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wila

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About wila

Author of Vimalin, the app for making reliable backups of your Virtual Machines on VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation and VMware player. Backup while you continue to use the VM(s).

https://www.vimalin.com

Also the author of

https://vimarun.com

and -for developers- an ActiveX wrapper for the Microsoft WebView2 control:

https://antview.dev

Writes code in DataFlex, C++, C#, bash, perl, delphi and sometimes javascript.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48422756

    This looks great! Thank you.

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    Comment #47461946

    Thank you!

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    Comment #47452231

    Interesting. Do you happen to know if that batronix board useful to have even if you have a Rigol DHO 924S without the logic probe (PLA2216)?

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    Comment #45031658

    Same in the Netherlands too.

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    Comment #44986877

    that you're arguing with an LLM :)

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    Comment #44982434

    If you can't run a recent browser anymore then there's always the option to run the browser in a VM.

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    Comment #44671227

    and then the chips stay in Asia?

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    Comment #44105406

    Also on mastodon: https://earthstream.social/@owlsintowels

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    Comment #44096617

    Working on AntView. AntView is an ActiveX wrapper for the Microsoft WebView2 component. AntView enables programming languages that cannot use the WebView2 component directly to hav…

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    Comment #40798605

    macOS I assume? I use a little app called noTunes (it's on github) to prevent that from happening. edit: should be this one: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

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    Comment #40410308

    I had to blink twice last time when I installed Sonoma on a new partition that I did not have to provide a wifi password. This appears to confirm that. While I can understand that …

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    Comment #39151171

    The tinySA can also be used for that, it's not only a spectrum analyzer, it can also generate signals and optionally modulate those for you. edit: https://tinysa.org/wiki/pmwiki.ph…

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    Comment #38995957

    > It did not seem to affect home computers like the Apple ][, Commodore 64, and such. Your software most likely did not ran off a hard disk. So it was slow to load anyways.. and af…

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    Comment #38656781

    I downloaded the images and then compared them via Beyond Compare. After that it was pretty obvious what the author is talking about.

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    Comment #38626702

    > For a straightforward approach, she suggested starting from the ground up with employees and having them create what she calls a “toil bucket,” essentially a list of everything t…

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    Comment #38596138

    Great, how about you start with the documentation. :D

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    Comment #38206135

    Ladybird is amazing. They move so fast and are building all of it in the open. I'm very impressed by what the Ladybird team is doing.

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    Comment #38206071

    > 3. Embedding. Like I said, using a web engine as a component seems to have been forgotten in modern times. Surely that can be sold to somebody, because there are plenty use cases…

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    Comment #37671778

    How about a book? I like "Advanced Windows Debugging" by Mario Hewardt and Daniel Pravat.

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    Comment #37144520

    I'm not religious, but it shows a lack of respect. Besides it "being the point".

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    Comment #37144062

    Relating a statistics language model to religion is ... beyond words.

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    Comment #37115300

    On top of this the default for PowerNap is to not run when on battery, only when plugged in.

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    Comment #36730756

    > maybe even a bit Euro-centric and elitist Ugh those elite Europeans who want to play it safe.. what's wrong with them?

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    Comment #36395823

    It works! (of course it does) This is all very interesting. Next is poking around in it for a bit. Thanks so much.