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Cleaning out gmail large attachments

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/27

I figured that both gmail and photos take up the largest parts of my Google storage, so I did some cleaning.

You can figure out which part of your Google storage is used by email using https://www.google.com/settings/storage

Still people send huge BMP screenshots to me (probably Microsoft will never learn that pasting clipboard screenshots can be done just as well using PNG format?), so I started searching for mails with large attachments that GMail introduced a while ago:

older_than:1y size:10m

This will include mails of 10 megabyte and larger (so size is a minimum size, not an exact size) that are older than one year.

Then I deleted irrelevant mails notifying the people they should have converted their BMP files to PNG as they take up lots of space on their end as well.

Then storage didn’t decrease, as the messages were still in the trash:

in:trash

Luckily from there, you can empty the trash from there.

–jeroen

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optional Windows Update “Synaptics driver update for Synaptics Composite USB HID Device” breaks some UltraNav USB keyboards

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/27

About a year ago, I ran into the optional Windows Update “Synaptics driver update for Synaptics Composite USB HID Device”.

It basically breaks the UltraNav/TrackPoint functionality of some USB keyboards like my 31P9304 USB TrackPoint keyboard (also known as SK-8835)

I bumped into this on another system as well, so I was glad I found this on an asian site: 联想ThinkPad|ThinkCentre|ThinkStation服务与驱动下载常见问题.

Below is the English translation of which the most important is the workaround: Install the Windows Vista driver from the Lenovo support page.
http://www.lenovo.com/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-66917

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Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, ThinkPad, UltraNav keyboards | Leave a Comment »

Local Guides Hidden Hotspots Amsterdam

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/24

Add your Hidden Summer Hotspot in Amsterdam and share with other Local Guides. Where to find that small theatre, that cosy restaurant or that hidden museum in remote streets? Created live during the Amsterdam Hotspot Party by Local Guides in the city.

Source: Local Guides Hidden Hotspots Amsterdam

Short: http://g.co/hiddenAmsterdam

–jeroen

Posted in Google, GoogleMaps, LifeHacker, Local Guides, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Embarcadero closing down their Spanish office

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/24

Embarcadero closes down their spanish R&D office putting some 80 people on the street and diminishing the total Delphi R&D team.

Former Chief Scientist Allen Bauer commented:

The Spain office had taken on most of the IDE, Delphi RTL, GetIT, Installer, some DB, Bluetooth components, IoT, QA, and other miscellaneous tasks. They were by-far the largest single group working on RAD Studio. They were all a wonderful, dedicated, excited group of folks. They were eager to learn and truly enjoyed their jobs. I am deeply saddened by this development.

Source: [WayBack] Very bad news!

Related: [WayBack] Embarcadero Discussion Forums: Bad news for Delphi? …

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 10.1 Berlin (BigBen), Development, Software Development | 31 Comments »

Hypercube Lego Server with Supermicro motherboard inside… via TinkerTry IT @ Home

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/24

It’s cool. Bring enough money (:

How cool is that Hypercube Lego Server, featuring the powerful Xeon D-1540 on tiny and familiar Supermicro X10SDV-F motherboard | TinkerTry IT @ Home

–jeroen

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Dell Dimension 9200 Updated to 8GB. – General Hardware – Desktop – Dell Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/24

From old stock, I still had a few of these machines and gave them away maxed out at 8 GB with a Windows x64 installation and SSD.

You need 4 of these: 2GB DDR2 PC2-5300 @ 667Mhz non-ECC non-registered memory DIMM. Faster DIMMs work too. Registered DIMMs don’t work.

–jeroen

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JavaScript is not Java – A humorous comparison of JavaScript and Java.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/23

Yesterday I told:

Recently I did my very first JavaScript in HTML development. Since it was a one page experiment, I didn’t want to put it in an official repository of it’s own…

which reminded me of JavaScript is not Java – A humorous comparison of JavaScript and Java.

And still lots of uneducated people think they are the same, for instance the NBC Chicago publishes this at the start of the year:

Java Developer; What they do: Program websites using JavaScript.

Java Developer; What they do: Program websites using JavaScript.

They fixed it later but then the harm was already done (besides making a lot of fun of themselves and others making fun out of them too):

Java Developer; What they do: Write programs used by mobile devices, websites and mainframes.

Source: Report Reveals 10 Most In-Demand Jobs in Chicago for 2016 | NBC Chicago

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Java, Java Platform, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Some notes on tfpt.exe from Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (2010/2013/2015) Power Tools extension

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/23

Some links.

First tfpt:

Old name: Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools.

Then witAdmin:

With API:

 

–jeroen

via: Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools extension.

Links to past posts about tfpt:

Posted in .NET, Development, Power User, PowerToys, Software Development, Source Code Management, TFS (Team Foundation System), Visual Studio and tools, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Woof – simply exchange files – one-time sharing of a file over http

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/22

Woof is a small simple stupid webserver that can easily be invoked on a single file. Your partner can access the file with tools he trusts (e.g. wget). No need to enter passwords on keyboards where you don’t know about keyboard sniffers, no need to start a huge lot of infrastructure, just do a

$ woof filenameand

tell the recipient the URL woof spits out. When he got that file, woof will quit and everything is done.And when someone wants to send you a file, woof has a switch to offer itself, so he can get woof and offer a file to you. …

Woof needs Python on a unix’ish operating system. Some people have used it successfully on Windows within the cygwin environment.

Source: Woof – simply exchange files

Works from homebrew on OS X.

via: Web Offer One File – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

Source: Web Offer One File

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, BSD, Home brew / homebrew, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Hosting an HTML gist containing JavaScript

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/22

The

The “embed” dropdown allows to get URLs for sharing and git cloning.

Recently I did my very first JavaScript in HTML development. Since it was a one page experiment, I didn’t want to put it in an official repository of it’s own.

I will explain about the content in a future post, but first about getting it on-line as a HTML file that can run JavaScript.

This is the hosted page: Work around G+ “403. That’s an error.” errors.

Gists are the base

Gists are pretty amazing. They have history, syntax highlighting (which you can embed on your own page, see Using Github as a Syntax Highlighter for Your Blog or Website), can show an overview of files or even raw content. This holds for public and secret gists.

The history of all the files comes from a repository: in fact all gists are in fact git repositories of which you can get the URL (be it https or ssh) is under the “Embed” dropdown: see the screenshot on the right.

So the gist itself is available under these URLs:

The individual files can either be viewed as syntax highlighted (when they’re small enough, not binary and github knows how to highlight them), or as raw files:

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Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, gist, git, GitHub, rawgit, Source Code Management | 2 Comments »

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