Category: Windows

Microsoft open sources .NET, takes it to Linux and OS X NEW YORK—Earlier this year, Microsoft open sourced a big chunk of .NET, publishing its new compiler, Roslyn, and many .NET libraries under the Apache license. Today, the company took that same open sourcing effort a great deal further. Microsoft announced that its full server … Continue reading “Microsoft open sources .NET”

(from the I dislike Windows slightly less than I used to dept.) In a project I’m working on, I needed a way to get the current hour from within a Windows batch file. This sort of thing is trivial on Unix like systems (or using Cygwin with Windows, which wasn’t an option in this case). … Continue reading “Get the Current Hour in Batch files”

(via email) First Windows Vista viruses unleashed: An Austrian hacker earned the dubious distinction of writing what are thought to be the first known viruses for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista operating system. Written in July, the viruses take advantage of a new command shell, code-named Monad, that’s included in the Windows Vista beta code. The … Continue reading “That was quick”

Recently I had to convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8. The quick and easy way to do this is to use iconv from the command line. Unfortunately this had to be done from within a Visual C++/MFC application on Windows (so Cygwin wasn’t really an option). Fortunately, I found libiconv-win32. I installed the source and built … Continue reading “Converting ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8 (and back again)”