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Since many of the instructions I found on the internet seem to be flawed or at least outdated, here is how I managed to enable two factor authentication (2fa) with (time based) OTP in Ubuntu… … Read more
1 year ago in linux, SSH0
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I have recently converted the file system of some of our Samba servers from ext4 to ZFS. The idea was to use ZFS’s compression feature to reduce the space some excessingly large files consume which… … Read more
1 year ago in linux, zfs0
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Yesterday, all of a sudden, one of my Delphi programs failed to connect to various WMS servers on the internet. I got the following error message: Error connecting with SSL. error 1409442E:SSL routine:ssl3_read_bytes:tlsv1 alert protocol… … Read more
1 year ago in Delphi0
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I recently came across an entry in c’t Magazin‘s FAQ about backing up Windows drivers for a fresh Windows installation. Their suggestion was to utilise the pnputil tool that is included with Windows. Further research… … Read more
2 years ago in windows, Windows 100
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Mein Vortrag von den Forentagen zum Thema Ansteuerung von Sensoren auf Messfahrzeugen aus Delphi ist jetzt als Download (OpenOffice Impress Format) verfügbar oder auch direkt in HTML. Ebenso die gezeigten Sourcecode-Ausschnitte. … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, German Only0
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Am 13. und 14. Oktober 2023 finden in Kassel zum ersten Mal nach der Corona-Pandemie die Forentage der deutschen Delphi-Foren statt. Ich wollte mich schon immer mal öffentlich blamieren und habe mich deshalb freiwillig gemeldet,… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi0
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With the recent update Mozialla make Thunderbird less secure again. Not only does it still not have an option to display the sender address instead or at least in addition to the sender’s “Name” (In… … Read more
2 years ago in thunderbird0
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Over the last few weeks I have moved all those of my projects that I had moved to OSDN back to SourceForge. (No, I won’t move them to Github. I prefer Subversion over git and… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi0
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I recently set up a Samba Server using Ubuntu 22.04 as an NT domain controller (not Active Directory!). After quite some time fiddling with the settings and finally getting external help it worked. I could… … Read more
2 years ago in linux, Samba0
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I am a big fan of the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg – although I have been there only once and that was years ago, but I still follow them on YouTube and I regularly watch… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi0
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After several weeks (or was it even months) of being dead, OSDN just “magically” was resurrected. At least the web page now works again, albeit rather slowly, (but it never was fast to start with)…. … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi0
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A in 2018 the reliabiltiy of SourceForge seemed to be way down and getting worse. Back then, I moved several of my open source projects to OSDN which used an older version of the SourceForge… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi0
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When running stand alone, GExperts Grep Results can not be opened in the IDE. Instead an external text editor is used. This editor and the required parameters to open the file and set the cursor… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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It has always irked me that in C you can write: But in Delphi you have to use the much less readable Today I had enough and wrote these simple helper functions: With these you… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi0
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I have been playing around with PuTTY (Yes, I know, a grown man playing with putty evokes some rather odd pictures. I’m talking about the ssh client tool here though). recently and discovered a few… … Read more
2 years ago in linux, windows0