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While likely intended for social issues, this quote seems to also apply to software development: “For every complex problem. there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”  —Henry Louis Mencken

To see a list of all pages Google has indexed for a website, in the Google search-box enter site:sitename.com (e.g. site:offeman.com).  Interestingly, site:google.com has almost 5 billion results where site:yahoo.com only has 1 billion.

After reading the manual and figuring out that the EZ Flash Utility needed a FAT formatted USB drive I consulted the manual again to see if the CMOS could be reset (since the PC bricked after the BIOS upgrade). Luckily the CMOS can be cleared via a jumper on the motherboard: Switching the jumper as […]

Read me first: the USB stick that has the new .ROM file MUST be formatted with FAT (not NTFS). Directly from the manual   Step 1: Prepare your USB stick (if I need to tell you formatting a drive will delete all files on that drive, please don’t try upgrading your BIOS) Step 2: Download […]

Many thanks to Jordi Corbilla for his excellent post on using ADPlus, Windbg and map2dbg to analyze windows’ crash dump files from Delphi applications.

While dynamic and VM languages have been in vogue, Delphi and Free Pascal have been quietly chugging along.  Using Pascal one can natively target most leading operating systems and hardware platforms.  Plus native code is fast. Although partial to Delphi for Windows development, Lazarus is an excellent cross-platform IDE.  The screenshot on the left is […]

Just loaded a new Windows Server 2008 R2 instance into Hyper-V and IE welcomes new users with: Since I couldn’t remember how to turn off “IE ESC” I decided I should blog it. Go to Server Manager and in the Security Information section click on Configure IE ESC:   Then turn off the “safety net”. […]

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Run the Windows command prompt (cmd.exe) as Administrator and type: powercfg –h off which freed up over 32Gb on my new PC’s C drive.

Paraphrasing from the Optimale Systemer AS website, Smart Mobile Studio brings the power of pascal to the browser and RAD to javascript.  While in beta, the promise is appealing for old-time Delphi developers.