Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/05
Unlike most applications where F3 is search next, Office has their own thought about keyboard shortcuts.
So in Word for Windows, you can use these:
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/01
Thanks Primož Gabrijelčič for reminding me on Stack Overflow that Alt + Down opens the dialogs behind ellipsis buttons in the Delphi IDE.
It’s the CUA and Windows short-cut to open drop-down lists (comboboxes) and for opening drop-down list for a property in the object inspector, but I never realised also would work for these ellipsis buttons.
This was my original stack-overflow question: Is there a keyboard shortcut for the ellipsis buttons of the Project Options in the Delphi IDE?
The Project Options in the Delphi IDE has a few option (like the
Search Path) each with an ellipsis button (the one on the right having only three dots...in the image below) to pop-up a dialog.What keyboard shortcut activates that button?
–jeroen
Via: Object Inspector Keyboard Shortcuts – RAD Studio
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/29
Sometimes RDP limits you to 2048 pixels vertical (or 4096 pixels horizontal)
Just found out why on some Windows versions, the RDP sessions form my 4K monitor has some small black bands on top/bottom: older versions of Windows limit their RDP server to 4096 x 2048.
A 4K monitor will not hit the width limit (as 4K cheats: it is usually “just” 3840 pixels wide), but it does hit the height limitation (2160 is slightly more than 2048: you miss 112 pixels that show as two small black bands).
A 5K monitor is worse: it will hit both limits (5K does not cheat: at 5120 × 2880 it is exactly 5*1024 pixels wide) so you miss 124 pixels horizontally and a whopping 832 pixels vertically.
Don’t buy a 5K monitor yet if you do a lot of RDP work to older Windows versions.
The link below has a table listing various Windows versions, but it omits end-of-life versions so I’ve done some testing: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 share the same limitations as Windows Server 2008 most likely because their latest service packs share the same RDP 6.1 version.
I updated this in the table:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/19
The original http://juniper.cluepon.net/index.php/Olive is gone, but the WayBack machine sitll has it: Olive – Juniper Clue
It describes how to install JUNOS on x86/x64 (or emulated) hardware.
–jeroen
via: Can I learn Juniper? : networking
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/01
With en empty Group Name you get this:
No Group Name means no connection
The bad thing is: the Fritz!Box will not tell you this in any of the logs.
So don’t forget to set the Group Name to be the same as the Account Name in the ….:
Always enter the Group Name in the Authentication Settings
Then you can successfully connect:
VPN connection succeeded!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/24
Interesting read: De veelbelovende warboel van usb-c – Achtergrond – Tweakers.
This Dutch article explains about the clusterfuck of USB standards and why USB-C cables in the end might be a good thing.
Watch your cables!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/19
There is a little trick to disable “Known IDE Packages”: you can stop Delphi from loading one by either making “Value data” of the registry blank, or prepending it with an underscore:
packages that might have been disabled, by checking any string entries where the data has been pre-pended with an underscore OR is blank
[WayBack] Access violation at address 00000000 read of address 00000000, when starting the IDE or opening a project after installing the updates
I’ve pre-pended underscores to some packages in the registry key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland|Codegear|Embarcadero\BDS|Delphi\#.0\Known IDE Packages] and intend to keep the list below updated over time.
Note that you have to prepend the description with an underscore: it is not sufficient to add these to
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland|Codegear|Embarcadero\BDS\#.0\Disabled Packages].Empirically, the
Disabled Packagesseem to work only for packages starting withdclin their filename.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/18
Windows has the built-in ability to function as VPN server, although this option is hidden. This trick works on both Windows 7 and Windows 8. The server uses the point-to-point tunneling protocol (PPTP.)
Source: How to Create a VPN Server on Your Windows Computer Without Installing Any Software
One day this might come in handy though I need to investigate a bit more on PPTP security issues first: might need to go for L2TP/IPsec instead.
Later: indeed, I should follow Don’t use PPTP, and don’t use IPSEC-PSK either (via: CloudCracker blog)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/27
About a year ago, I ran into the optional Windows Update “Synaptics driver update for Synaptics Composite USB HID Device”.
It basically breaks the UltraNav/TrackPoint functionality of some USB keyboards like my 31P9304 USB TrackPoint keyboard (also known as SK-8835)
I bumped into this on another system as well, so I was glad I found this on an asian site: 联想ThinkPad|ThinkCentre|ThinkStation服务与驱动下载常见问题.
Below is the English translation of which the most important is the workaround: Install the Windows Vista driver from the Lenovo support page.
http://www.lenovo.com/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-66917
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/24
From old stock, I still had a few of these machines and gave them away maxed out at 8 GB with a Windows x64 installation and SSD.
You need 4 of these: 2GB DDR2 PC2-5300 @ 667Mhz non-ECC non-registered memory DIMM. Faster DIMMs work too. Registered DIMMs don’t work.
–jeroen
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