What is the file node.exe for?

node.exe is full Node.JS executable, containing everything you need to run Node.JS applications on Windows. You used the default installer, so it got installed to C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe. But you can also download it separately (Windows Binary option), and, for example, bundle it with your application package to simplify the installation on many machines. There’s no … Read more

How to split a string into an array in Bash?

Note that the characters in $IFS are treated individually as separators so that in this case fields may be separated by either a comma or a space rather than the sequence of the two characters. Interestingly though, empty fields aren’t created when comma-space appears in the input because the space is treated specially. To access … Read more

ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ”

110 I am creating a program that reads a file and if the first line of the file is not blank, it reads the next four lines. Calculations are performed on those lines and then the next line is read. If that line is not empty it continues. However, I am getting this error: ValueError: … Read more

Why are #ifndef and #define used in C++ header files?

Those are called #include guards. Once the header is included, it checks if a unique value (in this case HEADERFILE_H) is defined. Then if it’s not defined, it defines it and continues to the rest of the page. When the code is included again, the first ifndef fails, resulting in a blank file. That prevents … Read more

Amazon Linux: apt-get: command not found

If you’re using Amazon Linux it’s CentOS-based, which is RedHat-based. RH-based installs use yum not apt-get. Something like yum search httpd should show you the available Apache packages – you likely want yum install httpd24. Note: Amazon Linux 2 has diverged from CentOS since the writing of this answer, but still uses yum.

Use Notepad++ as HEX-Editor

It seems to me you tried to install a hex editor and ended up in the wrong tool (Plug-In) Converter (ASCII -> HEX) as mentioned in your question above. The installation process of the HexEditor is somewhat confusing because it is currently available only in the Plugins Admin for the 32-bit version. A simple solution … Read more