What does the recent rise of netbook devices, and the popularity of these low power, low memory computing devices, mean for developing desktop applications? Reworded like this: From User RSolberg: Given the recent trend in the market for smaller net books with lower performance standards than the modern laptop and desktop, what will h...
I've created a pagination script that takes a long block of text and breaks it into pages. First the text is loaded into a div with the id #page. Then the script measures the height of #page and calculates how many pages it should be broken into to fit into the div with class .detailsholder. The div .detailsholder is cleared out, and th...
I have program that has a variable that should never change. However, somehow, it is being changed. Is there a way to have the debugger stop when that particular member variable is modified? ...
Looking for a library or a fairly cross platform method to get CPU utilization, memory utilization, etc in C/C++. Something OTHER than getrusage(), I need for entire system, not one process. I've checked around, but haven't found much. I really need it on Linux, Mac Os X, and Windows, but if there's a solution for *nix systems (includ...
I'm trying to get eclipse to work with MinGW. I've done the following: Downloaded CDT for eclipse. Installed MinGW. Added C:\MinGW\bin to my path. Opening a command prompt (CMD) and typing g++ or alike works fine. I run eclipse, create a "New C++ Project", and only get the option saying "other toolchains". There's a MILLION tutorials...
My windows co-workers were asking me if I could modify my non-windows binary files such that when their "Properties" are examined under Windows, they could see a "Version" tab like that which would show for a Visual Studio compiled exe. Specifically, I have some gzipped binary files and was wondering if I could modify them to satisfy th...
I need to write a small socket server proxy application that accepts connections from local applications on ALL interfaces (socket should bind to 0.0.0.0). I'm not aware of way to achieve this (I have additional requirements that prevent binding to the 127.0.0.1). A first attempt at this does the following: bind(0.0.0.0) ... s = accep...
I am beginner of Ruby on Rails and use Windows for development. I do the following steps: 1. Download Ruby v.1.9.1 ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.9.1-p0-i386-mswin32.zip Extract it and put it into C:\ruby 2. Download the latest Aptana and install it 3. Install the RadRail plugin in Aptana. 4. Set the ruby path ...
Hello , My application needs to monitor all other running applications on the system. Is there some way I could get notified on exit of every application exe? The methods I could find: 1) Use PSAPI functions to get the list of running exes at frequent intervals. At each poll compare with the previous list to find which application/pro...
I know that a question has already been asked about generating a unique ID for a machine but my question is slightly different. I want to know whether there are any other methods (API calls?) to get hardware information and NOT use WMI. I understand from MSDN that WMI is introduced in Win2000 so it doesnt seem to be available in Win98. ...
Zip-Archive mode works on systems with zip/unzip. How do you get it to work on Wnidows? ...
Can I use powershell as the shell, in shell mode for emacs? How? ...
I am trying to develop an asp.net site with multiple subdomains. I am new to web sites in general, and asp.net in particular. However, it seems that wildcard subdomains are properly setup with a combination of dns entries and web server configuration - which isn't going to happen on my development machine. Therefore I'm manually insertin...
I have tried this code: uses MMSystem; mciSendString('Set cdaudio door open wait', nil, 0, handle); mciSendString('Set cdaudio door closed wait', nil, 0, handle); but there was no effect. I have heard that this does not work on all systems. I'm trying to get a drive to eject on Windows XP, and would like to specify the drive via th...
I have a native release dll that is built with symbols. There is a post build step that modifies the dll. The post build step does some compression and probably appends some data. The pdb file is still valid however neither WinDbg nor Visual Studio 2008 will load the symbols for the dll after the post build step. What bits in either ...
If I have a function foo() that windows has implemented in kernel32.dll and it always returns true, can I have my program: "bar.exe" hook/detour that Windows function and make it return false for all processes instead? So if my svchost, for example, calls foo(), it will return false instead of true. The same action should be expected fo...
I currently have a c++ application that gets built on xp and windows vista/7 virtualize some of the paths which i dont want it to do. Some sites says to add this to manifest file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <trustInfo xmlns="...
I've added php as a module for Apache 2.2.11: LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_2.dll" And also added AddType application/x-httpd-php .php And in PHP.ini, my extension dir is set to: extension_dir = "C:\php\ext" And yes, the directories are correct and all files do exist. But when I start apache, I get these errors: ...
Hi, I would like to write a small Windows application which changes the desktop wallpaper based on photographs retrieved from a web service ? How should I go about this ? Which language / technology would this be the quickest to code in ? ...
If I had a dll (foo.dll) that was LoadLibrary'd into an application (bar.exe), how do I get the string "bar.exe" from within foo.dll? ...