Keeping track of changes in the Linux configuration can be a chore but sometimes it is vital to know what was changed. As a software developer I am used to using version control systems for source code, so why not use one for configuration files? Enter etckeeper a tool that does exactly that: It tracks … Continue reading etckeeper – version your /etc directory
Month: February 2018
When Mozilla Thunderbird gives you 0 bytes attachments
.. make lemonade. Yes, that would be nice, but unfortunately we are not talking about life and lemons here. Today a coworker had a problem with Mozilla Thunderbird: She could no longer open attachments sent to her. Saving these attachments resulted in 0 byte files. This nearly drove me nuts: The email source looked fine … Continue reading When Mozilla Thunderbird gives you 0 bytes attachments
Fixing the Delphi 10.2.2 February 2018 Patch
UPDATE: The problem was that I was using Delphi 10.2.2 build 1978. Apparently I have missed an update in December 2017 to build 2004. I have downloaded and installed the new version, and now the patch worked fine. I hereby apologize for being stupid, because it clearly says in the description: This patch for RAD … Continue reading Fixing the Delphi 10.2.2 February 2018 Patch
Deleting old backups
Let's say you have a directory of backups looking like this: .\ \-> user1\ \-> [date1]_[time1] \-> [date2]_[time2] \-> some more sub directories with date and time in the name \-> user2\ \-> [date3]_[time3] \-> [date4]_[time4] \-> some more sub directories with date and time in the name \-> some more user sub directories Where … Continue reading Deleting old backups
My improved version of IMAPCopy
IMAPcopy is a tool written by Armin Diehl. Its purpose is to copy emails from one IMAP server to another (or from one IMAP account to another) including the folder hierarchy and even the read status. It's a command line program written in Delphi and fpc. Since I am currently migrating a mail server I … Continue reading My improved version of IMAPCopy
Extended = Double in Lazarus Win64
Note to self: In Lazarus Win64 there is no floating point type Extended, it's mapped to Double. So, overloading something like: will not compile. Workaround: Add an {$IFNDEF Win64} around it: This probably also applies to Delphi when compiling for others than the Win32 target, e.g. Win64, Android, IOS etc.
Warning: RAD Studio 10.2.2 Tokyo February 2018 Patch has issues
Embarcadero just released a patch for RAD Studio 10.2.2. I downloaded and installed it, and regretted doing that: It breaks linking projects with runtime packages, like GExperts, any other IDE expert and probably also most component packages. See here for a discussion. I submitted a bug report as RSP-19914.
Web Proxy Autoconfiguration
Since the last time I looked up how to configure the Web Proxy, apparently somebody came up with WPAD - the Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (Or maybe I simply missed it). The idea is quite neat: In the dhcp server, add an entry where the browser can request an url which in turn returns the … Continue reading Web Proxy Autoconfiguration
how resolvconf generates /etc/resolv.conf
In olden times, we would add entries for name resolution to /etc/resolv.conf and be done with it. Nowadays, with these newfangled scripts that change the configuration all the time, this file simply gets overwritten by a tool/library called resolvconf, so if we want to add something permanently to it, we must do it somewhere else. … Continue reading how resolvconf generates /etc/resolv.conf
Switching a XenServer VM from HVM to PVM
(Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert with XenServer. So please don’t take anything you read here for granted. It’s my own experience and what I found in documentation and online.) Switching a XenServer Linux VM from hardware assisted virtualization to paravirtualization nowadays is quite simple, since most Linux distributions already come with a … Continue reading Switching a XenServer VM from HVM to PVM