Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/03
This year, the Dutch Queens day this year had a special nature. On the nation level: the abdication by former Queen, now Princess Beatrix, and the succession and inauguration of King Willem-Alexander. On the marching band level: Adest Musica had their Dutch premiere of the new show Mother Earth which will be their entry during the quadrennial Word Music Concours this summer. On the personal level, my best friend visiting The Netherlands for just a few days, so finally a chance to catch up in person.
So I totally missed another important historic event: the 20th birthday of the releasing the WWW source code in the public domain.
On the 30st of April 1993, CERN: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in About, Adest Musica, Personal, Power User, Web Browsers | Tagged: research, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/01
This is more elaborate English version of a short Dutch message I recently sent to explain the differences between VCL and FMX:
Do not regard FMX as a replacement for VCL: they are different kinds of frameworks.
VCL is a wrapper around Windows Controls. In itself, it has not much functionality: it exposes the underlying Windows functionality. The exception are data aware controls that provide basic functionality for writing data aware applications. There is a huge 3rd party market for extending VCL support, for instance providing extra Windows functionality, enriching data aware behaviour (look at all those fancy data aware grids), and many more.
FMX is the FireMonkey X-platform framework. Major functionalities are vector based 2D, 3D drawing and controls, and support for styles and composition.
When introducing FMX in Delphi XE2, Embarcadero also introduced a new way of data binding that is shared with FMX and VCL. FMX extends this a bit to some basic data aware controls.
Gone are most of the platform specific features like drag & drop, full blown Windows Shell ListViews, etc. There are some controls that manifests themselves differently on each supported platform (like Pickers), but most of that is currently left to the 3rd party FMX component market.
So if you want FMX to replace VCL, then be prepared for quite some shopping in the 3rd party market.
CLX tried to be a full blown cross platform VCL replacement, but that didn’t work very well.
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Development, FireMonkey, OS X FMX, Software Development | Tagged: component market, data binding, fmx, software, technology, vcl, windows controls | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/26
Found a while ago that Brian Long wrote a few nice pages and posts on Windows keyboard shortcuts:
Thanks Brian
–jeroen
Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, 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: blong, jeroen, software, technology, windows keyboard shortcuts, windows shortcuts | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/22
When you directly post a blog entry without scheduling, then WordPress.com adds this to your URL: &message=6&postpost=v2
It alters the left pane indicating how many posts you have done so far, but more importantly: suggests some tags based on the content of your post.
You can add this pane yourself by adding &postpost=v2 to your post editing URL.
So if your URL is something like this:
and you make it like this:
then you can add the suggested tags with ease.
I find that much easier than to use the “Choose from the most used tags” feature.
–jeroen
Posted in Power User, SocialMedia, WordPress | Tagged: blog entry, blogging, left pane, scheduling, technology, url | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/11
Earlier this week, I posted abut ThinkPad W701: Win7 Ultimate x64 suddenly only saw 8GB RAM of 16GB (via: [H]ard|Forum).
One of the search results in my query indicated it would be possible to put 32GB in it.
That’s nice, as the official Lenovo ThinkPad W701 specs and Lenovo ThinkPad W701 2500 Overview & Specs – Laptops – CNET Reviews indicate it should max out with 16GB.
This Google search returns lots of results indicating people actually run it with 32GB RAM using 4x8GB memory modules:
ThinkPad W701 32GB RAM
–jeroen
via: ThinkPad W701 32GB RAM – Google Search.
Posted in Power User, ThinkPad, W701 | Tagged: cnet reviews, computer, google search, lenovo thinkpad, memory modules, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/08
Last quarter, 11 issues of Micro Cornucopia appeared on BitSavers including the final May 1990 issue.
This month, another 7 issues appeared, most of which cover a form of Pascal in one or more of the articles and advertisements:
A fun thing to notice are the advertisements for Modula-2. Logitech Modula-2. Yes though the Logitech Wikipedia page does not mention it at all, Logitech didn’t only sell mice, keyboards and web-cams. They had more products. Being Swiss, they were big in Modula-2. And Bitsavers has a PDF of that too: Logitech_Modula-2_86_1.0_Feb84.pdf
The only issues still to be scanned are #28 till #32.
–jeroen
via: New Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers including the Final May 1990 issue « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
Posted in Assembly Language, BitSavers.org, C, C++, Delphi, Development, History, Pascal, Software Development, Turbo Assembler, Turbo Pascal, x86 | Tagged: computer, Media, research, science, technology | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/05
On my brand new Google Nexus 4, I had this problem that some contacts were merged based on their last name.
They were merged only on the phone: at the Google Contacts web page, they still were separate.
The issue was very much “in my face”, as one of the merges was my brother and mother. For which I am pretty sure they are separate entities, both alive and kicking.
Browsing for a solution, I found these links (the first one got me to the others):
The issue is still there (I synced 3 weeks ago).
The solution is per device (the sync breaks on your device, not on Google Contacts).
The steps of the solution were not completely clear, so below are screenshots. Click on each screenshot to get a larger crisp 768×1280 HD image. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Android Devices, Google, Nexus 4, Power User | Tagged: gadgets, google, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/20
Awesome write speed while mirroring from my old Intel 320 600GB SSD (SATA) to the new OWC Mercury Electra MAX 3G 960GB SSD (USB3) on my ThinkPad W701.
On average more than 2GB per minute.
Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 27029 27028 1 0 0 0
Files : 160965 160965 0 0 0 0
Bytes : 546.499 g 546.499 g 0 0 0 0
Times : 4:17:38 4:15:16 0:00:00 0:02:22
Speed : 38311787 Bytes/sec.
Speed : 2192.218 MegaBytes/min.
Ended : Mon Mar 18 22:16:36 2013
–jeroen
via: OWC OWCSSDEX3G960 960GB Mercury Electra MAX 3G SSD.
Posted in Hardware, Power User, SSD | Tagged: computer, megabytes, owc, ssd, technology, usb3 | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/14
Today, Apple released SMC version 1.1 for MacBook Pro machines that especially Retina owners will like: it fixes their fan issue that has been present for months, but caused some stir lately.
Apple rushed this update. In fact, it is so new, not even EFI and SMC firmware updates for Intel-based Macs lists it.
It affects both mid 2012 and early 2013 models.
This is how to update:
I had the same problem with the basic installation. Just do the OSX updates from the App Store and the problem will disappear.
Lots of users are reporting the below SMC update fixes the fan issue.
It worked for my MacBook Retina too.
–jeroen
via:Apple Releases Retina MacBook Pro SMC Update to Address Gaming Frame Rates and Fan Issues – Mac Rumors.
Posted in Apple, Mac, MacBook, MacBook Retina, Power User | Tagged: Apple, firmware updates, mac rumors, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/05
It starts to be not so funny any more: almost every week a new Java security update.
Time to update again, to stay secure and install the patch: Security Alert CVE-2013-1493.
On the funny side: Java 0day countdown.
–jeroen
via: Security Alert CVE-2013-1493.
Posted in *nix, Apple, Development, Java, 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, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: java security, new java, security alert, software, technology | 2 Comments »
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