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Here's some useful C code that converts hexadecimal into a signed integer. I found myself doing a whole lot of hex arithmetic when studying IA32 assembly for a class of mine. Most of us can do this in our heads, but when it comes to hex values that are larger than 32bit and contain a lot of carry digits, you might be wasting your time.

Download hex2int and stop using your brain when reverse engineering.

Trolltech, maker of the Qt toolkit which forms the basis for KDE, announced today that the Qt version for Microsoft Windows will be available under the GPL in addition to its current commercial license offerings for that platform. This change will take place with the release of Qt 4. The Qt version for Linux has been available under a similar dual licensing scheme for several years already. The availability of a GPL'ed Qt for Microsoft Windows will make it much easier to distribute KDE applications that run on the Microsoft Windows platform.

Expect a lot of killer Qt apps to make appearances on Windows, and very likely brand new open source apps to be developed with Qt 4 in the future. This is the best tech news of 2005 so far.