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I had a need to create a directory listing with all the UTF-8 characters intact. This seems quite a chore on Windows, as doing anything via the shell seems to mangle the characters and show ???? instead of the real characters. For example, both the built in dir and Cygwin ls or find seemed affected. This ...

Today I tired to convert my Windows 2TB RAID disk from a master boot record (MBR) layout to a GUID partition table (GPT) one. The reason I wanted to swap is that GPT supports partitions larger than 2TB. Normally it is easy to convert a MBR disk to a GPT one by using the Disk Management ...

I just purchased the Humble Indie Bundle, 5 games which run on Windows, Linux and Mac. They kindly offered md5 hashes, however they weren't in a convenient format, so I created a md5sums file. 187287db6226ef6a306a4cd0cfa8dd45 *Aquaria111.2008.12.12.exe 8b24ddeeb553e028bbd501102f891cc2 *aquaria-lnx-humble-bundle.mojo.run 336d89eb431e0b00535a2b50146c579d *WorldOfGooSetup.1.30.exe f5afa40893d0fbcc37885191404f6d8c *WorldOfGooSetup.1.41.tar.gz b373132f6e78665f1076752b038a8218 *gish153-1.tar.gz 94e82d53e2104914f19ec97f7cf5da42 *gish1531.zip 41ea2e41fe42c40b5ad017ae1afb45c7 *lugaru-full-linux-x86-1.0c.bin d40d4076ed3ffa2a9bc9913202c55a06 *lugaru-windows.zip 56060bb550e0cd7e90bc7bc60d7c4c23 *penumbra_overture_1.1.exe 539567b590cf53e65a8e8f1b2bc728b3 *penumbra_overture_1.1.sh and for ...

Update: I've now put this project on github Today I am proud to announce that I'm releasing a tool I've used privately for well over a year now. It is a multi-threaded network testing tool which gives the user great control over how many connections, threads and processes the tool uses, and which CPU cores the ...