All ISO files from Microsoft shows CRC32 FFFFFFFF (0xffffffff)

Playing with Freeware Hash & CRC I noticed that CRC32 for all ISO files that comes from Microsoft (MSDN and Technet) are the same – FFFF FFFF. At first I thought that there is some bug in CRC implementation. But after taking look at the file ending in hex, I found, that all files have …

HTTP POST must be encoded and windows.location is encoded

When using JavaScript window.location in your code, be aware, that window.location is encoded using JavaScript escape function. It is not always obvious because characters, that get encoded / decoded using escape() / unescape() is rare in urls. Use the following syntax to get human readable url: unescape(window.location) URL: http://example.com/test url/ window.location: http://example.com/test%20url/ unescape(window.location): http://example.com/test url/ …

Windows Update Agent downloaded and installed itself automatically

Today I noticed that Windows Update looks different (larger icons – different UI). It was strange, because I didn’t installed any updates and I have selected ‘Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them’ under ‘Change Settings’ under ‘Windows Update Control Panel’. I searched web and found that this have …