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Windows 7: you can only change the language for Ultimate and Enterprise editions – not Professional (or home)

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/15

It is hard to find in the Windows MUI Knowledge Center for which Windows 7 editions you can change the language. Only when you carefully read Language Packs in Windows 7, you see a table with “Availability and usage” indicating how you can get language packs. To summarize, Complete language packs are only available for:

  • Ultimate Edition
  • MSDN subscribers
  • Registered OEMs
  • Enterprises
  • Server

Virtually all UI languages are complete language packs as shown in the table under Available Language Packs.

In other words: you cannot change the UI language in Windows 7 professional as this post phrases in a much simpler way:

Unfortunately, the Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Language Packs will only work in Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise editions.

So of all Windows 7 Editions, only Ultimate and Enterprise allow you to change the language.

Bummer, as for all Windows 8 editions (same for 8.1 and up) allow you to change the UI language.

–jeroen

via:

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Douglas Rushkoff: ‘I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether’ | Technology | The Guardian

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/15

The media critic on the malfunctioning tech economy, digital detoxes and why Facebook is unhygenic

Source: Douglas Rushkoff: ‘I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether’ | Technology | The Guardian

via Jan Wildeboer.

 

–jeroen

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Nein? Doch! Oh!

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/14

It has a Web site! http://neindochoh.de/

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Happy birthday Delphi, have some wine

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/14

Now that you’re 21, have a glass of wine and watch this great presentation by Warren Postma which he made for last years birthday:

–jeroen

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Multithreading in C# 5.0 Cookbook – via: Free Learning | PACKT Books

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/13

Multithreading in C# 5.0 Cookbook

Source: Free Learning | PACKT Books

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BLDN: December 2015 XE7/XE8 Update Subscription Update got released 20160211 with backported 10 Seattle fixes

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/13

Seems they got only released just yesterday because of the QA effort taking a long time. But it’s good news for Delphi/Rad Studio/C++-Builder Update Subscription members: some fixes are now back-ported to 2 Delphi versions. Which is a new milestone in support from Embarcadero.

Anyway: BLDN.

Note that the list of fixes is at the bottom of these pages:

Source: RAD Studio Hotfixes for XE8 and XE7 with 10 Seattle fixes

I also found out that I never updated the links for XE8 update 1 downloads (I did the original XE8 links Delphi XE8 is out with version 22.0.19027.8951; Spring4D is almost ready. « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff) so there they are:

–jeroen

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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/13

westernDigital :: WD90 Pascal Microengine :: 80-0130016-00A0 UCSD Pascal III.0 Operating System Reference Manual Jul82 http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/westernDigital/WD90_Pascal_Microengine/80-0130016-00A0_UCSD_Pascal_III.0_Operating_System_Reference_Manual_Jul82.pdf

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Meet the Robin Hood of Science | Big Think

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/12

How one researcher created a pirate bay for science more powerful than even libraries at top universities.

Source: Meet the Robin Hood of Science | Big Think

The first pirate website in the world to open mass and public access to tens of millions research papers

Source: Sci-Hub: removing barriers in the way of science

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Blast from the past Windows 2003 Service Pack 1..2 era hotpatching

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/12

For a short while (from Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 till Windows 2003 service pack 2) some updates used Windows Hotpatching.

Some links on the how/why and how to abuse it:

All because of this little post:

Hier ein Einblick in die Denkweise von Leuten, die Software auf CD-ROM verteilen und bei denen Release Zyklen in Monaten und nicht Minuten gemessen werd… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

–jeroen

 

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Inkscape Bezier Tutorial 1 and 2 – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/12

Interesting Inkscape tutorials:

–jeroen

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