Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/10
Ik heb niet alleen prikangst, maar ook onderzoek in ziekenhuizen vind ik eng, dus voorbereiding hierop is voor is belangrijk, want uiteraard ga ik wel (en ben ik de rest van de dag uitgeteld vanwege de propofol).
Deze folders van het LUMC hielpen me de afgelopen dagen met voorbereiding:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/09
Like me, [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp is a nerd.
Unlike me, Kris bumped into character encoding issues for just about all his digital life. That started about the same time as mine, but again unlike me: he was way more involved in the technical aspects of it.
First a series of Tweets:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/08
One of the places explaining a more and more frequent error on Windows 7 installations is [Wayback/Archive.is] “You must provide a value expression on the right-hand side of the ‘-‘ operator.” · Issue #29 · shiftkey/chocolatey-beyondcompare:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/07
A while ago, I got reminded of a few occurrences of Delphi apps hanging after a little less than 2 months of being active.
It does not happen that often, as usually Patch Tuesday requires a reboot, but sometimes it doesn’t, or ops forgot to patch the affected machine.
The common thing for these hanging apps was that they all used the System.Threading unit (introduced in Delphi XE7). That unit relied on [Wayback] TThread.GetTickcount (added in Delphi XE3 in the System.Classes unit) which uses a 32-bit unsigned [Archive.is] cardinal value as it relied on the Windows API [Wayback] GetTickCount function which in turn has this remark:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/06
Lot’s of confusing pictures from [WayBack] foone on Twitter: “whenever I get bored and think my life is going too well, I google “industrial USB-C” and now everything is back to shit…”
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/03
[Archive.is] Sciuridae Hero on Twitter: “How are the X-PhishMe and X-PhishMeTracking headers not part of every mail filtering program out there?! Security Industry Idiocy.”
Kristian Köhntopp made me aware of these headers in [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Nach einer IRC Helpdesk Session: Macht Deine Firma sinnlose “Phishing Trainings”, in denen sie Mitarbeitern Fake-Nachrichten sendet um zu sehen, wer da was anklickt? Weil diese Firmen ihre Existenz rechtfertigen müssen, sind alle diese Nachrichten per X-Header trackbar.”.
More interesting posts on phishing by Kristian: [Archive.is] from:@isotopp phishing – Twitter Search
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/02
Before digging into Wake-on-LAN on Windows machines, I’ll interlude with basically the canonical wakonlan available on many non Windows machines
On Linux and BSD machines, there is the Perl script wakeonlan (steadily at version 0.41) at [Wayback/Archive.is] jpoliv/wakeonlan: Perl script for waking up computers via Wake-On-LAN magic packets (script: [Wayback/Archive.is] wakeonlan/wakeonlan at master · jpoliv/wakeonlan) with this help:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/01
Get the new [Wayback/Archive] Delphi Thread Safety Patterns eBook at a discount while it is hot:
Use Coupon Code: DTSPATT10 at checkout to get a $10 discount.
This promotional offer is valid through June 14.
Posted in Delphi, Development, Encoding, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Mojibake, Multi-Threading / Concurrency, Software Development, UTF-8, Windows-1252 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/31
Voor mijn link archief:
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/30
Just in case I ever need more features than the built-in PDF creator in Windows: PDF24 Creator – Wikipedia
PDF24 is free for commercial use and offers these features that the Windows built-in PDF support lacks:
- Merge multiple PDF into one file
- Rotating, extracting, inserting pages
- Integrated preview for PDF editing
- PDF encryption, decryption and signing
- Change PDF information (author, title, etc.)
- Compress and shrink PDF files
- Add a watermark or stamp a PDF file
- Combine pages with a digital paper
- Convert to and from PDF
- Multiple PDF printers for different purposes since 7.7.0
- Full featured and lightweight PDF reader since version 8.7.0
- Tesseract OCR engine since version 8.8.0
- Blackening of PDF files since version 10.0.0
Via [Wayback/Archive.is] Software-update: doPDF 10.8.127 – Computer – Downloads – Tweakers (which mentions it does not need GhostScript)
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 