What does “@” mean in Windows batch scripts

It means not to output the respective command. Compare the following two batch files: and The former has only foo as output while the latter prints (here, at least). As can be seen the command that is run is visible, too. echo off will turn this off for the complete batch file. However, the echo … Read more

How to upgrade Git on Windows to the latest version

Since Git 2.16.1(2) you can use In version between 2.14.2 and 2.16.1, the command was (It was later renamed to avoid confusion with updating the local repository, e.g. like svn update does it.) That command does not exist in Git 2.13 and before. If this errors with “is not a git command” then either you don’t actually … Read more

How can I install pip on Windows?

Python 2.7.9+ and 3.4+ Good news! Python 3.4 (released March 2014) and Python 2.7.9 (released December 2014) ship with Pip. This is the best feature of any Python release. It makes the community’s wealth of libraries accessible to everyone. Newbies are no longer excluded from using community libraries by the prohibitive difficulty of setup. In shipping with a package … Read more

Unexplained crashes related to ntdll.dll

I have an application that I’ve written that crashes intermittently, but I’m unable to capture an exception at the application layer. I always get an entry in the event log but doesn’t give me much info: As you can see, I get this: Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll. I’m not sure what that is or how … Read more

A fatal error occurred while creating a TLS client credential. The internal error state is 10013

Basically we had to enable TLS 1.2 for .NET 4.x. Making this registry changed worked for me, and stopped the event log filling up with the Schannel error. More information on the answer can be found here Linked Info Summary Enable TLS 1.2 at the system (SCHANNEL) level: (equivalent keys are probably also available for … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)