Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/17
In addition to the 1.5 year old Android Device Manager option to find your phone as of yesterday you can now also perform aFind My Phone from Google Search.
So you can now use these URLs to find your phone (or tablet):
For both you need to be logged in, so if you have 2-factor login requiring your phone, you’re out of luck (;
And it works only for Android, but does not work on Android (at least not on my KitKat powered phone).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/17
Though the Dell Inspiron 17R 5737 Owner’s Manual contains instructions on pages 24-26, it was easier to see how to access it on the photos at
Review Dell Inspiron 17R-5737 Notebook – NotebookCheck.net Reviews.
Steps (see also the pictures below):
– remove the battery
– remove the wide bottom plate
– remove the three screws of the hard drive (there are 4 holes, but only 3 screws, saves half a cent per laptop)
– pull the tab gets the metal bracket with the hard drive out of the laptop.
Now you can unscrew the hard drive from the bracket, and replace it with a new one or an SSD drive.
Removing the battery
Removing the wide bottom plate.
Remove the three screws of the hard-drive.
Pull the tab to remove the hard drive.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/16
Interesting, especially the reasoning behind them:
UrlEcho permits the requestor to completely define the response it wants to receive, thus giving it the ability to “host” static HTTP resources within URLs themselves. Why is this cool/useful? #
- You don’t need a Web server to host a simple resource — you just construct a URL and you’re set to go.
- Since resources are cheap to create and throw away, you can create as many URLs as you want, when you want them.
- This is especially useful for testing — you don’t want to configure many server-side resources to return hard-coded responses in order to test correct handling of that response. For example, imagine you need many simple iframes to test a JavaScript library, and you don’t want to modify the server hosting the iframes each time you add or change tests. Since you already know what the responses will be, why not define them in the requests and have a simpler testing process? It makes tests easier to maintain no need to modify the server and understand due to response visibility in the tests.
UrlEcho [ed: UrlReq] lets the requestor to wrap any HTTP request any method, with headers and body into a simple GET request with only an URL defined. Why is this cool/useful? #
- You can make any HTTP request in situations where only a simple GET is possible, or where you can only define just the URL. For example, most systems that provide Web hook callbacks only let you define the callback URL only not the method, headers or body structure.
–jeroen
via: Experimenting with HTTP services – UrlEcho and UrlReq.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/15
Summary of the dark side:
Every app we tested saved the image in a grayscale JPEG format. Simply put, you scan your document, save it in “space saving” monochrome, then the app up-samples it to a now “space wasting” grayscale format, dials in a low quality lossy compression ratio to make you think you are saving space, and thereby throws away some of the pixels in your scan.
A very interesting read by Joe Hecht. Nothing new for old FAX, TIFF and PDF farts like me. Entertaining and hopefully teaching for the newer generations of software developers.
So if you ever do PDFs of paper scans:
–jeroen
via Mobile Scanning Apps: A look Into The Dark Side By: Joe C. Hecht – Code4Sale,….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/15
{$IF defined(MSWINDOWS) and not defined(NEXTGEN)} – XE8 first impressions Installed RadStudio XE8 (Pro) last night and these are….EConversionError ‘Internal: Type tkPointer is not currently supported’: it seems in the DataSnap XE 8 transfer of TList class crashed, the problem….Components and tools that work with XE8:
Appmethod
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/14
A few people asked, so below is a picture of just a piece of my books closet.
From left to right:
This is only the front-left portion of one shelve. Most shelves are two deep and about 4 times as wide as what you see here (:
I have floppies somewhere in my archive too. Need to dig them up some day.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/13
As a follow up on the Cntlm configuration post last week, here is a small batch file that will find Cntlm.exe (on x86 and x64 systems) then start it in verbose mode.
| call :start %ProgramFiles% | |
| call :start %ProgramFiles(x86)% | |
| goto :end | |
| :start | |
| startlocal | |
| set cntlm="%*\Cntlm\Cntlm.exe" | |
| echo %cntlm% | |
| if exist %cntlm% start "Cntlm verbose" %cntlm% -v | |
| endlocal | |
| goto :end | |
| :end |
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/10
This is an elaboration of How to fill proxy information in cntlm config file – Stack Overflow.
When digging around how to get authentication stuff going, I want as much information, so this was the command-line I used:
cntlm.exe -v -c cntlm.ini -I -M http://www.bbc.co.uk
The -v is important: it shows you why things fail, and where: It also shows you the NTLM headers sent back/forth over the wire.
These are the switches used:
Since it is unsafe to store plain text passwords in configuration files, cntlm allows you to store the hashes.
Storing hashes not passwords locally is safer, but not much safer. See for instance Still Passing the Hash 15 Years Later: Guest Post: Let’s talk about Pass-the-Hash by Scriptjunkie the video How to own a Windows Domain or search for Mark Russinovich video windows hash ntlm hack.
Anyway: you can generate the password hashes using either Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/09
Demo party time. Amazing. As it runs on an early 4.77 Mhz IBM 8088 PC with CGA video.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/09
A while ago I wrote about Delphi XE7 is out with version 21.0.17017.3725; Spring4D is almost ready, now I can repeat parts of it for XE8.
The download links for Delphi XE8, C++Builder XE8 and RAD Studio XE8 are there: ftpd and altd. A whopping 7,217,184,768 bytes (compare that to XE7 update 1 at 5,649,917,952 bytes: almost 30% increase) that has been seeded a few days ago with the version time stamped at the end of last month (like xe7), here is the version number: 22.0.19027.8951.
Before installing, note that in addition to the below documentation links:
Be sure to have at least 70 gigabytes of free disk space before you attempt to install.
This in addition to the almost 7 GiB ISO file (:
The download is fast as altd is on akamai: the 7 GiB downloaded in about 16 minutes. Google can do the math.
On the Spring4D side, Stefan and Honza have added XE8 support, so a new release of that can be near.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 