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I think we as Germans still cannot really appreciate the effect he had on our country. I also think the war against Ukraine would not have happened if he had been in charge for a… – Details…
4 weeks ago in none
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Installing Webmin on Ubuntu 22.04 server
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As a follow up to my notes on installing Webmin on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 (on 20.04 it worked as in 18.04) now two additional steps are necessary for Ubuntu 22.04. Those steps must be… – Details…
4 weeks ago in linux
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Where did Microsoft move the underline menu shortcut option?
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So I don’t forget: Microsoft seems to love changing the place where they hide useful configuration options. One that I always turn on is “Underline access keys when available” and in Windows 10 it is… – Details…
4 weeks ago in windows, Windows 10
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Setting colors for Linux ls command
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Those people who selected the default colors for the Linux ls command must have much better eyes than I. E.g. I think that dark blue text on black background is very difficult to read, but… – Details…
1 month ago in linux
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added support for TColor and Local Variables to dzDebugVisualizer
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After making the source code of dzDebugVisualizer available I got interested in Debug Visualizers in general and had a look at how they are supported in Delphi 11. I wrote a visualizer for TColor, based… – Details…
2 months ago in Delphi, dzDebugVisualizer
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dzDebugVisualizer source code available
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Several years ago I wrote a Delphi IDE plugin to extend the functionality of the “Evaluate and Modify” dialog as well as the Watches window called dzDebugVisualizer and even released an update for it. Back… – Details…
2 months ago in Delphi, dzDebugVisualizer
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dzBdsLauncher 1.0.9 released
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I just released dzBdsLauncher 1.0.9. If started with a .bdsproj file, it will now not just assume that a .dpr file must exist but will check for it and if it does not exist, will… – Details…
2 months ago in Delphi, dzBdsLauncher
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Thunderbird 102.0.3 no longer asks to accept a self signed certificate for IMAP
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One of my computer’s hard disk didn’t survive a recent power failure so I had to set up its Thunderbird client again (a backup didn’t work, don’t ask). My internal IMAP server uses a self… – Details…
2 months ago in linux, thunderbird
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Some Linux tools for handling and filtering the passwd file
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Linux (and other Unixes) store user information in a file called passwd and the associated passwords in another file called shadow, both located in /etc. Both files are text files and use a : as… – Details…
5 months ago in linux
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dxgettext homepage down
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The homepage of GnuGetText for Delphi (dxgettext) seems to be down (it redirects to www.delphidk.dk which my DNS cannot resolve). Here is a link to the last archived version on the Internet Archive. – Details…
5 months ago in Delphi, dxgettext
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GExpertsInst is not a valid reference
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Starting with GExperts 1.3.20 calling the standalone Experts Manager displayed the error message “GExpertsInst is not a valid reference”. After that the tool actually works fine. This bug has now been fixed in the current… – Details…
5 months ago in Delphi, GExperts
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some dxgettext improvements
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I fixed a bug in the dxgettext executable which made it add wrong ressource string names to the po files which in turn made the msgmergePOT tool select wrong translations. You will have to compile… – Details…
6 months ago in Delphi, dxgettext
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GExperts 1.3.21 experimental twm 2022-04-09 released
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You may remember that I was forced to reduce GExperts support for Delphi 6 a while ago, because the IDE no longer started on my computer. It turns out that it was a GExperts bug… – Details…
6 months ago in Delphi, GExperts
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Duplicate entries in the identifier list of the GExperts Uses Clause Manager
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A long time ago I added the Identifier tab to the Uses Clause Manager in GExperts. It looks like this: In this screen shot, I filtered for TWinControl and the expert found several matching entries,… – Details…
6 months ago in Delphi, GExperts
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libjpeg-turbo and Windows XP
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Note to self: The last 32 bit version of the libjpeg-turbo DLL compiled with MS Visual Studio (libjpeg-turbo-x.y.z-vc.exe) that supports Windows XP is version 2.0.6. Later versions apparently need a newer Visual C++ runtime that… – Details…
7 months ago in windows, Windows XP
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