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avp.com scan pipe error when using ssh -n command ?

i have the following case :- i design :- 1- file.bat on windows 2003 2- file2.sh on unix-aix file2.bash call file.bat and file.bat receve path from file2.bash and file.bash return a value to file2.bat .... when i execute this from my servers all thing good but when i call this from my website (PHP) the following error appear :- ER...

Open WPF application in Windows in c++ application

I have a situation where I need to start a WPF application and have it run using a child window created by my C++ application. So the sequence of events would be - Start C++ application C++ application creates a window that it wants WPF app to run in. Launch WPF using CreateProcess function. Included in create process would be the ha...

Strange issue with using Java ProcessBuilder on Windows 2008 R2 Standard

Hi all, I've delopped some Scala code to control the lifecycle of MySQL server. The code runs fine on Windows XP, but fails under Windows 2008 R2 standard with the following exception: Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "mysql" (in directory ".\bin"): CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the fil...

Windows and linux command processing

how differently is "dir" command in windows and "ls" command in linux processed by the operating system?? ...

Read the current battery charge/discharge rate on a laptop

I've wrote a small piece of code that reads the current battery charge/discharge on my laptop. I followed the example code on this MSDN page. My program updates the information every 100ms (by calling the DeviceIoControl function with IOCTL_BATTERY_QUERY_STATUS as control code) but the read value changes only after 5-10 seconds. For exa...

How to programmatically schedule a task to run when shutting down Windows?

This is almost the same as http://stackoverflow.com/questions/101647/how-to-schedule-a-task-to-run-when-shutting-down-windows, except I need to do it programmatically. Also, I need the guarantee that when the script is run, no application can cancel the shutdown anymore. Is this possible? Thanks. Update, with a little context: My comp...

How to list the currently logged on users when there are more than one at the same time?

Using WMI (regardless of the actual programming language), it's possible to get the currently logged on user using a query such as Select UserName from Win32_ComputerSystem. All nice and good. But what if multiple user sessions and/or Terminal Services are involved? Is it possible to list all the currently logged on users on a given sys...

Rspec not displaying colours

I'm running Rspec 2.0.0rc on Windows 7. I am also running the win32console gem (1.3.0 x86-mingw32). The colours aren't being displayed - everything is showing up in boring old white/grey. What am I doing wrong? Edit: I also tried Rspec 2.0.0. and had the same problem ...

How to change the text in standard dialog button in Windows 7?

How can I change the "OK" text into "Great!" on all buttons in Windows 7's dialog windows? ...

enumerating each ip assigned to network interfaces

I think there is no way to enumerate each network interface on my system and their assigned IP using just sockets, is this correct? I mean, in linux this could be: eth0: 192.168.1.5 wlan0: 192.168.0.5 lo: 127.0.0.1 I dont care interface names, just the IPs assigned. I recall to have done this in the past in Windows, using winapi (tho...

Creating a Windows GUI .exe application

Hello, I have a C/C++ algorithm that I want to create a GUI application for. I would prefer a .exe application that I can pass around to people. I would preferably want to create a dll of my c/c++ algorithm and then bundle it into the Windows GUI application which is basically just a wrapper around the main c/c++ application. How can I ...

Portable USB Encryption Tool

I need setup USB devices with encrypted data that a user would be able to access the first time with an initial password, be made to change that password on first access, and be able to change the password later as well. It only needs to run on Windows XP SP 2 and later. It would be nice if it could run without administrator privileges...

How do set Merb / DataMapper / JRuby / Windows to accept concurrent requests?

I have my site running fine with a simple 'merb' command. I'd like to spawn multiple processes, or threads or whatever, so that a long DB request (or more often, a long PDF building request) doesn't hang everyone else on the server. I've tried to use "merb -c3", but receive an error saying Daemonized mode is not available. Any other ...

Hibernate - different behavior on Linux and Windows

I've run into a peculiar problem where a hql query is working as expected on Windows but does not on Linux. Here is the query: select distinct resource from Resource resource , ResourceOrganization ro where (resource.active=true) and (resource.published=true) and ((resource.resourcePublic=true) or ((ro.resource.id=resource.id and r...

Windows poll or select on Named pipe

Can I use select and poll on the Named pipe handle in windows? It will be great if an example can be given. (I am very new to windows programming) In case one of process goes down and I am polling on other end, will I get any error message on the other process that the process is down? ...

what is signing exe in windows?

I heard many people talking about signing exe in windows platforms. I have following questions, What is signing exe? Is there any rules i have to follow for signing my application? What are the advantages i can get when my application got signed? Is it free? Thanks, Santhosh ...

Is there a way to abort an SQLite call?

I'm using SQLite3 in a Windows application. I have the source code (so-called SQLite amalgamation). Sometimes I have to execute heavy queries. That is, I call sqlite3_step on a prepared statement, and it takes a lot of time to complete (due to the heavy I/O load). I wonder if there's a possibility to abort such a call. I would also be ...

How can I use jEdit editor to code in Objective C on Windows

I'm new to Objective C. I've installed jEdit on windows 7 and the gcc compiler too. I need to know how to use jEdit to develop Objective C applications on windows Thank you. ...

How can I get user input (via a dialog window) in a Windows script?

I'd like to create a simple search script that runs from the CMD prompt. It needs to asks for user input first e.g. "what to search". How can I prompt the user for input (in cmd), or open a input dialog (in any standard scripting Windows language). ...

How to store Java desktop application(multiplatform) global settings?

What do I need exactly is to store information like applications first execution date and few settings somewhere on the user machine. The program will be distributed on Windows and Mac OS. This information needs to be shared between the users on same machine... somewhat global settings. On windows I'd probably store this information in r...