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I'll take that opportunity and talk about it for an entire session at the Delphi Day and the Delphi Summit (the schedule still lists me talking about spring4d but for once I pass on that topic) 😉

Interestingly the Delphi compiler did some optimization for multiplication by const for quite a while but it was weird and not very well - see https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-38636. Unfortunately, when implementing this someone missed looking into the instruction timings of imul vs the replacements and so we got a degradation in some cases - see https://embt.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/RSS-1011.

I actually did that a couple of months ago, but lost my little "how to". So here is the basic steps taken from this link https://sid-500.com/2017/10/26/how-to-digitally-sign-powershell-scripts/ and an SO answer: Generate the key: New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName email@yourdomain.com -Type CodeSigning -CertStoreLocation cert:\CurrentUser\My Export the certificate without the private key: Export-Certificate -Cert (Get-ChildItem Cert:\CurrentUser\My -CodeSigningCert)[0] -FilePath code_signing.crt The [0] will make this work for cases when you have more than one certificate... Obviously make the index match the certificate you want to use... or use a way to filtrate (by thumprint or issuer). Import it as Trusted Publisher Import-Certificate -FilePath .\code_signing.crt -Cert Cert:\CurrentUser\TrustedPublisher Import it as a Root certificate authority. Import-Certificate -FilePath .\code_signing.crt -Cert Cert:\CurrentUser\Root Sign the script (assuming here it's named script.ps1, fix the path accordingly). Set-AuthenticodeSignature .\script.ps1 -Certificate (Get-ChildItem Cert:\CurrentUser\My -CodeSigningCert) And that should do it for your machine. Obviously the last steps need to be done on every client that is supposed to recognize this certificate.

No. It's not a matter of configuring the control. To overcome this annoyance, one must owner draw it, which is quite a lot of work. The correct way would be to slap the stupid idiot^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^DUX designer at Microsoft who made this decision until he sees the light and reverts it. Since this is not going to happen, every software developer must decide for himself whether he thinks it's worth the effort to fix this annoyance everywhere. Usually the decision will be to not bother unless his customers complain loudly and/or pay him for the effort.

Yes, this has annoyed me in nearly every Windows program for many years. I often want to highlight something or select a row in a list, then go to a different program and look back at the other program to type something in that is similar or whatever and when I look back, the highlight is gone until I switch focus back to that program. I don't understand why someone thought this was better and designed the OS this way.

You need to use a <PRE> tag and then set the background. This article tells you how: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10349883/can-i-add-a-background-to-a-pre-on-blogger There are better ways of doing it - I suggest you read this post: https://blog.paoloamoroso.com/2021/10/how-to-add-code-syntax-highlighting-to.html

Before doing so, the developer needs to get assigned a task for it. This requires the product management to schedule such a task, which itself requires that there actually exists a request for it. If there isn't already one in the issue tracker I suggest to create one.

On a Mac with Apple Silicon, i.e. M1 or higher, it is. That also means, once you switch to a newer Apple Silicon Mac, you have to recreate all your Intel-based VMs.

Well, creating self signed certificate for code signing is easy as the certificates for key exchange certificates (aka SSL/TLS), it is in the Extended Key Usage defined by OID against BUT , both above are end certificates and not self signed, and code signing by self signed is no-no for any AV or for SmartScreen for many reason 1) the best practice is to have SelfSigned which will be called root that allow to issued and sign CA or end certificate, am talking out of debugging for developers, out of debugging certificates should never be a self signed. 2) Such self signed and any signed certificate signed (issued) by it (CA and end) must have a way to be revoked, this will bring whole different beast to the table, the certificate must have OCSP and/or CRL server that answer for the validity for this certificates, such server must also time stamp with signature its response, CRL and OCSP are fields in certificate with according OID and specific format, CRL response should be signed by the selfsigned while OCSP is really complex response. Sorry for the extended details, but i think it might be useful for some.

I have no idea how blogger works and my HTML skills are very rusty since I stopped handcrafting webpages a while ago. My approach would be to add some CSS for setting the background color for the whole section.

No, it's not there. And I don't plan to put it into Getit.

Considering that Delphi runs fine under Windows for ARM in Parallells on MacOS, it is likely that it will run well on Windows for ARM without a VM layer as well.

Well, we need to trust the exe (and @dummzeuch) as it is currently and that doesn't change in the future. So @dummzeuchcould just create a new self-signed certificate and use that to sign the executable. Sure, Windows will complain at first, because the certificate is not trusted, but adding that certificate to the local store shouldn't be a problem and from that point onward it would work.

There are 2 CSC levels, the first one is allowed for people, the second only for companies.

And don't forget to select MS Build for "developer tools for compiling, building and testing" as that's what the Delphi IDE uses.

New offline helps for Rad Studio 12.1 Athens are published. https://docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/

The new Surface devices aren't shipping yet. I read there is a new emulation layer that is supposed to be faster, and frankly the last version was pretty good, so I'm optimistic. Will be nice to get an updated IDE and compiler though.

I wonder if 42 would do, too...

I have the same UAC setting as you but I don't have any issue with the IDE requesting elevated privileges. There is something suspect on your system. Don't relax UAC settings!

Hey my challenge peeps!! We have finally arrived at the end of the challenge!! It's been a fun ride, to say the least. The final results have been posted, with the usual minor ooopss, of course. Like stated before, I'll be accepting entries until I'm no longer in this plane of existence. A new results table for those entries will be made, and it will include all of the entries, old and new. Eventually, I'll also publish a results table for 400 Stations and 8 threads. Just need a bit of breathing space to get that done. But it will come. Let's hope this repository, and the effort of the participants, can stand as an example of the power that still resides in Object Pascal. Let's hope we can all shut up the nay sayers by merely pointing at it. All the best for you all in your future Object Pascal endeavours!! Cheers, Gus

That is not correct. Technically, the path component is allowed to be empty in any url, per RFC 3986 sections 3 and 3.3: URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ] hier-part = "//" authority path-abempty / path-absolute / path-rootless / path-empty path-abempty = *( "/" segment ) path-absolute = "/" [ segment-nz *( "/" segment ) ] path-noscheme = segment-nz-nc *( "/" segment ) path-rootless = segment-nz *( "/" segment ) path-empty = 0<pchar> RFC 2616 section 3.2.2 tried to restrict an HTTP url to require a non-empty absolute path if the query component is present: http_URL = "http:" "//" host [ ":" port ] [ abs_path [ "?" query ]] But, RFC 2616 section 5.1.2 does allow the path in an HTTP url to be empty: RFC 7230 sections 2.7.1 and 2.7.2 loosen the restriction to allow the path in HTTP and HTTPS urls to be empty: http-URI = "http:" "//" authority path-abempty [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ] https-URI = "https:" "//" authority path-abempty [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ] Why would you an inefficient "Pos" check instead of using something like StartsText() instead? Or simply: "if (FPath = '') or (FPath[1] <> '/')" ?

As François says, you need to open that port using TWSocket, but it might take a long is you have to try 65,000 IP addresses. Build the OverbyteIcsNetTools sample, click the LAN Devices tab, then Start, That uses the IcsNeighbDevices component to build a historic LAN neighbourhood MAC device and IP address table includes ARP and IP range scanning, and reverse host lookup, shows MAC vendor name to help identify devices. Runs in a thread continually checking for new devices. The OverbyteIcsPemTools sample has a Test Host Certificates function that uses the TIcsIpStrmLog to connect to a long list of hosts, that could be adapted to ignore the SSL stuff and just open a port for your IP address list. Angus

Just try to connect to each IP in the range(s) using a TWSocket. If connection succeed, disconnect and store the corresponding IP somewhere, then try the next IP. To speed up the process, you may use an array of TWSocket, each one scanning a sub-range. TWSocket is asynchronous so you don't even need to use threads.

...or AMD uProf with map2pdb - if your system has an AMD processor.

Intel VTune with map2pdb