Category Archives: Computers

Things that are more or less related to my field of work.

Parsing the Windows sfc log from unix

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Alexandre Gauthier

Just a quick line to mention that the Windows System File Checker tool produces logs that are nearly unreadable, and a pain to parse. A friend of mine had some system files that did not check out, and could not … Continue reading →

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Version Control: Hey what’s that sound…?

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Alexandre Gauthier

Hey what’s that sound…? Is that the sound of me never having to use git ever again? $ hg push git+ssh://git@github.com:mrdaemon/vimconfigs.git pushing to git+ssh://git@github.com:mrdaemon/vimconfigs.git importing Hg objects into Git creating and sending data $ Why yes I think it is! … Continue reading →

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Shameless Plug: underwares.org

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Alexandre Gauthier

I just made a new website, mostly for fun. See it here: http://www.underwares.org I finally decided to fill the void of my primary domain with something. This website will act some kind of hub between all the services I run … Continue reading →

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Building the MONOCHRON kit

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Alexandre Gauthier

So, a while ago, I took an interest in the MONOCHRON kit from adafruit, which is a lovely, fully hackable, open source clock kit, powered by an Atmega328 MCU. You can get other fun firmwares for it including fun adaptations … Continue reading →

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Up yours, Apple!

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Alexandre Gauthier

iPhone OS 4.0 is out, brings a lot of terribly useful features to the table. However, Apple arbitrarily decided to disable the following features on the older 3G model (which I actually own): Multitasking (this is the big one, most … Continue reading →

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Another day at work

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Alexandre Gauthier

The only thing I hate more than writing with a pen and paper is using visio, hence why I’m kicking it old school for cluster planning. You might also enjoy:Shameless Plug: underwares.orgProjectsAccess administrative shares on Server 2008/Vista32 bits ISAPI filters … Continue reading →

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I wrote a Quine

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Alexandre Gauthier

So I wrote my first Quine last night. A Quine is a program that, when run, outputs an exact copy of its source. It’s not immediately obvious in regard of how to accomplish that. At first it sounds pretty easy … Continue reading →

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