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ICS has a component TIcsBlackList that can be used by servers to count access attempts by IP address, and block after a specified number of attempts until after several hours of inactivity. It's use is illustrated in the OverbyteIcsSslMultiWebServ sample. Just noticed these lines in the log for one of my web servers, someone using Alibaba Cloud in Hong Kong has made almost three million access attempts to my web site over several weeks, trying to read access data that is limited to 50 accesses per day. And still trying despite those requests being rejected. 47.76.209.138 attempts 1,481,269, first at 12:18:52, last at 20:00:17 BLOCKED 47.76.99.127 attempts 1,478,638, first at 12:04:36, last at 19:58:57 BLOCKED Should really be reporting the date of first access, but don't normally see hackers continuing this long. The sample shows various ways to detect hackers, such as web site access by IP address instead of host name, that stops hundreds daily on my sites (no HTTP allowed). Angus

I recently upgraded my old C++ Builder 2009 to C++ Builder 11. It was time .. and I wanted to make use of the new GUI improvements (Styles, Scaling, High DPI etc). GUI stuff in other words. To that end I spent a lot of money to get a license. Everything is relative, but to me this is the biggest investment in quite some time and the biggest software investment ever. I have always been happy with Builder 2009 and yes, there were some issues that I had to work around, but not too many. Since I have upgraded I have already reported close to 20 bugs. Never ever did I have to .. It's also making me nervous as to when these things will get fixed, if at all, as it impacts my work. The silver lining at least was that my bugs triggered interaction. I saw them being escalated to development or they were assigned to me again to provide more information. All that has stopped in the last few weeks. For all the last bugs there has been zero interaction. Nothing, as if nobody cares. The GUI work involves custom controls for which I need the help files, to be able to apply the Styles properly etc. In itself already poorly documented but for 3 weeks now docwiki has predominantly been unavailable. There are already other posts about that, so I won't get into the specifics of that, but it adds to what looks like a systemic failure. - Many bugs in the very features they're touting about and that convinced me to upgrade - Nothing appears to be done about it, nobody seems to care - Docwiki offline, nothing seems to be done about it, nobody (at embarcadero) seems to care The person most responsive in QA before and who has not responded anymore has a Ukrainian name. Perhaps coincidence, perhaps my paranoia but how exposed is Embarcadero development and support to Ukraine. Is this the reason for all the recent issues ? If so, communicating about it would at least renew confidence. All this nonsense would not be necessary if they would just COMMUNICATE about the issues (docwiki for instance). The silence only feeds the idea of a failing company or at least a failing product and I feel bad for having invested my time and money in this at this stage. My 'happy life' with Builder 2009, the type of work I'm doing with it and the low exposure to issues may have made me blind to something that is well known and has been happening for years ? I don't know ? Maybe I shouldn't worry because this is business as usual ? In which case I wish I had done my homework though.

That sounds like making underwear for people with a left leg, a right leg, or both. Given that most of the world has two legs, it seems like a lot of needless work to deal with just one or the other.

Good product but... It's 2024(almost 2025) not 2004, dividing sales for 64 vs 32 bit, don't know even how to comment it... I can understand that building new website does not make sense and it's enough to keep look like in 1996 It should be one product for one price while install user should choose if want to install 32 or 64 version or both. Just suggestion to consider.

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I have used a Clever Components support ticket (I have never had any other way to contact them) to send Sergey a link to this thread and ask him to comment.

Thanks John for this post. Well, very interesting info which puts new light, maybe they scammed Sergey first that's why clever guys disappered? Or why not both ways? ☺ Would be good if anyone from clever could commet there and cut speculations..

Sergey pushed a change to this repo 2 months ago, so he was doing something. It's a shame if they're not responding to customers.

The whole MS Microsoft ECO-System gained it's competitive advantage by off-shoring to Russia in the 1990s at the time of Y2K (in comparison to IBM). It has always been about (big) Enterprise(s) and nothing else. Afterwards there have been several economic development programs in the U.S. aiming at moving companies to the West in a legal sense at least (subsidies for founding companies). It's more or less a copy of the British off-shoring (deindustrialization of England in the 1970s) idea. As far as business is concerned no change with Russia so far. If you think of the prime minister of Estonia, she's touting extreme Anti-Russian propaganda on one hand and her husband still does extensive business with Russian companies on the other still. A second reason was a gain in reputation by setting up the company in the U.S. and within the U.S. in the state with the most restrictive terms and laws concerning business (SQL Detective & Co for example). The one who setup the business portion is a former director of Oracle Marketing manger from Austria and 'friend', a big word, of mine. The economy of Russia in contrary to the E.U. is far more liberal and younger, so it's no surprise that one-man shows and smaller companies have a fair chance to succeed. When we grew up in Austria during the so called steel-crisis in the mid 1980s the situation was not that bad as in Russia in the 1990s but from the perspective of the material flow the Germans put their goods into their shelves setup up here (Aldi/Hofer). At the peak of this evolution we had three kind of shops for food. Discounters, luxury stores and market stands at the backyard of the parts in the city populated by the Turkish community offering the best fruits and vegetables one could grab. Pretty much the same happend to the vast majority third-party vendors after 10 years as far as Delphi was concerned. Things don't work out this way, such transition things happen in a well organized manner in order not to run into shortages. Local products disappear for about 10 to 15 years from the Business to Customer part of an classic industrial consumption society an move into B2B, especially when evolving from non-industrial lines to industrial ones (carpenter vs. . Another trick in Austria was to invest free business and the matching licenses and everyone with money on the savings account could get one and access the product from B2B. Follow the model and introduce exceptions (to the rules) whenever applicable. In the meanwhile some carpenters turned their small companies into furniture factories (more automation, machines instead of heavy tools) and tourism as well as the business with Russia was the supporting driver of this evolution. What was needed, was a higher price level. A third tendency was to cut off the growing dominance of shops from Russia (in a sense of protection) on the Huge Java stacks for example in middle of the first decade after Millennium shift.

🤣 Well that me actually laughing out loud after a day from hell, thanks 😂

As an Ingress player, I always have to check whether I am in a Niantic or an Embarcadero forum, when I read stuff like this.

In fairness, I have yet to be involved with a technical company that does webinars well. Technical problems are endemic, basically because a) they expect everything will work and b) no one does a pre-test. As to timing, I suspect no one is particularly concerned, on the production side.

I've got no beef with the content itself. Sure the content could be much better, for me personally there was almost nothing of interest, but I guess that's more a case of what speakers they're able to sign up. The problem I'm talking about is the production of the sessions. I mean how difficult is it to ensure that sessions doesn't run over time, that the sound works and there 's capacity to handle everyone signed up. And when things go wrong we don't need to hear every random thought that goes through the moderators head, spoken out loud as he fumbles with trying to resolve the issues. It's just not professional and it's disrespectful to the audience who has taken time out of their busy schedule to participate. I have no patience for amateurs who don't know they're amateurs. Maybe if the production improved then the content would also improve.

And what about us who don't know English?

Someone at EMB or IDERA should communicatie then why problems are not solved as expected. But communication besides sales spam is the biggest problem for EMB. (this is again a plus point for moving to another dev platform, the minus points are not holding it for many years i think)

In the quality portal you get response while they validate your report and try to prove it's how the product works and not a bug. After that unfortunately there is no response at all (not even in which version and time frame when the fix will be shipped). Usually you will get no response about the issue at all. Do I think this is the right way? Of course not. As sometimes it's critical to us to know how to communicate with our clients as we have also to plan and communicate to clients when we can ship the fixed product. For some unknown reason who ever decides the future of the product cuts off the communications with the developers (there was a brief period when even on this forum you was able to get honest answers). Instead of a clear communication we can get only promotion materials how everything is nice and shiny (and that's true when you try hello world applications, but as soon as you try to do something more complication you will discover bugs). For me the latest bad sign is that they abandoned the idea that we should have a roadmap. Now you can only read the future of the products only from your coffee mug and that's not a fun thing to do when my managers asks me what is the next step.

@Remy Lebeau There was major issue in Windows 7 common with ssl (freezed connection for many seconds) whereas clever worked there like a charm. + lack of advanced TLS certification flags options and so on quickly made my decision to leave native Delphi http

It's joke components, I have tried their demo 4 years ago (access violation) I have tried now 4 years later and many releases ahead, still the same. Cannot treat it seriously if their own demo does not work.

Well if they are still using MyCommerce, chances are that they are abandoned as this platform is screwing all of its customers. See: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/15/digital_river_runs_dry_hasnt/

Unfortunately obsolete abandoned, used to be the best.... IMHO mycommerce should stop selling that if there is no support as more users reporting. Users paying not only for code but mainly for support which seems to be non-existing now.

No news from them for quite some time, what pity. Open tickets are not answered anymore.

Solid components, anyway now from about a year it looks more like abandoned project (no support) and releases are very very rare now.

To me it looks like it's a Russian company pretending to be a US company - If it's even a company.

That could explain that they are not present on FB (last post from 2022), YT last video is 3 years old.

They don't have to answer each and every question here and elsewhere. They just need to issue a statement. Once. After having endured the amateurish execution of the last few webinars I for one will pass on this one. They badly need a professional, grownup to handle these events. After DelphiCon 2021 my client asked me if I could suggest which replays they should watch. I've pretended to forget about that because I'm frankly embarrassed about it.