Thoughts on the descent into a post-Constitutional era.
All posts by Rand Simberg
The Hammer And Sickle
Why it should be treated like the swastika.
Yes.
“Too Long For Me To Read”
That should be the title of the lying fraud’s book.
Destroying Democracy
…in order to save it.
Fauci
Guilt For January 6th
…lies with those most eager to condemn it.
Biden Failing
This is going to be a failed presidency, that deserves to fail.
Race Preferences
A review of a new book on how they damage academia and students.
China’s Bio-Economic War Against The World
…has begun to backfire.
Bash/Vi Issue
So I’m trying to dig my Windows product key out of my recovered files. I run this pattern on all of them with ‘egrep -r ‘^([A-Za-z0-9]{5}-){4}[A-Za-z0-9]{5}$’ *’
It says it finds it in three files:
Binary file recup_dir.7567/f2079240352_unregmp2 matches
Binary file recup_dir.7574/f2082184960_pidgen_dll matches
Binary file recup_dir.7576/f2082580864_pidgen_dll matches
But when I go into vi to search for the string itself with the same regex, I get “No pattern matches.” Is the syntax for regex different in vi than in bash?
[Wednesday update]
I still haven’t found it, but amazingly, I seem to have installed a working version of Windows 10 without it.