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Link clearance on the recent Delphi XE3 and WinRT stir
Just for my own record, a link clearance of WinRT in relation to Delphi. I amended this a couple of time already, will try to do so over time: Is Embarcadero going to use a way around WinRT sideloading...
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Why I really dislike localized error messages…
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...
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ModelMaker Code Explorer 10.0.0: Delphi XE3 compatible, Loctate Type and...
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...
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Don’t spam with OutputDebugString
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:...
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Delphi, solutions for `while debugging with Environment Variable “The program...
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,...
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Zero day vulnerability in mshtml.dll used by Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9,...
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...
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Three XE3 hotfixes at the Delphi Registered User Downloads page
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. RAD Studio XE3 Hotfix 3:...
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It looks like everything signed by an Adobe Code Signing Certificate can be...
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...
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New Open Source monospaced font from Adobe: Source Code Pro
Last week, Adobe launched the monospaced Open Source font Source Code Pro designed by Paul D. Hunt. It is a follow-up of the (also designed by Paul) Source Sans Pro family of Open Source Fonts which...
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While I wasn’t watching, Icecast released quite a bit of new stuff: libShout...
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...
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GMail is having email trouble: “Temporary Error (500)” with “Numeric Code: 21″
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: Temporary Error (500) We’re sorry, but your Gmail...
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WordPress.com silently fixed the “tab order broken” issue. Thanks!
WordPress.com silently restored the Please restore the tab order the way it worked 2 weeks ago problem. I wished they’d send update notifications on those fixes (it seems the underlying ticket 21340...
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openSUSE 12.x: “A plain `halt` will not shutdown the system properly.”
Just noticed that in openSUSE 12.x, A plain halt will not shutdown the system properly. On my system, it would leave the screen as shown on the right: Only halt -p works, none of the other hints in the...
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TURKTRUST Incident Raises Renewed Questions About CA System | threatpost
A small quote from the very interesting TURKTRUST Incident Raises Renewed Questions About CA System | threatpost article: “Subordinate certificates have long been identified as a point of weakness in...
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Delphi Code Monkey: Why Delphi developers should learn Objective-C and XCode
I’ve requested the feed of Delphi Code Monkey by Warren Postma to be added to DelphiFeeds. In the mean time, read this post, it is awesome: Delphi Code Monkey: Why Delphi developers should learn...
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New BitSavers.org PDF scans: Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994), Borland...
The PDF Archive at bitsavers.org has recently put online these raster image PDF scans from Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994) and Borland C++/Object Windows Library (1993) Remnants of the past,...
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in light of the zero-day Java exploits: JRE removal/install tool JavaRa from...
Even though the JavaRa tool is Windows-only, it is a tremendous help scraping old vulnerable versions of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from your systems and keeping only the fixed versions....
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vSphere 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) can run any hardware level since ESX Server 3.5
Last year, I missed this tiny sentence: So in plain English, any VM that was generated on VMware ESX Server 3.5 or later can run atop ESXi 5.1 unchanged. Which means it is a snap to move your VMs from...
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If your system is configured as Metric, then any app not honouring that have...
I love Google: 80 kg in lb – Google Search 8 km in miles – Google Search. 220 – 43 – Google Search. Especially since there is still software like Garmin Training Center for Mac on Mac OS X with – in...
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Best 404 page ever.
Very distracting: 404. Thanks Julian (I just found out you also own a Dutch domain jmbk.nl/) for pointing to it (boy, some unproductive days ahead) and the cheat (in your browser, Open the JavaScript...
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