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Completely Uninstall Skype For Business (aka Lync) – Skype Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/05

I don’t need Skype (aka Lync) on all my VMs, for enough reasons (obnoxiously getting in the way even when not configured, downloading updates even though not used, taking up space, etc).

Removing it through appwiz.cpl is more than just a single step. The reason is that Skype can be part of Office and – despite the updates being called Skype – can be listed as the Lync component in Office.

So the removal is as follows:

  1. Run appwiz.cpl
  2. Select the Microsoft Office version you have installed
  3. Right click, then choose Change
  4. Choose “Add or Remove features” then “Continue”
  5. Choose the dropdown left of “Microsoft Lync” or “Microsoft Office”, then click “Not Available” and click “Continue”
  6. Wait for the removal to proceed, then click “Close”

–jeroen

via: Solved: Completely Uninstall Skype For Business – Skype Community

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So how does a guy like myself get involved in contributing to GExperts?

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/04

Interesting question with some nice hints in the comments there:

[WayBack] So how does a guy like myself get involved in contributing to GExperts?I don’t have a lot a lot of time (or money), but I do have a desire to help. – Joe C. Hecht – Google+

–jeroen

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Use dumpbin to check if a PE file (dll/exe/…) is x64 or x86

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/04

Boy I wish I had known this long ago:

You can use DUMPBIN too. Use the /headers or /all flag and its the first file header listed.

dumpbin /headers cv210.dll

…

‘find’ can make life slightly easier:

dumpbin /headers cv210.dll |find "machine"
        8664 machine (x64)

Mark McDonald

–jeroen

via: c# – How to find if a native DLL file is compiled as x64 or x86? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]

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Warning: mail from Zwijnenberg Logistiek BV contains link to trojan virus malware

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/04

The below email I got is a mean one, as it looks very authentic, but on close inspection:

  1. The company “Zwijnenberg Logistiek BV” does not exist
  2. When downloaded, the linked form contains a trojan virus, but when VirusTotal.com downloads it it does not contain a virus, though by now it is
  3. The address “Demkaweg 376” does not exist
  4. The fields <<Companyname Ltd>>, <<Companyaddress>>, <<CompanyZIP>>, <<Companycity>> are all correct
  5. The contact “Nadia van Sluijs” does not return Google search results

Niewe afspraak voor pakketlevering 5489127

Zwijnenberg Logistiek BV <info@zwijnenberglogistiek.com>
8:15 AM (1 hour ago)
to Pluimers
Zwijnenberg Logistiek BV
Demkaweg 376
3555HW Utrecht		 Telefoon: 030 789126
Email: info@zwijnenberglogistiek.com

Geachte heer / mevrouw,

Op woensdag 3 mei om 11:27 heeft een van onze chauffeurs geprobeerd om een pakket voor <<Companyname Ltd>> af te leveren op het onderstaande adres.

<<Companyname Ltd>>
<<Companyaddress>>
<<CompanyZIP>> <<Companycity>>

Door onbekende redenen is het onze chauffeur niet gelukt om deze bestelling te bezorgen. Wij willen u verzoeken om een nieuwe afspraak te maken om alsnog deze levering te voltooien.

Om een nieuwe afspraak te maken dient u het afsprakenformulier dat automatisch voor u is gegenereerd van onze website te downloaden en in te vullen. U kunt dit formulier vervolgens mailen naar planning@zwijnenberglogistiek.com
Het is tevens mogelijk om de bestelling op een ander adres te laten bezorgen.

Het afsprakenformulier is te vinden op onze website: http://zwijnenberglogistiek.com/formulieren/5489127.doc

Alle benodigde gegevens alsmede de afzeneders en inhoud van het pakket zijn te vinden in het bovenstaande formulier.

Let op! het is alleen mogelijk om een nieuwe afspraak via het afsprakenformulier te maken. Het is niet mogelijk om telefonisch of op een andere manier een nieuwe afspraak te maken.

Met vriendelijke groet,

Nadia van Sluijs

Disclaimer: De informatie in dit bericht, inclusief eventuele bijlage(s), is vertrouwelijk en uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Verstrekking aan en gebruik door anderen dan de geadresseerde is zonder toestemming niet toegestaan.

–jeroen

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Printing from the Atom editor

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/04

Atom is a great editor, but printing from it is still lacking, even though the issue has been opened again.

There is export-html, but it only prints the current source code, not the built-in Markdown Preview or add-on reStructuredText Preview Pandoc packages “Toggle Preview” views.

By name print-atom looks promising, but contrary to the advertised “Print current atom window using print dialog”, it prints the whole Atom UI, which is of no use at all.

The little red icon isn't an adornment. Even though it doesn't look like a button: It's clickable!

The little red icon isn’t an adornment. Even though it doesn’t look like a button: It’s clickable!

Then there is broadcast which at first only worked for me in 1.6.2 but not in 1.7.2. I even removed the whole ~/.atom directory to get it working: to no avail. It finally occurred to me that in the lower right there was a tiny red icon (which was blue in 1.6.2).

Below is the process to fix broadcast, and after that you can live-view from your web browser through http://localhost:8000 either of the rendered source text in the Atom editor, or the Preview pane in the Atom editor.

Even though hardly documented, these are the broadcast settings:

Only enable

Only enable “Broadcast To Others” if you want to access port 8000 from another machine.

Getting broadcast to work again

  • wasn’t caused by changes in the theming between 1.6.2 and 1.7.2 (where lots of colours changed)
  • wasn’t just an adornment: it’s in fact clickable

As soon as you click it you see this in the right pane:

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Dagbesteding bij een zorgprofiel (begeleiding groep)

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/03

Dagbesteding bij een zorgprofiel

26-4-2017

​Heeft u een indicatie van het CIZ voor een zorgprofiel uit de Wet langdurige zorg en heeft u dagbesteding nodig? Dan kunt u zich vanaf 1 mei wenden tot uw zorgkantoor. Dit kan bijvoorbeeld het geval zijn als u eerder in staat was om (beschut) werk uit te voeren en dat nu niet meer kan.

Het zorgkantoor neemt uw aanvraag voor dagbesteding in behandeling en beoordeelt of u hiervoor in aanmerking komt.

Als u al dagbesteding ontvangt vanuit de Wlz, dan hoeft u niks te doen.

Source: [WayBack] Actueel

–jeroen

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[CMake] choose 32bit or 64bit in visual studio

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/03

This might be obvious for CMake regulars, but given the help, I would never have guessed this.

Generate x64:

cmake .. -G"Visual Studio 14 Win64"

Generate x86 is just leaving out the platform away:

cmake .. -G"Visual Studio 14"

In this case they are for Visual Studio 2015 (internally named 14).

The help:

The following generators are available on this platform:
  Visual Studio 14 2015 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2015 project files.
                                 Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "ARM".
  Visual Studio 12 2013 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2013 project files.
                                 Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "ARM".
  Visual Studio 11 2012 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2012 project files.
                                 Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "ARM".
  Visual Studio 10 2010 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2010 project files.
                                 Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "IA64".
  Visual Studio 9 2008 [arch]  = Generates Visual Studio 2008 project files.
                                 Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "IA64".
  Visual Studio 8 2005 [arch]  = Generates Visual Studio 2005 project files.
                                 Optional [arch] can be "Win64".
  Visual Studio 7 .NET 2003    = Deprecated.  Generates Visual Studio .NET
                                 2003 project files.

–jeroen

Adopted from: [CMake] choose 32bit or 64bit in visual studio

Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2002, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2014, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

Lightweight Markup: Markdown, reStructuredText, MediaWiki, AsciiDoc, Org-mode – Hyperpolyglot

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/03

A great table with comparison of various constructs in Lightweight Markup: Markdown, reStructuredText, MediaWiki, AsciiDoc, Org-mode – Hyperpolyglot

It works much better than the examples in Lightweight markup language – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (which does include more languages).

As I’ve switched to “all source – including docs – should be in text format” years ago, I’m a heavy markdown user, but also use reStructuredText, so this table is of great help.

Reminder to self: reStructuredText does not support strikethrough out of the box.

–jeroen

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Windows 10 Creators update and Delphi debugging don’t go well…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/02

Not sure what the cause and effect are, but various people are having issues running Delphi versions on Windows 10 Creators update. Debugging takes an exceptional long time to load the debuggee.

According to Marco Cantu, it is not limited to Delphi:

“It looks like a change in libraries code relocation, and it affects all debuggers — not just ours.”

A roll-back does make them work again but … there is only a very limited time frame to roll back from Windows 10 Creators update (think days, not weeks).

So for now: if you use Delphi do not install the Windows 10 Creators update unless you:

  • can revert back to a full system backup
  • can roll back in time

Examples:

The the last link cannot be archived, not is publicly accessible, I’ve quoted some parts:

The debugger goes haywire for everyone in our organization with Creators and Tokyo/Berlin. Reverting to Windows Anniversary brings back the sanity.

Debugger problems with Tokyo/Berlin and Creators:

  • App takes a long time to load with modules loading and unloading and re-loading many times
  • IDE freezes
  • Memory consumption of bds.exe explodes, sometimes (> 3GB)

I will attached before and after screenshots showing how modules load and unload and re-load with Windows 10 Creators.

I presume these problems have the same root cause(s) than those in https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?messageID=884382

Note that Microsoft is still fledging out issues in Windows 10 Creators Upgrade despite pushing it to more and more Windows 10 machines: [WayBack] Windows 10 Creators Update rollout: First phase update – Windows Experience BlogWindows Experience Blog

–jeroen

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Oops! Something Bad Happened – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/02

Each time you hit an error URL, you get a different picture.

They are cool!

Source: Oops! Something Bad Happened – Stack Overflow

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