Programming in C/C++ Within the Sublime Text Editor

Hi all .

In this post, I'll describe setting up a C++ environment using Sublime Text 3 and the GNU compiler. This will allow you to write code in C++ and be able to build and run it all from within the Sublime Text 3 editor.


Things you will need:

Sublime Text 3 - https://www.sublimetext.com/

MinGW -w64 - https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/

Build system file - https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sagebind/9039773048a3900fa49a/raw/e465947afb43948b471f739992ce303a92befbf8/MinGW-w64.sublime-build

About 10-15 minutes to complete setup and test. Note: You will probably need to install under an admin account to make sure everything installs correctly.


Steps:

1. Install Sublime Text 3 onto your system.

2. Install MinGW -w64

(Note the location/folder it gets installed to)

3. Set the path variable for MinGW

 Note: If you need help at this step, please see the following link and check the 'Environment Settings' section: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started

4. Copy the following build file and place it within Sublime Text's package folder:
  https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sagebind/9039773048a3900fa49a/raw/e465947afb43948b471f739992ce303a92befbf8/MinGW-w64.sublime-build


Once the above file has been copied to a file and saved within the package folder, you can should be able to build code under Sublime Text.

Write your code in Sublime and then test by going to Tools > Build.



Enjoy!

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https://theintercept.com/2018/04/28/computer-malware-tampering/

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1. When saving, instead of doing the usual save as .ppt...instead save your slides as a .pps. When you open this, it will go directly into presentation mode.

2. When you're going to be doing a presentation from another computer, consider saving your slides to .pdf format. This will ensure you don't run into any weird software mishaps if the computer you're presenting on has a different version of PowerPoint than the one you created the slides on.

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Here is a quick script I ran at work yesterday to find inactive computers in our active directory. It checks the last time a system was logged on for a given amount of days specified by the user in the script.

Here's the code:

# Michael L. Kelley Jr.
# March 15, 2017
# InactiveComputers.ps1
# A script to find inactive computers via days not logged on

$DaysInactive = 90
$time = (Get-Date).Adddays(-($DaysInactive))

Get-ADComputer -Filter {lastlogontimestamp -lt $time} -Properties Name.OperatingSystem , lastlogintimestamp| Select Name.OperatingSystem,
@{N='lastlogontimestamp'; E={[DateTime]::FromFileTime($_. lastlogontimestamp)}}

Read-Host -Prompt "Press enter to exit"

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