HTTPSWatch tracks the HTTPS support of prominent websites.
Source: HTTPSWatch | Global
Like on the right side.
https isn’t everywhere yet, but growing.
–jeroen
Cool: HTTPSWatch tracks the HTTPS support of prominent websites.
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/23
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How to disable your security questions at “Personal Info – Yahoo Account Settings”
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/23
Steps to disable the security questions in Yahoo:
- Logon at https://login.yahoo.com
- At the top right, click on your name, hover over your name and click “Account Info” to get to Personal Info – Yahoo Account Settings – https://login.yahoo.com/account/personalinfo
- On the left menu, click on “Account Security”.
- Click “Disable security questions”.
Disable security questions – yahoo thinks they’re a bad idea anyway
- In the dialog, click “Yes, secure my account”
- In the next dialog, click “Close”
- Then verify your other security options (like phone/email recovery and two-factor logon) to enhance your security even more.
–jeroen
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Mac OS X – Spotlight not finding many files: force a rescan solved it
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/23
I was looking for some PDF files that I knew for sure were on my SSD but Spotlight would not find them. Looking for more obvious files I noticed Spotlight was returning hardly any files at all: somehow the index was messed up.
Years ago I also had Spotlight issues; then it would find nothing (now it did find some files) which was solved by a reboot: Spotlight refuses to be enabled on Lion: reboot helped.
Screenshot 2016-06-29 12.57.34
Now this was right after a reboot, and because Spotlight did find some files I know Spotlight was turned on (no need for mdutil tricks mentioned in After restoring fresh HDD from Time Machine Backup: No results from Spotlight).
So I dug a bit deeper and decided to try [WayBack] Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac – Apple Support with these steps:
- Search for something that returns few results (in my case Xyzzy)
- Click
Spotlight Preferences... - Go to the
Privacytab - From the
Finder, drag your disk(s) to thePrevent Spotlight from searching these locationslist. - Remove your disk(s) from that lists using the minus (-) button.
- Wait for re-indexing to complete
That worked like a charm to refresh the index: it started indexing again which took about one hour.
After a few minutes though, I found back the 32pfl7404h_12_dfu_nld.pdf I was looking for.
A second time, it had lost the index to iTunes, and found it back in about 2 hours (as the SSD was much more full).
A third time, this trick from [WayBack/Archive.is] Re-Index Spotlight from the Terminal, Re-Gain Valuable Time for Life [OS X Tips] | Cult of Mac worked:
sudo mdutil -E /
This basically re-indexes from the root (/) folder.
I find it easier than the above 6 steps (which are also on [WayBack/Archive.is] Make Spotlight Work Again [OS X Tips] | Cult of Mac).
–jeroen
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Nick Hodges Joins Embarcadero as Product Management Lead
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/23
And the other bomb-shell: Nick Hodges Joins Embarcadero as Product Management Lead
Interesting times in the Delphi community…
And I really wonder if this affects Delphi Developer Days 2016, Nick Hodges & Cary Jensen.
–jeroen
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Smart Home review It’s been a few months since I replaced every switch in the…
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/23
For next year’s home fiddling project and a Somfy RTS hack that is not so expensive/clunky as the Somfy URTSI II.
Michael Aschenborn8:05 AM+5
I use openHAB and tasker as open source center of my home-automation. Use its bindings to knx, zwave, enocean, philipsTV, fritzbox, ifttt and network-pcs to control rollershutter, lights, multimedia, security etc.
It’s not app vs. wall-switches, thats interesting but the situative automatisation.
- a wall switch near my bed to switch off everything in the house
- automated rollershutter-settings if tv is switched on for not to be blinded
- if it’s ringing at the door i can open it from my Moto 360
- wheather-dependent automated control of my blinds saved me 500,- electricity-costs
- led-signaling if any window is opened
- jalousie and light-scenes instead of tons of wall-switches
- sunlight dependent control of decorative lights in the house
- remotecontrollabe per app, partial even per voice (“OK Google, shadow west facade”)
- combination with nfc-tags: to enable a garden powersocket just hold your phone near to it
- batteryless wireless enocean-wall-switches are perfect for kids loft bed or to stick it under the terrace-table
and much much more…
–jeroen
via: Smart Home review It’s been a few months since I replaced every switch in the….
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Just experienced my first #IRC Netsplit
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/22
Just experienced this for the first time: Netsplit – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On Colloquy I had a lot of these:
… left the chat room. (*.net *.split)
Followed a few minutes later by a burst of
… joined the chat room.
–jeroen
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David I becomes an Embarcadero MVP, starts new job at Evans Data Corporation
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/22
Just in case you missed it David I becomes an Embarcadero MVP, starts new job at Evans Data Corporation [WayBack]
via +Stefan Glienke and Evans Data Corporation Welcomes Developer Relations Industry Guru David Intersimone (“David I”) to Their Team – News9.com [WayBack]
Which means there are very few seasoned people left at the Delphi team.
–jeroen
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Flybrix | Flybrix Kits Make Your Own Rebuildable Drones using LEGO® bricks
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/22
Flybrix kits include all you need to make your own rebuildable, crash-friendly drones using LEGO® bricks. For ages 14+. No tools needed, Arduino compatible.
Source: Flybrix | Flybrix Kits Make Your Own Rebuildable Drones using LEGO® bricks
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Jark/FTDISample: Note: As of version 10556.0 the ftdi driver does no longer seem to work. A sample application showcasing the FTDI D2XX driver use in Windows Universal projects (UWP). This sample is tested on the Raspberry PI 2 with Windows IOT installed and a FTDI FT232R usb-to-serial adapter.
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/22
Yeah, I couldn’t get this working either. I’m not sure where ReadTimeout is actually used by the SerialDevice class internally. But I did end up getting something working by copying the timeout to a
Source: c# – Unable to use SerialDevice.ReadTimeout in Windows 10 IoT – Stack Overflow
Source: Raspberry Pi • View topic – Windows 10 IoT Core Simple Serial Example not working
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grep: searching for pipes, optional characters
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/22
For my own reference as RegEx is a write-only language:
Search for pipes means just back-slash escaping them:
grep "\|S\|" products.txt > s-rated-products.txt
Search for optional charactes (in this case searching for both the singular and plural form of a word) can be done by grouping the optional part in parentheses:
grep -i "Movie(s)?" products.txt > movie-products.txt
Search for either OR:
grep -E "foo|bar" products.txt > foo-or-bar-products.txt
egrep "foo|bar" products.txt > foo-or-bar-products.txt
Note that the Borland grep does not support the OR syntax, but egrep does.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 