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Note to self: Sometimes it is necessary to destroy not just a single but multiple ZFS snapshots. This can be done with some command line magic, but the zfs destroy subcommand has built in functionality… … Read more
1 week ago in linux, zfs0
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Jim McKeeth has updated the GExperts documentation a bit. It’s far from finished but that’s better than the totally outdated one on gexperts.org. I have now exported it as webhelp and checked it in to… … Read more
4 weeks ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Ich bin seit einiger Zeit ein großer Fan von ZFS und sammle immer wieder mal Links zu dem Thema. Es gibt einen Blog-Post ZFS Snapshots und Samba Shadow Copy (auf Deutsch) von Manfred Larcher, den… … Read more
1 month ago in linux, zfs0
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If you are a Delphi developer and are not using the full FastMM memory manager (either the free version 4 or the commercial version 5) you really should try it. The limited FastMM version, that… … Read more
2 months ago in Delphi0
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Note to self: The command to get connection information for a (Linux based) Samba server is smbstatus. It needs root privileges. e.g. … Read more
2 months ago in linux, Samba0
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The new GExperts version still supports all Delphi versions back to Delphi 6 (with the notable exception of Delphi 8) and even the Delphi 12 version is no longer in Beta state. I hope we… … Read more
3 months ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Jim McKeeth is going to hold a Webinar Essential Delphi: GExperts on 2024-08-28. I’ll try to join if I find the time (it’s scheduled for 17:00 CEST (15:00 UTC), so I might just make it.)… … Read more
3 months ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Michael Höfmann has written an additional CodeInsightExpert (in German) that can be added to GExperts and supports the writing of CodeInsight compatible comments in Delphi 12 (Athens). The source code is in his repository on… … Read more
3 months ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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The Grep Results window (and several other windows) can be docked to the IDE. To allow that GExperts does not save their positions and size but lets the IDE do that, which means these settings… … Read more
3 months ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Unfortunately version 1.0.13 of dzBdsLauncher had a bug when called with a Delphi 2007 .dproj file: It correctly detected (or rather assumed) Delphi 2007 but then said it could not detect the Delphi version. That… … Read more
3 months ago in Delphi, dzBdsLauncher0
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I tend to make typos in the log messages to SubVersion commits and it is always embarrassing when I later come across these typos. Svn can be configured to allow changing log messages by adding… … Read more
3 months ago in linux, SSH, subversion, TortoiseSVN0
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I wrote about autocompletion for TEdits before here, here and here. My dzlib contains several helper functions to add TEdit-autocompletion for directories, files (with a filter) and generic strings from a string list. All of… … Read more
3 months ago in Delphi, dzLib0
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I wanted to try Proxmox VE on one of the BMAX B6 mini PCs we recently bought – the ones which turned out to not meet the Windows 11 minimum requirements – and ran into… … Read more
5 months ago in linux, Proxmox0
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You would think that if you buy a computer that comes preinstalled with Windows 11 it would satisfy the minimum system requirements for Windows 11. Well, think again. We recently bought two BMAX B6 Power… … Read more
5 months ago in windows, Windows 110
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I just had the need for a safer version of Delphi’s GetEnumName, which checks whether the enum value passed to it is actually valid. This is what I came up with: // P must point… … Read more
5 months ago in Delphi0