After getting Delphi 2007 to work again I tried to do the same for Delphi 2005 and 2006. Both versions require the dotNET framework 1.1 which is officially no longer supported on Windows 8 (and 8.1). According to Microsoft, you should contact your independent software vendor (ISV) to have the application upgraded to run on … Continue reading Delphi 2005/2006 on Windows 8.1 (64 bit)
Delphi 2007 on Windows 8.1 (64 bit)
When I updated to Windows 8.1 my Delphi 2007 installation broke. I could no longer open projects in the IDE and my command line compilation scripts also stopped working. It turned out that some files that were added by the installer to the dotNET framework were missing. In addition there is a known problem with … Continue reading Delphi 2007 on Windows 8.1 (64 bit)
More on BitTorrent Sync
Following up on my post on BitTorrent Sync here is some more information and use cases. There is at least one alternative to BitTorrent Sync that is open source: Seafile is a cloud service. I have only read about it on their website but it looks interesting. Now to the use case: If you are … Continue reading More on BitTorrent Sync
All registered users deleted and blocked
I just deleted over 700 "users" who registered to my blog. Most, I am sure, were just spam bots, I am sorry if some of you were real people. Registering is now blocked as is commenting. I got tired of all the notification e-mails from WordPress. In over a year there was only ever two … Continue reading All registered users deleted and blocked
headless server fun
A new Ubuntu based server I have set up recently had a power failure which unexpectedly resulted in the box not booting again. There were actually two problems: fsck failed on the data mount because one of the data drives apparently had failed. It took forever but eventually prompted for user input "S" to skip … Continue reading headless server fun
Bittorrent Sync, a secure DropBox alternative
The company I work for recently had the requirement to securely exchange files between several computers, some on site, several others off site. This data consisted in part of sensitive data which is covered by the German Bundesdatenschutzgesetz. Somebody suggested using DropBox because it is so simple to use. I had to deny this request … Continue reading Bittorrent Sync, a secure DropBox alternative
Installing Ubuntu Server
This is just a list of URLs I found useful while installing an Ubuntu 12.04 server. Ubuntu Network Configuration - needed for changing the IP address to static and configuring DNS Installing Webmin on Ubuntu BTRFS Fun That's it for now, I'll expand this list as I run into other issues.
Thunderbird and plain text e-mails
One of the things that have irked me with Thunderbird from the beginning was its insistence of defaulting to HTML e-mails. E-mail for me is about the text, not about formatting and even less about embedding pictures and what have you. But Thunderbird descends from Netscape Communicator who was the pioneer in this annoying HTML … Continue reading Thunderbird and plain text e-mails
jiggling the mouse
Did you ever want to prevent the screen saver to start because your program is displaying something and you didn't want to force the user to move the mouse every now and then? Until Windows XP it was possible to prevent the screen saver from becoming active by just handling the WM_SYSCOMMAND message with wParam … Continue reading jiggling the mouse
How to waste hours with computer problems
I just wasted several hours with yet another computer problem. Some Background: We are using a Ubuntu based server which runs Samba as a file server for Windows computers. It also is a local name server and mail server. Yesterday it was that time again that I had to reboot it because of some Linux … Continue reading How to waste hours with computer problems