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Utility software is system software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a computer. A single piece of utility software is usually called a utility or tool.

Utility software usually focuses on how the computer infrastructure (including the computer hardware, operating system, application software and data storage) operates. Due to this focus, utilities are often rather technical and targeted at people with an advanced level of computer knowledge - in contrast to application software, which allows users to do things like creating text documents, playing games, listening to music or viewing websites.

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Custom bootloader issues

Im trying to write a bootloader for a Hobby OS and have it working great. Nothing Special, just prints a line of text: BITS 16 ORG 0 start: jmp main OEM db "Test OS " BytesPerSector: DW 512 SectorsPerCluster: DB…
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Is there a way to detect portably that a standard header is included using macros?

I want to make an equivalent to boost::swap and in my environment, standard headers can, or cannot be included. Depending on project licencing and other stuff. I'd like to make portions of the code protected by guard detectors: Let's consider one…
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Zip using Oracle Stored Procedure

Right now I am using Oracle utility procedure, UTL_COMPRESS.LZ_COMPRESS(), to compress some data. But the problem is it compresses the thing using GZIP compatible format, which is not also ZIP compatible unfortunately. Therefore, the Windows XP…
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How would I create a hex dump utility in C++?

Basically, I need to write a hex dump utility using C++. It'll look something like this (Part of a Word document's hex dump using Visual Studio) I want to prompt the user for a file name, and then display the hexadecimal values as well as the…
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Spy utility for Windows 8

I've used Snoop, it is the brilliant tool for WPF. SilverlightSpy has similar functionality for Silverlight and WP7. Does anybody know about any similar tools for Windows 8 projects? EDIT : I mean Windows Metro style applications on C#/XAML that run…
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Does a free general purpose ASN.1 Decode/Dump/Inspect program exist?

Does a free general purpose ASN.1 Decode/Dump/Inspect program exist? I have a suspect ASN.1 block which may have failed decryption, and I would like to inspect it to see it it appears valid, and if so what elements it contains.
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What's a good GUI utility to apply patches on Windows?

I'm looking for a good GUI patch utility for Windows - this is something that I'll be sending to someone who hasn't worked with patches much before, so ease of use is important. I know WinMerge can generate patches, but it can't apply them; does…
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Java: prefer Utility Class depending on a class instance or static methods?

I've a Java class that does something like this public class MyObjectUtil { private final MyObject myObject; public MyObjectUtil (MyObject myObject){ this.myObject = myObject; } public boolean…
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Detect unused functions in C

I'm looking for a way to check if my C project, that compiles to an ELF, has unused functions, and locate them. That is functions that are declared but are not called anywhere in my code. The solution can be one of: A utility that goes through my…
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Use of logger in Utility classes of java

i am just wondering 'bout use of Logger API in Utility classes while writing java code. we can always use logger where we will be using our utility class to log a proper message BUT what i want to ask is-- Is it a good practice to use Logger in…
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What are the best javascript array library/utility/extensions?

I've been using the dojo array utilties, but I'm not entirely happy with the limited number of features. Is there any really extensive well-written javascript array utility library or extension? I'd be hoping for something similar in scope to the…
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how to verify links in a PDF file

I have a PDF file which I want to verify whether the links in that are proper. Proper in the sense - all URLs specified are linked to web pages and nothing is broken. I am looking for a simple utility or a script which can do it easily ?! Example:…
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How might one go about implementing a disk fragmenter?

I have a few ideas I would like to try out in the Disk Defragmentation Arena. I came to the conclusion that as a precursor to the implementation, it would be useful, to be able to put a disk into a state where it was fragmented. This seems to me…
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For C++ Vector3 utility class implementations, is array faster than struct and class?

just out of curiosity, I implemented vector3 utilities in 3 ways: array (with a typedef), class and struct This is the array implementation: typedef float newVector3[3]; namespace vec3{ void add(const newVector3& first, const newVector3&…
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Best Practices for extending utility classes in java

I've extended classes from apache-commons-3 to add my own utility functions which are unavailable in them. e.g.: public class CollectionUtils extends org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils { /** * Similar to…
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