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Recreating an old Polaroid photo

The pnpLockdown problem If you’ve been involved in Windows kernel driver development, you might have encountered a somewhat cryptic warning from the Windows Driver Kit (WDK): “warning 1324: [Version] section should specify PnPLockdown=1.” What is this warning, and why does it matter? In this blog post, we’ll delve into the world of Windows kernel drivers, INF files, and the enigmatic…

My script for backing up Alexa recordings

My script for backing up Alexa recordings

A while ago I developed a Python script for backing up Alexa‘s (Amazon Echo devices) voice recordings. Many of these recordings are just random voice recordings captured for no reason while other are commands given to Alexa.

I have written the following article in CodeProject.

Following a touching email I received from someone who was able to get his late mother’s recording after she passed away…

I recently created my own recording studio. It is based on a Roland Keyboard, Roland TD 50KV Drums, an MPC X and a Zoom recorder.

My Music is available at Apple Music, Amazon Music, and all the other services.

Maintaining huge amounts of data

I have around 50 external hard drives, 20 internal ones (form old PCs since 1994 and until today), floppy disks, CDs, DVDs and thumb drives. After purchasing the best NAS I could find – Synology Diskstation 2415+

I started looking for NAS (Red) hard drives to fill it up. I purchased 12 x 6TB ones but recently began replacing them with 10TB each (having the potential storage size of 120TB !

Synol…

Embed a resource to a static library (nothing is impossible)

I needed to embed a resource (icon) to a static library so we can deploy just the .lib and .h files with no need to include any graphics or .rc files. I wanted my static library to be used by any application including such that don’t have any graphic user interface, i.e. Console applications, etc. I posted a question in Stack Overflow and Code Project and the responses were: That’s not possible……