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com – Delphi [weak] reference attribute produces “Invalid class typecast” when implementation is in more than one library – Stack Overflow
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Delphi Code Monkey: Delphi Features I Avoid Using And Believe Need to be Gradually Eliminated from Codebases
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/21
Hear, hear! Delphi Code Monkey: Delphi Features I Avoid Using And Believe Need to be Gradually Eliminated from Codebases
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SPAM – Garantiebellen – +31172749040 – ‘Hang op! Klik weg! Bel uw bank!’ – #KVK doe er wat aan!
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/21
Onder het mom van ‘Hang op! Klik weg! Bel uw bank!’:
Ik werd net gebeld door +31172749040 die zich bekend maakten als “Garantie Bellen” en onder het mom van “partner van KPN” je proberen een nieuw abonnement met lagere tarieven aan te smeren.
Hun web-site meldt dat ze in Rotterdam zitten:
Hun algemene voorwaarden echter Utrecht:
Garantie Bellen, Churchilllaan 11, 3527 GV in Utrecht
Op de hele site geen informatie van het handelsregister, dus ze plegen sowieso een economisch delict:
Het niet naleven van de verplichting om het KvK-nummer te vermelden is een economisch delict (art. 1 sub 4 WED). Het is een overtreding die wordt gestraft met hechtenis van ten hoogste zes maanden, taakstraf of een geldboete van de vierde categorie (dat wil zeggen ten hoogste €19.000,-).
Die heb ik inmiddels zelf gevonden: 61233927 met als informatie:
Naam: To the Max Callcenter B.V. Vestigingsadres: Westblaak 142 Vestigingsplaats: 3012KM Rotterdam KvK-nummer: 61233927 Vestigingsnummer: 000030351928 Soort Inschrijving: HoofdvestigingTo the Max Callcenter B.V.Hoofdvestiging
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To the Max Callcenter B.V. | Garantiebellen | Garantie-bellen
Statutaire naam
To the Max Callcenter B.V.
KvK 61233927Vestigingsnr. 000030351928Westblaak 142 3012KMRotterdam
61233927 0000 000030351928 To the Max Callcenter BV. To the Max Callcenter BV, Garantiebellen, Garantie-bellen. Callcenters. …
–jeroen
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Tools to view Blue Screen info and Windows/Application Crash Reports
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/21
These NirSoft tools helped me finding out about some crashes that never made it to the event log:
- Blue screen of death (STOP error) information in dump files.
- WinCrashReport – Displays a report about crashed Windows application
- AppCrashView – View application crashes (.wer files) in Windows 7/Vista
- Get information about Windows software that stopped responding/freezing (hang)
At first I thought my own software development caused them, but In the end they were caused by buggy video drivers.
–jeroen
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Yes Dorothy, the .NET System.Array Class can throw you a NotSupportedException
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/21
It’s been in the System.Array class forever, but remarkably few people do know that it can throw you a NotSupportedException (for instance when calling Add, Insert, Remove, etc).
It does because it implements IList, but not all methods implemented from IList are valid.
And it also indicates that, as the IList Properties allows for IsFixedSize to return false.
A similar case is there for IsReadOnly: then you cannot even modify the values.
Ever since I started teaching .NET/C# classes almost 15 years ago, I warned:
beware when you use IList as not everybody implements all methods.
–jeroen
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Studenten Universiteit Eindhoven ontwikkelen slimme stopcontacten – Beeld en geluid – Nieuws – Tweakers
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/20
Studenten van de Universiteit van Eindhoven hebben een stopcontact ontwikkeld dat bestuurd kan worden met een app en op basis van beweging en tijdschema’s apparaten aan- en uit kan zetten. De Aucasi Socket verschijnt aanstaande zondag op Kickstarter.
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How to downgrade firmware on HP OfficeJet Pro 8610 to allow using old or refilled cartridges – Brozkeff’s lala-land
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/20
via:
- Andrej Kvasnica – Google+ commenting in HP detonates its timebomb: printers stop accepting third party ink en masse – Alan Cox – Google+
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SysInternals sdelete: zero wipe free space is called -z instead of -c
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/20
In the 2009 past, sdelete used the -c parameter to zero wipe clean a hard drive and -z would clean it with a random pattern.
That has changed. Somewhere along the lines, -c and -z has swapped meaning which I didn’t notice.
This resulted in many of my virtual machines image backups were a lot larger than they needed to be.
The reason is that now:
-cdoes a clean free space with a random DoD conformant pattern (which does not compress well)-zwrites zeros in the free space
Incidently, -c is a lot slower than -z as well.
TL;DR: use this command
sdelete -z C:
Where C: is the drive to zero clean the free space.
–jeroen
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Batch files to show the User/System environment variables stored in registry – via: Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/20
I wrote two tiny batch files that would dump the environment variables from the registry.
Various reasons:
- Environment variables can be stored in two contexts: System and User (SET will show them all at once and for instance combine PATH up to 1920 characters).
- Environment variables can be set to auto-expand or not, which you cannot see from a SET command (REG_EXPAND_SZ versus REG_SZ).
show-user-environment-variables.bat:
reg query "HKCU\Environment"
show-system-environment-variables.bat:
reg query "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment"
Filtered results:
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