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Learnt something new...

Posted over 17 years ago

by chuacw
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Several years (around 2001-2002) ago, I thought IT security will become an important focus, and I started a business named "Right Security Consultants"...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Is the code running on the Android emulator?

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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" How can I detect the Android emulator? " is a question a lot of people have asked. The authoritative way is as below. On the Android emulator...
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Next Singapore Delphi User Group meeting

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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The next Singapore Delphi User Group meeting is tentatively planned on 24-27 May. This will coincide with a planned conference on that date. Whether you...
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How to create a Windows 7 bootable rescue USB

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Run grubinst_gui in Administrator mode Select the USB disk under Device. Click Refresh on the Part List, and select Whole Disk (MBR) (if that fails, redo...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Adding two string properties to another property with LiveBindings

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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To add two string properties (of two components) to another component's property in XE5, assuming that the first two components are TLabeledEdit1,...
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Retrieving launch arguments

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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When an Android activity is launched, it is launched with an intent and data. I call these the launch parameters. When it becomes necessary to retrieve...
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Business Continuity Management

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Notes and guidelines on Business Continuity Mnaagement Title Description MAS Business Continuity Management Guidelines Provide financial institutions with...
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Transferring files using Aspera

Posted over 9 years ago

by chuacw
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To download a file from demo.asperasoft.com to C:\temp directory, the instruction to do so is: ascp --mode=recv --user=asperaweb --host=demo.asperasoft...
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Disabling User Access Control on Vista

Posted over 19 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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Batch uninstalling Windows updates

Posted over 10 years ago

by chuacw
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Use WMIC to list all the installed Windows updates, and output it to a file: wmic qfe list brief /format:texttablewsys > UninstallKB.txt Then, use Excel...
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Fixing unresolved external linking errors in BCB2006 for existing/old BCB projects

Posted over 19 years ago

by chuacw
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If you've encountered unresolved external linking errors while compiling old BCB (eg, BCB6) projects in BCB2006, such as [Linker Error] Error: Unresolved...
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SQL query joke

Posted over 17 years ago

by chuacw
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A SQL query goes into a bar, walks up to two tables and says, "Can I join you?"
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How to stop a rollback process and delete a database

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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Recently, I needed to stop a rollback process for a database and drop the database, as the rollback process estimated that it will take 3.5 days! Here's...
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Delphi 8 Update 2

Posted over 21 years ago

by chuacw
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Sources now indicates that Delphi 8 Update #2 would be available in either March or April. Fixes included affects various buggy behaviour not previously...
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Undocumented Delphi 8 Language changes

Posted over 21 years ago

by chuacw
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Before Delphi 8, the following code does not compile. In Delphi 8, the following code compiles. Something to take note of if you're backporting Delphi...
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Adventures in Porting Part 1

Posted over 21 years ago

by chuacw
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Tips on migrating Delphi 4, 5, 6, 7 to Delphi 8...
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Good and bad days

Posted over 21 years ago

by chuacw
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There are good days, and there are bad days. When the days are good, I can get lots of things done. I can come out with a great idea, I can write programs...
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Changing colours on Nexus One trackball

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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Turning on the trackball cd /sys/class/leds/jogball-backlight echo 7 > brightness echo 5 > period echo 255 0 255 > color Turning off the trackball...
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For the entrepreneurs using Delphi...

Posted over 19 years ago

by chuacw
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Delphi (Borland Developer Studio) is a great product and there's a lot of one-man, two-man, or three-man shows out there running great and successful...
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Undocumented Delphi 8 property access specifiers Part 1

Posted over 21 years ago

by chuacw
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This article discusses the new Delphi 8 property access specifiers.
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What's your motivation?

Posted over 17 years ago

by chuacw
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... was a question thrown to me by the VP/GM at a company dinner earlier today, after he heard that I was gonna do an Advanced Diploma in Counselling when...
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Still alive!

Posted over 16 years ago

by chuacw
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He's alive! The Doc's alive! He's in the Old West, but he's alive! - Marty McFly, Back to the Future, Part II These days, I'm busy...
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Published a new Android application

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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I published another Android application today, bringing the total of my published Android applications to 3. The Android Application, Main Viewer NG, also...
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Injecting a class into a JAR archive

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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I've been working on adding a class to a JAR (somefilename.jar) archive, so that I can add functionality to it. First, unzip somefilename.jar to a...
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Working on creating a Mac OS TTrayIcon Delphi component

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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I've been working on a TTrayIcon component for FireMonkey, and for Mac OS since yesterday. My work has yielded some successes. Specifically, I was...