tl;dr Keep your Windows 7 PATH under 2048 characters and you’ll be good – don’t and you won’t. In related news, if you already have a lot of dev tools installed on your PC, look at your path length first if it all gets pear shaped after your VS install… Now the non-tldr… I recently decided… Continue reading 2048 2048 2048 2048 – “The Windows PATH Can Be a Source of 2 Tons of Fun”
Category: Windows
NTFS File System Tunneling (…is stupid …and wrong)
I will keep this short… I’ve already spent far too much time on this easy to work around peculiarity of NTFS and how it associates file meta information under the hood… Consider this console app: http://pastebin.com/66QABWS3 If you were to actually read this (don’t feel too bad if you didn’t – the last link will explain… Continue reading NTFS File System Tunneling (…is stupid …and wrong)
Blue Screen.
Oh the love of Windows, let me count the ways…. 0….. 0…. So, I return to Vista (aka WindowsME2007) after an extended foray into the world of Linux – eww, I know. Truth told, I wouldn’t own Vista if they hadn’t already installed it on my machine for free (I know thats not a legitimate… Continue reading Blue Screen.