Windows

Automating Google Play Store reports with 'gsutil' and Windows PowerShell

2021-11-04 ·3 min read

Automate Google Play install and rating reports by Android version with gsutil and Windows PowerShell to help prioritize app testing.

2020-07-29 ·1 min read

Fix Git’s 'Filename too long' checkout error on Windows by enabling core.longpaths in the system Git configuration.

2018-10-21 ·2 min read

Why Cyrillic URLs become percent-encoded when copied from Chrome and Firefox, with workarounds for preserving readable links.

2016-05-13 ·1 min read

Fix TortoiseGit’s publickey authentication error by converting an SSH private key to PPK format with PuTTYgen and loading it into Pageant.

2016-02-05 ·2 min read

Change the screen resolution of a CentOS or RHEL virtual machine in Hyper-V using grubby to configure the hyperv_fb framebuffer driver.

2016-01-26 ·3 min read

Explore BIOS interrupts 11h and 12h with SINFO.EXE, a Turbo C and inline assembly program that reports hardware details on a PC XT clone.

2016-01-17 ·1 min read

Display Android Studio’s debug certificate fingerprints on Windows using keytool and a batch file that reads the default debug keystore.

2012-09-09 ·1 min read

Restore a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to factory settings with a hard reset, including backup advice, the reset code, and the default security code.

2012-08-31 ·2 min read

Convert Win32 error codes into readable messages with CLastError, an MFC helper class using FormatMessage and AfxMessageBox.

2012-08-30 ·1 min read

Notes on Visual Studio .NET 2003’s Unknown Undo/Redo Error in Windows XP Mode and attempts to resolve it by reinstalling or upgrading the IDE.