I couldn’t find a list of the results of FileSystem.supportedFileAttributeViews() on various operating systems, so I made one: UnixFileSystem/BsdFileSystem/MacOSXFileSystem: “basic”, “posix”, “unix”, “owner” LinuxFileSystem: Unix + “dos”, “user” SolarisFileSystem: Unix + “acl”, “user” WindowsFileSystem: “basic”, “dos”, “acl”, “owner”, “user”
With the demise of FolderShare, I’ve found it rather difficult to keep my music library synchronized between home and the office. While there is software you can buy like SuperSync, you can pretty easily achieve a more general solution using free software, with the added benefit of universal OS support (e.g. Windows, Mac OS X, …
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If you’re like me (and condolences if you are), you’ve often started a local Git repository for a new project, and then later wanted to create a shared upstream repository on another computer. (GitHub walks you through this, but let’s assume you want to manage the shared repository yourself.) Before I knew Git very well, …
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After much googling, I could not find any tools for converting a UTF-8 string into an escaped C/C++ string literal suitable for pasting into an ASCII source file. Therefore I produced this Perl script which seems to provide a fairly readable escaped string: use strict; chomp; print ‘”‘; my $prev_esc = 0; print map { …
Building Boost for 64-bit Windows turns out not to be completely straightforward. These instructions assume you’re using Visual Studio 2008 and running from a VS 2008 x64 Command Prompt. First, running bootstrap.bat appears to fail: Building Boost.Jam build engine Failed to build Boost.Jam build engine. Please consult bjam.log for furter diagnostics. You can try to …
I couldn’t find any instructions for building Expat for 64-bit Windows (x64), so I updated the 32-bit projects files myself: expat-vs2008-x64.zip. See my projects page for brief usage instructions. Update: With the March 2012 release of Expat 2.1.0, Expat now supports building with CMake, and these build files are no longer necessary. After installing CMake …
When I got my iPhone 6 months ago, I had to upgrade vile and hated iTunes to activate it. After the iTunes upgrade, it wanted me to restart the computer. When the system booted back up (and on every subsequent reboot), there was a crash in userinit.exe. Unable to find any trace of a surgical …
I’m very excited to find that it’s not difficult at all to remove iTunes DRM from songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store. myFairTunes will convert all your purchased music from M4P to M4A in place, add it back to your iTunes library, and optionally back up the M4P files to another folder and remove …
People have asked me several times what I think of “functors” in C++, so I decided to form an opinion (and write it down somewhere that myself and others can refer to). I’ve also always meant to include more technical content in this blog… My reference material on the subject was an article Chuck provided, …
EE Times printed an article today about Jove. It has several quotes from me, gathered from our 45 minute interview, though as you might expect, they really zeroed in on the few somewhat inflammatory ones: “It really didn’t seem like Vera was justified as a separate language,” Robinson said. “It had no tools and no …