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Getting ancient remote branches in git
My project has 300+ remote branches for a 100-ish person team. That can't possibly be right. Here's...
Date: 05/11/2015
Stripe-sets via Storage Spaces
I had a bunch of spinning disks sitting around I wanted to stripe together as build output targets....
Date: 05/22/2014
Super-sharpening(?) the image
I may have forgotten to mention it, but my expertise is not in image processing. The people...
Date: 07/25/2009
Converting an Image (well, Bitmap really) to Grayscale
First thought – convert the picture to greyscale and increase the contrast to help any kind of...
Date: 07/18/2009
What's winsxsmanifestcache(something)_blobs.bin?
Glenn writes: "What is the c:\windows\winsxs\manifestcache\6.0.6001.18000_001c50b5_blobs.bin file...
Date: 01/13/2009
Shipping default values in the registry
Recently, someone asked about how their code should work if a certain configuration setting was...
Date: 09/03/2008
Deleting from the WinSxS directory
In Windows Vista, the directory %windir%\WinSxS has much stronger protection on it than it did in...
Date: 01/02/2007
On-demand multhreaded critical section creation
A question came up on an internal newsgroup recently - "How do I do on-demand initialization of...
Date: 04/27/2006
DLLs and resource ID 2 manifests
Manifests at resource ID 2 help simplify the lives of DLL authors who want to consume side-by-side...
Date: 01/18/2006
C++ object for activating and Deactivating Contexts
As explained earlier, the activation context system is implemented as a per-thread (or per-fiber)...
Date: 01/13/2006
Fixing Activation Context Pollution
As the number of apps in the world that use side-by-side activation (as a result of depending on the...
Date: 01/07/2006
What's that awful directory name under WindowsWinSxS?
As the Visual C++ Runtimes version 8.0 is now a side-by-side component, you may have seen what looks...
Date: 12/28/2005
Making an MSM from whole cloth – Series Intro
Not too long ago, I was asked to provide a set of merge modules for an external team. The...
Date: 09/09/2005
Desiging Datastructures for Longevity
One of the more problematic areas of long-lived software is the versioning and updating of shared...
Date: 08/16/2004
Registration-free applications and components
An area of new technology in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that didn't get nearly enough...
Date: 08/07/2004