Archive for the 'misc' Category

I have been asking me this question several times over the last few months. Are people really stuck on Windows? Some minds out there pretend that it is so, but I really have to disagree. I don’t want to convert anyone to using Windows. Nor do I want to argue that some OS is better [...]


Most people don’t know, but Windows does support hard links, as long as you are using NTFS. It also supports shared read and write just like *nix, as long as you use the right APIs. This Python script demonstrates the creation of a hard link, that the hard link and the original file actually point [...]


Hello there! As you may have noticed, this blog has been down for a couple weeks. Some unexplained failure took down the machine that was previously hosting it and I’m still working to recover the box. But that does not mean the world has stopped! I’m still here, alive and kicking. But back to this [...]