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Stop internal drive showing up in "Safely remove hardware"

Like many of you, I had a drive that showed up in the “Safely remove hardware” tray icon, and was unable to remove it.
The trick is to subtract 4 from the Capabilities in the registry. Not easy, but it can be done. The only thing is that it keeps coming back after every boot ! [...]

Easy test coverage with constant Hamming distance of 1

I left a terrible bug in version 1.3 of my replacement Gina. I didn’t want to miss any test case this time, so I wrote a batch file that tests every one of them. That batch file adds a user to a group and a group to the registry. There are two possible groups in [...]

A convenient way to run Apache Forrest on Windows

I use Apache Forrest to generate what will someday be the homepage of paralint.com. I use “forrest run” most of the time, and “forrest site”, “forrest clean” every now and then.
I wrote a little batch file that will launch forrest in a new window when the “run” option is used, and in the same window [...]

Making Jetty listen to the local interface only

I use Apache’s Forrest tool, which uses internally the Jetty engine. I wanted to make Jetty listen to 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0, so my computer wouldn’t show up in a enterprise port scan.
I had trouble finding the information. I went looking for the link again without any success. So I am posting it here, where [...]