More background here: [WayBack] PSA: If you were signed out of your Google account tonight, don’t worry [Update] – 9to5Google
Via: [WayBack] Ah that explains it. – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+
–jeroen
PSA: If you were signed out of your Google account tonight, don’t worry [Update] – 9to5Google
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/24
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“Default” birth days
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/24
A while ago I overheard an HR conversion about birth-date spreads which went into a topic on “default” birthdays being especially common in countries where the exact day of birth didn’t matter much. I got curious, so I dug up some links:
- TIL thousands of afghans share January 1st as their birthday because they don’t know when their real birthday is.
- In Afghanistan, Jan. 1 is everyone’s birthday – The Washington Post
- July 1st : Happy birthday| Kurdish Musings
I remember a very long time ago seeing someones passport with zero as the birthday. Boy I wish I had taken a picture back then.
–jeroen
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SHAttered – stop using SHA-1; it’s broken
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/24
We have broken SHA-1 in practice.
This industry cryptographic hash function standard is used for digital signatures and file integrity verification, and protects a wide spectrum of digital assets, ranging credit card transactions, electronic documents, open-source software repositories and software updates.
It is now practically possible to craft two colliding PDF files and obtain a SHA-1 digital signature on the first PDF file which can also be abused as a valid signature on the second PDF file.
For example, by crafting the two colliding PDF files as two rental agreements with different rent, it is possible to trick someone to create a valid signature for a high-rent contract by having him or her sign a low-rent contract.
- Source: [Archive.is] SHAttered
- Via:
[WayBack] https://shattered.io/ – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
–jeroen
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Delphi sorcery: Generics, modules and typeinfo
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/23
the release of 1.2 is almost there! We are working hard to deliver it shortly after the next Delphi release which will happen … soonish, I think. ;)
The release/1.2 branch has been around for a while – please take a look if you haven’t already. It contains a lot of new features and bugfixes. I will tell you more about some of the amazing features next time which won’t take as long as it took since the last blog post – promise. :)
Apart from a very interesting take on DI resolvers, the above great info too!
Please take a look at spring4d/branch/release/1.2 as it has been very stable for quite some time.
Source: [WayBack]: Delphi sorcery: Generics, modules and typeinfo
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Finally some blog article again ;) – Stefan Glienke – Google+
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Delphi, resource files and includes – some links
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/23
Some links that were useful getting back into using Delphi with resource scripts and include files:
- delphi – Include file behave differently using RC.EXE or BRCC32.EXE to build *.rc files – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
- About Resource Files (Windows) [WayBack]
- #include (Windows) [WayBack]
- Preprocessor Operators (Windows) [WayBack]
- Pragma Directives (Windows) [WayBack]
- BRCC32.EXE, the Resource Compiler – RAD Studio [WayBack]
- null terminate your versioninfo strings [WayBack]
- resources – How to compile Delphi RES file from commandline – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
- Using resource files with Delphi – DelphiBasics [WayBack]
- delphi – Remove {$R *.res} in package.dpk file will remove the rccompile in .dproj file – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
- delphi – What Is a .vrc file, how is is generated and can you remove it using the IDE? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
- TN035: Using Multiple Resource Files and Header Files with Visual C++ [WayBack]
- Resource Files (Visual Studio) [WayBack]
- Include resource files in your Delphi build process Ondrej Kelle – Google+ [WayBack]
- Sometimes a unit only includes a .res file but ships with a .rc file, then you need to run BRCC32 on it (either manually once of build a build script); example: One of my favorite features in the XE IDE is an add in, part of Version Insight, that does Live Blaming … – Nick Hodges – Google+ [WayBack]
Maybe I should have considered this alternative:
- twm’s homepage – dzPrepBuild for Delphi (English) [WayBack] -> sf.net dzPrepBuild for Delphi / Home / Home
–jeroen
PS: a first go on a resource file structure for Version Information is below.
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AllPro Adapter – open source ODBII adapter for car monitoring
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/23
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How Much Does an App Cost: A Massive Review of Pricing and other Budget Considerations – Savvy Apps
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/22
Interesting read that doesn’t hold just for App development: How Much Does an App Cost: A Massive Review of Pricing and other Budget Considerations – Savvy Apps
–jeroen
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Windows 10 – language neutral batch file to start Windows Update
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/22
A while ago, I bitched that Microsoft moved away the Windows Update out of the Control panel into a language depended place (in Windows 10 1511 update broke the Hyper-V networking – Fix network connection issues).
Since then I had to maintain too many locales running Windows 10. So here is the batch file:
for /f "delims=" %%A in ('PowerShell -Command "(Get-Culture).Name"') do explorer "%LocalAppData%\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Indexed\Settings\%%A\AAA_SystemSettings_MusUpdate_UpdateActionButton.settingcontent-ms"
It uses these tricks:
- Set output of a command as a variable (in this case a for loop variable)
- Execute PowerShell script in a .bat file
- PowerShell Get-Culture (which gets a .NET CultureInfo instance)
- CultureInfo.Name property (which has the nl-NL, en-US, etc codes in it)
It replaced this simple batch-file which has worked for like 10 years:
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler wuapp.exe
–jeroen
via: Windows Update Shortcut – Create in Windows 10 – Windows 10 Forums
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Keeping A GitHub Fork Updated
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/21
git fetch upstream
git rebase upstream/master
Source: Keeping A GitHub Fork Updated
For GitHub pull requests, then:
git checkout -b feature-name upstream/master
Source: Git Forks And Upstreams: How-to and a cool tip | Atlassian Git Tutorial
–jeroen
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Delphi and stuff: The strange limitation of 64 threads
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/21
… there’s no need to use WaitForMultipleObjects in Step 2. It’s fairly easy to keep a counter of active threads in the pool (interlocked-incremented when a thread starts, interlocked-decremented when a thread is finished). When the counter reaches zero (no more active threads), signal an event. With only one event to wait for, you can use WaitForSingleObject…
So no more 64-thread (MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS) limits for pools…
Source: Delphi and stuff: The strange limitation of 64 threads
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 