Posts Tagged ‘software’
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/18
It seems quite a few people cannot access their GMail, but are able to access Plus, Contacts, Calendar, etc.
Only when accessing GMail, they get this:
| We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes.If the issue persists, please visit the Gmail Help Center »Try Again Sign Out |
It happened to me about 90 minutes ago.
After doing the obvious (making sure I have a fresh browser without plugins, logged off the Google account, cleared cookies, restarted the browser, have Google send me a new 2 factor login code to my phone), I followed the GMail Help Center link, then filed a ticket at the please let us know link.
Hopefully this gets resolved soon…
–jeroen
Posted in GMail, Google, Power User | Tagged: error 500, gmail account, google, inconvenience, software, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/01
Because of a very busy project, I hadn’t watch the Icecast.org homepage for a while.
Well, this year they in fact did release some new versions that you’d think are purely maintenance releases but do have new stuff:
libShout 2.3.0 added WebM support, which is great, because it is a license free video format formerly known as VP-8 by On2/Google.
libShout 2.3.1 added Opus support, which is cool, because last month, IETF published it as a standard for use on the internet: RFC 6716 – Definition of the Opus Audio Codec.
Icecast 2.3.3 fixed quite a bit of security fixes, had some general bugfixes, allows for sources to be authenticated via URL (just like listeners can), and added support for VLCT playlists (that have much more meta information than M3U or PLS playlists).
(Hopefully Windows binaries get added soon).
Icecast 2.4 beta adds WebM and Opus support and a few bugfixes. Needs thorough testing though.
Ices 2.0.2 streams audio to Icecast, now supports RoarAudio and fixes a few bugs.
–jeroen
via: Icecast.org.
Posted in Media Streaming, Power User | Tagged: audio codec, bugs, google, internet rfc, listeners, m3u, maintenance releases, opus, playlists, pls, security fixes, software, streams, technology, webm | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/30
Last week, Adobe launched the monospaced Open Source font [Wayback] Source Code Pro designed by [Wayback] Paul D. Hunt.
It is a follow-up of the (also designed by Paul) [Wayback] Source Sans Pro family of Open Source Fonts which got released early last month.
I did a quick look to see if it would get the same number of vertical lines as Lucida Console does at 8 points.
- Lucida Console: 50 lines
- Source Code Pro: 40 lines
Too bad, as the general font design is awesome.
One big missing thing is italic/oblique, which is often used in code editors. Hopefully a future version will include those.
For embedding source code examples in documentation, it is very legible, so I will keep it installed on my system.
You can try Source Code Pro yourself as well: it is available [Wayback] on SourceForge – that also hosts [Wayback] Open@Adobe – [Wayback] on GitHub, where you can fork it, as well as [Wayback] on Google Web Fonts, [Wayback] on typekit, and [Wayback] on WebINK.
–jeroen
via: [Wayback] Announcing Source Code Pro « Typblography.
Posted in Adobe Source Code Pro, Font, Lucida Console, Power User, Programmers Font, Typography | Tagged: adobe font, design, documentation, editors, font design, fonts, google, open source, software, sourceforge, technology, vertical lines, web fonts | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/29
If I read Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate my conclusion is that anything signed by the Adobe Code Signing Certificate since 2012-07-10 potentially can be malware.
As a precaution, I will manually revoke the certificate on all my systems (that’ll take a while!). If anyone knows how to automate that process, please post a comment showing how to.
Hitching on a trusted certificate of a big software company comes close to the ultimate hack: trojaning signed malware in the distribution of an OS vendor.
–jeroen
via: Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate « Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) Blog.
Posted in *nix, Adobe, Android Devices, Apple, HTC, HTC Sensation, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Opinions, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: adobe software, conclusion, engineering team, precaution, secure software, software, software company, software engineering, technology, ultimate hack | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/28
There are three RAD Studio / Delphi XE3 hotfixes on the Delphi Registered User Downloads page.
Hotfix 3 is for the Professional edition only.
The others are for all editions.
This Hotfix addresses an issue in using SQLite driver on the Professional edition.
Available only to registered users of Professional edition of Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3, RAD Studio XE3, and Embarcadero All-Access XE
1MB; Download
This Hotfix addresses a regression with using the GestureManager in a FireMonkey application.
Available only to registered users of Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3, RAD Studio XE3, and Embarcadero All-Access XE
60MB; Download
This Hotfix addresses an issue with ShowMessage in a FireMonkey application on certain locales on Mac OS X.
Available only to registered users of Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3, RAD Studio XE3, and Embarcadero All-Access XE
12.1MB; Download
–jeroen
via: Delphi Registered User Downloads.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: c builder, computer, Delphi, download delphi, embarcadero, hotfixes, mac os x, professional edition, regression, software, technology | 5 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/20
Summary:
- Zero day vulnerability in mshtml.dll used by Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9, and many other products.
- Resolution: Deploy EMET or stop using IE and other products using mshtml.dll until Microsoft delivers a patch.
Earlier this week a zero-day vulnerability in the mshtml.dll was made public. This DLL is used by almost all Internet Explorer versions (6-9 are vulnerable) and many other software products (almost anything from Microsoft and a lot of 3rd party software that displays a web page on Windows).
While Microsoft is building a fix that is to be released very soon now (probably tomorrow, Friday September 21st 2010), the official resolutions are not to use the mshtml.dll at all (impractical for many people), or deploy EMET (impractical too as it requires administrative privileges).
If you can, switch to a browser that uses a different layout engine than mshtml.dll (for instance browsers based on WebKit will do).
These pages are good starting points for more information:
Particularly interesting posts:
–jeroen
Posted in Internet Explorer, Power User, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: execcommand, internet explorer patch, internet explorer versions, layout engine, party software, software, software products, technology, zero day | 8 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/14
Two days ago I ran into the bug below while porting some code from Delphi 2006 to Delphi XE2, posted on StackOverflow, and got solutions in very little time.
Thanks Andreas Hausladen, David Heffernan, Ken White, Sertac Akyuz, Rudy Velthuis, for answering, providing solutions and verifying!
Note that this worked up until Delphi XE, and has been fixed in Delphi XE3 (which for this project I can’t use as the client upgraded to XE2 without SA).
Problem
- I get the error mentioned further on error when debugging an executable in Delphi XE2 update 4 under these circumstances:
- that depends on mqic.dll from WebShpere that is in C:\Program Files \IBM\WebSphere MQ\bin\mqic.dll and C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere MQ\bin is on the system path (not on the user path).
- is being debugged with an override environment variable in the Run -> Parameters -> Debugger -> Environment Block -> User overrides
- Including System Variables on the same property page is checked
This is the error (it’s a Windows DLL load error marked “System Error”).
The program can’t start because mqic.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
Solutions
–jeroen
via delphi – while debugging with Environment Variable “The program can’t start because ….dll is missing” – Stack Overflow.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: ibm websphere mq, software, stack overflow, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/13
A production version of an app should not spam using OutputDebugString.
Some apps do, for instance very couple of seconds the “TAM E-SSO AccessAgent” DataProvider.exe process spams stuff like this:
[1952] GRP_StubImpl Inside
[1952] before deserializing the message
[1952] GRP_StubImpl for Policy Id = pid_desktop_inactivity_mins
...
[1952] GRP_StubImpl Inside
[1952] before deserializing the message
[1952] GRP_StubImpl for Policy Id = pid_aa_tray_menu_options_enabled
[1952] GRP_StubImpl Inside
[1952] before deserializing the message
[1952] GRP_StubImpl for Policy Id = pid_automatic_sign_up_enabled
[1952] GRP_StubImpl Inside
[1952] before deserializing the message
[1952] GRP_StubImpl for Policy Id = pid_desktop_inactivity_mins
...
It is in the chain of processes (yes, the tripple backslash is actually there, this is how IBM starts is):
- “C:\Program Files\Encentuate\AATray.exe”
- “C:\Program Files\Encentuate\\\DataProvider.exe”
- “C:\Program Files\Encentuate\Sync.exe”
All of them have version 8.1.0.130 and timestamp 20-12-2010 14:32.
You’d think that IBM knows how to do this right (:
–jeroen
Posted in Debugging, Development, Software Development | Tagged: enterprise-it, software, technology, tray menu | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/10
Last week, ModelMaker Code Explorer 10.0.0 got released:
General new features
- Delphi XE3 / RAD Studio XE3 support
(as well as support from Delphi 5 and up)
- Member Search list allows filtering on member type. Todo items are also displayed.
- Pascal, new option on tab MMX | Properties | Pascal | New Entities | Methods: Empty Parameter lists. This controls how empty method, procedure and delegate parameter lists are emitted: either suppressed – pascal style, or emitted as ( ) – c-style.
- Locate Type: displays a filtered list of previously parsed class and interface types. This is used to open the containing source file and locate a class inside the file. Default key binding Alt+Shift+T.
Solved bugs
- Text containing line breaks and stored in XML (settings, snippets) could contain stray 0x0B (#11) characters. Solved.
- An access violation at shutdown could occur in older Delphi IDEs if MMX was not docked. Solved.
- If the Delphi IDE editor buffer contains a stray #0 (which is bad in itself) would cause all kinds of exception in MMX. MMX now detects stray #0’s and abort all editing operations, displaying the line:column of the bad #0 character.
- Pascal: relative paths starting with \ (relative to root in drive) would not be handled correct. Solved
–jeroen
via: ModelMaker Code Explorer 10.0.0.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: access violation, c style, delegate, Delphi, delphi 5, delphi ide, editor buffer, empty parameter, interface types, line breaks, member search, member type, new features, new option, pascal, relative paths, snippets, software, technology | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/06
The problem with localized error messages often is that it is virtually impossible to find information about them.
For instance the below error got reported by a client for me to fix (click on the picture to get a larger version) has a few big problems:
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Posted in Excel, Office, Power User, Windows | Tagged: ctrl c, english versions, error messages, file formats, google, message box, microsoft com downloads, microsoft office online, office excel, office microsoft, pleonasm, software, technology, zero results | 2 Comments »
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