Welcome to the aughts
It’s only 2018 and it’s not on by default but, hey, now you can eliminate the arcane 260 character path limit in Windows 10 (and presumably beyond). See howtogeek instructions.
Losing my edge?
So I haven’t really been actively involved in the Microsoft/Windows development crowd in years (ever?). I have gone spelunking through the KB and the MSDN site on occasion and come back scarred and generally unhelped. It’s kind of a running gag with some folks in my circle that the difference between Linux and Microsoft forums…
BSOD?
Doing this for five minutes probably isn’t great. At what point do you “help” things along with a little hard reset? Also? Great moire pattern.
bash on Windows
My rose for the day [so far]. On Windows you can use the command explorer SomeDirectory and Windows Explorer will open with the view set to SomeDirectory, assuming one exists as a child of the current working directory. The same holds if you want to jump around the tree a bit. explorer \foo opens foo…
Bitchin’
You know what really rocks on Windows? Git’s bash shell [1] wrapped with Console2 [2]. Git [3]: Come for the awesome revision control, stay for the bonus command shell. I know I’ve nattered on about Console2 before [4] but that was just window dressing. Having an honest-to-goodness bash shell on a windows platform is real…
Macification
So I’ve stopped using my mac laptop to remote to the work-provided workstation sitting under my desk—mostly because the corporate proxy has become too painful to work around without using a domain-sanctioned machine on the LAN. Having grown into my poweruser self while mostly using *nix/Mac, this leaves a lot to be desired. Here’s a…
More cmd.exe help
So you’re in cmd.exe and you type ‘ls‘ expecting to get a directory listing. Instead cmd.exe gives you the finger. You give cmd.exe the finger back. Just then your boss walks by and sees you flipping off company property. Next thing you’re in her office having a discussion on appropriate workplace behavior. Having had enough…