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 things I didn't know. You can specify the user name to connect with I already knew that there is a … Continue reading A few things I recently learned about PuTTY (the ssh client)
Month: July 2023
Testing zlib compression in Delphi
Delphi has for a while contained two classes that simplify stream compression: TZCompressionStream TZDecompressionStream I had not used them before and when I tried to use them now to compress and decompress some binary data that is stored as part of a large file, I got some inexplicable results. So I wrote this little test … Continue reading Testing zlib compression in Delphi
Warning: Windows Update KB5028166 breaks NT Domains
Just in case we are not the only ones still using Samba with an NT domain: Windows Update KB5028166 which will automatically be installed on Windows 10 today, breaks compatibility with that domain type. After the installation, a login with a domain account no longer works. Removing that update fixes the issue, but of course … Continue reading Warning: Windows Update KB5028166 breaks NT Domains
Some JPEG XL information
This is mostly for me so I can look it up again later: JPEG XL is a new (for appropriate definitions of "new") picture compression algorithm (and much more). One very interesting option is to losslessly recode JPEG files to JXL and back. There is a reference implementation with sources and binary releases on GitHub … Continue reading Some JPEG XL information