(LGPL License Option Added to Qt) Espoo, Finland — Nokia today announced that its Qt cross-platform User Interface (UI) and application framework for desktop and embedded platforms will be available under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 license from the release of Qt 4.5, scheduled for March 2009. Previously, Qt has been made [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Windows category.
Get the Current Hour in Batch files
(from the I dislike Windows slightly less than I used to dept.) In a project I’m working on, I needed a way to get the current hour from within a Windows batch file. This sort of thing is trivial on Unix like systems (or using Cygwin with Windows, which wasn’t an option in this case). [...]
That was quick
(via email) First Windows Vista viruses unleashed: An Austrian hacker earned the dubious distinction of writing what are thought to be the first known viruses for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista operating system. Written in July, the viruses take advantage of a new command shell, code-named Monad, that’s included in the Windows Vista beta code. The [...]
Converting ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8 (and back again)
Recently I had to convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8. The quick and easy way to do this is to use iconv from the command line. Unfortunately this had to be done from within a Visual C++/MFC application on Windows (so Cygwin wasn’t really an option). Fortunately, I found libiconv-win32. I installed the source and built [...]
