FYI: New post category: Blog Post

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FYI: New post category: Blog Post
Feel free to use it for your own Delphi blog posts, or the blog posts of others that you happen to share.

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  1. Eric GrangeMay 7, 2014 at 4:57 AM

    David Millington hehe same doubts here

    Lars Fosdal nice addition!

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  2. Lars FosdalMay 7, 2014 at 5:23 AM

    I saw that same conundrum and decided to do something about it :)

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  3. Bill MeyerMay 7, 2014 at 5:25 AM

    Eric Grange Ah, but were the doubts about your writing, or David's? ;)

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  4. Andrea RaimondiMay 7, 2014 at 5:33 AM

    Can we use it to wrte our own blog posts directly in the category? :D

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  5. Lars FosdalMay 7, 2014 at 5:36 AM

    Sure :)

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  6. Eric GrangeMay 7, 2014 at 5:55 AM

    Bill Meyer ah, didn't even think of that interpretation, mine of course!
    Though "I made this" sounded a bit like showing off as well, so both were just variants one the presumptuous theme :)

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  7. Bill MeyerMay 7, 2014 at 6:07 AM

    Eric Grange Well, being buried in legacy code, I am inclined to look at the humorous side of things. 

    I do think, though, that we all have insights which we've developed from our varied experiences, and sharing them is almost always of value. An insight doesn't have to be mind-boggling to be useful. So before we take on too much humility to commit things to writing, it's worth considering that the value is, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder.

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  8. Lars FosdalMay 7, 2014 at 6:42 AM

    I'm in the process of migrating to a new laptop (from a 4 year old Lenovo W500 to a brand spanking new W540).  Talking about legacy stuff... sooo much stuff to reinstall and reconfigure.... and it's going to take a year to examine all the files on the old drive and move them.  Perhaps I should just yank out the old drive and get a USB3 cabinet to have it handy for future spelunking?

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  9. Bill MeyerMay 7, 2014 at 6:43 AM

    Lars Fosdal The external box would be my approach. That said, I just spent 6 months on a laptop with serious USB3 problems. The drive (reliable when attached to my desktop system) would just disappear, usually in the middle of transferring a 30GB VM image...

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  10. Lars FosdalMay 7, 2014 at 6:47 AM

    Ouch! Was it powered by the port, or did it have it's own power supply?

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  11. Bill MeyerMay 7, 2014 at 6:54 AM

    Lars Fosdal Its own supply. And went through various updates to BIOS (from v2 to v8 in six months) and drivers. All without improvement. Won't name the vendor, except to say that they take a lot of latitude in providing support. ;)

    Finally, 2 weeks ago, it began to deteriorate very badly. I suspect the SSD had problems. One morning, it would not boot. Went through various adventures, finally got it running, and was treated to the default profile. Support had me re-image. Subsequently experienced another boot failure. After a 13 hour day with the machine and with support, I got agreement from IT to replace the machine. The vendor support got me nowhere.

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  12. Lars FosdalMay 7, 2014 at 6:55 AM

    I've been spared such events so far.  Touch wood!

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  13. Bill MeyerMay 7, 2014 at 7:01 AM

    Lars Fosdal No one should have to go through that sort of nonsense.

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