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Kent

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Failed to emerge media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0

If you’ve upgraded Perl on your Gentoo box to 5.12, and tries to reemerge ImageMagick, you might get this error:

Open and select file or folder with Explorer in C#

C# Process.Start method will open Explorer and select the file or folder given.

Fallout New Vegas: Gaining entrance to Nellis Air Force Base

This is how you gain access to the Nellis Air Force Base in New Vegas.

Fallout New Vegas: Brotherhood Scout Locations

After finding the locations of the Brotherhood patrols, you’re asked to find the scouts and retrieve observations from them.

Fallout: New Vegas Hidden Valley Bunker Virus

This is a simple howto on how to beat the virus infection in the Brotherhood of Steel datastore.

Visual Studio: fatal error LNK1201: error writing to program database ‘…’ check for insufficient disk space, invalid path, or insufficient privilege

When I get this error, it’s always because I’ve opened the debugging process in Process Explorer.

User warnings for MS Visual Studio

This little macro prints out user warnings to the output window in a format the “Error List” within Visual Studio will understand and parse. Taken from Stack Overflow and modified a little.

C++ std::list::remove_if predicate

Recall, that std:remove_if predicate won’t actually remove the elements from a container unless it’s a member of a container, like std::list::remove_if. In this case the elements will be removed.

How to specify shared object path in Linux

If you’re on a system as a user and with no means of installing custom libraries or updating libraries for your custom program, you can load your own libraries with this simple command.