Nostalgia: OSvirtual Virtual images of operating systems
OSvirtual is a collection of virtual images of operating systems. It’s a resource for those who want to recall some operating system/distribution, to try unknown OS or just to play with the virtual toy...
View Article20 years ago today: Here’s a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer.
An eternal Dilbert strip that is based on the tiny Here’s a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer fragment from single.h: #if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 32 #error "Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself...
View Articlebatch-file trick: Starting Windows Explorer and selecting a file (“explorer”...
From a batch-file I recently had to start Windows Explorer, at the same time select a specific file or directory. This turned out pretty easy: use the /select command-line switch from Windows Explorer....
View Article17 years ago, C:\nul\nul crashed/BSOD Windows; now $MFT does for Windows < 10
Source: History repeating itself: [Archive.is] 31607 – C:\nul\nul crashes/BSOD then, now it’s this: [WayBack] A bug in NTFS, or hang the entire system / Blog Aladdin RD / Habrahabr [WayBack] Баг в...
View ArticleThe Windows key has no Unicode equivalent, so use ⊞ like Wikipedia and many...
lFor Mac keyboard keys, almost all (except the old solid and open Apple logo’s) have a Unicode code point, see for instance the modifier keys from the [WayBack] List of Mac/Apple keyboard symbols ·...
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