Basically it parses the XML output into something manageable.
Via Matthijs ter Woord.
–jeroen
KirillOsenkov/MSBuildStructuredLog: A logger for MSBuild that records a structured representation of executed targets, tasks, property and item values
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/31
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Working around “[dcc32 Fatal Error] F2084 Internal Error: DBG3133” or “[dcc32 Fatal Error] F2084 Internal Error: MA1243
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/30
Since Google has a hard time searching G+: [WayBack] Anyone ever encountered a “[dcc32 Fatal Error] F2084 Internal Error: DBG3133″… – G+ – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers:
Anyone ever encountered a
[dcc32 Fatal Error] F2084 Internal Error: DBG3133in XE8 or newer?I get it in XE8 version 22.0.19908.869 intermittently on a huge* project when compiling or building.
If it occurs, I have to:
- restart the IDE
- delete all DCU files
- build
Without deleting the DCU files, even a build throws the error after restarting the IDE.
The project never throws an AV while compiling as described in [WayBack] QC #127380: F2084 Internal error AV0B8A47D2-R3E1D3CF8-0 when compiling project unless the IDE runs out of memory (which I now resolved with DDevExtensions).
Every now and then on compile it also throws
[dcc32 Fatal Error] F2084 Internal Error: MA1243.
For the other error, the same solution applies: if you don’t, then the next one is a [dcc32 Fatal Error] F2084 Internal Error: DBG3133.
Both errors occur during the Linking stage.
–jeroen
*huge as in that I needed DDevExtensions to work around [WayBack] Is there any tool that clears the Delphi memory overhead when a “build all” switches to the next project in a project group? XE8 constantly runs out of memory… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
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MiloszKrajewski/LibZ: the alternative to ILMerge (Resolve instead of merge assemblies)
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/30
ILMerge has all sorts of drawbacks with things like XAML, WPF, NHibernate, dynamically loaded assemblies and reflection.
Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #2 from CLR via C#, Third Edition | Microsoft Press blog has an interesting approach based on adding a callback to the AppDomain’s ResolveAssembly event with some steps so you can embed assemblies as resources which you then – unlike ILmerge- dynamically resolve.
Those steps require a bit of manual labour which is taken away by MiloszKrajewski/LibZ: LibZ, the alternative to ILMerge.
The repository on github even compresses your assembly resources.
–jeroen
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I have found a secret tunnel that runs underneath the phone companies and emerges in paradise / Boing Boing
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/29
The upshot? For $500, Calyx will send you a little wifi hotspot with a Sprint SIM in it that comes with a year’s worth unlimited, anonymous, unshaped, unfiltered 4G/LTE bandwidth on Sprint’s network. Unlimited as in, I downloaded 60GB with mine and it didn’t break a sweat.
Source: I have found a secret tunnel that runs underneath the phone companies and emerges in paradise / Boing Boing [WayBack]
via: +Joe Hecht
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Google Drive stuck forever on “One Moment Please” during initial login on Windows Server based systems.
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/29
Basically the Google Drive sign-in user interface is a wrapper around Internet Explorer.
If you have tight Internet Option settings, then your sign-in can fail without telling you why:
There is a older list of exceptions to add to the Internet Options Application Development: sign in to google drive … stuck in one moment please, but since Google has moved quite a few domains around (they now for instance use 1e100.net for part of the traffic).
The easiest way is to get the URLs right is to play back what Google Drive sign-in does from within Internet Explorer. These are the steps:
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What’s got a vast attack surface and runs on Linux? Windows Defender, of course • The Register
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26
Penguinistas, rejoice: Tavis Ormandy lets you fuzz Windows
Cool, as they now can fuzz Windows Defender and have Microsoft make it better so all Windows 8+ users can profit from it.
Source: [WayBack] What’s got a vast attack surface and runs on Linux? Windows Defender, of course • The Register
Repository: https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary
Via: [WayBack] WAT? – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+
–jeroen
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17 years ago, C:\nul\nul crashed/BSOD Windows; now $MFT does for Windows < 10
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26
Source:
History repeating itself: [Archive.is] 31607 – C:\nul\nul crashes/BSOD then, now it’s this:
- [WayBack] A bug in NTFS, or hang the entire system / Blog Aladdin RD / Habrahabr
- [WayBack] Баг в NTFS, или как подвесить всю систему / Блог компании Аладдин Р.Д. / Хабрахабр
- [WayBack] In a throwback to the ’90s, NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7, 8.1 | Ars Technica UK
- [WayBack] NTFS bug allows any website to crash Windows 7, 8.1
Via:
- [WayBack] NTFS bug allows any website to crash Windows 7, 8.1Users of older versions of Windows aren’t having the best time of it lately. Last week it was disco… – BetaNews – Google+
- [WayBack] Writing solid code is really hard these days … – Lars Fosdal – Google+
All versions prior to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 seem vulnerable.
So add $MFT to this list:
The following device names have been known to render a system unstable: CON, NUL, AUX, PRN, CLOCK$, COMx, LPT1, and CONFIG$.
Oh BTW: history repeated itself this year too. With NUL
In short, Steven Sheldon created a rust package named nul which broke the complete package manager on Windows:
- [WayBack] How I Broke Rust’s Package Manager for All Windows Users – sasheldon.com
- [WayBack] I Broke Rusts Package Manager for Windows Users | Hacker News
- [WayBack] I think a crate called ‘nul’ is causing errors for cargo (windows).
- [WayBack] @bstrie: @sheldonut Hi Steven, Rust team here :) We’re having some technical difficulties with the name of one of your crates… feel free to DM
- [WayBack] Null character – Wikipedia
- [WayBack] IRC Logs for #rust-internals | BotBot.me [o__o] – 2017-04-30 – 84953638 – page 4
- [WayBack] List of software package management systems – Wikipedia: Application-level package managers
- [WayBack] I think the name of this project causes issues for windows users. · Issue #1 · SSheldon/nul
- When cargo updates its crates.io registry, it creates a file for each crate, no extension, just the name.The name
nulis not a valid name in windows 10, so cargo fails to update the registry, and then aborts whatever it was doing (building, searching, ect.).I think this project should be re-published to crates.io under a new name, something likenull-stringsperhaps?
- When cargo updates its crates.io registry, it creates a file for each crate, no extension, just the name.The name
- [WayBack] Fresh install unable to install anything · Issue #3982 · rust-lang/cargo
- Here is what I see with verbose. I get this trying to install clippy or rustfmt. I assume I would get it with other crates.Updating registry
https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index
error: [20/-1] Cannot checkout to invalid path ‘3/n/nul’
- Here is what I see with verbose. I get this trying to install clippy or rustfmt. I assume I would get it with other crates.Updating registry
- [WayBack] IRC Logs for #rust | BotBot.me [o__o] – 2017-04-30 – msg 84953614 – page=19
- [WayBack] What’s the deal with those reserved filenames like NUL and CON? – The Old New Thing
- The solution: [WayBack] Reserve windows crate names. by withoutboats · Pull Request #695 · rust-lang/crates.io
- [WayBack] @withoutboats boats ✨ on Twitter: “I thought Rust was supposed to prevent nul errors! ;-)”
BTW: one of my gripes on learning new languages is that they come with a whole new idiom of their ecosystem: rust, cargo, crates, all sound like being a truck mechanic to me.
–jeroen
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Google DNS, Open DNS or your ISP DNS servers?
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26
There are various arguments for using Google DNS (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4) or Open DNS servers or not. A few are listed here:
- How can I choose between using my ISP’s DNS, or Google’s 8.8.8.8? – Server Fault
- Why using Google DNS / OpenDNS is a bad idea – APC
It basically comes down to two things:
- DNS speed
- CDN speed (Contend Delivery Network providers like CloudFlare, Akamai, etc)
If your DNS server isn’t close to you, it might select a CDN server that is far from you. If you rely on CDN, then you need to weight in that factor.
This is how I decide:
- devices not needing CDN: use Google DNS or Open DNS
- devices needing CDN: use Namebench to pick fast DNS servers that are nearby based on Namebench reports with “Recommended configuration (fastest + nearest)”
–jeroen
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Forceer DigiD om SMS bij inloggen te gebruiken
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26
Zonder SMS is het vrij makkelijk om iemand anders zijn DigiD te gebruiken.
Met SMS is dat een stuk moeilijker.
Het forceren van SMS bij inloggen kan via https://mijn.digid.nl/inloggen_voorkeur
Je moet EERST inloggen op https://mijn.digid.nl/, en daarna naar https://mijn.digid.nl/inloggen_voorkeur gaan (DigiD is niet slim genoeg om na het inloggen daarheen terug te gaan).
Kies daar deze optie:
- Midden, ik wil inloggen met een extra controle via sms, ook wanneer Basis vereist is
Via: [WayBack] 90 procent van DigiD-gebruikers gebruikt dienst zonder sms-authenticatie -update – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers
–jeroen
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Github reStructuredText parser got less strict so it now does display parts it cannot fully render
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/25
As the pull request had been in the pipeline for almost 2 years, I missed it went through:
- pull request [Archive.is] Display unknown restructuredText directives by pmaupin · Pull Request #516 · github/markup
- issues fixed
Before that, Github would not render parts of reStructuredText files at all it could not fully render them. Now it renders them as raw reStructuredText so at least you can see the content.
Examples:
- [Archive.is] https://github.com/berkerpeksag/astor/blob/master/docs/index.rst where for instance you will see the plain
.. function:: code_to_ast(codeobj)
- Compare the different rendering of these two engines on the same file:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 