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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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
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, how are you today? MyName: not so great. MyName: I have problems with your server
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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
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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}; {$R *.res} And this how the project was: uses Forms, Unit1 in ‘Unit1.pas’ {Form} {$R *.res}; I spent on hour to find the well
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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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Here is a 3rd party text property editor for Delphi XE/Delphi XE2/Delphi XE3 that is way much better than the default one. It can help you to edit text and TCaption fields.Features: It allows you to enter multi-line strings via the object inspector. Such strings can only be assigned at run-time. Allows you to enter
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Delphi generates a series of annoying and useless files such as *.~bpl, *.identcache and *.local. They are totally safe to delete. Few people know that Delphi Distiller is capable to disable the generation of these files. This is because the panel from where you do this is hidden under an obscure menu called ‘Extras’. Just
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So, you want to buy some rechargeable batteries and you don’t know which is the best? Here is a list of rechargeable batteries you can find on Amazon.es sorted …..drum roll please….. by Euro per Amper. For day by day use I recommend you batteries of at least 3000mAh. Therefore, batteries show in gray are of
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Today I got an Energizer Universal Charger. Simply it sucks. I though Energizer is a big/good company. Wrong! This design of this device is simply shitty. Why? Because I can only charge 2 or 4 batteries at once. If I want to change 3 batteries (and this is what I want to do) I can’t.
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The problem My Delphi XE started to act strange lately. I have unit Unit2.pas that uses ‘FormatBytes’ declared in Unit1.pas. When I try to compile Unit2 Delphi says that it cannot find FormatBytes. But FormatBytes is there, in Unit1 !!Unit1 belongs to Package1 and Unit2 to Package2 (Package2 depends on Package1).Even more strange: if
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I hate Google Drive. It is haunted by too many bugs. Recently my GDrive application started showing a “primary key must be unique” error message, asking me to disconnect the drive and start all over again. I did that. Took few hours to resynchronize it all. But the next day I got the same error
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For a Comtrend WAP-5813n router do this: Enter this into your browser address bar: http://192.168.1.1 Enter user and password. Default should be ‘1234’ (both for user and psw) or ‘user’. Go to Advanced setup -> NAT You will see this text: NAT — Virtual Servers Setup Virtual Server allows you to direct incoming traffic from
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On Toshiba support forum a kid name Bob sustains that two Toshiba tech guys sais to him that is dangerous to keep your computer in stand-by/hibernate mode. So he would like to start his computer faster but without using the stand-by/hibernate mode: > The holy grail for me would be to use sleep mode 100%
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So, iPage hosting tricked me into buying a full year contract. They said that they will provide unlimited hosting. But that’s a BIG lie. Here are the actual limits: Email inbox: 200MB (additional space can be purchased for extra $10 per month) Email attachments: 5MB Email attachments note: you cannot send EXE (applications) files. FTP
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