Subtitles: The past is another country, they did things differently there. After a period of time, you become the “other” for in “comments for others”. I’ve just spent two days…
… programmer’s equivalent. 6502 assembler. Not that I could easily do that these days. But it’s been a good thing to know, as I can debug most languages. Except Erlang. …
Much of what is out there is plain wrong, which is not surprising. Of the stuff which does work, it’s poorly documented. That does not surprise either. Here are a…
Pinched this from the Windows IT Pro site. I used it to “rollover” system log files back in 2001. My particular choice is the one I’ve highlighted in blue. How…
You know, programming is hard, so programmers are easily seduced by apparent quick fixes, such as language features which seem to map onto functional requirements. And programmers are smart, so…
These are the things I try to remember when I’m bug hunting: 1. Do I understand the actual problem? Has the customer reported the issue correctly? Has the Help Desk…
Some VBscript code which ACTUALLY works. I don't understand some sites which share code. You go looking for VBscript code on the net to do something, and invariably IT DOES…
Yes, PrimalScript uses alternate data streams to remember where I've set breakpoints in my code. (this prompt appears because I'm copying from NTFS volume to a FAT16 volume).
Post from Whirlpool: when some users log on they get the following message but it is ok for other users PostLogon.vbs file contents are below _____________ Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")…
I was doing some code cutting the other day for a customer. Indirectly. I had sent a DOS batch file to Customer A, in response for an urgent fix request. …
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