Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/15
A while ago I downloaded some internal tooling that required vcredist140.dll (and related DLLs).
From the name you cannot see if that is a 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) dependency so you often have to trial and error to figure out which one you need.
I adopted some winget package install command-lines with package IDs current at the time of writing this blog post; similar should be available at the time of publication:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/25
Need to check this out some day: cs.exe compiled from [Wayback] sparse.zip which you can download from [Wayback/Archive] NTFS Sparse Files For Programmers
Posted in C, C++, Development, NTFS, Power User, RoboCopy, Software Development, Visual Studio C++, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/19
Who needs AI (:
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub Profile Roast 🔥🔥🔥
Sourcecode at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – codenoid/github-roast: Spicy GitHub Roast 🔥
Via [Wayback/Archive] Dennis Schubert: “okay, I finally found a good u…” – Mastodon
okay, I finally found a good use for an LLM. no, really.
github-roast.pages.dev
this thing is brutal
In addition, I learned about [Wayback/Archive] lokal.so · GitHub: Supercharged HTTP/TCP/UDP Tunneling Software
Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, C#, C++, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, LLM, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/14
Cool tool to peek around in the Windows File System API and fiddle around uncharted territory: [Wayback/Archive] ladislav-zezula/FileTest: Source code for File Test – Interactive File System Test Tool.
It is written in C++ using Visual Studio and has build-instructions in [Wayback/Archive] FileTest/README.md at master · ladislav-zezula/FileTest.
Via [Wayback/Archive] “create reparse point” “query reparse point” – Google Search (which also found [Wayback/Archive] Free File Utilities – Free download and software reviews – CNET Download [Wayback download]) after reading a tweet thread having these highlights:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/18
The final visualisation post of this week (themed Data Visualisation and Code Visualisation) is about [Wayback/Archive] Python Tutor – Visualize Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Ruby code execution.
Languages covered in these visualisers:
Earlier posts in the series:
–jeroen
Posted in C, C++, Development, Java, Java Platform, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Python, Ruby, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/11
This is cool and works well (including the portable version) :[Wayback/Archive] webcamoid/webcamoid: Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite.
Most code is C++ with bits using the QML language of the Qt cross platform UI library.
It reminded me of the Kylix days: the first Linux version of Delphi where the CLX GUI framework was a rework of VCL but based on Qt instead of Win32 GDI.
The downloads are at [Wayback/Archive] Webcamoid, The ultimate webcam suite! with installable and portable versions of 32-bit and 64-bit for Linux, Mac and Windows (I have tried the latter, see below why).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/28
A while back, early in the Wednesday morning after Patch Tuesday I performed regular updates of all the systems noticing some updates failed because timeouts on the Microsoft download servers.
Note I perform the manual steps on Wednesday as Patch Tuesday as it starts at 10:00 AM PST which is in the evening in Amsterdam. The automated steps are automated and kick in when Microsoft tells the Windows machines to update themselves.
See [Wayback/Archive] Security Update Guide FAQs
Microsoft schedules the release of security updates on “Patch Tuesday,” the second Tuesday of each month at 10:00 AM PST.
Depending on time zone(s) in which the organization operates, IT pros should plan their deployment schedules accordingly. Please note that there are some products that do not follow the Patch Tuesday schedule.
I posted a gist and a Tweet, but didn’t immediately thought of a good resolution so I postponed that until Thursday and found it:
Posted in C, C++, Development, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools, Visual Studio C++, vscode Visual Studio Code, Windows, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/28
Below is a list of the Borland documentation that BitSavers added in 2022, ordered by relevance to me (and how I finally asked Peter Sawatzki if he still had the monochrome TDVIDEO.DLL he wrote for Turbo Debugger 3.0 for Windows):
Posted in 8087, Algorithms, Assembly Language, Borland C++, C, C++, Debugging, Development, Floating point handling, Profiling, Software Development, Turbo Assembler, Turbo C, Turbo Debugger, Turbo Profiler, x86 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/21
A while ago there was this great thread of various C++ character types:
char and wchar_t in C++ is that char is for narrow characters and wchar_t is for wide characters. So you’d store letters like i, l, and t in a char but M and W in a wchar_t…”tchar is for really tiny characters, like ‘.‘.”
And since most above talk about character width:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/14
If I ever need to go deep into optimisation again, there is lots I can still learn from [Wayback/Archive] Software optimization resources. C++ and assembly. Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X
Thanks [Archive] Kris on Twitter: “@Kharkerlake @unixtippse Agner Fog ist eigentlich ein Anthropologe, aber er reversed interne Strukturen von Intel CPUs, und …, speziell 3. The microarchitecture of Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs: An optimization guide for assembly programmers and compiler makers ist die HPC Bibel.” / Twitter!
Must watch video with Agner about Warlike and Peaceful Societies below the signature.
–jeroen
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