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/etc/gps.conf

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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The GpsLocationProvider in Android reads /etc/gps.conf in order to determine the NTP server to poll. The default configuration is: NTP_SERVER=north-america...
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Fidonet Nodelist 1991

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Stumbled across a piece of history while surfing the web - Fidonet Nodelist 1991. In 1991, I was Fidonet 6:600/321. Strangely, I was under the impression...
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How to test for inheritance: Delphi and Java

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Testing for inheritance in Java and in Delphi: Java Delphi if (o instanceof T1) if o is T1 then
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Constructing classes using class reference

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Polymorphic class creation in Java and in Delphi: Java Delphi Class t[] = {Class1.class, Class2.class} Class LClass = t[x].newinstance(); type TCommonClass...
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Linus likes Microsoft a little...

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Linus likes Microsoft a little bit because of the fantastic song mixed by Microsoft Songsmith (the wording reminds me a bit of Borland's illfated ReportSmith...
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C#, Delphi for .NET, Delphi Win32, Java and now Android...

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Years ago, I took Lutz Roeder's C# implementation of Digger and translated it into Delphi for Win32 and Delphi.NET at the same time, and designed a...
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What's a thread dump in layman terms?

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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One of the rarer times when I have to translate computer lingo to English. When asked what's a thread dump, I responded: Me: A thread is a task given...
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An idea on unifying counselling and technical support...

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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An idea has been germinating in my mind on how counselling and technical support can be unified and married up. Will probably write up further on this...
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HOWTO: Removing the Android window title

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Each Android window has a title. To remove it, in the onCreate method, make a call to requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); before calling setContentView...
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HOWTO: Removing the Android status bar

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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To remove the Android status bar, execute the following statements in the onCreate method before making a call to setContentView(R.layout.main); int flag...
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HOWTO: Detecting and switching screen orientation

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Make a call to setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE); to get the app displayed in landscape mode, and setRequestedOrientation...
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How to block IPs with IPSec?

Posted over 19 years ago

by chuacw
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I've been thinking about blocking IPs using IPSec in Windows 2003 Server, programmatically. Does anyone have any ideas? Recently, I've been receiving a...
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Mistakes made and lessons learnt!

Posted over 19 years ago

by chuacw
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One of the biggest mistake I've made recently when dealing with a customer is to assume that their installation didn't change. On 3 Aug, customer sent...
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Completing Web Deploy

Posted over 19 years ago

by chuacw
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One of the nicer features in Delphi 7 was the Web Deploy feature for those who developed ActiveX libraries. I've recently completed a prototype of Web...
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A referer blocker for DotText

Posted over 19 years ago

by chuacw
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I've been tired of getting comments and trackback posts for DotText that are essentially spam. Hence, using Borland Developer Studio 2006, I enhanced Dottext...
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Movies CMS

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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I've begun working on a proprietary CMS for movies since last Thursday. There is not much for show yet. The CMS will be architected using C#, ASP.NET,...
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Movies CMS design decisions 2

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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In creating the Movie CMS , one of the design decisions I had to make was whether to use Master Pages , or Web Controls. Master Pages is a technique for...
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ASP.NET: The importance of checking for IsPostBack 2

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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It is very important to check for IsPostBack during Page_Load. Why this is so is because, weird things might happen otherwise. In the Movies CMS I was...
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Nearing completion: Movies CMS

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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After nearly two weeks of 12-14 hours intensive coding every day, with breaks of less than 20 minutes for 3 meals each day, the Movie CMS is nearing completion...
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Disabling User Access Control on Vista

Posted over 18 years ago

by chuacw
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Today, learnt how to disable user access control within Windows Vista. As I'm currently hosting Vista within a VMWare partition, and wanted to minimized...
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Search engine for code

Posted over 18 years ago

by chuacw
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koders
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List of Delphi / BDS Open Tools interfaces

Posted over 18 years ago

by chuacw
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The Open Tools interfaces in Borland Developer Studio provides much functionality, allowing users to customize the menu, access the debugger, and add keyboard...
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Work on new Web Deploy plug-in

Posted over 18 years ago

by chuacw
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These past two days had been vacation time for me. I've taken the opportunity to rest my tired body and mind. At the same time, yesterday, I've...
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Web Deploy's INF architecture

Posted over 18 years ago

by chuacw
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Looked into how to generate cab files today, and how an INF file describes what's in the cab file, and so on and so forth. Microsoft's document...
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Setting properties of another WinForm's control

Posted over 18 years ago

by chuacw
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I haven't been working on CCWSpy.NET for a long while, as I've been busy. In fact, looking at my last blog entry on the application, I've discovered...