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| 2024.04.21 | Old Software |
New publications concerning Windows 1 and 2 available in the Old Operating System Software
section. For Windows 1: Micrografx Windows Graph – Commercial application for creating business graphs and charts.
For Windows 2: WinGraph – A simple business graphing presentation program, and
ABC Flowcharter – A flowchart creation application with export to WMF functionality. |
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| 2024.04.19 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Building Open Watcom C/C++ and Fortran 77 programs on FreeDOS. |
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| Sysadmin |
Update of my tutorial: Running 32-bit applications on DOS. Added information concerning
DOS/4GW (extender used by 32-bit applications build with Open Watcom). |
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| 2024.04.17 | Web/DB |
New text available in the Web and Database Development section: Secure
phpMyAdmin installation. |
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| 2024.04.15 | Computers |
New system tutorial available: Manually updating a Dell G3 laptop (only possibility remaining if Dell
Support Assistent fails and automatic online update does not work). |
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| 2024.04.14 | Programming |
New tutorial (intended for Windows 10/11) available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Using VSCode as IDE for Rust development. |
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| 2024.04.10 | Free Pascal |
Added information concerning Lazarus 32-bit to my installation on Windows tutorial. You find some further details in a short text available in the
DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section: Installing Lazarus/Free Pascal 32-bit
on old Windows releases. |
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| 2024.04.09 | Computers |
Update of my help text Dell G3 laptops and Windows 10 problems: Added a paragraphe concerning
Dell Support Assistant failing to start/failing to update. Not providing a real solution to the problem, but showing how
to proceed to update the drivers online on the Dell website. |
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| 2024.04.06 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Working with Perl hashes. The tutorial contains information about simple hashes, arrays of hashes,
hashes of arrays and hashes of hashes, as well as about DB_File databases; the source code of the examples may be downloaded as ZIP archive. |
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| 2024.03.30 | Programming |
New tutorial (intended for Windows 10/11) available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Using VSCode as IDE for Julia development. |
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| 2024.03.28 | Programming |
New tutorial (intended for Windows 98, 2000, or XP) available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Dev-C++ & Dev-Pascal: Developing C++ and Pascal programs and GUI applications. |
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| 2024.03.26 | Learning |
Chemistry tutorial available in the Mathematics and Science section:
A general overview of the protein structure. Intended for people with an intermediate chemistry knowlegde... |
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| 2024.03.23 | Programming |
New tutorial (intended for Windows 98, 2000, or XP) available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Dev+GNU Pascal: A full GPC programming environment + Win32 IDE. |
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| 2024.03.20 | Free Pascal |
Continuation with my tutorial about the installation of Lazarus on Linux. Rewritten Installing
Lazarus/Free Pascal on Arch Linux based systems with now the details for ArcoLinux, Mabox Linux, Manjaro, and Open Mandriva (system failure for this latter
on). |
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| 2024.03.16 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Installing VSCode on Windows 10 (and showing how to build C and C++ programs). |
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| 2024.03.15 | Sysadmin |
New help text available: Configuring the GRUB bootloader. It shows how to install and use the GUI
application GRUB Customizer to change the GRUB boot settings on Debian based Linux distributions. |
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| 2024.03.14 | Free Pascal |
With the approach of Easter, data update available for my game applications Kidspuzzle (Easter bunny and Flying
Easter eggs puzzles) and Memory (Easter bunnies and Easter eggs picture sets). |
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| 2024.03.12 | Free Pascal |
New tutorial available: Using 32-bit and 64-bit inline assembly with Free Pascal. |
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| 2024.03.08 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Windows Programming: 32bit and 64bit assembly programming made easy with SASM. Source code of some NASM and
FASM example programs free to download. |
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| 2024.03.06 | Free Pascal |
New Free Pascal programming tip available: Variable number of arguments in Free Pascal
functions/procedures. |
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| 2024.03.03 | Sysadmin |
New help text available: Running 32-bit applications on DOS. It shows how to use CWSDPMI.EXE to run C, NASM
and Free Pascal 32-bit programs, resp. to use EMX.EXE to run g77 32-bit programs on a standard 16-bit DOS operating system. |
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| 2024.02.28 | Old Software |
New publication concerning BeOS available in the Old Operating System Software
section: AbiWord - There was a version of the open source word processor for BeOS, too. |
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| 2024.02.26 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
DOS Programming: 32-bit assembly programming using NASM and GCC. Source code of several example
programs free to download. |
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| 2024.02.23 | Sysadmin |
Update of the tutorial An overview of installing updates on given Linux operating systems: Added
information about the Ubuntu based distribution Rhino Linux. |
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| 2024.02.21 | Web/DB |
New Web and Database Development tutorial available: Using multiple PHP versions
on Apache for Windows. |
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| 2024.02.20 | Computers |
New help text available in the Computer Basics - System & Security section:
Removing files and folders in Windows 11 Quick Access. |
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| 2024.02.14 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the Programming languages part of the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
An introduction to FORTRAN 77 (G77). |
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| 2024.02.10 | Old Software |
New publication concerning OS/2 available in the Old Operating System Software
section: Stardock Object Desktop – Amazing desktop enhancement and system utilities. |
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| 2024.02.07 | Free Pascal |
New Free Pascal programming tip available: Free Pascal functions with multiple return-values. |
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| 2024.02.05 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Developing PL/I programs on DOS. |
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| 2024.01.30 | Web/DB |
New Web and Database Development tutorial available: Web development
environment setup on MS Windows: SQLite embedded databases. The tutorial includes details about the setup of the database engine, the usage of
the sqlite3 command line client and the DB Browser for SQLite and HeidiSQL GUI clients, the creation of the "world" database, as well as the access to this
database from Perl, Python and Java (for Lazarus/Free Pascal, cf. Using SQLite databases with
Lazarus/Free Pascal). |
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| 2024.01.28 | Old Software |
New publication concerning DOS available in the Old Operating System Software
section: CUPS physics simulations – A collection of professional physics programs. If you are a DOS nostalgic
and interrested in physics, these are applications that will probably like a lot! |
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| 2024.01.23 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal mathematics GUI application available: Eigenvalues and
eigenvectors of a 2x2 matrix. |
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| 2024.01.22 | Computers |
New help text available in the Computer Basics - System & Security section:
Removing files and folders in Windows 10 Quick Access. |
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| 2024.01.20 | Free Pascal |
New tutorial available: Using SQLite databases with Lazarus/Free Pascal. It describes how to connect to a
SQLite database from a Lazarus application using TSQLite3Connection, or as an alternative, using
TODBCConnection. |
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| 2024.01.15 | Old Software |
Three new publications concerning Windows 1 available in the Old Operating System Software
section: Aldus PageMaker - One of the first desktop publishing programs for Mac and Windows; Micrografx In-a-Vision - A vector based drawing program for the first Windows release; Omnis Quartz - The first database application for Microsoft Windows. |
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| 2024.01.14 | Free Pascal |
New tutorial available: Special data types: Variants, variant records, and variant arrays. |
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| 2024.01.12 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free console program available: Compare the content of two (Windows) directories. |
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| 2024.01.09 | Computers |
New help text available in the Computer Basics - System & Security section:
Removing Recent Files in Windows 11 Start menu. |
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| 2024.01.05 | General |
Rather important site reorganization, with the creation of two new sections: DOS, OS/2 & Windows
Programming, and Old Operating System Software. First, this is more appropriate than the old site structure, because the
corresponding articles do not fit into the Computer Basics section. Second, while playing around with my virtual machines, I try out
lots of applications (especially on old operating systems), and among these try-outs are lots of compilers and interpreters for lots of different programming
languages. A consequence of moving existing files to a new location is that the old links don't work any longer. I created redirects for most of them, but it will
take some time before the search engines will no more list pages with the old links (some of them leding to a "404 Not Found" error). Also, some pages (in particular
the French and German versions of "About myself", "About this site" and the site news) have not yet be updated. Sorry for this little inconvenience!
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| 2024.01.02 | Sysadmin |
New DOS related tutorial available: Using 4DOS as command line interpreter on FreeDOS.
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| 2023.02.20 | Homeless |
Resignation and desperateness: I think that my Homeless life in Luxembourg website can be considered as being definitively dead... |
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| 2022.10.24 | General | For the first time, my website reached 1,000 clicks in 28 days in Google Search! For me, a reward for my work, as well as a stimulation to continue writing programs and tutorials, hoping that the stuff on my site is as much as possible help and/or fun for others. Anyway, thanks to all those, who have visited or will visit streetinfo.lu (and if you like it, please, sign my guestbook). | ||
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| 2021.07.23 | General |
It's done (at least partially)! My website is installed on a VPS and thus will stay online during the transition phase,
where HelioHost rebuilds their servers. It was a rather hard work for a non-professional, but being hosted by HelioHost has one very big advantage: the
power of their community forum. Thanks to all those, who helped me with some advice during the last days! For the site visitors, nothing has changed. The
same address (www.streetinfo.lu) and as on Tommy a secure connection with https. |
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| 2021.05.19 | General |
Up from today, all data transfer to and from my site will be encrypted (usage of the HTTPS protocol by default). In fact, all access
via the insecure HTTP protocol is redirected to HTTPS. This ensures, that everybody, that visits the site, will have a secure connection. Thus, new URL:
https://www.streetinfo.lu. One drawback, however: The HelioHost servers use TLS 1.2 and, having a shared IP address, my webserver uses autoSSL, depending on
Server Name Indication (SNI). This means that older operating systems and older webbrowsers (e.g. Internet Explorer 6, standard browser
on Windows XP; not sure if Windows XP is able to connect with Firefox) will no longer be able to access the site. |
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| Aug 2018 | General |
Finally it has become a reality: streetinfo.lu: my own .lu domain! Big thanks to the one, who has made this possible! |
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| Jun 2018 | General |
Due to the kindness of a gentle and friendly man, I had the chance to get an account on the HelioHost "Tommy" server. I made the decision to restart my
In the street with my laptop website with a new URL: www.streetinfo.heliohost.org. |
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| Dec 2017 | General |
Creation of an account on the HelioHost test server "Johnny" and started the In the street with my laptop
website with URL www.allu62.heliohost.org, containing informatics related stuff (in particular my Lazarus/Free Pascal applications) as well as information
concerning the homeless people in Luxembourg. |
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