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Well, I have it from good source that deleting commits, on a public source, is actually fine if you have a good reason to do so. But what if...

Keep losing that link - here it is.

Whoever thought it would be a good idea to make Windows backup dependent on a small MediaId.bin file residing on the backup target, outside ...

Let's do things in order then. In Windows 7 (I think it started with Vista), Microsoft locked down the ability for executables to write...

That's in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum . i.e., the PCI\ USB\ HID\ branches of a Device Instance ID path all origin...

Is caused by using CRLFs in Makefile.am. "m4<CR>" != "m4" and thus the libtoolize script will produce an error. ...

A.k.a. eSATAp . What kind of moronic committee, who's mysteriously silent on eSATA p (when others have to step in and fix failures b...

Click on the image above for the PDF schematic for a Microchip PIC 18F2550 based USB demo board, with a TTL serial port (also in .ai forma...

Edit: As of 2011, the information below should only apply if for whatever reason, you cannot use <code>mingw-get</code> for your...

In this post, I'll describe how to manually get a version of MinGW-w64 that (should) supports multilib (i.e. -m32 & -m64 , to prod...

You're trying to mix "Multi-threaded (/MT)" with "Multi-threaded DLL (/MD)". Enough said.

Once again, I have to give props to Xiaofan : The following is quoted from a USB-IF forum post (the link is now invalid) http://www.usb....

Courtesy of the good people of the libusb-devel mailing list: Set a System (not user) environment variable called: DevMgr_Show_NonPresent_...

If you pick a Visual Studio project with an MFC GUI app, and try to compile it with Visual Studio Express, you should run into the error: f...

Compiled qemu from source using MinGW32/Msys (hint: add the "target-list=i386-softmmu" so that you only compile the target of inte...