Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/12
Ideal to prevent unwanted screen savers: MouseJiggle.exe
–jeroen
via: Mouse Jiggler – Documentation.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/08
When doing a lot of remote desktop and VM work from a Mac to Windows machines, the Mission Control shortcuts (like Ctrl Up/Down) often get in the way.
Since I hardly use Mission Control anyway (I run VMs and remote machines to really cut dependencies: far stronger than multiple desktops), I just disabled all the Mission Control keyboard shortcuts you see here:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/21
If you ever wondered why how in Windows – as of Vista – the NCIS (network connection status indicator) determines if you have a valid internet connection, it is pretty simple, as both these pages explain:
NCIS depends on the msftncis.com domain (link to the checks from IntoDNS) and is for supporting Network Awareness in applications.
The probing is done in this order: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/10
(note: part of this post is unfinished, but I wanted to make sure all the links are publicly accessible, so I posted earlier and incomplete)
I already did a few ESXi5 postings (they apply to 5.1 as well) of which the most important are:
Time to finish up some additional installation steps (with a big thanks to Matthijs ter Woord):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/17
Sometimes I get messages like the below No Disk error on virtual machines, mainly in Windows XP and lower, but sometimes in more recent Windows versions too.
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Windows - No Disk
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Exception Processing Message c0000013 Parameters 75b6bf7c 4 75b6bf7c 75b6bf7c
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Cancel Try Again Continue
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The 0xc0000013 is a No Disk Exception.
Every time the solution has been to uninstall the floppy drive device from the VM image.
I never had it on physical hardware, but for that, disabling all unused removable and USB disk devices seem to work.
Somehow, lots of software thinks it should scan ALL media, even the removable ones that might not have media inserted.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/08
Lucida Console Sample (thanks Wikimedia!)
I’m in search to see if there is a better programmers font than the monospaced Lucida Console mainly to be used in Visual Studio, Delphi, the Windows console, Xcode and Eclipse. What I love about Lucida Console design is the relatively large x-height combined with a small leading (often called “line height”). This combines very readable text, and a lot of code lines in view. Lucida has two small drawbacks, see the second image at the right:
But, since the font hasn’t been updated for a very long time, lots of Unicode code points that are now in current fonts, are missing from Lucida Console (unless you buy the [Wayback] most recent version that has 666 characters from Fonts.com) Well, there are dozens of monospaced fonts around, so I wonder: which ones do you like? In the mean while, I’m going to do some experimenting with fonts mentioned in these lists:
A few fonts I’m considering (I only want scalable fonts, so raster .fon files are out):
I have tried Adobe Source Code Pro about half a year ago. That didn’t cut it: problem with italics in Delphi, and not enough lines per screen. [Wayback] New Open Source monospaced font from Adobe: Source Code Pro.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/26
Found a while ago that Brian Long wrote a few nice pages and posts on Windows keyboard shortcuts:
Thanks Brian
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/19
Associates a path with a drive letter and extends the standard SUBST command allowing to create persistent substituted drives between startups.
It is the “maintained” version of scripts like these:
–jeroen
via: psubst – Persistent SUBST command – Google Project Hosting.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/05
Interesting answer on SO, not only for developers:
You can check out the wavesurfer program:
WaveSurfer is an Open Source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. It has been designed to suit both novice and advanced users. WaveSurfer has a simple and logical user interface that provides functionality in an intuitive way and which can be adapted to different tasks. It can be used as a stand-alone tool for a wide range of tasks in speech research and education. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription. WaveSurfer can also serve as a platform for more advanced/specialized applications. This is accomplished either through extending the WaveSurfer application with new custom plug-ins or by embedding WaveSurfer visualization components in other applications.
It can perform many different types of analysis, I have only used it for practicing Chinese tone pronunciation.
Thanks hlovdal!
–jeroen
via delphi – component or code for wave analyzer – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/01
Need to research this if it works for both FTP and HTTP: How can I mount an FTP to a drive letter in windows? – Server Fault.
–jeroen
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