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Infrared ceiling fan and light control repair

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/12

–jeroen

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freegeoip.net – Free IP geolocation HTTP API

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/11

Not sure yet how frequently you can call the Free IP geolocation HTTP API but it’s surely interesting.

Source: freegeoip.net

–jeroen

via: Hi everyoneDoes anyone know how to get the country code for where a device is currently residing… – Chris Pimlott – Google+

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programmers humor – Google image Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/11

An ever varying list of programmer humour images: programmers humor – Google Search.

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The Codeless Code: Ancient code

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/10

something like: 100 PRINT “&F2&B&H3&W2Hello, world!”would select font #2, bold, with triple height and double width, and render “Hello!” on the high-res screen

Source: The Codeless Code: Ancient code – hand coded (on paper) 6502 assembly!

via: 6502 assemblerbeen there, done that – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

–jeroen

Posted in //e, 6502, 6502 Assembly, Apple, Apple ][, Assembly Language, Development, History, Power User | Leave a Comment »

reg files: Deleting Registry Keys and Values

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/10

The registry key deletion example from Microsoft is slightly wrong, as they wrapped the code over three lines:

[
-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test
]

That confuses some people, so here is the correct example:

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test]

The registry value deletion misses the square brackets, so that example should be like this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test]
"TestValue"=-

The original Microsoft article:

Deleting Registry Keys and Values

To delete a registry key with a .reg file, put a hyphen (-) in front of the RegistryPath in the .reg file. For example, to delete the Test subkey from the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software

put a hyphen in front of the following registry key in the .reg file:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test

The following example has a .reg file that can perform this task.

[
-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test
]

To delete a registry value with a .reg file, put a hyphen (-) after the equals sign following the DataItemName in the .reg file. For example, to delete the TestValue registry value from the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test

put a hyphen after the “TestValue”= in the .reg file. The following example has a .reg file that can perform this task.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test

“TestValue”=-

To create the .reg file, use Regedit.exe to export the registry key that you want to delete, and then use Notepad to edit the .reg file and insert the hyphen.

–jeroen

via: How to add, modify, or delete registry subkeys and values by using a .reg file..

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tombh/texttop: A fully interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/09

Wonder if I can get this to work from macOS / OS X as a client:

texttop – A fully interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH

Source: tombh/texttop: A fully interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH

via: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Communications Development, Development, Internet protocol suite, Linux, Power User, Software Development, SSH, TCP | Leave a Comment »

Online CamelCase to underscore_separators converter and back

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/09

Maintaining a suite of project that use CamelCase on the one hand and underscore_separators on the other (partially mapped by code generators) an on-line conversion comes in handy: CCConverter abedo.pl.

–jeroen

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Und noch ein Trick, weiterhin kostenlos an Windows 10 zu kommen | heise online

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/09

Obwohl das Angebot eigentlich am 29. Juli endete, stellt Microsoft selbst das Werkzeug zum Download bereit, das man zum Umwandeln einer Windows-7/8.1-Installation in Windows 10 braucht.

Sources:

Via:

 

 

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Fr0sT-Brutal/awesome-delphi: A curated list of awesome Delphi frameworks, libraries, resources, and shiny things. Inspired by awesome-… stuff.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/08

Fr0sT-Brutal/awesome-delphi: A curated list of awesome Delphi frameworks, libraries, resources, and shiny things. Inspired by awesome-… stuff.

Just read it. It’s great!

If you want it on a one-pager with comments in mouse-over: Delphi by Anton Frost | ZEEF

–jeroen

via: Baoquan Zuo commenting at What do you think is the greatest Delphi freeware/open source plugin/framework of all time? – Nick Hodges – Google+

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Windows Flaw Reveals Microsoft Account Passwords, VPN Credentials

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/08

Attack from the ’90s resurfaces more deadly than before

Source: Windows Flaw Reveals Microsoft Account Passwords, VPN Credentials

TL;DR: block LAN->WAN port 445

Note this won’t affect web-dav shares like \live.sysinternals.com\DavWWWRoot as that uses ports 443 and 80.

–jeroen

via:

Posted in Communications Development, Development, https, Internet protocol suite, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, NTLM, Power User, Security, SMB, TCP, WebDAV, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

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