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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/04
Though from Mark Parisi, it’s not on offthemark.com (any more?), but still floats around:
It’s starring Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch. Who doesn’t love the two starring together.
Surely you’ll like Cookie Day – 4th Dec, 2016 | Days Of The Year
–jeroen
via
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/02
I had a few friends ask if they could buy a cheap travel router that protects their internet activity as they travel around the globe. So my criteria:
- Cheap (< USD 20)
- Portable (pocket size)
Source: [WayBack] Make a cheap TOR anonymizer — BYTESEC Labs Inc
via: [WayBack] hmmm – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/02
Edit 20220215/20200713: The original wiring description in this article was wrong, thanks Jules Vape and John Cooper for pointing this out in the comments.
This is the correct wiring according to IEC 60320 – Wikipedia: C13/C14_coupler: File:IEC60320 C13.jpg – Wikipedia (rotated for clarity) and Source: File:IEC60320 C14.jpg – Wikimedia Commons.
Position Lead Left N Neutral Middle ⏚/PE Protective Earth/Ground Right L Live
Facing the C14 male side that has pins:
Position Lead Left L Live Middle ⏚/PE Protective Earth/Ground Right N Neutral
The same information from [WayBack] IEC 60320 (IEC 320) Reference Chart – IEC 60320 Connectors & Plugs | StayOnline:
IEC-60320 Plugs and Connectors Rating Configuration
Female/MaleInternational North America Wires Poles
C13/C14250 Volts
10 Amps125/250 Volts
15 Amps3 Wires 2 Poles
If you wire it, the colours depend on where you live. I live in the Netherlands so this shortened table does apply:
IEC (most of Europe) AC power circuit wiring color codes.
Function Label Color, IEC Color, old IEC Protective earth ⏚/PE green/yellow green/yellow Neutral N blue blue Line, single phase L brown brown or black
Longer tables and infographics are here:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/02
Since they work nice as car lamps, they are quite robust for weather conditions, so they work well as garden lamps too. So we have 69 of them in our deck.
–jeroen
Source: DX 0.5W 12V 56-Lumen 7×3528 SMD LED Car White Light Bulb (Pair) – Free Shipping – DealExtreme
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/01
My experience is that early upgrades are very unstable and they take an eternity to fix bugs, I need to find a way to push myself from the early stage to the late stage.
[WayBack] Adding staged updates to SourceTree | SourceTree Blog
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/01
In a quest to perform SFTP in Delphi next to FTP, I first researched what I was up against. A tiny voice in the back of my head said “SFTP is totally unlike FTP” and it was right: SFTP means SSH File Transfer Protocol, not Simple File Transfer Protocol nor FTP over SSH nor FTP over SSL aka FTPS – the latter is supported by Indy but the former isn’t.
I decided against SecureBlackBox (providing SFTPBlackbox) and IPWorks (SSH) as I tried both a while ago for S/MIME support and was disappointed about both the lack of features and documentation; in the end I went for wrapping OpenSSL for the “encrypt-then-sign” process and Indy for the SSMTP part. The merger of the SecureBlackBox and IPWorks made me even less happy.
The Chilkat alternative for SFTP isn’t too compelling either: ActiveX or DLL black-box without a lot of insight on how many people do use it.
So when I had to do SFTP and knew there are no free or open source SFTP components for Delphi available I opted for thinking outside the Delphi realm.
My basic idea was to embed either of these:
FileZilla internally uses FzSFtp.exe which is based on PSFTP code (but with some buffers making it faster than PSFTP or WinSCP).
According to the author, neither FzSFtp.exe nor FileZilla can be automated:
FileZilla cannot make any automated transfers at all. Neither FileZilla.exe nor fzsftp.exe (is for SFTP) can be used for any batch processing.
Source: run filezilla tzsftp from batch command line – FileZilla Forums
The WinSCP author commented in a similar fashion:
FileZilla does not have any command line arguments (nor any other way) that allow automatic transfer.
Source: windows – Command line option to download file in FileZilla – Stack Overflow
In addition, FileZilla is always a GUI program, so running it as a console app (which I’d prefer) would be impossible.
WinSCP can be automated in two ways:
/console and /script switch enabling scripting mode that you can use for Scripting and Task Automation :: WinSCP
/console switch is implicit)Since I already had good Delphi wrapping code round starting/waiting-for running processes, I’d opt for using WinSCP.com scripting.
There used to be wrapping code around: Use with Delphi :: Support Forum :: WinSCP
These Using PSFTP to transfer files securely links should get me going:
- 6.2.1 General quoting rules for PSFTP commands
- 6.2.2 Wildcards in PSFTP
- 6.2.3 The
opencommand: start a session- 6.2.4 The
quitcommand: end your session- 6.2.5 The
closecommand: close your connection- 6.2.6 The
helpcommand: get quick online help- 6.2.7 The
cdandpwdcommands: changing the remote working directory- 6.2.8 The
lcdandlpwdcommands: changing the local working directory- 6.2.9 The
getcommand: fetch a file from the server- 6.2.10 The
putcommand: send a file to the server- 6.2.11 The
mgetandmputcommands: fetch or send multiple files- 6.2.12 The
regetandreputcommands: resuming file transfers- 6.2.13 The
dircommand: list remote files- 6.2.14 The
chmodcommand: change permissions on remote files- 6.2.15 The
delcommand: delete remote files- 6.2.16 The
mkdircommand: create remote directories- 6.2.17 The
rmdircommand: remove remote directories- 6.2.18 The
mvcommand: move and rename remote files- 6.2.19 The
!command: run a local Windows command
Practical examples:
For my own reference, the open source locations:
During the search above I found the below links that will be useful to me one day:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/01
Thanks Alexey for answering and Horácio for asking:
Use type-cast PResStringRec(@SArgumentNil_NilValue_Collection)
–jeroen
via: Hey guys, When I switch on $TypedAddress Compiler Directive, it is no longer…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/30
Since Uwe Schuster only published a screenshot, I NewOCR-ed it and created the accompanying .dproj file (only because it’s an easy way for the DLL to require the designide package so you can use the DesignIntf and ToolsAPI units.
Uwe only posted these:
Anyway, the sources are at gist.github.com/881d4eacbcec2a9e1e6b0181f900fd7a, but the main source is this:
library DisableAlignPropertyEditor;
{
Originally only as jpg image by Uwe Schuster.
https://web.archive.org/web/20161117154454/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cxaoi-DXEAAMF03.jpg:large
https://web.archive.org/web/20161117154450/https:/twitter.com/UScLE/status/799011392703647744
https://web.archive.org/web/20161117154501/https://plus.google.com/107811538224738992137/posts/hTXUwkCe1TV
}
uses
System.SysUtils,
System.TypInfo,
DesignIntf,
ToolsAPI;
var
LastRegisterPropertyEditorProc: TRegisterPropertyEditorProc = nil;
procedure NewRegisterPropertyEditor(PropertyType: PTypeInfo; ComponentClass: TClass; const PropertyName: string; EditorClass: TPropertyEditorClass);
begin
if Assigned(EditorClass) then
begin
if SameText('TAlignProperty', EditorClass.ClassName) then
Exit;
end;
LastRegisterPropertyEditorProc(PropertyType, ComponentClass, PropertyName, EditorClass);
end;
procedure wizardTerminate;
begin
RegisterPropertyEditorProc := LastRegisterPropertyEditorProc;
end;
function wizardInit(const BorlandIDEServices: IBorlandIDEServices; RegisterProc: TWizardRegisterProc; var Terminate: TWizardTerminateProc): Boolean; stdcall;
begin
LastRegisterPropertyEditorProc := RegisterPropertyEditorProc;
RegisterPropertyEditorProc := NewRegisterPropertyEditor;
Terminate := wizardTerminate;
Result := True;
end;
exports
wizardInit name WizardEntryPoint;
begin
end.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/30
On the reverse engineering of an early Pokemon Go apk, the protocol it uses and some more interesting findings: Unbundling Pokémon Go — Applidium
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/30
For my G+ Link archive:
Can some recommend a good tool to build MSI package?I use Inno Setup but only to build EXE file.Thanks, – Chris Z. – Google+
Source: Can some recommend a good tool to build MSI package? I use Inno Setup but only…
Related:
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