When Firefox Quantum was launched everybody praised it as the next best thing (browser).But if you look closelly you will only see modest speed improvements into the browser. HOWEVER, you will see massive slowdowns in Windows. At least I did in mine. Why because instead of taking 600-900MB for regular browsing the new Firefox takes […]
I recently observed that Setup files created with WinRar have a high false positive detection rate from antiviruses. Here are the conclusions of some test I made, in order to reduce the false positive rate: RAR version SFX module Detection ratio WinRar 3.11 32bit 1/66 WinRar 4.2 32bit? 3/66 WinRar 5.50 32bit 6/67 WinRar 5.50
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0) ALLOW LESS SECURE APPS: Login to gmail using your browser, switch to your google account (top-right round button), go to Sign-in & Security>Connected apps & sites, scroll down until reach Allow less secure apps:OFF and turn it ON (if it’s already on, leave as it is); 1) DELETE OLD GMAIL PASSWORD: Launch Thunderbird, select
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I recently have seen that 25% of my GDrive quota was occupied by something. But my GDrive has in it only 0.7GB. So, who gets the rest of the space. It turns out that there are files in my Google Drive that are not assigned to a folder. Therefore they are “hidden” from view. To
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I stepped last week in a multiple-bug situation with EurekaLog for Delphi. I again wasted MORE than a day with this buggy “exception tracer tool”. My DRP file is like this: PROGRAM MyProgram; uses {$ifdef win32}fastmm4,{$endif} EurekaLog_units_come_here This worked fine until I compiled the program to 64 bits. On 64 bit, EurekaLog refused to work.
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Most of my Delphi programs are flagged as virus by some antivirus programs. Some of these antivirus programs are really cheap/under-the-table products (such as Baidu and Comodo) other are big (TOP) name like Kaspersky. In theory you should report a false positive to the antivirus producers so they can fix their bug but if the
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Email sender settings in EurekaLog v7 SMTP Server [1] Simple MAPI MAPI Shell (MailTo) SMTP client [3] Can attach the ELP file Yes Yes [2] Yes [2] No Yes See sender’s email No [4] Yes Yes Yes No Email client software* Not required Required Required Required Not required Chance of success Highest chance among all
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I wanted to send an email (“Send via SMTP client”) from EurekaLog v7.4.8.0 RC 1 but I was getting this error: FAILED: Error code = -2146885613 The revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was offline EurekaLog 7.4.8.0 RC 1 Testing send with TELMailSMTPClientSender Options: _BugAppVersion=”21.0.17707.5020″ _BugID=”73D40000″ _BugIDSource=”bds.exe My email is
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Total Commander (aka Windows Commander) is the ultimate file manager for Windows (and recently for Android too). Who can use it? The regular Windows user that used all his life Windows Explorer will find Total Commander interface AT LEAST awkward. The interface concept and user experience is totally different in Total Commander. This doesn’t mean
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I need a 3GB internal harddrive. Looking through statistic data from BackBlaze, it seems that Seagate is the worst solution because of it HUGE failure rate. Yes the prices are good for this drive but you don’t want a cheap drive that will fail after 2 years. Right? The next brand with high failure rate
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Do you need a free web editor that supports HML5? I needed one and I really had to waste some time to review some. Here are the conclusions (and the conclusions only). NOTE: See the 2017 update at the end of the post! BlueGriffon 2015 Price: Free or 70 euros: http://www.bluegriffon.org/#whatsinside Comment: Seems robust and
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Delphi is still in Top 20… but barely.
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A computer code that is supposed to be able to infect DNA was found. The corresponding article posted ~2.5 years, and some c++ codes. Citation: The computer code, written in C++, hosts the DNA sequence of M.mycoides JCVI-syn1.0. At runtime it acts as follows: 1) Preparing the DNA sequence of M.mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 in the memory,
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Today I needed a function that will wrap a string (a contiguous block of characters with no spaces) after 80 characters. Not only that I have found SysUtils.WrapText unsuitable (it can only wrap text IF the text contains spaces) but it is also terrible slow. So I build my own function: function WrapString(CONST s: string;
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BioniX Wallpaper Animator v3 is ready for download. That is great about this new version is that it is (should be) able to paint the animation UNDER desktop icons. However, since we cannot test it on all Windows operating systems we need some help. If you can run it on any of the following systems
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There used to be three programs that really made our computer miserable. They were slow, bloated, intrusive and a lot of security holes opened with them when you installed. Java – Probably Java is the nastiest of all Until few years ago you could not browse some web sites because some derailed ‘web developers’ decided
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By micro-controller Arduino Lazarus? DK-Basic (8bit arduino) Pascal Compiler for AVR Cortex-M3 and M4 ARM LPC – 39euro on Amazon Oberon Astrobe (Windows) 8051 Turbo51 (Windows) PascalLite – unspecified price MicroPascal Pic 10 to Pic 18 Pic Micro Pascal ATMEGA MicroPascal Pro XMEGA/XTINY from Atmel MicroPascal Pro Raspberry Pi projects (ARM v6/ARM11) Lazarus ____________________________________________ By
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The updater in Foxit is really annoying. And even if you turn it off via the GUI the updater application will still run in background. This will delay the main Foxit window start up. So, here is the trick: the the updater to think that it already checked for updates: Open the registry (RegEdit) to:
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So, I installed Windows 10. I didn’t liked it (at all) so I installed after that Windows 7 (on a different partition). Now after 6 months I would like to see if Window 10 has improoved a bit, but Windows 7 won’t show it in its boot menu. So, I cannot boot into Win 10
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After spending 2 full hours I managed to find the culprit for an IDE crash (access violation in VCL210). The cause was …drum roll please… CnPack! There was a palette in IDE’s main tool bar called MSDN Help. However, when I right click to configure the toolbar, the palette was not listed there to show
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If you are behind a router that supports uPNP: Make sure the uPNP feature is active in your router. Usually is disabled by default. First you need to enable UPnP in Windows. Make sure of this by checking the “Universal Plug and Play Device Host” and “SSDP Discovery” services. Both of these services should be
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Every now and then I see high CPU utilization. So I decided to see which program is taking so much CPU. First I looked into the task manger. At the first look it didn’t show any program to take more than 1% CPU. But after checking the ‘Show processes from all users’ we got the
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Today I tried to open an old project. While loading the main DFM form I got a “No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page” error. After some time I figured out what caused it: the form had a custom control that had a property like this: HeaderCellSpacing = 1.300000000000000000.
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How to reduce memory usage in Mozilla Firefox Know your browser Type about:memory in the Firefox address bar. This will show you current memory usage. Browser history Type about:config in the Firefox address bar Do a search for browser.sessionhistory.max_entries Double click the default value (50), change it to something lower (3, 4, 5). Addons
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So, Delphi’s help doesn’t tell us much about how to set up paths for DPK packages. It is ok. So, I will tell you how I do it so they work both on 32 and 64 Win platforms: My packages I have these major packages/folders: Graphics32 Drag and Drop (Melander) 3rd Party (many small packages
I keep getting this error at Delphi shut down: Application Error – Exception EAccessViolation in module rtl210.bpl at 00016A9C. Access violation at address 50066A9C in module ‘rtl210.bpl’. Read of address 06152AF8. Solution 1: The problem is fixed by restoring this registry key to its original state: [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareEmbarcaderoBDS15.0Known IDE Packages] Here is the pristine value for
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I keep getting an “Access violation at address 1204F872 in module ‘bindcomp210.bpl’. Read of address 1423C764” message during Delphi startup. After poking around I have found the solution: delete the “Project” and/or “SaveFileDirectory” keys in [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareEmbarcaderoBDS15.0Session] 02.2015
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Extracting unique identification numbers from hardware and using them for software protection scheme I had customers that are purchasing a single software license but using it on multiple computers so I wanted to prevent them from doing so. The solution I have found was to generate a license key that is unique for each computer.
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My old Fuji A610 is better than my new Fuji F550EXR. Take a look at these two photos takes at the same moment (a camera was in my right hand and the other camera in my left hand). Which one do you like better? The first one is taken with my ancient FinePix A610, the
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Imagine that a possible client is downloading the application for the first time. During start up the application checks the internet to updates, news, resource files, etc. If the server fails to respond the application will hang. After 20 seconds (or way less) the customer will hit the Control+Alt+Del buttons, kill the application, uninstall it
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