Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/15
Some links on the Embarcadero License Center server (formerly known as Belise and Elise) from my contributions to these G+ threads:
When for instance your workstations cannot communicate to the external license servers or you want to run concurrent Delphi/C++-Builder/RAD-Studio instances on your local network, you need to run the Elise licensing server on your network, which requires you to have a server with Java running somewhere.
Despite some of the documentation, it runs on more recent Windows versions too.
Not sure about the money: it’s just that a few clients of mine use it as it makes it easier to manage licenses when you switch contractors or not having various team members only use Delphi part of the time.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/15
To inline code inside reStructuredText embed it with back-ticks and pre-pend the first back-tick with :code:
This is how some text with :code:`a = b + c` embedded will look like.
This is how some text with a = b + c embedded will look like.
Source: Inline code highlighting in reStructuredText – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
The above is in addition to the a = b + c that renders to default code as described for instance by reST – reStructuredText — Sphinx/Rest Memo v1.0-14-ga2798e1 documentation [WayBack]
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/14
Just in case you see UDP port 5678 in the firewall log of your MikroTik device: it’s usage of the MikroTik Neighbor Discovery Protocol (MNDP) [WayBack] protocol.
You can either block Neighbour Discovery [WayBack] in the firewall or turn it off on the MikroTik Services [WayBack] or inspect any of these protocols:
| Proto/Port |
Description |
| 20/tcp |
FTP data connection |
| 21/tcp |
FTP control connection |
| 22/tcp |
Secure Shell (SSH) remote Login protocol |
| 23/tcp |
Telnet protocol |
53/tcp
53/udp |
DNS |
| 67/udp |
Bootstrap protocol or DHCP Server |
| 68/udp |
Bootstrap protocol or DHCP Client |
| 80/tcp |
World Wide Web HTTP |
| 123/udp |
Network Time Protocol ( NTP) |
| 161/udp |
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) |
| 179/tcp |
Border Gateway Protocol ( BGP) |
| 443/tcp |
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encrypted HTTP |
| 500/udp |
Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocol |
520/udp
521/udp |
RIP routing protocol |
| 646/tcp |
LDP transport session |
| 646/udp |
LDP hello protocol |
| 1080/tcp |
SOCKS proxy protocol |
| 1698/udp 1699/udp |
RSVP TE Tunnels |
| 1701/udp |
Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol ( L2TP) |
| 1723/tcp |
Point-To-Point Tunneling Protocol ( PPTP) |
1900/udp
2828/tcp |
Universal Plug and Play ( uPnP) |
| 1966/udp |
MME originator message traffic |
| 1966/tcp |
MME gateway protocol |
| 2000/tcp |
Bandwidth test server |
| 5246,5247/udp |
CAPsMan |
| 5678/udp |
Mikrotik Neighbor Discovery Protocol |
| 6343/tcp |
Default OpenFlow port |
| 8080/tcp |
HTTP Web Proxy |
| 8291/tcp |
Winbox |
| 8728/tcp |
API |
| 8729/tcp |
API-SSL |
| 20561/udp |
MAC winbox |
| /1 |
ICMP |
| /2 |
Multicast | IGMP |
| /4 |
IPIP encapsulation |
| /41 |
IPv6 (encapsulation) |
| /46 |
RSVP TE tunnels |
| /47 |
General Routing Encapsulation (GRE) – used for PPTP and EoIP tunnels |
| /50 |
Encapsulating Security Payload for IPv4 (ESP) |
| /51 |
Authentication Header for IPv4 (AH) |
| /89 |
OSPF routing protocol |
| /103 |
Multicast | PIM |
| /112 |
VRRP |
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/14
On my Mac OS X machine, I got this to work with the 20170731 nightly of VLC 3.0.
[WayBack] How to stream from VLC to Your Chromecast (3.0 Updated Version) – VLC Media Player only explains the steps for Windows and Android, probably because they were the first platforms supported by VLC to render on Chromecast: [WayBack] How to Stream Videos from VLC to Chromecast (Including on Windows, Mac & Android) / [WayBack] How to Stream From VLC to Your Chromecast
To make it easier for end-users, on other platforms the menu entries are different.
- Windows: Menu
Video -> Render
- Mac: Menu
Playback -> Renderer (not Render as shown in some posts)
- Linux: No UI yet.
I found this via [WayBack] Latest VLC 3 Nightly Streams to Chromecast Perfectly! : Chromecast and [WayBack] How do I stream to Chromecast using VLC? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
On Linux, there is the command-line for now (which works on OS X and Windows as well), or if you insist: use MKChromecast as described in [WayBack] How To Cast Video from Ubuntu to a Chromecast – OMG! Ubuntu!. [WayBack]Mkchromecast This is a program to cast your macOS X, or Linux audio to your Google Cast or Sonos devices with sources at https://github.com/muammar/mkchromecast
On Windows and Mac OS X, after choosing the Render, the steps are the same:
- Choose
Render discovery on
- Choose a Chromecast device
- Accept the security certificate for it
Download: [WayBack] https://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/vlc-3.0.0-20170731-0451/vlc-3.0.0-20170731-0451-git.dmg via [WayBack] https://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/vlc-3.0.0-20170731-0451/
I didn’t need [WayBack] https://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/vlc-3.0.0-20170731-0451/vlc-contrib-x86_64-apple-darwin15-20170731.tar.bz2
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/11
Since they require a referer:
wget --referer=http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ -m -np http://download.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_1.20.10.zip
wget --referer=http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ -m -np http://download2.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_enc_1.20.10.zip
The latter has password nirsoft9876$
The filenames change over time (the 2016 archive of http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ shows http://download.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_1.20.5.zip and http://download2.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_enc_1.20.5.zip
Need to check out if I can automate this, as they seem to keep a SysInternals link http://download.nirsoft.net/sysinternals4.nlp
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/11
Anyone having experience with “Pass is the standard unix password manager, a lightweight password manager that uses GPG and Git for Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X.”?
Source: Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/11
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/10
TL;DR of [WayBack] Experiments in Uniform Memory Management – grijjy blog:
the closest we can get to uniform memory management is to use object interfaces
The reason is that cross platform memory management in Delphi is a mess.
Via: [WayBack] Erik van Bilsen – Google+ I share some results of my quest for a uniform memory management model across all platforms. For some reason, it also touches on old-school linked lists and new-school messaging…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/10
As since E1026 is [WayBack] documented as x1026 since Delphi 2007 probably because it can manifest itself as W1026 as well, I thought Delphi Error: E1026 File not found: 'Controls.res' also be related to F1026: When the Delphi XE5 commandline compiler fails with error F1026: File not found: ‘False.dpr’
But it wasn’t.
Then I thought it might have to do with Unit Scope names.
Often an upgrade of a pre-XE2 project where old names of units (like Controls [no WayBack]) were used in stead of Unit Scoped [WayBack] prefixed units (like Vcl.Controls [WayBack]) wrongly makes the Unit Scope Names list in Project > Options > Delphi Compiler empty.
Such an empty list causes the normal mapping of unit name to scoped unit name as described in Unit Names Alphabetical List with Unit Scopes [WayBack] to fail. That results in a F2613 Unit ‘%s’ not found [WayBack] or rarely a F1027 Unit not found ‘%s’ or binary equivalents (%s) (Delphi) [WayBack].
So that wasn’t the cause either.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/10
A great thread about Using BC4 OSX with Version Control Systems, -Tools and IDEs.
Some highlights:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 