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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/03
When you start with a blank registry comparison, then you need to compare keys copied from RegEdit with reg:\
For instance, when fixing [WayBack] Delphi fails to start after Windows did some “Program Compatibility Assistant” magic to it when BDS.exe crashed because the compiler ran out of memory:… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+ I compared these:
reg:\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS
reg:\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\JeroenProfile
Via: [WayBack] Specs
Note: Beyond compare registry settings are in:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 4HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Scooter Software\Beyond CompareHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 4HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Scooter Software\Beyond CompareHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 4
—jeroen Not sure where the CacheID entry under HKCU (and sometimes HKLM) is for.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/03
Somewhere after Yosemite, braindead Mac OS X forcibly maps “Ctrl+Click” to right-click. In past versions, you could disable but those days have gone.
This means that inside Windows on VMware Fusion, you cannot add/remove items to/from a selection any more (for instance in the Windows Explorer).
Various workarounds turned up in my Google Search, but only this one works:
Holding down CTRL + OPTION together and LEFT CLICKING will do this.
Source: [WayBack] vmware fusion – How to use the control key in VM Ware? – Super User
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/02
The diff engine in PlasticSCM is nice in appearance, but it lacks a lot of features for file types that Beyond Compare handles out of the box.
For instance, .RES files cannot be diffed:
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Error
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Unsupported file types for binary diff. Only images are supported (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP)
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OK
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/31
There are [WayBack] 7 ways to lock your MacBook – CNET: When it comes to locking your Mac, you have options.
For now I’ve added the below alias to my ~/.bash_profile which only works if you have “require a password immediately after sleep or screensaver begins”. I have that enabled (with a 5 second delay, not immediate so that when I’m behind my laptop and it starts the screensaver I can still move the mouse or touch a key to keep it awake).
alias sleep-display='pmset displaysleepnow'
See:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/30
I needed all .dproj files in all subdirectories, but only their filenames without any directory names.
With directory names, this is easy:
dir /s /b *.dproj
The answers at [WayBack] windows – How to list all files in directory/subdirectory without path name CMD? – Stack Overflow give the below kind of output.
[WayBack] forfiles embeds all filenames within quotes:
forfiles /m *.dproj /s
"Foo.dproj"
"Bar.dproj"
A more convoluted [WayBack] for loop gives them without quotes where n stands for name and x for extension including .:
for /r %a in (*.dproj) do @echo %~nxa
Foo.dproj
Bar.dproj
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/30
Back in the days, Apple and The Beatles were in a heated fight as Apple was not supposed to do anything resembling music in their systems.
So when sounds needed to be made, they could not be named by words having to do with music.
The legal team in Apple – known for lack of humor – was scrutinizing sources and documents on names that would be inappropriate.
Jim Reekes came up with letitbeep for one of the warning sounds, but that was too obvious, so he said sosumi, pretended it to be a Japanese word and named the sound just like that.
I learned from it through one of the RetroMacCast videos below. Then I found the page Sosumi – Wikipedia. So I guess I’ll be never to old to learn (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/27
Later on, I might add a USB31000S in the mix, but I will do some initial testing with USB 3 gigabit ethernet adapters based on Realtek RTL8153 and Asix AX88179 chips.
Things I will focus on with my Retina MacBook Pro 2015 model are:
- CPU usage
- Throughput
- Duration between reconnect on USB after suspend, and renewing the DHCP lease
- Promiscuous mode capabilities
Some links for my references:
A first impression from the above links is that for Realtek chipset based devices, drivers are more readily included in operating systems, and these chipsets are better at VLAN handling.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/27
This worked for Windows 8.1 as well: Trying fix for Windows 8 high CPU usage of TiWorker.exe (via: bit-tech.net) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff
DISM /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
After more than one hour of running, it:
- freed up more than a gigabyte of disk space. Which on an SSD based VM is a lot.
- solved the huge memory footprint of TiWorker.exe on the right.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/27
For all you SysAdmin’s: happy SysAdmin Day | System Administrator Appreciation Day.
For all others: please show some appreciation for your SysAdmins today. They are the ones keeping your business running. The less visible they are, the better they do their work.
Gifts are always welcome with them, but you can also appreciate SysAdmins by trying this:
And for the SysAdmins: have a laugh:
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