wbemtest like functionality in Linux

when I was working on the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), we got to use wbemtest quite a lot. Especially the root/cimv2 namspace was good to get information about system hardware. These days if someone asks me (on a windows machine about how many RAM slots it has, etc., I can look it up in wbemtest [...]

Building ECL on Win32 using VS2005

While looking for a suitable lisp to use on a Win32 platform, I wanted to look for one that was natively buildable on it. Chicken sounded interesting, and moreover they had (at some point of time) made it buildable using cmake (which made me particularly happy, because of the possibility of generating SLN files for [...]