Monthly Archives: April 2011

Strange file named “剐䍏塅ㅐ〰匮卙” in C:\Windows\System32\drivers

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Maris

Today, looking in directory C:\Windows\System32\drivers, I found strangely named file “剐䍏塅ㅐ〰匮卙”. First thought was: it is driver form LG PC suite… I remember, that some files have Korean characters in it. However, looking closer, I found, that file is digitally … Continue reading →

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fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘ammintrin.h’: No such file or directory

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Maris

I can not compile my C++ projects after installing ‘Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (KB2455033)’, see my yesterday’s post: Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (KB2455033) failed with Code 643. Visual Studio 2010 shows the following error: … Continue reading →

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Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (KB2455033) failed with Code 643

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Maris

Yesterday tried to install ‘Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (KB2455033)’ via Windows update on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit but it failed with Code 643. Installation constantly failed with Code 643 – Some updates were not installed. Currently Google … Continue reading →

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Test Silverlight speed or Test CPU speed with Silverlight

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Maris

While we were developing SilverBench (online multicore CPU benchmarking with Silverlight), I found one interesting benchmark project. It is called Balls / Bubblemark animation test. You can test and directly compare speed / performance for the following programming languages: JavaScript, … Continue reading →

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Underused features of Windows batch files

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Maris

StackOverflow have another interesting topic about: Underused features of Windows batch files. Of course there are many things I didn’t know about. Some highlights: PUSHD path Takes you to the directory specified by path. POPD Takes you back to the … Continue reading →

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Another free Syslog Daemon for Windows

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Maris

Jan 13, 2011 I wrote about Free Syslog Daemons for Windows. I just found another one, also from MikroTik, and it is free too. The Dude for Windows has one less known feature – it can capture Syslogs sent via … Continue reading →

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