Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/10
something like: 100 PRINT “&F2&B&H3&W2Hello, world!”would select font #2, bold, with triple height and double width, and render “Hello!” on the high-res screen
Source: The Codeless Code: Ancient code – hand coded (on paper) 6502 assembly!
via: 6502 assemblerbeen there, done that – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/10
The registry key deletion example from Microsoft is slightly wrong, as they wrapped the code over three lines:
[
-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test
]
That confuses some people, so here is the correct example:
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test]
The registry value deletion misses the square brackets, so that example should be like this:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test]
"TestValue"=-
The original Microsoft article:
Deleting Registry Keys and Values
To delete a registry key with a .reg file, put a hyphen (-) in front of the RegistryPath in the .reg file. For example, to delete the
Testsubkey from the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Softwareput a hyphen in front of the following registry key in the .reg file:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\TestThe following example has a .reg file that can perform this task.
[
-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test
]To delete a registry value with a .reg file, put a hyphen (-) after the equals sign following the
DataItemNamein the .reg file. For example, to delete theTestValueregistry value from the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Testput a hyphen after the “TestValue”= in the .reg file. The following example has a .reg file that can perform this task.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test“TestValue”=-
To create the .reg file, use Regedit.exe to export the registry key that you want to delete, and then use Notepad to edit the .reg file and insert the hyphen.
–jeroen
via: How to add, modify, or delete registry subkeys and values by using a .reg file..
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/09
Wonder if I can get this to work from macOS / OS X as a client:
texttop – A fully interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH
Source: tombh/texttop: A fully interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH
via: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/09
Maintaining a suite of project that use CamelCase on the one hand and underscore_separators on the other (partially mapped by code generators) an on-line conversion comes in handy: CCConverter abedo.pl.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/08
Just read it. It’s great!
If you want it on a one-pager with comments in mouse-over: Delphi by Anton Frost | ZEEF
–jeroen
via: Baoquan Zuo commenting at What do you think is the greatest Delphi freeware/open source plugin/framework of all time? – Nick Hodges – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/08
Attack from the ’90s resurfaces more deadly than before
Source: Windows Flaw Reveals Microsoft Account Passwords, VPN Credentials
TL;DR: block LAN->WAN port 445
Note this won’t affect web-dav shares like \live.sysinternals.com\DavWWWRoot as that uses ports 443 and 80.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/05
Cool:
// config/db.js
module.exports = {
url : 'mongodb://localhost/acquisition'
}
Source: break-a-skypebot.js
–jeroen
via:
| // config/db.js | |
| module.exports = { | |
| url : 'mongodb://localhost/acquisition' | |
| } |
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/05
This has been bothering me a while and gets worse over time.
According to: Microsoft just changed its toy gun emoji to a real pistol:
Looks like Microsoft and Apple may not be on the same page about firearm emojis afterall. Right after Apple changed its gun emoji to a water pistol in iOS 10, Microsoft replaced its toy pistol emoji with an actual revolver.
…
While Apple and Microsoft have gone back to edit their symbols, Google continues to use a pistol in Android keyboards and doesn’t appear to have plans to change this. None of the companies in question have adjusted their knife, sword, bomb, poison and coffin emojis, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
When vendors start prescribing how emojis must look like (influenced by all sorts of emotions) without the user allowing to choose (via a font – that’s what fonts are for!) how they look then it invalidates the whole Unicode principle:
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world’s writing systems.
These emoji aren’t text and should be gone from the Unicode standard before they can do more harm.
Will the next step be that vendors define their own colours for certain characters in fonts? For Windows Times New Roman A becomes red, B green, C yellow, but in Courier New we’ll permute these colours and all Operating Systems and Versions will do different random colour choices.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/05
Kev:
Try the command line tool expand.
expand -t 4 input >output
And for those systems that don’t use the GNU Core Utilities, you have a decent chance of expand being installed since it is standardized by The Open Group’s Single Unix Specification. See Issue 6, which is from 2001, though some updates were applied, hence the year of publication being 2004: expand
–jeroen
via bash – How can I convert tabs to spaces in every file of a directory? – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/03
Repeated because it is the most important aspect of software development.
automating everything
–jeroen
via: Can we automate everything? | CommitStrip – Blog relating the daily life of web agencies developers.
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