Monthly Archives: April 2010

TrolledFS: A filesystem with fake file contents

Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010 by micolous

My friend [gm] had this idea for a filesystem. It would take a real filesystem, and then whenever a user requested to open a file, it would instead give them a contents of another file from another folder, determined by … Continue reading →

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Smooth scrolling marquees in GTK#

Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by micolous

Marquees aren’t normally supported in GTK#. You have to write an implementation yourself, using the ViewPort and Label controls. You can do that with this bit of code. It’s a bit of a hack, you need to add a bunch … Continue reading →

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Clearing the “Mounted Devices” database in Windows

Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 by micolous

Something I found useful when doing image deployment of Windows: being able to clear the mount devices list. In some instances, Windows will not boot properly or it will boot from the wrong device until you do it. You don’t … Continue reading →

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