John Kouraklis

@David Schwartz Nothing to do with religious wars. Noone said that Apple doesn't make good product. ...until it does...and then you see what happens to the TCO when you visit Apple Store or spend hours in some forums trying to figure out which terminal command you should execute cause one 10 people in the world know about it You have, also, found a unique approach to all this. Interesting but unique---you are talking about second hand machines. I don't think the argument that Apple's machines are more resistant to price drops is valid any more. In '90s and '00s perhaps but now, as Apple, becomes more popular the prices of used machines drop faster. Just search ebay and, also, keep in mind that what you see is now what your machine will get. But I agree that the update policies on Windows are just annoying... You may see this as a Warrent Baffet investment and a smart move, but there's a small catch here. It is a better investment as long as you are able and happy to afford the initial high investment on something that depreciates rapidly like a laptop. So, investment-wise, the TCO is not only about monies but, also, about good use of funds and the opportunity cost; that is what do you miss and do not do because you had to reserve funds to buy a laptop that represents a highly depreciable asset

@Dany Marmur Yes, I've got some people with experience in education and I've been working in higher education institutions for some time so there's much knowledge and experience in this. Of course, I am always open to people who combine soft dev skills with good knowledge of the education domain. Have you got experience on this?

All of the sudden, the IDE adds 3 or 4 lines of {$R} between the units in the main dpr file. I then delete them and compile the project correctly. The next time I recompile, the {$R} reappear. The {$R} is like this, without any file names or anything else. Anyone has seen this before? Thanks

The version is 10.3.2 and it looks like the dproj had a few entries like this: <Form>$R *.res</Form> as described in a link Dave shared. There were, also, some {$R *.res} at the end of the lines with the units. I hadn't seen them because the file names and the paths are very long going outside the window. Hope now all is good. Thanks

One thing that mac OS does very well (not pefectly) is scaling between 4K and non-4K monitors. Windows gets very confused even with MS apps like word and powerpoint No idea how Linux behaves

There's a patch for this. See here: https://www.cybernog.com/2018/10/MacOS-Mojave-VMware.html 40GB? This must be a VM with the OS only. My VMs easily reach 250GBs

Would be interested to hear your reasoning. I left Apple a while ago and I think their OS is very simplistic to match the tech needs and when things go wrong (because it is unix based system) it is hard to get help. On a positive note, integration between devices is a smooth as it gets for obvious reasons

We're not in '90s anymore. There are many beautiful and powerful laptops out there. The competition is high Apple seems not to get this at all

Yes, and when they ditched some amazing apps for professionals like Aperture

Although I moved away from Apple a couple of years ago, it still makes reliable but overpriced machines. It's the elitism and the active crusade to pin you down in their ecosystem that played a good part in leaving them. And not to mention, their world view: for Apple the whole universe is an iphone

Do you think it makes a difference performance-wise?

I believe he refers to the files VMWare generates for a VM. By default, it splits the VM in multiple files but if I recall correctly you can change this behaviour and instruct VMWare to create on big file. But I don't feel confortable having one 300GB file

There were some issues with screen resolution but v.15 I am using behaves correctly. They have also fixed the scaling issues with 4K/non-4K monitors they had in v.14

Wouldn't App Tethering work in this case?

Scaling of the windows in a VM is not done efficiently especially if you move thw VM window from a 4K monitor to a non-4K. But in general, I agree with @Dany Marmur. There are huge benefits in using VMs

...and you need antivirus/firewall in your VM as well...It's high risk unless you do not access the internet at all.

I use Delphi in VMWare for nearly 5 years. In general, I am very happy with the speed but TBH I haven't used it in natural machine. I've got packages, tools, libraries VS, Android Studio all in one machine and I am able to work nicely. From my experience, what matters when you run a VM is the setup of the VM of course but also what is happening in the host computer. Memory: the more allocated to the VM the better but not more than that...there is a point where your host will start crawling and the VM will become sluggish if the host does not have enough memory SSD and avail space: SSD for obvious reasons and AVAIL SPACE...from what I have seen, you need lots of space with VMWare. I mean for a VM that has a 200GB hard drive, you may need 300GB in the host computer and maybe more if you keep auto protect and other snapshots. Even deleting snapshots you need 20-40GB free on your host drive Restating the host computer: I've noticed that many times, VMWare does not clean and release the previously used space to the host computer. You may, for example, have 20GB avail after deleting a snapshot and when you restart the host you get 45GB Antivirus, Windows Update, Microsoft Store and all the other services (eg. svhost) in the host computer. This environment needs to be very pure (and mine is not)...but there are limits even to the level of this kind of purity you can achieve Backup software on host: There was a time when my VMs were getting very very slow without any reason and after months I discovered that there was a backup services running in the background. It was copying the whole VM to the backup disks and this was making the VM unworkable. Later I found out that there is VMWare API for backup and some nice specialised software that allows the VM to work smoothly (eg. the free Vimalin) Netflix: if you have that bad habit to play a documentary in one screen while you are doing some light work in your VM in the second monitor, then you are hurting the performance of the VM. On my laptop, the Netflix app is a performance killer (regardless of the VM). Thankfully, I got rid of that bad habit I have, also, configured windows to use the NVIDIA graphics card with VMWare instead of the integrated graphics. Not really sure whether it makes a real difference though. And, I have completely disabled Windows Store in the VM. Actually, I have damaged the installation and I am sure it will bite me back at some point Don't forget, also, to run CCleaner or something similar quite often in both the host and the VMs

Hi, I am looking for a parser for Relaxed JSON (http://www.relaxedjson.org) Does anyone have and willing to share? Thanks

Which build is combatitble with 10.3.1?

Ok, GetIt is back

Hi Uwe, I tried to install the latest version and I get this error:

Hi Uwe, I tried to install the latest version and I get this error:

Hi all, I've added a small tool box to allow easy pattern matching in cases with many sub-cases. Have a look here: https://github.com/jkour/Motif Thanks

Ahhh....should have checked

Hi everyone, I would like to share with you that my new book has reached the production stage and will be available in September by Apress. The book is about Object Relational Mapping in Delphi and explores TMS Aurelius-- and excellent ORM solution for Delphi developers. I would, also, like to cordially thank Wagner Landgraf and Nick Hodges who were the tech reviewers of the manuscripts. Nick (who does not need any introductions) always shares his deep experience and has been very supportive while I was writing this book. Wagner (the creator of TMS Aurelius) has been guiding me with his expertise and suggestions to produce a presentation of Aurelius based on real-life situations. Thank you both. I hope you enjoy the book and I am looking forward for your feedback. Regards, John