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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/15
[WayBack] git-extras is awesome: it adds many [WayBack] useful commands to git. Like [WayBack] git ignore and [WayBack] git-info.
For instance, this adds README.md~ to the .gitignore file:
git ignore README.md~
It makes command-line git much more usable, even so much that it lessens the needs of SourceTree and other UIs tools.
You can get it at the GitHub repository [WayBack] tj/git-extras.
Lots of help is at [WayBack] git-extras/Commands.md: it explains all the commands that git-extras adds.
Thanks [WayBack] nifr for posting about git-extras at [WayBack] Is there an ignore command for git like there is for svn? – Stack Overflow.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/14
Initial hack – image via the forums server.
This weekend, the Embarcadero web site was hacked by AnonCoders. Not once (see also [WayBack] G+ link and [WayBack] DelphiPraxis link and [WayBack] image) but at least twice (see also [WayBack] G+ link and [WayBack] image and [WayBack] Delphi Praxis link and [WayBack] image) where the initial hacked simple text “Hacked By AnonCoders ~ Cyber Caliphate” after having been reverted back to the site – hopefully by Embarcadero staff – was replaced with [WayBack] more graphical content later on.
Hack presenting itself in the IDE – image via the forums server.
The Welcome Page inside the Delphi IDE uses the Embarcadero web site, so the Delphi IDE Welcome Page was also affected (see also [WayBack] this G+ link).
Because the IDE uses this on-line content, potentially any code could be executed inside the IDE (apart from that page being loaded over http, so any man-in-the-middle could abuse this, but I digress). This imposes a security risk as many developers run the IDE from accounts having more rights than the average user.
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Posted in Delphi, Delphi 10 Seattle, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Delphi XE8, Development, QC, Software Development | 13 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/14
Resize, shrink, and crop your pictures online for free at [WayBack] PicResize.com. Resize photos before posting them on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumblr, or blog!
Source: [WayBack] Free Online Picture Resizer – Crop and Resize photos, images, or pictures online for FREE!
–jeroen
PS: note there is no TLS available, so https://picresize.com/ fails. I have notified them about that.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/14
As etckeeper wasn’t available in the “normal” OpeenSuSE 13.1 package, I used the steps below to upgrade to 13.2 after reading SDB:System upgrade – openSUSE and How To Upgrade To openSUSE 13.2 From openSUSE 13.1 | Unixmen.
Note I installed inside tmux (to prevent any ssh disconnects from screwing the upgrade process):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/14
TeamViewer Portable (and its cousin TeamViewer QuickSupport) is a great tool for the occasional helping out of friends, but both Portable and QS don’t play well with UAC:
Your partner’s desktop is no longer accessible.
Probably you used a program that requires additional permissions.
Please wait until your partner has granted these permissions.
Many suggest to install the full TeamViewer client, but that is a bit against the point of occasional helping.
A practical solution is much easier: start either Portable or QS with using Run As Administrator once, and it works perfectly fine.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/11
Mac SE/30’s nine-inch screen is ideal for font-wrangling, says dev, 16Mhz 68030 not so much
Wow, back in the days I used Fontographer too, at a client that also used Ikarus, but on even older Mac hardware. But that was early 1990s (:
–jeroen
Source: Motorola-powered Mac from 1989 used to write smartphone apps • The Register
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/11
Floppy Emu « Blondihacks tested this:
Plug-and-play disk emulation for your vintage Macintosh, Apple II, or Lisa! Floppy Emu is a floppy and hard disk emulator for classic Apple computers. It uses a removable SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive. The Emu behaves exactly like a real disk […]
Source: Floppy Emu Disk Emulator | Big Mess o’ Wires
–jeroen
via: This week, solid state storage for your 6502.
Posted in //e, Apple, Apple ][, Classic Macintosh, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/11
Grappig om in een stukje achtergrond te duiken.
Mijn broer woonde vroeger aan de Johan Dixstraat 18. Dat is vlak bij de Nicolaas Damesstraat. Ik werkte voor een klant genaamd Nico Dames. De combinatie wekte mijn interesse.
De buurt rondom die straat is allemaal rondom Kwekers, dus je ziet straten als:
Dan een paar linkjes:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/10
Yay. My first homebrew contribution got merged. [WayBack] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/49928 – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
Source: [WayBack] Yay. My first homebrew contribution got merged.
–jeroen
(somehow this was still stuck in the drafts of my plpost queue)
Posted in Apple, Development, Home brew / homebrew, PlantUML, Power User, Software Development, UML | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/10
Since ESXi is based on busybox, it is using ash a variation of sh (the classic bourne shell) called Almquist shell and most nxes use some form of bash a lot of things won’t work.
For instance, doesn’t support sh –version.
Luckily there are uname -mrs and (more elaborate) vmware -vl to get the version.
Note there is support busybox aliases so alias dir=”ls -laF” works, and you can define aliases for the version information too.
–jeroen
via:
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