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CompuServe’s forums, which still exist, are finally shutting down on 20171215

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/20

An era ends: [Archive.is] CompuServe’s forums, which still exist, are finally shutting down

Before there was a World Wide Web, a sizable chunk of all meaningful conversation between computer users happened in the forums at CompuServe, which was the dominant online service until AOL came along. There was a CompuServe forum for everything from PC hardware to comic books, the signal-to-noise ratio was generally high, and … they if you … will be removed from what remains of CompuServe on December 15.

Via: Roy Nelson on Facebook

I remember spending a truckload of money on 100013,1443. Heck: it was the reason for getting a credit card in the first place!

–jeroen

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Some notes on “The WordPress bookmarklet was deprecated. Please delete it from your web browser.” because the `/wp-admin/press-this.php` based URLs look very similar.

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/17

Some notes on “The WordPress bookmarklet was deprecated. Please delete it from your web browser.” because the /wp-admin/press-this.php based URLs look very similar because of this:

–jeroen

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OS X El Capitan: Open an app from an unidentified developer

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/17

The first trick works for WinBox 3.7 on Mac [download], the second doesn’t.

First trick:

To override your security settings and open the app anyway:

  1. In the Finder, locate the app you want to open.

    Don’t use Launchpad to do this. Launchpad doesn’t allow you to access the shortcut menu.

  2. Press the Control key and click the app icon, then choose Open from the shortcut menu.

  3. Click Open.

    The app is saved as an exception to your security settings, and you can open it in the future by double-clicking it just as you can any registered app.

Second trick:

Note:   Another way to grant an exception for a blocked app is to click the “Open Anyway” button on the Security pane of System Preferences. This button is available for about an hour after you try to open the app.

To open this pane, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Security & Privacy.

Both from [WayBack] OS X El Capitan: Open an app from an unidentified developer

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Power User | Leave a Comment »

github – Open Atom editor from command line – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/17

I have the Atom editor and was wondering how you can open a file or folder from the terminal in Atom. I am using a Mac. I am looking for a way to do this: atom . (opens folder) atom file.js (

The answer to it isn’t any good any more (since then, Atom has evolved), but this comment works splendid:

I solved the issue by choosing “Install Shell Commands” under the “Atom” menu.

It will add a script in /usr/local/bin/atom that starts Atom with the parameters you entered.

Thanks [WayBack] rxgx!

[WayBack] github – Open Atom editor from command line – Stack Overflow

–jeroen

PS: Reminder to self to add a screenshot.

Posted in Apple, atom editor, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, macOS 10.12 Sierra, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Power User, Text Editors | Leave a Comment »

Hi! how to hide a property in object inspector? i have my custom components …

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/16

For my link archive:

Some quotes

–jeroen

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DNS BIND9 acl clause – they *can* be nested

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/16

One of the use cases of DNS acl I needed involved having some data to be duplicated across acl.

So I was looking at some way to de-duplicate and found out the term for that is nesting which the bind acl allow.

–jeroen

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Happy 60th birthday, Fortran

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/15

I remember a FORTRAN IV (or was it 66?) course during my chemistry studies at the end of the 1980s. Luckily, the VAX/VMS version (not sure which one, it ran on a VAX 11/750) where we had to program on came with an extended FORTRAN 77 compiler even supporting 132 columns and other nice features.

My favourite program was about an algorithm to assemble 3 tables (one relating atom numbers and their valencies, a second with atom-atom distances, a third with 3-D atom positions) into a chemical compound indicating any rings. I implemented my own recursion with stacks citing a Dire Straits song with “and when you finally reappear, at the place where you came in…”.

Later I ported this to a PC reviewing the Microsoft FORTRAN 5.1 compiler for the Dutch PCM (Personal Computer Magazine). Recently I learned Lahey had a big role in the Fortran.NET compiler.

This year FORTRAN turned 60 years old and it is still in used, though not as heavily as a few decades ago.

The Fortran compiler, introduced in April 1957, was the first optimizing compiler, and it paved the way for many technical computing applications over the years. What Cobol did for business computing, Fortran did for scientific computing. Fortran may be approaching retirement age, but that doesn’t mean it’s about to stop working. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the first Fortran (then styled “FORTRAN,” for “FORmula TRANslation”) release.

Source: [WayBack] Happy 60th birthday, Fortran.

Via [Archive.is] Happy 60th birthday, Fortran – ThisIsWhyICode – Google+

Historic references:

–jeroen

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FastMM4 + Delphi – Recompiling application with 10.2.1 causes memory leaks?

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/15

This is why you should always test your Delphi apps with FastMM4 and FullDebugMode enabled: [WayBack] Delphi – Recompiling application with 10.2.1 causes memory leaks?

A workaround is to add the below code in either of these places:

  • end of your .dpr file right before the end.
  • in the finalization section of a new unit

CheckSynchronize();

It calls the [WayBack] System.Classes.CheckSynchronize method to ensure the background thread performs the needed cleanup.

Thanks Stefan Glienke for solving this.

–jeroen

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immediate “Too many authentication failures” – check your authentication methods

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/15

If you ever ssh into something and immediately get the immediate Too many authentication failures message, then you’ve probably mixed your authentication methods.

Follow the steps in [WayBack] ssh – Too many authentication failures for username – Super User (thanks [WayBack] John T and [WayBack] Ben West).

First check out whats wrong by slowly increasing the number of -v parameters to make output more verbose:

ssh -v
ssh -v -v
ssh -v -v -v

Then try to find out which authentication method fails: usually it’s a private key that’s wrong.

I’ve had success in various cases where I screwed up with these ssh parameters:

-o PubkeyAuthentication=no
-i some_id_rsa -o IdentitiesOnly=yes

–jeroen

 

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Changing a commit message – User Documentation

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/15

When you haven’t pushed yet, git rebase --interactive HEAD~# where # is the number of commits to view is your friend: [WayBack] Changing a commit message – User Documentation.

At the first screen, replace aa with reword then change the commit message for each commit and copy the message.

Then in each following screen, if you changed the commit message for that commit, change it there as well.

Similar answers are at [WayBack] git – How to modify existing, unpushed commits? – Stack Overflow

–jeroen

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