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GitHub is where people build software. More than 100 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
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I've written previously about the importance of crashing in order to improve code quality. However even the seemingly simple task of crashing can be more error prone than you might expect. I've recently become aware of two different problems that can happen when crashing in 64-bit Windows. There is a Windows bug which can make...
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I thought I was done with SCEP (see parts 1, 2 and 3) but whilst undertaking an exercise looking into using SCEP on some Linux servers (and specifically looking at how it can provide reporting data to SCOMvia a Management Pack), I inadvertently came across a little-documented command line argument for one of its binaries,...
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Earlier this week, I was having a lot of trouble understanding how to get Dev Containers working. Dev Containers are the required way to enable Github Codespaces, which was my actual goal. I finally got to something that works, so I want to document what I learned. Dev Containers is a standard developed my Microsoft for using docker containers to run dev environments for a project. I use Docker for most of my projects these days.
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