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 wasting some time I figured out what caused it: the form had a custom control that had a property like this: HeaderCellSpacing =
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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Some months ago I upgraded from Delphi XE to Delphi XE7. Boy! What a mistake! As EurekaLog people put it, Delphi XE7 is a “train wreck”. Now I am on the way of contacting Embarcadero and asking for a refund. I will keep you updated to see how it goes. You can find the word
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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. We got all used with Delphi’s sloppy manual. 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
So, I purchased Delphi XE7 for a pile of money (around 1000euros) hoping to do all the wonderful things they advertised. After struggling with their grandiose (read as ‘scarce’ or ‘almost nonexistent’) user manual I managed compiling my 32 bit application for Windows 64. Since Delphi is 32 bit and my Windows machine is also
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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]
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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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Web Traffic Generator is a nice dirty tool that helps you to generate literary thousands of page views. Lets say you participate in a contest “who’s web page gets more visitors”. All you have to do is to download this little devilish software, enter the URL of the page you want to send traffic to
Starting this year Embarcadero has a new plan to milk money from its customers. With the new ‘Update Subscription’ plan, Embarcadero wants to charge 30% from original purchase price, each year, each customer that wants access to product bug fixes (that were not supposed to be there anyway). Eve more, there is no warranty that
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Intel has a long history related to microprocessor bugs. It started long time ago with the infamous Pentium FDiv bug. Intel quickly released Pentium MMX and said that this is the biggest invention in computing ever but the truth was that increase of performance brought by MMX o plain zero! Why? Because software was not
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This is a Venus Trap and it is 2 years old. Despite what the Internet says it survived the winter without going to hibernation. This is a close up: And this is the feeding process in slow motion!
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In order to open MP4 (and other video files) in VirtualDub you need a plugin called ‘Virtualdub FFMpeg Input Plugin‘. Installation: Download the plug in and unzip it in VirtualDub’s folder. The ZIP contains two folder one for Windows 32 bit and one for Windows 64 bits. You can delete the one that you don’t
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IF YOU ARE AN INMOTION HOSTING CUSTOMER READ THIS!!! InMotion Hosting offer such horrible services. In time their reputation web down so they had to create a puppet company called…. Web Hosting Hub. Here is some proof: Click the Support button it will take you to a page that has InMotion Hosting logo: https://chatwithourteam.com/licence/1001/open_chat.cgi?lang=eh¶ms=HUB%20HUB%20HUB%20-%20WEB%20HOSTING%20HUB%20-%20HUB%20HUB%20HUB&groups=0 Here
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So, what’s new in Total Commander 8.50? The Ghisler.com web site shows a difficult to read list of changes: the new features are mixed with the bug fixes. Here is the easy to read (only new features) list: (PS: I used Cubic Bold Editor to filter unwanted lines) F5,F6,Shift+F6: Remove characters #00-#31 like line breaks
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IPage are totally incompetent and their server is down every 2 days. In the last 3 days I have spent over 19 hours trying to convince them their server has a problem. Only look at this transcript: ____ IPage: Hi Petria, how are you today? Petria: not so great. Petria: I have problems with your
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I have tried last week to purchase a Pro hosting plan from BlueHost. I was in a hurry so I was looking for a dynamic and professional company. Their web site was saying “instant setup” so I happily took my wallet, paid the 120.2$ and waited to the magic to happen. I waited a full
I just discovered that Firefox removed the ‘Disable or replace context menus’ checkbox from its OPTIONS panel. They say its and improvement. Mozilla! What the fuck? That was our first defense line against some intrusive web sites. To get access to this feature type ‘about:config‘ in your address bar then search for this string: dom.event.contextmenu.enabled
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How to solve the “Cannot load a form that has itself as ancestor” error in Delphi This is how a new/empty project should look like: uses Forms, Unit1 in ‘Unit1.pas’ {Form1}; And this how your project probably looks like: uses Forms, Unit1 in ‘Unit1.pas’ {Form}; I spent on hour to find the well hidden culprit.
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On Windows XP/Windows 7 Disk Scan (chkdsk) shows no report upon compleation. To see the results of a disk scan in windows you need to type this command in PowerShell: get-winevent -FilterHashTable @{logname=”Application”; id=”1001″}| ?{$_.providername -match “wininit”} | fl timecreated, message | out-file c:stuffCheckdiskResults.txt Please note the last path in the command: c:stuffCheckdiskResults.txt You should
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FoScam FI9821W – Wireless security web cam? Summary I wanted to monitor my baby so on 1 April 2013 I purchased a wireless IP camera for 122 Euros from ‘Foscam Digital Technologies UK’ via Amazon. When the IP camera arrived I tough “cool, I will have it up and running in 10 minutes”. Now, few
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You are in the middle of your work and for some reason you need to restart the computer. It restarts fast BUT you cannot start your work (if you are working in team with others) because your Google Drive takes a good long fucking nice nap before it synchronizes all the files. So you delete
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You just experienced a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) or other NDE (Near Death Experience)? This is the easy way to find out what is cause the BSOD. Whenever Windows crashes it generates a Dump (*.dmp) file that contains the log of the crash. All you have to do is to analyze the log to
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