Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/26
A while ago, StackOverflow user Kobus Smit did some brilliant editorial work that – due to current state of StackOverflow – sort of fired backwards: his question got marked as duplicate before he could post his excellent answer. After that answer was posted, the oh-so pride SO-demi gods never took any energy to revisit to see which answers were best.
His simple question:
How can my Delphi app easily write to the Windows Event Log?What is the difference between TEventLogger and ReportEvent? How do I use the ReportEvent function?
Which somehow should be encompassed by this Delphi 5 question (apparently that 15+ year old Delphi version is still considered current by the SO demi-gods).
The answer summarises and extends existing answers spread out over StackOverflow and adds an EventLog git repository wrapping the ReportEvent and RegisterEventSource (which somehow is always a pain: Delphi services for instance often forget that).
Lesson learned when doing editorial work:
- prepare both the answer and question in markdown off-line
- ensure you mention in the question that the answer is meant as collection of “best of” answers found elsewhere
- post the question and answer in rapid succession
- cross your fingers for the StackOverflow demi-gods being in a good mood
–jeroen
via: Writing to the Windows Event Log using Delphi – Stack Overflow
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/26
Every methodology has their own. I like the ones in the picture, of which the teacher obviously didn’t get them at all. Maybe because COP 3331 is about Object Oriented Design?
- Denial
- Bargaining
- Anger
- Depression
- Acceptance
Sounds familiar?
–jeroen
via: Name and describe the five key phases of software development….
COP 3331
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/25
PowerShell 4.0 is madly in love with “English (United States)”
A long time ago I started writing up my blog post like this in March 2015 when I bumped into this the first time when upgrading from PowerShell 2 to PowerShell 4:
It seems there is no real workaround:
Good and not so good news: after reading the below linked posts, this is what works:
- PowerShell 4 and up works fine with any [Wayback] Lucida Console size (including 12) and boldness
- only when the “Language for non-Unicode programs” is set to “English (United States)”.
- PowerShell 4 works fine with [Wayback] Consolas on any size and boldness
- for any “Language for non-Unicode programs”
So if you’re like me and switch between “Dutch (Netherlands)” and “English (Ireland)” a lot (both use the EURO as currency, but have distinct enough other locale settings to cover a lot of European stuff) then you need to get used to the Consolas font.
Source:
Edit 20210930: a possible solution
I need to fire up some old systems having PowerShell v3 or v4 on them to test the below possible solution.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in CommandLine, Development, Font, Lucida Console, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/25
Interesting:
just for completeness:
testssl.sh is a nice, console-based tool to check ssl-setups of any ssl/ts – enabled servers, in oposite to ssllabs
It helped me solving this:
Host: http://www.beginend.net
Reason: error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure
Within the testssl.sh directory, you can use this to test with many cyphers:
OPENSSL=./openssl-bins/openssl-1.0.2-chacha.pm/openssl32-1.0.2pm-krb5.chacha+poly ./testssl.sh www.example.com
–jeroen
via
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/24
Interesting read: De veelbelovende warboel van usb-c – Achtergrond – Tweakers.
This Dutch article explains about the clusterfuck of USB standards and why USB-C cables in the end might be a good thing.
Watch your cables!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/22
One of the things I figured out with Windows 7 and up is that when logging in over RDP an existing user would be disconnected unlike Windows XP that would logoff the existing user.
If you want them to logoff there are basically two options:
I will dig into the scripts one day as I’ve not needed this too often (I use Task Manager for now).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/22
In case I bump into vSphere/ESXi machines that have hyper threading (HT) enabled:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/21
On the research list: TIdSchedulerOfThreadPool (now that TIdThreadMgrPool is gone).
Need to manage the lifetime of these as I don’t want the threads to live forever, but also don’t want to make the instantiation cost too high.
Most likely I want to wait for them to finish as well upon process exit, so this might be worth a look as well:
–jeroen
Source: delphi – Building Multi threaded TCP/IP Server – Stack Overflow
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/21
Most developers I speak to have trapped into a case of copy/pasting some source code containing quotation marks from documentation or post immediately failing on curly quotes like left double quotation marks (“) and right double quotation marks (”) that should have been regular double quotation marks (").
I’ve tried to search for a way to automate the replacement process to “ASCII quotation marks”, but not found an on-line engine yet. The best I could find was this post: java – Replacing unicode punctuation with ASCII approximations – Stack Overflow.
Note it’s not only the auto-correct of office applications. For instance “blog engines” like WordPress do that too, unless you add a code or pre around them:
- code:
"blog engines"
- pre:
"blog engines"
Very irritating, but apparently nowadays beauty trumps accuracy.
–jeroen
via: xampp – Apache Prefixing Path to Virtual Hosts Path – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/20
Reader edxwelch writes:
Reddit user sammiesdog discovered recently that Visual Studio 2015 C++ compiler was inserting calls to a Microsoft telemetry function into binaries. “I compiled a simple program with only main(). When looking at the compiled binary in IDA, I see a call fortelemetry_main_invoke_trigger and telemetry_main_return_trigger. I cannot find documentation for these calls, either on the web or in the options page,” he wrote. Only after the discovery did Steve Carroll, the dev manager for Visual C++ admit to the “feature” and posted a workaround to remove it.
A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the existence of this behavior to InfoQ, adding that the company wil be removing it in a future preview build. For those who wish to get rid of it, the blog writes:
Users who have a copy of VS2015 Update 2 and wish to turn off the telemetry functionality currently being compiled into their code should add notelemetry.obj to their linker command line.
Quoted in full as I’m baffled.
Source: Visual Studio 2015 C++ Compiler Secretly Inserts Telemetry Code Into Binaries – Slashdot
via: Dear developers, I thought you should know. Yours, privacy. http://m.slashdot.org/story/312289 – Jan Wildeboer – Google+
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 