Category: Windows
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Programming and Escape Characters (PowerShell)
Having started using Perl back in 1996 and learning conventions for character escaping in like eight to twelve other languages since, I’m continually impressed by how escape characters vary by language. And in the case of PowerShell, the (`) character really pulls the majority of the weight in the language. PowerShell, coming from the Microsoft…
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Window for soldering station
Linseed. 25deg bevel on top edge. Wash the window and attach piano hinge in the morning. #carpentry #diy
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Robocopy Notes
Install cmder: It’s the nicest shell I’ve seen for windows. Run your console as Administrator. Otherwise you can’t use the /B backup switch. Also rember you need to do a net use command as administrator. Before you robocopy stuff, setup a dedicated drive letter. The drive letter is only available to the logged in session.…
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Windows OEM License
So it turns out you can destroy a windows virtual host really quickly, just by moving it from one host system to another host. This is something I’ve done with Linux virtual hosts many times, and it seems like an intrinsic way to manage resources. But not with Windows. They really expect you to take…
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SourceForge is making Open Source Look Like a Scam
Not only when I download something from SourceForge these days am I presented a proxy-downloader that tries to sell me on installing some unsolicited system utility — like a browser home page take over — it manages to install some other bullshit system utilities as well. Holy shit. This is not the Sourceforge I used…
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With XP’s End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs – Slashdot
With XP’s End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs – Slashdot. This is a great idea. Bellingham should consider this (that is, not just Bellingham library, but BLUG, too.)
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Skype protocol cracked?
Saw this @torrentfreak tweet via @doctrow: http://torrentfreak.com/skype-reverse-engineered-and-dumped-on-pirate-bay-110603/
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Highlighting with Wordlight (Visual Studio)
I love being able to double click on a word and seeing all occurances of it highlighted in my editor. I think the Highlighter plugin for jEdit, and I’m disappointed that there are no free plugins of that quality for VS. Wordlight comes close, tho. wordlight – Project Hosting on Google Code.
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Translating Filenames — Bash Voodoo Style #linux
This is an example of using Bash to convert a crazy apache log and translating the filename into an IIS log pattern: d=`date +%Y%m%d` find k -type f \ | while read filename do nextfile=”${filename/k\/done?0.www\./k2/www-Server_T${d}_}.log” echo “$nextfile” cat $filename | $translate > “$nextfile” done I love how I can refer to a shell variable ($d)…
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