Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/28
Geek pr0n at [WayBack] performance – Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly for testing the Collatz conjecture? – Stack Overflow
Via: [WayBack] Very nice #Geekpr0n “Why is C++ faster than my hand-written assembly code?” The comments are of high quality i… – Jan Wildeboer – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/28
It look likes sourceforge.net/p/radstudiodemos/code/HEAD/tree/branches/RADStudio_Rio is gone (though docwiki has more than a couple 100 mentions of [Archive.is] “radstudiodemos” and [Archive.is] “RADStudio_Rio”), for instance here:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\\Samples).C:\Users\Public\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\20.0\Samples).I have not seen an announcement of this branch disappearing, so I wonder what happened and why.
sourceforge.net/p/radstudiodemos/code/HEAD/tree/branches was a great resource, as it had a consistent history from Delphi XE through 10.2 Tokyo (apparently there used to be 10.3 Rio too) that made it very easy to see the differences in various versions, giving a great indication of new features and differences in products, often before the docwiki got updated to reflect them.
SVN not being centralised, now makes this chain break for Delphi 10.3 Rio, which is quite a pity.
If anyone has the complete SVN history including Delphi 10.3 RIO, please let me know: Delphi 10.3 Rio Update 1 now finally being out likely means many more people start using it as initial issues found in the public have been fleshed out.
It would have been so much more convenient to have for instance a git converted repository keeping all the history and including Delphi 10.3 Rio somewhere.
If anyone has that, I’d be interested in that too. One can dream, right?
I bumped into this via a link pointing to URLs having these fragments in them, which are now invalid:
This means I have to fix some 150 links later: [Archive.is] site:wiert.me “radstudiodemos” – Google Search.
It looks like radstudiodemos.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/radstudiodemos/trunk got replaced with sourceforge.net/p/radstudiodemos/code/HEAD/tree/trunk and https://svn.code.sf.net/p/radstudiodemos/code/trunk, which should give me a head-starting on how to fix the links.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/27
For my link archive: [WayBack] We are searching for some Automation Testing Framework, different from Test Complate… Any ideas? We are trying to select a tool for automating an ap… – Avatarx – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/27
From [WayBack] How do I pass this common property to MSBuild using TeamCity? – Stack Overflow, I learned you can pass properties to msbuild using the /p:propertyname=value or /property:propertyname=value syntax (where you can quote "value" when needed):
I am using the TeamCity Visual Studio runner. I want to add a setting that is not accessible from Visual Studio./Property:FileAlignment=4096I typed that directly into the build step “Command line
However, when passing these parameters to batch files first, be aware that they can strip equals signs from parameters: [WayBack] windows – Preserving “=” (equal) characters in batch file parameters – Stack Overflow
I bumped into this when passing properties to https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/wiert.me/src/tip/Run-Dependend-rsvars-From-Path.bat
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/27
There are six variations; only one can be active at a time:
via: I cannot get MS Office sample automation server wrapper components. Neither of… [WayBack]
More in depth article explaining all the nitty gritty details: There Can Only Be One! Handling Different Versions of Design Packages inside the IDE | The Art of Delphi Programming [WayBack]
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/27
Seems I forgot to push the “publish” button on this 2 years ago (:
Did you know?
10.2 Tokyo has introduced 3 new warnings for Delphi compilers:
Implicit integer cast with potential data loss from ‘<from>’ to ‘<to>’ W1071 IMPLICIT_INTEGER_CAST_LOSSDefault: Off Implicit conversion may lose significant digits from ‘<from>’ to ‘<to>’ W1072 IMPLICIT_CONVERSION_LOSSDefault: Off Combining signed type and unsigned 64-bit type – treated as an unsigned type W1073 COMBINING_SIGNED_UNSIGNED64Default: On
Source: [WayBack] Did you know? 10.2 Tokyo has introduced 3 new warnings for Delphi compilers:…
Comment:
Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: Time to update marc.durdin.net – Delphi XE2’s hidden hints and warnings options | Marc Durdin’s Blog (:+Marc Durdin do you still do Delphi?
they were initially documented in less detail than the above table, and it keeps surprising me that you need to read employee blogs instead of the docwiki to keep current: [WayBack] New Warnings, Illegal Casts, and other Delphi compiler changes in 10.2 Tokyo.
Since then, documentation has improved to this:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/27
[WayBack] GitHub – sdsalyer/gplus-archiver: A tool for exporting content from Google+
Example saves: [WayBack] gplus-archiver
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/26
Interesting thread still: [WayBack] Any opinion on RAD Server vs Node.js/LoopBack vs TMS XData vs other? – Kyle Miller – Google+
Tools mentioned there (not limited to Delphi):
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/26
From a while ago, for my link archive:
[WayBack] I have started to write some documentation on the internal workings of GExperts. For now, it covers only a very small part of the IDE form enhancement… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
Back then, this was done:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/26
Did I ever tell I dislike regular expressions and old-skool shells?
They’re not good for anything but basic commands, so if you try any scripts in them, you’re basically lost.
If you disagree, please read [WayBack] Don’t write Shell scripts. I would recommend Python, but I tried “pip search mysql”…. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+) and [WayBack] How did this shit ever work? by the same author.
On the other hand: on many system, the baseline isn’t much more than a shell and a very limited tool set.
With nx like systems that usually comes down to sed and a shell like bash.
Since I wanted to modify an openssh hardening script to cover more permutations that was using sed in a bash script, I had not much choice but to bite the bullet.
When you use any of the below characters, prepend them with a backslash as they have a bash meaning in addition to a sed meaning.
? becomes \?( becomes \() becomes \)| becomes \|Hopefully by now it’s [Archive.is] been merged into https://github.com/comotion/gone/blob/github/modules/ssh. If not, it’s at https://github.com/jpluimers/gone/blob/jpluimers-ssh-hardening-patch/modules/ssh.
The diff: [Archive.is] https://github.com/jpluimers/gone/commit/329bf12a320704080e68eee90f4c099e92d8388d?diff=unified
The relevant portion (which also uses backslashes as line continuation and wrap a command over multiple lines [WayBack]):
sed -i \ -e 's/#\?MaxAuthTries *[0-9]*.*/MaxAuthTries 2/' \ -e 's/#\?PermitRootLogin *\(yes\|no\).*/PermitRootLogin no/' \ -e 's/#\?UsePrivilegeSeparation *\(yes\|no\|sandbox\).*/UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox/' \ -e 's/#\?StrictModes *\(yes\|no\).*/StrictModes yes/' \ -e 's/#\?IgnoreRhosts *\(yes\|no\).*/IgnoreRhosts yes/' \ -e 's/#\?PermitEmptyPasswords *\(yes\|no\).*/PermitEmptyPasswords no/' \ -e 's/#\?ChallengeResponseAuthentication *\(yes\|no\).*/ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes/' \ -e 's/#\?KerberosAuthentication *\(yes\|no\).*/KerberosAuthentication no/' \ -e 's/#\?GSSAPIAuthentication *\(yes\|no\).*/GSSAPIAuthentication no/' \ -e 's/#\?GatewayPorts *\(yes\|no\).*/GatewayPorts no/' \ -e 's/#\?X11Forwarding *\(yes\|no\).*/X11Forwarding no/' \ -e 's/#\?PrintMotd *\(yes\|no\).*/PrintMotd no/' \ -e 's/#\?PrintLastLog *\(yes\|no\).*/PrintLastLog yes/' \ -e 's/#\?TCPKeepAlive *\(yes\|no\).*/TCPKeepAlive no/' \ -e 's/#\?PermitUserEnvironment *\(yes\|no\).*/PermitUserEnvironment no/' \ -e 's/^\(HostKey .*ssh_host_dsa_key\)/#\1/' \ sshd_config
In case I have to revisit the script again, here are some more links on ssh and hardening from my blog posts:
–jeroen
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