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by colinfinck 2y ago
Not long ago I remember coming across some discussions about upgrading SChannel (the actual TLS component in Windows) in older versions using OpenSSL or other TLS libraries, but can't find at the moment. ReactOS has an schannel.dll b
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by colinfinck 3y ago
Author here. Surprised to suddenly find my project from 2021 on Hacker News! If you want to learn more about NTFS internals and my crate, check out the talk I gave at FOSDEM 2022: https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedul
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by colinfinck 4y ago
FWIW, I recently implemented a safe Rust crate around the Windows variant of intrusive linked lists [1] and spoke about it at EuroRust [2]. I did it only for compatibility and would still prefer vectors whenever I can use them. Nevertheless
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This Month in Rust OSDev: July 2022(rust-osdev.com)
1 points by colinfinck 4y ago|0 comments
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by colinfinck 4y ago
I have worked on a Windows-compatible kernel. Not at Microsoft, but within the ReactOS Project. And I can affirm that even after 15 years of low-level development, nowadays mostly within various Rust projects, it doesn't get boring. Ca
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by colinfinck 4y ago
> Only if you want to be trendchasing rather than letting backwards compatibility take care of itself... > I'm a native Win32 developer, have been one for a few decades, and know quite a few others still using MSVC6 because it&#x
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An implementation of the NTFS filesystem in a Rust crate(colinfinck.de)
5 points by colinfinck 5y ago|2 comments
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by colinfinck 5y ago
From the original post: "numbers seem to be mangled independently from the compression mode, which makes the issue hard to avoid"
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Targeting 25 years of Windows with Visual Studio 2019(building.enlyze.com)
7 points by colinfinck 5y ago|0 comments
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by colinfinck 5y ago
I've been using Win32DiskImager since the first Raspberry Pi. Never found a reason to change. Usbimager looks nice in comparison to the bloated Balena Etcher, but otherwise very similar to the Win32DiskImager I'm already using. Or
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by colinfinck 6y ago
We didn't do it just for the eye candy, but also for threads, offline messages, and user identification. I wrote down our reasons for moving from IRC to a self-hosted Mattermost here: https://reactos.org/project-news&#x
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by colinfinck 6y ago
No. The project has no legal entity in the US.
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by colinfinck 6y ago
ReactOS dev here. As of today, compatibility is primarily hampered by the fact that many applications don't run under Windows XP anymore. We don't want to change the entire OS target to something newer than NT 5.2 (XP/Server
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Writing Win32 apps like it's 2020 – A DPI-aware resizable wizard in modern C++(building.enlyze.com)
13 points by colinfinck 6y ago|2 comments
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ReactOS 0.4.12 Released(reactos.org)
11 points by colinfinck 7y ago|2 comments
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by colinfinck 8y ago
This implementation of doubly linked lists is not even exclusive to Unix-based operating systems, but also known as struct LIST_ENTRY under Windows/ReactOS and heavily used for kernel development there. They also provide a singly linke
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by colinfinck 8y ago
The complexity of OpenID Connect or even just SAML is exactly why I developed RosLogin for the ReactOS infrastructure: https://github.com/reactos/web/tree/master/www/www.reactos.o... Our web service