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Making your web browsing experience even more private!

Posted over 6 years ago

by chuacw

Cloudflare recently launched a faster way of looking up domain names , much faster than Google. In partnership with Cloudflare, Firefox added a new way...
Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Delphi 7 Service Pack 1?

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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By all indications in the Google News, it appears that there is a strong demand for a Service Pack for Delphi 7. Going by Borland Software Corporation...
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Fixing the blank screen problem in Nexus One Android 2.3.3

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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Fix for Android 2.3.3 Blank Screen issue as documented here - Issue 15135 : 2.3.3: Blank screen when returning to Home screen Backup files first mkdir...
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Upgrading OpenWRT and reinstalling packages

Posted over 9 years ago

by chuacw
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Before upgrade, save the list of installed packages: opkg list-installed > /etc/config/packages.installed Download upgrade: wget -O /tmp/upgrade.tar...
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How to force a configuration variable to be false/true

Posted over 2 years ago

by chuacw
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require("dotenv").config(); const FORCEUPDATE = String(process.env.UPDATESILENCE_FORCEUPDATE) == "true" The dotenv module makes the...
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Movies CMS: Selecting an appropriate movie

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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So, the Movies CMS now looks like this. (To see a better view, click on it, or open it in another window). The list of movies above are generated dynamically...
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My RSS Reader update

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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Today is the National Day for Singapore. Yup, it's 9 th Aug 2004. Singapore has been independent since 1965. Check out more history about Singapore here...
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The mechanics of an ICO - how to do a crowdsale

Posted over 6 years ago

by chuacw
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How do you do a crowdsale, or raise an ICO? Get your whitepaper written and reviewed by a legal entity, such as the Blockchain Advisory Council , or the...
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Constructing instances of a descendant class in C#, Delphi and Java

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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Lutz Roeder originally wrote Digger in C# many years ago. In 2004, I ported it first to Delphi.NET , and then to Delphi for Win32 . In February 2009, I...
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The Aztech DSL1015EW DNS problem

Posted over 12 years ago

by chuacw
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The Aztech DSL1015EW is perfect for a router, except that it comes with a problem that no other routers should have. It doesn't resolve or forward...
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From Delphi to Java: tricks in thread execution

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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In the two comic viewers , portions of the application retrieves images from the web in the background, using a thread. While coding up a solution, I remembered...
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Speed up your browsing with Firefox!

Posted over 4 years ago

by chuacw
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Firefox now has HTTP3! Enable it by setting network.http.http3.enabled to true!
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Listing ESXi sources, updating VMware and using external USB drive on ESXi 6 as datastore

Posted over 9 years ago

by chuacw
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Instructions for updating VIB sources -- nothing to do with getting your USB recognized esxcli software sources vib list -d http://vibsdepot.v-front.de...
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Lessons learnt from software development management failures...

Posted over 4 years ago

by chuacw
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There's a lot of lessons to be learnt from observing how product management and development teams fail to manage software products properly. One of...
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Command line used to compile System.pas in Delphi

Posted over 4 years ago

by chuacw
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Learn the command line used to compile System.pas in Delphi
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Reverse engineering the Web3 API

Posted over 6 years ago

by chuacw

I've been working on the Web3 API for quite a while now. The JSON RPC protocol is documented here and the Web3 API is documented here , however, there...
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Adventures in translating Java to Delphi.NET: Part 1

Posted over 16 years ago

by chuacw
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I was on a software archaeology mission, to convert a Java application to a Delphi.NET application. The mission is necessary, so I won't blog about...
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Flushing the CPU cache on ARM, Google Android

Posted over 10 years ago

by chuacw
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On ARMv7 processors running Google Android, it's necessary to flush the CPU cache for reasons stated here . As the Android NDK misses some files out...
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Getting access to the Aztech DSL1015EW console

Posted over 12 years ago

by chuacw
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To get access to the Aztech DSL1015EW(S) console, you need to have a SSH client, for example, putty . You would also need to clear the router's password...
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Delphi and C# comparison

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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This Delphi and C# comparison was taken from Dan Miser 's blog here . Features C# has that Delphi doesn't foreach operators using, lock, checked and unchecked...
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My RSS Reader - Common mistakes in comparing TDateTime values

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
- 4 Comments
So, I found two friends who are willing to test “My RSS Reader” for me. Thanks to Jeremy North and David Clegg are due here. In designing “My...
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NotifyModuleUnload

Posted over 4 years ago

by chuacw
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Since Delphi 3, NotifyModuleUnload in the System unit has been written the way it is now. procedure NotifyModuleUnload(HInstance: THandle); var P: PModuleUnloadRec;...
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Blocking an IP for 23 hours

Posted over 4 years ago

by chuacw
- 2 Comments
One of the issues I have, running a blog site I own, is that there are certain automated entities on the Internet that likes to poll my website every half...
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Borland QualityCentral: What you should do about Delphi bugs

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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If you develop simple software using Delphi, you'll find that Delphi is a wonderful tool that satisfies all or most of your needs. When you begin to develop...
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Tip of the day for Grafana

Posted over 2 years ago

by chuacw
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💡Regular expressions in Grafana for silencing alerts have to match the entire value of the field for it to work. A partial match wouldn’t work....