Just in case I ever need it for historic reasons:
[Wayback/Archive] WinWorld: Microsoft Office 95
Because back in the days various Office products had localised VBA (at least German and French products had; I’m not sure about other languages)
Via:
Archive for the ‘Windows 95’ Category
WinWorld: Microsoft Office 95
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/29
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The Windows key has no Unicode equivalent, so use ⊞ like Wikipedia and many others do
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/23
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 · GitHub (the “Alt” column has a solid Apple logo in the bottom right; on non-Mac systems it will look differently as it is in the Unicode private range: [WayBack] Unicode Character ” (U+F8FF): ‘<Private Use, Last>’):
Sym Key Alt ⌃ Control ⌥ Option ⇧ Shift ⌘ Command
These are the code points for the “Sym” column:
- ⌃ – [WayBack] Unicode Character ‘UP ARROWHEAD’ (U+2303) (less wide than the below three)
- ⌥ – [WayBack] Unicode Character ‘OPTION KEY’ (U+2325)
- ⇧ – [WayBack] Unicode Character ‘UPWARDS WHITE ARROW’ (U+21E7)
- ⌘ – [WayBack] Unicode Character ‘PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN’ (U+2318)
Keys on many platforms
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17 years ago, C:\nul\nul crashed/BSOD Windows; now $MFT does for Windows < 10
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26
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 NTFS, или как подвесить всю систему / Блог компании Аладдин Р.Д. / Хабрахабр
- [WayBack] In a throwback to the ’90s, NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7, 8.1 | Ars Technica UK
- [WayBack] NTFS bug allows any website to crash Windows 7, 8.1
Via:
- [WayBack] NTFS bug allows any website to crash Windows 7, 8.1Users of older versions of Windows aren’t having the best time of it lately. Last week it was disco… – BetaNews – Google+
- [WayBack] Writing solid code is really hard these days … – Lars Fosdal – Google+
All versions prior to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 seem vulnerable.
So add $MFT to this list:
The following device names have been known to render a system unstable: CON, NUL, AUX, PRN, CLOCK$, COMx, LPT1, and CONFIG$.
Oh BTW: history repeated itself this year too. With NUL
In short, Steven Sheldon created a rust package named nul which broke the complete package manager on Windows:
- [WayBack] How I Broke Rust’s Package Manager for All Windows Users – sasheldon.com
- [WayBack] I Broke Rusts Package Manager for Windows Users | Hacker News
- [WayBack] I think a crate called ‘nul’ is causing errors for cargo (windows).
- [WayBack] @bstrie: @sheldonut Hi Steven, Rust team here :) We’re having some technical difficulties with the name of one of your crates… feel free to DM
- [WayBack] Null character – Wikipedia
- [WayBack] IRC Logs for #rust-internals | BotBot.me [o__o] – 2017-04-30 – 84953638 – page 4
- [WayBack] List of software package management systems – Wikipedia: Application-level package managers
- [WayBack] I think the name of this project causes issues for windows users. · Issue #1 · SSheldon/nul
- When cargo updates its crates.io registry, it creates a file for each crate, no extension, just the name.The name
nulis not a valid name in windows 10, so cargo fails to update the registry, and then aborts whatever it was doing (building, searching, ect.).I think this project should be re-published to crates.io under a new name, something likenull-stringsperhaps?
- When cargo updates its crates.io registry, it creates a file for each crate, no extension, just the name.The name
- [WayBack] Fresh install unable to install anything · Issue #3982 · rust-lang/cargo
- Here is what I see with verbose. I get this trying to install clippy or rustfmt. I assume I would get it with other crates.Updating registry
https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index
error: [20/-1] Cannot checkout to invalid path ‘3/n/nul’
- Here is what I see with verbose. I get this trying to install clippy or rustfmt. I assume I would get it with other crates.Updating registry
- [WayBack] IRC Logs for #rust | BotBot.me [o__o] – 2017-04-30 – msg 84953614 – page=19
- [WayBack] What’s the deal with those reserved filenames like NUL and CON? – The Old New Thing
- The solution: [WayBack] Reserve windows crate names. by withoutboats · Pull Request #695 · rust-lang/crates.io
- [WayBack] @withoutboats boats ✨ on Twitter: “I thought Rust was supposed to prevent nul errors! ;-)”
BTW: one of my gripes on learning new languages is that they come with a whole new idiom of their ecosystem: rust, cargo, crates, all sound like being a truck mechanic to me.
–jeroen
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20 years ago today: Here’s a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer.
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/24
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 a real computer."
#endif
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Nostalgia: OSvirtual Virtual images of operating systems
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/12
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 :)
–jeroen
via: OSvirtual Virtual images of operating systems.
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batch-file trick: Starting Windows Explorer and selecting a file (“explorer” commandline parameters “/n” “/e” “/select” “/root” “/start” site:microsoft.com)
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/01
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.
In fact, Windows Explorer has a few command-line switches, and the “explorer” commandline parameters “/n” “/e” “/select” “/root” “/start” site:microsoft.com query will find quite a few topics about it: Read the rest of this entry »
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