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I doubt anybody will ever need this.

The contents can be generated incrementally.

You need a file group descriptor and file contents.

I took part in a casual bike ride last month in celebration of a friend's daughter's birthday. Our first stop was Trophy Cupcakes in Wallingford. It was there that I discovered that my wallet was missing. I checked my pockets several times, but the wallet was gone. I was pretty sure I had brought it with me, but there was an outside chance that I ...

Commenter zd asks, "Why can't you rename the Recycle Bin?" This question, as do many questions, comes with implicit assumptions. In particular, the assumption that everything can be renamed by default and that somebody must have gone to the effort of blocking the rename of the Recycle Bin. Actually, reality is the reverse. Shell namespace object...

By default, users can debug only processes that they own. In order to debug processes owned by other users, you have to possess the SeDebugPrivilege privilege. But don't grant this privilege casually, because once you do, you gave away the farm. If you let users debug processes owned by other users, then they can debug processes owned by System, a...

The same string, with two formats.

It's still just a string.

Hotel maids began losing weight once they were informed that their normal job activities counted as exercise. I can't want for somebody to test whether this placebo effect works in reverse; that is, whether you will lose weight if you aren't actually exercising but believe that you are. If it works, then sign me up! (Oh rats, they addressed this ...

It's just a string.