the cron schedule expression editor
• including enumerations and JPEG compression examples for wPDF 4 Manual: Compression related properties
• Delphi Code Monkey: Cool Advanced Troubleshooting Technique – WinDbg
• Some links and notes as I want to learn about JavaScript in bookmarklets
• Some notes on Testinsight Issues
• ILockable/TLockable/Lockable. Similar to IManaged in Spring4D, but provides a Locked interface.
• Draft – .NET Glossary Diagram – Scott Hanselman
• Detecting the Delphi edition that is installed
• Continuous Integration Server performance
• When generics and VCL controls bite you: memory overwrites when you show the control usually ending up in access violations
• Adobe Acrobat Reader – Content Preparation Progress window
• Research list: machine sometimes not visible on LAN
• Ich brauch gerade mal Nachhilfe in uBlock Syntax. Wo kann man Beispiele lese…
• Blast from the past: “Advanced Pascal Programming Techniques” – Google Search
• How to activate ADB & Helium on OnePlus 2 on Mac – OnePlus Forums
• Product Graveyard: Commemorating the most memorable dead products
• Detecting if a debugger is present is different from detecting if an IDE is present.
• Firemonkey/Isometric at master · tothpaul/Firemonkey
• Delphi: do NOT use duplicate GUIDs on interfaces
• Woes from last year: While checking in to @plasticscm server and having a branch selected in the PlasticSCM GUI: Error — No checkout branch found.
• paulcbetts/refit: The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET
• Delphi, attributes, RTTI and the IDE
• Far less active on blog on social media: some personal things that need to be done.
• Friends+Me Google+ Exporter Support
• Some links on DUnit, JUnit and NUnit XSD specifications of their XML formats (JUnit is actually Ant XML)
• architecture – How much is too much Dependency Injection? – Software Engineering Stack Exchange
• Interface methods are not assignment compatible with method references or methods of object.
• Google Local Guides Nederland after G+
• Requirements to write multi threaded code
• CV installaties optimaliseren en inregelen
• debugging – Find what javascript changes the DOM? – Stack Overflow
• Geek Prank 😈😂😜 Windows XP Desktop Prank
• Sending SMS from your PC using a web browser through your Android Phone
• ESXi 6.5: mount a datastore that does not automount; esxcfg-volume to the rescue
• ssh from Mac OS X to ESXi: “WARNING: terminal is not fully functional”
• Not sure why, but sometimes the Delphi IDE does not allow you to toggle the Console Application; it looks off, but is in fact on: IsConsole returns true
• Windows Manifest Files and Delphi
• *Recursive Parallel For Loops*…
• A while ago, Lars Fosdal was on a .NET and C# link spree. Some of his links are here
• Value types not having parameterless constructors…
• When I ever go and use the Spring4D activator, these are some URLs I need to re-read
• Bootable CD + retro game in a tweet
• GitLab notifications
• Image recognition with C# and Emgu libraries: a .NET wrapper around Intel OpenCV – CodeProject
• Call Everything with search pattern as parameter? – voidtools forum
• How to passthrough SATA drives directly on VMWare ESXI 6.5 as RDMs
• ESXi 6.5.0a hang after “balloonVMCI loaded successfully”
• Windows: force a CHKDSK of a non system disk at boot time
• New for the D850: Nikon ES-2 film digitizing adapter set – scan film at 45.7MP | Nikon Rumors
• Some Delphi unit testing notes
• Python Data Science Handbook | Python Data Science Handbook
• VMware ESXi 6.5.0 Patch History
• Some notes on loosing performance because of using AVX
• Keep a Changelog
• During git mv (rename): “unable to unlink old” “invalid argument”
• How can I open a cmd window in a specific location? – Stack Overflow
• openssl: checking out RSA private key files in .rsa and .pem format
• Are these really Windows compiler unsupported Delphi Intrinsic Routines?
• Periods of drought reveals historic landscape and soil changes
• How to Block Ads on YouTube App for Android?
• My message was blocked – Google Product Forums
• GitHub – ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab: Archiving Google+.
• Is It Better to Rent or Buy? – The New York Times
• scp a remote file to a local machine
• (24) 8 KNOTS You Need to Know – How to tie knots that you will actually use. – YouTube
• delphi – Why was TDataSource created originally? – Stack Overflow
• ESXi 6.5: change the automatic startup/shutdown of guest VMs
• 7zip / 7za command-line parameters for highest compression
• Run cmd as elevated user (via: windows – How to run batch file command with elevated permissions? – Super User)
• Using the partedUtil command line utility on ESXi and ESX (1036609) | VMware KB
• Repurposing Old Smartphones for Home Automation | Linux.com | The source for Linux information
• Link archive: to investigate – Classic compiler (Win32) strings double-free crash because of error in refere…
• 7zip on ESXi through p7zip – redux
• IDE Fix Pack 6.4 for Delphi 2009,XE-10.2 Tokyo and 6.4.1 for Delphi 2010 and 10.3 Rio
• How do I export the history from the Windows command line to a text file? – Super User
• {Updated} Linux server security checklist. #sysadmin 
• PS/2 port colours – Wikipedia
• sorting – Is there a Windows equivalent to the Unix uniq? – Super User
• sudo command doesn’t source /root/.bashrc – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• Reminder tip: Disable Wi-Fi during sleep to dramatically increase idle battery life on tablets and devices you don’t often use
• detect availability of node-set() function in xslt implementation of icecast server – Stack Overflow
• How can I rename a git stash? – Stack Overflow
• Atom, plantuml-preview, homebrew and messages about plantuml being too old
• Smart Pointers code that compiles in FPC and Delphi
• Installing Let’s Encrypt Free SSL/TLS Certificate in 2 Minutes with Certbot, Spending Hours Making it Work with Cloudflare
• ESXi 6.5: change the host name in the “new” vSphere HTML5 Web Client, or using DHCP option 12
• gdbgui – browser based debugger for C, C++, go, rust, Fortran. Modern gdb frontend.
• Move the most recent commit(s) to a new branch with Git – Stack Overflow
• Creating a bootable USB installer for ESXi and use it to create a bootable ESXi installation
• Vloerkleden l Tapijten l IKEA
• A way to skip the Firefox “Well, this is embarrassing” during a sudden reboot
• Windows 10: force to sleep at night, but allow wake up for Windows Updates
• Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X10SRH-CF
• Windows 10: mounting an ISO to a specific drive letter and keeping that drive letter after boot
• Windows 10 Feature Focus: Backup and Recovery – Thurrott.com
• There’s recently been a question about moving G+ Photos to Google Photos. [Th…
• My contributions to RAD Studio – Jose León – Medium
• performance – Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly for testing the Collatz conjecture? – Stack Overflow
• Anyone who knows about http://sourceforge.net/p/radstudiodemos/code/HEAD/tree/branches/RADStudio_Rio ?
• Bye, Bye, Google · Bogdan Popa
• We are searching for some Automation Testing Framework, different from Test Complete…
• msbuild: /p: or /property: but be ware of the equals sign
• There can be only MS Office sample automation server wrapper components in RAD Studio
• Did you know? 10.2 Tokyo has introduced 3 new warnings for Delphi compilers:…
• GitHub – sdsalyer/gplus-archiver: A tool for exporting content from Google+
• Any opinion on RAD Server vs Node.js/LoopBack vs TMS XData vs other?
• Don’t complain about the multitude of “places”/services that your fav G+ers are going…
• Thomas Mueller has started to write some documentation on the internal workings of GExperts…
• sed in a bash script: backslash escape anything that looks suspicious
• WoL (Wake on LAN) from various routers
• How to hide an entire drive from prying eyes on Windows 10 | Windows Central
• If you are looking for good Travis engineers, look at the #TravisAlums hashtag on Twitter
• Ubiquity UniFi SDN – Server status “UniFi Controller is starting up… Please wait a moment”
• Many Mac OS X / MacOX / whatever versions: Unable to modify the volume with the keyboard – Ask Different
• When Windows 10 doesn’t recognise your DVD device any more
• Application shutdown: wait for all threads to terminate or not?
• How to collect HAProxy metrics
• IP over Avian Carriers
• Breaking in the Delphi debugger without a breakpoint
• cdecl: C gibberish ↔ English
• Smart idea: powering a stack of Raspberry Pi using 2.1mm barrel connector splitter…
• The Way of the Gopher – Digg Data – Medium
• Delphi component to show some text file at design time
• Insentricity :: Adding Solid-State Storage to an Original IBM PC ::
• Calls from +18553308653 might be because someone is trying to use your phone number to setup a Microsoft account two factor authentication
• That duh moment when you cannot read an SD card: it’s SDHC/SDXC in an SD card reader; Secure Digital – Wikipedia
• Windows 7..10: disable shutdown/hibernate/sleep/restart from UI
• Windows <= 10: batch file to open Windows Update panel
• To celebrate his 85th birthday, some links to interviews with Niklaus Wirth interviews
• VNC, Windows and UAC prompts
• Anonymous method do location capturing, so when you expect value capturing you get the “Mysterious Case Of Wrong Value”
• Follow up on “btrfs free space. It’s complicated. Still.”
• Ancient Unix based keyboard shortcuts
• VCL Root units
• Accessing storage (NAS) over the Internet via FTP | FRITZ!Box 7490 | AVM International
• web based tools to simulate electronics
• Berlin 10.1.2 Vcl.RibbonConsts removed, so now Vcl.ScreenTips compilation fails – Pascal Today
• Build a Power Bank in $2: 7 Steps (with Pictures)
• Raspberry Pi and relays – follow up on Having one Raspberry Pi reset another Raspberry Pi through relay or transistor
• 2018 Hard Drive Reliability Stats by Manufacturer and Model
• shared folders not visible · Issue #276 · stascorp/rdpwrap
• Amsterdam Nieuw West: parkeren Osdorpplein en omgeving
• Di Cleverly – Google+: on 42 and geek stuff
• No thank you, Mr. Pecker – Jeff Bezos – Medium
• Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists – YouTube
• Link archive: ASUS MN78 PRO URLs
• Some Postfix configuration guidelines
• Navigation bar notifications for Google web products will go away on March 7, 2019. Via Manage your notifications – Google Account Help
• Why the New V8 is so Damn Fast – NodeSource
• Why you should always do documentation before development | Opensource.com
• Delphi threadvar: TLS thread local storage
• Some links on keystore, encryption and decryption on Android
• The company as a social engine – The Isoblog.
• Delphi Declarations and Statements: Hinting Directives
• GitHub – GoogleChromeLabs/ndb: ndb is an improved debugging experience for Node.js, enabled by Chrome DevTools
• 6502 emulation: the ICE, or in-circuit-emulator…
• keyman/DevDelphiStarterCompileWrapper.pas at master · keymanapp/keyman
• Some commands and links from “Praktijk | Windows PE”; Softlink 1807114 – c’t magazine
• If the downloading PDF reports (like bank statements) from the new ABN AMRO on-line banking environment fails: try the old environment
• RawGit is going away: redirect your content before October 2019 (it does disappear after that)
• ‪Dear #lazyweb, can anyone point me to a modern email server setup (just emai…
• Local Guides Connect – Help Desk – Local Guides Connect
• Kristian Köhntopp – Pluspora
• 66995
• Passing the `–symbol-report` to the Delphi compiler gives you a nice XML overview with all symbols used
• Scaling, automatically and manually – The Isoblog.
• The G+ GExperts community does no longer accept new members and new posts: use the English DelphiPraxis GExperts sub-forum (which has RSS)
• delphi – in Delphi7, How can I retrieve hard disk unique serial number? – Stack Overflow
• Tips and Tricks in the Visual Studio Debugger | Microsoft Docs
• Quick Intro Into Actions on Google | Grokking Android
• Need to revisit: Grep search crashes with `Invalid class typecast.` · Issue #1 · jpluimers/GExperts · GitHub
• linux – Test if a port on a remote system is reachable (without telnet) – Super User
• Twitter so: Testing in Production – The Isoblog.
• docs.embarcadero.com unreachable – via Docs – EmbarcaderoMonitoring
• macOS DisplayLink driver downloads: 4.1 works fine with MacOS 10.12 Sierra
• My 10 UNIX Command Line Mistakes – nixCraft
• ScanSnap ix100 info you don’t find in the Getting Started guide easily
• Philips Brilliance 240B max resolution: 1920 x 1200 pixels at 24 bit
• ScanSnap ix100 open ports
• Google’s Phishing Quiz shows why Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a bad idea
• [RSP-10484] GetIt shouldn’t block the IDE – Embarcadero Technologies
• Fast inverse square root – Wikipedia
• Chuck Jazdzewski links (ex co-architect of the Delphi VCL architecture)
• Migrating KPN ISDN MSNs to XS4ALL VoIP: via https://mijn.xs4all.nl
• On my research list: Delphi; automatically generate class body from interface definition
• Don’t forget your padding… playing with the APK format of a sample “Hello world” Android app
• CDATA inside JavaScript or style section of HTML? They are for backward compatibility. Sometimes compatibility with ancient browsers.
• Convert Indesign Sketch to code: Petra Sketch Plugin | Melbourne | Applying Code
• Dilbert Comic Strip on 1995-11-09 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
• Passwordless SSH
• Why don’t I get the warning W1036 Variable “‘MyStrings’ might not have been initialized”…
• Linus Torvalds – Google+: Working gadgets: Ubiquiti UniFi collection (and a whole bunch of Unifi/Ubiquiti/Ubtn links).
• Installing as a LAN -> WiFi bridge: FRITZ!WLAN Repeater 1750E
• Google Sheet with forwarding addresses. Please feel free to add yours….
• National Cyber Security Centre publish Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Security Guide | Ubuntu blog
• TigerVNC on Mac OS X with homebrew to check why a Screen Sharing.app connection fails.
• Resetting the OnePlus data limit behaviour
• GitHub – pyscripter/python4delphi: Free components that wrap up Python into Delphi and Lazarus (FPC)
• Some interesting bits on interface delegation including a class helper trick – via Stefan Glienke – Google+
• Raspberry Pi cannot be woken up by WOL, but it can send, and there is Whack-on-LAN
• IDE Fix pack for Rio development snapshot – via Delphi-PRAXiS [en]
• Generating a million sequential numbers on the fly in a SQL Server query
• Tools for TCP tunnels over HTTP/HTTPS
• some links that helped me fiddle with iframe elements
• Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes
• oath-toolkit / oath-toolkit · GitLab
• Need to put some research in Google Calendar support for EXRULE and EXDATE
• In windows, can I redirect stdout to a (named) pipe in command line? – Super User
• Reminder to self: see how widespread support for the TCP BBR congestion control algorithm is.
• E46: replace battery in car key
• Life after Google+: an export tool that use the G+ API and runs on Google Firebase
• Preventing sites to add themselves to the Google Chrome search engine list
• 5 Simple Steps to Install Youtube Vanced Edition (No Root Needed) – Saint – watch without ads
• How much is Google Cloud Latency between Regions?
• Life after Google+ – Lars Fosdal: Friends+Me Google+ Export tool.
• from a WSDL import: empty “Reference.cs” – Google Search
• Some ideas to show a Google Calendar on a TV using a Raspberry Pi and HDMI output
• git on Windows: prevent “The requested URL returned error: 403” during push of https based repository
• Getting the class from an TRttiProperty by using MetaclassType
• Converting html fragments to reStructuredText
• List of Shell GUIDs for various Windows versions for use in shortcuts and batch files
• Delphi sorcery: Loop wars – measuring performance
• OpenSuSE Tumbleweed on RaspberryPi 3: adding ” modprobe.blacklist=vc4″ to the kernel commandline was a lot tougher than I hoped for.
• What RDBMS do you use when doing location-aware things? 
• AmazonSmile – Kontaktieren Sie uns
• Strange MAC addresses starting FA:8F:CA without OUI in your network? They are Locally Administered Addresses and likely from Google.
• Zabbix triggers and web response scenarios
• FileZilla not available as homebrew cask any more
• Lock conflict on no wait transaction
• Zabbix: the web scenario respose time trigger unit is seconds, not milliseconds
• DBA Blog 2.0: Installing Zabbix into Azure using a MySQL PaaS
• The IOTAComponent.SetPropByName, when used for an integer property, always sets that property to 0 instead of the desired value.
• Testing SMTP from the console on Linux, BSD and Mac OS: swaks and smtp-cli Perl script clients
• Various online CSV to Markdown converters: best is Markdown Tables generator – TablesGenerator.com
• android – How to release a Firemonkey control properly, in this case a child form with a parent? – Stack Overflow
• Reddit: parodies on O RLY Books
• Google Search string for either docwiki, Delphi 2007 or Delphi 2009 docs
• Technical Leadership in Software Companies
• The biggest lie I tell myself is not about new years resolutions.
• Easy Running of Scripts at Boot and Shutdown – SUSE Blog | SUSE Communities
• brew update reminder
• Python 2.7 Countdown: a year from now it is unsupported
• programming practices – Unwritten rules of rewriting another team member’s code – Software Engineering Stack Exchange
• zypper history notes/links
• Monitoring: you can ignore ShellHWDetection service warnings on when it’s not started
• 4G zendmasten in Nederland; 2017
• EKON 22 Slides and Code – Synopse
• mkbook – Hintjens’ book production tools
• Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 update throwing 8E5E03FB and later 80070490
• Delphi and C++ builder Platform Status
• Polymer people discovered they need something like “wizzywid – what you see is what you deserve”
• eventviewer – filtering on service stop/start events
• To Heap or not to Heap; That’s the Large Object Question? – CodeProject
• Delphi: AutoSize property resizes a container (panel, scrollbox, form, frame…) to grow it to fit all controls
• Need to play with this: Raspberry Pi web simulator from Microsoft Corporation
• TED Talks on Twitter: “The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding: @KanzeDana… they get asked different questions than male ones”
• Carmen Verheul on Twitter: “ik lees miv tweede kerstdag van 7 tot 12 uur, matijn van 13 tot 19 uur, michel van 20 tot 24 uur… “
• eventviewer – View Shutdown Event Tracker logs under Windows Server 2008 R2 – Server Fault
• 50 Shades of Grain
• Time to let go of prejudices: We are all much more the same than we are different.
• It’s actually only “Helvetica” if it comes from the Helvetia region of Europe. Otherwise you have to call it “sparkling Arial”
• How to Setup Chroot SFTP in Linux (Allow Only SFTP, not SSH)
• Dieses sudo-Gehampel unter Debian/Ubuntu nervt. Aber es gibt Abhilfe: alias…
• Reptyr – Forgot to “screen” your ssh session first, and now that long running…
• Life after Google+ – Lars Fosdal
• linux – Keeping the fancy sudo warning forever – Super User
• URL query string for searching own GitHub Gists (via: Stack Overflow)
• How to Force Google Chrome to Use Google.com Instead of Country Specific Version
• Google Now launcher replacement?
• Do not put IFDEF with relative paths in your .dpr as the Delphi IDE cannot match them in the .dproj
• About Blocks – bl.ocks.org
• Can’t format message nn:mmm — message text not found
• PSD2 and privacy
• Spring4D How to correctly assign NULL to a Nullable type?
• “I tyically ask recruiters to point out which of these are pokemon” – via “my linkedin profile : ProgrammerHumor”
• Python threading: logging exceptions during the `run`
• Spring4D Conference
• git – I ran into a merge conflict. How can I abort the merge? – Stack Overflow
• Links to help me monitor my Zeverlution PV converter locally
• Reminder to self: make a list of URL suffixes to show branch diagrams of repositories
• Never ever put OutpugDebugString in code that is meant to run on production systems
• linux – Is there a way to remove “Last message repeated x times” from logs? – Server Fault
• Registering your Zeverlution device in the Zeversolar cloud
• Start-up or Pokémon? Big-data or Pokémon?
• Reminder to self: not all 4K displays are equal at HDMI: watch the HDMI version they support.
• Top 2000 café 2018 – Alle informatie op een rij – NPO Radio 2 – Presentatoren, producers/sidekicks, nieuwslezers en tijden
• It looks like the PlasticSCM people are building a git-client, but it needs on-line installation and registration
• plasticscm – Plastic SCM: Add ignored file – Stack Overflow
• OpenSuSE Tumbleweed E20 on Raspberry Pi 3: accessing the enlightenment desktop over VNC after automatic logon
• macos – El Capitan /private/var/folders cache files consuming 30–40 GB – Ask Different
• Getting started · MahdiSafsafi/DebugEngine Wiki · GitHub
• The [WayBack] and [Archive.is] links in my blog and G+ stream
• Links for Nagios openSuSE Tumbleweed monitoring (including Android devices)
• git – How to store releases/binaries in GitLab? – Stack Overflow
• Initeresting CodeInsight ToolsAPI.pas bits IOTACodeInsightManager100, AllowCodeInsight, EditorTokenValidChars
• on my research list: autossh
• Still an interesting thought: I’d like the next update from Emb to NOT contain any new features at all – just a huge bundle of bug fixes
• Programmer humour: Working at PornHub
• No more https://www.whatsapp.com/cidr.txt
• Google+ now closes in April 2019, as yet another bug gave developers access to non-public data from 52.5M users | TechCrunch
• If parts of your letsencrypt renewals succeed and others give you “urn:acme:error:connection” then just retry
• Anaylizing PDF files
• Windows Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 – OpenDNS
• Interview Robbert Dijkgraaf: ‘We zijn te veel het hert dat in de koplampen staart’ | NU – Het laatste nieuws het eerst op NU.nl
• “Iemand anders dit ook bij @NPORadio2 ? Zowel Safari als Chrome op MacOS kunnen https://www.nporadio2.nl/live niet afspelen. Gisteren werkte het wel. Geen software gewijzigd. 
• When asked about the social and privacy aspects of the internet “but who could have foreseen the negative side of this?”, you can answer: “Paul Baran, the man who invented it, over fifty years ago”.
• Mac OS Phonenix Slides is on GitHub
• Adding Windows machines to Samba domains and security
• Backing up ZFS snapshots
• VirusTotal: Avira marks a Delphi built executable als false positive
• [solved]Where is my user ID in GitLab.com? – HowTo – GitLab Community Forum
• Take C# 8.0 for a spin | .NET Blog
• Dependency Injection in Delphi: use Spring4D and Nick Hodges’ book
• Delphi Indy “SSL routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:http request” – means you get an http request, but expecting an https request
• git – How to integrate UML diagrams into GitLab or GitHub – Stack Overflow
• listing files with ISO 8601 time stamps on *n*x flavours
• Behind the Scenes – Coolblue – alles voor een glimlach
• Update NOW! CVE-2018-1002105, with root access. ​Kubernetes’ first major security hole discovered | ZDNet
• Uptime Robot on Twitter: “Sorry all that the API and status pages fluctuated since the last 18 hours. The issue is completely fixed and it is all back to normal now.”
• Trying to get golang working on a new system I learned a few things…
• Hi there. Is it possible to get RTTI information for IDE “built-in” classes …
• Mac OS X/MacOS: Capturing yourself in Photo Booth without being mirrored
• UTF-8 support for single byte character sets is beta in Windows and likely breaks a lot of applications not expecting this (via Unicode in Microsoft Windows: UTF-8 – Wikipedia)
• Getting rid of trailing line-endings in the draw.io web interface
• How to configure pfSense as multi wan (DUAL WAN) load balance failover router – nixCraft
• 8 Linux Commands: To Find Out Wireless Network Speed, Signal Strength And Other Information – nixCraft
• Printing WordPress receipts in Chrome resulting in strangely accented text turned out to be a Chrome issue
• Soulshow eenmalig terug op NPO Radio 2 – Nieuwsbericht – NPO Radio 2
• Wunschzettelaktion 2018 @ Amazon.de
• Delphi XE8..Tokyo 10.2 Release 3: Access Violation at address xxxxxxxx in module ‘delphicoreide###.bpl’ whenever I try to create a new unit or form. How to fix it?
• Design your own visual maps with data points: Eerste stapjes in LocalFocus
• how can I free up space on /boot as “openSUSE-2014-462” fails to install on openSUSE 12.3 x86_64
• Not all Fritz!Box devices can be upgraded to the most recent firmware
• Some links that might help migrating from Mantis to GitLab
• Parsing simple html in Python
• UptimeRobot is written in PHP and runs on IIS
• A few observations on Python while I made my first steps into it
• An In Depth Guide Into a Ridiculously Simple API Using .NET Core
• web servers and pre-compressed content
• Fritz!Box LUA links on my research list
• Protected Branches | GitLab
• Cleaning up bounces from /var/spool/mqueue using qtool
• The tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative tech torpedoed by corporations | Ars Technica
• A 90-byte “whereis” program – The Old New Thing
• O&O ShutUp10: download free antispy tool for Windows 10
• Shark stepping on LEGO brick
• New official Embarcadero forums online http://community.idera.com/devel- initially only had non-TLS http URLs
• Delphi 10.3 Rio got released; I’ll wait a while hoping to see more positive comments
• How is JavaScript used within the Spotify desktop application? Is it packaged up and run locally only retrieving the assets as and when needed? What JavaScript VM is used? – Quora
• SSH: Connection Reset by Peer – Server Fault
• FRITZ!Box call http://fritz.box/cgi-bin/system_status
• Delphi sorcery: Loop wars – measuring performance
• Watch “Modifying an old light with LED tape.” on YouTube
• In operations, code is not your friend. Make things simple, make them boring …
• Date and time conversion is hard in databases: `conversion error from string “30-12-1899″`
• A repository with a hierarchy or modules referencing each other might not be a good idea
• Where does my git question go? – Programmers Meta Stack Exchange
• Reminder to Self: check if NameOf has been implemented yet
• RegExr: Online Regular Expression Testing Tool
• EPOX EP-8RDA3i motherboard with code FF before POST starts
• Refurbish the battery on an HP P410 BBWC | Opensource Blog
• nmap for Windows: ncat as a TCP client to servers
• Convert/adapt an old ATX Power Supply into a Bench Power Supply with (or without) 3D Printed Parts
• Timestamp Generator / Converter – Timestampgenerator.com
• Solution for Delphi – post-build event with multiple if/copy combinations only execute if first file does not exist – Stack Overflow
• dig: getting the list of root servers
• Find the TTL for a domain and subdomain by getting to the authoritative nameserver first
• Setting the sound volume through NirCmd – Windows command line tool
• How to automatically choose a label color to contrast with background | TrendCT
• Inline images in reStructuredText
• Saving windows command prompt history to a file – Charlie Arehart’s ColdFusion Troubleshooting Blog
• Andreas on Twitter:
• Delphi 10.1 Berlin Update 1 exit error · GitHub
• Reminder to self: check if David Nottage published source code the Firebase application analytics
• How do I get the IP address into a batch-file variable? – Stack Overflow
• Errorlevel 4 for xcopy | Microsoft Docs
• Windows Services Dependency Viewer – Home
• Zabbix user groups and user type
• It looks like gmail finally understands Outlook Calendar entries
• Renate Groenewold on Twitter: “Thanks @UltrawareBV dat @marijejoling en ik jullie mochten inspireren, motiveren en in beweging brengen met een presentatie en een circuittraining! #vitaliteit #duurzameinzetbaarheid #teambuilding #fun… “
• Stratix BreedbandAtlas | Bekijk de consumentenbreedband dekking op uw locatie
• Twitter doesn’t allow certain characters in your profile, but doesn’t tell which ones it dislikes
• Micro SD Cards for Development Boards – Classes, Tools, Benchmarks, Reliability, and Tips & Tricks
• Load testing a web server on Windows using the ApacheBench benchmark tool from Apache
• Relay Switch Circuit and Relay Switching Circuit
• Build Lambda Expressions Dynamically – CodeProject
• Reminder to self: make a start for an XSD that validates Delphi dproj files
• Babelmark 2 online Markdown checker
• How to Setup Chroot SFTP in Linux (Allow Only SFTP, not SSH)
• Delphi: updating a (potentially non-existing) item in a generic TDictionary: use ExtractPair. Except in Delphi 2010/XE.
• Validating a nested XML element with an empty namespace using XSD – Stack Overflow
• Some Computerphile videos starring Professor Brian Kernighan
• Anyone who knows how to disable logs with “Click-To-Run General Telemetry” entries?
• Wieso eigentlich PPPoE, Deutschland? Ganz früher, als Ihr noch ein Joghurt im Regal war…
• Ebike battery – comprehensive page about Lithium Ion batteries and their technology
• Elektrisch gereedschap in de Pricewatch – Tweakers
• It’s 2018 and USB Type-C is still a mess – Android Authority
• This two-year-old X.org give-me-root hole is so trivial to exploit, you can fit it in a single tweet • The Register
• IPv4 to IPv6 conversion on a load balancer causing rare packet loss
• You are not Google (use UNPHAT) – The Isoblog.
• Thread by @MaxFagin: “November is here, and that means a massive shift is coming. And by “massive” I am of course referring to the redefinition of the kilogram unit of mass […]”
• 50 Battery Hacks – Battery Experts
• Topic: “Request Feedback” button vanished | WordPress.com Forums
• Creating a full off-line installation directory for Visual Studio 2017 Community
• PlasticSCM Workaround for “Can’t perform a checkout in an edited xlink.”
• PSBL: Passive Spam Block List powered by Spamikaze
• A command-line REPL for RESTful HTTP Services – Scott Hanselman
• Down on the Upside – Kevlin Henney – Medium
• Batch files and parentheses
• PowerShell: measuring size of the Windows TEMP directory
• airbus-seclab/crashos
• Delphi: create implementations in the same order as the interface section and sync method signatures
• Hear Marvin Gaye Sing “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” A Capella: The Haunting Isolated Vocal Track | Open Culture
• xkcd: Free Speech
• Language Accessory Pack for Office – Office Support
• Map of the internet precursor ARPA network as of May 1973 – David Newbury
• Install on openSUSE / SLES – Zabbix.org
• 121 – NOS Teletekst: xs4all and T-mobile internet outage
• Likely the end of a tradition… ᴊᴏᴏsᴛ su Twitter: “Dear Mr. Juncker, you may not know this but here in Holland we have Dirk-Jan and it is tradition to read this comic twice a year don’t take this away from us it’s the only non-racist tradition we have!!!! Please!!!!!…”
• When git fails to `fetch all`
• The Ridiculous Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing – Arador
• I have a sudden urge to organize my cables.
• Google is sunsetting Google+ by August 2019; DelphiPraxis might start English forums and have RSS
• GitHub – yandex/gixy: Nginx configuration static analyzer
• G+ shutting down; where to go now?
• Some Delphi versions miss some of the Indy files
• Ralph Johnson: 22 years of design patterns – YouTube video of lecture
• Why I wish QC had been archived in full…
• Finding your program with an “Access Denied” (Error code 5) after lunch break…
• Delphi: uninstalling the ancient CollabNet 1.7.5 version
• Jonathan Nelson on Twitter: “toilet paper visualization of the difference between zero and null https://t.co/ku3BBRjjUY”
• Delphi Rio “new overall direction of removing ARC”
• Hunting for Beyond Compare on your system: bc.bat
• DIY Filament Sensor for your 3D Printer
• G+ thread: Do i need to create one TFormatSettings instance for every thread?
• Ole Albers: Just wanted to tell that the Google+ Optimizer now has a cross post to Diaspora…
• Nieuwere @Samsung_NL TVs gebruiken de OneRemote (soms ook Smart Remote genoemd) model BN59-01241A. Werken op die TVs ook de klassieke remotes zoals BN59-01223A die met oudere TVs werden meegeleverd?
• Hopefully this is now available: in March you could pre-order the PoE hat for the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ at ~ EUR 15.
• The Analysis of Drive Issues – unRAID
• Doctors disabled wireless in Dick Cheney’s pacemaker to thwart hacking – Naked Security
• Technical Note TN1150: HFS Plus Volume Format
• wget and curl: downloads that sometimes fail
• Euler’s identity – cool explanatory videos by Burkard Polster
• when btrfs-size shows a snapshot as 16777216.00TB or btrfs qgroup as 16.00EiB
• git 2.19.1 on Windows: NullReferenceException during https pull/push/fetch
• Some links on encrypting configuration files or sections
• Some Indy SSL Perfect Forward Secrecy links
• Archiving Delphi documentation
• Delphi: [BRCC32 Error] ProjectName.vrc(63): file not found: C:\Users\Public\Documents\RAD Studio\10.0\Styles\SlateClassico.vsf
• How to configure Nginx SSL/TLS passthrough with TCP load balancing – nixCraft
• Using Windows API function MoveFile to check if a filename is valid…  – via Stack Overflow
• The part before the @ in email addresses is case sensitive
• Delphi Unit Dependency Scanner
• Quickly finding and debugging jQuery event handlers with findHandlersJS – The Blinking Caret
• macOS Sierra: Change the order of the network ports your computer uses to connect
• Why Are My Text Messages Stuck Pending | Pushbullet Help Central
• Aside from the Wayback Machine, what are other options for getting screenshots of websites from the past? – Quora
• TweeterID – Twitter ID and username converter
• Zamzar – video converter, audio converter, image converter, eBook converter – via @Matijn
• Retr0bright – Wikipedia
• MotionEyeOS on Odroid C1+ with Logitech USB web cameras
• database connection – Looking for a generic way to pool TCusomConnection in Delphi – Stack Overflow
• linux – dmesg time vs system time time isnt correct – Server Fault
• TObjectHelper for easier debugging a cast mismatch and a typed FreeAndNil
• tcp – How can I trigger a script when a certain port becomes available for requests? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• Giving up on the official Ubuntu for Odroid C1 image
• A Key’s Odyssey – the path of a keystroke message through the VCL
• Check If A Linux System Is Physical Or Virtual Machine
• Video Conversion done right: Codecs and Software – Super User Blog
• Seven Steps to the Diagnosis of NSAIDs Hypersensitivity: How to Apply a New Classification in Real Practice?
• Why Youtube’s algorithms push extreme content on every possible subject / Boing Boing
• macOS / OS X / Mac OS X: excessive sysmond or mds CPU usage – via Ask Different and osXdaily
• Raspberry Pi as CD changer in pre 09/2002 E46 BMW 320i touring
• Syncthing – on my research list
• To help understanding combinations of boolean operators: Truth table – Wikipedia
• What’s the point of having abstract classes in Delphi? 
• Raspberry Pi Power Limitations – Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange
• Fred Hebert on Twitter : “honest programming books… “
• On my list to try (about half a year since it appeared): A new mutlti-threading library for Delphi. (darkThreading) – Chapman World
• Just curious, Is there ever a benefit to not providing a GUID in an interface…
• Not just C++: Thoughts on Dealing with Signed/Unsigned Mismatch – IT Hare on Soft.ware
• aha (Ansi HTML Adapter) with clickable URIs
• Reminder to self that this cleared itself: Delphi fails to start after Windows did some “Program Compatibility Assistant” magic…
• BMW DIY Poor Radio Reception Repair, AM and FM, E46 3-Series and Other Models | Bavarian Autosport Blog
• When Windows removes the registry key that solves HighDPI problems for older applications
• A Case Study in Not Being A Jerk in Open Source – Kevlin Henney – Google+
• On my research list: ZNC – advanced IRC bouncer
• Notes on recording audio calls from a Fritz!Box and playing back those captures calls
• Conference idea: re-do my git based version control session with a good set of examples and screenshots backing it
• On my todo list: experiment with having multiple sendmail queue directories under /var/spool/mqueue
• Debugging Session – Brian Long, 2001
• Getting Started with SOAP-Based Web Services and PowerShell
• Regular Expression Crossword Puzzle – Gregable
• Scalable HTTP sockets for the cloud, Part 2 – grijjy blog
• Samsung C27F390FHU Zwart – Kenmerken – Tweakers
• How not to structure your database-backed web applications: a study of performance bugs in the wild | the morning paper
• If you have trouble getting an screen mirror from Samsung S7 Edge to Chromecast 2 to work: reboot phone
• Unicode spaces
• Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers
• Dashcam Viewer – By Earthshine Software
• Fritz!Box – capture network packets in Wireshark (tshark/tcpdump) format or ISDN in dtrace format
• For Love of Software: Nano Server on AWS: Step by Step
• If you use Session Buddy, you might want to reconsider: it only saves the session infrequently
• pure-bash-bible/README.md – book for doing things in bash without external tools
• Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes
• TJoe’s personal favorite in form, function, and simplicity… paper plane!
• 20 things you didn’t know you could do with Search
• The 10 commandments of navigating code reviews | TechBeacon
• MahdiSafsafi/ImmersiveColors: Easy way to access Windows 10 Immersive colors
• SVN Git Mirror – cloning SVN into git and keeping them in sync
• Reminder to self: check if this has been solved – [RSP-19557] TParallel.Join does not create enough threads – Embarcadero Technologies
• Vysor standalone downloads
• When a Delphi TCP server causes sudden EIdConnClosedGracefully Exceptions on the client
• I tend to forget there is a record intialiser TPair.Create(Key, Value) – via: delphi – TDictionary populated during create example code – Stack Overflow
• Locating the 7z.exe command-line tool on Windows
• YouTube video how to use DDetours library to hook Win32 API in Delphi
• Do change your underwear often, but not your passwords. Keep both of your desk and do not share them with anyone.
• (88) swopper office chair: how to assemble and adjust – YouTube
• Some interesting presentations by Arjen Kamphuis
• Satellite internet is awfully slow for interactive use
• When Windows 8.1 gives 80070643 on applying Office 2013 SP1
• Not cool: openSuse Tumbleweed switched DHCP clientID algorithm on Raspberry Pi 3, so now all devices get a non-static DHCP address
• Google Chrome Web Browser 69 changes
• Just in case you are wondering where these “Trending on Google” posts in your stream come from…
• XS4ALL Software download site
• Privacy Badger was blocking fsdn.com CDN domains
• Short link to find your Google nickname based profile link
• When Google Search returns one link twice in the results, thinking it was published on two different dates.
• chrisrolliston/CCR.PrefsIniFile: TCustomIniFile decendants for Delphi wrapping the Android, iOS and OS X Preferences APIs
• Happy Day of the Programmer!
• roll a dice – Google Search
• TIdHTTPWebBrokerBridge example for a standalone Indy based SOAP service
• Windows service states and service state transitions
• delphi – How to make a combo box with fulltext search autocomplete support? – Stack Overflow
• Office 365 #fail: … every now and then – without any UI showing high CPU usage …
• Schema Central: XML vocabularies with all their XSD schema’s in a nice browsable overview including references, explanations and examples
• Delphi 10 Seattle and up try “recover” unchanged files in the `$(BDS)` tree
• A refefernce to 6502 by “Remember that in a stack trace, the addresses are return addresses, not call addresses – The Old New Thing”
• Spelling with element symbols from the Periodic table
• DFRobot 7″ HDMI Display with Touchscreen Sells for $69 – for use with Raspberry Pi or Adruino
• Notifications – Google+
• Nooit toestemming gegeven, toch in het EPD? Check het zelf! | Platform Bescherming Burgerrechten
• MUSTOOL MT8206 Multimeter & Oscilloscope Goes for $42 (Promo)
• Happy testers day.
• https://altd.embarcadero.com/ TLS certificate does not match domain name
• God is real unless declared integer, 
• LiFePO4wered/Pi+ | Crowd Supply
• Some sites than can help you check if your (maybe dynamic) IP has been black-listed
• Some Linux mail solutions
• Delphi XE6 and up regression: “‘9999-12-31 23:59:59,1000’ is not a valid date and time” when passing a SOAP message with 9999-11-31T23:59:59.9999999; QC144171
• playing with IOT
• Delphi – Defer defines the “postpone procedure” pattern to execute code at the end of a method
• Some search links on Delphi and C# WSDL imports I need to investigate further
• C#/JSON deep verify if object instances are equivalent
• RaiMan’s SikuliX: Automate what you see on a computer monitor
• c# – All possible array initialization syntaxes – Stack Overflow
• What are your favorite extension methods for C#? (codeplex.com/extensionoverflow) – Stack Overflow
• How and when are variables referenced in Delphi’s anonymous methods captured? – Stack Overflow
• Plastic SCM command-line for merge and diff
• on the dB scales and audio
• Calendar Link ParametersTeamup Calendar
• The Delphi VCL comes to Oxygene
• cool solution for precise point positioning (PPP) GPS/GLONASS navigation on Raspberry Pi…
• Solution when xs4all keeps sending non-billing letters to the address where the internet connection is: change contact address
• It doesn’t have to be crazy at work
• Delphi: delete temporary file after response dispatched – Stack Overflow
• TwistedDoodles • The truth about Eureka. (I say bollocks… A lot!)
• How to read data from old delphi application Paradox databases without BDE?
• Handling a new era in the Japanese calendar in .NET | .NET Blog
• DUnitX: now has a WillRaiseAttribute to ease defining tests around code that should throw exceptions
• Enum values in their own namespaces/scopes: Scoped Enums (Delphi)
• .net – How to generate service reference with only physical wsdl file – Stack Overflow
• Embarcadero community RSS links
• No it was not possible to install PowerShell 3 on a Windows Server 2003 or 2003 R2? – Super User
• I am on a Mac that is bound to an AD Domain. The AD Domain has a 90 days pass…
• If your mail auto-responder directs to a new email address, don’t have the new one also auto-respond
• IRC Private Messages – /msg, /invite, /query, Internet Relay Chat
• Nice thread starting on the current state of CAs promoting OV/EV instead of doing innovation, with many comments on how to properly use LetsEncrypt
• Linux: See Bandwidth Usage Per Process With Nethogs Tool – nixCraft
• MS Excel 2011 for Mac: How to Change Data Source for a Pivot Table
• Delphi: create or append to a TFileStream
• How To Make A Good Code Review — Geek&Poke
• Is there a reason why third party component vendors still ship dfm in binary files …
• Property/event differences between Delphi forms and frames
• Reminder to self – check some of the Delphi bug reports to see of they are solved
• Marvin the Paranoid Android moans about requests for missing pages
• Nick Craver on Twitter: “This is worth repeating: We’re migrating Stack Overflow to .NET Core. **It’s not because of performance**. There are enough major wins without even factoring performance for us to move. Any performance gains are 100% in the bonus category. We’d migrate with a 0% perf improvement.…”
• Delphi SOAP service: only publish WSDL in RELEASE mode
• Full Duplex Asynchronous Read/Write with Named Pipes – CodeProject
• For my research list: Delphi and ZeroMQ
• Plastic SCM compare versus Beyond Compare; guess which screenshot I like most
• Drone no-fly zones | ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu
• when bind named service hasn’t started after OpenSuSE Tumbleweed boots
• On Windows Control Flow Guard effects: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email (part one) | Random ASCII
• How to check if a binary is 32 or 64 bit on Windows? – Super User
• Ziggo – als je geen papieren factuur meer wilt
• Steve Losh on Twitter: “HTTP status ranges in a nutshell: 1xx: hold on 2xx: here you go 3xx: go away 4xx: you fucked up 5xx: I fucked up”
• Upgrade to ‎Microsoft Remote Desktop 10 on the Mac App Store
• Reading files that are locked by other references: c# – Notepad beats them all? – Stack Overflow
• Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi: Gunny Meets Uncle Bob – Part 1
• Have NoMessageBoxes depend on a global boolean · Issue #58 · pleriche/FastMM4 · GitHub
• Work around for running out of memory when building multiple projects in Delphi < 10.2
• A success story – kudos to ScaleMM, +André Mussche… – Ondrej Kelle – Google+
• zlib win32/i386/x86 and win64/x64_86 builds for Windows
• THE OFFICIAL SCRUM HANDBOOK by JEFF SUTHERLAND : SSM : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
• Windows event entries – reminder to research how to respond on them
• Delphi Build Groups: building all the Configuration/Target permutations of projects in your project group from inside the IDE
• bash: generating random passwords on Mac OS X / MacOS or what Apple calls their operating system by now
• Optimized Pascal compilation time | Fredrik Haglund’s blog
• Hack The Box :: Penetration Testing Labs
• Canon MF8200C default password…
• Not just the Agile Manifesto – there is also one on Craftsmanship
• Boot CDs (bootable from USB stick as well) for aiding PC recovery
• VLOOKUP Example Spreadsheet & Tutorial | Productivity Portfolio
• How to tell if your site is served via CloudFlare | Igor’s Blog
• Why Skylake CPUs Are Sometimes 50% Slower – How Intel Has Broken Existing Code – Alois Kraus
• Reminder to self: write up which refactoring options might work under what circumstances
• Delphi 2007 – when you lost your Borland.*.Targets file during a Windows upgrade
• ngHttp2 and OpenSSL win32/i386/x86 and win64/x64_86 (a.k.a. x86_64) builds for Windows
• Some tips for your Delphi project options hierarchy
• E2026 or W1023 – take your pick (:
• Finally: RAD Studio August 2018 Roadmap – Embarcadero Community
• Delphi unit prefixes for VCL applications
• The upcoming GMail changes – Learn what’s new in Gmail – Gmail Help
• Shouldnt this line be null terminated? HostEnt := gethostbyname(MarshaledASt…
• Two fans were podcasting at RetroMacCast before it was cool
• Prepaid SIM cards for USA
• Hacking Articles,Ethical Hacking Training in Delhi,Metasploit Training
• windows – What is a good light-weight CSV viewer? – Stack Overflow
• How I use Wireshark – Julia Evans
• Beyond compare – prefix any registry key comparisons with reg:\\
• Mac OS X beyond Yosemite: Ctrl-Click to add/remove an item from a selection fails in Windows on VMware Fusion
• One more reason to disable live bindings: it throws exceptions when a project is in a project group having multiple projects upon project group load
• Diffing binary files in PlasticSCM through Beyond Compare
• Just curious whether anyone has had experience with the Uses Cleaner written by Oleg Zhukov…
• Interesting channel with a truckload of Firemonkey FMX demos: Quark Cube – YouTube
• TIME_WAIT and MaxUserPort – what it is, what it does, when it’s important – Blog du Tristank
• On my research list: FastMM4 LogAllocatedBlocksToFile to help find pseudo “leaks”: allocations released at application end, but during run-time progressively increase memory usage
• Many ways to lock your MacBook
• Schrödinger’s dir Source: https://redd.it/662rkp #ProgrammerHumor
• Don’t expect high floating point performance from the Delphi for Linux compiler
• Today one year ago, it was a wonderful day waking up the morning after the World Music Contests…
• windows – How to list all files in directory/subdirectory without path name CMD? – Stack Overflow
• sosumi – because letitbeep was too obvious – apple Macintosh history
• A cheat-sheet for password crackers
• Sonic Pi
• Going to test some USB 3 gigabit ethernet adapters based on Realtek RTL8153 and Asix AX88179 chips
• DISM fix for Windows 8.1 high CPU usage of TiWorker.exe
• Merry SysMas!
• The Plastic equivalent of .gitignore is ignore.conf
• Quickly generate queries for all non-system tables in your database in Firebird or InterBase
• Reminder to self: adopt the below code to do $(…) expansion like the Delphi IDE does
• New IP addresses for Bitbucket Cloud | Bitbucket Blog
• When learning a new VCS drives you crazy: Plastic SCM indicating it cannot undo changes, but not providing an alternative
• Some notes on the MT940 format used by various banks to export transactions
• Getting the Firebird server version from a client using SQL
• RAD Studio 10.2.2 Annoying New Features. Help? – Forum – Embarcadero Community
• Starting your Delphi VCL app meanwhile your mouse is moving, no accelerators are shown (Menu, button, focus rect missing… etc.) same when clicking a button to open a new form
• Just I in case I need to port CombineApacheConfig.py to OpenSuSE properly
• Use TLS 1.2 or higher, as TLS 1.1 is phased out on many sites, after TLS 1.0/SLL has been disabled by most for a while now
• In case I ever need to record calls on my Fritz!Box devices
• The Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes – The Isoblog.
• (35) Enabling New Hardware in U-Boot – Jon Mason, Broadcom Ltd. – YouTube
• Hacking the Logitech C920 & C930e Webcams – Graves On SOHO Technology
• /dev/lawyer Open Source License Business Perception Report
• Some links for scaling and responsive resizing iframes
• Delphi Community Edition available: good move for Embarcadero, but be careful how much revenue you make
• Generating a million sequential numbers on the fly in a Firebird query – some solutions and speed measurements
• Agile &: Core Agile Practices
• Pretty printing HTML is the same as formatting code: How do you format code in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) – Stack Overflow
• ColorButton unit with TColorButton saved for posterity as http://delphi.about.com got hi-jacked.
• Firebird: the way you compare dates highly influences fetch times
• From the bragging “Did you know the IDE starts almost twice as fast in 10.2.2 as it did in 10.1?”
• GExperts “Set Component Properties”
• PowerShell on Mac OS X and other non-Windows systems
• Interesting take by Robin Message on Twitter: “I wrote an thing: How Scrum disempowers developers (and destroyed Agile)”
• Windows FireWall administration: I need to put some time in learning netsh
• Disable HTML5 Autoplay – Chrome Web Store
• Need to check out which weather widgets I can get working for a really long period of time with a refresh every minute.
• PlasticSCM: seriously? Comment size too long (which means your checkin message is too long), and why can’t I request a code review?
• Ian’s Shoelace Site – Shoelace Knots – How To Tie Your Shoes
• How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch
• CodeRage 8 replays: REST stuff
• The Relationship between Static Analysis and Continuous Testing – DaedTech
• Delphi TList.Grow and TStringList.Grow perform differently
• “The login already has an account under a different user name.” – MSSQL
• Delphi – pressing Ctrl-A on a TDBEdit was partially fixed in Delphi 10.2 Tokyo
• “Don’t access VCL from a background thread” – how to demo that?
• Transform Your ESP8266 Board into a USB to Serial Board Easily with Arduino Serial Bypass Sketch
• MSSQL: finding column names
• Professional techniques for C# – Lecture Notes Parts 1..4 of 4 – CodeProject
• IoT & Smart Location of Things – Google Maps, Google Cloud
• Skype consumer IP ranges
• btrfs free space. It’s complicated. Still.
• Mac: when “Save time with right-click sharing from your Google Drive folder” fails…
• Automated “take-down” algorithm simulation: thread by @AlecMuffett: “Regards Article13, I wrote up a little command-line false-positive emulator; it tests 10 million events with a test (for copyrighted material […]” #Article13
• Tail it: 4 new affordable GPS trackers with global range by Morten Sæthre — Kickstarter
• Online markup conversion from markdown to mediawiki: pandoc
• LEGO Macintosh classic with Wi-Fi and e‑paper display running docker
• Raspberry Pi zero W notes
• listview – TListView detecting ESC or unchanged editing – Stack Overflow
• You can use Linux API calls directly from Delphi 10.2 and up
• I totally forgot that Delphi has had a function to get the current executing thread – Stack Overflow
• Visual Studio – Add File As Link
• Cool 10-thousand piece domino bricks based computer that can add numbers
• Delphi – Viewing an array in the Watch Windows starting from a non-zero index
• Two reasons I love Visual Studio Code over Atom.io: built-in markdown support and vscode-markdown; just watch the CHANGELOG.md at master · neilsustc/vscode-markdown · GitHub
• Delphi – ModelMaker Code Explorer history lists in the registry
• Delphi – directives are not conditionals
• Apple Extends Free Repairs of Anti-Reflective Coating on Select MacBook and MacBook Pro Models – Mac Rumors
• Just in case I move away from Mikrotik
• Acer B326HK – not finding a signal when the linux host wakes up out of sleep
• Delphi: formatting uses lists to each unit is on a separate line
• VM disk sizes
• When you cannot RDP to a target because of “CredSSP-encryption Oracle remediation”: apply your target security patches.
• Wer kann mir erklären: Warum braucht ein Windows10-Update heute immer noch me…
• Solving “HHC6003: Error: The file Itircl.dll has not been registered correctly” – “Microsoft HTML Help Compiler 4.74.8702”
• Delphi still doesn’t raise overflow exception on Int64 multiplication…
• Some notes on what errors you get when using a gds32.dll not matching your Firebird or InterBase
• Database Identifiers | Microsoft Docs
• MySQL – there now seem to be replication mechanisms that work
• Stop Delphi generating .res files for unit test applications
• SQL: “where not exists … having” formulation; anti-join alternative
• A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode – Nathan Reed’s coding blog
• Settings Migration Tool – RAD Studio
• The Mysterious Case Of The Lost Inherited Call | The Art of Delphi Programming
• Mad With PowerShell
• Dennis1000/mos6502-delphi: A MOS 6502 CPU emulator written in Delphi (a very basic C64 + VIC20 emulator included)
• Use Software Restriction Policies to block viruses and malware | Branko Vucinec
• Main Innosetup site down; downloads are now at GitHub thanks to Martijn Laan
• An overview to find your way in the Logitech Webcams model forrest
• xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?
• I wish the Delphi language supported multi-line strings
• The Spilled Juice Analogy for Technical Debt | Disciplined Agile 2.X
• Two cool features of the TestInsight treeview – navigate and copy
• Class helpers and virtual methods – E2003 Undeclared identifier: ‘QueryInterface’/ ‘_AddRef’/’_Release’
• Amazon Alexa on a Raspberry Pi (add a USB microphone and a speaker with a 3.5mm plug)
• PowerShell – query reboot/shutdown events
• Lidl W5 oils are identical to Pennasol types
• Choosing a centralized logging and monitoring system
• Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
• These bone-conduction glasses are on sale for less than USD 70…
• Check if a domain is services by GMail for Business (former Google Mail for your domain)
• gmail – Way to automatically download or print attachments or URLs from emails with specific labels – Web Applications Stack Exchange
• GExperts 1.3.10 experimental twm 2018-06-03 – twm’s blog
• Firebird error “Operating system call _beginthreadex failed. Error code 8” can mean your server process ran out of memory
• Delphi MS OpenXML files – ZIP and XML…
• Build 2018: The Future of C#
• Delphi, IBX and the Turkish I problem
• Why I like PlantUML
• SD cards solutions to add 256 gigabyte to your non USB-C Retina MacBook
• Grammar Zoo – Browsable Borland Delphi Assembler Grammar
• [dcc32 Fatal Error] MyProject.dpr(23): F2051 Unit GUITestRunner was compiled with a different version of DUnitX.TestFramework.ITest
• Weird One Character Domain Superstore! Unicode IDN domains from á.xyz to 🧦.ws!
• Stop Spotlight from Indexing Time Machine Backup Volumes & External Drives
• Restrict SSH User Access to Certain Directory Using Chrooted Jail
• MC342dn | Drivers & software | OKI UK | Printers & Managed Print Services
• Twitter / Settings – see which external applications can post on your behalf
• USB serial converters from FTDI – how to select them and get rid of fake chips
• One more reason to have an ARC win32 compiler: tracking down memory leaks efficiently
• Why Semco Doesn’t Want Your Company To Be Like Semco | Corporate Rebels
• brew install go in a mac is easy with homebrew
• High DPI Patches For Delphi | The Art of Delphi Programming
• Our CTO has discovered an incredible way of making developers read his commit messages. You won’t even believe how he did it! | CommitStrip
• Delphi 10.2 Tokyo: they did not fix the broken documentation tab in 10.2.2 2004, but it is an “easy” fix to do yourself
• GitHub – oldcompcz/SpaceAssault: DOS space shooter in ASCII.
• Delphi versions that can convert .bpg to .groupproj files
• Field “id” not found, the The Turkish-İ/I/i/ı and case conversion and case folding – Update on the dasBlog Turkish-I bug and a reminder to me on Globalization – Scott Hanselman
• Chris Osbornes picture of (Almost) Every Wedge Computer he has Got : retrobattlestations
• How to Control Your Air Conditioner with Raspberry Pi Board and ANAVI Infrared pHAT
• stascorp/rdpwrap: RDP Wrapper Library – up to 15 RDP sessions on any Windows edition including basic/home/core
• Thread by @shanselman: “Sure. Not too complex. Thread -> .NET is a family. * Core runs on containers, many Linuxes, Windows and Mac. OSS, moves fast. * Framework […]”
• Horace Dediu on Twitter: “Personal computing, the first 40 years.… “
• “Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept”
• Regex – Does not contain certain Characters – Stack Overflow
• Delphi needs a few more wizards – verify dpr against dproj and check both against files on disk
• The .NET garbage collector sort-of documented: coreclr/garbage-collection.md at master · dotnet/coreclr
• CVE-2017-11509: Firebird fbudf Module Authenticated Remote Code Execution – Firebird News
• Coding is not “fun,” it’s technically and ethically complex — Quartz
• Some useful Visual Studio Keyboard bindings – via my comment at “Allow for floating windows · Issue #10121 · Microsoft/vscode · GitHub”
• Akismet GDPR notification: enabled
• Class Constructors/Destructors are special initialization/finalization sections – via Popping the hood. – Community Blogs – Embarcadero Community
• Via G+: I’m having some trouble with high DPI support and popup menus…
• Use DelphiAST – via TPersistent.com » Blog Archive » The Parsing Problem
• Indy Sockets and getting a description on the connection depends on the direction
• Google verlaagt prijzen opslagdienst Drive en komt met familieabonnement – Computer – Nieuws – Tweakers
• Windows 10 added one more account: WDAGUtilityAccount
• DRAM Access Timing – now and then (then = during 6502 times) TL;DR: Modern DR…
• I’d probably take a W520 over it, but Lenovo Thinkpad T420: Another excellent, inexpensive Linux laptop | Open-Source Routing and Network Simulation
• Hmm, latest Tumbleweed on Raspberry Pi 3 has an odd thing booting: Ansi termi…
• Apple II Ethernet Module – a2RetroSystems
• Fixing the WSDLImp command-line Delphi WSDL importer to parse WSDL files including XSD files using xsd:group at the top level
• Indy repo URLs and nightly builds
• Getting the new MMX from Raabe Software to work when installing it as separate Administrative user
• Inspect (Windows) to find Automation properties and control patterns, as well as Microsoft Active Accessibility properties
• MMX – speed up your Delphi development, now maintained by Raabe Software
• How does a relational database work – Coding Geek
• Delphi – when compiling consts doesn’t work…
• Delphi WSDL importer compiler defines
• Delphi Are you familiar with “forgotten” hints? Here is a very rough example how to get rid of them…
• Is there any way to record a keyboard macro in the IDE?
• Microsoft is gestopt met gratis Windows 10-upgrade via toegankelijkheidspagina – Computer – Nieuws – Tweakers
• The Businesses Apple Has Left Behind – MacStories
• Open Apple #66 (December 2016) : Glenda “The Atom” Adams | Open Apple
• Max Schrems on Twitter: “WTF?! So the “solution” of #Facebook, #Goolge or #Microsoft for #GDPR is to claim they have a “legitimate interest” to take all the data they can get their hands on and use it for any of their “products” (incl. ads)… 😧😭 #BeggingForThe4Percent”
• dzComputerInfo: a small tool that shows a window on top of all other windows displaying the computer name and currently logged on user.
• kryo.se: iodine (IP-over-DNS, IPv4 over DNS tunnel)
• Local Guides Connect – Big news about reviews: now they’re worth 10 point… – Local Guides Connect
• GDPR for database professionals and DBAs. Poster.
• Expand your Collections collection – Part 2: a generic ring buffer – grijjy blog
• Electronics components and resistor decoder colours
• Delphi Mqtt Clients
• Delphi: a pattern for a generic factory, this one for components, but can be uses for anything having a base class like a TThread descendant.
• Delphi WSDL default importer settings
• Delphi – finding published event handlers that have lost their binding from the DFM
• State.of.dev
• “A Journey to OCP”, Open Compute Meetup in Amsterdam – YouTube
• Ubuntu: Fixing the myserious “Failed to stop apt-daily.timer: Connection timed out”
• When Windows suddenly starts mixing up keys for various applications.
• When you loose your Google Guides level, still can post reviews, but do not have access to the forums any more…
• How to Add Your Gmail Account to Outlook 2013 and 2016 Using IMAP
• Some Raspberry Ideas via Tweakers.net
• Nick Craver on Twitter: “GDPR Erasure is fun, because you are required to disassociate the fact it happened as well, or at least disassociate it from the person. So when a regulator audits you, how can you prove you did it? Yeah let’s just ignore those pesky details.”
• fremag/MemoScope.Net: Dump and analyze .Net applications memory ( a gui for WinDbg and ClrMd )
• Multi-threading in C#: Back to Basics (Part 1 of N) – CodeProject
• Procedural Programming: It’s Back? It Never Went Away – Kevlin Henney [ACCU 2018] – YouTube
• When a site creates way too many cookies, you get a “Bad Request – Request Too Long”
• Some links on how Windows detects if a program “is not responding”
• I’m looking for 12V G4 LED bulbs with a 30mm maximum length (including pins),…
• How to create a folder that inherits its parent’s ACL, and then overrides part of it – The Old New Thing
• Containers, totally not a lightweight VM, and also not a hype.
• Windows Firewall: Block rules take precedence over Allow rules
• CoreFreq – A Powerful CPU Monitoring Tool for Linux Systems
• How to move Gmail sub-label out of hiearchy – Web Applications Stack Exchange
• Old Google+ versions and photo backup may stop working on May 20, 2018 – Google+ Help
• Penetration Testing Tools and nmap Cheat Sheets
• Dear Twitter: masked passwords are not the same as hashed passwords. Please refrain from storing them in any recoverable form.
• Happy Password day – BTW: Use a password manager. Don’t reuse passwords. – The Isoblog.
• GitLeaks – Search Engine for exposed secrets on the web
• Client-Side Password Hashing – DelphiTools
• Delphi .dproj file changed or not changed? Normalize it! | The Art of Delphi Programming
• delphi – How to get rid of exception 80000003? – Stack Overflow
• Delphi: There is a FastMM4 fork with AVX support and multi-threaded enhancements (faster locking) – how will it impact floating point heavy applications (as Delphi uses SSE instructions for floating point)
• Node.js ES2015/ES6 support – compare language/runtime versions support for many items
• Limits on Everything – The Isoblog.
• Intel SSD 600p Series NVMe SSD Temperatures: ensure you cool it properly even for moderate use
• How to clone existing KVM virtual machine images on Linux
• Chris Bensen: Make Bootable macOS Sierra USB Install Drive
• Backup & Sync: The ridiculous steps you need to move the Google Drive from the C: drive to the D: drive
• More old Apple documentation
• joshbuchea/HEAD: A list of everything that could go in the HEAD of your HTML document
• MijnJohn – gerritdejager.nl – oud en jong hebben moeite met digitalisering: omdat alle mijn* verschillend werken.
• Home – Outpan – GTIN to product attribute mapping
• When updates on a SELECT timeout with FireDAC, MSSQL 2016 and a ~8k varbinary field in the table
• On my research list for Delphi use – FlowFinity and DreamFactory
• Pathfinder, a fast GPU-based font rasterizer in Rust – pcwalton
• Reminder to self: check out “Debugging helper for TDataSet” and “debugger TDataSetVisualizer” for Delphi
• How to embed a superscript Registered symbol in a Rave memo buffer.
• use `zypper refresh` when this fails: openSUSE Tumbleweed upgrade – openSUSE
• If you never updated your Intel 320 SSD firmware, you should
• A while ago, Windows 10 started to popup an Edge browser window after reboot without an internet connection
• 4 of the Best Critical Thinking Resources for Learners to Have
• Fixing a broken mirrored Intel Matrix RAID-1 machine
• How to switch off the sound on the desktop Hangout? – Google Product Forums
• Tip for the doc team: make TMonitor.Enter docs more clear on non-blocking re-entry from the same thread
• Reminder to Self: `TProc` is incompatible with parameterless procedures on interfaces
• … / source / Native / Delphi / Library / Data / DataSetEnumeratorUnit.pas — Bitbucket
• TTemporaryFileStream – via DELPHI AREA » How to have a temporary stream, with no size limit
• Why you should try to avoid using Variant operations in Delphi
• The 68 things the CLR does before executing a single line of your code (*) · Performance is a Feature!
• Doing hardware upgrades, infrastructure rearrangements and software updates over this week. Expect some down-time…
• Change Excel’s ‘edit in cell’ keyboard shortcut | Macworld
• BensonApproved – USB Type-C
• macos – When /tmp/wifi-*.log will show up and how can I stop it? – Super User
• Finding out why Github doesn’t render your reStructuredText as expected
• David Heffernan was on a bug reporting spree. Compiler unit tests could have detected these much faster.
• Delphi attributes cannot use `const x: array of string` as argument
• Improve Android and iOS debug compilation speed – grijjy blog – Set the Debug information option to Limited Debug information
• Uptime Robot SMTP check is not service-specific (yet) but a TCP check…
• beep, patch and ed – The Isoblog.
• acaudwell/Gource: software version control visualization
• CLIFF Electronic Components – Quicktest; Resistance wheel
• Is a raspberry pi 1 good enough for a pihole server? : pihole
• A Tour of Go
• kentcdodds/issue-template: A way for github projects to make templates for github issues.
• BAG Viewer – 0363100012131170
• iSesamo Opening Tool – iFixit
• Git repository with fixed binaries for Tumbleweed on Raspberry Pi 3 – Bug 1084419 – Glibc update to 2.27 causes segfault during name resolution
• Disable the Delphi clipboard history; originally by Attila Kovacs at https://plus.google.com/u/0/108426155215159556558/posts/6MBZuMYDTCD
• Chris Bensen: Sync a Shared Google Calendar with Calendar in iOS or macOS
• Teardown of an IKEA Koppla USB power supply. – YouTube
• Solid state drives in Linux: Enabling TRIM for SSDs – fstrim command and mount option discard | Opensource.com
• Tumbleweed: Comparing your local version with the on-line versions
• Do not use non-ASCII characters as identifiers – not all your tools support them well enough
• Wizard to change Delphi Icon so it used the Projects’ Icon
• Werkgevers mogen mensen met handicap onder minimumloon gaan betalen, dus gaat hun pensioen omlaag, ondanks aanvulling loon door de gemeenten
• C# 8.0 features – an exiting list of new possibilities on the horizon
• Efficient and easy-to-use JSON and BSON library – grijjy blog
• From the #AllesIstKaput department: DNS 1.1.1.1 is unusable for many; 9.9.9.9 has government affiliation
• Functional programming in C# – CodeProject
• Nick Craver on Twitter: “Evidently they make USB rechargeable arc lighters now, most around $10 on Amazon…and they’re awesome:… “
• Where am I?
• History: Pascal compiler for 68000 firmware development
• De Aker – restaurants in de omgeving die goed bereikbaar zijn
• DNS traffic monitoring tools: tshark, tcpdump or dnstop
• The origin of the space between in the “Heineken Brouwerij” logo of the Amsterdam brewery
• Exclusive: The Silicon Valley quest to preserve Stephen Hawking’s voice – San Francisco Chronicle
• Google Maps: Where’s Wally
• Urgent security advisory – MikroTik – upgrade to 6.41.3 if you can change your bridge implementation, ensure SMB and WWW are not WAN accessible
• Google Home and Bluetooth speakers make the perfect pair
• Telefoonverslaving
• Interactive additive and subtractive colour mixing
• Connecting two Macs using Thunderbolt | Macworld
• FizzBuzz as interview question – video by Tom Scott
• PascalABC.net – .NET version of Pascal with its own IDE
• Interesting ways to obtain MTU and MSS sizes – via Troubleshooting Bitbucket Cloud MTU/MSS issues – Atlassian Documentation
• Privacy badger: blocks spying ads and invisible trackers. Not just for Facebook, but for every site.
• Cracking xkcd Passwords in little time, breaking 12 character passwords in more time… hashing algorithms…
• terminate screen monitoring serial port – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• Capturing from a Magewell XI100USB on a Mac using OS X
• Office 2011 for Mac update pesky Window pops up every 10 seconds
• A Post-Mortem on the Recent Developer Story Information Leak – Meta Stack Overflow
• This Is The First Detailed Footage of DNA Replication, And It Wasn’t What We Expected
• Installing PowerShell Core on macOS and Linux | Microsoft Docs
• Sometimes clouds vaporise: the Docker Cloud shuts down in ~8 weeks.
• Get more surveys from Google Opinion Rewards
• Reminder to self if I want to include an SD card in a Time Machine backup
• Facebook knows all about you: Unrolled thread from @dylanmckaynz
• 23 Things Only 90s Sysadmins will Remember – DiscoPosse.com
• macos – How to change the language used on Mac App Store? – Ask Different
• macos – How can I manually delete old backups to free space for Time Machine? – Ask Different
• How to use Facebook while giving it the minimum amount of personal data – The Verge
• From TailsOS – I needed a faster security wipe to clear out a Linux VM’s…
• Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated – but it still pays to switch to PowerShell
• One of those “duh” moments: “go –version” says there is no “go -version”, but there is “go version”
• Update for DprojNormalizer | The Art of Delphi Programming
• In this day and age, people still write SQL injection vulnerable code
• Switching from net-tools to iproute2 or not? You probably have no choice, but the iproute2 cheat-sheet is 20+ pages…
• Ben, blogging: Show the complete apache config file
• Just in case you are wondering what these %TEMP%\_MEI* folders are about: Google Drive does not cope well with Windows logoff/shutdown…
• Understanding how Design Thinking, Lean and Agile Work Together | ThoughtWorks
• macos – How can I list all user accounts in the terminal? – Ask Different
• A beginner’s guide to beefing up your privacy and security online
• Wolfgang Rupprecht on Dennis H. Klat, Carlos Hawking and Deeklatt – Google+
• Opinion needed: DIY or branded scanner for scanning film negatives and slides?
• 0x8024400E error with WSUS SP2
• Tumbleweed on Raspberry Pi 3 – Bug 1084419 – Glibc update to 2.27 causes segfault during name resolution
• EmbarcaderoMonitoring – monitoring the Embarcadero internet related services
• Stop using anemic daily stand-up questions | Software on a String
• Delphi: do not mix interfaces and classes part X
• GitHub – keith-turner/ecoji: Encodes (and decodes) data as emojis
• Medisch dossier | Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens: wie heeft recht op inzage/wijziging/verwijdering van welke gegevens en waarom wel/niet?
• Aerotwist – 🌟 When everything’s important, nothing is! 🌟
• kdzwinel/betwixt: Web Debugging Proxy based on Chrome DevTools Network panel.
• Windows 10: Update error 0x8024a112 | Born’s Tech and Windows World
• Reasons you might to think about when not to do OO
• 15 months later: what happened to Delphi Language Enhancements?
• uitcheckgemist.nl
• If I ever have to do bind named work again…
• How do I disconnect all other users in tmux? – Stack Overflow
• GitHub – Genymobile/scrcpy: Display and control your Android device
• Alan Cox on G+: fonts that fit an 8×8 bitmap format but are variable width…
• What is Swapfile.sys and How Do You Delete It?
• libssh-delphi will migrate from Mercurial on BitBucket to git on GitHub soon (or finding about “fatal: repository … not found”, “MSVCR120.dll is missing” and “D3DCOMPILER_47.dll is missing” when prepping a fresh VM for a presentation)
• Why do 90% of the Visual Studio Tools and Extensions make it so hard to update…
• OCW Course Index | MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials
• If you like Oz: VSoft is hiring – .NET/Full Stack Developer, local or remote
• Packet Sender is a good tool when debugging protocols: free utility to send & receive network packets. TCP, UDP, SSL
• Open SourceTree tickets
• Visual studio (2015) emulator for android not working – XDE.exe – Exit Code 3 – Stack Overflow
• multithreading – Closure in TTask.Run(AnonProc) not released after AnonProc has finished – Stack Overflow
• C to Go “cheat sheet” at C, Go – Hyperpolyglot
• Koushik Dutta (Koush) – Google+Hackintosh Guide: GA-X99P-SLI | Intel 6950X | GTX 980ti
• #Tech45 – Nederlandstalige tech-podcast
• Sex, Pong, And Pioneers: What Atari Was Really Like, According To Women Who Were There
• For my postfix studies…
• »Smart car = vulnerable car Smart watch = vulnerable watch Smart home =…
• Zorgkantoor Zorg en Zekerheid: Zorgbeschrijvingen en zorgovereenkomsten
• Some links on getting a Remeha Avanta 35c connected to LoT
• WouterVanNifterick/C-To-Delphi: C To Delphi converter
• Bye bye plaxo link
• YouTube videos in Markdown – via Markdown Cheatsheet · adam-p
• “all (file based) data is a program that gets executed when read”
• You can now purchase items on any other country’s Google Store – seems to be a feature
• Cross platform console based UI toolkit for .NET with “Turbo Vision” looks: GitHub – migueldeicaza/gui.cs
• Omg this is awesome. Synchronize settings etc between Atom installs! …
• »If files are 3 KB in size, does it make more sense to store them directly in a DB or does it make more sense to store only their path in the DB?«
• Windows 10 auto-logout on <5 minutes of inactivity – Super User
• calculate crc32 on the command-line using 7z.exe – Using 7-zip hashing to compare directories and files – Sami Lehtinen
• Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown Behavior – Proxmox VE
• Getting close to 7zip GUI “Ultra” compression from a batch file
• Can you save money by using a battery to buy your electricity cheaper?
• Google URLs with funny results
• Interesting IKEA BEKANT desks via AOC U3277PWQU 4K 32″ monitor.
• Searching for Windows shutdown messages in the event log
• Code Review Checklist – CodeProject
• Atom.io package pandoc convert requires pdflatex for converting to pdf
• Cleaning up a huge “Console.log” file on SBS 2008
• Cleaning up a huge “DataServiceComponents.log” file on SBS 2008
• Nas4free – keeping an eye on the daily increase of ZFS disk usage
• How to Install and Configure Postfix as a Send-Only SMTP Server on Ubuntu 16.04 | DigitalOcean
• When Atom crashes you’re guided to use safe-mode, but safe-mode cannot disable packages
• Running/execute an Atom.io command not present in the menu/toolbar isn’t that obvious
• command line – Linux’ `ps f` (tree view) equivalent on OSX? – Ask Different
• macos – Right-click, create a new text file. How? – Ask Different
• Some useful commands for Proxmox high IO troubleshooting
• Always watch your uA sources: The mystery of the Zombie RAM | josh.com
• Nikon AF modules reference table
• Using a Mac for prepping the SD-card for an ODROID-C1+
• On my research list: migrate from OpenSuSE SuSEfirewall2 to firewalld
• Do NOT download the Embarcadero patch for RAD Studio 10.2.2!
• Nutribullet does not activate – activators jammed
• ups.com -> expensive; upstoday.com -> affordable
• Scott Hanselman on Witter: “Why should I care about Kubernetes, Docker, and Container Orchestration?”
• Iterations Mean Rapid Feedback — Agile Heretic Episode Five
• Stuff on my research list thanks to Martijn Laarman (@Mpdreamz)
• api-ai-interface I started playing with API.AI a while ago (because of Googl…
• Mixing x64 Outlook with x86 Delphi: never a good idea…
• pandas/Pandas_Cheat_Sheet.pdf at master · pandas-dev/pandas
• Anti Patterns Catalog
• Removing double quotes from variables in batch file creates problems with CMD environment – Stack Overflow
• Odroid-C1 (and likely others): fixing the textmode cursor on the physical console
• Changing the network from public -> private in Windows 10 is way to convoluted (works for 8.1, 8 and 7 too)
• Is memory ballooning a thing from the past or still current?
• Finding out when your domain password will expire :: Active Directory :: Admin Tips :: Windows 7 :: Windows Server 2012/2008/2003/2000/XP/NT Administrator Knowledge Base :: KBase Tips :: WindowsNetworking.com
• Does this company still exist today? ; DROP TABLE “COMPANIES”;– LTD
• GetPublished – Author Information
• Happy “check your backups day”; does your restore process work? And how is the rest of your admin process doing?
• Which class memory management model would you prefer for Delphi?
• Life Beyond Distributed Transactions – ACM Queue
• As Delphi generics are not supported for free functions, wrap them in a record container.
• unxz on Mac OS X requires the xz formula from homebrew
• Delphi 2009 syntax; not official, but a great start and complement to DelphiAST
• Gratis WiFi met Fon HotSpots (voor klanten) | KPN
• Etaoin shrdlu – via 5 Hole Paper Tape – Computerphile
• foone on Twitter: I’m FINALLY ready to turn my old computer in to IT. They have to power on all turned in computers to make sure they’re functional before they recycle them, so they’re in for a small surprise. Windows 3.0 running on MS-DOS 6.22!…
• WhatsApp FAQ – Formatting your messages
• Location, location
• Wat is het rekeningnummer van ICS – Mijn ICS
• Proxmox with Windows VMs and backups: why you want qemu-agent and how to install it
• mikrotik CRUD examples for all APIs · danikf/tik4net Wiki
• HTTP Protocol Related Improvements in Delphi 10.2.2
• git repository by David Heffernan – sets environment variable DelphiProjectCompileMode to the build type
• How to terminate sqlcmd immediately after execution completed? – Stack Overflow
• How to do a Debug, Release or both builds with MSBuild – code.dblock.org | tech blog
• [MS-DTYP]: Well-Known SID Structures via The mother lode of well-known SIDs – The Old New Thing
• Maybe one day the Object Inspector gets a real overhaul
• Many people realised that “You are right” cuts short of a lot of discussions. But it has made coaching my brother as a custodian lot harder.
• When clonezilla shows “overlayfs missing workdir” during boot, then hangs
• How can I reset a PC if I forgot the administrator password? – The Old New Thing
• Notifications – Google+
• openSUSE – Review of the week 2018/03 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) – be sure to review your openssh config!
• Installing A Maccon Card In A Macintosh Se/30 – Asante MacCon Family Ethernet Network Cards For The Macintosh Installation Manual [Page 29]
• mtr does ping and traceroute in one go – bold/red lines are for non-responding hosts
• Microsoft guided walk through to Fix Windows Update errors
• Backreaction: Pure Nerd Fun: The Grasshopper Problem
• Debuggex: Online visual regex tester. JavaScript, Python, and PCRE.
• Poor mans C to Delphi converter by Wouter van Nifterick
• Using hardware security tokens cross-platform is only slightly more complicat…
• Convert space indented text to markdown minus indented
• Links to various Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio downloads (arm/x64/x86 when available)
• Provisioning Windows 7 test VMs with know users/passwords
• Changing component class at run-time on demand for older Delphi versions need a bit more magic than you’d expect
• Potential wifi drop problem caused by Google devices – Google Product Forums
• Best SSDs: Holiday 2017
• Intel Sightings in ESXi Bundled Microcode Patches for VMSA-2018-0004 (52345)
• It’s Crash-Along Cymbals! Can you keep up with the bonkers finale of Tchaikovsky 4? – London Philharmonic Orchestra
• SexiLog – better insight in VMware vSphere/ESXi logs
• Ubuntu – changing hostname without rebooting
• du -h -c -s *  — shows human readable total sizes of all subdirectories and a overall total
• Top 2000 vlog workshop impressies
• VMware ESXi 6.5.0 Patch History
• 20180110 – spelen tijdens de finale van “Nu”, de nieuwe show van Claudia de Breij
• What happens when a huge number of people share a single grocery store loyalty card? – The Old New Thing
• Is the era of management over? | World Economic Forum
• Reminder to self: Sort out empty (zero size) Icon? files in Google Drive folder on OS X and Windows
• Proxmox – recovering a Windows 7 machine having “Missing operating system”
• badssl.com
• .— . .-. — . -.
• ACME TLS-SNI-01 validation disabled due to vulnerability – Incidents – Let’s Encrypt Community Support
• 19 Tips For Everyday Git Use
• Reminder to self – Fiddler for OS X Beta
• A way to bypass a Chrome interstitial page is to type a secret keyword…
• xs:choice element to C# – Google Search
• Delphi: playing Chimes.wav as an external file or embedded WAVE resource in Delphi XE5.
• Damned ! var Comp : function(const s1, s2: string): Boolean; begin if CheckB…
• Autoregister attribute for Delphi | Jon L. Aasenden
• SSLLabs security reports for some embarcadero subdomains
• Anonymise of data is hard, not just for now, but especially preventing future de-anonymisation
• Some FastMM scenarios require NeverUninstall because the System unit finalizes things innitialised in other units
• Some KlikAanKlikUit links – it runs at 433 Mhz is insecure, but for lights should work fine
• Zabbix: better “Disk space usage” graphs for Windows systems
• How did this shit ever work? – The Isoblog.
• Bol.com E-waste: recycling old electronics
• Chrome on Mac OS X keeps all old versions it ever installed…
• 1984 and (IT) (in)security – lots of Spectre / Meltdown links
• Private keys in software from Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and the German Federal Bar (Bulletproof TLS Newsletter Issue #36)
• Animation problems in Delphi Tokyo 10.2 update 2? Check bug RSP-19525
• “simply” hold the refresh button and then tap on Request Desktop Site – How to Use WhatsApp on iPad
• Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances: When I double-click a .pps/.ppx file, the PowerPoint icon appear on the taskbar…
• Record helpers can do wonders for code clarity.
• Delphi inner scoping is undefined. Please Embarcadero/Idera, come up with a formal language definition for Delphi
• Raspberry Pi | RTAndroid
• mappings between counters, structure and Task Manager columns – Memory Performance Information (Windows)
• Michael Kaplan Obituary – Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz | Cleveland Heights OH (and a whole bunch of info in zero width Unicode stuff)
• Reinstalling atom.io: getting the user-installed package list then re-installing it.
• Actions on Google  |  Actions on Google  | Google Developers
• LAUNCHED https://uberpdf.org/
• OpenSuSE on ODROID? Maybe one day I get to researching that
• Happy new Year everyone! 🤣😂
• I dunno, It works on my machine. Ship it.
• jessie frazelle on Twitter: “Hire the people who will automate themselves out of a job, then just keep giving them jobs.”
• Senior Oops Engineer on Twitter <
• Delphi FMX TBitmapCodecManager.LoadFromFile calls TImageTypeChecker.GetType that returns ONLY predefined image types
• In case you are still curious on “It’s a German thing, you wouldn’t understand. ‘Dinner for one’ on New Year’s eve.”
• Dutch daily weather data: KNMI – Daggegevens van het weer in Nederland
• Consolidating NTFS free space
• cyber- (prefix): (1) A linguistic cue informing the reader that the meaning of…
• Time to Grow Up: Counterproductive Security Behaviors That Must End // Speaker Deck
• C# – All About Span: Exploring a New .NET Mainstay
• Delphi: it is better to use ifndef rather than ifdef to keep the IDE working properly…
• Idera / Embarcadero at least fixed some of their security issues…
• Valid reasons for having Delphi AnsiString on Mobile platform…not only for Internet but for Shaders also. //…
• c# – Why does Try-Catch require curly braces – Stack Overflow
• Maximum filename length 60 characters, le-sigh
• Wasgij Destiny 17 INT ‘Paying the Price! 1000pcs – Jumbo
• Head scratching with a TargetParameterCountException | Software on a String
• Some links on multicast networking, Raspberry Pi and DVB USB adapters that help you build a TV server
• The fireplace yule Log visualiser in Google Play Music works, but only from web-browser, not from app
• seo – How to request Google to re-crawl my website? – Stack Overflow
• htop – an interactive process viewer for Unix
• The ÜberPDF™ SDK is done! – complete build system – 100% open source – all platforms…
• hardware rec – When to stop using a hard drive? What rules/software apply? – Super User
• CPU FAN header is called FANA on SuperMicro X10SRI-F and X10SL7-F – Onboard LSI
• WayBack throwing “Wayback Exception An unknown exception has occurred. Unexpected Error” usually indicates a cookie problem
• QCScraper ClientDataSet XML dump results – archive of qc.embarcadero.com
• Reminder to self – proposals for Delphi Language Enhancements, a year later
• Another case against FreeAndNil
• QualityCentral Report 95543: An overloaded routine cannot be assigned to the method reference
• IDE Fix Pack 6.1.2 (supports Delphi 10.2.2) | Andy’s Blog and Tools
• How to make an iframe fit or fill 100% of its container’s remaining height – Sikwati
• R.I.P. Paweł Głowacki – you will be dearly missed, not just in the Delphi community
• If you use Delphi or RAD Studio 10.2.2, ensure you have the latest one installed (build 2004) as it fixes some binary DCU incompatibility bugs 
• 301 & 302 Redirect Generator Tool
• Some Atom.io packages I have installed for html editing
• WinHTTP Cipher restrictions to TLSv1.2 does not work on Windows7, Server 2008 R2 and Server 2012…
• Historic storage prices: graphs and tables
• Search in Google+ – Computer – Google+ Help
• The day that the internet archive was down for a few hours – time to sponsor them.
• Helft homepaginas van Nederlandse overheidswebsites gebruikt geen https – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers
• Crypto Museum (Amsterdam, 2016) – Google Photos
• Some notes on having static-web site owners upload their content over SFTP
• On my research list – the Delphi ORM Generator (it’s in the Windows store; does it support Spring4D ORM?)
• Zaterdag 16 december 2017 Informatiemarkt Badhoevedorp | Gemeente Haarlemmermeer
• What is thread safety anyway?
• Herding Nulls and Other C# Stories From the Future
• Intel Intrinsics Guide
• Scalable spinlocks 1: array-based | The Infinite Loop
• LINQ Debugging and Visualization – Simple Talk
• “error accessing the registry” while importing a registry file
• Task Scheduler – command-line End a Running Task
• Fixing Invalid HELO’s – major.io
• LPT: When struggling to hang a picture or mirror on a screw on the wall, push the spikes of a fork down over the screw,with the handle pointing up. Then slide the picture string down the fork down onto the screw.Then remove fork. : LifeProTips
• Pi-hole v3.2 Introduces Long-term Statistics, An Audit Log, Colours, and More! – Pi-hole®: A black hole for Internet advertisements
• Writing Bug-Free C Code – free book by Jerry Jongerius
• Let’s stop copying C / fuzzy notepad
• Oh nice. Feel free to QP. E2003WithConstsInDescendingClassesConsoleProject
• DNS, glue records and TTL
• Data Science Advent – franz.media
• Interactive map of Linux kernel
• Delphi tip of the day: {$WARN UNSUPPORTED_CONSTRUCT ERROR} to get rid of W1025 when using an undeclared attribute
• coinmon: In case you don’t want to install 61 packages [1] :)
• On the Docker-Kubernetes announcement: if Kubernetes does so much, do you still use Docker?
• XS4ALL has stopped providing ftp in the middle of 2017: now you can use sftp or sftp.
• Duplicate File Finder for files & folders on the Mac App Store
• Restoring files from OS X Time Machine with Terminal.app
• Re: [opensuse-factory] openssl dependency problems with snapshot 2017112
• 25-11-2017 Birmingham (GB) Tattoo 2017 | Flickr
• The ##Netherlands saw a big I.T. project meant to deliver a new citizen regis…
• SuSEconfig is dead…
• Getting rid of [dcc32 Warning] W1029 Duplicate constructor ‘ClassName.ConstructorName’ with identical parameters will be inacessible from C++
• Objective-See: the Mac OS X / MacOS / Mac OS 10 root password issue tracked down
• QA frustrations: waiting  almost a year for a resolution
• Yay! The WordPress.com Press-This bookmarklet now works again!
• Canonical Delphi Singleton Pattern – Stack Overflow
• tiOPF discussion thread
• Until 20171201 you can get free access to “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python”? 
• Kriscode.Hint := ‘Kris”s coding blog’: Lazarus IDE on ARM Ubuntu (Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu Touch, etc)
• Implementing Memoize in Delphi 2009 – Community Blogs – Embarcadero Community
• iptables debugging « \1
• Kaart met onontplofte bommen in Amsterdam nu openbaar
• OS X dmg files – Disk Utility usually creates them read-only
• Chrome Store Foxified: Enables the Google Chrome Store and Opera Addons Website for Firefox.
• DNS Knowledge DNS Tutorial, News and Tools: How to setup Quad9 DNS on a Linux
• macbook – OS X 10.9.5 hangs with grey spinner; safe mode last message is “payload 2: device was reinitialized” – Ask Different
• MCL65 – a cycle exact 6502 in an FGPA
• Use operator overloading for classes with non-ARC compiler · GitHub
• Capitalization Conventions – more than Canceled not Cancelled
• Say NO to Venn Diagrams When Explaining JOINs – Java, SQL and jOOQ.
• check if network connection is permanent
• OpenBSD on PC Engines APU2 | Hacker News
• Delphi history: No, dynamic arrays do not support a non-zero lower bound, but what if you want them? – via Stack Overflow
• Google Maps gets a new look
• Excellent blog post from Jessica on how to setup the best Linux on Windows environment! @jldeen – via @shanselman
• Applefritter | Applefritter
• CompuServe’s forums, which still exist, are finally shutting down on 20171215
• Some notes on “The WordPress bookmarklet was deprecated. Please delete it from your web browser.” because the `/wp-admin/press-this.php` based URLs look very similar.
• OS X El Capitan: Open an app from an unidentified developer
• github – Open Atom editor from command line – Stack Overflow
• Hi! how to hide a property in object inspector? i have my custom components …
• DNS BIND9 acl clause – they *can* be nested
• Happy 60th birthday, Fortran
• FastMM4 + Delphi – Recompiling application with 10.2.1 causes memory leaks?
• immediate “Too many authentication failures” – check your authentication methods
• Changing a commit message – User Documentation
• Delphi: ^TNodeData incompatible with PNodeData – {$T+} versus {$T-}
• A 4-bit Calculator made in cardboard and marble
• Did you miss the ‘View Certificate’ button in Chrome? : sysadmin
• For everyone who still loves and uses old computers.
• Microsoft live/passport account Security settings URL
• Vulnerability Note VU#446847 – Savitech USB audio drivers install a new root CA certificate
• Playing Humax 5400C content on a Mac under OS X
• Some links on isolating parts of networks with Mikrotik
• TLS tests for your mail server
• MX Backup – Postfix Email Server | samhobbs.co.uk
• InnoSetup where the *AppData constants point to
• Issues are disabled at tohosokawa/rst-preview-pandoc: reStructuredText preview in Atom using Pandoc
• bash: `printf` supports `\e` just like `echo -e` does
• Session plan for all of CodeRage XII (starts 20171107)
• Long read about Unicode: You, Me And The Emoji: Character Sets, Encoding And Emoji – Smashing Magazine
• #pixelpushing Trying to estimate pretty much anything related to schedules in software development be all like…
• Installing ruby gems on Windows
• “Network Graph of Programming Language Influence – White Background” Posters by ramiro | Redbubble
• Anyone having trouble with Windows 10 latest update (build 1709)?
• (52) You Give REST a Bad Name – YouTube
• Delphi history: on why was TypInfo.pas is not named TypeInfo…
• Argumate — program languages “What if …”
• Halloween costume – SQL “Server” and his DataBass : ProgrammerHumor
• {$DUPLICATEENABLE ON} against name collisions in Delphi…
• Agiles Coaching by Judith Andresen [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]
• Loss of Hewlett-Packard Archive a Wake-Up Call for Computer Historians – IEEE Spectrum
• Especially important for Delphi users on Windows 10 Creators Update: IDE Fix Pack 6.1 released | Andy’s Blog and Tools
• Firebird – generate time/date/timestamp values
• Until someone writes proper string visualisers for the Delphi debugger…
• Android app writers: How to lose your end-users’ notification privilege…
• How to connect S+DA0003 using SFP between MikroTikCRS226 and MikroTikCCR1009
• ModMyPi | Cluster HAT Kit Inc. 4 x Raspberry Pi Zero
• Need to give this some thought: multi-LAN on Mikrotik
• OS X Mountain Lion and up: Zoom content on the screen
• Internet of default passwords … – did it improve at all?
• The Format function introduced in Delphi 1 was based on the FormatStr function in Turbo Vision available in Turbo Pascal 6 or higher
• roelandjansen/pcmos386v501: PC-MOS/386 v5.01 final release including cdrom driver sources.
• cURL – POST an XML file as a stream
• MAC address ranges safe for testing purposes (Locally Administered Address)
• EKON 21 – The Conference for Delphi & More
• Delay running a script after restart – MikroTik RouterOS
• Windows/*n*x: Getting curl to output HTTP status code – Super User
• Nikon D850 Negative Digitizer Mode | Richard Haw’s Nikon Maintenance Site
• All about UEFI vs BIOS – who to follow
• HOW-TO: Enable Hyper V on Windows 8.x Pro, and create a VM on it – YouTube
• I keep a separate gallery app around just to be able to upload specific pictu…
• HOW TO: Fix the Error loading /s.v00 Fatal error: 33 (Inconsistent data) in the VMware vSphere Hypervisor
• “You would make for a great computer programmer”
• Mikrotik Router OS 6.37.1 – scripts and schedules – what policies they need to run
• delphi – VCL events with anonymous methods – what do you think about this implementation? – Stack Overflow
• Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
• The Software Development Process – Science, Engineering, Art, or Craft? – CodeProject
• GitHub – sinbad/spriterecolour: Sprite processor to allow dynamic recolouring
• Google’s AI can create better machine-learning code than the researchers who made it
• Why Delphi users love @TMSsoftwareNews: bugfix within 2.5 hours.
• UPS PIco HV3.0 documentation not on github: “03_0x38_W_UPS PIco HV3.0.pdf”
• TEncryptedIniFile: easy to use class for handling app settings with encryption in Delphi – TMS Software Blog
• OnePlus OxygenOS built-in analytics: disable it as soon as you can
• If Beyond Compare indicates “editing disabled” after starting from SourceTree, then your integration is wrong.
• RSA keys by Infineon chips or libraries can be cracked fast; Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping…
• When you believe that you have a keylogger or some sort trojan | Official Apple Support Communities
• Ritjeweg: Greenwheels, ConnectCar, Car2Go, MyWheels of toch SnappCar?
• Mac OS X – Hardware Monitor Help: remove com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring
• Encoding horror: Wayback Machine “Sorry.This snapshot cannot be displayed due to an internal error.”
• Napflix | Siesta Video Platform.
• The cloud has no walls: cache-based jamming agreement to communicate over the CPU cache even without rights
• ThreadBarrier/ThreadBarrier.pas at master · lordcrc/ThreadBarrier
• HTML indentation: 2 spaces
• Is there a standard function to check for null, undefined, or blank variables in JavaScript? – Stack Overflow
• How do I make the first letter of a string uppercase in JavaScript? – Stack Overflow
• `Inc(I)` versus `I := I + 1;` in Delphi – they’re the same, but not atomic per se.
• Multithreading in C# .NET 4.5 (Part 2) – CodeProject
• VMware ESXi 6.5.0 Patch History – 2017-10-05 Imageprofile ESXi-6.5.0-20171004001-standard (Build 6765664)
• Script job killer – MikroTik RouterOS
• Comparison of Common markup for Markdown and reStructuredText · GitHub
• It’s about world Cassette Store Day…
• 15 Useful ‘sed’ Command Tips and Tricks for Daily Linux System Administration Tasks
• AI in Voice Assistants: I’m not impressed
• nojhan/liquidprompt: A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
• Visual Studio Code – getting started – some links
• reStructuredText Interpreted Text Roles
• Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed? – Software Engineering Stack Exchange
• A bit of Kylix history…
• Building OpenSSL on Windows
• Mercury13/curl4delphi: A little libcURL binding for Delphi XE2+. Supports “easy” interface only. See wiki for more documentation.
• VM Memory Usage heuristic over-reporting on ESXi 6.5
• When your Windows 8.1 mouse cursor is invisible in the screen center on VMware Fusion
• Raspberry Pi brexit – changing your locale away from GB when you’ve a different keyboard
• Reminder to self: brew update needs re-accepting the xcode license agreement
• On my research list: connecting Fritz!Box devices together into a virtual PBX
• Siemens GigaSet DX600A TCP port 650 protocol looks like old-school AT commands…
• Oops: OF: /soc/usb at 7e980000: could not get #phy-cells for /phy
• IANA Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry
• mention-bot (Mention Bot) – automagically mentions potential review users for a pull request depending on context
• How I use Linux to write software for multiple target platforms using Wine, Delphi 7, Lazarus and Delphi Berlin
• How does one configure Notepad++ to use spaces instead of tabs? – Stack Overflow
• Mikrotik – viewing when users logged in/out (on/off) when logging is high-volume
• KPN CPS (carrier pre select) code is 1655
• Use deep learning to 4x your photo’s resolution As seen on TV! After a bit of neural network training…
• All buildings in Amsterdam and the Netherlands, shaded by year of construction
• Can I invoke Windows Update from the command line? – Super User
• Looking for more examples of Unicode/Ansi oddities in Delphi 2009+
• Permanently Disable & Prevent Automatic Restart of Windows Update in Windows 10 – Tech Journey
• How to Configure and Manage Network Connections Using ‘nmcli’ Tool
• Don’t Use Regular Expressions To Parse IP Addresses!
• Mikrotik functions -> hopefully I can translate this to the new syntax
• What Does Ruby’s Array#shift do? – Stack Overflow
• Dependency Analysis – Pascal Today
• delphi – Is AtomicCmpExchange reliable on all platforms? – Stack Overflow
• Checking KeyPress is not the place to do your input validation
• New steps for Slack on Twitter: “@thorduri 😣 You can always disable emoji conversion in Preferences > Emoji > Convert my typed emoticons to emoji. 👍”
• USB LED Light Lamp for Computer Keyboard Reading Laptop Notebook PC 2016 | eBay
• Re: [opensuse-factory] dup –no-allow-vendor-change is now default
• Open source app to detect bluetooth gas pump credit card skimmers – Skimmer Scanner – Android Apps on Google Play
• UDP port 52217 – ScanSnap iX500 Linking to mobile devices (the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and Android™ devices) -QA4- – Fujitsu Global
• Need to write a proper bookmarklet for the wayback archive (:
• youtube-dl – saving both audio and video without keeping intermediate files seems impossible
• zypper errors on download.opensuse.org
• Some links around GuardiCore
• Happy Day of the Programmer – and remember what SQLite is about…
• GitHub: Searching your own repositories – excluding forks
• Welcome to workaround.org – tips around open source and Linux stuff
• Delphi code of the day…
• Terry L@u’s blog: Manage non-domain Hyper-V servers (Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview) by Hyper-V Manager
• W123 – Tacho-Reparatur – works for W116 odometer (kilometerteller) as well
• Reminder to self: find out how to disable YouTube auto-play in Chrome 60 and up
• To every site out there asking me to whitelist them from my adblocker: No.
• Blacklist Filters on MikroTik RouterOS
• One day I will find back my Casio 79QGS-39 Universal Calendar watch from the 1980s
• How to Find Saved WiFi Passwords in Windows – Geeks Gyaan
• Fedora BTRFS+Snapper PART 2: Full System Snapshot/Rollback « A Random Walk Down Tech Street
• how to filter name/value pairs under a registry key by name and value in PowerShell – Stack Overflow
• Some links to post helping to detect the compiler used to build an EXE file
• Delphi analog to C# ?? null-coalescing operator and Light Table like debugger evaluation
• Windows – WorldTransform on the Printer’s Canvas can be a challenge…
• Positive Technologies – learn and secure : Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode
• How to Easily Print a Large Image to Multiple Pages in Windows | Scottie’s Tech.Info
• How to change the Notepad++ editor’s font – via Notepad++ Community
• some notes on L2TP IPSEC on Mikrotik
• Some proxmox notes: adding a new logical volume from a new HDD
• ESXi 6.5 Update 1: Anyone that knows how to edit the port groups of live VMs?
• Delphi code completion but more relaxed
• Delphi TGridPanel – how to get all SizeStyle=ssPercent cells to get the same auto-calculated Value – via StackOverflow
• Some Inno Setup notes
• git – List all commits (across all branches) for a given file – Stack Overflow
• FrontDoor is being resurrected…
• Mikrotik date and time calculations
• regex – Regular expression to match DNS hostname or IP Address? – Stack Overflow
• systemd/udev: PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames
• exporting firewall config – MikroTik RouterOS
• Running your Mac Mini headless by faking a display for it (HDMI 1080p/4K or Thunderbolt VGA); similar for DVI
• Index of /pdf/xerox/mouse/lyon_optical
• Performance Test WCF/WPF app – Selecting right Tool
• Amsterdam, 2.4 GHz. 5 GHz is only marginally better. In the city, wired connection is the only option: fiber, cable, dsl.
• More beautiful code by Asbjørn Heid
• Updated: some stream URLs of Dutch radio stations
• Some notes on making pi-hole work on a DHCP enabled network
• Designing your way out of the CanHandle-Handle conundrum | Software on a String
• Repurposing Old Smartphones for Home Automation | Linux.com | The source for Linux information
• Manual:CRS examples – MikroTik Wiki
• MAC-Telnet: Open source MAC Telnet client and server for connecting to Microtik RouterOS routers and Posix machines via MAC address.
• ‘Nieuw-West heeft veel te bieden voor herhaalbezoekers’ – Opinie – PAROOL
• bind “the working directory is not writable”
• Android/iPhone/…: How To Disable or Change SIM PIN Code
• What directories to backup on ESXi apart from the VMs? – Server Fault
• Twitter image size suffixes – via: Making silly #latex jokes is much more fun than doing final tweaks in my thesis on #coeffects…
• A start job is running for dev-disk-by\… – Google Photos – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
• SSD TRIM check tool | CyberShadow’s blog
• Great diagram on composing a LINQ query – via Mastering C# – CodeProject
• Closed: HDD Guardian – Home
• What is the right way to convert into UNIX timestamp from the date and time in C/C++? – Stack Overflow
• Why doesn’t RevertToSelf undo the most recent SetThreadToken? | The Old New Thing
• Some links on Belise/Elise licensing server (yes, AppWave is dead or at least: should be)
• Inline code highlighting in reStructuredText – Stack Overflow
• Mikrotik UDP port 5678 usage is for MikroTik Neighbor Discovery Protocol (MNDP)
• Play to Chromecast from VLC 3.0 on Mac OS X (OS X, macOS, or whatever other names apple comes up with)
• wget for nirsoft
• Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager
• How-To: Automatically change your Mac’s display resolution when running specific apps [Video] – via: 9to5Mac
• Experiments in Uniform Memory Management – grijjy blog
• Delphi Error: E1026 File not found: ‘Controls.res’ – Google Search
• Using BC4 OSX with Version Control Systems
• Always a good idea to run firewalled
• DELL 9200 blinking orange power button LED
• Software Design Patterns Are Not Goals, They Are Tools
• Sorting visualised with traditional folk dancing
• Some git links that helped me
• If you ever wonder why you get no (or incomplete) RTTI from a control that you…
• Photographer captures Miami Beach air show with Nikon 800mm and custom rig
• ssl/ssh multiplexer
• sleep wake – Macbook Air – battery drains while sleeping (but not when shut down) – via: Ask Different
• Vier 3d-printers van ongeveer 300 euro – Conclusie – Round-up – Tweakers
• Remember when G+ search was useful? It again is.
• T568A and T568B termination – TIA/EIA-568 – Wikipedia
• Fix Apple TV No Sound Issue – AppleTV2
• Some more Continua CI links
• On List growth strategies and memory managers
• Delphi call stack from exception…
• Visual Representation of SQL Joins – CodeProject
• “Large-Scale Deep Learning with TensorFlow,” Jeff Dean – YouTube
• Apparently some @xs4all fiber connections in Amsterdam and Sassenheim had a few minutes downtime last night
• Microsoft Research’s manual memory management for .NET: exactly one owner which provides shields for accessing the objects
• Index of /pdf/apple/apple_III/firmware
• Reminder to self: testssl.sh has supported IPv6 for a long while if the OpenSSL binary supports it
• Some potential anti-virus and -malware tools for OpenSuSE Tumbleweed
• Classic car Airco – no more CFKs, but what alternatives?
• 1998 called, it want its code back – Anything Goes – CommitStrip
• rsync z-lib compression segmentation fault? WTF!
• There is a way to convert ‘array of const’ (open array) to TValue: Asbjørn Heid found one.
• SMS sending with Mikrotik RouterOS and a capabable USB device
• HTTP Prompt is an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete…
• Seems I need to say good bye to Bitbucket: no explanation of which limit I exceeded and by how much.
• Increasing the WinBox font size on OS X
• Sending various HTTP request kinds using curl
• Some repositories with Mikrotik RouterOS Scripts (so no repos with API interfaces)
• How to Turn YOUR Handwriting into a Font for FREE!
• “Dance Like No One’s Watching Encrypt Like Everyone Is” T-Shirts & Hoodies by Dumb Shirts | Redbubble
• Happy Pi approximation day.
• Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2016 – Microsoft Press blog
• Amazon.com: Panoware Men’s Windows Failure Computer Geek Funny T-shirt- failure is not an option
• How do I rename a task in Task Scheduled on Windows Server 2008 R2 – Server Fault
• Firebird 3.0 – Monitor Need to monitor you firebird 3.0 database? This just works…
• Postman offers free (small-project) API developer tools – Open Source Insider
• The strange case of some applications not being able to copy/paste on the Mac OS X clipboard
• Anyone knows if Raize subscription before the Raize acquisition is still valid?
• Mikrotik RouterOS scripting: for loops are a bit of getting used to
• Brand New Model F Keyboards – The Model M Predecessor: Mechanical Capacitive Buckling Spring Keyboards with NKRO
• Atlassian SourceTree on Twitter: “Good news! We’ve open sourced the way we phase releases for our Sparkle-based macOS app. Read on: https://t.co/QOH0tceXt4”
• 6502 CPU replacement board: more on how to repair 6502 systems.
• TomatoUSB – selectively save/restore NVRAM settings before/after upgrading
• SUSE 12.3 – How to auto start services…?
• A slightly optimized TDateTime functions (YearOf, MonthOf, DayOf) …
• BorCon 97, 20 years ago, Star Wars, 40 years ago
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INzECItF6ew Delphi, where are you? 
• Firebird: reset statistics for all indices using `set statistics index :index_name` – via: What is index selectivity?
• Cool Google stuff: Trivia Template for the Google Assistant
• Droste effect… best torrent sites – Google Search
• Firebird: creating indices in scripts after checking for their existence
• 3.6 GIG – Public-Mikrotik-Bandwidth-Test-Server – MikroTik RouterOS
• Why each Google+ comment should get its own Web address – CNET
• Vergelijk hier alle mobiliteitskaarten (Reisbalans vs XXImo vs MobilityMixx vs NS-Buisiness Card vs Radiuz. | Comparison tables – SocialCompare
• Happy #NoEmailDay – The case of the 500-mile email
• APOD: 2016 January 25 – Where Your Elements Came From
• Don’t Be Scared of git rebase – via: I care, I share, I’m Nathan LeClaire.
• Mikrotik RouterOS /ip firewall address-list timeout values sort-of documented
• How cool is that Hypercube Lego Server, featuring the powerful Xeon D-1540 on tiny and familiar Supermicro X10SDV-F motherboard – via: TinkerTry IT @ Home
• Tunneling over WebSockets
• MarcoDelphiBooks on GitHub
• Learn How to Use ‘fuser’ Command with Examples in Linux
• 2560×1600 on Iiyama PL3070WQ 30″ LCD with new MacBook Pro – via: Ask Different
• 43435
• Some notes on Google Nest before getting it to control a Remeha Avanta 35c modulating heater
• David Hill – of ThinkPad design fame – is going beyond “Black Paint” – via: Rewiring | Lenovo
• If only there was a plugin to convert a Google Suite Document into Markdown S…
• Some links that helped me with XML processing
• OpenSuSE Tumbleweed: When apache breaks with “Invalid argument: AH00069: make_sock: for address [::]:443”
• Bug: Initialisation of Delphi Record containing a dynamic array with ‘Implicit’ class operator – Stack Overflow
• Some more bash links
• The Cryptowars, twenty years ago – The Isoblog.
• For – Loop through a range of numbers | Windows CMD | SS64.com
• The Bézier Game
• Recent bitsaver entries on Z80 assembly, CPM and concurrent Pascal
• middelink/mikrotik-fwban: Use your Mikrotik firewall to do fail2ban like blocking of unwanted IPs. Written in Go
• [WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading
• The Most Common VPN Error Codes Explained
• How to turn on your lights the Philips way
• With so many vulnerabilities out there, here is how to find out of if a fixed…
• The Bogon Reference – Team Cymru
• Anyone having a solution for “Microsoft Visual Studio” throwing “The operation could not be completed” when including a file in a PowerShell project?
• Another of +Steven Wittens step-by-step visual mathematical explorations
• OpenSuSE Tumbleweed – testing the password of any user with getent and openssl
• When someone writes UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings to the same file in binary format without converting between them…
• How can I get the default code page for a locale? – The Old New Thing
• Mac OS X – need to research this one day: How do I Check DHCP Lease info in terminal – via Ars Technica OpenForum
• MikroTik SFP module compatibility table – MikroTik Wiki
• keyboard shortcut to edit cell content? | Apple Support Communities
• URLs for Mikrotik PCC load balancing
• OpenSSH Escape Sequences (aka Kill Dead SSH Sessions) – The Lone Sysadmin
• IPv6 on Mikrotik URLs
• Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society
• What the DEC?!? Records of Minicomputer Giant Digital Equipment Corporation Open for Research at CHM | Computer History Museum
• Mikrotik firewall URLs
• Firebird; testing for NULL and equality in practice: IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM
• Bug fixes from both sides for “Windows 10 Creators update and Delphi debugging don’t go well”
• URLs for Mikrotik scripts to block IP addresses after repetitive login failures
• Keep consistent formatting – via: The Oracle at Delphi: Code is the language, formatting is the dialect.
• QC overview
• Reverse ssh tunnel between two linux boxes to allow RDP traffic over port 3389
• munki/createOSXinstallPkg: Tools for packaging OS X installers – upgrade Mac OS X from InstallESD.dmg
• QC does this logon call to http://qc.embarcadero.com/coBugCGI.exe/soap/ICDSReportPublicInterface
• Why I care about QC and the Delphi community.
• Mikrotik – splitting your local LAN so you can assign different gateways and DNS servers by the DHCP server
• Repair a Broken Ethernet Plug – All
• curl Statistics Made Simple: httpstat
• Mikrotik scripting language: a list of questions I had linking to the forum messages having answers
• Functions over read-only properties: you cannot mark a property as deprecated in delphi – via Stack Overflow
• APC 7xxx models, DHCP Option 43 and Mikrotik DHCP servers
• Fiddler2 direct download
• Reminder to self: when your PPTP server is behind a NAT, forward both GRE protocol and TCP port 1723
• FRITZ!Box tuning part 1: Enable remote access over ssh
• Embarcadero QualityCentral is dead; man-decades of customer work down the drain
• VHD Attach 4.11 – Medo’s Home Page
• This is why nobody upgrades their consumer IoT, router, etc firmware…
• Mac OS X: “fzsftp could not be started” when connecting over SFTP
• Since the latest 1.9.x is still more stable than 2.0.x, the direct download links
• delphi – How do I parse a web URL? – Stack Overflow
• Makefile Assignments are Turing-Complete « null program
• cov.fefe.de – The Isoblog.
• Some notes on stripping NULL characters and BOMs from files
• KirillOsenkov/MSBuildStructuredLog: A logger for MSBuild that records a structured representation of executed targets, tasks, property and item values
• Working around “[dcc32 Fatal Error] F2084 Internal Error: DBG3133” or “[dcc32 Fatal Error] F2084 Internal Error: MA1243
• MiloszKrajewski/LibZ: the alternative to ILMerge (Resolve instead of merge assemblies)
• I have found a secret tunnel that runs underneath the phone companies and emerges in paradise / Boing Boing
• Google Drive stuck forever on “One Moment Please” during initial login on Windows Server based systems.
• What’s got a vast attack surface and runs on Linux? Windows Defender, of course • The Register
• 17 years ago, C:\nul\nul crashed/BSOD Windows; now $MFT does for Windows < 10
• Google DNS, Open DNS or your ISP DNS servers?
• Forceer DigiD om SMS bij inloggen te gebruiken
• Github reStructuredText parser got less strict so it now does display parts it cannot fully render
• UsesHelperSetup.zip by Stefan Glienke for Delphi 10.0/1/2
• Two ScanSnap ix500 tips: cleaning the scanner and preparing the paper for scanning
• Happy Geek Pride Day – Nerdious geekius computerus
• Hmm, named failing at start on one of the secondaries: need to investigate this further
• Delphi 10.2 Tokyo Godzilla ISO and other download links including hashes
• Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim – Stack Overflow Blog
• CheatSheet for Readline keyboard shortcuts for bash, bc, ftp, gnuplot, gpg, ksh, mysql, psql, python, smbclient, xmllint and zsh
• No, no, no, noooooo! – A Modern Hungarian Notation – Pixplicity
• Some interesting Delphi posts by Stefan Glienke – Spring4D maintainer
• CTRL control | CommitStrip
• What to change after a fresh Delphi (RAD Studio) installation…
• Arjen Lubach in NTR | College Tour 
• “Btrfs rw-snapshots and noatime considered harmful” …
• ~650-thousand accounts exposed because of md5 hashing: Font sharing site DaFont has been hacked, exposing thousands of accounts | ZDNet
• WannaCry — Decrypting files with WanaKiwi + Demos – Comae Technologies
• People have been asking about the fact I use old Xeon boxes for my development…
• ESXi 4.0.0.Update01-208167 Whitebox on HP xw6600: success!
• Wow, this parses in Delphi: `property Foo: string index 0 string read GetFoo;`
• Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction | Seth Juarez | Channel 9
• Delphi Corner Weblog: New: Velthuis.AutoConsole unit – helps against the “optimised” Embarcadero FastMM fork.
• If you were using Managed / IManaged in Spring4D, be aware they got renamed to Shared / IShared
• Bitbucket – when you suddenly cannot login with git username/password from git any more
• On the design of the Delphi TStream classes – why aren’t they decomposed better?
• northfield_systems/noip2.c at master · sweetonmac/northfield_systems
• PatchCleaner just cleaned 10-20 gigabyte per Windows 7-8.x installation
• How to Download YouTube 4K Videos with Youtube-dl Script
• Magnetic Bottle Opener | Best Funny Gifs Updated Daily
• $59 HDFury Universal PSU Doctor Supports Power Monitoring via iOS or Android
• git encoding trouble: recursively removing a directory where git prints out a different name than it accepts
• URLs and domains that OS-es use to detect Captive Portals
• One year ago: I’m writer and free software author Pieter Hintjens and I’m dying of cancer, ask me anything! : IAmA
• Research list: export issues from Bitbucket to import them later
• Applications that scale badely on High-DPI Displays: How to Stop the Madness – via: SQLServerCentral
• The Delphi Pipe – twm’s blog
• Building `libssh2` for Windows (Win32/Win64) is a lot harder than I hoped for
• Mikrotik – Choosing your SFP/SFP+ modules and direct access cables
• ext3 – How to tell the language encoding of a filename on Linux? – Server Fault
• How to install apps which require iOS 6 on a 1st gen iPad – via: Ask Different
• BEVRIJDINGSCONCERT OP DE OUDE HAVEN | Oranjevereniging Sassenheim
• reStructuredText Markup Specification – sections (that translate to HTML headings)
• Completely Uninstall Skype For Business (aka Lync) – Skype Community
• So how does a guy like myself get involved in contributing to GExperts?
• Use dumpbin to check if a PE file (dll/exe/…) is x64 or x86
• Warning: mail from Zwijnenberg Logistiek BV contains link to trojan virus malware
• Printing from the Atom editor
• Dagbesteding bij een zorgprofiel (begeleiding groep)
• [CMake] choose 32bit or 64bit in visual studio
• Lightweight Markup: Markdown, reStructuredText, MediaWiki, AsciiDoc, Org-mode – Hyperpolyglot
• Windows 10 Creators update and Delphi debugging don’t go well…
• Oops! Something Bad Happened – Stack Overflow
• instead of x86, msbuild is creating an x64 solution configuration via sln.metaproj – Stack Overflow
• Comparing commits across time – via github User Documentation
• Adressen belasting- en douanekantoren
• Dutch demissionary cabinet want to use hospital DNA for justice department – via Privacy Barometer
• Technology Chatting with Jack: SOLVED! – High CPU Usage of Microsoft Security Essentials
• Two Quick Methods for Finding Shared Folders in Windows
• Troy Hunt: Reckon you’ve seen some stupid security things? Here, hold my beer…
• HowTo: Wget Command Examples
• Remeha error code E5
• The SSH Port 22 story
• FMX.Dialogs basically blocks mixing VCL with FMX…
• On my reading list: Wait by Why on Elon Musk’s latest venture on neural stuff. 
• Programmer Interrupted
• OpenSuSE Tumbleweed – when `halt` doesn’t halt, but CLI+HLT the CPU at the end of the shutdown procedure
• Easily print GitHub markdown as beautiful PDFs that – in Chrome – immediately download
• pestudio – great tool for doing PE executable analysis
• Some links for MikroTik tips and scripts
• ANSI HTML Adapter example
• Some Wireshark links
• opensuse – How to run my script after SuSE finished booting up? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• when apple.com != apple.com – Phishing with Unicode Domains – Xudong Zheng
• Tested the CastBuddy extension from the Chrome Web Store: nice, but high CPU usage even when no videos
• Warning: C64 geek pr0n! A Mind Is Born
• use vmrun – via How do I find the IP address of a virtual machine using VMware Fusion? – Super User
• (35) Introducing Macintosh System 7.5 Product Overview – July 15, 1994 – Apple VHS Archive – YouTube
• Dark corners of Unicode / fuzzy notepad
• When BRCC32 throws `Fatal error Illegal macro definition in command line or defines page.` in a DUnitX project
• “Galiad Computers Ltd.” that provided software in the 1990s to Polyvroom for vector based font design (plus some dry transfer lettering history)
• When your markdown README files on GitHub are broken as of lately
• Jan Barendregt is Looking for programmers to maintain existing Excel add-in software
• Bash that JSON (with jq) — Librato Blog
• (NL) Hoe de ABN-AMRO hun user-experience van de web-site sterk kan verbeteren
• Delphi and the joy of Compiler Intrinsics – I cant use “Length” as a TFunc…
• When PV Bean Counter stops publishing Sunny Boy 2500TL results to the net
• MacOS System 7.0.1 Compilation : Apple Computer : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
• Launch & Run Multiple Instances of Any Application in Mac OS X
• Windows update errors you get when you have a bad network connection: 80244019 and
• Forcing Chrome to use google.com as search engine
• .bashrc generator: create your .bashrc PS1 with a drag and drop interface
• How bad is the Windows command line really?
• NeonHorizon/lipopi: Guide to setting up LiPo batteries on the Raspberry Pi
• Hosting Grumpydev Imageflair locally – part 2 – trying to get the text and images to display
• Having one Raspberry Pi reset another Raspberry Pi through relay or transistor
• Getting your local IPv4 addresses, netmasks and CIDRs
• version control – How can I run “git status” and just get the filenames – Stack Overflow
• Ext2 File System Driver for Windows download | SourceForge.net
• 127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts for your hostname?
• Starting a command with one more more spaces prevents it from going into the bash history…
• QCon London 2017: IoT insecurity, serverless computing, predicting technical debt, and why .NET Core depends on a 36,000 line C++ file « Tim Anderson’s ITWriting
• Some great StackOverflow / StackExchange bash tips
• Hosting Grumpydev Imageflair locally
• OpenSuSE Tumbleweed on Raspberry Pi: getting `vcgencmd version` to work to see which GPU firmware you have
• Recursively convert WMA files to MP3 using ffmeg on a Mac OS X bash shell
• OpenSuSE Tumbleweed on Raspberry Pi: using Hexxeh/rpi-update to update the firmware
• 7zip: compress from the command-line; a few notes and a small batch file
• James Lewis – comprehensive AA battery tests sheet…  Some surprises in there…
• OS X – the versions and their names – as I always forget them
• Please Help Us Track Down Apple II Collections « ASCII by Jason Scott
• Go home GitHub, you’re drunk.
• O Rly Software Books – Album on Imgur
• Offline – YouTube
• Acer Aspire M3900 (AM3900-xxx) Memory
• Mac OS X: restarting Tunnelblick when it isn’t responding any more
• Interesting how many fast charging stations there are near me…
• Powering Raspberry Pi devices from a Fritz!Box USB connection
• Mac OS X – serial communication programs
• When Delphi is missing the `ActiveX` items in the `File -> New` dialog
• Mac OS X: restarting Google Drive when it shows a spinning wheel
• Heroku Node.js in the cloud (free hosting!) – via: Smart Mobile Studio
• wintee/wintee at master · jpluimers/wintee
• Replacement battery/Accu 9.6 V 2000 mAh for Bosh type 2607335461
• Battery history on Windows 10 via powercfg batteryreport
• The eigenvector of “Why we moved from language X to language Y” · Erik Bernhardsson
• `-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)` on fresh Raspbian on Raspberry
• LOL. Nice t-shirt. Linux is Sexy
• Poor man’s MMX: Delphi Live Templates for creating a property with a type which will auto- create the getter/setter
• Kylix: The Real Lowdown – I wrote this in 2000 too
• Some links on getting a local CollabNet SVN repository to git
• Kylix: Delphi for Linux is on the Way! – I wrote this in 2000
• Git for Computer Scientists
• GExperts – when your predecessor has put it under the Tools menu
• When a ScanSnap ix500 blinks an orange light/LED/button
• ducks: How Do I Find The Largest Top 10 Files and Directories On a Linux / UNIX / BSD?
• defrag.exe: tracking an already in progress operation can be done from non-admin session
• Ctrl-T — www.voidtools.com • View topic – Everything window is ‘Always On Top’
• Decode URLs from The Great Suspender after a browser restart fails to reload them
• Fixing 0x858C001E error on SQL Server 2012/2014 updates
• Microsoft Remote Desktop 8 on OS X stores RDP configuration in com.microsoft.rdc.mac.plist and passwords in keychain
• How to secure memory? – Medo’s Home Page
• PSA: Don’t use the ‘save password’ feature, or plug random USBs into your computer.  – Album on Imgur
• sed: convert Google Drive urls to direct download ones
• Sniffers, Packet Capture – PFSenseDocs – cool, as it uses tcpdump/Wireshark format!
• Display and edit keyboard macros with GExperts – twm’s blog
• Powershell Get-AppxPackage > List.txt … Get-AppxPackage Advertising | Remov…
• Converting playlists both ways between Google Play Music and Spotify
• YouTube to MP4 & MP3 Converter and Video Download – ClipConverter.cc
• Computerphile Mike Pound is now on GitHub – mikepound/mazesolving: A variety of algorithms to solve mazes from an input image
• PowerShell: when Format-Table -AutoSize displays only 10 columns and uses the width of the console when redirecting to file
• ShellCheck – shell script analysis tool
• Using Delphi nextgen compilers … https://xkcd.com/303/ some arguments to have both for the Win32 platform
• node.js – a nightmare to get started. Did I try the wrong technology for my problem?
• Some links on deciding if and storing your timestamps as UTC and time zone handling
• Pollentelling | LUMC
• On job interviews; both on interviewing and being interviewed
• raw.githack.com – like rawgit.com but supports bitbucket as well and runs on plain nginx
• bash – how do I list the functions defined in my shell? – Stack Overflow
• gargoyle, a memory scanning evasion technique
• Generate Mozilla Security Recommended Web Server Configuration Files
• Getting the IP addresses of gmail MX servers – via Super User – dig isn’t enough
• Trojans communicating through DNS: Cisco’s Talos Intelligence Group Blog: Covert Channels and Poor Decisions: The Tale of DNSMessenger
• The Best Time to Buy Anything During the Year 2017 – Lifehacker
• Nexus 5 battery replacement
• The IDE Fix Pack 5.95 is compatible with Delphi 10.1 Update 2
• Factory restoring a 3rd generation Apple TV was more cumbersome, but I learned about BlueTooth keyboard sharing from my Mac
• The Industrial Internet of Things defined
• Is this a good TeamViewer replacement? Ammyy Admin – Remote Desktop Sharing – buy.
• KPN LoRa om Van Raam fietsen te traceren Zakelijk KPN Forum
• How to enable JavaScript in your browser and why
• JavaScript. Sigh. No real RegExp support. Sigh. Google Search results. Sigh.
• Finding your way in the maze of Atom settings – awarding and frustrating at the same time
• Page dewarping
• 230 V safety on the work bench – Put your power supply in an old tablet container…
• New book by +Nick Hodges tech preview by +Stefan Glienke – dependency injection in delphi
• Interesting historic read of notes on end 1970s Apple SSAFE project – how it started and ended
• Maybe Probably Dance wrote the fastest hashtable implementation ever
• The woods and trees of OpenSuSE on single-board computers – image abbreviations – and getting it installed using OS X
• iMovie on a 2010 iMac was starting and running slow: 2 simple steps solved that
• bash – cheatsheet to choose between ; or && or || or & via Ask Ubuntu
• Change your passwords and 2FA on a bucketload of sites because of 1139 – cloudflare: Cloudflare Reverse Proxies are Dumping Uninitialized Memory – project-zero – Monorail
• Friday fun: Bluetooth Driver installation progress dialogs – via reddit ProgrammerHumor
• Ultimate Micro Releases the Universal PSU Kit and Upgrade – Call-A.P.P.L.E.
• PSA: If you were signed out of your Google account tonight, don’t worry [Update] – 9to5Google
• “Default” birth days
• SHAttered – stop using SHA-1; it’s broken
• Delphi sorcery: Generics, modules and typeinfo
• Delphi, resource files and includes – some links
• AllPro Adapter – open source ODBII adapter for car monitoring
• How Much Does an App Cost: A Massive Review of Pricing and other Budget Considerations – Savvy Apps
• Windows 10 – language neutral batch file to start Windows Update
• Keeping A GitHub Fork Updated
• Delphi and stuff: The strange limitation of 64 threads
• New version of TestInsight (1.1.4) – just a couple of bug fixes…
• Looking for a run-time fix for CreateInOutError raising an EInOutError with the wrong string.
• Finder doesn’t work since Yosemite – Ask Different
• Twisted Doodles on science
• Happy World Information Architecture Day
• Some links I’ll need for monit one day
• “Developer Desks” – multi monitor setups in “Trading System” disguise.
• Now that Delphi will reintroduce Linux as a target: what features / support do you expect in the compiler and libraries?
• Supermicro A2SAV mini-ITX Board Powered by Intel Atom E3940 SoC Features 6 SATA Ports, Dual GbE, and Up to 9 USB Interfaces
• Apple ][ history – Nibble magazine
• How-To: Create a free Apple developer account for sideloading apps | 9to5Mac
• Intel SSD back to life success story (using Lin… |Intel Communities
• HashLib4Pascal is a Delphi/FPC compatible library that provides an easy to use interface for computing hashes and checksums of strings (with a specified encoding), files, streams, byte arrays and untyped data to mention but a few.
• Firebird – adjusting Delphi stored TDateTime (or OLE Automation date) fields that contain Dates, Times or DateTimes
• MahdiSafsafi/delphi-detours-library: Delphi Detours Library
• How to speed up Count(*) in InterBase/Firebird – Stack Overflow
• Want for birthday or X-mas: “The Lamp” and “BBS: The documentary”
• GSM/3G/4G/LTE/… enable or disable caller ID when calling
• Gitkraken – free and commercial edition to raise funds for diabetes
• Managing WIFI connections using the Mac OSX…
• The 2017 web is bloated and slow, and I am guilty, too. – The Isoblog – website speed tests
• RDP Clipboard Fix – via Remko Weijnen’s Blog (Remko’s Blog)
• Date format converter from Text or Unix/Mac/Filetime/Microsoft to virtually any readable form
• Trying to recover from enhancement software that generates fake input incorrectly – The Old New Thing
• Determining the current shell in *n*x variants including ESXi
• Delphi multithreading – AcquireExceptionObject/ReleaseExceptionObject to pass exception from one thread to another thread – via G+ and Stack Overflow
• Get a code signing certificate – Windows 10 hardware dev
• Casting the audio of application on your Linux machine via Chrome to a ChromeCast
• dubbelglas, dubbel glas, dubbele beglazing, isolatieglas
• How to Build Your Own Penetration Testing Drop Box – Black Hills Information Security
• Reverso | Free online translation, dictionary
• Dit is wat we weten over het nieuwe erfpachtstelsel – Amsterdam – PAROOL
• Delphi: rbTC1416 package cannot find the Graphics unit: ensure your DCC_Namespace is correctly
• some links on git and code reviews
• When the x86 Server JVM.DLL cannot be found
• Delphi compiler: the –depends switch / DCC_OutputDependencies property outputs a .d file listing all .dcu and .dcp files – via Stack Overflow/G+
• Some ChromeCast URLs
• pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements (designed for Raspberry Pi)
• Instantly convert curl commands to Go code: https://mholt.github.io/curl-to-go/
• March ‘Rosehill’  – Enfield Citadel Band – YouTube
• Reducing the size of your Windows.edb (Search) and DataStore.edb (Update) databases
• DIY pick and place machine from parts of scanner, inkjet printer, DVD player and vaccuum pump – Open Theremin – Urs Gaudenz
• apache links for log formats, log kinds, etc
• Multiple wifi access points / seamless handoff – Spiceworks
• inversepath/usbarmory: USB armory: open source flash-drive-sized computer
• fixing a Mac home `brew update` that has permission errors (after that I could install plantuml)
• QCon London 2017 | Software Development Conference
• Coding width – via “Is it common to print out code on paper?” – Programmers Stack Exchange
• Some notes and links on hacking a Philips TVs TCP ports
• Using the github version of certbot (formerly letsencrypt) to get Let’s Encrypt certificates
• Interactive Rebase with SourceTree – via: Atlassian Blogs
• Convert FRITZ!Box 7360 to Managed Switch (or even Access Point) having it’s own IP address: Setting up the FRITZ!Box as an IP client – via AVM International
• configure SourceTree to perform git rebase by default
• Lots of new Apple related scans at BitSavers
• Reminder to self – did “Clear App Data” get me any Google Opinion Rewards surveys?
• Linux Storage Stack Diagram – Thomas-Krenn-Wiki
• linux port forwarding to external ip – Google Search
• Delphi “F2039 Could not create output file” on drc files
• Found as a byproduct of following +Jeroen Wiert Pluimers …
• API Web Services, integration with third party applications, Secret Server | Thycotic
• An exponential back-off implementation I used somewhere; probably room for improvement, but it works good enough.
• Visual Studio: In TFS how can I correct the links to work items on an existing changeset – Stack Overflow
• The Chernobyl Story [Updated & Expanded] – Album on Imgur
• Macintosh SE/30 link clearance
• Displaying Linux Log files with journalctl
• RSS feed for Dave’s Development Blog – mostly OTA articles on the Open Tools API for Delphi and C++ Builder
• OnePlus Stock
• In this tutorial you will learn how to configure pfSense to load balance and…
• Animated SVG vs GIF [CAGEMATCH]
• Learn to fail – Changing our attitude towards failure – booking.com
• Static Code Analyzer for T-SQL – MS SQL Server. Plugs into MS SSMS and can al…
• Tool for licensing and protect my Delphi Win32 apps – Stack Overflow
• Contrast Rebellion – to hell with unreadable, low-contrast texts!
• Ever wanted to download adb or fastboot without having to download the whole of Android Studio?
• Batch file to get a (non-sorted non-unique) list of units from a Delphi compiled map file
• whatismylocalip alias (actually more like whataremylocalips) and some sed links
• If anyone ever wants to have a batch of LTE dumb phones built…
• How I remember the German word “Urheberrecht”
• Convert a text value into a date in Excel. Learn Microsoft Excel | Five Minute Lessons
• How to prevent Google Hangouts Chrome extension from popping up for other users of the same Chrome installation? – Web Applications Stack Exchange
• Wifi Analyzer – helped me analyse why an original Chromecast failed to see a Buffalo WLAE-AG300N
• Delphi and Xcode scary thought
• Delphi To Go: Include resource files in your Delphi build process
• Arduino controlled automated blinds with Web UI
• Java is not slow – Programmer’s Life : Programmer’s Life
• Delphi Berlin version numbers: Release/Update1/Update2
• History on line: Client Access/400 API Planning Guide Document Number GG24-4422-00 October 1994
• Windows batch file – setting space as delimiter when parsing files
• Any opinions on Men’s Insulated Coat – SCOTTeVEST
• Technical Debt – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-01-03 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
• Compiler Explorer – how various C++ compilers translate code into various machine code targets
• Regularly forcing Microsoft Silverlight to be a hidden Windows Update
• Great tutorial on how to split older Git commits: http://bit.ly/1rE72cI -…
• When a Windows 7 or Windows 8.x update takes forever…
• The difference in changing your primary email of an Apple ID and a Microsoft Account
• Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers…
• Geek And Poke: Architectural Best Practices – annual rings
• Wally And Agile Programming – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2016-07-30 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
• Everything Is Broken — The Message — Medium
• The curse of vulnerable OpenSSL DLLs
• Getting A or better grading on SSL Labs HTTPS tests
• DNSSEC – Domainumzug mit Hindernissen / Blog / Privat – Lutz Donnerhacke
• When you get “TfsScript.Execute” throwing a “Unregistered version of FastScript.” MessageBox
• Remove from a Git repository without deleting it from the local filesystem – via: Stack Overflow
• Firebird – date and time literals, conversion to ISO-8601 compatible strings
• The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing
• Bye, bye ADSL…
• How to I show the changes which have been (non)staged or are about to be commited? – via: Stack Overflow
• Delphi class constructors and initialisation order
• tkannelid comments on The Death of CyanogenMod and What it Means for Development
• Some notes on my Windows 10 upgrade processes
• Organizational Doxing – Schneier on Security
• Robert C Martin – Functional Programming; What? Why? When? – YouTube
• Apple Tesseract 1992 prototype (not Tessaract)
• How to securely delete files in OS X 10.11 ‘El Capitan’ | MacIssues
• Where can I get the glossary of Microsoft’s standard translations for computer terms? – The Old New Thing
• Delphi functional programming: Sequences
• Simple download script to get all FREE Microsoft eBooks again! Including: Windows 10, Office 365, Office 2016, Power BI, Azure, Windows 8.1, Office 2013, SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, System Center, Cloud, SQL Server and more! | Microsoft Director of Sales Excellence – Eric Ligman
• Ken Thompson – quotes – Reflections on Trust
• Kmart 1974 Kmart in-store christmas (neeeee, holiday season) music
• shadow_cs / delphi-leakcheck — Bitbucket
• Dell Inspiron 17R/5737 with Windows 10 does not understand 802.11n
• Ports – MemePix
• How to make an easy universal knife holder | DIY projects for everyone!
• Shared Google Calendars not showing up on iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Here’s the fix! | iMore
• Firebird [# CORE-3558] server reports that DB file is used by another application on secondary attachment attempt through a symlink
• .NET/C# some links on querying the ActiveDirectory
• Delphi history – on the FINITEFLOAT compiler option that has no one-character shortcut
• Some notes and links: when a filled ATOM table is not caused by your Delphi app
• #220 feature `SKIP_FIRMWARE` by jpluimers · Pull Request #221 · Hexxeh/rpi-update
• Spring4D, Extended floating point values and Mac OS X: the 16-byte stack alignment
• “the user name or password for imap.gmail is incorrect” – iPad, iPod or iPhone with iOS < 7
• HDDWatches site. HDD Watch created from a Microdrive HDD. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
• How to Prevent Windows 10 From Automatically Downloading Updates – metered connections
• Notes and links on proxytunnel, sslh, apache, stunnel, putty, ssh and more
• I can’t think of a better bunch of people to teach this course…
• Cleaning up C drive space temporary internet files after upgrading to IE10 or IE11 – via AsiaTech Microsoft APGC Internet Developer Support Team
• You cannot create an iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store account without a credit card. You  – Apple Support
• ARM-Based Windows 10 Portable PCs!? Hell Yes! – Thurrott.com
• SQL Server, Modulo, floats
• How to: Migrate your SVN repository to Git – Nathan Hoad
• Version 1.8.1 History – builds 121-185 – Continua CI
• Why does the Windows calculator generate tiny errors when calculating the square root of a perfect square? – The Old New Thing
• Indy: getting response despite exceptions or 4xx HTTP status codes
• Consensus systems (Zookepper, etcd, consul) – what are they?
• How do I embed multiple sizes in an .ico file? – Super User
• nanog: Forwarding issues related to MACs starting with a 4 or a 6 (Was: [c-nsp] Wierd MPLS/VPLS issue)
• 18 Useful Commands to Get Hardware Information on Linux – Linuxslaves
• Apache error 503 when using ProxyPass:
• Noooooo!!!! – surprise for Cookie Day
• Make a cheap TOR anonymizer — BYTESEC Labs Inc
• C13/C14 wiring diagram live/neutral/earth
• 0.5W 12V 56-Lumen 7×3528 SMD LED Car White Light Bulb (Pair) – Free Shipping – DealExtreme
• Adding staged updates to SourceTree | SourceTree Blog
• WinSCP can be embedded and scripted as can PSFTP but not FileZilla
• String resources and the $TypedAddress Compiler Directive require a PResStringRec typecast
• Actual source for DisableAlignPropertyEditor
• Unbundling Pokémon Go — Applidium
• Can some recommend a good tool to build MSI package? I use Inno Setup…
• When AQTime thinks it’s running during install and aborts installation
• james-atkinson/speedcomplainer: A python app that will test your internet connection and then complain to your service provider (and log to a data store if you’d like)
• Disable TR-069 on a Fritz!Box and check if that was succesful – translated from a post by Hartmut Goebel 
• The curse of the Project.res file.
• Delphi F12 Debug Hotkey for Windows 8.1 and 10 | Andy’s Blog and Tools
• Google drawing AI – My first “Quick, Draw!” attempt – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
• APC UPS battery replacement for Smart-UPS 1500 (SUA1500) and XL 3000 (SUA3000XLT): batteries RBC7 and RBC55
• xyzzy, Relay Conferencing before IRC even existed
• Amazon 2FA Account Recovery HOWTO I had enabled 2FA on my amazon.de account,…
• zypper installing from a non-standard repository
• The Typeface Mechanics series by Frere Jones is genius!
• Internet Archive Wayback machine – New Beta Release Allows Users to Keyword Search
• Single Malt Fiber…
• The Delphi Vcl.Forms.TApplication.ActionUpdateDelay unit is … milliseconds
• Delphi: function IsRunningFromNetwork – via Lars Fosdal. I will need this one day
• Meet PoisonTap, the $5 tool that ransacks password-protected computers | Ars Technica
• Recursion
• ReservedWordsOP.txt and ReservedWordsC.txt for use with java2op in Delphi
• RMAing a Google Nexus 5X, dying in Account hell… – via +Kristian Köhntopp
• Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal – always paste via an intermediate text editor
• Coping with UTF-16 / UCS-2 little endian in Batch files: numbers from WMIC
• When your browser extensions go rouge…
• Hydrogen – a free and open source cross platform drum machine…
• Some links to get WDS to work with Tomato
• Opinion: The Internet of Shitty Things — Kommentar: The Internet of Shitty Things | heise online
• Rob Graham 🦃 on Twitter: “1/x: So I bought a surveillance camera https://t.co/HbmPzrZgFK”
• How To Chromecast MKV, MP4, DVI Videos from Chrome (on a Mac, Windows or Linux machine)
• Hope this doesn’t repeat itself…
• Schlechte Nachrichten für Fritz!box User: http://nic.box/ Euer http://fritz.b…
• Inspecting/unpacking a Linux rpm file on Mac OS X
• Why I always disable Castalia in Delphi
• If you are a KDE neon user, reinstall your distro now! | CIO
• Getting the vendor from an ethernet network MAC address on-line through the Wireshark OUI Lookup Tool.
• CppCon 2015: Greg Law ” Give me 15 minutes & I’ll change your view of GDB” – YouTube
• Versioning common sense (major.minor.patch) has a name: Semantic Versioning 2.0.0
• tmux attach to named session or create when it doesn’t exist yet – via: How to start tmux with attach if a session exists – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• `xcode-select –install` required for OS X 10.9 Xcode command-line tools (like `zlib-devel`)
• Positive: Delphi 10.1 Berlin Update 2 is out – ISO links
• Oh nice: the compiler settings in your .dproj files are not reflected in what Ctrl-O O emits in XE7
• Angular 2: Show me the Money!
• OpenSuSE and logging: no more syslogd; journald is default, you can use rsyslog or syslog-NG as syslogd replacements
• Determine Domain and username used when a network share was mapped
• Audio Tape Recovery – recording old audio cassettes on modern hardware
• Can I connect to or view abandoned ssh sessions?
• Bash on C steroids… Tavis Ormandy: Just when you thought we couldn’t take this any further…
• One of the #EKON20 running gags: Raize condition
• how to resize (grow) device partition of a multi-device BTRFS filesystem?
• openSuSE Tumbleweed: solution for `ImportError: No module named pkg_resources`
• Fixing `Unable to create ModelMaker Tools Shared Directory` and `Cannot create file “C:\HungarianTypeLookup.txt”. Access is denied.`
• Old Google Charting API: tools for still using them
• Locking Is there a good open source MREW lock object out there that – Supports…
• The SelectiveDebugging plug-in now supports Delphi 10.1 Berlin.
• Delphi Continuous Integration: When you get E2202 “Required package ‘rtl’ not found” or F1027 “Unit not found: ‘System.pas’”
• parted “Error: Can’t have a partition outside the disk!” sometimes means you’ve a bogus DVD inserted
• Kerlink IoT station page | LoRa | Semtech
• How to use curl command with http/2 on MacOS X
• What runs logrotate in OpenSUSE 13.2?
• Fritz!Box 7490 with fiber connection, routing anonymous/withheld ISDN calls to a new answering machine
• Fiddler for OS X Beta
• EKON 20 link archive – anniversary edition of the famous Delphi related conference with lots of English sessions
• If you have enough Chrome Google related tabs open, Google will DoS G+ for you
• Unity IoC container: tips, tricks and dirty hacks
• Delphi XE2 sanctuary lib galore…
• Just blocked 95.131.[184|185|186|190|191].0/24 on my firewall because suspicious port scanning @WillHillBet
• Just blocked 141.138.130.0/24 and 141.138.131/24 on my firewall because suspicious port scanning @WillHillBet
• Definition of Done – Programmer’s Life : Programmer’s Life
• nst/JSONTestSuite: A comprehensive test suite for RFC 7159 compliant JSON parsers
• Topic: [Resolved] Sharing on Google Plus Private..? Why? « WordPress.org Forums
• EKON 20 – anniversary edition of the famous Delphi related conference with lots of English sessions
• OpenSuSE fix “piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: SMBus Host Controller not enabled!”
• Comcast: a tool to similate network problems on BSD and Linux – tylertreat/comcast
• Reminder to self: nosudoers changed in Raspbian…
• Determine TBW from SSDs with S.M.A.R.T Values in ESXi (smartctl) | Virten.net
• Kristian Köhntopp: Let’s have a chat – a taxonomy and some context (history and future; 20160606)
• How to directly link or embed Dropbox images – via: Canton Becker
• Apple says new MacBook Pro’s 16GB RAM limitation is to maintain battery life efficiency | 9to5Mac
• Letsencrypt and support for Google Chrome “Requiring Certificate Transparency in 2017”
• Learned new German words: Störerhaftung, Abmahnung: Würde #neuland Störerhaftung ernst nehmen…
• Another +ESP8266 gizmo, this time to automatically reboot your router…
• More suppliers should include sha hashcodes for their downloads
• Wow – people still working on Delphi 6 and 7 based code! Got new votes for answer to get rid of empty DDP files
• On OpenSuSE, when adding Apache vhosts with their own log files don’t forget to update your logrotate configuration
• Only the KB2267602 updates (all others are fine) failing on Windows 8.1 with error 8007051A?
• permissions – recursively change owner windows 7 – Super User
• conorpp/u2f-zero: U2F USB token optimized for physical security, affordability, and style
• OpenSuSE Tumbleweed: after installing from ISO, be sure to disable/remove the ISO repo
• How to copy files from one machine to another using ssh – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• Readable code – and the long lost secret of how to achieve it on Vimeo
• I don’t have #IoT. I have #LoT. LAN of things. 
• Some links on converting non KVM VMs to Proxmox
• List of “Plain Text Offenders”; hopefully someone publishes a list of https offenders too
• The IoT strikes back again: half a million IoT devices killed DYN DNS for hours, but fixing this will be hard
• display – How can I move spaces between external monitors in Mavericks? – Ask Different
• How To Patch and Protect Linux Kernel Zero Day Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVE-2016-5195 [ 21/Oct/2016 ]
• FileZilla on Windows is waaaay faster than WinSCP
• Some Google URLs
• Tim Anderson did have Amazon S3 to work from Delphi in 2006
• Merging multiple commands and piping it to one output.
• Some notes on modifying NIB files on Mac OS X to add/change shortcuts
• Loading your MAINICON and VersionInfo through plain text .RC resource files.
• IMPLICITBUILDING in your .dpk files: a Delphi XE2 specific thing
• Multi-line comments in a bash shell script
• When a PC lost its trust relationship with a domain controller: “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed”
• VMware ESXi – converting a thick disk to a thin disk – via: Server Fault
• OK Google – all you can ask Google
• datetime – Round time to nearest 15min interval in Excel – Stack Overflow
• letsenctrypt certbot-auto – finding what certificates are there and which apache configurations use them
• Differences between SFTP and “FTP over SSH” – Stack Overflow
• TCP and the lower bound of web performance… is a must watch talk on plumbing,…
• Delphi – unmangle names in BPL’s – Stack Overflow
• A great way to interactively browse xml/xhtml/html on the console: xmllint –shell
• belluzj/fantasque-sans: A font family with a great monospaced variant for programmers.
• Installing Python on Mac OS X — The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python
• Continua CI v1.8.1.118 released
• Yet another refresh of KB3172605 to (again) fix Windows 7 SP1 Windows Update stuck checking for updates – via Super User
• Wish ttystudio was available for OpenSuSE and Mac OS X…
• How to group by date in excel? – Super User
• SDelete hangs at 100% – Sysinternals Forums – revert back to v.1.61
• Traces of Nuts – Brutally sliced in to multiple pieces | Comedy Card Company
• installing the joe terminal/console text editor on Mac OS X: brew to the rescue
• Intellectual Ventures Case: Why Software Patents Will Take a Big Hit
• Real nullable types will probably never make it to the language, but wel can still dream
• Offline Installer :: JetBrains Developer Community
• In `System.SysUtils`, `class function TCardinalHelper.Parse` throws errors for valid Cardinal values
• Happy 25th birthday Linux!
• TMemIniFile have non-virtual SetStrings procedure. To add support processing of…
• Delphi XE8 [dcc32 Fatal Error] dcc32_F2084_C2359.dpr(30): F2084 Internal Error: C2359
• If you thought you could do multi-threading, then play “The Deadlock Empire” games
• Encoding is hard… so how did the single quote become a circumflexed a followed by Euro sign and trade mark?
• Fun deciphering thermometers
• Viewing an USB camera on Mac OS X without mirroring
• Ugh, this new Google+ is killing me. I used to be able to click someone’s name in G+ and start a new hangout …
• SSD BareMetal cloud servers, Simple and flexible pricing, enjoy a predictable cloud pricing model | Scaleway
• InitialKeyboardIndicators registry setting to fix NumLock in a certain state.
• Interesting: Homebrew no longer needs to have ownership of /usr/local
• Green great dragons can’t exist 
• The IoT strikes back: 650 Gigabit/second and 1 Terabit/second attacks by IoT devices within a week
• Released: Continua CI v1.8.1.112
• TODO: Check if Continua CI parsesl DUnit XML FinalBuilder emitted XML when using pure DUnit tests and TRepeatedTest ones
• Should work in classic G+ stream too: “Restrict stream to single column layout on all screen sizes”
• Some cURL links with tips I used doing some Fritz!Box scripting research
• New Continua CI version v1.8.1.108
• TypeScript 2.0 is now available! | TypeScript
• How to deploy a Delphi OSX project from the command line – kouraklis.com
• I’m looking for an algorithm that converts a list of integers (for instance of…
• atom-keyboard-macros: tried, doesn’t work reliably – anyone who knows a better one?
• Common Table Expressions: no nesting, but consecutively usage – via Stack Overflow
• The Oracle at Delphi: Set in my ways
• Analyzing website performance with the Windows Performance Toolkit | Microsoft Edge Dev Blog
• Oracle Cross database queries: you need a “database link” for that
• discovering how Dropbox hacks your mac – now blocked by Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra
• Heittps enabled – a hardest part of https-ing a suite of sites is getting rid of “Mixed Content”
• How to Remove Duplicates & Customize the “Open With” Menu in Mac OS X « Mac Tips
• Awesome vim cheat sheet for your consideration. Download #vimcheatsheet
• Cool: HTTPSWatch tracks the HTTPS support of prominent websites.
• How to disable your security questions at “Personal Info – Yahoo Account Settings”
• Mac OS X – Spotlight not finding many files: force a rescan solved it
• Nick Hodges Joins Embarcadero as Product Management Lead
• Smart Home review It’s been a few months since I replaced every switch in the…
• Just experienced my first #IRC Netsplit
• David I becomes an Embarcadero MVP, starts new job at Evans Data Corporation
• Flybrix | Flybrix Kits Make Your Own Rebuildable Drones using LEGO® bricks
• Jark/FTDISample: Note: As of version 10556.0 the ftdi driver does no longer seem to work. A sample application showcasing the FTDI D2XX driver use in Windows Universal projects (UWP). This sample is tested on the Raspberry PI 2 with Windows IOT installed and a FTDI FT232R usb-to-serial adapter.
• grep: searching for pipes, optional characters
• Moeder na zoveelste zorgaanvraag: huilen staat me nader dan het lachen | NOS
• com – Delphi [weak] reference attribute produces “Invalid class typecast” when implementation is in more than one library – Stack Overflow
• Delphi Code Monkey: Delphi Features I Avoid Using And Believe Need to be Gradually Eliminated from Codebases
• SPAM – Garantiebellen – +31172749040 – ‘Hang op! Klik weg! Bel uw bank!’ – #KVK doe er wat aan!
• Tools to view Blue Screen info and Windows/Application Crash Reports
• Yes Dorothy, the .NET System.Array Class can throw you a NotSupportedException
• Studenten Universiteit Eindhoven ontwikkelen slimme stopcontacten – Beeld en geluid – Nieuws – Tweakers
• How to downgrade firmware on HP OfficeJet Pro 8610 to allow using old or refilled cartridges – Brozkeff’s lala-land
• SysInternals sdelete: zero wipe free space is called -z instead of -c
• Batch files to show the User/System environment variables stored in registry – via: Stack Overflow
• OpenSSH/Logging and Troubleshooting – 
• PSA: Manually Assign Any Coordinates As Your Home Or Work Address In Google Maps And Google Now
• Very Small – Slim Leather Wallets by Bellroy
• What every Browser knows about you
• Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release is the OS News of the Year « ASCII by Jason Scott
•  Becker Mexico Cassette AUX input Upgrade by Ken Tyler for W116 : Mercedes-Benz S-Class – 280S, 280SE, 280SEL, 300SD, 350SE, 350SEL, 450SE, 450SEL & 450SEL 6.9
• VMware KB: Configuring Network Time Protocol (NTP) on ESX/ESXi hosts using the vSphere Client
• Decompression libraries and tools for many formats
• Converting sendmail .db files to text
• Mac OS X – installing pdf-tools using homebrew to circumvent “For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat 9 or Adobe Reader 9, or later.”
• Gmane Alive! – Random Thoughts
• ESXi: when esxtop shows garbage.
• Firebird gbak backing up a remote database that has spaces in the path and is on a remote Windows machine
• vim-cmd suspending/resuming a bunch of VMs
• New Book: MVVM in Delphi by John Kouraklis should be available at the beginning of november.
• 10 Reason to date Programmer – I’m Programmer
• Flush deferred messages in sendmail queue :: Stephan Paukner :: syslog
• Happy “Day of the Programmer”
• Page2rss.com – died – anyone who knows alternatives?
• Oh, shit, git. via Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
• May the Fork Be with You: A Short History of Open Source Forks – The New Stack
• +Kristian Köhntopp #awesomeCosplay
• Using Reaper to normalize your tracks to the same LUFS …
• OpenSuSE Tumbleweed ntp problem after snapshot 20160905 will be fixed in snapshot 20160908
• I will never grow up. I will grow, not sure which direction, but not up. – Via: When I was 5 the future was obvious
• Space…
• Modifying openssl to build on Mac without makedepend: using cc -M/gcc -M/clang -M
• TUMBLEWEED Poor performance in VMware Fusion can be a `search localdomain` issue
• Need help with OpenSuSE Tumbleweed `cd:/content: Invalid signature. Installation aborted.`
• “Yes/No” question with what kind of buttons? Indeed “Yes/Cancel” SourceTree for Windows installer – latest version.
• Oddest OpenSuSE Tumbleweed installation screen colours ever…
• For my reading list: 3D Printer – The Temperature Controller (The Oracle at Delphi)
• sql – Oracle to_date() to parse input to datetime values – via Stack Overflow
• Delphi version info table: C# Builder, Delphi 8 through 10.3 Rio and Appbuilder
• A bash script to btrfs snapshot details like disk sizes (requires btrfs quota to be enabled)
• installing the UTF-8 encoding ftfy (fixes text for you) – via version 3.0 | Luminoso Blog
• Delphi Bootcamp live streams (will edit this over time).
• Some links on creating bootable USB sticks from ISO media (for a Linux rescue CD)
• Word for Windows Keyboard Shortcut for Find Next – Super User
• linux – How do I increase the scrollback buffer in a running screen session – Stack Overflow
• Lock screen dialer shortcut gone in 6.0 – Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com
• tf: show changeset details on the console
• Raspberry Pi voordeel set | SosSolutions.nl
• Delphi: Alt+Down Arrow is the keyboard shortcut for ellipsis buttons
• Mercurial/Hg; syntax/tips for amend commit adding/reming files to latest (non-pushed) commit
• Workaround for Printing from Delphi (or the Delphi IDE): three strikes and you get “Printer is not currently printing.” – yes I mentioned “Delphi 8!”
• UCL as a Delphi package name suffix – remember before the KSDev days?
• defunkt/gist – ruby gist gem to upload github gists from the console
• Getting the internal TeeChart version numbers
• Cool little trick to show all the preset variables for your GCC/Clang compiler
• 4K/5K monitors: when your RDP session has small black bands limiting the height/width to 2048/4096 pixels
• certificate – What is a Pem file and how does it differ from other OpenSSL Generated Key File Formats? – Server Fault
• Invite people to a Google Hangouts session with you by constructing a manual invitation URL
• Webserver cipher hardening links
• Why sometimes you *want* to to have your DFM files stored as binary
• Perl: checking if makedepend is available without using File::Which
• Update to List-Delphi-Installed-Packages.ps1 shows HKCU/HKLM keys and doesn’t truncated fields any more
• APC: getting ftp://ftp.apc.com/apc/public/software/pnetmib/mib/417/powernet417.mib turned out to be tricky
• List goals/targets in GNU make that contain variables in their definition – Stack Overflow
• When “git mv” on a directory gives you en error starting with “fatal: bad source”
• ORACLE-BASE – DDL With the WAIT Option (DDL_LOCK_TIMEOUT) in Oracle Database 11g Release 1
• co2-adapter.de – Sodastream Zylinder selbst nachfüllen
• Beyond Compare 4.1.7.21529 – AUGUST 19, 2016
• Some notes on apcupsd, a SUA3000XLI and a SUA48XLBP battery pack
• ThinkPad ‘Ultra Classic’ 780ZXL+
• “Mühle” (Nine Men’s Morris) game – via Google Photos
• Olive – Juniper Clue
• Just in case you need to change the settings: A privacy reminder from Google
• If you need to know underlying information on Delphi versions
• .NET/C#: two ways of creating an empty array
• Glitch in `brew update` – just run it again when you see `Error: update-report should not be called directly!`
• Some interesting encoding/Unicode/text articles on kunststube and links for test files of various encodings
• Builds ChaCha20 version of openssl on Mac OS X static without dylib for use with testssl.sh
• Testing and static methods don’t go well together
• “Personal Computing on the VIC 20” manual is on-line, but prepared for a slow download.
• If your Solitaire Collection on Windows 10 has display issues: ditch your old ATI/AMD Radeon graphics adapter
• Fix the OS X Finder not displaying the contents of specific folders | MacIssues
• The End of Gmane? – via: Random Thoughts
• Setting the language of HP Solution Center needs a full uninstall/install cycle *and* the non-Unicode Windows Language to be set
• Infrared ceiling fan and light control repair
• freegeoip.net – Free IP geolocation HTTP API
• programmers humor – Google image Search
• The Codeless Code: Ancient code
• reg files: Deleting Registry Keys and Values
• tombh/texttop: A fully interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH
• Online CamelCase to underscore_separators converter and back
• Und noch ein Trick, weiterhin kostenlos an Windows 10 zu kommen | heise online
• Fr0sT-Brutal/awesome-delphi: A curated list of awesome Delphi frameworks, libraries, resources, and shiny things. Inspired by awesome-… stuff.
• Windows Flaw Reveals Microsoft Account Passwords, VPN Credentials
• OpenSuSE Tumbleweed `zypper dist-upgrade`: `mt-st` versus `mt_st`
• testssl.sh on BashOnWindows (Ubuntu from Win10) – drwetter/testssl.sh
• Logo on the 6502, in honour of Seymour Papert who died this week – G+ mos6502
• So I accidentally broke a Skype messaging bot.. – Album on Imgur
• Graphical emoji are killing Unicode
• When you get a black screen with mouse cursor: Fast Startup – Turn On or Off in Windows 10 – Windows 10 Forums
• bash – How can I convert tabs to spaces in every file of a directory? – Stack Overflow
• Frequent password changes are the enemy of security, FTC technologist says – via Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
• Insentricity :: This Letter Quality Printer Is Now Fully Armed and Operational ::
• on code quality: Can we automate everything? | CommitStrip – Blog relating the daily life of web agencies developers
• TDD: all unit tests passed.
• Remote VPN to Fritz!Box from Mac OS X: don’t forget to set your Group Name to be the same as the User Name
• Deleting Horizontal Lines From Word
• Make A Bootable Windows 10 USB Install Stick On Linux With WinUSB Fork ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog
• moreutils: sponge
• Is there any way to get the modal Search and IDE Insight back? – via G+
• “We looked at the latency of Google Compute Engine in the US Central region.…
• At the MathWorks headquarters Source: http://redd.it/3bl5m1 #matlab…
• Push a new local branch to a remote Git repository and track it too – Stack Overflow
• C#, XSD.exe, xsd2code and generating nullable fields+properties from an XSD with and without Specified fields/properties
• Canonical overview on Writing to the Windows Event Log using Delphi – Stack Overflow
• The five key phases of software development…
• Powershell 4.0 hates Lucida Console and switches to raster fonts
• tls – How can I verify that SSLv3 protocol is disabled? – Information Security Stack Exchange
• On the clusterfuck of USB standards and why USB-C cables in the end might be a good thing – Dutch Tweakers.net article
• Windows 7+ RDP logon will only disconnect (not logoff) current user (XP would)
• Some links on Hyperthreading, ESXi and vSphere
• delphi – Building Multi threaded TCP/IP Server – Stack Overflow
• the curse of tooling replacing double quotation marks with left double quotation marks and right double quotation marks – via StackOverflow
• Workaround for “Visual Studio 2015 C++ Compiler Secretly Inserts Telemetry Code Into Binaries” – Slashdot
• Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange – YouTube
• Delphi packages I have disabled by prefixing their description with an underscore (and why)
• A New Parser Generator for C# – CodeProject
• Windows PPTP – How to Create a VPN Server on Your Windows Computer Without Installing Any Software
• PowerPoint 2013: when Date, Slide Number or Footer don’t show – via: Academic Technology @ Palomar College
• 1970 Becker Mexico AM-FM Cassette Car Radio showing operation & sound – YouTube
• FireFox full version direct download link
• Apollo 11 guidance computer source code on github (it was available as a series of PDFs for a while)
• Git Cheat Sheet
• Revamped Android Screen Recording and Mirror: no root required. Android 5+: record to GIF and video Mirror…
• Interesting trick posted by Lars Fosdal on keeping IDE user specific defines
• Delphi include files and the search strategy are different for the compiler and IDE
• Delphi keeping EXE locked; some links
• Dynamic maps of parking charges in various Dutch cities – Parkeertarieven in Nederlandse steden
• Im memoriam: Gwan Tan, friend, Delphi, Firebird, EKON and Delphi-Tage supporter
• DEFCON 17: More Tricks For Defeating SSL – YouTube
• Sysinternals Suite – lots of tools are now available as 64-bit as well
• Work around G+ “403. That’s an error.” errors
• HOWTO: Multirouting with Linux : Luke Cyca Dot Calm
• James Newman built himself a 16-bit Megaprocessor using transistors in frames taking 12 by 2 meters. Wow!
• Resource decompiler – converting/decompiling/extracting .RES files into .RC files and separate resources
• Easy way to generate “System.InvalidOperationException: Nullable object must have a value.”
• GitHub has majour service outages…
• Vysor Pro Feature – Go Wireless to mirror and control your device without a USB Cable…
• case insensitive files systems and git – Lesson Learned – I Can’t Get My Git Repo Clean! | DrupalEasy
• Latency Numbers every Programmer and Architect should know
• With 3 days notice. Yay. Another timezone database fire drill. Fixed in tzdata and tzcode.
• git svn broken on Mac OS X under SourceTree but not from the terminal: how to fix it.
• pip: tool for installing Python packages.
• Google Maps Local Guides Level 4 benefits can take a while
• So I got myself an Epson V500 scanner. And threw a negative at it from a…
• The new Google Maps/Earth satellite imagery allows to count our solar panels…
• Mac OS X: finding the DNS servers available
• windows 7 – Available memory differs by several GiB from what is installed – Super User
• Built-in Delphi XE6, XE7 and XE8 Fast Reports have issue “F2051 Unit fs_iinterpreter was compiled with a different version of fs_isysrtti.TfsSysFunctions”
• A few more T-Shirt quotes: Trying to add a feature, The Internet is Broken, etc
• An interesting power/tech thing about solar power and batteries
• csc.exe: prevent “does not contain a static ‘Main’ method suitable for an entry point”, use /target:library
• Storing binaries in your gists
• Batch file to run the most recent vsvars32.bat
• Cleaning out gmail large attachments
• optional Windows Update “Synaptics driver update for Synaptics Composite USB HID Device” breaks some UltraNav USB keyboards
• Local Guides Hidden Hotspots Amsterdam
• Embarcadero closing down their Spanish office
• Hypercube Lego Server with Supermicro motherboard inside… via TinkerTry IT @ Home
• Dell Dimension 9200 Updated to 8GB. – General Hardware – Desktop – Dell Community
• JavaScript is not Java – A humorous comparison of JavaScript and Java.
• Some notes on tfpt.exe from Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (2010/2013/2015) Power Tools extension
• Woof – simply exchange files – one-time sharing of a file over http
• Hosting an HTML gist containing JavaScript
• Some useful links on bash parameters: $1, $*, $@, quotes, etc.
• German trains show Kernel, IP-address *and* MAC address
• Writing tests for http / https request: Postman, SoapUI, Advanced REST client.
• Y Combinator’s Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer
• On Windows 7, Visual Studio 2015 wanted Internet Explorer 10… here are the direct links to download it
• HP Color LaserJet 9500HDN and stock Windows 8.1 x64 drivers: PCL XL error Warning: IllegalMediaSource – via: Server Fault
• #Maths #fun – great graphics help to understand math
• (Roaming) Profile and Folder Redirection
• When a fresh install of Bonobo Git Server on Windows 7 IIS 7 gives you a “HTTP Error 404.0 – Not Found”
• Aliases for tools removed from `net-tools` package – via: openSUSE Build Service
• How to overcome “Stuck while installing Visual Studio 2015 (Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2999226))” via – Stack Overflow
• How to: Set a Thread Name in Native Code
• Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 ISO locations
• Use cURL to test local virtual hosts configuration – via: Stack Overflow
• Links for when I get `Not enough storage is available to process command` again
• OpenSuSE Tumbleweed notes
• mercurial strip – Remove experimental branch – Stack Overflow
• ThinkPad X201: fixing the “black screen” (without mouse pointer) after upgrading to Windows 10
• Some Yubikey notes
• How One Jira Ticket Made My Employer $1MM/Month: 7 Metrics that Actually Matter — JavaScript Scene — Medium
• TUMBLEWEED: local console yast linedrawing characters garbage after first reboot
• `Known IDE Packages` in Delphi prompted by a comment +Jeroen Wiert Pluimers made
• Did you know… How to change the build order for your solution? – #333 – Sara Ford’s Weblog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• How to send an email — 80’s style
• network – How can I release and renew my DHCP lease from Terminal? – Ask Different
• GWX Control Panel – get rid of Windows 10 forced update – Ultimate Outsider – Software Downloads
• repair windows 7 recovery partition boot configuration – Google Search
• Burn Image context menu item missing in Windows 7 and up – via Super User
• You should not delete the folder C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\? – Super User
• Chrome “Developer Tools” to the rescue. Literally: to salvage a pending forum post.
• SmartBear AQTime links
• BBC – Autos – Lego’s 2,704-piece Porsche is not a toy
• bash – How do I find all of the symlinks in a directory tree? – Stack Overflow
• Na de VAR: de voorbeeldovereenkomst ICT
• Microsoft opened the source code of Xamarin.Forms. We couldn’t miss a chance to check it with PVS-Studio
• git – How to undo the last commit? – Stack Overflow
• Sorting huge files in Windows – via Stack Overflow
• Many Cores per Socket or Single-Core Socket Mystery | VirtualPharaohs
• TeslaCrypt shuts down and Releases Master Decryption Key
• Keeping openSuSE Tumbleweed rolling release up to date
• Vysor is back, new features, paid option – via koush’ stream at G+
• domain name system – How to test DNS glue record? – Server Fault
• Today is the 15th towel day in remembrance of a truly remarkable author.
• Happy Towel Day
• Git: See my last commit – the forrest and the trees – Stack Overflow
• Delphi XE8 does not adhere the `$(PROJECTNAME)` in a “Unit Output Directory”, but does recognise `$(SanitizedProjectName)`…
• How can I get Win10_1511_1_English_x64.iso or Win10_1511_1_EnglishInternational_x64.iso ?
• Somfy Smoove Origin RTS Protocol | PushStack
• View Headers and Source from Outlook .msg file – via Super User
• “Unable to connect to the MKS”: the port 902 problem.
• The Sons of Kahn and the Witch of Wookey • The Register
• Multi-WAN routers compared
• Less than two decades of Google Data Centers – from corkboard x86 hardware via GPU to TPU – now they make their own chips too
• Nice diskinfo alias showing du, df, btrfs, parted, lsblk
• Android ADB over TCP/IP
• networking – Is there a command or application similar to ipconfig? – Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange
• Setting your DTAP environments apart: Push a solid colored background to a Windows Server 2012 or later | Tidbits of Information from Virot
• MOnSter 6502
• Windows RDP error 3489661694 when connecting from a Mac, connecting from Windows fails without any message
• BrickPi! – Gertjan van der Loo
• This week’s guest poster, +Jac Goudsmit, tells us all about video chips in microcomputers… – mos6502 – Google+
• Buffalo WLAE-AG300N DHCP client is buggy and adds a NULL character to the host name.
• Cool Windows tool of the day: RegJump by SysInternals
• vysor.io/dead-mac.png at master · koush/vysor.io
• The Delphi Geek: Lock-free vs. locking
• pandoc oneliner from reStructuredText to html
• ntrights – grant/revoke Logon As Batch Job rights
• How Shazam Works To Identify (Nearly) Every Song You Throw At It
• Windows Update error 80072EE2 – Windows Help
• Rufus Portable | PortableApps.com – Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives
• MikroTik CHANGELOG_6 link
• From __utma to __utmz (Google Analytics Cookies) : Analytics Blog @MoreVisibility
• Drivers and firmware for WL-330NUL and ASIX AX88772 based USB ethernet adapter
• Sacrificial Architecture: design your software to live for a limited time.
• May the …
• Visual Studio 2013+: printing with syntax highlighting has moved to the “Productivity Power Tools”
• Latest Tumbleweed distribution update likely kills sshd
• Mac OS X and python “ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8”
• Obsolescence Guaranteed – PiDP-8 – powered by a Raspberry Pi
• Firebird News » Migration Guide to Firebird 3
• Lantronix SpiderDuo Remote KVM Switch: Affordable KVM Over IP Switches
• windows update cannot currently check for updates because the service is not running window 7 – when the official fixes don’t work
• LSI sense codes
• vSphere HTML5 client shortcut tricks in Chrome for Windows – unclutter your browser-based UIs so they look like native apps! – TinkerTry
• reStructuredText notes (.rst file extension)
• 400+ Free Resources for DevOps & Sysadmins
• findstr as alternative for recursive grep search
• O RLY Parody Book Generator for Slack
• XSD enumerations: key value pairs
• Happy birthday .nl top-level domain for getting 30 today
• Mac OS X Time Machine – Stuck on “Preparing Backup”
• “Comprehensive Guide to pfSense 2.3” and “pFsense Firewall setup and Features in depth March 2016”
• Anyone that installed D10.1 had the new installation dialogs that Embarcadero brags about…
• Some real world ZFS on Linux experience by GridPP
• Hacking is Important — Medium
• In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one…
• Internal version numbers for conditional defines etc
• RubyMania has reached Delphi – Times helper method implementation for integers – from Asbjørn Heid
• XSD enumerations: restrict strings, integers, etc.
• Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side | Application Security
• Support of import in xsd.exe – Jose Luis Calvo Salanova – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Positive: Delphi 10.1 Berlin is out; negative all Embarcadero HTTPS sites still vulnerable to DROWN attack
• existing complex XSD types: use xs:complexContent in combination with xs:extension
• MikroTik CRS226-24G-2S+RM Review – A super switch
• Coloured floppies…
• Homebrew Core/Formulae Split – Google Groups
• “Something’s not right” error message – the corporate firewall being too drastic.
• Continua CI Version 1.8 History – the new features
• Visual Studio 2015 Frequently Asked Questions – install size
• Annoying: Visual Studio 2010+ by default open XSD files in a Designer view
• Microsoft Has Just Blackmailed Linux Twice in One Single Week and the Media Didn’t Notice or Just Ignored It Because of Microsoft’s Charm Offensives | Techrights
• Team Explorer: undocking “Pending Changes” and “Build” views – via: Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 is Available – Brian Harry’s blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Programming is Gardening, not Engineering
• MegaRAID “Mark Drive as Missing” and “Make Drive Offline” do not always work: your bay needs to be a hotplug one.
• Windows 10 1511 update broke the Hyper-V networking – Fix network connection issues
• DVCS for your Linux etc configuration
• On Nintendo’s choice of the 6502 for the Famicom, later to be the NES, and the BCD patent.
• Het verbond van verzekeraars vind de MobielSchadeMelden.nl een waardige vervanging voor een niet installerende/werkende App
• SATA controller links for ZFS and ESXi
• License for MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO COMMUNITY 2015 (which includes Xamarin use)
• The Simple, Elegant Algorithm That Makes Google Maps Possible | Motherboard
• Anders Live | Build 2016 | Channel 9 – on Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and TypeScript
• Cygwin first run and a few aliases
• A future Delphi won’t download start page content from the Embarcadero site
• cURL is not a wget clone (so cannot do mirror) – via: MacNN Forums
• Aiding parkinson paitients: TEDxDelft 2015 | Mileha Soneji | Empathy is the Key to Great Innovation – TEDxDelft
• VirtualBox: Clone VM without Re-activation of Windows 7 (via: Danny Thorpe – Google+)
• Tools that Isotopp installed on his Mac…
• From the #alleskaputt -Dept: Hotel, Internet of Shit Switches, Predictable IP… boom!
• Happy 40th birthday Apple – it hangs pirate flag over Infinite Loop HQ – via 9to5Mac/twitter
• Official Gmail Blog: Introducing Gmail Mic Drop – April 1st retracted because of too much of a success
• Apple@40: happy birthday!
• Martin Fowler’s “Mocks Aren’t Stubs” – recommended reading
• Some links on recovery of drives on LSI megaRAID controllers.
• Some links on SSD RAID
• Two opinions on Netflix and blocking: they hate Netflix or contact tr@netflix.com and try to solve …
• difference between ADSLfiber and fiberfiber when both are @xs4all.
• FIX THAT THING | Sugru mouldable glue that turns into rubber
• Improve Word performance with tables
• Linux-Based Low-Latency Multichannel Audio System (CTAG face2|4)
• The latest innovation from the media – CommitStrip: @WIRED and @parool are out
• President of the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) Michael van Praag plays national anthems together with Adest Musica
• Copy.com replacement – which one to choose?
• Lots of nice short programming videos by Charlie Calvert – Google+
• Intel mastermind, Silicon Valley statesman Andy Grove dead at 79 – Fortune
• New experimental FastMM version was committed to https://github.com/gabr42/…
• RAD Studio 10 next stop: Berlin (via: The inheritance tree of all Fire Monkey objects) but would you really trust it?
• NHibernate, LINQ, Oracle and the placement of Take: avoid “Specified method is not supported.”
• Capture tmux output – the much less painful way | Rico’s Tech Memo – copy full tmux buffer to file…
• Solving VMware Fusion 6 and Windows 7 VM performance issues | Shogan.tech
• What is 1e100.net? – Google Help
• Highest peak power so far for 1060NP71 3.250kW: 2424 Watt
• OpenVPN – How to connect to Access Server from a Mac – basically says use Tunnelblick
• TP Link ER5120 limitations: lacking and disturbing features
• English…
• The Default magic function in Delphi
• Reminder to self: app.config and “ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified”
• assembly:InternalsVisibleTo: .net – C# “internal” access modifier when doing unit testing – Stack Overflow
• Bug squasing: A heisenbug is not your average bug.
• Fritz!Box 7360 and 7490: static routes over VPN don’t work
• git-extras/Commands.md at master · tj/git-extras
• Delphi: disable or change your welcome page to not use the Embarcadero site (as that site has been hacked twice this weekend)
• Free Online Picture Resizer – Crop and Resize photos, images, or pictures online for FREE!
• Upgrading from OpenSuSE 13.1 to 13.2
• TeamViewer Portable on Windows without UAC breaking it
• Motorola-powered Mac from 1989 used to design fonts and write smartphone apps • The Register
• Apple Floppy Emu « Blondihacks
• Sassenheim; achtergrond straatnamen rondom Johan Dixstraat
• Yay. My first homebrew contribution got merged. https://github.com/Homebrew/h…
• Getting the ESXi version from the console
• The huge Borland C++ Box
• Some Tibco Rendezvous links
• Mosh: the mobile shell
• some more lsof, netstat and rpcinfo examples
• Cutting the Chai: How to Download Images from Issuu
• Beyond Compare v 4.1.4 will fix the leap day crash of last monday when accessing cloud service
• my ScanSnap ix500 has a box too…
• Windows Server Container Manager
• stop/start IIS
• Convert HTML to Markup using CSS – Render HTML as unrendered Markdown – see http://jsbin.com/huwosomawo
• rsync as diff – compare files in two directory on remote server using unix – Stack Overflow
• Reloop RMX-40 USB – when your Mac doesn’t recognise it.
• Tip: How to play a playlist one song at a time … – via: Apple Support Communities
• Google Video Quality Report for Kissimmee, FL
• Sometimes it is Visual Studio’s fault: failure to copy file in a post build event
• DEF CON 22 – Dan Kaminsky – Secure Random by Default – YouTube
• Delphi: forward declaration of classes and interfaces, but no records.
• FastMM4 moved from SF.net to GitHub – pleriche/FastMM4@245706d
• nunit – How can I view .NET trace logs in TeamCity? – Stack Overflow
• Replace Boxee by Raspberry Pi as most TV support doing video+USB keybard over HDMI
• Linking to part of the same document in Markdown (via: Stack Overflow)
• Just discovered Vysor now has mouse shortcuts too – via: Cool: Vysor screen sharing by Koush
• Parts for #Alulux and Benny 4.0 garage doors
• Oracle alter table drop column tips: unused columns
• A script to check the frequency of Oracle log switches | Oracle DBA tips
• Get a Windows 10 development environment – Windows app development
• NTLM and Kerberos Authentication for a WebRequest and a WebProxy
• Windows 7: you can only change the language for Ultimate and Enterprise editions – not Professional (or home)
• Douglas Rushkoff: ‘I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether’ | Technology | The Guardian
• Nein? Doch! Oh!
• Happy birthday Delphi, have some wine
• Multithreading in C# 5.0 Cookbook – via: Free Learning | PACKT Books
• BLDN: December 2015 XE7/XE8 Update Subscription Update got released 20160211 with backported 10 Seattle fixes
• 31145
• Meet the Robin Hood of Science | Big Think
• Blast from the past Windows 2003 Service Pack 1..2 era hotpatching
• Inkscape Bezier Tutorial 1 and 2 – YouTube
• Het Achterhuis (Anne Frank) – Wikisource – wayback machine
• The Famous Photo of Chernobyl’s Most Dangerous Radioactive Material Was a Selfie | Atlas Obscura
• Translation Memory Tools Tried and Found Wanting – Oli’s Blog
• You find a lot of stuff when you are reorganizing your office #TP6 Library…
• Fix for Visual Studio – Resharper Alt Enter not working – Stack Overflow
• Orthogonality and the DRY Principle
• Ensure DeployIT can execute commands on your Windows machine
• v1.7.1.177 | Continua CI
• FRITZ!Box getting the MAC addresses of your modem
• It was fun while it lasted: Barracuda Copy – Copy End-of-Life
• really cool playback tool for showing step by step stuff in terminals. …
• Intermittent Technology: Home Server/Storage/Lab Setup Part 1.1 – x: HDD Preperations
• iMac won’t recognise .MTS videos on my hard drive, how can I play them? – Ask Different
• When your license check is faulty and causes customers to loose work it’s a cardinal sin
• Some links and references to IBM CUA: Common User Access which defines a lot of the UIs and UX we still use.
• gabriel peery on Twitter: “@HenryHoffman I guess we could say that this is #GITarHeroMasterMode https://t.co/XE7NdpI3NM”
• Windows Vista/7/8/… hangs for Windows Common dialogs when your COM initialisation is wrong
• Get the full exe path name of running processes.
• It Was Never Going to Work, So Let’s Have Some Tea on Vimeo
• ElectriFly | SafeCharge LiPo Battery Charge Bag
• I don’t care about cookies
• Windows: removing file and directory reparse points (symbolic links, directory links, junctions, hard links)
• Short Date Format Fix For Google Calendar™ – Chrome Web Store: from mm/dd to dd/mm.
• VPN over HTTPS: Ultimate Powerful VPN Connectivity – SoftEther VPN Project
• Bash Coding Style · drwetter/testssl.sh Wiki
• Mac: Google Chrome Helper excessive CPU usage
• Avast blog » How do I access the avast! Virus Chest?
• Some more tf.exe related batch files for managing workspaces – via: Find an installed tf.exe, then run it with the command-line parameters specified. « The Wiert Corner
• winforms – Where is the Tab Order Assignment dialog in Visual Studio 2012+? – via: Stack Overflow
• Building and running upc_keys.c on Mac OS X
• c# – How can I create a temp file with a specific extension with .net? – Stack Overflow
• .NET Regex Tester – Regex Storm
• VLAN with multiple AP’s on Tomato? | LinksysInfo.org
• Reverse engineering using other tools.
• LSI MegaRAID 9361-4i, 9361-8i or 9380-8e: cables and BBUs
• dig show only the answer section: specify both +noall and +answer – via: Server Fault
• Hooking up a Sunny Boy 2500TL to the net
• Getting Fritz!Box LAN-LAN VPN to work for @xs4all connections despite lack of @AVM_DE support
• 10 Articles Every Programmer Must Read – I am programmer
• Registry trick now fails to work for the Yahoo Search Engine update in Java 8 – was: Registry keys to prevent Java installs from adding sponsors (Ask/Google/Yahoo Toolbar, McAfee virus, etc) via: Super User
• How to keep a young coder occupied | CommitStrip
• One Hacker Way – Erik Meijer
• Computer Color is broken: averaging and blurring colors – via Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
• The forks of SynEdit (in case I need it in Unicode)
• [NL] @xs4all – inkomende telefoontjes blokkeren: Fritz!Box of VOIP-selfcare
• Threading in C# – Free E-book
• Nostalgie: KPN zet inbelplatform uit en laat Xs4all inbelverkeer afhandelen – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers
• HP CLJ9500 Service Menu Pin Codes
• Compare Registry Settings – Beyond Compare – @ScooterSoftware
• On my research list is Netcat: the TCP and UDP swiss army knife
• Getting your public IP address from the command-line
• Posting from Google+ to Twitter: an #IFTTT recipe
• Want to list all iptables rules with line numbers? Try iptables -L -n -v –l…
• ZFS, SuperMicro, ESXi passthrough, CrashPlan and other links
• Default ID and Password on a 9500 MFP device – HP Support Forum – 126122
• The Sounds of Dialup Modems and Related Equipment
• Anyone knows an easy way to record PSTN calls at the line level? I’ve a probl…
• Fighting with IPv6 – There and back again
• TomTom RDS-TMC Antennas FAQ
• hp clj9500 59.A0 Error – HP Enterprise Business Community
• World’s #0 Programmer Mug Basic White Mug | Zazzle
• In Memoriam: Peter Naur 1928-2016 | News | Communications of the ACM
• Nikon D5 detailed specifications: CF and XQD versions confirmed | Nikon Rumors
• Figuring out Windows Registry Permissions: AccessCheck
• Handy new tool: GitHub Contributions Archive based on the GitHub Archive providing your github history
• finding and deleting Windows EFI partitions with wmic and diskpart
• D-1541 with increased speed plus support for SR-IOV and DDR3 memory might end up in Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T somewhere in februari
• TaskMgr gripes
• How too many vCPUs can negatively affect performance | Gabes Virtual World
• How do I scroll in tmux? – Super User
• From my paper archives: early QuickReport materials and BDE network installation tips
• Hack the Remote Desktop .RDP file
• Any ideas for a good text to direct anonymous and blocked numbers too?
• 45 Jokes Only Programmers Will Get
• Disable screensaver using registry settings
• {} + [] vs. [] + {} – BECAUSE JavaScript: funny shirt for #JavaScript programmers or the ones poking fun of them
• Command Line Kung Fu: Episode #43: Users & Groups
• Mac OS X: integrating Beyond Compare 4 into SourceTree 2.x
• Steps for adjusting a whiteboard photo in Gimp
• HowTo: Configure Low Battery Duration and PCNS to Shut Down with an APC SmartUPS
• “Sealed, non-spillable”. Yeah right: @APCbySchneider batteries do leak. How to clean lead acid battery leaking residue.
• Interactive Frequency Chart – Independent Recording Network
• USB-C charging cables: not always as good as you’d think
• Computer network technologies and services/VoIP – Wikibooks, open books for an open world
• HUMAX service, HUMAX – Nederland
• Tijdreis, over 200 jaar topografie
• robocopy: mirror with security without following junction paths
• Windows applications: Icons and the Shell; names, sizes, etc.
• Rescue photos with PhotoRec
• Delphi 10 Seattle version numbers
• ESXi Embedded Host Client – VMware Labs
• If Skype Group chats suddenly fail on Windows: go back to SkypeSetup_6.21.0.104.msi
• paping – Cross-platform TCP port testing, emulating the functionality of ping (port ping) – Google Project Hosting
• some RewriteCond/RewriteRule links
• De @SVB_PGB foutmelding mag kennelijk ook niet langer dan 60 karakters zijn… #neuland
• How to authenticate a shell script with the OS X GUI | MacIssues
• Everyone over the age of 40 has a drawer full of these somewhere. What to do with them…
• Download Beyond Compare
• How to verify app signatures in OS X | MacIssues
• Nice #geekporn history lesson. With Linus, SUN, kissing a girl (or not), the overpriced POSIX manual… by @landley
• Some links on DUnit test cases and test suites, XML and XSD
• DevOps Is Bullshit: Why One Programmer Doesn’t Do It Anymore | jjmojojjmojo: In Effect
• Double up two Ultimate Ears devices to your Mac (or PC)
• c++ – In which order should floats be added to get the most precise result? – Stack Overflow
• playDXTR – The World’s Smartest Building Blocks by DXTR Labs, Inc — Kickstarter
• delphi – RAD Studio 2009 Persistent Selection Issue: Bug or Feature? – Stack Overflow
• .NET/C#: PasteText command line tool as reverse of Clip.exe
• SSDs that are HUGE: when will they actually be there? And how much would they cost?
• Reminder to self: SKU numbers for the ThinkPad UltraNav USB keyboards with horizontal Enter key and 6 rows of keys
• /etc/netconfig conflict
• This week, some ideas to debug and monitor your 6502-based system.
• Windows: Some links around SeBatchLogonRight (Logon as Batch job)
• SMS cards: The technology inside IBM’s 1960s mainframes
• In remembrance of Felipe Rodriquez
• The size and distribution of the data over your Google Drive storage
• Continua CI: viewing events (errors) for a certain repository #continuaci @FinalBuilder
• The coding love – When I read and refactor code of another developer
• DUnit with a twist: Delphi: GUI-testing. Table of contents
• Why Developers hate being interrupted. CodeProject – Google+
• WiFi networks that support seamless handover
• Displaying Full Message Headers and Source in Microsoft Outlook (Windows) – via: Yale ITS
• ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ bot not ¯\_㋡_/¯ or using Katakana for Smileys
• Some notes on recording sounds produced by your Mac on your Mac
• VisionApp: pass Windows key combinations to remote machine
• BashPitfalls: common errors that Bash programmers make – Greg’s Wiki
• The curse of nested DataSet fields in ClientDataSets: naming conventions
• Undocumented Delphi record alignment directive – Chee Wee’s blog: IT solutions for Singapore and companies worldwide
• NameBasedSSLVHostsWithSNI – Httpd Wiki
• Wish more people named Peter Sollich for what he did in the Pascal world…
• Interesting use of an IDE plugin: Copy a string from a “Watch” entry to the…
• osx – How to find wifi password on my mac which is already connected – Ask Different
• How To Work with Google Reference List: all Google URLs you will ever need in one handy place – via Denis Labelle
• Mac OS X: getting default route and ip addresses
• Defcon 18 Pwned By the owner What happens when you steal a hackers computer…
• Index of /materials/haxpo2015ams
• Create a Custom ESXi Image with ESXi-Customizer-PS Script – YouTube
• DIY: How To make a Grid-It Organiser – YouTube
• C# Settings reminder
• Solved: Android Play Store error 926 while downloading new apps
• Raise specific exceptions like InvalidOperationException, not generic ones like ApplicationException.
• Recommended read: What I learned while securing Ubuntu – major.io
• Resolving “Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to bitbucket.org:443”
• Ensure you know the state of an instance.
• DOT (graph description language) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• The number of connections to this computer is limited and all connections are in use right now. Try connecing later or contact your system administrator.
• Koninklijke KPN N.V Data Centers
• As a parent this is very useful – Meme Guy
• This is why I love GExperts – via: What do you think of this?
• The new G+ and circles are not friends any more
• Chrome not asking to save or saving passwords? – Google Product Forums
• Convoluted: moving your WhatsApp history to a new phone
• Google contacts: manually find and merge duplicates
• Move Google Authenticator from one Android device to another – TechRepublic
• Download release version: 7-Zip 15.12 (2015-11-19)
• Reminder to self: verify which temporary directories really need cleanup through systemd’s tmpfile mechanism
• Unnamed ordinal subrange of Integer type
• StartSSL indeed offers free Class1 certificates for any subdomain
• How can I combine multiple nested Substitute functions in Excel? – Stack Overflow
• How is NSA breaking so much crypto? “weak” standard primes for Diffie-Hellman are being widely used and take NSA only ~$100 million to crack
• How to aggregate (count/sum/average) cells and ignore the #div/0! ‘s – via: list of functions by Excel version
• Stack Exchange – Android Apps on Google Play
• Universal Android ADB driver for Windows – koush/UniversalAdbDriver
• Early Mac UI designers say Apple has abandoned many of its human interface design principles | 9to5Mac
• Google Podcasts might not be the quality you’re after, just like the YouTube replaygained audio…
• OS/X – How to print screen in Remote Desktop Client (RDS) on Mac OS X? – Super User
• Inno Setup: Program Folder not showing up In Start > All Programs. I’ve been…
• VidCast: Chromecast for the rest of the web
• Google+ post by Jean-Luc Aufranc
• Programming Comments – How not to detect virtualization
• Detecting internet access: differentiating between local and internet connection
• How to activate ADB & Helium on OnePlus 2 on Mac – OnePlus Forums
• The Power of Open Source… Microsoft .NET and OpenShift: .Net on Linux
• Hash Toolkit – Reverse MD5 / SHA1 Hashes
• c# – TFS Code Reviews – Show updated files in response to comments – Stack Overflow
• “Checking connection…this can take up to two minutes…” : oneplus
• Tamikrest – Aratane N’Adagh – [HQ] – YouTube
• how to open vsdx files with visio 2010 – via: Microsoft Community
• USB tethering to/from Android for Windows, Mac, Linux- via: Koushik Dutta – Google+
• Life in a post-database world: using crypto to avoid DB writes
• Programming is Gardening, not Engineering
• Do not expose properties with writeable fields without a chance to react on the writes.
• c#: Lazy is not constrained to static contexts, instance field initialisers are – via: Stack Overflow
• Fritz!Box VPN error messages – via: VPN mit der FritzBox :: network lab
• htc sensation screenshot – Google Search
• SmartHalo – Turn your bike into a smart bike by CycleLabs — Kickstarter
• Don’t Use JSON And XML As Internal Transfer Formats | Bozho’s tech blog
• Instrumental Profiling in Elements
• Real life* stress testing a complex server application (or why we really need FireBird 3.0) | Sleek Productions
• 7 Linux Grep OR, Grep AND, Grep NOT Operator Examples
• VMware Front Experience: The great VMware Tools dilemma; VMware Tools 10.0.0 Release Notes
• sad server on Twitter: “RAID666: block-level striping, two parity blocks distributed across a series of undead drives.”
• [NL] Voedingsmiddelen ontcijferd: blog over wat er in voedingsmiddelen zit
• The mystery of the missing administrative shares: why did it require a reboot?
• “Docker in Production” Developer Person learns: Production and operations are…
• network, multicast and send address in TransportNetwork; via Digging into Tibco Rendezvous network details – II
• The curse of “ORA-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error”
• Makeappicon – Generate app icons of all sizes with a click!
• Changing the Windows Profile type: roaming versus local
• Great Windows tool to reclaim hard drive space
• Audio Examples: MP3 vs. AAC/M4A vs. Opus Fraunhofer, LAME, etc…
• DYMO Drivers and Downloads for my LabelWriter 400; USB extender to get it connected to a VM under VMware ESXi
• Please review your DFM files before you commit to version control
• Happy back to the future day.
• Need to research when build.force files are generated
• Collection of cool hidden (and not so hidden) features of Git and GitHub:… – via G+ Ilya Grigorik
• How to turn off YouTube’s new autoplay feature – CNET
• LG Nexus 4 Screen Repair & Disassemble – YouTube
• On Teaching Programming | OpenSTEM Pty Ltd
• How to Increase Font Size in the xcode editor? – Stack Overflow
• Since none of the pictures returned for searching 46W6740 is correct, here is…
• NOC Zone and NOC Apps – A Service and Free Mobile App for Website Monitoring
• osx – Toggle AppleShowAllFiles with a simple bash script? – Stack Overflow
• Best Online XML Viewer, Formatter, Editor, Analyser, Beautify-Beautifier, Minify, Tree structure, Notepad, Marker
• ASCII and Unicode. Love and hate?
• Books. Lots of books. In PDF.
• Restore music and video from iPod: the iPod_Control\Music folder
• Delphi books you should have or have read
• On Epsilon, MachineEpsilon, and relative differences – via: I was wondering, that what is the closest value to the Zero floating point can have – G+
• Get the path to the most recent msbuild.exe from the registry.
• Fiber to Fiber speed beats Cable to Fiber speed by a factor 2 (all three internet connections are in the same house)
• Solution for My 6th generation nano plays same song over and over and will not suffle songs – via Apple Support Communities
• OnePlus One battery drain: 5.0 lollipop – Android 5.0 display keeps turning on with black and white notifications – Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange
• Merging Google Contacts URL
• Pruning your Windows 7+/Server 2008 R2+ installations and huge files in %windir%\Logs\CBS
• NUnit XSD for verification and XML to HTML conversion
• Visual Studio: Zoom Out when ReSharper has captured Ctrl+Shift+,
• Why Your Code Is So Hard to Understand – via CodeProject
• Echt #HEMA. Nederlandse foto software voor de Mac net even anders. Ken jij Frans? Ja, die ken ik wel. Exit HEMA App.
• Weekend….
• Unless you write an installer with the right manifest, don’t include Installer, Update, Upgrade, Setup, … in your EXE name
• A while ago Allen Bauer commented on the working theory of Nullable in Delphi
• Does anyone have a proper solution for message “content preparation progress” when opening a PDF file?
• windows – Find out whether an environment variable contains a substring – Stack Overflow
• Workaround for Delphi 2010 error Fatal : F2084 Internal Error: AV00434055-RA37CCB72-0
• Syntax highlighting
• Do publish your .dproj/.groupproj in your version control systems (via: DelphiTools)
• Too many WLANs…
• How to automate Adobe Acrobat XI Standard to re-compress a lot of PDFs? – via: Super User
• Can a Raspberry Pi do NAT port forwarding to a non LAN address? If so, what…
• Batch file to open a specific TCP port in Windows 7 / 2008 Server and up
• Delphi 2010: Compiler understands $(platform) but not $(config), but debugger understands neither.
• Delphi installs: cleaning up space from %ProgramData%
• Using httpbin to test http/https requests
• A few links on modifying Windows console (cmd.exe) appearance and behaviour (registry settings, commands, etc)
• Introducing the new Microsoft Remote Desktop Preview app for Mac – Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• HTTPS Everywhere Firefox/Chrome/Opera extension – Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Workaround for Delphi 2010 compiler error “E2076 This form of method call only allowed for class methods” when it infers a generic parameter type.
• Delphi: rolling your own code or (dis)trusting the libraries that ship with Delphi?
• On why there is no Assert.AreEqual(T t1, T t2) where T: IEquatable – via Stack Overflow
• ICA client keyboard shortcuts
• 29186
• 29184
• Breaking Out of Citrix and other Restricted Desktop Environments Pen Test Partners
• TFS: sometimes “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” means “out of disk space”
• Rudy’s Delphi Corner – Pitfalls of converting, on converting from C/C++ to Delphi
• Convert List/Enumerable of Enums to CSV – via Stack Overflow
• Android NDK Beginner’s Guide – Free Learning | PACKT Books
• OSX: Log shell script events to the OS X system consolemacissues.com (If you are familiar with the Unix command line)
• New Delphi product version: will it be Seattle or 10? It might be both! radstudiodemos/code/…/branches now has RADStudio_Seattle branch, docwiki URLs with Seattle exists and nice YouTube preview image!
• Changing a TextBox annotation in an MDI file
• Excel: get content of a cell given the row and column numbers (ADDRESS, INDIRECT, ROW, COLUMN)
• anoymyous type trick: Check if KeyValuePair exists with LINQ’s FirstOrDefault – via Stack Overflow
• for %n = 1 to 100 step 1 do: windows – Batch script loop – Stack Overflow
• Cool: Vysor screen sharing by Koush
• Programmers’ hardest tasks
• http://169.254.1.1 trick for Opening UI of the FRITZ!WLAN Repeater 1750E – via: AVM International
• Zypper or YaST locked: System management is locked by the application with pid ##### (/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base).
• Was ist Cloud? Great presentation including transcript by Kristian Köhntopp.
• Are these universal for any ceiling fan/light? (the IR receivers of our BULLIT one broke) – via: Home Theater Discussions And Reviews
• Google thinks google.com is in German. How can I prevent that? +GoogleTranslate
• Setting your DNS servers manually – via – Tweakers
• Dropbox adds u2f support … if you connect to it via Chrome. Using FIDO U2F. Easy with Plug-Up foldable key.
• Excel: Set the printing order of worksheet pages; printing row/coumn headings
• GoF Patterns in Delphi | Implementations of the famous Gang of Four Design Patterns in Delphi language – via Nick Hodges
• Locate and reset the last cell on a worksheet
• Installing FireDAC 8 for Delpi 2007
• .NET enable and disable Fusion log to investigate assembly loading issues
• “USB Deivces Disabled: unplug the device using too much power to re-enable USB devices.” – via: Super User
• python – Running Mercurial on Mavericks – Stack Overflow
• ESXi: specifying the ciphers used to serve the vSphere Client
• ESXi Embedded Host Client – VMware Labs
• Start URL for searching my own posts and comments – via: Ronnie Bincer.
• Linking commits to issues and issues to issues on BitBucket (via: Resolve issues automatically when users push code – Bitbucket – Atlassian Documentation)
• How to reopen a closed branch in Hg/Mercurial – via: Stack Overflow
• Alex Micu on Twitter: “PDF becomes 4th most popular religion”
• Fuzzing in addition to Unit Tests – via: David Millington G+
• Oops: Exception 14 in world – ESXi 5.1
• #3FM LIVE niet zo heel live… Even geen Giel. Iemand die een HTTP live stream URL van de audio weet?
• HTML Cleaner – (not only) Word to clean HTML
• New feeds for Dilbert, Penny Arcade, W.T. Duck
• Ethernet Adapter for Chromecast – Google Store
• Blast from the past: the digital highway as imagined circa 1995.
• Translating non-English error messages into English
• Difference Between Int32.Parse, Convert.ToInt32, and Int32.TryParse – CodeProject
• Easy 6502 by skilldrick: an ebook tutorial to learn 6502 assembly with embedded simulator
• Windows security updates breaking old software: to upgrade or not (that is not really a question).
• Excel: replace function is named SUBSTITUTE – via: Stack Overflow
• Marktplaats zonder topadvertenties – Chrome Web Store
• Never underestimate the inability for people in charge to understand how tech works.
• logparser – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Delphi: turn off column or line block selection mode – via: Default IDE Shortcut Keys; Delphi Programming
• Repeating the same expression multiple in RegEx search, and replace it only one time – via: Stack Overflow
• As of Visual Studio 2012, the option “Find Shelveset” is hard to find – via: Stack Overflow
• security – How do I view the contents of a PFX file on Windows? – Super User
• How men and women see…
• Saving MMC files as MSC and prevent the “save console settings” dialog.
• Example of xsd2code only handling xsd annotations for attributes, not for elements, types and other places where they can be used in an XSD.
• How to determine XML type in Powershell – via: Stack Overflow
• Download link for Office 2013 Language Pack Options
• 6+ Geek shirts (via: Kristian Köhntopp)
• Boolean parameters usualy are a sign of weakness (via: Avoiding Booleans)
• Jon Skeet’s speech “Back to basics” is really a good watch – via Jørn Einar Angeltveit G+
• Fixing 84b40000 error on SQL Server 2008 updates (like KB2977321 and KB2285068) via: Microsoft Community
• tls – Securing Google Chrome Browser against the Logjam exploit on Windows – Information Security Stack Exchange
• Windows < 8: User variables are not resolved correctly in Windows if they contain %APPDATA% or %LOCALAPPDATA%.
• ThinkGeek :: SQL query
• Turbo Pascal Compiler and IDE in JavaScript
• Chuck Jazdzewski on Twitter: “Doing some historical posts to resurrect my blog. http://t.co/kSXy3ARUhR”
• 20 resources on migrating to Unicode with Delphi | Software on a String
• Hacking Team had more and more need for SSL MITM
• Many (not One!) weird tricks for powerful Git aliases – Atlassian Blogs
• Samsung kondigt twee 2,5″-ssd’s met opslagcapaciteit van 2TB aan – Computer – Nieuws – Tweakers
• Hmm, need to check why MariaDB got installed
• 50+ and 25+ Ah batteries: Macbook External Battery & Car Adapter Charger from MikeGyver
• Giffify – easily create optimised GIFs from a video
• Chemists … (via: Pin by Andria Melissa on Nerdy hilarious ness | Pinterest)
• Git: Remove sensitive data using git filter-branch and the BFG Repo-Cleaner.
• Windows Kernel object names are optional. Don’t give them a name unless you intend them to be shared. (via: The Old New Thing)
• Literally: Hotspots in Amsterdam – AMSTERDAM – PAROOL
• Scala programming language and Venkat Subramaniam videos
• YouTube: Some windows shortcut key hints (by Alister Christie)
• Exit SSL 3.0: RFC 7568 – Deprecating Secure Sockets Layer Version 3.0
• Some XEONs and their hyperthreading capabilities
• TinkerTry’s Xeon D-1540 fueled ESXi 6.0 home lab build begins LIVE! | TinkerTry IT @ Home
• “Invisible” T-Shirts & Hoodies by Reece Ward | Redbubble
• Performance Considerations of Class Design and General Coding in .NET – CodeProject
• 20 years ago today: Here’s a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer.
• Aspect Oriented Programming in Delphi
• `git init –bare`: to create a new git repository from an existing one (via: Stack Overflow)
• The difference between https://google.com and https://encrypted.google.com? – Information Security Stack Exchange
• Learn to Kern T-Shirt | CMYBacon
• 2 More Old Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers from 1986 « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff
• Inversion of Control via constructor argument passing
• H.H. Polzer, bekend als Drs. P., rijmt eigen rouwadvertentie – via AT5
• Research notes on Diffie Hellman over WebSockets over a MittM http proxy to setup an encapsulated secure channel
• Git SVN: an easy way to try out Git when your main repository is still SVN (via: XE6 still stuck on an old SVN version…)
• Watch changes on html pages that do not have RSS
• 28322
• ThinkGeek :: There’s no place like 127.0.0.1
• Download them as soon as you can – Yahoo Pipes Blog: Pipes End-of-life Announcement
• reboot fixes “pam_systemd(sshd:session): Failed to create session: Connection timed out” need to find the cause.
• HGST levert eerste 10TB-hdd met helium uit – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers
• A flowchart to help you with your git…
• Moving my BitBucket mercurial repository to git was a lot harder than I hoped for (but moving to GitHub was easy)
• revue: getting Tumbleweed on it.
• Microsoft Defender (aka Antimalware) using lots of CPU when machine becomes idle (via: MsMpEng.exe ISSUES! Using very high amounts of CPU, during scans – Microsoft Community)
• Chrome will pause plugin content (e.g. Flash animations) to improve battery…
• Yahoo Pipes Blog – Pipes End-of-life Announcement
• When Windows 8 will not boot: the Automatic Repair disaster | Gadget Writing
• HTML book “Multithreading – The Delphi Way..” (via: How do I perform processing in multiple threads in Delphi? – Stack Overflow)
• Things I Wish I’d Known Earlier | Dr Dobb’s
• 10 hours left to claim Fee book: Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection – via: Free Learning | PACKT Books – @PacktPub
• The unknown beauty of shared projects in .NETGeert van Horrik
• Time to upgrade: SHAAAAAAAAAAAAA | Check your site for weak SHA-1 certificates.
• T-Shirt quotes: Programmer (via: duane attaway – Google+)
• Reminder: check for PCIe SSD upgrades – via: How-To Upgrade the SSD in your MacBook Air or Retina MacBook Pro, boosting size & speed | 9to5Mac
• So I won’t forget: some wordpress.com links for my site
• Enabling GIT_CURL_VERBOSE to research “unable to get local issuer certificate”
• The Zen Of Programming
• Pastebin, but for HTML? – Stack Overflow
• OH: “Final is Latin for Time To Refactor”
• HCL:Raspberry Pi – openSUSE
• Error 13EC when installing The .NET Framework 4.5.2 means you need to free more disk space. 3GB that is.
• Error during: git svn clone “RA layer request failed: PROPFIND request failed on” means fix your proxy configuration
• Woot: AsciiImage for Delphi http://memnarch.bplaced.net/blog/?p=129
• Intermittent but frequent OS X pauses may be from iCloud syncing | MacIssues
• How to add screenshot to markdown/READMEs in github repository ? (via: Stack Overflow)
• Dynamic DNS through NO-IP: keeping your hosts current, and your NO-IP account happy.
• Wanneer is mijn huis nou eigenlijk gebouwd? – AT5
• Sneak Preview – Build your own vSphere 6 home datacenter in about an hour – YouTube
• Oh wow. Apparently all S3 buckets are also BitTorrent trackers.
• From batch file or shortcut: start Windows Update (via: Windows 7 Help Forums)
• Insightful : SE-Radio Episode 225 Brendan Gregg on Systems Performance by…
• Resolve issues automatically when users push code in Bitbucket and GitHub
• On the Delphi TCommandParser class for parsing command-lines and arguments (via: Suggestions for how to define command line parameters – Stack Overflow)
• Batch file: Finds the location of xsd.exe by running the vsvars32.bat of the youngest installed Visual Studio
• Classic that are now available freely for reading/listing (via: About Us | Open Culture)
• Nieuwe term voor WLZ zorg thuis: “Zorg met verblijf”
• Debugging problems with the network proxy (via: The Chromium Projects)
• Allow tests to be grouped by class, category, and namespace in Test Explorer – Customer Feedback for Microsoft
• Delphi Component vendors: when you ship source code, make it IDE-browsable as well by compiling with $YD or $Y+
• Finding the path of xsd.exe from your Visual Studio Build Events
• 2.5 inch, 3 TB, 15 mm – Toshiba MQ03ABB*** Series – hopefully it can be ordered soon
• Lars Fosdal: VS/C#6 is out-delphi-ing Delphi. I hope EMBT is paying attention. Currently…
• Macbook Pro Retina QHD+ 2015 Expected Specs. Skylake.
• Find an installed tf.exe, then run it with the command-line parameters specified.
• The Clickjacking attack, X-Frame-Options
• Some interesting demographics on the G+ Delphi Developers community
• CRC: The C Stands for Confusion (quotes from the Dr Dobb’s article)
• P2V of an existing XP machine to Hyper-V to have an emergency fallback when retiring old XP physical machines
• Building a better 3D printer (with software!) with OctoPrint’s Gina Häußge on the Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers
• PowerShell reads: links to coverage of One-Liners about PowerShell features (using, language, etc)
• Delphi XE8 things I learned from the second week of G+ reading
• Coding Kata videos: Bowling game
• Delphi on Windows x64: solution when project compiles fine under IDE, but not using MSBuild
• Which external 2.5 inch usb drives contain actual SATA drives? – Super User
• *n*x: capturing http traffic
• Android: Find your Phone from Chrome – alternative to Android Device Manager
• Accessing the Dell Inspiron 17R-5737 HDD (via: NotebookCheck.net Reviews)
• Experimenting with HTTP services – UrlEcho and UrlReq
• Mobile Scanning Apps: A look Into The Dark Side By: Joe C. Hecht – Code4Sale,…
• Delphi XE8 things I learned from the first week of G+ reading
• Now that XE8 is out, some Turbo Pascal history
• Batch file that finds and starts Cntlm.exe in verbose mode.
• How to fill proxy information in cntlm config file (via: Stack Overflow)
• Oh Mein Gott…
• Delphi XE8 is out with version 22.0.19027.8951; Spring4D is almost ready.
• mos6502: “This is currently the oldest publicly available piece of source written by Bill Gates.”
• Looping through the variables – via: Version 1.5 History | Continua CI
• Marking code as obsolete/deprecated in C# and Delphi
• Keyboards, logo keys CUA and a some more history…
• Mac OS X: Open a Terminal at Folder from Finder / Open Finder at Folder from the Terminal (via: StackOverflow)
• Pushing poisoned style sheets into documents to XSS into GMail via copy and…
• How To Get 36 TB Free Cloud Storage From Qihoo 360 Yunpan (Cloud Drive)?
• Increasing your Windows NTFS disk size under VMware ESXi
• Developer Assistant for Visual Studio with access to millions of code samples- via: Google+
• When Delphi documentation hurts: REST.Response.Adapter.TRESTResponseDataSetAdapter – RAD Studio API Documentation
• Some ICACLS & SubInACL.exe notes
• BitSavers.org just added 7 missing scans of PascalNews newsletters (1975…1983)
• Setting the SMB/Netbios name of your Mac
• DanielRapp/doppler
• Nieuwe publieke WiFi van @DeWaterkanten is best snel
• Delphi Pipe – Delphi related RSS feed running on Yahoo Pipes – via twm’s blog
• [NL] Verenigingen Sassenheim moeten bloeden voor (semi-)commerciële bibliotheek van buiten de gemeente – @deteyding @ adestmusica
• [NL] toch nog onverwacht snel: Eindelijk. Glasvezel in Sassenheim. @deteyding @xs4all @Reggefiber
• OS X Finder: viewing hidden paths
• .NET threading: native and managed thread IDs do not per se correlate
• Quite weird. About 80% of the repos on github have no license…
• Interfaces are great, but they can be a pain to debug. Forgetting one weak link can lead to Access Violation hell…
• For both FX and DX lenses: printable Nikon lens hood templates – via Nikon Rumors
• The pontoons have arrived…
• Home Labs made easier with VSAN 6.0 + USB Disks | virtuallyGhetto
• IlMerge is on NuGet.
• How to move your Google Code project to GitHub
• WPF Tutorial | Dependency Properties
• Patch soon and be careful: A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: Attack of the week: FREAK (or ‘factoring the NSA for fun and profit’)
• [NL] Redjepakketje.com – Hiermee komt uw pakketje wanneer ú dat wilt – AMSTERDAM – PAROOL
• For those doing dates in M/D/Y format: happy Pi Day
• Add an account to use Google Play on your device: can take a while to show up.
• OData: a few notes
• Interesting presentation at EKON 16: MSBuild Inside the Microsoft Build Engine from Sebastian Gingter
• Some notes on OpenSSL, S/MIME, email, various RFC standards and their relations.
• On the research list; XP update failures
• Some GIT notes
• Interesting: CintaNotes note takeing tool; Windows only, but cloud possibilities and comes with good search
• [NL] In Memoriam: Oma Wil van Kesteren – Drum- en Showband Adest Musica
• Brutal way to prevent memory errors in Delphi XE7: rename DLLs, loose part of the functionality, but less memory issues – via G+
• OpenSSL on Windows: fixing the “unable to write ‘random state’” (via: Stack Overflow)
• Visual Studio: Find unused code? – Stack Overflow
• Delphi anonymous method formatting thread going into the direction of functional programming – via: Markus Joos – Google+
• RAD Studio 2015 Roadmap – Blogs
• We’re just getting started with SourceTree – via: SourceTree Blog @brwynant
• New version of Beyond Compare: 4.0.6.19729 – FEBRUARY 27, 2015 – @ScooterSoftware
• Some links to version control system popularity articles and graphs (GIT, HG, SVN, etc)
• [NL]SLA en content management tussen brieven en site van @Belastingdienst; wachtend op betaling.
• Some command-line tips for OpenSSL and file format (pfx, p12, cer, crt, key, etc.) conversion of certificates, keys
• Fake/Mock SMTP servers and services for use during development
• Skype Mix Minus – via: Joe Hecht – Google+
• Macros are gone since Visual Studio 2012, but an extension brings textual macro’s back (via Can I record/play Macros in Visual Studio 2012/2013? – Stack Overflow)
• [NL] encoding blijft moeilijk, waarom toch? (dit keer in een brief van @xs4all)
• Hack Raspberry Pi – How To Build Apps In C#, WinForms and ASP.NET Using Mono In Pi (via: Amazedsaint’s Tech Journal)
• Linux for^W 4.0 RC1 – Hurr durr I’ma sheep – kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git – Linux kernel source tree
• Installing the PIXMA mini260 – Canon Europe drivers under Windows 8.1 x64 – trying to say goodbye to Windows XP
• “PC Decrapifier” – via: Machines Plus Minds: Regarding Lenovo preinstalling SSL-breaking MITM on their machines
• [NL] Crucial BX100- en MX200-ssd Review commentaar: Samsung EVI 850 een serieus alternatief – Tweakers
• The way a wiki should work: List of Delphi language features and version in which they were introduced/deprecated – Stack Overflow
• Visualisation of the 6502; awesome pictures – via: mos6502 – Google+
• G+ now has completely stopped working: “Unusual traffic from your computer network” – Search Help
• Liz Kimber: My first computer, is responsible for who i am today.
• Binary builds of Win64 and Win32 OpenSSL (via: Shining Light Productions)
• One line browser notepad (via: Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga)
• Mac OS X: Replicating md5sum Output Format (via: Raam Dev)
• Creating an ICO file from multiple PNG files: IcoFX versus ConvertICO.org
• The Pro from DrawAttention: whiteboard laptop sticker that fits on your shell
• VeraCrypt is the open source TrueCrypt successor – via Ashley Wilson – Google+
• Windows Alt Key Codes
• GenerateGroupProjConsoleProject fix for Delphi 2007 – jeroenp / BeSharp.net / commit / f7c23ffe4cb1 — Bitbucket
• In 1 week: nieuwe nationale nederlanden logo in oudere brief dan oude NN logo (: @nn_nederland
• Where My Delphi Life Began – via David Millington and Simon Stuart #DelphiWeek
• Happy Birthday AppBuilder^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Delphi
• My wish for Delphi: Please bring multi-level undo/redo functionality in the Delphi designer (form, datamodule, etc).
• Viewing source code in Safari requires you to enable the “Develop menu” (via: Apple Support Communities)
• Online EAN/GTIN databases
• When MRI scan results are inconclusive…
• Readable Table from MSDN topic Language Identifier Constants and Strings
• Kylix T-Shirts…
• Just ordered a WL-330NUL – Overview as it can WiFi to WiFi, wired to WiFi, wired to USB, WiFi to USB, … both ways, and can do MAC spoofing so that you only need to captive portal once.
• Time to upgrade some of my older OpenSuSE VMs from 12.3 to a more recent version
• Interface unit for sending debug messages to SysInternals ProcessMonitor « bl.OGware
• I asked +Simon Stuart​ “can you make your Raspberry Pi 2 devices crash by flash light?” he did: it fails!
• Lazarus 1.5 (direct from SVN Trunk) running on the Raspberry Pi 2 – via Simon Stuart G+
• Hopefully Embarcadero will publish official guidelines to make the IDE High DPI aware…
• How to Prevent a specific Blogger Blog from Redirecting to Country Domains
• [NL] Aanpassing voorwaarden ING Zakelijk: als je een euro schuld hebt, runnen wij je bedrijf. @ingnl
• 13 Ways to Clear Your Browser’s Cache – wikiHow
• Interesting game to teach kids to program: Eduka+ | YAPB.
• On my research list: NCrunch for Visual Studio
• Inversion of Control explained in a few sencences
• djm’s personal weblog: Key rotation in OpenSSH 6.8+
• On my research list: Pharo – Welcome to Pharo!
• via Delphi sorcery: Unattended Delphi installation – how?
• Why I like #Gists
• Microsoft Windows on Devices – Raspberry Pi 2
• Update to “Delphi operator overloading: table of operators”: added the `in` operator
• Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Features Broadcom BCM2836 Quad Core Processor
• Fun to watch/listen to: Sorting Algorithms (slower, grouped and ordered) – YouTube
• (NL) fijn al die electronische rekeningafschriften, maar je moet ze of downloaden of 7 jaar bij je bank blijven @ABNAMRO @ingnl @Rabobank
• (NL) Wat is een goede mobiliteitskaart als alternatief voor de NS business card van NS Zakelijk? @ns_online @xxlmo @radiuz_nl wie biedt?
• #lifehacker – Gmail search operators work in filters, too including OR condition: ||
• alex/what-happens-when · GitHub – via #Tech45
• Cool garden bench that turns into a picnic table
• Finding your Windows files quickly: Everything Search engine
• The curse of getting electronic invoices
• What do I do if Dropbox is stuck syncing, won’t launch, or reports an error? (Dropbox Help Center)
• ASCII is not just an RFC. It is an Internet Standard, but only recently.
• CodeInspect says “Hello World”: A new Reverse-Engineering Tool for Android and Java Bytecode – via: Secure Software Engineering
• Some links to Delphi Unit Testing history
• Mockable: Quickly create REST and SOAP mocks
• Interesting: minidump/kernel dump Instant Online Crash Analysis
• windows – .Net WinForm System Beep on a 64 Bit OS – Stack Overflow
• Note to self: When sending our xml schema to a third party, make sure to…
• Hmmm. Castalia for Delphi: Castalia for Delphi is not currently available. Thank you for your interest. – via Uwe Raabe – G+
• CSV libraries for .NET
• Skiplagged: book flights, and skip legs to make them cheaper – via: Jan Wildeboer, Brandon Downey, Bloomberg
• More secure SSH: hardening both client and server. And use Tor
• NotePad++: Text Editor which shows \r\n (via: Stack Overflow)
• Sudoku Solving Techniques
• RosettaCode: cool way to improve your coding skills
• A few nice G+ threads on Castalia and Usertility being acquired by Embarcadero, and Jacob Thurman staying active on them
• Great Unicode presentation by
• Wink – now that is a cool way to automate your home
• Favorite Documents extension for Visual Studio 2010 and up
• Zenoss: Open Source Network Monitoring and Systems Management
• Apple Mac LC475 fun: New computer time. Well not exactly “new”. I needed to read/write some old…
• WordPress.com old stats and new stats links
• *nix: Cron shortcuts @daily, @weekly, @monthly, … (via: Cron and Crontab usage and examples)
• Downgrading to SourceTree 1.5.x from 1.6.x, but keeping up with the youngest embedded Git and Mercurial
• Delphi: ZEROBASEDSTRINGS and maintaining cross-version Delphi libraries
• “KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as a functioning…
• Debugging MSBuild script with Visual Studio – The Visual Studio Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Cross-site Scripting (XSS) – OWASP
• Password requirements by @NicvantSchip – via Koushik Dutta – Google+
• Mac OS X GeekTool: like Windows BgInfo on steroids.
• What would be a real world example of heavy coupling?  A space satellite?…
• Like Process Explorer, but open source, with some extra options: Process Hacker
• Search engines for the Embarcadero/CodeGear/Borland newsgroups
• Just in case I ever need it again: jed-software.com » Blog Archive » FastMM4 Gui – Source Code.
• Patch for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 suddenly indicating it is not genuine/0x8004FE21: Install KB3024777 to fix KB3004394 – via Brett Wilton G+
• The Truth about BDD – Clean Coder – via GDG Düsseldorf
• OpenSUSE: Getting to work the ruby script to login into dyndns.com automatically every week.
• [DE] Kristian Köhntopp: Und wieder fällt ein MITM Angriff auf SSL durch Google Certificate Pinning auf…
• Nick Hodges: Man, the chapter on Multi-threading is going to be seriously hard to write.…
• I love plain text: for markup/markdown, diagrams and more.
• Blast from the Past: `TThread` got introduced in Delphi 2
• The Underground Map of the Elements | Mark Lorch | Science | theguardian.com
• Delphi XE7: The new Tasks / Parallel Computing Library. Like any library, it is not a magic bullet!
• XSD regular expressions are a tad different: creating GroupProj.xsd
• Delphi memory managers – via Tommi Prami G+
• Tools to generate sample data from regeX expressions (via: Stack Overflow)
• EveryTimeZone: The visualization of Time Zones done right.
• em-dosbox: Internet Archive port of DOSBOX in your Browser. Each New Boot a Miracle « ASCII by Jason Scott
• Graphic with phones sizes compared Moto X through iPhone 6 Plus
• Some links on Google Nexus 4 phones that suddenly switch themselves off
• encfs – Encrypted User Mode file system for *nix
• [NL] Hotspots van flitsers in 2013
• For the 6502, 65c02 and 65816 freaks out there: WDC have made their Programming the 65816 Including the 6502, 65C02 and 65802 available for free again
• .NET/C#: Chaning the ForeColor of a ReadOnly/Disabled TextBox (via: Stack Overflow)
• Episode 215: Gang of Four – 20 Years Later : Software Engineering Radio
• Am I really a developer or just a good googler? – Scott Hanselman
• Direct link to the “old” WordPress stats page giving more information: My Stats — WordPress.com
• MRR Software: NameChanger
• Recommende for font enthousiast: Bigelow & Holmes – How and Why We Designed Lucida
• Delphi Cookbook for USD 5 (or EUR 4.80); actually: get any Packt eBook or video for that price – #packt5dollar
• My ZFS question on G+: investigation for using a XW6600 based system with ZFS.
• A few OnePlus One CyanogenMod tips
• Interesting app to read your fare and balance from NFC cards: FareBot – Android Apps on Google Play
• Embarcadero is working on two 64bit iOS compilers – via: Just got another reminder from Apple about 64 bit IOS requirements
• Delphi and MVVM: the demo by Malcolm Groves
• .NET: case insensitive string replace without using RegEx (via: Stack Overflow)
• Clean Coder Blog: The Obligation of the Programmer.
• The Musketeer Video – via: Windows of the World videos
• (Retina) MacBook tethering: WiFi, Bluetooth and USB. iPhone and Android.
• Windows of the World videos
• Excessive CPU usage in WheaAttemptPhysicalPageOffline when using Intel HD graphics – via Intel Communities
• Nostalgia: OSvirtual Virtual images of operating systems
• Moving away from StarTeam is not so easy….
• Which Delphi extensions to (not) put in version control: Delphi File Extensions – Delphi Programming (via Delphi.wikia.com)
• Blast from the past: Deleting empty Delphi .ddp files
• Add a Security Key to your Google Account: FIDO U2F Security Key
• Embedding a Gist in WordPress is easy (via: Support — WordPress.com)
• Durable OnePlus One cases I found so far – via: 1+1 Reddit; cases that compare to an Otterbox?
• StackPrinter: StackOverflow in printable way
• MVVM, MVP, MVC, OOD, etc: it is all about structure and using common sense.
• Some links on SSPI/NTLM base64
• .NET/C#: some starting posts on the `async` and `await` keywords
• Danny Thorpe active on various Bitcoin reposiories – via: Best C# Article of October 2014 Nicolas Dorier – NBitcoin : Build Them All…
• ESXi Support for 2014 Apple Mac Mini 7,1 | virtuallyGhetto
• Book review: Delphi Cookbook by Daniele Teti, Packt publishing
• Delphi version and Build numbers
• Things you annoyingly just don’t seem to be able to get.. USB 5.25″ floppies…
• Taking Screenshot on multiple platforms (via Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
• Short video: What’s New In C# 6.0 | Connect; Microsoft Visual Studio vNext & Azure | Channel 9
• Reminder: rebuild my Nullable Types based on Class Operators in Delphi
• Default comparers in Delphi used by TArray.Sort (via: Stack Overflow)
• Signing your Delphi executables with a digital certificate.
• Google: view which Devices used your account when: Security – Devices
• Factory Images for Nexus Devices – Android — Google Developers
• Instantly save a web-page to the Wayback Machine (Internet Archive: www.archive.org)
• [NL] Full-page kaart van Parkeren Amsterdam – Gemeente Amsterdam
• em, rem, vh, vw, vmin, vmax, ex, ch… Good explainer on various CSS units – via G+
• running dig DNS under Windows
• How do I test an interface? Should I even do that? | Software on a String
• Delphi prebuild/prelink/postbuild events
• Delphi XE, Windows Theming, your DPR and the Project Options in the IDE
• Delphi Research list: TXMLDocument binding for OmniXML (via: Stack Overflow)
• Soldering your own 6502 together: Ben Hack creating an Apple I, others doing NINA65, Loom 6502, etc.
• Moving a Subversion/SVN including history to Mercurial/HG using TortoiseHG or HG command-line tools
• Inbox by GMail: interesting approach!
• SonicWALL Multi-WAN Firewalls (Unlimited WAN)
• Luke Wroblewski: From the Front Lines of Multi-Device Web Design | WordPress.tv
• JCL & JVCL – What are the Real Gems in these Tool Sets
• BeSharp.net: PowerShell script to show the component packages (BPL) files for all installed Delphi (actually: BDS) versions.
• On my research list: Delphi, .RC and .RES files
• Delphi: removing “unused” units from uses lists cannot be fully automated (via: SO)
• Markdown support on WordPress.com is a farce.
• CommonMark Markdown spec.txt in WordPress: rendering is not good.
• Markdown notes
• Introducing nogotofail—a network traffic security testing tool for TLS/SSL – via: Google Online Security Blog
• Windows .RES/Resource editors
• ITDevCon and EKON session materials on Delphi Unit Testing + Build Automation and Continuous Integration on-line
• Delphi and Batch Files
• Windows software developers – High DPI awareness: the developer Y2K (or is it EUR introduction) of our time.
• Accessing the ESXi Direct Console User Interface DCUI via SSH – Wahl Network
• Delphi; Conditional defines in the .dpr: FastMM4 disappearing – via: G+ I’ve got an old problem, in which the IDE…
• PowerShell: 3 ways of `not` (except `not` itself: that doesn’t work) via Stack Overflow
• Delphi; Reminder to self: “Parallel Programming Library” in XE7 is the end result of “Delphi Parallel Library” by Allen Bauer
• Delphi, C#, VB.NET and SQL all have escapes to use reserved words as identifiers
• GMail: add CC/BCC field in Compose/Reply using keyboard
• WordPress.com #fail (new editor just as bad as old one): Another example of the editor eating line breaks « WordPress.com Forums
• Why I dislike GoToWebinar by Citrix: 0 stars out of 5.
• Indent/Unindent text in PowerShell ISE
• CodeRage 9 Q&A: Creating Beautiful Animations in your Desktop and Mobile Applications (Boian Mitov)
• CodeRage 9 Q&A: Advanced RTTI in Object Pascal (Ray Konopka)
• CodeRage 9 Q&A: Android Push Notifications (Jeff Lefebvre)
• CodeRage 9 Q&A: Understanding Distributed Version Control (Robert Love)
• CodeRage 9 Q&A: Bluetooth Classic and LE Programming with VCL and FMX (Diego Navarro)
• CodeRage 9 Q&A: InterBase Keynote (Stephen Ball)
• CodeRage 9 Q&A: Working with PDF and Office Documents using VCL and FireMonkey (Girish Patil)
• CodeRage 9 Q&A: NestedDataSets in ClientDataSets (Cary Jensen)
• CodeRage 9 Q&A log: ClientDataSets and FDMemTables Compared (Cary Jensen)
• Interesting thread about various file systems: BTRFS, ReiserFS, ext4
• Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
• PowerShell: be careful when passing other bool values than $True and $False around
• SVN batch file to see which items in your repository have been switched to another branch/tag
• TortoiseSVN trick: moving files around with the Repository Browser (via: StackOverflow)
• Retro: Apple IIe iPhone – Ivan Epling
• Switching Google Chrome back to use Google.com for searching
• Interesting: open source audio finger printing system AcoustID – MusicBrainz
• Show missing hard disks in the Finder sidebar | MacIssues
• Barry Kelly on how the Delphi Compiler used to be compiled (via: Google Groups)
• Wow: Milan Linate airport has free WiFi that – unlike Rome Fiumicino airport – works!
• Barry Kelly on “Implementing Closures” in Delphi (via: Google Groups)
• Delphi fun code: How to make a water effect on TImage or anything? (via: Stack Overflow)
• Max OS X: Tunderbolt Ethernet trouble shooting (via: Ask Different)
• Some linkes Apple Retina MacBook with GSoD or sleeping issues
• Some on-line XML tools I use often
• Continua v1.5.0.338 got released last week (via: Version 1.5 History | Continua CI – Page2RSS)
• The Delphi MESSAGE directive: don’t forget quotes!
• Files in your Delphi settings directory; How to relocate the Favourites on your Welcome page
• Great page on Z80: Apple II with Softcard
• Old and invalidated by the Microsoft RDP client in the Mac App Store: Best RDP client for Mac OS X Lion and up
• Version control: branches, tags, merging, the folder you work in. Some SVN links.
• The CD pseudo environment variable in batch file: do not overwrite it with a real one!
• Delphi: RandomizeIfNeeded
• Great answer on “windows – What encoding/code page is cmd.exe using” (via: Stack Overflow)
• Windows: authenticated command-line download from IIS server wget: no, cURL: yes.
• Some cool visual traceroute sites/mashups
• Delphi hinting directives: deprecated, experimental, library and platform
• NTCore: interesting site about about system internals and software security
• HTTPS blessing and curse: Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market – ACM Queue
• Finder: maybe the best free duplicate file finder program (via: Mac-Forums Discussions)
• Solution for opensuse 12.2: yast “System Services (Runlevel): Services” very slow
• bash vulnerability; patch your *n*x boxes A.S.A.P. (via: CERT/NIST reveal level 10 bash alert today, 24 September 2014)
• A few must watch videos on test driven development and unit testing
• Delphi poor mans debugging trick: approximate the source location of an exception address
• Generate XSD from XML – XSD.EXE versus on-line tools – take 2
• Optimal posting time? (via: Are there optimal days/hours to post questions in order to get visibility and answers? – Meta Super User)
• Abstract syntax tree builder for Delphi
• MINIX 3.3.0 is now available – Google Groups
• Interesting video channel: Numberphile – YouTube
• Fixed this error in Continua CI: Build ErrorUnable to start build – No changesets found in repository: [FastMM-jeroenp]
• ModelMaker Tools released Code Explorer v 11.1.0 with Delphi XE7 support (via: ModelMaker Code Explorer: Refactoring made Easy! – Class Explorer, Refactoring Browser for Delphi.)
• Continua CI – v1.5.0.295 Released. Critical bug fix for Git; requires resetting your Git repositories
• If you *do* want to download the free U2 album, but have a hard way finding how to… (via Ask Different)
• Hola – Access ALL of the web (free VPN) & faster browsing (thanks #tech45)
• Free JavaScript and Python Books (via: revolunet)
• How to save Google Maps offline on iOS and Android devices | BGR
• Pair Programming – you need to strike a balance
• Delphi: considerations regarding rendering performance improvements for FireMonkey applications (via: +Simon Stuart)
• interesting: YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator that understands both Windows and Linux
• Online Dutch Radio streams: some direct URLs
• Boxstarter: quickly setup a machine with just a Gist
• Multiple instances of Word 2013 launching when opening files from Explorer window
• Android Wear Check
• Continua CI Update 1.5.0.278 for breaking change (via: Version 1.5 History | Continua CI)
• Reminder to Self: write Eurekalog article about finding cause for hard to catch Access Violations in Delphi
• Google Voice calling on Android via Google Hangouts 2.3+ APK and Hangouts Dialer
• A url or site like example.org which always produces a 404 error (and two for 200 and 204)
• Continua CI Version 1.5 has been released (build 1.5.0.268); smaller, faster, loads of new features; Spring4D XE7 builds automated
• Some notes on the Samsung UE40C6800 TV, PVR, decoding the PVR recordings and SamyGO extensions
• c# – What should I do when I am forced to write unreachable code? – Stack Overflow
• Revisited from the .NET side: Why doesn’t WINWORD.EXE quit after Closing the document from Delphi? (via: Stack Overflow)
• 24473
• StackOverflow/StackExchange: two queries to help me improve my questions and answers
• Delphi XE7 is out with version 21.0.17017.3725; Spring4D is almost ready.
• VSCommands: one of the greatest free Visual Studio addons
• Microsoft partner stuff: MSDN, TechNet, ActionPacks, various Sparks, etc
• Some great reads from Barry Kelly
• VMware Fusion: Alt+Print Screen on MacBook Pro
• software.opensuse.org: Install package isv:ownCloud:community / owncloud
• CGSociety – Building 3D with Ikea: “Those natural-looking photographs in the IKEA catalogues are amazing. I can’t believe they’re mostly CG. It’s incredible.”
• Developer Skill Sprints video links
• Paletton and Kuler: very useful for creating colour palettes (via G+ Nick Butcher / Marie Schweiz)
• Delphi: So XOAuth2 SASL component that can do OAuth2 (via: Asbjørn Heid, G+)
• Funny: Windows 7 BSOD and repair giving an “Unknown Bugcheck 50”
• Git: how to resolve merge conflicts | softwarecave
• Delphi: always watch the compiler Warnings
• Funny: 2300+ hits and counting…
• A way for a VCL TFrame to be notified when it is actually shown (via G+)
• Web requests and NTLM authentication in .NET
• Some notes on Word automation and showing Bookmarks
• Tracing NTLM (via: 407 Authentication required – no challenge sent – Stack Overflow)
• net/http/http_network_transaction_spdy2_unittest.cc – chromium/chromium – Git at Google
• NTLM authentication: Connect to TFS 2013 Git Repository with LibGit2Sharp (via: Gáspár Nagy on software)
• Some notes on Word automation and protected documents
• Linux: sudo, su and their options (via: Ask Ubuntu)
• Some paper tricks for your digital camera (in my case: Nikon D700/D300, SB-900 and various lenses)
• Sudoku Solver v2.0 for the Apple II. (via: This week we solve Sudoku on the 6502)
• testing HTTPS with openssl « The Sarth Repository
• JEDI.INC got updated a few months ago: Delphi XE7 seems to be ahead…
• Windows 8.x: Three keyboard/mouse ways to zoom in or out on start screen (via: YouTube)
• The Little Mocker (on Test Doubles; via: 8th Light)
• Linux/bash: using mutt to send a file as an email attachment (via: Stack Overflow)
• [Solved] Nexus 4 won’t turn on or charge (via: Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com)
• For GIT/Mercurial users: SourceTree for Windows 1.6.1 – Now Available! (via: SourceTree Blog)
• When deadlocks become livelocks (via: Do deadlocks cause high CPU utilization? – Stack Overflow)
• Some more notes on ASUS RT-N66U, firmwares, temperatures and versions
• GitHub System Status
• Tom Lehrer – New Math Animated – YouTube
• Delphi and C++ Builder VCL Library Buffer Overflow
• Delphi: (ab?)using managed types to help guarantee initialisation of stack record (via: Stack Overflow)
• Windows: Where is my DropBox configuration?
• Adobe Reader installer download speed differences: FTP much slower than HTTP
• Designer’s guide to DPI
• Interesting way to become relaxed: calm.com.
• Tim Anderson on Developing an app on Microsoft Azure: a few quick reflections…
• Michael Kaplan’s Sorting it All Out blog is back! http:///www.siao2.com (via Tim’s comment)
• Why IKEA’s font switch from Futura to Verdana mattered (via: National Post)
• Z80: the “User Manual” was already 300+ pages (:
• Which Windows Resource Editor do you use?
• The dreaded with… Debugging today, I found another gotcha (: – via: Lars Fosdal
• Delphi: interesting unit uExecFromMem from DelphiBasics.info: start an executable from binary memory image
• Today is a good day. I just had a call from a telemarketer… factory reset!
• Windows XP, Restore Points and a corrupted SYSTEM registry
• The “Just In Time” Theory of User Behavior
• Blender, ZBrush: interesting 3D tools
• Sysmon: new tool from Windows Sysinternals to monitor key system activity in the Windows Event Log
• How to Move the Dock to a External Display on a Mac (YouTube video)
• Windows key character that displays on non-Windows systems (like Mac)
• Delphi: a memento that executes any code at end of method
• Delphi: using IInterface to restore cursor at end of mehod (prelude to a memento that executes any code at end of method).
• Word API Documents collection documentation: moved and changes with the introduction of Word 2013
• Spring4D: How is the GlobalContainer intended to be used? Are there important don’ts? – Google Groups
• 7zip on a Mac: Keka, 7zip on Windows: their plain installer.
• Making Keystrokes with Macintosh Keyboards – Citrix eDocs
• When combined with Ctrl or Alt: RDP Shift Key Gets Stuck (via: davidbond.net)
• Multiple office versions on one computer: it is possible, but you should not do it
• TortoiseSvn – How do I move a file (or folder) from one folder to another (via: Stack Overflow)
• Delphi: mapping of COM/Windows exceptions to Delphi Exceptions and run-time errors
• Delphi: workaround for when you loose many of the ModelMaker Code Explorer keyboard shortcuts
• Linux: no more correct license file for AntiVir
• Pin layouts of hardware
• Mac/PC: sending Wake-on-LAN (WOL) packets
• A few HTML to Markdown converters written in javascript, Python, Ruby, PHP and C#
• How Can I Determine Which Version of Word is Installed on a Computer? – Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs
• Delphi syntax for TODO list (via: How set up todo list categories in Delphi 2010 – Stack Overflow)
• The StackOverflow Pascal/DelphiSyntax Highlighter
• Using inotify-wait to check filesystem events
• Good starting point for RAID information
• Devicons is a full stack iconic font with Development tool Glyphs
• Drawing fully justified text to a canvas (via: Parnassus OÜ – Delphi Consulting & Plugins – parnassus.co)
• BitTorrent Labs: BitTorrent Sync – distributed peer-to-peer syncing your files without online cloud storage
• (Old style Pascal objects): Could you please remind me if Objects support polymorphism? For instance, I…
• Delphi: a few short notes on LoadString and loading shell resource strings for specific LCIDs
• “Weird Al” Yankovic – Word Crimes – YouTube
• Delphi: Variant versus OleVariant (via: RAD Studio API Documentation)
• How to change the WiFi network my Chromecast is connected to (via: Frequently Asked Questions – Chromecast Help)
• HTTP debugging tools
• via: What’s the difference between F5 and F8 at the boot screen? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• In case I ever misplace/break one: Free printable cardboard lens hoods
• .NET/C#: Interesting DocX library to create OOXML documents for Word
• svn – Where does TortoiseSVN save password cached files in Windows 7? (via: Stack Overflow)
• which.bat (in case I don’t have CygWin on a system)
• Interesting try by Tame.it: Your Twitter timeline
• Excel worksheet function – How do I get the weekday name of a date?
• Interesting comment by Joseph G. Mitzen delphi on my “Delphi – for … in on enumerated data types” post
• VB.NET: If you want to cast use DirectCast or TryCast; if you want to convert, use CType
• Some notes/links on Windows Debugging CLR applications
• Windows: programmatically setting date/time stamps of files
• Google NCR: access the Google homepage with “no country redirect”, then reset the language (via: Stack Overflow)
• Changing the Windows Console Height/Width and screen buffer Height/Width
• .NET/C#: open source Nikon SDK C# Wrapper project at SourceForge.net
• “Textmate.app would like to access your contacts”
• tools for iPad as second screen, or show iPad screen on your computer
• Hiding email behind a 30x redirect.
• Delete specific cookies from Google Chrome on the current site (via: Super User)
• Mac OS X: Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac Search results – Microsoft Download Center
• Windows consoles: a small list
• Windows shells: a bit of history
• Thanks Jaykul for explaining me a custom PowerShell script that acts like DU (DiskUsage).
• AK’s Guide to Suits – Imgur
• Typing Special Characters on Mac OS X and Windows
• TSQL: showing database level and server level permissions
• Delphi `with` post and discussion revisited (via: wiert.me and LinkedIn)
• StudioShell: integrating Visual Studio in PowerShell
• Word: adding properties to a document and using them in fields
• GlobalSign is offering free TLS certificates for open source projects:…
• Word: deleting unused styles
• Some notes/links on Git-TF: the GIT/TFS bridge
• Team Foundation Server Express and Team Foundation Service: some links
• Delphi multithreading and DLL exports: watch your exceptions (via: Stack Overflow)
• Registry keys to prevent Java installs from adding sponsors (Ask/Google/Yahoo Toolbar, McAfee virus, etc) via: Super User
• A few Excel printing tips I always forget
• delphi – Is there a way to get a VCL Control’s name through the windows API? – Stack Overflow
• using tf to list the workspaces for the current directory in Team Foundation System
• Windows batch file to set ProgramFilesX86 directory for 32-bit program files on x86 and x64 systems (via: Stack Overflow)
• Move Around in paragraphs – Microsoft Word keyboard shortcuts
• Interesting: Jason Franzen memoRANDOM / moreSIMPLE
• alias suse_version for getting the openSUSE version – openSUSE
• Reduce size of guest vmdk disks with VMware Fusion 4.1.3 on OS X 10.8 | aitrusblog
• .NET remnants of the past: Visual Studio .NET 2003 cannot start debugging as the assembly is missing
• .NET/C#: Ctrl+R+R toggles wrap in Visual Studio.NET 2003 (via: Stack Overflow)
• Using dsquery and dsget to get computer information from a domain
• MacBook Air/Retina equivalent of Ctrl+Shift+Eject is Ctrl+Shift+Fn+Power (via: Apple Support Communities)
• TCP/IP 40th Anniversary
• Solution for HP LaserJet 4050 Can’t select Tray 1 in driver (via: Enterprise Business Community)
• This is madness. University textbook at full price but without ownership (via: Jan Wildeboer – Google+)
• .NET uses banker’s rounding as default as it follows IEEE 754 (via: Stack Overflow)
• Fix by Christian S. – Moers for “KB2686509 repeatedly fails with Error code 0x8007F0F4” (via: Microsoft Community)
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Fat JSON
• Handy Chrome extension that surfaces NavTiming, render… (via: Ilya Grigorik – Google+)
• Recommended reads when dealing with Character Encodings in software
• ADAP Open Source REST API Layer For LDAP | Dr Dobb’s
• Mac OS X: copy the current Finder folder or file name to the clipboard
• Delphi: Design-Time Component Name Limited to 63 characters (via: Vin Colgin – Google+)
• Reminder to self: links to HP C4680 Windows Drivers
• A Quick Test Drive of Tails, a Privacy Focused Linux Distribution
• pickhardt/betty: a command-line like tool like Google Now/Siri for *nix and Mac OS X (requires ruby)
• Interesting discussion about generic Dictionaries in Delphi (via: Steve Maughan – Google+ – TObjectDictionary Advice Needed)
• ; a semi-colon starts a comment line in a .reg file (via: Windows Server content from Windows IT Pro)
• permissions – Delphi – setting Full Control on Registry Key – Stack Overflow
• Text Formatting Notation Help – Atlassian JIRA
• Cutting Cherry Tomatoes / Ideale manier om cherrytomaatjes te snijden – Lifehacking
• This week: five BASICs for the 6502, to mark the 50th (via: mos6502 – Google+)
• Interesting thread on IP geolocation and providers (via: Dan Sohad – Google+)
• Great overview of how Chromecast works (via: Ilya Grigorik – Google+)
• Microsoft’s new open source direction for C# and .NET (and native compilation too): Anders Hejlsberg explains « Tim Anderson’s ITWriting
• dockStubz+: 30-pin Pass-Through Adapter with side Micro-USB port and USB/FireWire charge conversion circuitry
• Happy 50th birthday BASIC! (via: BASIC at Dartmouth)
• SDB:System upgrade – openSUSE
• Lowering in language design, part one | Fabulous adventures in coding
• Redirect to another web-site using a frame/frameset
• Google Maps: Blue and Yellow Stars For (via: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+)
• Linux: getting the correct license file for AntiVir
• Asperges in Lijnden
• Easiest way to grant/query “Log on as a service” to a Windows user from the command-line? (my question on Super User)
• Building URLs to Old WordPress.com Stats (from a date in the past; via: Planet Botch)
• C# and VB are open sourced | Fabulous Adventures In Coding
• On my buying list: The WOZPAK Special Edition (1978 Apple I/II materials digitally enhanced)
• How Do Young Go-Getters Get With Old Git? (via: Dr. Dobb’s – Google+)
• Windows 8.1 on VMware ESXi 5.1: Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons are invisible but functional
• Build interactive books using Git and Markdown: GitBook (via: Ilya Grigorik – Google+)
• Apache2 on openSUSE 12.x: some notes
• IdeOne is a lot faster and more recent than “Compile and Execute C# Sharp online”
• Project Naptha
• rsync: the MacGyver tool for making backups on *nix based operating systems
• WinToUSB – Install and Run Windows/WinPE on a USB drive!
• Open Source is a thankless job. We do it anyway. – Scott Hanselman
• Microsoft OneDrive for Business modifies files as it syncs | Myce.com
• Call for help: Spring4D and Delphi MultiCast events: working for Win32, Win64 and Mac OS X x64, but Android/iOS ARM help needed.
• Online XML Pretty Print
• More Raize Software updates for Delphi XE6: CodeSite Studio 5.1.5, Inspex 2.6.3, DropMaster 2.4.3.
• Raize Components 6 updates for Delphi XE6
• In C#, given a DateTime object, how do I get a ISO8601 date in string format? – Stack Overflow
• Fighting Cargo Cult – The Incomplete SSL/TLS Bookmark Collection (via: Danimo’s blog and Kristian Köhntopp G+)
• Fonera Simpl Wireless Settings : Fon Support
• Today I learned… :) I didn’t know about this syntax for properties… (via: Roman Yankovsky – Google+)
• Chrome’s Click to play feature can avoid “Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night, with monsters.”
• Windows/NTFS – this works from one file system to another: `junction -D`
• TinkerTry IT @ home | Download ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and the other vSphere Update 1a pieces to get your home lab started
• “There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation” in VMware Fusion or Workstation
• Reaver 1.4 (and wash) on Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
• GExperts 1.37 available for Delphi XE6..6.02, but not for Appmethod (via: Download | GExperts)
• Cut and Paste Files & Folders in Mac OS X
• Some Windows 8.1 Update (KB2919355) notes
• Interactive Maps of Amsterdam / Interactieve kaarten van Amsterdam
• Flickr: The Help Forum: Can’t view my original sizes; solve this manually with a simple URL workaround
• cool: “A small app to browse through which is what in css” (via: This is why I Code – Google+)
• Awesome – boldport: Beatiful functional circuits.
• .net/C# – Serialize into an XML Fragment – not XML Document – Stack Overflow
• Q&A for 2nd Launch Webinar Today for Delphi XE6, C++Builder XE6 and RAD Studio XE6 – DelphiFeeds.com
• Great Android Activity/Fragment lifecycle chart (Steve Pomeroy – Google+)
• c# – Is there a library that gets the media type and subtype out of a HttpWebResponse/WebResponse ContentType? – Stack Overflow
• April 2014 Project of the Month, Free Pascal | SourceForge Community Blog
• Introduction to A*: http://stanford.io/1gze9d7 – awesome multi-page rewarding read (via: Ilya Grigorik – Google+)
• Ansi- and RawByteString for Delphi mobile | Delphi stream, Kluug.net (via: Ondrej Pokorny – Google+)
• delphi: idioms for building strings (via: my answer on Stack Overflow)
• Fiddler2 to the max: inserting proxy authentication to use DropBox (or other app) behind a corporate firewall
• knowledge worker tip: adding a Google Group to #Feedly using one of its RSS feeds
• WinSCP 5.5.3 released (via: WinSCP :: Free SFTP and FTP client for Windows
• Monitoring HTTP Output with Fiddler in .NET HTTP Clients and WCF Proxies – Rick Strahl’s Web Log
• Seems Delphi XE6 is welcomed: “Welkom RAD Studio/Delphi/C++Builder XE6!” (via: Barnsten B.V. – Google+)
• On resetting passwords because of the OpenSSL vulnerability
• How to hang Visual Studio <= 2013
• Decrypt base 62 encoded JavaScript code (eval(function(p,a,c,k,…: Javascript Decryptor V2 | CrazyDavinci’s Blog
• Wireshark · WPA PSK Generator (has SHA1 JavaScript source)
• More OpenSSL and certificate things (in the aftermath of Heartbleed)
• Need to check this for my ThinkPad W701: How to Fix Windows 8.1 Slow Performance Issues
• Android 4.1.1 Devices are Vulnerable to Heartbleed
• 7zip on ESXi through p7zip
• Michael Panzer – Google+ – Tip: Syntax highlighting everywhere Occasionally, I get…
• PIN number analysis
• VMware Front Experience: ESXi-Customizer
• How to force Outlook to use a given proofing language all the time (via: spell check – Super User)
• Windows Explorer – copying path/name of files and folders (full/short; regular/UNC; unix/cygwin): Path Copy Copy – Home
• xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation, or why you should reset passwords, certificates and request new credit cards.
• MacBook Fn/Option/Ctrl keyboard shortcuts
• Grootte ‘webdisk’ – Google Groups
• On turning “W1025 Unsupported language feature: ‘customattribute’” into a compiler error.
• Why every now and then the “Is feedly blocked?” message dat https://feedly.com? (via: feedly: your news. delivered.)
• CleanMgr: Disk Cleanup Wizard addon lets users delete outdated Windows update files
• OS X FullDebugMode support added by Sebastian Zierer (Thanks!) in FastMM / Code / Commit [r67]
• Mac OS X: Tools that enable keyboard shortcuts to move a window from one monitor to another (via: Ask Different)
• .NET UI Automation examples: The managed way to retrieve text under the cursor (mouse pointer) (via: The Old New Thing)
• VMware ESXi: renaming a VM and VMDK
• DDDebug Memory Profiler heading towards 1.0 (via: Stefan Meisner – Google+)
• How can a partition be full if du does not show it is? (via: linux – Super User) #OpenSuSE #btrfs #snapshots
• Need to draw an ASCII diagram? ASCIIFlow is awesome:… (via: Ilya Grigorik – Google+)
• Big Ball of Mud | Jeroen on software
• The C language specification describes an abstract computer, not a real one – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Updating Windows Defender signatures (only) on Windows 8, 7 and XP (via: twm’s blog)
• Obtaining a sub-interface from an interface (via: Stack Overflow: Delphi)
• Software on RAMdisk can be at least 10x faster than on SSD
• Connect feedly to over 300 apps with Zapier | Building Feedly
• Spring4D now has projects for Appmethod, but it cannot support Appmethod in the automated build engine.
• Heartbleed: Serious OpenSSL zero day vulnerability revealed | ZDNet
• Venn Diagrams of SQL Join queries (via: Data Visualization – Google+)
• Mac OS X: Snow Leopard (10.6) and Lion (10.7) had this, but time remaining on battery icon is gone since Mountain Lion (10.8)
• My initial thoughts on the new Community sites
• how can I embed an mp4 video into a Firemonkey app (via: David M Williams – Google+)
• 22159
• Cool post from Marc’s Blog: Delphi XE2’s hidden hints and warnings options
• Appmethod registry keys for trying to build Spring4D
• 8 different javascript emulators for popular and obscure 6502 machines at mos6502 – Google+
• 2014 and VMware Fusion has still no built-in “Clone this VM”. Workaround from VMware Communities
• André Vatter – Google+ – Wie Tabellen eigentlich aussehen sollten: 
• PowerShell conditional and logical operators (via: PowerShell Pro!)
• Escaping in PowerShell: the back-tick ` is the escape character.
• Android: “R cannot be resolved to a variable” What is R? Why is it so Cryptic? (via: Stack Overflow)
• Windows: setx sets environment variables in a persistent way (from values on cmd-line, registry or text files)
• anyone know how to look up an ip address given a mac… (via: Koushik Dutta – Google+)
• Getting Microsoft Product Keys back from the registry (via StackOverflow and various other sources)
• Sample: Cast Media Player for Streaming with DRM (via: Shawn Shen – Google+)
• Delphi; Finally! #Spring4D is released in version 1.0 – no joke! …
• TFS/Visual Studio: View Pending Changes in Other Workspaces
• Charset Detector :: Summary
• SQL Server: when your database is in “Recovery Pending” mode
• EU Cookie Regulations vs. Google+ plugins (via: Gerwin Sturem; Google Drive)
• Amazon.de / Amazon.co.uk: Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer verwalten / Manage VAT Registration Number
• Mac/Android: Transfer files through USB (via: Nexus Help)
• jsmachines.net | The Original IBM PC In Your Web Browser
• ECC vs non-ECC RAM: The Great Debate (via: Nex7’s Blog). Use the ECC dude.
• World’s Smallest VMware ESXi Server « HackingAway.org
• Some more Chromecast development notes and links
• Installing VMware vSphere Client 4.1-5.5 on Windows 8 or 8.1 (via: tech :: stuff)
• *nux: “$@” is how to iterate over arguments in bash script (via: command line – Stack Overflow)
• When FINDSTR drives you nuts (via: batch file – Stack Overflow)
• rsync: Time Machine for every Unix out there – IMHO
• smallestdotnet.com via: shanselman/SmallestDotNet (thanks @shanselman)
• osx – Midnight Commander (MC) installer for Mac OS X – Super User
• Some links on ESXi disaster recovery and configuration backup
• Some Mikrotik and RouterOS Links to get it running on ESXi for experimental purposes.
• How to Mount and Unmount ISO Files in Windows 8+ (via: TheUnlockr)
• vi intro — the cheat sheet method (via: IBM developerworks)
• VMware Workstation 10, VMware Player 6 Regular/Plus, VMware Fusion 6 Regular/Pro: what to choose? (via: VMware Workstation 10 released Sept. 4 2013, but you might be fine with the free VMware Player 6 Plus | TinkerTry IT @ home)
• Heb je een verstandelijke beperking en reis je met openbaar vervoer? Vul dan even een enquete in om het makkelijker te gaan maken.
• Windows CSC reset: How to re-initialize the offline files cache and database (via MS Support)
• Tram 2 in Amsterdam amongst the best 10 in the world 9via: Tram 2 bij de beste ritten ter wereld – AMSTERDAM – PAROOL)
• SQL Server Management Studio does have a Registered Servers window (via: Server Fault)
• Google Developers Console
• TestObject: Android app testing made easy!
• Computer History Museum Makes Historic MS-DOS 1.1+.20 and Word for Windows 1.1a Source Code Available to the Public (via: Computer History Museum | Press)
• Delphi `TParser` links
• *nix: recursively listing “hidden” files from the current directory
• Delphi: TRttiContext.GetType versus TRttiContext.GetTypes is not about singular versus plural, but about all versus public types
• Traffic (public, car) sites I watched during the #NSS2014: not many congestions yet
• Hydrogen in 60 seconds | Hydrogen
• When opening SQL Server Management studio with ssms command (+parameters) I need the Object Explorer to be filled and point to the right location – Stack Overflow
• How to copy a file with I/O errors? (via: Not a complete failure » Blog Archive)
• Peplink multi-WAN routers and VPN solutions.
• itunes keeps opening on its own (via: Apple Support Communities)
• WinForms Container Controls 5: FlowLayoutPanel
• Apple Tips: Setting-up a new Mac from an old one or its Backups Transferring files from one User Account to another
• Moving Mac OS X VMware Fusion VMs to ESXi (via: Ask Different)
• How to install/upgrade to Windows 8.1 RTM without a Microsoft account (via: Super User)
• Optimizing Delphi build speeds (via; Vin Colgin – Google+; IDE FixPack; DelphiSpeedUp, Microsoft KBs with speed fixes)
• Best Buy Guides (BBGs) – mux’ blog – Tweakblogs – Tweakers
• Keen IO – The API for Custom Analytics; store lots of events later perform visualizations and transformations
• Windows command-line: Finding default routes and setting their metric
• VMware ESXi 5.5 LSI MegaRaid 9271: Firmware Update / Driver & CIM Provider Installation – VMware – IT-News, Tutorials, Reviews, Gaming – skV-NET
• How to disable automatic search for network printers and folders in Windows XP
• ESXi 5.1 and rsync – damiendebin.net.
• ESXi: for high speed copying from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 use @Veeam FastSCP 3.0.3, not Veeam Backup and Replication 6.
• WinSCP installer error because WinSCP site thinks wget can parse JavaScript.
• KB2934207 A notification about the end of Windows XP support
• Naming Schemes (networks, computers, projects, etc)
• Mark Miller coding by Guitar: DevExpress Code Rush (Coding via Guitar)
• Delphi: make sure you show the `ExceptAddr` and `ClassName` if you display in exception in DEBUG mode.
• Steps for adjusting a whiteboard photo in Paint.NET
• Any way to install ALL apps? – Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com
• [FOSDEM 2014] Visualizing Delphi with Moose – YouTube
• Turbo Pascal: My 1996 answer to Q: How can I reverse a TP .EXE or .TPU back into source code?
• USB Typewriter — Classic Typewriters for the Digital Age (for mechanical typewriters, not electrical ones)
• Database Workbench v4 – version: 4.4.5. got released (via: News @ Upscene Productions)
• Help translating AllCast to your local language (via: CastResources/values-nl at master · koush/CastResources)
• SQL Server 2014 is done: Hekaton, Azure integration (via: Tim Anderson’s ITWriting)
• Reference card for Linux performance and analysis tools (via: Antony Peel – Google+)
• SQL Server: learned that you can pass a Style to CAST and CONVERT (Transact-SQL)
• ChromeCast emulation app for any device (via: dz0ny/leapcast)
• Delphi: reminder to self on differencing memory allocation dumps
• Make terminal window open with fixed size and position – Mac-Forums Discussions for Apple Products & Services
• When http:://Feedly.com doesn’t start with any more: start it through https://Feedly.com (via: @feedly your news. delivered.)
• TheBookYard : UK Apple spare parts specialist
• Hand Lettered Type Anatomy | hand lettering by seanwes
• Ghetto Mod: xw6400 xw6600 front case fans – HP Enterprise Business Community
• logic – What is the optimal algorithm for the game 2048? – Stack Overflow
• Funders and Founders Notes – How to Be Productive The Mindmap of 35 Habits of…
• 3D Nearest-Neighbor Geometry Matching: Detailed 3D models from a single 2D image (via: Research at Google – Google+)
• Apple I Cassette Interface Documentation at bitsavers (Apple 1, not Apple 2); #6502, @IlRoberto, @mos65o2
• Keyboard shortcuts – G+/Gmail Help
• Important when migrating to ESXi 5.5: “Do not upgrade the virtual hardware of your VMs!” (via: v-front.de)
• How to Reconnect Web Sockets in a Realtime Web App without Flooding the Server (via: John Ryding)
• Interesting: HotspotShield (VPN for iPhone/Mac/Windows to Access Blocked Sites; Surf Anonymously)
• Solution for “This virtual machine’s policies are too old to be run by this version of VMware [Fusion|Workstation].”
• deltree c: /y: How to identify a skilled programmer during an interview
• Podcast 106: Shipping | iDeveloper; about RemObjects C# and a lot of other stuff
• Hellingshoek zonnepanelen plat dak (via: Zonne-Energie bij Fam. Haanappel)
• WITH IS EVIL! (via: Paul Foster – Google+)
• CloudConvert – convert anything to anything
• This will be the year where 4K monitor prices start to come down (via: Blaupunkt B39C4K – 4k voor een prikkie)
• Download ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and the other vSphere pieces to get your home lab started (via: TinkerTry IT @ home)
• Taking A Second Look At Free Fonts | Smashing Magazine
• BBC Radio 4 Extra: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Game – 30th Anniversary Edition
• 7 Pro Tips to Make Travel More Efficient (via @Mashable) misses @AirBnB for finding a place to stay
• Some links about VMware ESXi, SSD and TRIM/UNMAP support
• Delphi ARC: Free versus DisposeOf (via: Ondrej Pokorny – Google+)
• Lots of 2.5, 3.5 and 5.25 conversion brackets, cages and hot-swap bays
• VMware Front Experience: How to make your unsupported SATA AHCI Controller work with ESXi 5.5
• Interesting Spring4D based `function TDataSetExtensions.Select(): IEnumerable` on reddit
• On the 25th anniversary of the web, let’s keep it free and open (via: Tim Berners-Lee’s guest post on the Official Google Blog)
• $120 Raspberry Pi Bundle with LCD Display, Expansion Boards, Cables, and Accessories (via: Jean-Luc Aufranc – Google+)
• CodeRage 8 replays – Embarcadero Technologies – YouTube
• History: run HD image with Borland’s Turbo Pascal 5.5/6.0/7.0 and Microsoft’s QuickPascal 1.0 in VMware Fusion
• 20 Jokes That Only Intellectuals Will Understand. Number 5 Took Me A Minute.
• .NET/C#/PowerShell: building .NET DiscUtils library for virtual disk images
• Sorting algorithms are art forms. Just see and hear how beatutiful they are.
• QR code tools: parsing and generating
• Fix je Facebook met Social Fixer – Lifehacking
• Delphi/Turbo Pascal: AppendWithRetry for text files to retry Append
• Why good storytelling helps you design great products | Google Ventures
• Headless: PC Engines APU System Boards Feature AMD G-Series T40E APU, 3 Gigabit Ethernet Ports
• Apple Mouse – some links
• Big Data (via: Twitter / wtrsld)
• Play anything local that is convertible through ffmpeg (via: Mustafa Akın – Google+)
• TLDRLegal – Software Licenses Explained in Plain English
• The Apple II europlus (and clones): As seen in Tezza’s classic computer collection. – YouTube
• How to Switch Google+ Stream from Multi-Column View to Single Column (via: TechnoDuet)
• Remove email address from suggestions in To field on Gmail (via: Web Applications Stack Exchange)
• Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Scanner for PC and Mac (PA03656-B005) (via: Amazon.com: Customer Reviews)
• HTML Best Practice: Get your HEAD in order (via: Eric Law; IEInternals on MSDN Blogs)
• UINavigationController video when using Oxygene or Hydrogene Remobjects C# (via: remobjects)
• Choose your chart type & Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language (via: andrewvos.com)
• Formatting your G+ posts (via: Ahmed Zeeshan – Google+ – Google+ | The Early Adopter’s Guide)
• OpenSUSE 12.2: Install package lesspipe and using it from bash
• WebRTC diagram of flow and their states: Overview of a peer connection lifetime (via: Alexandre Gouaillard on Google Groups)
• At #SXSW 2014 this week, Embarcadero Launches Appmethod, A New Multi-Device Development Platform For Native Apps (via: @TechCrunch)
• When GExperts for Delphi 2007 does not install itself in Delphi on Windows Vista/7/8
• Windows “FIND” console app: how to *not* have the dashed line with the filename in the output
• RaspMap – Raspberry Pi Component Map
• NTFS Driver for Mac OS | Seagate
• FastMM4 FullDebugMode quick tip: don’t forget to give your EXE access to the correct FullDebugMode.dll
• When DelphiSpeedup cannot register itself in Delphi on Windows Vista/7/8
• Not only only important in Windows PowerShell: “Whitespace, Please” (via: TechNet Magazine)
• Interesting: Hola – Access ALL of the web (free VPN) & faster browsing (via: @arnovj)
• Wat — Destroy All Software Talks
• Cool stuff: Creating a Mac emulator using JavaScript with James Friend on the Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers
• How to edit a table (created by Lotus Notes) in the email reply (in Gmail)? (via: Web Applications Stack Exchange)
• Time for a new “-goto cleanup;+goto fail;” T-Shirt; The Story of the GnuTLS Bug (via: existential type crisis)
• Brilliant: JSONView (via: Chrome Web Store, there is a FireFox extension too)
• PowerShell: Do not take a shortcut while testing NULL values.
• Quick Tip: Automating your Mac’s wifi power (on off through script) via: BrettTerpstra.com
• ViaProtect Gives A Basic Look At Where Android Apps Are Sending Your Data (via: Android Police)
• One of the niceses PowerShell 3.0 new features: Simpler Where Filter Syntax
• How to setup and use a SQL Server alias
• Delphi Predefined Conditionals on iOS: IOS, MACOS, MACOS32, POSIX and POSIX32 (via: Conditional compilation (Delphi) – RAD Studio)
• Delphi types that cannot be used for TypeInfo
• osx – How to find out Mac OS X version from Terminal? (via: Super User)
• Simple Solutions | The Owner-Builder Network
• RemObjects Hydrogene got released March 1st, 2014 (via: Get Started with iOS Development using RemObject C#)
• Tip: when your @BitBucket activity (commits, issues) shows your userid, not your full name
• osx – OS X Terminal “must have” utilities – Ask Different
• Best time zone map ever: xkcd: Now
• Get Started with iOS Development using RemObject C# | RemObjects Software
• The Tracktor – Seiki Digital SE39UY04 39-Inch 4K Ultra HD 120Hz LED TV
• Google Now Launcher for KitKat (Android 4.4) via: Android – Google+
• KISS: stickers to protect your webcam from being spied (Dutch: Bescherm je laptop met een principiële sticker « Bits of Freedom)
• OpenPGP for GMail: Mymail-Crypt for Gmail™ (via: Chrome Web Store)
• .NET 4.5 versus 4.0 and C# 5 versus C# 4, or the funny way how StackOverflow closes good answers
• Interesting Linux incoming mail setup using EXIM and Procmail (via: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+)
• PowerShell – Special Characters And Tokens (via: Welcome to Neolisk’s Tech Blog)
• 4K / UHD televisions are getting quite cheap. $500 for 39″ (via: Jean-Luc Aufranc – Google+)
• Read the new DropBox Terms of Service, and consider opting out of the new “Forced Arbitration” section (via: @Consumerist)
• PowerShell aliases (via: Top Ten PowerShell Aliases for DOS Commands)
• The OS X 10.9.2 (Mavericks) fix for the SSL issue is out; Apple’s #gotofail weekend – Ashkan Soltani.
• Windows Service: Stopping/Starting from the console with a delay
• Link clearance: history of Pascal / Object Pascal / Delphi Language / FreePacal / …
• When using Apple Hardware, be prepared for security updates. iOS already there, OS X and others will follow. #gotofail
• MSTSC/Remote Desktop Connection .RDP and Registry Settings links
• Coding in Delphi available in printed form: USD $40 + shipping
• Steps to take when WordPress.com Publicize/Sharing to Facebook breaks (via: WordPress.com Forums)
• Koushik Dutta – Google+ – Building a new hackintosh. Found my case.…
• Enabling HgFlow in SourceTree for Windows: “abort: No module named ConfigParser!” error message with “flow: Flow was already initialized for workspace:”
• Hidden Features in Delphi related topics (from StackOverflow, until the diamond moderators kill these too)
• How to Use Your Google Maps — Offline | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
• Delphi: the Factory Pattern with virtual Create Constructors (via: What Design Patterns do you implement in common Delphi programming? – Stack Overflow)
• HTTP protocol requires you to escape spaces (usually with %20 or with +), but web-browsers will do that for you
• XanaNews word-wrap / NNTP text settings
• Delphi: `with` dos and dont’s (more of the latter though).
• Google Fonts
• T-Mobile USA: how to keep a SIM card active if you visit the USA infrequently
• Where to watch for StackOverflow / StackExchange downtime status: @StackStatus, @TechCrunch, @HNTweets
• Vulcan Point Island: An island in a lake, inside an island, inside another lake inside an island inside the ocean.
• When the VideoCast Sample App on Android does not detect cast device (via: Stack Overflow)
• Android Codes (via Ailton dos Reis – Google+ – Códigos Android)
• Mac@30 follow-up on Happy 30th birthday Mac! Videos, fonts, links, etc (via: The Wiert Corner)
• Mac OS X: organizing your “Spaces”
• On the list of software to skip: Windows Server 2012 and R2 Essentials
• Making SwiftKey my Default Keyboard (via: Android Forums)
• Happy 80th birthday Niklaus Wirth!
• Google Play Services 4.2 versions I saw in the wild on Android
• Why De La Soul Is Giving Away All of Its Music for Free – Businessweek
• Genymotion (formerly AndroVM) is an Android x86 virtual machine appliance (via: install in VMware Player/Workstation – YouTube)
• NTUSER.INI – sets what parts of your Windows profile are roaming
• Google Cast SDK for Android Released: The Google Play services library (revision 15)
• If you miss having the Caps Lock button on your #Chromebook… (via: Google Chrome – Google+)
• COMPACT.EXE to compress files, folders and volumes that use NTFS (via: The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs)
• Keeping Google Cloud Messaging For Android Working Reliably [Technical Post] (via: Pushbullet – Google+)
• nmap finger printing: Usage and Examples
• ManagedSpy now maintained by ForNeVeR (via: managed – What happened to ManagedSpy?)
• Fix the “App can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer” Error in Mac OS X
• Anyone that knows what “peer sync token could not be validated” in copy.com means? @CopyApp https://copy.com?r=3NGul6
• How do you enlarge the font size in the address bar if you have a vision problem – Browsers – Windows 7
• Do not share DCU files between projects (via: delphi – Compiler Directive IF and IFEND – Stack Overflow)
• Q&A log for the “RAD-in-Action Webinar Unit Testing in Delphi featuring Nick Hodges”
• UI improvement of the @GoToWebinar Viewer needed: cannot resize the Control Panel on a Mac
• Don’t forget to register: RAD-in-Action Webinar Unit Testing in Delphi featuring Nick Hodges
• Delphi: some notes on running the RADPAServer/PAServer debugger platform assistant
• Chrome does not pick up on time zone changes until the browser is restarted. (via: pellepim / jsTimezoneDetect / issues / #57 – Wrong time zone using Chrome on Mac — Bitbucket)
• Mac OS X: How do you run JavaScript script through the Terminal? (via: Stack Overflow)
• Need to research: Yahoo Pipes (via: Chris Benard — How to Fix the Dilbert.com RSS Feed)
• Google Cast bug tracker (via: google-cast-sdk – Google Cast SDK – Google Project Hosting)
• .NET/C#: DBNull explained
• GU5.3/GX5.3 Base Bulb Identification (via: YouTube)
• Fixing Inverted Caps Lock on VMWare Fusion, Parallels, or Remote Desktop (RDP/MSTSC)
• Android: manually install Google Play Services 4.2.39 so AllCast and others can stream to Chromecast
• Jonas Bandi – Google+ – Blogged: Not happy with Agile, but why?
• Thomas Kang – Google+ – I found these conversions some time back on the web and was…
• Create a Bootable USB Key Thumb Drive in Windows Vista/7 with the Command Line
• KnowRoaming | Reduce Roaming Fees
• Voorkom hoge belkosten met Fritz!Box: zet remote access en MyFritz! uit; misbruik telefonie aan de gang
• .NET/C#: When XmlSerializer throws “Unable to generate a temporary class (result=1).” / “error CS2001”
• .NET/C#/VB.NET – Default value for generics (via: Stack Overflow)
• Contact — Support — WordPress.com
• How can you force SQL Server 2008 R2 to accept an ORDER BY on a column that is not part of a table? – Stack Overflow
• Why the Heck is Git so Hard? | Probably Done Before
• Display Windows 8.x Edition & Build Version on Your Desktop (via: Team Windows 8)
• OS X menu keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl-F2 and Shift-Command-?
• Ready to cast: Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK #interesting #fun (via: Chromium Blog)
• To force-quit Mac Applications: the Mac equivalent of “Ctrl Alt Delete” (via: eHow.com): Option-Command-Esc
• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: December 17th, 2013 – Scott Hanselman
• idank/explainshell: explainshell.com – match command-line arguments to their help text
• K-Type Independent Type Foundry » Freebies
• Sanibel Island Bike Trail Sections
• .NET/C#: refactoring some C# 1 code that uses HashTables as a poor mans property bag (via:Stack Overflow)
• Amazon Glacier off-site backup Pricing
• 1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128 0256.. | Hacker News
• delphi – With a class operator is an implicit typecast to itself allowed? – Stack Overflow
• .NET/C#: fun with enums and aliases part 2
• Clean Up And Shrink VMWare Fusion Virtual Machines With Ease | The Webernets
• Google Play stores: Tides Near Me and Tide Chart FREE (+TidesnearMe1 ; app.hanitaro.com) do not install outside the USA.
• .NET/C#: an alias is not the same as a synonym: int versus Int32, etc (fun with enums and aliases part 1)
• PDFreaders.org – Get a Free Software PDF reader!
• Downloading https urls from the commandline through cURL for Windows
• Backblaze Blog » What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
• Portable USB or battery powered WiFi routers
• openSUSE 12.x: today the same system would not plain “reboot” either (was: “A plain `halt` will not shutdown)
• Sendmail: Redirecting domain based mail to multiple addresses: virtusertable and aliases file
• When yast2 in another session didn’t fully terminate…
• terminal emulator – What is making my cursor ‘randomly’ disappear? (via: Unix & Linux Stack Exchange)
• How to Keep Alive SSH Sessions (getting rid of the “Write failed: Broken pipe”)
• 7za in the OS X Terminal on your Mac
• praliases: the reverse of makemap generates an aliases text file out of aliases.db files
• Beveiligde gedeelte internetsite Belastingdienst: Makkelijker kan @BDzakelijk hiet niet maken…
• Happy 30th birthday Mac!
• Mac function keys (F1-F12) in remote desktop (Windows RDP/MSTSC) – MacRumors Forums
• Generate HTML Tables Clean and Fast
• On “Bad Habits to Kick : Using AS instead of = for column aliases” (via: Aaron Bertrand)
• Faking num lock, caps lock and scroll lock leds – About My Code
• How to identify MacBook models (regular, Air, Retina)
• Google 2 factor authorization: “The code you entered didn’t verify. Learn more Tip: codes are time-dependent…”
• SoftPerfect Network Scanner: fast and free network scanner
• Word 2007/2010/2013: Enabling the Word Developer Tab on the ribbon (via: Andrew Coates ::: MSFT – Site Home – MSDN Blogs)
• .NET/C#: you cannot do string? because Nullable is for value type, and string is a reference type
• Reminder: find out which Windows 7 drivers work for ScanSnap S510 from Fujitsu
• SQL Server: strange way of getting query statistics.
• Steps for shrinking a vmware disk for a Windows guest VM inside VMware Workstation of VMware Fusion
• Windows security Token Bloat
• Pre-build trick does not work to circumvent [BRCC32 Error] xxx.vrc(1): error creating xxx.res (via: Embarcadero Discussion Forums & StackOverflow)
• RaidSonic Icy Box IB-2222SSK, SAS/SATA II Wechselrahmen (20295) in Festplatten & SSDs: Wechselrahmen | heise online Preisvergleich
• *nix networking – lsof: How to tell what process has a specific port open on Linux (via: Server Fault)
• Jessica Taylor – Timeline Photos
• Copy.com can recover files, not from the web, but from the Windows and Mac UI (via Can I recover deleted files? : Copy)
• When two types are not the same: Assembly Load Contexts Subtleties (via: All Your Base Are Belong To Us)
• The Self-resetting Raspberry Pi » RasPi.TV
• Accessing Mac Hard Drives from Windows 7/8: Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033
• How to downgrade my VM to Hardware Version 8 in Fusion 5 and Workstation 9 (via: SkytapDocs)
• In my research list: Bvckup 2 | Simple fast backup
• .NET/Visual Studio: The ContextSwitchDeadlock doesn’t necessarily mean your code has an issue.
• Oops: Sendmail ok on 127.0.0.1 but not ip address
• Delphi SOAP: some reminders to Self
• David Rodriguez: a few nice posts on SQL (via: Google+)
• HiFiBerry | HiFi for the Raspberry Pi and more
• Outlook + Outlook express: email received from Outlook sender does not have any attachment in Outlook Express
• Know your enemy: Hacking Microsoft Remote Desktop Services for Fun and Profit
• Niklaus Wirth’s “Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass” (via: MetaFilter)
• rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client (open source, runs on X, hosted on sf.net)
• .NET/C# – opposite of Path.Combine: remove trailing DirectorySeparatorChar
• How to Open MDI (Microsoft Document Imaging) Formatted files with Office 2007 (via: My Digital Life)
• openOV; vrij van a naar b
• Some links on Delphi, JNI, Android
• Some Unicode links
• git index.lock File exists when I try to commit (via: Stack Overflow)
• Extreme Programming, a Reflection (via: 8th Light)
• Prey Anti Theft: Track & find stolen Phones, Tablets and Laptops
• Delphi and LLVM: what is your take on this?
• Retina MacBook Pro: with VMware Fusion 5: setting resolution 2880 x 1800 not available in Windows 8 (via: Ask Different)
• “An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never Expect” or “Dungeon (Zork) Map in Duplicity” | Porkrind Dot Org Missives
• Only on iOS 7 or higher: 12 Days of Gifts on the App Store on iTunes #Apple #Fail
• Read-Eval-Print-Loop with a twist: repl.it
• Need to check out “Smartvideo for Youtube”.
• .NET/C#: System.Environment.GetLogicalDrives Method is identical to System.IO.Directory.GetLogicalDrives
• WordPress.com’s present: “Press Now” button inserts a backslash (\) before every quote! @wordpressdotcom
• .net – xcopy ASP.NET / WinForms deployment: find common location to access relative files to it (via: Stack Overflow)
• Meeting Ticker: the estimated cost of a meeting in real time.
• iTerm2 – Mac OS Terminal Replacement
• X-mas present: Beyond Compare v4 beta for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux
• Top 10: Windows Firewall Netsh Commands (via: Windows Server content from Windows IT Pro)
• floating point – SQL Server: Calculation with numeric literals requires to cast to obtain the right precision (via: Stack Overflow)
• Spam in template format
• ▶ Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle – Computerphile – YouTube
• Understanding ARM Assembly Part 1 – Ntdebugging Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Thanks OSXDaily: Install wget in Mac OS X Without Homebrew or MacPorts
• DelphiSpec Library Announce « Роман.Янковский.me
• ▶ Near to the Metal – Computerphile – YouTube
• Scott Hanselman’s 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Scott Hanselman
• Interesting start of a new bi-weekly “Wahl Network’s Tech Blast” series: Tech Blast #01
• Link Shell Extension: for hardlinks, junctions, volume mount points, etc.
• Some Apple ][, ][plus, IIe, IIc links
• Delphi XE5 Update 2 got released last week, end-of-year Delphi XE5 offer, #CodingInDelphi book
• Delphi XE3/XE4: removing empty .VLB files; XE5 update 2 and special offers are out. #codingindelphi
• Borland Fun Facts: Matt Pietrek worked there too!
• XOR swap/exchange: nowadays an almost extinct means to exchange two distinct variables of the same size
• ASP.NET – Great explanation of Server.MapPath parameters “.”, “..”, “~”, @”\”, “/” and “/path”
• .NET/C#: On my research list is the Mono.Options arguments parser
• RegEx trees and forrest: matching a time.
• If Google Chrome keeps asking “Install the Hangouts Plugin to get started” when starting a video chat
• list date with seconds from ls command – Dev Shed
• Error 13EC when installing The .NET Framework 4.5.1 means you need to free more disk space. 3GB that is.
• The #Yahoo privacy catch 22: telling to move data but not telling me the source and destination country.
• Generating complex math visualizations in SVG using C# and ILNumerics – Scott Hanselman
• Different ways of sleeping/waiting in batch files
• When your 2nd (touch) screen “clicks” on your 1st (non-touch) screen (Windows 7 tip,via André Mussche – Google+)
• Delphi postbuild events: interesting take by David Heffernan (via: Stack Overflow)
• Trying fix for Windows 8 high CPU usage of TiWorker.exe (via: bit-tech.net)
• Windows batch files: How to set a variable with the result of a command (via: Stack Overflow)
• Attach attach a debugger to a WebService (via: Stack Overflow)
• Glasvezel / Fiber internet notes
• Funny Delphi code of the day: on literals
• “Hoogtes” waar ik gewoond heb / “Altitudes” of where I have been living
• Unix/Linux ln command, I always forget of the left part is the file or link (it is the file)
• Owly CI should team up with Ohloh
• .NET/C#: Some links on validation/guarding/checking
• SQL Server: some links on BULK IMPORT format files
• Windows Development: Switching JIT debuggers (via: Stack Overflow)
• Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS – Mac data analysis and blogging | Jon Worth
• Mac: Restarting the Mac OS X Dock, Finder, Spaces or Menubar | Stefan Ernst
• Any workaround for this SQL Server Management Studio threading issue?
• Office Communicator 2007 Keyboard Shortcuts – Communicator – Office.com
• GertDuino: Raspberry Pi + Arduino in one.
• Create Google Hangouts quickly with these easy URLs – WP Media Pro
• Development tools should become more version control friendly, and version control tools more whitespace tolerant
• Delphi .dproj files: FrameworkType and FormType (via: Embarcadero Discussion Forums)
• DLL call forwarding: learned something new today!
• .NET Framework 1.1 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 support ended 20131008 (via: Microsoft Support Lifecycle)
• VMware KB: Modifying the DHCP settings of vmnet1 and vmnet8 in Fusion (via: VMware KB 1026510)
• Two ways of adding a classic .asmx WebService in .net 4+ using Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and up (via: Stack Overflow)
• Subtle things on naming conventions (:
• .NET/C#: Getting volume free space from UNC path requires PInvoke of GetDiskFreeSpaceEx in Kernel32.dll
• Optimize your Delphi installed disk size
• Remote Android screen monitoring and viewing
• 80 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Outlook
• silverlight – How to capture combobox selection in Caliburn Micro? – Stack Overflow
• Belastingdienst: opbouw betalingskenmerk, aangiftenummer, aanslagnummer, beschikkingsnummer
• 30 years of Turbo Pascal: Integrated Approach Revolutionized Software Development (via: heise Developer)
• When the Delphi XE5 commandline compiler fails with `error F1026: File not found: ‘False.dpr’`
• ITDevCon 2013: speaker; Last=Pluimers
• LinkedIn: connecting two people, sort of. (via: LinkedIn Answers)
• Android 4.2+: enable USB debug mode (Nexus 4, Nexus 7, etc)
• ESX(i) AutoStart virtual machines: how to change the VM startup/shutdown settings (via: VMware Communities)
• .net/C#: you can pass anoymous types to a generic method, but not return them as a method result
• MacMost Now 256: Using the Text Editors Hidden in Terminal (Pico, Nano, VI, Emacs)
• Connecting to a Macintosh computer via USB – Android OS Help
• Cyber-Dojo: practice unit-tested programming in pairs/groups using Katas
• fun to read: blog of a reverse engineering team member
• .NET/C#: Fingerprinting a machine
• Classic Menu for Office 2010 and 2013 Programs
• When a security auditor asks these kind of questions, get rid of the service he is auditing for (via Server Fault)
• Delphi – Direct3D and the wrong FPU state: Now() function returns a wrong value (via: StackOverflow)
• Some links for scripting SQL Server Backups and setting up maintenance plans
• Interesting SO question: What are the experiences with using unicode in identifiers?
• In my list of things to try: Quilla › Short-links for email.
• HP xw6600 Workstation – The Computer Setup F10 Utility: enabling Intel VT so you can run VMware ESXi or vSphere on it
• SQL Server: “there’s nothing so permanent as temporary”
• Tables with SQL Server and .NET data types
• .NET/C#: Type.IsSubclassOf Method versus Type.IsAssignableFrom
• Table with the Numeric Data Types in SQL Server
• Want this (: Floppy Table, A Wonderfully Designed 3.5″ Floppy Disk Coffee Table
• On Mac, Chrome dock Icon shows a number on it: it is the number of outstanding downloads
• .NET/C#: check for exact type: simple things are always a good solution (via: Stack Overflow)
• A small table that shows differences between decimal, double and float (Single)
• .NET/C#: suffixes for compiler number literals (via: Stack Overflow)
• Windows Vista/7/8 and up: setting the user environment variables as regular user (non-administrator)
• Test which Java version you have installed
• .NET/C#/VB.net: some links on ExpandoObject
• Programmer Interrupted: Chris Parnin on the how/why/effects/preventions of interruption
• .NET/C#: obtaining the full path of the process without the “.vshost” part.
• performance – How is TeamViewer so fast? – Stack Overflow
• Mac OS X: setting to have Tab key to bring focus to buttons
• I’m Speaking at EKON 17; early bird ends on Friday October 4th 2013: save EUR 100 and get a free Android tablet.
• Interesting series of Chrome Development articles by Umar Hansa | Nettuts+
• SQL Server: some links on displaying query plans
• Some notes and links on DVCS (distributed version control systems)
• Dianne Hackborn – Google+ – A few days ago I wrote a post trying to correct a lot of…
• When KB2844285 fails to update on Widows XP after the 20130813 refresh
• ARDUINO Compatible 37-in-1 Sensor Module Kit – Black – Free Shipping – DealExtreme
• Just filed Mercurial Bug 4043 – HG 2.7.x cannot convert a local file based SVN repository with db format 6 (works fine with db format 4)
• Annotate/Blame is part of Visual Studio since 2010
• Interesting GetFiles to get a list of files with both an includeMask and excludeMask by Roel van Lisdonk
• .NET/C#: When the DbDataAdapter.Update throws an exception, it is a bit tough to find the involved Command
• Some ZFS links
• Sciences jokes…
• Jeffrey’s Exif viewer: a great non-regex thing on regex.info (:
• .NET: some links on merging assembly DLLs into your EXE
• .NET/C#: Igor Ostrovsky wrote a few great MSDN magazine articles helping you write better threading code
• Interesting: Mac OS X virtual Apple ][, ][+ and //e emulator (Virtual ][ Help)
• Speedup Youtube Playback: Watch Lectures In Half The Time with YouTube’s HTML5 Player
• I need to check this out: KBOX — a miniature Linux distribution integrated with a terminal for non-rooted Android devices
• Parameters for use in a Google Maps URL (zoom level, position, map-type, etc; via StackOverflow)
• .NET/C#: Small class for double-quote escaping/unescaping (via StackOverflow)
• Linux: mounting of a FAT16/FAT32 USB flash drive
• openSUSE 12.x: disabling smbd CUPS warnings when you have Samba but not printing installed
• Android Device Manager: Find your lost phone with Android Device Manager | Official Android Blog
• Delphi Mobile (NEXTGEN) compiler: the risk of a changed TSymbolName; unsupported data types means unsupported RTTI as well
• SQL query to get the deadlocks in SQL SERVER 2005 and up
• Prepping for Delphi XE5 beta blogging; PasCon / RAD Studio In Action discount
• .net – What is the difference between SqlCommand.CommandTimeout and SqlConnection.ConnectionTimeout? – Stack Overflow
• Exceptions handling in the EnterpriseLibrary and the “SecurityException: The source was not found, …”
• Resolving base-conflicts installing samba on OpenSUSE 12.x
• XSD/XML Schemas: resolving `Namespace ” is not available to be referenced in this schema` (via: StackOverflow)
• Delphi: First try on an XSD for .groupproj files
• Yuko Nakamura – Google+ – How do you search movies? Trick: “Movie poster images by color” #googlesearch #movie #trick
• Some notes on how VMware Workstation/Player “Easy Installs” SUSE Linux
• More Delphi PDF manuals (via: Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi: The One Manual Every Delphi Programmer Should Have!)
• Delphi: about 3 weeks ago, the XE5 branch was added to the RadStudioDemos repository:
• Visual Studio: break on all CLR exceptions, not only the unhandled ones.
• On Windows: Do not install the Android SDK ADT bundle in a path with spaces
• .NET/C#: extension method shows what SQL + parameter values are sent to the server (via StackOverwlow)
• Dutch stop of the RAD Studio in Action LIVE! event: September 7th, Leiden (close to Amsterdam) with extra conference track.
• Windows library search order (EXE/DLL/module) (via “The Old New Thing”) and max PATH length
• User Manual for Avira AntiVir Server | Unix and Avira AntiVir Professional | Unix
• Foto’s 16e Katwijkbinse #Truckrun 2013: opstellen/aankomst Marine Vliegkamp Valkenburg, doorkomst Sassenheim
• Google Chromecast Review – The race is on to wirelessly throw video to your TV – Scott Hanselman
• ESXi and VMware Workstation: quick way of getting Console screenshots in PNG format; some URLs on your ESXi machine
• Interesting essay by Bruce Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet
• Database Workbench 4.4.1 released (via: News @ Upscene Productions)
• .NET/VB.NET: solving the error “The system cannot find the file specified.” “\Temp\.NETFramework,Version=v4.0.AssemblyAttributes.vb”
• Made it to the Embarcadero MVP Directory
• .NET/C#: LineSplit tool for splitting large text files every number of lines
• Firebird gbak: Special Use of ‘stdin’ or ‘stdout’ File Names to facilitate backup transfers and database cloning
• Doesn’t automatically power up when utility power is restored: Buffalo WLAE-AG300N Dual-Band Wireless-N Ethernet Converter Access Point and Bridge
• Installing SuSE 11.2 or higher: before the first reboot the CLI version of YaST looks horrible. Reboot or second CLI fixes it.
• shorter version of batch file: getting directory and parent directory
• Paint.NET v3.5.11 is now available (via: Paint.NET Blog)
• CmdKey.exe can be used to save passwords for MSTSC.exe
• Reminder to self: Unspecified Error in Delphi 2007 on Windows 8 (via: ACMer)
• command line – create empty text file from a batch file (via: Stack Overflow)
• .NET/C#: UnitPrefixes class that facilitates distinguishing decimal and binary file/drive/memory size (mega versus mibi, etc)
• Remove the first 3 characters in var in batch file (via: Stack Overflow and Rob van der Woude)
• reminiscence of the past: DPMI (DOS Protected Mode Interface)
• Mouse Jiggler – MouseJiggle.exe will (virtually) move your mouse cursor so the screen saver does not start
• When your Delphi XE Browsing Path has been destroyed Ken White to the rescue (via: Stack Overflow)
• LOTR Prequels – YouTube
• Must Read: Penny Pinching in the Cloud: When do Azure Websites make sense? – Scott Hanselman
• Reminder to self: Delphi XE2 x64 debugging on Windows 8 is a no go, you get [Error] Disconnected session
• On managing Facebook groups and delegating admin rights: What is a group admin? | Facebook Help Center
• .NET/C#: some starting posts on the `yield` keyword.
• CLR week on the Old New Thing has started: first one about Static Constructors
• It works! Install Visual Studio 2010 AFTER Visual Studio 2012 – Stack Overflow
• delphi – Winrollback/DeepFreeze How these softwares work? – Stack Overflow
• Reminiscence of the past: Delphi I/O error 131
• Sprites mods – Hard disk hacking – Intro
• How to transfer contacts from Blackberry to Android?
• DefCon-21: ASUS RT-AC66U is vulnerable to SMB Symlink and ACSD hacks, I presume the ASUS RT-N66U is too (via SecurityEvaluators.com)
• Cool stuff: RFduino – Shrunk down an Arduino to the size of a finger-tip!
• On my research list: Hojoki: Make All Your Cloud Apps Work As One
• ▶ How to pair a desktop or laptop to youtube.com/pair (via: YouTube; uses Opera Mobile Emulator)
• .NET/C# – InvalidCastException for two Objects of the same type (via: G+/Stack Overflow)
• The rather cool programming language APL introduced in a 1975 film/video (via G+: Warren Postma)
• Find your lost phone with Android Device Manager | Official Android Blog
• How to access DSA.msc in windows 7: “Active Directory Users and Computers”
• Windows XP SP3: fix when .NET updates do not install (error 0x643 / 0x80070643)
• Looking for a new Dynamic DNS provider for FritzBox 7340 and ASUS RT N66U
• Delphi: Embarcadero Summer School lesson 6 Q&A (Powerful multi-tier applications with DataSnap.)
• Mac App Store – Dialogue: Mac app using BT to connect to phone and make & answer calls from your Mac.
• Some cloud storage / online backup providers compared (DropBox, Sugarsync, Bitcasa, …)
• Getting a fresh root hint file on SUSE 12.x
• Conversion between absolute and relative paths in Delphi – Stack Overflow
• Tunngle – P2P VPN, now would this work over plain HTTP?
• Choosing the right Portable Power Phone/Tablet/Gadget Battery Charger (via: Scott Hanselman)
• Delphi: do not do “if (not DirectoryExists(path)) then ForceDirectories(path))”
• Nikon D700/D300/D300s/… 3D auto track Autofocus Settings
• SVN/Subversion and CodePlex: for now stick to SVN/TortoiseSVN 1.7.x or lower
• Embarcadero SummerSchool 2013 Lesson 4 Q&A
• Reminder to Self: Messagepack / BSON / ProtocolBuffers
• .NET/Visual Studio: VersionInfo extension checks if you have the latest service pack/update/hotfixes installed
• .NET/C# assemblies and namespaces
• Keyboard shortcut for resizing all columns in a listview control to fit – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Some Buffalo – WLAE-AG300N links
• Logitech Logimouse C7 and Mouse programmers toolkit PDFs at Bitsavers
• How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network’s WPA Password with Reaver
• Research list: Offline Blog editors that support WordPress.com
• Delphi virtual constructors: example of the “Factory” design pattern (via: Stack Overflow)
• C#: combining “adding `char` and `int` and “`a += b` means `a = a + b`, but `a += b + c` does not mean `a = a + b + c`”.
• 2 More Old Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers from 1986
• Lots of projects did not get it yet, but for connecting to SQL Server: RIP OLE DB
• Igor Ostrovsky: C# – The C# Memory Model in Theory and Practice;
• PowerPoint high cpu usage
• Freaking out (not only) mobile app users – xkcd: QR Code
• Which OS X version has which name? (via Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
• Rode plekken/blaren na een landelijke picknick in de zon: Berenklauw, Fototoxiciteit en Fytofotodermatitis (via: Wikipedia)
• Windows Timer Resolution: Megawatts Wasted (via: Random ASCII)
• Using ILDASM to determine the .NET Framework version an Assembly/DLL requires (via StackOverflow)
• UCSD Pascal – memories from the past….
• The Lenovo re-introduction of IPS in 14-inch models after almost a decade of absence is a farce
• 2D transformations as answer to “delphi – Change orientation of a shape” – Stack Overflow
• Android Play download race condition?
• Dilbert RSS alternative/workaround (via: Kimmo Suominen)
• Mac OS X: disabled most Mission Control keyboard shortcuts
• Nat Friedman – Instant Company
• Still struggling with some PowerPoint 2007+ features (:
• RIP: Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013) (via: twitter/jpluimers & explain xkcd)
• Setting up a PPTP connection on Mac OS X Lion
• a few notes on sendmail and re-trying deferred messages
• #Fail SHERPA BETA Personal Assistant “The item cannot be installed in your device’s country” @Scobleizer
• “Fragile Base Class problem” C# posts by Eric Lippert
• #Fail: @SugarSync prompts me to install 2.0.27, but release notes only lists me 2.0.23. Time to skip a version.
• Notities adressen en GBA, Woonadres of Briefadres, maar geen Correspondentieadres of Verblijfadres.
• Ye Olde Automated 16TB Windows Azure Virtual Machine demo – Team Individualism – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• This summer, 40 years ago “The Pascal Programming Language (Revised Edition)” was published
• If you by accident press Ctrl-Z on the Linux console, use fg to un-suspend that task
• Interesting series of Hak5 videos on technology stuff like security, Arduino, Linux, the Web, …
• mutt notes
• A constant source of confusion: Simplicity
• PowerShell: fixing script signing errors even after you had “Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned”
• .NET/log4net configuration: LevelMatchFilter with DenyAllFilter to discard several log levels within a range
• Embedded Interop Assemblies (via: CLR and DLR and BCL, oh my! – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4) – Scott Hanselman
• Steps for setting up SvnBridge with TFS2012 (via SvnBridge forum at CodePlex)
• Don’t use PPTP, and don’t use IPSEC-PSK either (via: CloudCracker blog)
• Spotlight refuses to be enabled on Lion: reboot helped
• Fake Internet Connectivity for your Lab (Tricking NCSI) – via: Canberra Premier Field Engineering
• Some great Delphi XE4 iOS push notification demos by Luis Felipe González Torres done in English by Anders Ohlsson
• DIPP allows you to remove conditional directives from Delphi source code (via StackOverflow)
• CodeRage Mobile day 2 QA
• Is there a Google Reader replacement that keeps ALL Google Reader history?
• Vintage Dave is working on a new multithreaded memory manager for Delphi that does not have a global lock
• Samples Environment for Microsoft Chart Controls – Release: Samples for Chart Control – .NET Framework 4
• Delphi XE2: Update 4 is not the final update… Be sure to check out HotFix 1
• C#/.NET/LINQ: DotNetStat: netstat.exe with TCP ports grouped by host
• Google Chrome – how to quickly get Google search information about a term on a page: drag & drop
• Retina MacBook Pro: extending battery life by disabling the discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M graphics
• AAC – DivX encoder information
• Thinstuff Remote Application – NLDelphi
• Reminder to self: 3 months ago “all mine!: openSUSE 12.3 is out!”
• .NET/C# – CreateTemporaryRandomDirectory (via: Stack Overflow)
• Delphi XE4 Update 1 is out (via: Installing the Platform Assistant on a Mac – RAD Studio)
• Delphi XE4: installer batch file for “experimental GExperts + code formatter for Delphi XE4”
• Crap: the outsourcing party of the client wrote C-code like this in 2005, and nobody scrutinized it
• ASUS RT N66U did not update DDNS with changed IP addres
• .NET/C#: from Unicode to ASCII (yes, this is one-way): converting Diacritics to “regular” ASCII characters.
• More ESXi5 installation steps
• VS2012.2 ISOs for Visual Studio Updates: off-line installers the way they should be (via: The Visual Studio Blog)
• Are Delphi programmers more happy than other programmers? (via: Sentiment Analysis of Github Commits)
• Windows 8 Task Manager: how to show the CPU time column
• Fonera FON2100A: Why is the MAC address online different than the one found on my router? (via: Fon Support)
• Ogg encoder alternatie AoTuv seems to be great
• Great video on Software Craftsmanship
• Fonera Simpl Get Started : Fon Support (FON2100A)
• ASUS Wireless Router RT-N66U – General Log: full of “protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0”
• WinAmp AACPlus v2 Encoder: how to encode mono
• Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than
• A few notes on Google Reader replacements that I’m testing
• Find my MacBook with “Find My iPhone” Service
• Office 2013 Plus on Windows 8 x64: how to force update (via: Super User)
• Run batch file from Delphi IDE (via: Stack Overflow)
• Some links on Registry and LINQ
• XP/2000 Create Windows shares and GRANT access from command line using RMTSHARE.EXE
• IBM Pascal Compiler Aug81 pdf (via: Bitsavers’ Index of /pdf/ibm/pc/dos)
• Delphi XE2: spontaneous Product or License Validation Error | General
• Enable Remote Desktop Connection on Vista Home Premium | frans goes blog
• iUSBportCAMERA User Manual V2.0: WiFi for your DSLR
• On my research list: Distinguishing USB devices
• Google Reader alternatives: did you make a choice yet?
• I love my keyboard; why did they hide “Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys” in Windows 8 and 7 so far away?
• DataSnap in the Cloud – DelphiFeeds.com
• Windows Message Loop and Application Reentrancy
• Interesting: CrossLoop (Free Screen Sharing and Remote Access Solutions)
• 1213: Combination Vision Test – explain xkcd
• A Consuming Experience: Windows – no disk Exception Processing Message c0000013 Parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf9c 75b6bf9c – fixed!
• memories of the past: BitSavers.org just added a whole bunch CRAY documents
• Great questions from Iris “Asking a ‘stupid’ question, every day for 365 days”
• Don’t pass interfaces between application architectures over a DLL boundary
• A few notes on Delphi, WSDL and SOAP: passing nil values, Document/Literal versus RPC Encoded
• Relevant files for ssh-keygen – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Mac OS X: editing ~/.bash_profile using TextEdit
• Time for a golden oldie: Pragmatic Software Development Tips
• What programmers font (monospaced!) do you like best?
• Taking pictures from space
• c# – What’s the hardest or most misunderstood aspect of LINQ? – Stack Overflow
• Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks – O’Reilly Media
• 30 april 1993: the free and open WWW started…
• Screenshots: Creating vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick with MBR partition table
• Some Delphi & C#/.NET links on XML related stuff
• FMX is not a VCL replacement
• Creating Lnk ShortCut files the programmatic way
• Counting Lines of Source Code in PowerShell | Precision Computing
• VMware ESXi 5.1 Complete Update 1 is out (via: VMware KB: VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-Update01)
• Type 1 fonts and Windows 7/Vista/XP: 2 ways for installing them
• Delphi: Thomas Mueller is fast – experimental GExperts + code formatter for Delphi XE4 « twm’s blog
• Stack Overflow: Congrats, you’ve gained the privilege – protect questions learn more
• Great optical illusion: Pink Floyd prism with Pulse background
• Chrome Web Store – BitTorrent Surf (Beta)
• Windows 8 and Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts (via: Brian Long, a blong, blong, blong road…)
• Way too much “friendly comment” SPAM lately. “Spam, lovely Spam, wonderful Spam.”
• What do you mean “cannot use parentheses?” – Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Delphi static class methods are assignment compatible with plain old function pointers
• CodePage 0 is CP_ACP, the default Ansi CodePage on a system, you can change it without reinstalling Windows
• ULR modification to have WordPress suggest some posting tags: “&postpost=v2”
• psubst – Persistent SUBST command – Google Project Hosting
• Some links to articles on how COM and LPT ports are stored in the registry
• Woon je in Amsterdam de Aker? Nog 4 dagen de tijd om je voor Glasvezel in te schrijven en voorop mee te lopen.
• delphi – How to simulate Windows Theme behaviour when TComboBox uses csOwnerDrawFixed or csOwnerDrawVariable? – Stack Overflow
• Woon je in Amsterdam de Aker? Nog 4 dagen de tijd om je voor Glasvezel in te schrijven en voorop mee te lopen.
• Handig, alleen de foto bevat wat vooroordelen (: Zonneklep | Grid-it!™ organizer
• [MonoDevelop] MonoDevelop and Xamarin Studio
• excel “not enough storage is available to complete this operation (exception from hresult: 0x8007000e (e_outofmemory))” – Google Search
• Stappenplan UPC Digitale TV werkend op Samsung UE40C6800 uit 2010
• Managing NTFS Junction Points from the commandline in Windows
• The Europen evening premier of Frozen Planet in Concert: acoustic OK, video + composers’ introductions great
• “same glue” dns: glue records
• ThinkPad W701 can have 32GB RAM (via: Google Search)
• Reminder to self: you cannot repeatedly draw anti-aliased text without damaging the background
• Google Street View Hyperlapse
• Updating the updater updates requires an updated update (via xkcd: All Adobe Updates)
• ThinkPad W701: Win7 Ultimate x64 suddenly only saw 8GB RAM of 16GB (via: [H]ard|Forum)
• Delphi + ADO + dBase – Stack Overflow
• Pascal/Delphi parsers and grammars
• More Old Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers from 1987 and 1988
• Mute is how to block someone in google plus
• Google Nexus 4: How to Undo “Android sync of Google Contacts will sometimes auto-merge contacts with the same last-names”
• WaveSuffer: tool for sound visualisation and manimpulation
• Handling trailing backslash & directory names with spaces in batch files – Stack Overflow
• autoscrolling memo in delphi – Stack Overflow
• .NET/C# – Some notes in IGrouping (via: Grouping in LINQ is weird (IGrouping is your friend) – Mike Taulty’s Blog)
• So you thought Google TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider) was an April 1st joke? Not in The Netherlands…
• On my research list: mounting FTP or HTTP location as drive in Windows
• Paul Burke – Google+ – Slides from my talk at the New York Android Designers…
• Steun 538 actie War Schild: Nog ruim 1 dag voor “Overstappen op glasvezel in de Aker, Amsterdam” @RF_DeAker @heldenvannu
• Foute foutmelding @heldenvannu (inschrijving: Pakketten | HELDEN VAN . NU)
• Various Adobe Flash Player download links (including standalone downloads)
• VPN Gate Public VPN Relay Servers List
• Some Delphi libraries and ideas you should take a look at (link clearance)
• Delphi XE3 inside a Windows 7 VMware Fusion VM at 2560×1600 on a 15 inch Retina MacBook Pro at 2880×1800
• JCB TOUGHPHONE Sitemaster | JCB gsm | RN-electronics
• How to take a screenshot on the Nexus 4 | How To – CNET
• Delphi: you should avoid the `with` statement as it makes your code less future proof
• WebSphere MQ errors I encountered.
• Why don’t the shortcuts I put in the CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES folder show up in the Favorites menu? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• All About SEO on WordPress.com — Blog — WordPress.com
• Het Agentschap NL moet nog wat S&O doen naar e-mail templates (Bevestiging Mededeling WBSO RDA 2012)
• Reminder to Self: after installing the WebSphere MQ client software, reboot!
• my flights – Google Search
• Porting to Delphi XE2: Delphi XE2 Unit scope names not always right
• Will it live or die like Reader? Did they rush it? – Google Keep – Android Apps on Google Play
• eLoket (Profiel)
• xkcd: Bonding
• Confusing Delphi message: [DCC Error] E2201 Need imported data reference ($G) to access ‘VarCopyProc’ from unit ‘XXX’
• OWC OWCSSDEX3G960 960GB Mercury Electra MAX 3G SSD… in stock at OWC
• Absolutely awesome MacBook sticker! 
• inessential.com: Brian’s Stupid Feed Tricks
• Porting Delphi 2006 to XE2, fields versus properties: tightened compiler error E2197
• TSListUsers: great little console tool to list Remote Desktop / Terminal Services Users
• Track My Runners : Results of NYC Half-Marathon 2013
• ntfs – How do you find what process is holding a file open in Windows? – Server Fault
• Retina users, this fixes your fan issue: Apple Releases Retina MacBook Pro SMC Update (via: Mac Rumors)
• Google Reader stops at 2013-07-01: How can I download my Reader data? (via: Reader Help)
• Delphi “Variant Records”, a few notes
• When you automatically check “Automatically close on successful compile” and the compiler progress disappears…
• Delphi “type types”: similar types but not the same type identity, some examples.
• xkcd: Circumference Formula
• A couple DLL Locations that Windows uses to display Icons from
• Mordac, the preventer of information services strikes again… (via: Dilbert comic strip for 2013-03-09)
• Remote desktop is not displayed in Full-Screen mode when the screen resolution is 1366× 768 pixels in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2
• DropBox leaks suspended processes when it cannot poke through your HTTP Proxy
• IKEA into the Hotel Business (via: nu.nl – De Jager)
• Convenient when translating C header files: Delphi to C++ types mapping (Embarcadero docwiki)
• Unavailable in your country: Nexus 4. Why?
• Dot Net Tips & Tricks, C# (C Sharp)Tips & Tricks: Visual Studio Immediate Window
• New Java update available: patch all your machines for yet another zero-day fix: Security Alert CVE-2013-1493
• LOL: Apple IIe 2E Retro Computer Mug Can Be Personalised | eBay
• .NET/C# small program that shows you your proxy settings, demonstrates LINQ to Registry, and String.Contains
• How do you make Excel print those cell lines? – AfterDawn: Forums
• BladeKey Zip-9 by jamesdavid on Shapeways
• NYC Half Marathon Preparation
• Actuele spoorkaart Nederland
• Link clearance: fonts, localization, languages, internationalization, PostScript, and more
• Please write dates and times so that everyone understands them, not just you. xkcd: ISO 8601
• Command line tool to manage Windows 7 Libraries, with source code – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Free Chapters 1-4 Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# | Wrox P2P
• A few more interesting links on Delphi, C# and CLR history (trip down memory lane; Peter Sollich)
• Behind the Code with Anders Hejlsberg (via: Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi: Priceless)
• Most common error codes during Windows/Microsoft Update
• #KleintjePils vanaf vanmiddag ook als miniatuur in Madurodam…
• Microsoft Azure: Storage certificate expired?
• How to make a disallowed-by-default Software Restriction Policy
• Xamarin vs Titanium vs FireMonkey: should cross-platform tools abstract the GUI? « Tim Anderson’s ITWriting
• The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video (awesome 25 minutes, via: Scott Hanselman – G+)
• Google Chrome funny error message: trueAre you sure you want to leave this page?
• A Generalised and Comprehensive Solution to CSV to XML and XML to CSV Transformations – Pascaliburnus
• Found a table with Delphi Conditional defines over the Delphi versions/compiler platforms/bitness
• Easier way to “how to solve stuck iPad keeping asking for Exchange password”
• Vista and up: CardGames.dll (was: Delphi – back in 1996 – CARDS.DLL component wrapper in Delphi 1 and 2!)
• Skype and the new Team Explorer – Brian Harry’s blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Mac Photo/Slideshow Viewer that supports recursion: Phoenix Slides
• twm’s blog » Blog Archive » 3.5 gigabyte text file – meet LargeTextViewer
• Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code About 75% is in Pascal, get it from the Computer History Museum
• Map WebDAV Drive tool: works in Windows 8 and Windows 7
• MonkeyStyler Blog: should be on DelphiFeeds too.
• Salvaging Windows Mail *.eml files to Outlook
• Delphi bindings for WebSphere MQ
• Delphi turns 18 today; did it get real undo/redo in the form designer?
• A couple of notes on NMQ_MQ_LIB
• Cool: your own queries on Stack Exchange Data Explorer (StackOverflow: My answers with non Delphi tag)
• How To Patch vSphere 5 ESXi Without Update Manager (thanks @ccolotti)
• How to Set the /3GB Startup Switch in Windows
• Lufthansa does not get that plus (+) is a valid email character. @Lufthansa_DE
• xkcd: Perl Problems; I got 99 problems. So I used regular expressions.
• USB drive/stick as DataStore is possible, but not recommended (via: VMware Communities)
• Leidsch Dagblad – Verkoop Ruïne van Teylingen nu zwart op wit
• There is DSL, but no PPP @xs4all: what is going on at postal code 1060NP?
• Brochure “Is het dementie?” van Alzheimer Nederland (directe link; http://10signalen.nl)
• Extracting MSI files revisited: the Office 2003 PIA (which lived up its acronym)
• Recommended reading: “Security Engineering” now available free online
• Allen Bauer on: delphi – What’s the difference between CreateWnd and CreateWindowHandle? (plus a bit of CreateParams)
• Comparison list of small and energy friendly systems similar to Raspberry Pi
• Integrating Beyond Compare into Visual Studio for use with Team Foundation System
• The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy) | NCZOnline
• The PNG image file format is now more popular than GIF
• Over UPC internet snelheid…
• Telfort heeft me onterecht als wanbetaler bij Preventel geregistreerd terwijl ik een fiks bedrag van @Telfort tegoed heb. (drie nullen)
• Technical Debt: BBC News – Why banks are likely to face more software glitches in 2013
• Wil je snel en betrouwbaar Glasvezel internet in De Aker? Meld je dan nu aan!
• Disabling the Microsoft Security Essentials service by commandline: MsMpSvc
• Why can’t I find Foremay 1 TB 2.5″ SATA SSD prices online?
• Nette foutmelding op “Pakket zoeken – MijnPakket”
• Immensely insightful answer on “syntax – Is C++ context-free or context-sensitive?” at Stack Overflow
• Impossible: Property using Generics in Delphi. Interfaces/classes/methods/fields/constraints/type inferencing are
• BBC News – BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing?
• iOS 6.1 Software Update: unlike 6.0.2 it works on my iPod touch too
• Gloegg@Bonn: Delphi and Sleepsort
• Nikkor 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR lense + 1.25x teleconverter to make it 1000mm F7.1; wow
• START: Start a program, **even if it is not on the PATH** ideal to start various versions of apps from DOS
• .NET/PowerShell: Get-Host, quick way to get CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture
• What is the state of the art of “How Can I Sync My Files Without Having To Store Them Online?”
• New Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers (including the Final May 1990 issue)
• TreeMap DiskUsage view Android Apps on Google Play
• Waar mag je nou wel of geen 130 rijden?
• What would be the drawback of something like “The Lens Holster for Nikon”?
• AkelPad Editor: tiny, and functional. Too bad it steals the Alt-letter keyboard shortcuts
• USB Data and Charging Cable for Shuffle 2 – Free Shipping – DealExtreme
• Best 404 page ever.
• .NET/C#: do not do “if (!Directory.Exists(path)) Directory.CreateDirectory(path))”
• Start of interesting interview series on Technical Debt
• Tips, links & tools to help you out when you find yourself in .NET assembly hell
• VBScript tips and tricks
• Going to try PowerLine (next to CAT5, and having used 10Base2, 10Base-T, 100Base-TX and 1000Base-T)
• Geek stuff: Pebble – E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android
• Interesting: Project “W” game “Phase 2” and multi-platform version on the 2013 agenda of Sascha Willems
• If your system is configured as Metric, then any app not honouring that have a UX #Fail
• Firebird and InterBase have single direction indexes for your data safety.
• Dell Dimension 9200/DXP061: 8GB is possible (via: Type of memory for Dimension 9200/DXP061 – Tech Support Guy Forums)
• vSphere 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) can run any hardware level since ESX Server 3.5
• Microsoft Office Communicator: error message with ID 504 means “you think the other party is on-line, but it is off-line”
• Mid 2013: Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon Table PC supports 10-finger, guesture, multiple-user & 2 hr battery life.
• in light of the zero-day Java exploits: JRE removal/install tool JavaRa from SingularLabs
• New BitSavers.org PDF scans: Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994), Borland C++/Object Windows Library (1993)
• c# – What are your thoughts on Raven DB? – Stack Overflow
• .NET/C#: Class declarations initially set are indeed different than setting them in a constructor (via: Stack Overflow)
• sql server – How do I programmatically set the connection string for Entity-Framework Code-First? – Stack Overflow
• The Lens Holster for Nikon! by Preston Turk — Kickstarter
• Some links on using a LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA 9260-8i controller with BBU using RAID 5/6 in VMware ESXi5
• 1.5 TB 2.5 inch laptop HDD drives with 12.5mm, and ≈ 1 TB 9.5 mm SSD drives finally seem to have arrived
• Very limited number of parts, and limited stock in the “Nikon parts online” shop
• Chrome extension Search Plus (formerly FullSearch): Search Any Text String Across All Open Tabs In Chrome
• Disable e-mail notifications on Google+ | How To – CNET
• Converting Visual Studio 2003 WinForms to Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012 partial classes (via: Duncan Smart’s Weblog)
• Dreaming: MacBook Air is an Ultrabook, so with Haswell will it have Touch?
• .NET/C#: what is the meaning of “Comparing two IEnumerables for equality”?
• WordPress idea of Responsive (yech) UI Themes
• Delphi Code Monkey: Why Delphi developers should learn Objective-C and XCode
• Delphi and C# compiler oddities
• Amended steps for converting a GPT partitioned USB stick to MBR (via Convert GPT Disk to MBR Disk – Windows 7 Forums)
• TURKTRUST Incident Raises Renewed Questions About CA System | threatpost
• Happy new year! My 2012 blog in review
• Forcing Java Update on Windows
• Wordify: .NET/C# – Convert enums to human readable values – Stack Overflow
• Adding the localized [BUILTIN\Administrators] as SQL Server and giving them SA equivalent rights
• .NET regular expressions classic: to compile or not to compile?
• Cool app, wish I had known this 6+ months ago: AirDroid-Enjoy your Android Experience over the air
• Getting localized translations of built-in Windows account names
• openSUSE 12.x: “A plain `halt` will not shutdown the system properly.”
• Tyvek is not to be recycled with paper, and should be recycled with plastic
• WordPress.com silently fixed the “tab order broken” issue. Thanks!
• Nice! @Flickr holiday gift: 3 months of Pro membership…
• Excel Grid lines: How do you make Excel print those cell lines? – AfterDawn: Forums
• Wow, Comment SPAM is just like how politicians talk: use loads of sentences, but say nothing.
• .NET/C#: use Assembly.GetName() if you to access internal/private information from Assembly
• Re-adding a user to SQL Server 2000 and up when it was Orphaned
• Google Flights: needs a bit more work, but first look is promising
• KLS SOFT – WSCC – Windows System Control Center, for auto-updating SysInternals and NirSoft tools
• “Holland versus The Netherlands” a new video by C.G.P Grey – @cgpgrey
• SQL Server FineBuild
• Learning F# – Stack Overflow
• Two great articles from ploeh blog on temporal compatibility (Rangers and Zookeepers, Zookeepers must become Rangers)
• batch file example: Redirect stderr and stdout through pipe
• Happy 25th birthday Perl!
• As of December 3rd, 2012, the WordPress.com statistics shows you unique visitor counts too
• .NET/C# – How to create a file and its parent directories in one method call? (via: Stack Overflow)
• Download your tweets: are you one of the lucky ones that are in the Twitter beta?
• namebench – Open-source DNS Benchmark Utility – Google Project Hosting
• Link dump: Linux/Unix like commands you can use in the Android Terminal emulator
• Ubertronix Strike Finder lets you take pictures of lightnings, popping balloons and even speeding bullets | Photo Rumors
• .NET/MSBuild: A solution for Skipped Build: Project: MyProject, Configuration: Debug Any CPU; Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
• Penetration Testing, Metasploit, Armitage and a nice book by Frank Neugebauer
• Found back my WinImage license (still going strong: What is WinImage)
• x64 debugging on Windows: usually not directly by the IDE, but trough a debug helper process (msvsmon / PAServer / dbkw64_16_0)
• C#: any c# – .NET Enumeration allows comma in the last field – Stack Overflow
• If you think CSV is easy; think again!
• .NET/C#/WinForms: small code snippet to enable Ctrl-A for select all in a single/multi-line TextBox
• Commandline equivalents for FsMgmt.msc: net share / net view / net session / net file / net use
• F3 in Excel: Show all named ranges in Excel – via: Spreadsheet Audit & Maintenance Tip | Chandoo.org – Learn Microsoft Excel Online
• Be aware of the three valued logic when NULL gets involved: SQL Server: JOIN vs IN vs EXISTS – the logical difference
• VB.NET history: VBPowerPack download (formerly from GotDotNet) via: VB Helper: Tip: GotDotNet Visual Basic Power Pack Going Away
• System Error Messages: anyone who has links for SQL Server > 2000?
• So I won’t forget: IPv4 private networks 10/8 (10.x.y.z), 172/12 (172.16-31.y.z), 192.168/16 (192.168.y.z) and 169.254/16 (169.254.y.z) (via: Private network – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
• UNC and IPv6 (via IPv6 address – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
• SQL Server quick tip by Denis Gobo: use DBCC SHOWCONTIG for Min/Max/Average row sizes (via: sql server – Size of a single Record ? SQL – Stack Overflow)
• .NET/C# LINQ gem: How to check if a char in a list of characters (via Stack Overflow)
• .NET/C# duh moment of the day: “A char can be implicitly converted to ushort, int, uint, long, ulong, float, double, or decimal (not the other way around; implicit != implicit)”
• Gear Keeper – Retractable Gear Attachment Systems
• Interesting: site “Your Online Choices | IAB” seems to help in disabling tracking cookies for advertisers
• Some notes on finding the cause of a .NET app generating a “application has generated an exception that could not be handled”
• Interesting: Visual Studio Project Renamer | ComVisible
• .NET/C#: Cleaning up path names with invalid characters (via: validation – C# Sanitize File Name – Stack Overflow)
• IIS on Windows 7: installing and opening the firewall
• Some interesting USB devices to add more than 2 monitors to your PC or Mac (via: USB Graphics – Graphic solutions GeForce & Radeon)
• .NET/C#: Drives, Directories, Paths and Filenames in Windows is hard, let alone cross platform (: via: .net – Why Path.Combine doesn’t add the Path.DirectorySeparatorChar after the drive designator? – Stack Overflow)
• Wally and testing the new 3-D printer – via: Dilbert comic strip for 11/05/2012
• .NET/C#: SqlClient ConnectionString keys and their equivalences
• C# Code fragments of the week
• How to reset a hung or frozen Apple ipod classic (80 gb)
• Anyone knows other sites for finding sound effects? (via: Sound Search Engine | SoundJax.com) #dtv
• How to view build log in VS2010?
• .net – WinForms Load vs. Shown events – Stack Overflow
• WebSphere MQ Client 5.3, 6.0 and 7.0
• HOW TO: Change the Default Selection in the Active Directory Manager Snap-in
• Research item: duplicate file finders
• One or more types required to compile a dynamic expression cannot be found. Are you missing references to Microsoft.CSharp.dll and System.Core.dll (via: C# 4.0 and .Net 3.5 – Stack Overflow)
• Dell’s new S2340T 23″ Multi-touch monitor: 10-finger touch at 1920 x 1080 full HD resolution in a 23″ inch form factor
• Resetting the SMC again solved my MacBook Air Fan Noise With Lion problem
• Reminder to research this: TFS bindings, .vspscc and .vssscc files
• Twitter / AdobeType: Source Sans Pro v 1.038 got released on October 19th, 2012: small caps and more.
• I totally missed the OCZ Octane 1TB 2.5 inch SSD Review, too bad it is soo expensive
• Simple SharePoint CAML Query Tester using jQuery & SPServices –
• Downloading TomTom POI files for Germany/Austria/Switzerland and for Italian LPG & CNG filling stations
• Link dump: URLs I used to setup Google 2-step verification on my account, devices and software I use
• Shotcut keys in Windows 8 (via: Technical Gallery – Krishnan Sriram)
• GMail is having email trouble: “Temporary Error (500)” with “Numeric Code: 21”
• Research List: CruiseControl.net (ccnet) links
• Word Clouds and algorithms to generate them
• Research links: unit testing using SQL Server
• How To Backup Bootable USB Drive
• LUSRMGR von Remote aufrufen – Windows – Administrator
• ROT13 – text obfuscation – T-SQL versions of the algorithm
• Going through a HTTP Proxy to your TFS server using the command-line tools
• Elfproef as T-SQL UDF
• Twitter / alexnolannet: New utility: PDX Viewer Plus does not require drivers or an install…
• Robocopy Exit Codes: 0 and 1 usually mean success
• Some notes on multi-touch and Windows
• Studentenbestand nu fors gegroeid; ook in de toekomst?
• What a laugh: Apple restricted all 3rd party web browsers on the App Store as 17+
• SvnBridge – Use TortoiseSVN with Team Foundation Server: issues with accented characters and escapes
• Happy 20th anniversary ThinkPad
• Displaying formulas using HTML (via: More TVM–calculating the IRR : Algorithms for the masses – julian m bucknall)
• http Fiddler has joined the Telerik family (and Eric joined Telerik too)
• Jim Tierney published some great Delphi XE3 LiveBinding posts
• asp.net – Should the WebInfo file be excluded from SVN – Stack Overflow
• Portable Library Tools extension: hopefully a Visual Studio 11 studio comes soon
• While I wasn’t watching, Icecast released quite a bit of new stuff: libShout 2.3.1, Icecast 2.3.3 / 2.4-beta and Ices 2.0.2.
• ESX/ESXi/vSphere BIOS Release Date to version mapping (via: the birdhouse in my soul: Which ESX version am I running on ?)
• HDD market seems recovered, and WD introduced 4 TB 3.5 HDDs: when are 2.5 inch 12.5 mm 1.5+ TB drives coming?
• New Open Source monospaced font from Adobe: Source Code Pro
• It looks like everything signed by an Adobe Code Signing Certificate can be malware
• Three XE3 hotfixes at the Delphi Registered User Downloads page
• Make Selection Uppercase or Lowercase – The Ultimate Visual Studio Tips and Tricks Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Delphi: path names both in .dpr and .dproj, why? (refactoring – How to reorganize the folder structure of my units in Delphi? – Stack Overflow)
• Facebook test
• Other number verifications (via: Things I tripped over when implementing the “Elf proef”: digit check for Dutch bank account numbers and social security numbers (bankrekeningnummer, BSN/Sofinummer)
• Full Disclosure: [SE-2012-01] Critical security issue affecting Java SE 5/6/7
• Upscene Productions: Database Workbench 4.3.1 free Lite Editions released
• Generating a WordPress posting categories page – part 3
• Please fellow programmers, name variables more properly.
• remanence of the PC computing past: Intel MCS-86 Assembly Language Reference Guide
• How the London Underground solved the iOS 6 maps problems…
• How to solve stuck iPad keeping asking for Exchange password (via: My Ipod touch is stuck in the password…: Apple Support Communities)
• Frank Borland is back, but what does that mean?
• RDP/MSTSC: keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Remote Desktop
• Zero day vulnerability in mshtml.dll used by Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9, and many other products.
• Web Sites with Embedded Command Lines: You got your Command Line in my Internet – Scott Hanselman
• What Devices Are iOS 6 Compatible?
• “tfpt treeclean /exclude:*.suo,*.user” is what I use most (and recommend this thread: Does any tool exist to help Sync a directory with TFS? – Stack Overflow)
• My Delphi conferences this fall: DelphiTage.de, ITDevCon.it, no EKON (entwickler-konferenz.de)
• Everything’s broken and nobody’s upset – Scott Hanselman
• xkcd: Click and Drag
• :-) and :-( turned 30, thanks Scott Fahlman!
• git-tfs
• Firebird News » Firebird 2.5.2 Release Candidate is available
• On my research list: AsyncBridge (adds C#5 async features for .NET 4 projects)
• Link update because of rot (*nix – Mastering the VI editor)
• 6 Excel keyboard shortcut pairs I didn’t know yet: select row/select column and insert current date/time(via: The Best Shortcut Keys in Microsoft Excel)
• What is the best Report tool for Delphi? – Stack Overflow
• Delphi, solutions for `while debugging with Environment Variable “The program can’t start because ….dll is missing”‘
• Making RoboCopy silent (via: backup – How can I make robocopy silent in the command line except for progress? – Stack Overflow)
• Don’t spam with OutputDebugString
• Things I tripped over when implementing the “Elf proef”: digit check for Dutch bank account numbers and social security numbers (bankrekeningnummer, BSN/Sofinummer)
• Pad Numbers with Leading zeros (0s) or trailing spaces – Fixed Width Number Display (via: SQL Server Journey with SQL Authority)
• When all you have is a Hammer^H^H^H^H^H RegEx tool, everything seems like a nail^H^H^H^H nightmare
• Crap: VersionInfo handling broken as of Delphi XE2
• Online C#/VB.NET code fragment conversion tools
• ModelMaker Code Explorer 10.0.0: Delphi XE3 compatible, Locate Type and Empty Parameter Lists with ()
• New Skype things learned: more chat commands and roles than “/me”
• Enabling DisableLastAcces using fsutil
• madshi.net: Delphi XE3 releases of madExcept (4.0.5) and madCodeHook (3.1.2)
• Why I really dislike localized error messages…
• .NET Framework Libraries: downloadable source code under the Shared Source Initiative
• Creating a blank Visual Studio solution without a directory, and sln Format Version numbers
• No more Android phone for me…
• Nice article on Anonymising Data respecting Dutch privacy laws for OTAP/DTAP (via: Artikel in Compact | Insite Advies)
• FastMM4 download available for Delphi XE3
• Help Test RAD Studio XE3 Support in GExperts 1.37 Beta 1 | GExperts
• When you wished that Excel had short-circuit boolean evaluation: Excel IF, OR and SEARCH function combination
• Detecting which TCP/IP and UDP ports are open
• Zero-day Java exploit fixed: Either update Java immediately, or disable it if you don’t use/need it
• A few Windows TCP/IP proxy/tunnel/relay tools
• If a program you wrote can’t start becuase MSVCR*.dll is missing, then you forgot to ship the Visual C++ runtime…
• VS2010 Workfold Command: allows moving a local working folder for a WorkSpace, but not unmapping it when you have multiple workspaces with the same name
• Many more event videos available at Channel 9 (was: PDC10 – view Microsoft PDC 2010 sessions on your PC)
• Time to disable Java for a while: Zero-Day Season is Not Over Yet
• Windows 8 Windows-key shortcuts (via: Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese?)
• Is Embarcadero going to use a way around WinRT sideloading only being available on Windows 8 Enterprise SKUs?
• UPC FiberPower – setting up the Cisco EPC3000 modem
• Link clearance on the recent Delphi XE3 and WinRT stir
• Jazzy icons for Metropolis UI Applications that you can create with Delphi XE3
• Foto’s KatwijkBinse Truckrun 2012 tijdens doorkomst Sassenheim op van 12 augustus 2012 (set on Flickr)
• SSH tricks
• iOS, Delphi XE3 and XE2
• Is VMware Workstation 9.0.0 out, or is their auto-update system in an identity crisis?
• Solving the “Some projects have been bound to server locations that may be incorrect.” in Visual Studio 2010 when using Team Foundation System 2010 #VS2010 #TFS2010
• .NET/C#: Generating a WordPress posting categories page – part 2
• INFORMATION_SCHEMA views in various databases
• Recommended reading: “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” – Programmer 97-things
• Download: Office 2003 Update: Redistributable Primary Interop Assemblies – Microsoft Download Center – Confirmation
• Afscheid van UUCP | XS4ALL Weblog
• Disappearing test cases or did another part of MySQL just become closed source? « The MariaDB Blog
• 18-200 mm Nikon VR lens cap white balance tool: use the lid of a Nutella 220 grams jar
• Blog or: Your words are wasted – Scott Hanselman
• Task Manager Users – Log Off a Local User – Vista Forums
• registry editing: How do you clear your MRU list in Visual Studio? – Stack Overflow
• Boot Linux GRUB or LILO Into Single User Mode
• An important reason to get the .NET 4.5 RTM: c# – What’s the cause of this strange bug? – Stack Overflow
• ISO-8601: What’s the Current Week Number?
• Need some help: parsing almost well formed XML fragments: how to skip over multiple XML headers – Stack Overflow
• Great session on how to prevent SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies
• Delphi/Fortran memory allocation difference: row/column major order makes a big difference. StackOverflow answer.
• Keep your WP title length shorter than 118 characters for these work: WP.me — shorten your links
• Portable WinCDEmu
• Low power desktop – via: 8.5W Core i3-based desktop computer (English) – mux’ blog
• Getting hacked often involves social engineering and corporate policy flaws (involved: Apple, Amazon, GMail)
• A few nice PDFs on fonts and font designer handwriting
• .NET/C#: ExpandEnvironmentStrings equivalent is Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables; expands environment strings
• .NET/C#: workaround to solve small glitch with Visual Studio 2010, CodeRush with and string resources
• Correlation of Delphi Release/Update dates and activity on SourceForge project “RAD Studio Demo Code”
• Pricetracker/-watch/-drop alters/-history charts for Newegg.com, Amazon.com, Best Buy, BackCountry.com, Zzounds.com
• When your WiFi fails, use Device Manager to disable/enable the Wireless LAN device
• OpenVPN connect to the same LAN (bridged mode) (via: The VPN Menu — Endian UTM Appliance v2.4 documentation)
• Clearing the CodeRush SolutionCache directory from your roaming profile @CodeRush (via: The Curly Brace: How to Clear DevExpress CodeRush Assembly and Solution Cache)
• Dear fellow social media users, please post screen shots as PNG, not as JPEG image files
• on my .NET research list: Mini (Raspberry Pi) and Micro (Arduino)
• List of the bugs that are fixed in SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2
• .NET/C#: Generating a WordPress posting categories page – part 1
• Delphi 2007: reproduction and workaround for “[DCC Error] ….pas(26): F2084 Internal Error: AV21BCE0AC-R00000000-0”
• Creating vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick (failed at first in HP XW6600, but with MBR partition table it works)
• Tonido as alternative to DropBox (via: Bei sensiblen Daten lieber eigene Cloud-Lösung – c’t – PresseBox)
• Does anyone knows how to get notified of new WHQL releases of the NVIDIA Quadro FX drivers (Windows 7 x64)? #dtv
• Twee goede behulpzame zaken met vakkennis in Amsterdam: Muco Electronica en Modelbouw, Meijer IJzerwaren
• Asus RT N66U: steps to get “Tomato Backup Settings & Log to USB Drive Script – TomatoUSB” working on an Asus RT N66U @AustinStAubin
• Mac OS X: Copy and paste the full path of a file in the Finder (via: Reality Distortion)
• Current status on the “Android help needed: App that cleans up the Contacts mess that the LinkedIn app left behind” « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff
• XML and HTML escapes
• .NET/Visual Studio: disable “Step over properties and operators” – one of the settings I always change for a new Visual Studio Installation
• Installing Eclipse, Android SDK and ADT on Mac OS X
• Small follow-up on “Android help needed: App that cleans up the Contacts mess that the LinkedIn app left behind”
• Alternatives to Reflector that I tried: ILSpy (from SharpDevelop), DotPeek (from JetBrains) and JustDecompile (from Telerik) – none of them cut it
• C# code fragment of the week
• Android help needed: App that cleans up the Contacts mess that the LinkedIn app left behind
• #WordPress changed from Alt-Shift to Alt #keyboard #shortcuts and now breaks your regular browser Alt shortcuts. @wordpressdotcom
• Addendum to Guide to “Install Tomato firmware on Asus RT-N66U / RT-N16 / RT-N12 B1 / RT-N12 C1 / RT-N10U router 韌體教學 | Moonlight Knight”
• Reference desktop client for the Google Authenticator (OS X, Windows, Linux) – via: mclamp/JAuth · GitHub
• WiFi/WLAN security: for personal/PSK mode, choose WPA2 with AES and a strong password and SSID name. Don’t use TKIP or WPS PIN
• Great post on the differences between TFS, SVN, CVS and other source code management systems, ideas on Trunk/Tag/Branch
• Paros Proxy | TestingSecurity.com
• Visual Studio – How to: Reset Your Settings
• Beveilings issue site die persoonsgegevens bewaart; gaarne input op dit concept van melding (site slaat wachtwoorden onversleuteld op)
• The Old New Thing: Why does holding the Ctrl key when selecting New Task from Task Manager open a command prompt? (via: Site Home – MSDN Blogs)
• Some Chrome links: finding out which tabs make noise, muting noisy tabs, restarting chrome while retaining all pages
• .NET/C# InternalsVisibleTo Attribute via: Salvo(z)
• Connecting Visual Studio 2010 to TFS over a Corporate Proxy (via: Visual studio 2010: cannot connect for any online resource – Stack Overflow)
• which kind of IsHex() function do you like most, and why?
• Some online metronomes
• VMware ESXi 5 and 4.1: serial COM port pass through (via: Serial Port handling in ESXi 4.1 | ESX Virtualization)
• Dear fellow programmer. If you aren’t experienced doing multi-threading, please don’t!
• .NET/C# – finding the attribute values for an assembly
• Hollerith and why we have digraphs in Pascal and trigraphs in C/C++ (nostalgia, Apple ][ plus)
• Visual Studio Smart Tag keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl-. and Shift+Alt-F10
• Known #VS2010 issue + workaround: Visual Studio 2010 crashes when trying to edit a macro or record a temporary macro (via: Microsoft Connect)
• No network connection in your VM? Check your VMware services on the host. (via: How to Start & Stop VMware server/Workstation manually | Windows Reference)
• Google Map Maker – submitting your own corrections to Google
• France requires car drivers to have 2 alchohol testers in their car (via: Frankrijk: alcoholtester verplicht | ANWB Motor)
• Fun things to know: Sextant
• Visual Studio and Delphi: Getting a new GUID in the code editor
• Embarcadero has some cool new Delphi iOS technology in the pipeline (via: Xcode – Debug iOS application on device without symbols – Stack Overflow)
• C# Remove Duplicate Lines From Text File? – Stack Overflow
• Stefan Glienke on Delphi generics: Implementing List Enumerator OfType in Delphi – Stack Overflow
• Repeating characters into strings in C# and Delphi (via: .net – Best way to repeat a character in C# – Stack Overflow)
• Fonts in Microsoft products; Lucida; Microsoft Typography; fonts on other platforms
• Fix to force Google Chrome to use google.com as default search (via: I cannot get Chrome to use www.google.com as the default search engine rather than www.google.com.hk. – Google Chrome Help)
• Delphi: [##] numbers in DFM files determine order of subcomponents (via: Strange [number]s in Delphi DFM files – origin and necessity? – Stack Overflow)
• .NET/C# – WinForms splash screen research material
• Direct Visual Studio 2012 RC and Windows 8 Release Preview ISO download URLs
• Strong name for Interop.Scripting – .NET Framework
• TFS – Undelete File or Folder – brilliantly easy from the Visual Studio IDE: just enable “Show deleted items in the Source Control Explorer”
• Delphi: interesting SO question + answer on using AllocateHWND to route TThread messages to a message handler in a TObject descendant (via: delphi – Custom Messages in Non-Windowed Classes – need a default handler? – Stack Overflow)
• Interesting: Introducing FLAC.js: A Pure JavaScript FLAC Decoder — Official.fm Labs
• Some monospaced fonts (fixed width) to try out: M+ OUTLINE FONTS | DESIGN
• CloudFlare: CDN and more from the makers of the HoneyPot project
• .NET Enums enumerated: System.ArgumentException was unhandled by user code Message=An item with the same key has already been added.
• SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services: copying the .RDL from your server (via: SQL Server Forums – Copy .rdl from ReportServer)
• ThinkPad: Invisible “UNCServer” window… is in fact not the only sloppy “ThinkVantage System Update” programming #fail
• [Links] Asus RT-N66U (N900) dual-band router
• Office 2010/2007: Ribbon minimize mode: maximize space by “Auto-Hiding” the Ribbon in Office (via: How-To Geek)
• Programmatic alternatives to Windows-L keyboard shortcut (SwitchUser / LockWorkstation)
• There are reasons why Delphi is not C++ (via: Entropy Overload: One-liner RAII in Delphi)
• .NET/C#: reading/writing Excel workbooks and worksheets
• Some links on the Delphi compiler and the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project
• Glyphs are apparently a designer term for icons that are not colorful. Get them at TheNounProject.com – via Scott Hanselman
• Administrative and Personal offline installers for Chrome (via: Alternate offline Google Chrome installer Windows – Google Help)
• Updating our Philips BDP5x00 BlueRay/DVD player, Philips PFL767x 3D TV and MyRemote apps for Android & iOS
• Recent multi media software updates: Action!, FooBar, MediaPlayerClassic, MKVToolNix, MediaInfo. Coincidence or not?
• Searchable UTF8 Unicode Characters
• Pointers to value and to reference types (was: delphi – Why does TValue.Make require a pointer to an object reference? – Stack Overflow)
• What you need on your Mac to develop for OS X or iOS using Delphi XE2
• Interesting: Electric Imp with Arduino (via: electric imp – developer kits)
• How much USB power does a device use or provide? Apple Computers and Displays: Powering peripherals through USB
• Happy Towel Day – Today is the 11th towel day in remembrance of a truly remarkable author.
• Some on-line XPath testing tools that support namespaces and XPath functions
• The ADO.NET Entity Framework and SQL Server 2000: the ProviderManifestToken attribute and selecting it with XPath
• How do I disable the fault-tolerant heap? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Excel 2010/2007: Convert text to a table or vice versa (via: Word – Office.com)
• The end of the classic ThinkPad Keyboard layout (#Lenovo #Fail)
• Mac keyboard shortcut to move things to the Trash – Mac Guides: command-backspace #mac #keyboard #shortcut
• SoupUI – as sometimes that is the only thing that works (via: SmartBear Forum • View topic – The JVM could not be started – Soap UI)
• Adding a “Reverse Assignment” to CodeRush for Visual Studio .NET (via: Q35048 – DevExpress Support Center, Knowledge Base, Code Samples)
• Some research links on “change assemblyversion during checkin ccnet” – via Google Search
• “Missed schedule” on post « WordPress.com Forums
• Checking which applications have a TCP connection to SQL Server (DTAP)
• 20 user Inbound TCP connection limit in Windows 7 – Super User
• Mac & Windows – How to prevent screensaver from kicking in
• On the research list: Kidi.Net: Kinderen VEILIG op het Net via Giovanni Praet (giovannipraet) on Twitter.
• How to Fix Temporary Profile in Windows 7
• The meaning of “On-link” in the IPv4 result of the “route print” command (Windows 7, 2008, Vista; via: Super User)
• Recommended reading: Greg Beechs Blog | Greg Beechs Website
• Getting TLIST.EXE: Microsoft TaskLister from the Debugger Tools
• Batch file to “Keep Alive” a CMAK generated VPN connection in Windows 7
• 10 great uses of image and face recognition – TNW Apps
• Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 – Protecting Workbooks and Worksheets
• Ken Rockwell pages on Nikon D700, D300 and Sony PCM-M10 Review
• WAP: those were the days (:
• Nog meer oude info :)
• Dodgy Coder: Coding tricks of game developers
• SQL Server 2012 is Generally Available! – SQL Server Team Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs
• SQL Server 2000 (and probably later) other reason for System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: A severe error occurred on the current command. (via SQL Server Forums)
• Funny: VDI client system wants to restart, but can’t
• Gbridge: Free instant VPN for everyone! – wow, a portable version of this…
• VDI driving me nuts
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Wikiquote
• .NET/C#: setting private fields and properties through reflection (via: .net – Is it possible to set private property via reflection – Stack Overflow)
• .NET/C#: Way overdue post – the syntax inside the Obsolete attribute; Looking for the new ConfigurationManager? (via: @ScottCate Blog Moved ….)
• Migrating SQL Server 2000 ISQLW Utility to SQL Server 2008 R2 SSMS command-line parameters (SQL Query Analyzer; SQL Server Management Studio)
• Please web-people, post screen shots as PNG, not JPEG!
• MigrationWiz – Complete cloud-based mailbox migration solution for Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Exchange Online , Office 365, Novell GroupWise, Lotus, Notes, Google Apps/Gmail, VMWare Zimbra, IMAP and POP systems
• Which “Posting categories” overview do you like most?
• Who has a Workaround for Windows XP “KB2509553 Setup Error: Setup cannot update your Windows XP files because the language installed on your system is different from the update language.”?
• StdAux and StdPrn standard handles (was: The importance of error code backwards compatibility – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs)
• a BNF grammer for C# v2 and ANTLR grammers for C# v2 and C# v4 (via: c# 4.0 – C# grammar in BNF or EBNF Parser generator for F# – Stack Overflow)
• Installing Delphi XE2: disable/uninstall WorkPace 3.0 and Data Guardian 5.2 first
• Do posts coincide with real world events? (via: How does Raymond decide what to post on any particular day? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs)
• Powershell links (via: Scott Hanselmans 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows)
• Finally Google allows searching for “C#” via: Search quality highlights: 50 changes for March – Inside Search
• Some words on Unicode in Windows (Delphi, .NET, APIs, etc)
• Debt in IT and Software Development (via: Coding Horror: Paying Down Your Technical Debt)
• Getting the public static readonly strings and public const strings (and their values) from a class
• Page with my WordPress posting Categories
• 3rd Generation iPads most important aspect: 264ppi screen resolution (via: Entering A High-Resolution, Post-PC World… | The Future of Reading
• Many people missed the 8-bit street view at Google Maps Quest on April 1st #1april #april1st
• The “San Seriffe” of PHP: “PEP 313 — Adding Roman Numeral Literals to Python”
• Refined: Alternate (offline) Google Chrome installer (Windows) – Google Help « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff
• Shortcut URL for login with NS Businesscard as @NS_online made it way to hard to book a trip in a fast and friendly manner
• KB2251481 update issues (via: MS11-049: Description of the security update for Visual Studio 2005 SP1: June 14, 2011)
• naming – What’s the use/meaning of the @ character in variable names in C#? – Stack Overflow
• reflection – C# – Resolving a parameter name at runtime – Stack Overflow
• Pictures taken at the handover of the auctioned Giacomo Agostini Yamaha R1 ‘Ago’ special edition
• Shapecatcher.com: Unicode Character Recognition
• intelligent answer to “whats my ip” on Google Search
• Some PowerShell SCCM links
• Enabling powershell to run unsigned scripts for the current user only (via: Absoblogginlutely!)
• .NET/C#: Resolved errors “The type ‘NameSpace.TypeNameClass’ has no constructors defined” and “Interop type ‘NameSpace.TypeNameClass’ cannot be embedded. Use the applicable interface instead.” (via Stack Overflow: Interop type cannot be embedded)
• 30 HomePlug power line adapters compared (Dutch: vergelijkingstest | Hardware.Info Nederland)
• Finaly, Audacity 2.0.0 is there (via: Release Notes 2.0.0 – Audacity Wiki)
• Start a New Line Inside a Spreadsheet Cell in Excel | Excel Semi-Pro
• Patch time: RDP vulnerability in all Windows versions; CVE-2012-0002: A closer look at MS12-020’s critical issue – Security Research & Defense – Site Home – TechNet Blogs
• A few reminders to self for AMP in VS11: debugging, writing, etc
• WTF C# code of the month
• Solution for TFS2005/2010 and VS2005/2010: Add/New Work Item menu still loading (try again in a moment)…
• How to install Windows 7 on a virtual hard disk (VHD) in 10 steps (via: Guides & Tutorials)
• When are the 12.5mm 1.5 TB and 14.8mm 2 TB notebook drives coming? (via: Marvell 4Q 2012 – Hard Drives Coming Back, SSD Controller Sales Double – Storage Forums)
• #@xs4all only over AnnexB with FRITZ!Box 7340 #fail: line sync issues; offline most of the time, max 4 mbit. @xs4all needs to give me some compelling arguments to regain trust in them. @xs4all_HD
• “Cannot navigate to definition” annoyance in Visual Studio 2010 – (did it implement the mouse equivalent to Delphi code browsing? No, it didn’t)
• Eric Lippert’s comment and answer explaining nullable operator lifting (c# – Why does the == operator work for Nullable when == is not defined? – Stack Overflow)
• Anyone with a C#, Delphi or FreePascal implementation of the PRESENT Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher encryption?
• #WordPress Editor #keyboard #shortcuts
• Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO formats: Microsoft, please do this the same for Visual Studio 11 (#VS11 #W8)
• Zo moet het dus niet: Zorg en Zekerheid zet relatienummer niet meer op polisblad (gemiste kans voor @zorgenzekerheid)
• version v3.3.4.14431 of Beyond Compare released by Scooter Software
• VMware workstation will re-create different vmnet1 and vmnet8 when updating from 8.0.1 to 8.0.2
• Solution for Visual Studio 2010 VB.NET errors “Type ‘MyProject.My.MySettings’ is not defined.” and “MyProject’ is not a member of [Defalut]” #VS2010
• P/Invoke: usually you need CharSet.Auto (via: .NET Column: Calling Win32 DLLs in C# with P/Invoke)
• won’t work on a ThinkPad W701: DisplayPort Adapter Cables 45J7915, 57Y4393 Compatibility – ThinkPad W700/W701
• ThinkPad W701 with 32GB of memory via: forum.thinkpads.com • Newer 8G memory sticks in a W700, W701, W500, W510 ?
• Scott Adams uses a Wacom Cintiq 24HDI for his drawing.
• VMware View Client uses PCoIP; please network admins read the PCoIP checklist!
• SQL Server 2000: How do I register multiple databases with Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Manager?
• WordPress XML sourcecode help needed; forum posts gets deleted.
• Bitcricket IP Subnet Calculator
• C#/.NET: Assessing the SqlException severity
• FireMonkey and (OS X, iOS, Windows) Link Clearance
• Funny how Google Search tries to interpret version numbers as dates and totally misses the actual date (via: directx runtime – Google Search)
• Funny how StackExchange, StackOverflow, ServerFault, SuperUser and differ in indicating their site outage “We are Offline”
• Free .NET Decompiler – JustDecompile from Telerik
• A Programmer’s Life | /* Code lines of a programmer’s life */
• Remake of Karateka? Prince of Persia creator returns to games with remake of Karateka | VentureBeat
• Google Mail Spam Filters seem to be a bit too aggressive again
• Chrome Google search URLs changed into a webhp redirect; no rootkit; Avast! and eggheadcafe seem involved; reproducible on one machine. What happened?
• Jason Southwell (from arcana) just published DuckDuckDelphi: a unit to do Duck typing in Delphi XE2 (not XE)
• There is a great Android Design – UI Overview site, but no great UI design tools for Android
• What’s new in .NET Framework 4.5? [poster] (via Heikniemi Hardcoded)
• Activation code for Philips SimplyShare Android App
• FlightAware > BOE236 787 drawing a Boeing logo on FlightAware
• Soms kom je online echt oude spullen tegen van jezelf: deze uit een computercollectief nieuwsbrief van september 1997; Tips en commentaar 290997
• Very odd cause (and solution) for VMware View Client “Connect Desktop Failed”: Event Log could not start because of Access Denied error 5.
• Batch file to detect Windows version number
• Outlook signature locations
• I really need to take some time check out MediaMonkey, MediaPortal and XBMC for my HTPC
• Mini-DisplayPort on New Dells: Resolving issues with output to projectors in Windows 7
• :: Strip HTML Tags :: Online Tools
• gemak dient de mens, maar niet bij de OV Chipkaart
• Free: German HTML5 Cheat Sheet (via Google Translate)
• The calculators that got me into programming (via: calculators : Algorithms for the masses – julian m bucknall)
• An expedition camera backpack, the LowePro DZ100 « Stephen’s Stuff
• automatic logon in Windows 2003
• .NET/C#: Using IDisposable to restore temporary settrings example: TemporaryCursor class
• C# text file deduping based on trimmed lines (via: Stack Overflow)
• Upgrading a Windows XP machine with Visual Studio 2005: KB2251481 Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service – Microsoft Answers
• the series “Dogbert’s Tech Support: How May I Abuse You” #dilbert #fun
• ssh-keygen: password-less SSH login script (via Novell User Communities)
• Batch file examples – Wait using CHOICE (via: RobVanDerWoude.com)
• CodePlex TFS 2010 login: prefix login with “snd\” domain and suffix username with “_cp” (via Ahmed Al-Asaad’s Blog)
• Dear Mister Jones » How to insert a carriage return with batch
• Is #Trello #GTD on Steroids?
• 15 years of xs4all internet provider membership
• Affordable MacBook Air physical USB ethernet adapter
• Migrate/Transfer SQL Server 2008/2005/2000/7 Logins to SQL Server 2008
• Should watch: Dave Herman: The Future of JavaScript #ECMAScript6
• great answer by Remy Lebeau on windows – CreateProcessAsUser doesn’t work when “change user” – on Stack Overflow part of @StackExchange
• Resetting the SMC solved my MacBook Air Fan Noise With Lion problem
• Alternate (offline) Google Chrome installer (Windows) – Google Help
• Great answer by Cosmin Prund: How and when are variables referenced in Delphi’s anonymous methods captured? – Stack Overflow
• Undoing TinyUrl, Goo.gl, Bitly and other URL shorteners: http://expandurl.appspot.com/
• Introducing the for-if anti-pattern – via: The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• ASCII art: when old skool is modern again.
• After restoring fresh HDD from Time Machine Backup: No results from Spotlight
• my wiert.WordPress.com blog: 2011 in review: almost 400 posts, 220k visitors, “Silverlight dead/ long live XAML” most popular.
• Mac RDP client uses “/console” after the machine name to connect to a server console (not “/admin”)
• More vulnerabilities solved than just the ASP.NET hash collision DoS: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-100 – Critical : Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2638420)
• Many more web platforms vulnerable to the hash collision attack (not only ASP.NET) #28C3 @hashDoS #hashDoS @ccc
• Patch your ASP.NET servers ASAP: ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Thursday, Dec 29th – ScottGu’s Blog
• Get last command line argument in windows batch file – via: Stack Overflow
• Added a few links to my “Tools” page, @WordPress bug spuriously inserting div tags still present.
• Station Sassenheim opgenomen in de Android Sneltrain app, lezen @NS_Online en @NS_Stations even mee?
• Google Calendar: Quick Add to specific calendar? – Calendar Help – @google
• Hardening your Mac (YouTube video in German) thanks @plaetzchen
• Merry Xmas
• #sr11 video livestream URL http://livestreams.omroep.nl/3fm/sr2011_mainview
• xkcd: Standards – how standards proliferate
• Easy ways to show which Windows version/service packs are installed; via Super User: windows command line: can I tell Service pack number?
• VMware KB: Sharing a folder from your Mac to a virtual machine
• Applying XE2 Update 3: uninstall IDE Fix Pack first, then apply, then install updated IDE Fix Pack. Also update EurekaLog.
• #CAK informeer je eens op het http://curateleregister.rechtspraak.nl/ @CAK_Wtcg
• svn – How do I move a file or folder from one folder to another in TortoiseSVN? – Stack Overflow
• Delphi XE2 and iOS: things you should not do
• (Curatoren) opgelet: brieven van verzekeraars over stopzetten spaarloonregeling zijn geregeld reclame
• Friese Nieuwjaarsverenigingen weer bezig?
• De NS en UserExperience: er valt nog veel te leren, ook door @NS_Online en @NS_Stations #UX
• Dilbert comic strip for 2011-12-16: Smartphone listening in when Pointy Haired Boss asks Carol to make an appointment
• Hoe vaak deelt Tweakers.NET nu die Nokia Lumia 800 uit?
• ScreenDreams on your Philips TV is just a set of streaming MP4 files
• Asphyre Sphinx 2: X-platform game development for Delphi XE2 and/or FPC
• Overview of .NET Framework, CLR and Visual Studio version numbers – via StackOverflow.com
• WinForms UserControl and Visual Studio 2010 debugging – The process cannot access the file … because it is being used by another process – Stack Overflow
• StayAwake – Android Market: keeps your device
• huge “duh” coming up: Dilbert Punch Line Mashups
• Microsoft Office 365 – I always wonder: what will happen on februari 29, 2012 when the year has 366 days?
• Restarting InterBase from the command-line on Windows and Mac
• Trouble with Google Reader and GEXperts RSS feed :)
• SQL Server inverse of (equals) is ((not equals) or (is NULL)
• When writing applications, include Keyboard Shortcuts for both the CUA and Windows/Apple shortcuts
• xkcd: Citogenesis – how citations get to life, and survive
• Source Code Pretty Printing in various languages
• Cool tool of the day: Tasker for Android
• File Extensions of Files Generated by RAD Studio – RAD Studio XE2
• Duh moment: in C#, the integer zero (0) is compatible with all enums
• yyyy-mm-dd for vba – Parse data and time string to Access Date value – Stack Overflow
• Andrew Worcester • Kill Skype Home (KSH) – Get rid of that annoying “Skype Home” popup
• Windows: killing the Zone.Identifier NTFS alternate data stream from a file to prevent security warning popup
• Matrix library by Michael Rabatscher with many features and x86/x64 optimizations
• Jamie’s Blog | MQTT Client Library for Delphi
• In Delphi SHR is a SHR; in C >> is a SAR or SHR (via: Shift Right: Delphi vs C | Galfars Lair)
• OS X (Snow) Leopard System Profiler reincarnated as System Information in OS X Lion (via: OS X Lion: Reclaiming the System Profiler Application | TMO Quick Tip | The Mac Observer)
• Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts
• Delphi XE2 Unit Scope tables
• SQL Server 2000: export SQL Query Analyzer result data to Excel/CSV and more
• I was baffled…
• About to embark on the Akademik Sergey Vavilov in Ushuaia, Argentina for our antarctic adventure!
• VMware fusion on MacBook Air with OS X Lion seems to hang when getting back from sleep – Super User
• Not so convenient: after XP there is no more WebCam viewer in Windows (via: How can I take a picture with my webcam in Windows 7? – Super User)
• Handy when having Mac test VMs: How to rename your Mac? – MacRumors Forums
• Deep Object Comparison Delphi – Stack Overflow
• Allocating 4Gb+ of memory in x64 using Delphi XE2 Update 2: Unofficial fix for QC#100726 …
• c# – Panel.Dock Fill ignoring other Panel.Dock setting – Stack Overflow
• About Gmail’s new look: a few comments
• DDMA codes – Dutch Dialogue Marketing Association
• Some companies that do not verify email adresses on their sites: #Bilderberg #Karwei #KLM #Martinair #Witteveen #Xara #fail
• Zipping .lnk files
• EKON15 download materials on-line at bo.codeplex.com
• Using InputBox in C#
• You need at least 5Gb free space for Update 2 for #Delphi XE2, C++Builder XE2 and RAD Studio XE2
• .NET/C# WinForms: simple solution to Panel.Dock Fill ignoring other Panel.Dock setting – Stack Overflow
• Delphi: solution for “How can I find all the units in my Delphi app?” (via Stack Overflow)
• Fikse #phishing actie voor #XS4ALL #Secure #Webmail
• Shortcut to LinkSys DHCP Client Table
• The Antec TruePower Quattro TP4-850 EC power supply in HAL died, replaced by a Corsair HX850W power supply
• TODO: batch file to properly backup Skype history
• tortoisegit – Porting TortoiseSVN to TortoiseGIT – Google Project Hosting
• Jon Skeet and Tony the Pony on Vimeo
• John McCarthy — Father of AI and Lisp — Dies at 84 | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
• File Sharing Mac OS X Lion and PC Windows 7 | Mac OS X
• Delphi XE2 Hands-On Workshop met better office – beperkt aantal plaatsen beschikbaar
• Delphi XE2 installation instructions on Windows and Mac (#ekon15 conference)
• #yellowbrick en #anwb #fail: Als de website nu ook nog nice was… (deal: ANWB – Ledenvoordeel – Yellowbrick – gratis registratie)
• Software updates – ForTheRecord 1.6.0.1 | Electronics | Tweakers.net Meuktracker
• Gmail Labs: Smart Labels – Official Gmail Blog
• .RESX translation and tools examples based on Paint.NET Forum -> Translation and Localization
• Excel CSV: watch and set your delimiters (and the #NSBusinessCard – Digitale specificatie #fail)
• process – How to check if a program is using .NET? – Stack Overflow
• #tzdb back up: ICANN to Manage Time Zone Database
• HTC Help Center
• SVN 1.7, TortoiseSVN and CollabNet 2.1.0 released earlier this week
• Running OS X Lion 10.7 on VMware Workstation 7.1.4 and 8.0 (via: How to Install Retail OS X 10.6 under VMware Workstation or Player – InsanelyMac Forum)
• MonoTouch 5.0 released: iOS 5 support for Mono on the iOS 5 release day
• Last weekend, Dennis Ritchie, passed away at age 70.
• batch files: getting information from your Windows AD
• MonoDevelop 2.8 is Here! via: Xamarin blog
• Impersonation on the iSeries: Changing Profile User
• EKON 15 conference news and discount (German text at the end of the blog post): Cary Jensen presents the keynote @caryjensen #ekon
• Bring back support for Smart Device Extensions – Customer Feedback for Microsoft
• Forcing decimal dot (.) for number parsing
• Mac practical joke: How to Invert Colors on a Mac – wikiHow
• Adest Night of Music was een heerlijk feest #anom foto’s komen on-line @adestmusica (dank @Bvdmusic, @Cbalfoort)
• #lopentegenkanker een success, grote opkomst, goede organisatie
• Writing an audio CD as ISO image is a no-no: the closest you get is a .CUE file that links to either WAV files or a BIN/IMG image
• #lopentegenkanker wie moedigt ons zondag aan of rent mee in #warmond #sassenheim #voorhout in de gemeente #teylingen?
• Alles op het gebied van TV series: Bierdopje.com en eztv.it
• Infineon SLE 66 CL PE chip achter de nieuwe “veiliger” OV Chipkaart is reeds gehacked – Reactie | Pro | Tweakers.net
• #tzdb Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database: Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert need help (via Slashdot)
• Why can’t I move the Program Files directory via the unattend file? – via: The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Registry Search-Replace tools – correcting the havoc after a data migration
• When you are bitten by normally having the luxury of a current development environment
• In memoriam – Duikers Fred Snijders en Nico Laan (via: Onderwatersport Bond | Duiken in Nederland | Duikopleiding | Duikinstructeur | Duikbrevetten)
• C#/Windows: why LastWriteTime can be earlier than CreationTime
• CRC32 Calculators in Delphi and .NET
• The *must read* WebSphere MQ security topic on #MQSeries.net
• I won’t make it to CodeRage this year, the Diving instructor and a diving buddy of my retarded brother just died in a diving accident: counselling to do
• MacBook (or -Pro; -Air): Disable the default “fn key” behaviour and enable the normal Function-keys by default
• WordPress › Support » WordPress is inserting div tags
• Download: Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.1 (via Microsoft Office for Mac Downloads and Updates | Office For Mac)
• .NET based iOS development: MonoTouch 4.2.2 is out
• Camera Shutter Life Database
• Mouse cursor sometimes invisible when running an XP guest in VMware Workstation/Player: Invisible Mouse Cursor on Text Editors « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff
• De “betrouwbare” overheid: Regeling vitaliteitssparen bekend
• EditorLineEnds.ttr – what is it?
• Delphi XE2 Update 1 is out; be sure to get it.
• BLTN: GExperts build 1.35 for Delphi and RAD Studio XE2
• Just uploaded by BASTA.NET conference session materials on .NET Cross Platform Mobile Development on Windows 7, Android and iOS
• Delphi Spring, Mocks and how to use them: some links
• A few more classics on BitSavers in the /pdf/borland tree
• Android 101: How to add a second gmail account to your phone | Android Central
• SMS via de vaste aansluiting – Afwijkend nummer SMS-berichtencentrale
• #abnamro #fail while reporting fishing mail, no past ABN AMRO email address works (nor does abuse@abnamro.com or .nl)
• DNSCheck
• Windows “Device Manager” – expand all nodes
• C# Using Blocks can Swallow Exceptions | DigitallyCreated
• MQCONNX 2058 (080A) (RC2058): MQRC_Q_MGR_NAME_ERROR
• Comparisons for EBCDIC CCSID 37, 500 and 1047
• Dropbox – Simplify your life – easy way to sync your iOS Delphi XE2 FireMonkey stuff between your Mac and PC
• Duh: I broke my template: “autofit body text to placeholder” not working in PPT 2007
• UPC Speedtest – direct link
• Download VMware Fusion 4
• Comparison of PDF printer drivers
• Hex/Ascii and Hex/EBCDIC Converter
• Coincidence? MacBook Air arrived, Windows 8 preview and VMware Fusion 4 got released
• aacPlusCLI – encoding AAC+ from the commandline using Coding Technologies aacPlus encoder enc_aacPlus.dll from WinAmp
• Windows Metro Style Apps Developer Downloads: very early version of Windows 8
• Delphi XE2 x64 Extended floating point support: CodeCentral 28488 TExtendedX87: FPU-backed 80-bit Extended type for Win64
• Windows WebSphere MQ client DLLs
• Two more FastMM XE2 updates on SourceForge.net in the SVN SCM trunk:
• Entity Framework: EF4 – update model from database ignores some changes
• Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8” – Building Windows 8 – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Triest bericht: de SDC gaat dit jaar niet door. De altijd kleurrijke conferentie van de SDN voor Nederlandse software ontwikkelaars heeft het dit jaar niet gehaald
• solution for: “Not enough server storage is available to process this command”: restart “Server” service and “Computer Browser”
• FastMM XE2 update on SourceForge.net in the SVN SCM trunk
• Arrived in San Jose, CA, USA for the DelphiLive tutorial and conference (DelphiLive people get internet free!)
• Companies that ship to the USA, but require USA credit-card or PayPal
• Bruno Fierens of TMSSoftware just showed their new chart that uses HTML5 with asynchronous event support cool!
• #Huawei “Mobile Partner” Software #fail it doesn’t work in Windows 7 x64 and breaks the ThinkPad Fn keys
• #KOMED internet experience: getting it to work is hard, but it is FAST
• Stephen Forte`s Blog – Silverlight is Dead, Long Live XAML
• #FireMonkey will be #updated early, #often and regularly. Before the end of this month, and initially multiple updates per quarter, later once per quarter (Michael Swindell on the #Embarcadero Discussion Forums)
• Reminder to self: bring non-decaf tea to the US or buy some non-decaf tea as soon as I get there
• Twitter Status fail? what’s up with twitter when it doesn’t load, but tells you everything is fine? Swisscom again?
• Delphi XE2 FireMonkey: the reason you should not have used assembly
• How to disable the annoying Windows #Skype 5.5 Home Screen auto pop-up #fail
• Cool site of the day: Download Online Videos Save Direct Easily – Savevid.com (not only for YouTube)
• #swisscom hotel #internet #fail: breaks Google Mail, lousy internet rates, for EUR 18 per day!
• Gif Stopper – Chrome Web Store
• ModelMaker Code Explorer 9.1.0 available for Delphi XE2
• Cleanup: IntelliTrace Log ( .iTrace ) files and Visual Studio 2010 SP 1
• WebSphere MQ Client 5.3 and 7.0
• EmbarcaderoTechNet’s Channel – YouTube
• Unbelievable: Dutch Government made Microsoft agree to keep Microsoft customers vulnerable to fake digital certificates from DigiNotar by postponing Windows Updates for Dutch users. #fail
• Entity Framework: simple solution for cryptic error message “System.NotSupportedException: Unable to create a constant value of type ‘System.Object’”
• Rad Studio XE2 demos up at SourceForge.net: Repository – [radstudiodemos] Index of /branches/RadStudio_XE2
• #fail of #Sennheiser CX 250 and CX 150 in-ear #earphones when using while running: over time they sound less and less loud, switching to #DealExtreme
• Apache Tomcat/6.0.18 – Error report: stack overflow while logging
• #diginotar is #dead: Overheid zegt vertrouwen in de certificaten van Diginotar op | Rijksoverheid.nl
• CyanogenMod 7 Shows Up On The HTC Sensation – Bye, Bye Sense 3.0 [Video]
• vervolg op #yellowbrick en #anwb #fail: wachten op yellowbrick, anwb gelukt, maar foute informatie
• Excel XML Spreadsheet: going the XSLT way
• .NET SecureString – storing/retreiving passwords and other sensitive data
• Batch file to get parent directory (not the directory of the batch file, but the parent of that directory)
• RDP issue solved itself; research list to see what might be involved
• xs4all ONLY issues with ADSL sync and Fritz!Box 7340
• A world without iWords?
• Excel XML Spreadsheet: Styles and formatting
• #NS #QPark den Haag Laan van NOI begint een #fail te worden
• Batch file to get TCP/IP info from local LAN
• delphi has TTransparentCustomControl in the Controls unit
• Foto’s 14e editie van de Katwijkbinse Truckrun – Oranjevereniging Katwijk a/d Rijn
• TypedReference Structure (System)
• Hardloopcursus bij AV’23 Watergraafsmeer – Amsterdam – dichtbij.nl – Amsterdam-Centrum
• Importing Facebook friends in …
• #HTC #Sensation: how to #disable/#enable your #GSM/#3G #Radio
• ISO 8601 Date, Time and DateTime in Delphi (was: Simple example to show DateTime.Now in ISO 8601 format on ideone.com | Online C# Compiler & Debugging Tool)
• Why is LTE equipment being installed in an Apple Store? — Engadget
• some reflections on #Delphi #FireMonkey support for #iOS based on the #FPC compiler that caused quite a surprise
• #Unlocking non-branded #HTC #Sensation: HTCdev – #Unlock #Bootloader
• Revisited: .NET/C# – TEE filter that also runs on Windows (XP) Embedded « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff
• Back to the 80s: Apple Pascal on the Lisa Machine
• Nice deal: ANWB – Ledenvoordeel – Yellowbrick – gratis registratie
• Tomazy’s Software Development Blog: Testing modal windows in Delphi
• Nice gadget: 5Port USB Power Metal Ethernet Network Hub Switch BL-S805-U – DinoDirect.com
• #fail #rookzone #astmapatient #schiphol personeel weigert in te grijpen
• Excel XML Spreadsheet: watch your Worksheet.Table.ExpandedColumnCount (or just leave it out)
• Windows authorization: Adding/Removing users from local groups
• batch files: getting directory and parent directory
• Mac OS X Lion reveals passwords in sleep mode? | The Digital Home – CNET News
• Javascript PC Emulator – Technical Notes
• @NShispeed: OV Chipkaart en #NS-Businesscard perikelen
• Speaking at DelphiLive! 2011 in San Jose, CA, USA from September 12th to 14th 2011
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games
• Text displayed in some core fonts appears blurred in Internet Explorer 9 on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2
• Reading list: Version Control by Example
• Portable PowerShell – ShellTools
• WordPress Akismet needs some improvement
• Lots of Changes: Matt Waddell – Google+
• Don’t forget to hug your System Administrator today
• What was the last time you used a DVD drive? Apple updates Mac mini: Core i5 and i7, Thunderbolt, AMD Radeon HD, no SuperDrive — Engadget
• Excel XML Spreadsheet: Date.Type is mandatory :)
• Marco Cantu’s Delphi XE Handbook Available in print and electronically
• WebSphere MQ: SYSTEM.DEFAULT.MODEL.QUEUE
• Handig voor kapotte huishoudelijke apparaten: EuroPart.nl; Onderdelen en accessoires online bestellen | ophalen in de winkel of thuisbezorgd
• Extensions to force HTTPS in your browser
• WebSphere MQ and Delphi
• File extension parameters do include a dot
• ISO 8601: Delphi way to convert XML date and time to TDateTime and back (via: Stack Overflow)
• Douanerechten/omzetbelasting: Wanneer hoef ik geen of minder belastingen te betalen?
• Synchronize your NTP time using pool.ntp.org: the internet cluster of ntp servers
• Delphi commandline oddity with double-quoted arguments
• Extracting MSI files
• Mac OS X Lion Supports Running 2 Additional OS X Instances Within a Virtual Machine
• Windows: viewing the WiFi networks nearby
• Recovering an NTFS partition: TestDisk Step By Step – CGSecurity
• Nice error message with helpful explanation: KPN HotSpots is not available at this moment
• Code Quality: the rate of WTFs
• winapi – Best way to do non-flickering, segmented graphics updates in Delphi? – Stack Overflow
• SEC_LinkShare SSID is from your Samsung TV: SWL (Samsung Wireless Link)
• Microsoft Security Advisory: Microsoft Office File Validation for Office 2003, 2007 Office, and Office 2010: April 12, 2011
• The importance of static links on the web: many (really) old links still work
• Some links on Serena Dimensions DMCLI command-line usage
• Weaving: Source code, IL, ByteCode, Native
• Chrome 12 brought back Issue 47714 – chromium – maximize bug while loading webpage on windows 7 – An open-source browser project to help move the web forward. – Google Project Hosting
• The 1.5TB Iomega® Prestige™ SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive contains a Seagate 1.5TB FreePlay ST1500LM003 drive
• StackOverflow C# question: Slight confusion over reference types and value types in the C# spec
• .NET WPF Databinding to Collection Properties » Danny Thorpe
• Delphi and COBOL syntax highlighters
• Get All Angry Birds Levels in Chrome HTML5 Version with a quick hackWes Bos | Wes Bos
• Uninstalling stray SoundMAX remnants
• IBM turns 100 today: Happy birthday, IBM
• Finding out which client process is using a Windows network share
• #TMobile NL #fail: SSL error because of expired certificate when viewing MMS messages
• Top 10 Mobile Internet Trends
• c# – Generics and nullable type – Stack Overflow
• Resize your VMware ESXi/ESX/vSphere disks (via JJClements.co.uk)
• Technet / MSDN Subscriber Downloads: downloading the Office Language Pack for your specific languages
• SVN tree to source code of Marco Cantu’s Delphi Books
• GExperts version 1.35 was released on June 5th, 2011
• Delphi sorcery – great new blog by Stefan Glienke: DataBinding, MEF, Lamda Expressions and more
• intoDNS: checks DNS and mail servers health
• Delete cookies
• How To Write Unmaintainable Code
• Heartbeat – check the life signs on Skype products
• Delphi Win32 talking to .net – Different WSDL ASMX,WCF web-services – Stack Overflow
• Exporting Google Chrome cookies for wget usage: cookie.txt export – Google Chrome extension gallery
• How to tell the Windows version and Service Pack number
• Visual Studio 2010/2008/2005 – how can i check who has a specific file checked out in tfs? (via: Stack Overflow)
• Entity Framework: finding out what SQL is executed behind the scene
• mijnalbum.nl URLs and downloading pictures
• hard drive – When to stop using a HDD? What rules/software apply?
• Zo onderweg naar #Taptoe #Mierlo om met #adestmusica te spelen #bolesian collega’s kom eens kijken :-)
• Post 500
• MIX2011 Fiddler talk is now live – Fiddler Web Debugger – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Better solution for C# Warning CS0067 than “#pragma warning disable 0067”: The event ‘event’ is never used – Trevor’s Dev Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• How do you add an administrator user to SQL Server 2008 (via Server Faultl)
• Simple example to show DateTime.Now in ISO 8601 format on ideone.com | Online C# Compiler & Debugging Tool
• Chrome “Open frame in new tab” replacement: Open Frame/This Frame extensions
• Disable Windows 7 DLNA exposure
• How to Get Paths and URL fragments from the HttpRequest object
• Martin Kulov’s Blog: Any CPU vs. x86 vs. x64
• FM USB Library
• Removing the VMWare Server SSL Certificate Trust Warning – via: IIS Hacks | Server and System Administration
• VMware Workstation and multi-core hosts/guests
• Don’t sleep when you use your Entity Framework model from a separate assembly
• SmackFu: Shoutcast Metadata Protocol
• DealExtreme uses ASP.NET
• FAT32 formatting a HDD volume bigger than 32 gigabyte
• Jeroen turns 42 today
• How to: Configure Express to accept remote connections – SQL Server Express WebLog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Some notes on BASS (re)encoding and tagging audio files
• Tortoise SVN Global Ignore Pattern for Delphi and Visual Studio
• alias to have Unix list command ‘ls’ output numerical chmod permissions (via Stack Overflow)
• Mapping of Lenovo ThinkPad W701 SATA bays to boot devices
• Delphi Constraints in Generics – RAD Studio XE documentation wiki
• human readable number formatting – C#: File-size format provider – Stack Overflow
• Convert linq query to string array/list – C# – Stack Overflow
• InfoWorker Solutions: SharePoint ACLs: RoleDefinitions, RoleAssignments, Inheritance
• Site with truckload of Lenovo Service and Support Training information (including ThinkPad FRU, videos and specs)
• Visual Studio 2010: you should run the Remote Debugging Monitor from a local drive to avoid 0x8007000E E_OUTOFMEMORY
• Entity Framework 4 – security warning popup workaround: Do you trust all the T4 “text templates” on your system, even future ones?
• c# – List of new features in C#2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 – Stack Overflow
• avast! antivirus 5: if you updated your engine/virus definitions to 110411-1, then please update them to ‎110411-2
• Spellen is lastig: Het is weer mis met de Chicagostraat – Almere – WebRegio.nl
• SharePoint 2010 error: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {BDEADF26-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F} failed due to the following error: 800703fa – SharePointWiz
• Lenovo Support – Drivers and software – ThinkPad T61, T61p
• Lenovo Support – Power Manager for Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), Vista (32-bit, 64-bit) – ThinkPad
• Got my Linksys WRT54GL working as a Client Bridge using dd-wrt: Client Bridged – DD-WRT Wiki
• Mono for Android 1.0 released: develop .NET software that runs on Android
• Visual Studio 2010 “Solution Explorer Tools” addin: Collapse all, Select current item, Collapse all except current item. Highly recommended.
• Visual Studio 2010: some entries in the Error List are not Errors, Warnings or Messages, but are still indicating a problem
• Recommended blog post: Favorite C# Idioms | Blue Onion Software
• Entity Framework 4 “Error 3004: Problem in mapping fragments starting at line” means you must generate your DB from your model first (Stack Overflow)
• Cool Software of the Day: ManyCam – Home – webcam graphics plus use your webcam with multiple programs simultaneously!
• Download Time Calculator | File Transfer Time | Data Transfer Speed
• VMware Workstation 7.1.4 and VMware Player 3.1.4 released (Build 385536) #vmware
• Blokkeren premium-sms-diensten is vanaf 1 april gratis | Mobile | Tweakers.net Nieuws
• Congrats, you’ve gained the privilege – access to #moderator tools – Jeroen Pluimers – #StackOverflow
• Bootstrap and DVD ISO Download details: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1
• Delete a Team Project from Team Foundation Server
• Should I really install Windows 7 x64 SP1 after so many people get BSODs?
• C# Toolbox: Debug-able, Self-Installable Windows Service Template Redux | Visual Studio Feeds
• How can I generate a consistent but unique value that can coexist with GUIDs? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Some LinkedIn sender addresses you can use for filtering
• trace switches for LLBLGenPro
• SccProjectName value in .csproj hosed – strange build results (via: Interesting support case – Visual Studio solution prompts for entire SCC check-out on open – Developer Support Team Foundation Server – Site Home – MSDN Blogs)
• Delphi XE introduced SafeIntfAsClass to cast back interface to class (via: oop – Delphi – Proxy Design Pattern – interface problem – Stack Overflow)
• Delphi Labs: DataSnap XE and jQueryMobile; a Web Frontend accessing DataSnap through a Delphi WebBroker server
• How to clear the “ErrorList” window before compiling
• How big of a team do you need to benefit from bug tracking software? – Programmers – Stack Exchange
• Google Chrome about:about – main entrance to the “geek” pages
• Vodafone raadt klanten af iPhone en iPad te updaten naar iOS 4.3 | Mobile | Tweakers.net Nieuws
• Ideone.com | Online IDE & Debugging Tool >> C/C++, Java, PHP, Python, Perl and 40+ compilers and intepreters
• I love my keyboard; why did they hide “Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys” in Windows 7 so far away?
• Orban/Coding Technologies AAC/HE-AAC Player Plugin™
• Older Fritz!Box Firmwares for 7340 (and 7170/7270/7570)
• Solution for “Why do I get a ‘LoaderLock’ Error when debugging my Managed DirectX application” (The ZBuffer)
• Visual Studio 2010 Ux #fail: finding the Macro Recorder and Context Menus toolbars #VS2010 #Ux
• Why does Recording the TemporaryMacro sometimes fail in Visual Studio 2010? #durftevragen #dtv #daretoask
• “Try to avoid foreach/for loops”–Over my Dead Body! | Visual Studio Feeds
• SvnBridge – Fiddler2 debug the TortoiseSVN traphic to Team Foundation Server
• The True Cost of SMS Messages – Slashdot
• Is Linux Ready for the Desktop?
• Convert Microsoft Access JET SQL to SQL Server T-SQL Cheatsheet and Access JOIN parenthesis
• Duh: iPad safari search inside is easy!
• ISO CD/DVD image mounting tools for Windows
• Routes.TomTom.Com #fail Sassenheim and Aankomstpassage Schiphol
• online: Create a GUID
• c# – PRISM + MEF — How to specify which export to use? – Stack Overflow
• C# generics: Constraints on Type Parameters
• How to: Back Up a Team Foundation Server
• Cool tool: .NET Version Detector
• Why is the result of RoundTo(87.285, -2) => 87.28 – Stack Overflow
• If you use MonoTouch for iOS, be sure to update the iOS SDK (it doens’t auto update)
• Amazon.com: DVI + Audio (SPDIF & Toslink) to HDMI Converter Adapter: Electronics
• supportformum.philips.com registration mail sender #fail – unknown sender domain
• Mac Buyer’s Guide: Know When to Buy Your Apple products
• Bolt and fastener chart: what’s that dingus called? – Boing Boing
• So much for e-Government: #Amsterdam cannot connect to #DigiD server #fail
• CeBIT: Cloud computing blijft een droom | Computerworld
• How To Turn An Old Router Into A Wireless Bridge
• Blacklist Check
• .NET JIT bugs
• Semantic Versioning
• They should have pushed object oriented programming a lot more a lot sooner – PHP: Manual Quick Reference
• Weird Errors With EF4 CTP5 Code First? Close All Database Connections » Danny Thorpe
• Ask yourself: “are you writing a framework now?” – How (not) to write Factorial
• Domotica – WiFi thermostaten
• NTFS-3G: NTFS driver for non-Windows stack (Linux, Mac, Android, etc)
• Delphi friend in NZ seeks work (preferably remotely)
• Microsoft Trademarks – be careful when using product names like these
• Exception Filter – VB.NET supports this, but not C#, so write a VB.NET wrapper to expose it to C#
• Some great links to Quotes on Programming and Software Development #fun #bastacon
• Duh: projects of non-installed identities won’t load in VS. Learned: always install your VM yourself
• Supporting Office 2003 from .NET: getting the Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies
• c# – What can I use to let users build their own avatar character? – Stack Overflow
• iPad/iPhone Quick Tip: Enabling Multiple Google Calendars: Apple News, Tips and Reviews «
• Personal Blocklist (by Google) – Chrome Web Store
• ClipName from the PC TimeWatch people – Freeware
• Some #reflector URLs
• Verifying if two hosts are on the same IPv4 network
• telerik/razor-converter: Tool for converting WebForms Views to Razor (C# Only) – GitHub
• some good tips on C# Excel Interop Use from Sam Allen
• David Ebbo: Register your HTTP modules at runtime without config
• If Your Visual Studio 2005 Solutions Open Slowly, Check WebsiteCache | Thomas F. Abraham – On Technology
• Official Google Blog: Advanced sign-in security for your Google account
• Google Chrome Portable | PortableApps.com – Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives
• Aaneenschrijven van telwoorden (algemeen)
• The #reflector licensing debacle: ILSpy
• Increasing your Windows XP NTFS disk size under VMware Workstation 7
• Infographic: Facebook vs Twitter Demographics 2011 | Digital Buzz Blog
• Stack Overflow ebooks
• The Stack Overflow Storage Decision
• The hilarious answer on Stack Overflow in why not to parse html with RegEx
• Beyond Compare 3.2.4.13298 – Changelog – Softpedia
• GExperts 1.34 (Stable Release) was released on January 5, 2011.
• All-In-One Code Framework, your one stop shop for Windows code samples, examples and guidelines | Coding4Fun Blog | Channel 9
• How to disable Chrome PDF Viewer in Google Chrome and reenable the Acrobat Reader plugin
• #StackOverflow and Stack Exchange now support Suggested Edits and Edit Review even by anonymous users
• The #reflector licensing debacle
• Handig overzicht: Connectoren & Kabels | Staples Office Centre Infopunt
• Finding a USB RDS TMC Receiver that works on a Windows PC (i.e. not TomTom!)
• Online Backup of All Your Data
• #Mozilla and coincidental conflicting #codenames: #Chromeless, #Prism, #Firebird
• hacken niet nodig: GVB blundert met gratis opladen OV-chip – #AT5 #fail #ovchipkaart
• Doe eens gek: schrijf in spreektaal!
• Twitter / @uɾıʇɹɐW: ROFLOL The United Kingdom …
• Redirecting Routes To Maintain Persistent URLs
• Windows Azure platform 30 day pass – not only for USA people
• Will #Cecil – #Mono be the #reflector successor?
• Visit the Rijksmuseum or van Gogh Museum via het web with full 360 degree view
• BEKIJK DE FILM, en steun hiermee de strijd tegen kanker!
• Quora versus StackExchange – SE wins hands down
• APNIC – Two /8s allocated to APNIC from IANA
• 31 Days – A Month of Style Tips and Tricks
• Twitter / @Erik van Appeldoorn: Reading code is way much h …
• Fox News’ guess on where Egypt is…
• If you have an account on SourceForge.net, then you need to reset your password now
• Windows Dropbox: Clear the cache
• Chrome will never add Find-As-You-Type to the Chromium core
• iPod shuffle (4th generation): Checking battery status
• Delphi dcc64 compiler engineer Yooichi Tagawa now on twitter as YooichiTagawa
• In Memoriam: Marcel Oud
• Fritz!BOX 7340 Firmware-Version 99.04.86 issues
• Formatted sourcecode in WordPress: uses SyntaxHighlighter 3.0; complete list of supported languages
• TVGids.nl trick – verder dan overmorgen
• Wikipedia 10 turns ten – happy anniversary, be sure to donate to Wikipedia today!
• SEO guys taking over Google results: Search Filter and Stackoverflowizer Chrome extension
• Mac OS X v10.6.6 Update
• batch file scripts to get current date and current time in sortable ISO 8601 format
• Lode Runner – the on-line nintendo 8 version
• Bloemencorso Bollenstreek 2011 zonder muziekkorpsen #fail
• my 2010 blog in review
• New years resolution: CHASM64 – More on Delphi x64 by twitter kylix_rd (Allen Bauer)
• SwitchResX helped me switch my Mac machine to 1360×768 and 1888×1062
• iBook store: Apple Published Six Free Electronic Books for Developers
• Great post on “Single Responsibility Principle”: SRP, as easy as 123… | Hadi Hariri’s Blog
• cocoa pointer types: the * is mandatory
• Volgende week woensdag: Hands-On Delphi Developer Workshop (8 december 2010, 08:30-17:00 Jaarbeurs Utrecht)
• Generate XSD from XML – XSD.EXE versus on-line tools
• Streaming your mp3 collection through an Icecast server using ezstream
• NetBIOS Suffixes (16th Character of the NetBIOS Name)
• TFS: moving files using the TF.EXE command-line utility (Team Foundation System)
• A truckload of RDP documentation
• Hardware Will Cut You
• Dropbox Cache – Thats a whole lot of cache! « Dropbox Forums
• Solution for error “13.05.00” fuser jam on HP 9500/9500hdn
• PowerShell: the 2 most common error messages for starters
• Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold – Microsoft Press – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• More on Delphi x64 by twitter kylix_rd (Allen Bauer)
• Updating your Endian FireWall Community Edition appliance
• #vodafone #3G #UMTS transparent http proxy #fail: it breaks the #hyves on-line mail system
• Delphi refactoring bugs – need input
• Some ASX information in order to create a partical XSD schema of it
• Interesting Delphi questions on StackOverflow by Ian Boyd in constructors, methods and directives.
• More Delphi x64 bits – Allen Bauer (kylix_rd) on Twitter
• VMware workstation guestappscache directory with GUID based filenames: they are for Unity support
• SQL Server: some date calculation logic
• Delphi Basics – worth a look!
• Signs of Delphi x64: Allen Bauer (kylix_rd) on Twitter
• On-the-road: XML Viewer
• DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you’ll ever need
• Change your ESXi machine’s network hostname, DNS information (and SSL certificate)
• Twitter / Danny Thorpe: New programmers are drawn …
• SQL Server: obtain ServerProperty values using sqlcmd
• Solution for OLE DB provider connecting to SQL Server giving error “Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done”
• Great new ESXi 4.1 feature: USB Pass Through
• Adest Musica organiseert Play-Inn op zondag 14 november 2010
• WordPress Pages and Page Order
• Windows XP: changing the HAL to support multiple cores (actually: two CPUs)
• .NET/C#: stupid code of the day – Cosmos.Debug.VSDebugEngine
• ENDIAN Firewall – Connected client can access EFW but no other hosts: enable promiscuous mode on VMware ESXi
• Embarcadero moving GoToWebinar/GoToMeeting this month from Live Meeting
• Endian –  Register EFW Community: watch your email addresses
• Performed an VMware ESXi 4.0 to 4.1 Update: 5 minutes of work
• VS2010: “ASP.NET Web Service Application” (and other) projects gone
• RDP: Using Remote Desktop with Dual Monitors | SplitView
• AdBlock – great Google Chrome extension
• TFS: using tf to move files
• co-worker question: what is better, extension methods or helper classes?
• VMware ESXi 4.0 / ESXi 4.1: enable SSH login for non-root users (and only them)
• HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• tempalias – Temporary Email Aliases
• Moving my VMs from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 4.1
• Talking SOAP to your ESXi box: VMware vSphere Web Services SDK
• SQL Server 2008: restoring backup of previous SQL Server version
• the weight of a sheet of A4 paper…
• Humans are the weakest link: HDCP Master Key Confirmed; Blu-Ray Was Cracked, but now you can remove rights management for HDCP sources
• PDF printer drivers
• Dropbox – Why cant I establish a secure connection? –
• SQL Server: alternative to “ALTER TABLE TableName ALTER COLUMN ColumnName DROP DEFAULT”
• Batch file trickery: finding the first file from a list in a certain directory
• Windows filename search replacement: Everything
• Apple on App Store Review Guidelines: relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code
• Flusing the DNS cache
• SQL Server 2008 installation UI #fail Alt-N bound to two UI controls
• Delphi: Use TStrings to parse non-standard separated strings, and validate it with DUnit tests
• SQL Server: Google search tip for MSDN
• Me in infrared
• English Language Difficulties
• Session Buddy – Google Chrome extension gallery
• #SFO airport international terminal A #fail part 3: baggage claim tag got not sticked to boarding pass or passport
• #SFO airport international terminal A #fail part 2: women’s restroom G9:G12 are only partially available
• #SFO airport international terminal A #fail part 1: men’s restroom at G9:G12 are not cleaned often enough
• Batch file tricks – double quotes splitting and downloading latest 7-zip
• KLM online check-in #fail: each combobox enter refreshes page
• batch-file trick: Starting Windows Explorer and selecting a file (“explorer” commandline parameters “/n” “/e” “/select” “/root” “/start” site:microsoft.com)
• Delphi XE and RAD Studio XE got RTM and are available for ordering now
• Script to Restart VMware Tools Remotely | Daily Hypervisor
• ABN AMRO marketing #fail (http://bit.ly/a2nP00)
• WordPress: New Twitter “Tweet Button” for your readers
• Delphi: Optimizing extremely long compile times
• Delphi: Embarcadero RAD Studio Demos are on-line at sourceforge in an SVN respository
• StarTeam 2005 on Windows 2003 Server using MSDE: service dependencies
• Nokia Ovi Suite 2.2.0.241 clears Nokia 6700 classic when updating from v09.70 to v10.50 #fail
• Solution for “Error Code: 0x80246002” on Microsoft Update when installing “Microsoft .NET Framework 4 for Windows Server 2003 x86 (KB982671)”
• SQL Sever: batch files to find instances and sqlcmd.exe/osql.exe
• Speaking at Delphi Live 2010 USA and EKON 14 Germany
• Allen Bauer sheds more light on the goal of the 64-bit support level for Delphi, and the goal of the x64 Delphi and x64 C++ release time frames
• x64 support in ESXi4.1 requires VT, I know that! but why warn so late?
• Veeam FastSCP on ESXi 4.1: “API version on the server does not allow CreateDirectory operation” -> Upgrade to 3.0.3
• TomTom Lifetime Maps/Traffic Subscription: should I do it?
• .NET: the TFS / Visual Studio mix: connecting from VS2008 to TFS2010 and CodePlex
• Quick Access Extension (Visual Studio equivalent of RAD Studio IDE Insight)
• VMware ESXi 4.x: meaning of “Create User: User name or password has an invalid format” error
• RDP to VMware host running an XP guest: Invisible Mouse Cursor on Text Editors
• Veeam Backup and Replication on ESXi 4.1: “Input string was not in a correct format.” -> Upgrade to 4.1.2
• batch-file: Getting current yyyyMMdd date into an environment variable.
• StarTeam UI oddities: creating a new public filter depending on a public query
• Solution for PDF viewing issues in Adobe Reader 9.3.3 / Chrome 5.0.375.99 (There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (107).)
• 10 years of Firebird
• Nick Hodges | The End of the Chow Line
• LinkedIn should send “Notifications for Requests to Join My Group” #fail
• CodePlex: choosing a license
• .NET/C#: a generic exception class
• Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010: ContextSwitchDeadlock was detected Message (via Keith Barrows)
• routes.tomtom.com UI suggestion #fail
• Batch files: Remove a trailing backslash (via Jon Kruger’s Blog » Minor batch file tricks)
• Now where did I hear that “Aurora” codename again?
• Delphi: great post by Malcolm Groves about Debugging Initialization and Finalization sections
• Delphi and the ‘leaving’ of Nick Hodges
• Why digital signatures are weak: VeriSign Revokes Certificate Used to Sign Stuxnet Malware
• SQL Server: conditionally performing a DROP TRIGGER
• Solution: Can’t paste on a web-site with Ctrl-V
• A few updates to: Google Calendar – printing multiple months or weeks to PDF
• SQL Server: SELECT multiple declared variables
• SQL Server 2005 script to restore .BAK file to a database in a specific directory
• RT: JQuery: Novice To Ninja ebook free for 24 hours (or less now, I guess) – DelphiFeeds.com
• 7 screens; 3 computers; 1 keyboard/mouse to direct them all: Input Director
• Windows 7 shortcuts in Vista or XP
• Date Time SQL Queries: Formatting Date Time Values for Access SQL in Delphi
• Hardening WordPress: when 10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks are not enough
• Chrome – report New Issue – chromium
• Delphi interfaces on binary level « The Programming Works
• Alternative PDF viewers
• Bleeding Edge: Vodafone UMTS caused WordPress.com “edit link” to be broken in Google Chrome. #fail
• Original Administrator Account Does Not Appear During Friendly Logon Method
• TFS: Undoing a checkout that belongs to another user – via TFS Version Control and more
• Web 2.0 apps throwing away your user input #fail
• small script to list SQL Server databases and their data/log files
• Google Calendar – printing multiple months or weeks to PDF – URL parameter tips and tricks
• Adding wordpress.com blog as connected site in Google Buzz (thanks Pēteris!)
• SQL Server 2005 setup fails when MSXML Core Services 6.0 Service Pack 2 has already been installed
• Using a USB connected APC UPS with Windows Server 2008 and VMware Server 2.0
• Changing a NIC in a VMware VM from a dynamic MAC into a static MAC address
• Porting old Delphi component packages – things I always forget
• Bleeding Edge: version WordPress.com “edit link” broken in latest Google Chrome stable build – or is Vodafone causing this? #fail
• similarity: the symbols used for completely different products
• view what your system has shared
• Visual Studio 2005/2008 WPF bug: App.xaml not found messages
• xkcd: Appropriate Term
• Long pathname support: Watch for MAX_PATH (was: Windows pathname max length problem « Dropbox Forums)
• Deploying .EXE on a server share when it is in use by workstations (using Handles.exe and for)
• Disable Windows built in ZIP support
• RT: How we test the compiler backend – Visual C++ Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• wget direct download with referer: SpeedFan
• VMware Converter 4.01: “Unable to obtain hardware information” or “Unable to determine Guest Operating System”
• VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client UI: why is the “edit…” on the top right, away from all other actions?
• HDD testing tools from their manufacturers
• Huge Time-Sink ahead: Play Infocom Games Online
• For a good laugh: Modern computer languages are a bit like people in some ways. – from “The Lounge – CodeProject”
• Forgotten Windows 7 feature: Add the Quick Launch Bar to the Taskbar in Windows 7 (via How-To Geek)
• retro: Google Pacman
• TFS folder compare in Visual Studio 2005
• Delete and Remove to Unlock EISA Hidden Recovery or Diagnostic Partition in Vista » My Digital Life
• Bookmarklets: empower your webbrowser
• Example.[com|net|org] Web Page
• #fail: Facebook has changed their mail domain to facebookmail.com
• .NET/C#: comparison is a 101, or isn’t it?
• Happy Towel Day
• “Yoda Conditions” (from: stackoverflow – New programming jargon you coined?)
• Visual Studio 2010: macro to change Target Framework Version for solution (by Scott Dorman)
• Telnet for Windows Vista & Windows 7
• Solution for “Error code: 2147500037” while printing in Windows 7
• Control the VMware VMs from the commandline: vmrun – the successor of vmware-cmd
• ThinkPads beep during certain key combinations – found the cause
• sun Java JRE 1.6.0.20 direct download for Windows
• Duplicate Shortcuts IE8 configuration dialog – Alt-N binds to “No” and “Next”. Are UI designers ever going to learn to be nice to keyboard users?
• Twitter hickup – “older tweets are temporarily unavailable” #fail
• Zondag nog steeds off-line: Nuon | Mijn Nuon is niet beschikbaar van zaterdag 12:00 tot 22:00
• Wie legt De Telegraaf even uit wat “terughoudend” is? #ziekelijkenieuwsgaring #telegraaf #jolandevandergraaf
• .NET – Putting a base in the middle (Eric Lippert – Fabulous Adventures In Coding)
• Windows 7/Vista: How to access Administrative Shares (C$, IPC$, …) via PaulSpoerry.com
• .NET/C# – determining the hardware acceleration support for your WPF apps
• Reading tea leaves – Danny Thorpe
• Why SizeOf for character arrays is evil: stackoverflow question “Why does this code fail in D2010, but not D7?”
• Disk2vhd – new tool from SysInternals
• Windows 7: new shortcut keys (windows hotkeys and more)
• Microsoft: IE9 also favours HTML5 over Flash (IEBlog : HTML5 Video)
• WhiteHouse.gov releases part of their code as Open Source
• Scott Adams Blog: That Lost 4G Phone 04/26/2010
• 10 tips for getting rid of stubborn malware | News | TechRadar UK
• Thoughts on Flash – we should use HTML5, CSS and JavaScript in stead
• SQL Server 2008 R2 got to RTM last week
• TeamViewer beta for Linux is available
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0
• MSDN and TechNet: SharePoint, Office, Visio and Project 2010 RTM are now available
• Let me google that for you
• Vista and up: Remote Desktop (RDP/MSTSC) title bar can be dragged out of the way :-)
• Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 Now Available – Windows 7 Team Blog – The Windows Blog
• Upgrading Visual Studio 2010 RC to RTM
• How to remove Windows (Desktop) Search … revisited | The random utterances of David Arno
• Maximum URL lengths
• Vliegen #Schiphol is weer begonnen
• Simple solution for “VMware Communities: Problem installing vConverter 4.0.1”
• .NET/C# – TEE filter that also runs on Windows (XP) Embedded – update
• Breaking changes in .NET 4.0
• *nix – Mastering the VI editor
• Visual Studio 2010 RTM will be available on MSDN at 10AM PST *today*
• Classic UI mistake – OK/Cancel buttons for a Yes/No question.
• Stopping percentage expansion in a Windows batch file
• .NET/C# – TEE filter that also runs on Windows (XP) Embedded
• .NET Reflector catch-22
• Telnet for Windows Vista & Windows 7 – Leateds.com
• YouTube: Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon in glorious 8 bit Nintendo sound (from: The Lounge – CodeProject)
• Completely disable accelerators feature in IE 8
• New SPAM run faking one of my mailboxes, what do you do with the false “return to sender” messages?
• Non-English error messages…
• Ref: Microsoft Word Help FAQ. How to create heading numbering and outline numbering in Microsoft Word
• Windows Embedded – disable/enable W32Time “Windows Time” service
• End of Support for Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista RTM – Windows Vista Team Blog – The Windows Blog
• Windows 7: getting TomTom HOME and my x7500 and to work together
• From ISS: Amsterdam at night! on Twitpic
• Windows 7 x64 on ThinkPad T61p
• Stars on Google Search (references Official Google Blog: Stars make search more personal)
• Boem is Ho
• Formatted sourcecode in WordPress now supports even more languages
• Web means Unicode
• Windows Vista/7 – solution for multimedia (Flash!) throttles your network: NetworkThrottlingIndex
• Google Chrome just got enriched with 30+thousands scripts (link to “Fire Outfoxed: Greasemonkey Creator Builds Native Support Into Chrome”)
• Delphi – 2010/2009 code-completion changes making life harder..
• gmail harmless error message when editing settings: “Your changes have not been saved. Discard changes?”
• Brilliantly simple webpage: Get URLs
• Validate XML with XSD in .NET and native MSXML – big difference in string maxLength validation with newlines (samples in C# and Delphi)
• 10 Free Add-ons to Extend Google Apps and Make It More Useful
• Delphi – HIGHCHARUNICODE directive (Delphi) – RAD Studio
• Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem? – Smashing Magazine
• My Tips on WordPress.com — Blog — WordPress.com
• 5 Alternatives to Keeping a Fax Machine
• Windows 7 has lots of ‘GodModes’ (exclusive) | Beyond Binary – CNET News
• Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do – Smashing Magazine
• Petzold Book Blog – Dear EarthLink Customer Support
• .NET/C#/ASP.NET – CodeProject: Multi-Threading in ASP.NET. Free source code and programming help
• Delphi – TCustomGrid.InvalidateCol and InvalidateRow bug that has been there since at least Delphi 4^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H 2 and 1
• C# / Delphi – getting the right parameter and function result order for SOAP
• C# – Kirk Evans Blog : Suppress warnings in C# 2.0
• Delphi – Announce: ModelMaker Code Explorer 8.02 beta
• Welcome to Classic Shell: Classic Start Menu and Classic Explorer functions for Windows 7
• Anyone got the Delphi 2010 code formatter to work with anonymous methods?
• For Pre D2007 versions: CodeCentral 24535 Delphi SOAP Runtime and Importer Update
• Delphi 2010 build numbers don’t tell you what you have installed
• Delphi – MD5: the MessageDigest_5 unit has been there since Delphi 2007
• Phone SPAM: Random Digit Dialing
• Fiddler replaying requests to the ASP.NET Development Server: XP works but Vista not, or “when localhost is not 127.0.0.1 in Fiddler 2”
• TIFF preview in GMail now works (was: GMail + TIFF = ? « Scientia potentia est « The Wiert Corner – Jeroen Pluimers’ irregular stream of Wiert stuff)
• Foto’s speciale dienst “Kerk der Friezen” online
• Le Vosgien du Net · Switch between versions of Firebird SQL Server
• Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: How fast is your site?
• InterBase 2007: UPPER and collations (and a trick to specify the character set for string literals)
• Generating EAN-13 barcode EPS files for your article numbers
• GMail + TIFF = ? « Scientia potentia est
• IIS Error 404 2 1260
• XP embedded – .NET Framework 3.0
• Delphi – for … in on enumerated data types
• Delphi operator overloading: table of operators, names, and some notes on usage and ‘glitches’
• Delphi – list of posts about hidden registry entries
• Delphi – finding the VERxxx define for a particular Delphi version: use JEDI.INC
• Delphi – hardcore debugging the intialization of your app, dlls and packages
• Te Waka o Delphi · Absolute for Beginners
• Ancient history – found back one of my earliest email messages dated in februari 1989!
• C# / .NET – setting or clearing the Password Never Expires flag for a user
• Vista SP2 update: error E_FAIL(0x80004005) caused by SYSHIPER 0x80071a91- solved!
• UI design – required combobox field that only has ‘Other’ as a valid selection…
• .NET – getting text/html in stead of text/xml on your SOAP calls?
• Turbo Power projects finally coming alive again? Nick Hodges is now tpsfadmin on SourceForge – DelphiFeeds.com
• Delphi – record and class helpers: an overview of useful links
• SQL Server notes
• Reminder to Self – JavaScript and CSS compression
• Reminder to self: what to do if RDP (MSTSC) or VMware clipboard sharing is broken
• CodeRage 4 session material download locations changed – CodeCentral messed up
• SQL-Server: Triggers fire on multiple records – what to watch for
• .NET/C# – ExceptionCatcher and ExceptionHelper gems
• CodeRage 4: session replays are online too!
• CodeRage 4: session “Using Unicode and Other Encodings in your Programs” video, chat and Q&A transcripts
• CodeRage 4: session “Reliable Communication between Applications with Delphi and ActiveMQ” chat and Q&A transcripts
• Regular expressions and the ASP.NET RegularExpressionValidator control – an overview of useful links
• CodeRage 4: session “Practical XML in Delphi” chat and Q&A transcripts
• CodeRage 4: session materials are available for download« The Wiert Corner – Jeroen Pluimers’ irregular stream of Wiert stuff
• Manually call the “Safely Remove Hardware” dialog — HotSwap! – hot eject and hot insert SATA hard-drives – practical use with ICY BOX 266StUSD « The Wiert Corner – Jeroen Pluimers’ irregular stream of Wiert stuff
• Formatting drives with FAT32 – works well with: HotSwap! – hot eject and hot insert SATA hard-drives – practical use with ICY BOX 266StUSD « The Wiert Corner – Jeroen Pluimers’ irregular stream of Wiert stuff
• CodeRage 4: sessions recorded; Delphi 2010 migration was a beeze; samples/slides will be uploaded soon
• .NET – Delphi Prism – How to generate wrapper classes code from XSD file
• Firebird/InterBase – “unsupported on-disk structure for file …; found 32779.13, support .”
• Camtasia Studio and Snagit available to MCTs FREE – Microsoft Certified Trainers Group: News Discussion | LinkedIn
• Delphi – good article on pointers and memory structures by Rudy Velthuis
• HotSwap! – hot eject and hot insert SATA hard-drives – practical use with ICY BOX 266StUSD
• Foto’s van KatwijnBinse Truckrun 2009
• Answered @ Stackoverflow – on Parsing a record of unknown structure: use classes with published properties and the Delphi streaming mechanism
• Delphi – getting the sourcefile name from a source file with an Assert trick using EAssertionFailed
• Delphi – TInterfacedDataModule revisted – use ‘inherited’ in your .dfm files when your datamodules look like forms in the designer
• Delphi – back in 1996 – CARDS.DLL component wrapper in Delphi 1 and 2!
• Delphi – Using FastMM4 part 3: wrong persistent field type (TSmallIntField or TWordField) when getting IsNull results in memory corruption
• InterBase/Firebird – query to show which fields in your database are not based on a domain
• InterBase/FireBird – querying the system tables to get your actually used field/column types
• Delphi – Using FastMM4 part 2: TDataModule descendants exposing interfaces, or the introduction of a TInterfacedDataModule
• Delphi – FastMM: Using FastMM4 for debugging your memory allocations – part 1: Introduction
• Delphi – backwards compatibility: using {%File to add non-Delphi files to your project in the .dpr
• Delphi – indexed properties
• Delphi – Frames as visual Components – changing your inheritance
• Delphi – Frames as visual Components – don’t forget your Sprig!
• yet another update to TFS 2008 Folder Comparison Filter for both C# and Delphi projects « The Wiert Corner – Jeroen Pluimers’ irregular stream of Wiert stuff
• C#/.NET – GetExecutablePath – borrowed a bit from the Delphi 2006 RTL
• C#/.NET – Small TextBoxTraceListener for quick and dirty tracing in Windows.Forms applications
• Circumventing error 80070006 when running VBS (in this case: DBRESTORE.VBS to backup/restore your Windows XP Embedded Database): wscript versus cscript
• yet another update to TFS 2008 Folder Comparison Filter for both C# and Delphi projects « The Wiert Corner – Jeroen Pluimers’ irregular stream of Wiert stuff
• Batch file for modifying .properties file in JAR Java ARrchive file
• Spoken @ DelphiLive ‘09, May 13-16, San Jose
• Commandlines for shutdown, reboot, logoff, standby and hibernate (from: A standby shortcut? – The PC Guide Discussion Forums)
• spoken @ Delphi Tage 2009 – download is on-line: Delphi power user: speed up your Delphi work
• update to TFS 2008 Folder Comparison Filter for both C# and Delphi projects « The Wiert Corner – Jeroen Pluimers’ irregular stream of Wiert stuff
• Spoken @ DevDays 2009 NL – download is online: .NET & hardware – capture video & control servos, in a fun application
• TFS 2008 Folder Comparison Filter for both C# and Delphi projects
• Edited: Conferences, seminars and other public appearances « The Wiert Corner
• Speaking @ BASTA! 2009 – .NET Everywhere!, September 21-25, 2009, Rheingoldhalle, Mainz, Germany on .NET gems, C#, WPF multi-media and much more.
• Delphi – more for … in support for TComponent.Components using a class helper
• Adest Musica flyer for World Music Contest 2009 entry
• StUF – receiving data from a provider where UTF-8 is in fact ISO-8859
• Delphi – class helper to add for … in support for TComponent.Components / ComponentCount
• Delphi – class helper to get SourceFileName from an EAssertionFailed
• Delphi – Michael Justin had strange floating point results when his 8087 FPU Control Word got hosed
• Delphi / .NET interop – Atozed announced Crosstalk
• StUF – patch download for version 2.04 (patch.bg0204.2009.04.22.zip)
• Dutch municipality ambivalence for stuff er… StUF
• Jeroen turns 40 today :-)
• WordPress – bug in sourcecode shortcode: backslash followed by zero is removed
• .NET/C# – an easier foreach for enums using generic methods
• Answered @ stackoverflow – on virtual constructors called through class references in Delphi
• Delphi – bizarre use of class helpers to circumvent ‘with’
• .NET/C# – Issue with FileStream on network with transfers larger than 64 megabyte
• Performed @ Bloemencorso Bollenstreek 2009 (Flowercorso 2009)
• Conferences, seminars and other public appearances « The Wiert Corner
• Spoken @ Delphi 2009 interactive briefing on April 1st, 2009 (no joke!) on migrating from Delphi 2007 to Delphi 2009, and from Delphi 5 to Delphi 2006/2007
• .NET/C# – obtaining information through WMI
• Who is coming to DelphiLive? « Daniel Magin’s Weblog
• Delphi – finding out the design-time package name of a unit
• Spoken @ CodeRage III, December 1-5, 2008 on Delphi, database and XML related topics
• .NET/C# – converting UTF8 to ASCII (yes, you *can* loose information with this) using System.Text.Encoding
• Including formatted sourcecode in WordPress
• Delphi – adding for … in support to TPageControl
• Colleauges speak @ InterBase PowerDay’s in The Netherlands and Germany
• Speaking @ Microsoft DevDays ’09, May 28-29, The Hague
• Speaking @ DelphiLive ’09, May 13-16, San Jose
• Wiert