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Automatically authenticating windows users on an apache/Linux server

If I wanna authenticate windows accounts to AD when a user browses to an apache-running site on a Linux server, here are the usual suspects:   List item mod_ntlm (which I used in a distant past) - last update on 2003 mod_auth_ntlm_winbind - last update on 04/2007 mod_auth_kerb - last update on 12/2008 No luck getting any of those to ...

How to create a patch in TortoiseSVN while no file is checked out?

Hi, I know if some files are checked out (modified) then I could right click on containing folder, then select "create patch". After then I will see list of all checked out files. So I could include them in the patch. But when no file is checked out, aka everything is committed, create patch window is empty. So the question is how can I...

WinXP Parallels Guest with OS X host -- communication between the two?

The setup: Windows XP guest OS running inside Parallels 5 on a OS X 10.6.2 host. I have a win32 application that runs in windows that communicates with other programs by sending out keystrokes to the program in focus. I can run this software inside parallels just fine, but I need a way for it to communicate (via keystrokes) with native...

Real-time equalizer for all audio on computer

Is it possible to capture all the sound from a computer and have it pass through a equalizer before reaching the speakers? How can you program a band pass filter on it? EDIT: I'm trying to get this on Windows (with Python? heh) but if there is a generic, cross-platform approach that would be great. ...

How do you protect yourself from runaway memory consumption bringing down the PC?

Every now and again I find myself doing something moderately dumb that results in my program allocating all the memory it can get and then some. This kind of thing used to cause the program to die fairly quickly with an "out of memory" error, but these days Windows will go out of its way to give this non-existent memory to the applicati...

problem in batch script read user input

hi, i use set /p below to read user input it seems to work outside the if block but the one inside if block doesn't work. When i run the script second time the user input in the if block prints the previous user input. test script: @echo off set cond=true echo %cond% if %cond%==true ( echo "cond is true" REM the below input doesn't wo...

allow debugger to hook instance of application launched externally?

I'm trying to test problems with an MFC application that still uses DDEEXEC mechanism for handling shell verbs (e.g. "open"). I cannot seem to find a way to cause the debugger to hook the application instance the second its created (or at a point of my choosing) when it's launched from the Windows shell. For example, if I were to double...

How can I compile a GUI executable with ghc?

I ported a little Haskell program I wrote from Mac to Windows. It's a GUI application (wxHaskell, compiled with ghc 6.12.1), so it does not need the command prompt window to open. It does so, anyway, so my question: What must I do so that the program starts without opening a prompt window first? Is there some ghc switch for this? ...

Get location of Windows context menu selection?

I have a Windows context menu item invoking a Windows Form via these registry keys... HKLM\Software\Classes\*\shell\myappname HKLM\Software\Classes\*\shell\myappname\command But when my Windows Form is started, I want it to be located near where the context menu was invoked. Is there any way to do that? I think I need to get the coo...

Why is QProcess converting the '=' in my arguments to spaces

I've run into a weird error with a Qt program running on Windows. The program uses QProcess to spawn a child process wit two arguments. The program and arguments passed to the QProcess::start() method are of the form: "batchfile.bat" "--option1=some_value" "--option2=some_other_value\with_a\path" For some reason by the time those op...

Using windows CopyFile function to copy all files with certain name format

Hello! I am updating some C code that copys files with a certain name. basically, I have a directory with a bunch of files named like so: AAAAA.1.XYZ AAAAA.2.ZYX AAAAA.3.YZX BBBBB.1.XYZ BBBBB.2.ZYX Now, In the old code, they just used a call to ShellExecute and used xcopy.exe. to get all the files starting with AAAAA, they just gave xc...

Trying to compile VS2008 project on Win 64 bit which is custom Powershell PSSnapin

Library Project compiles fine for ANY CPU in VS2008 running on Win 7 64 -bit. Now in the post build following command fails when attemptiong to register library dll: PS C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727> .\installutil C:\path\Project.dll Exception occurred while initializing the installation: System.BadImageFormatExcep...

Sound Manager Classes for Windows

I need some classes for playing short wav sounds, this classes would load this wav files into memory when an instance created, play sounds in background when needed, release this wav files from memory when an instance disposed. How can I do this on C# for windows (.Net 2.0)? (Win API's sndPlaySound, OpenAL or may be any wrapper) Ideall...

I want to trace logs using a Macro multi parameter always null. problem c++ windows

I am using the following way to cout a function's time: #define TIME_COST(message, ...)\ char szMessageBuffer[2048] = {0};\ va_list ArgList;\ va_start(ArgList, message);\ vsprintf_s(szMessageBuffer, 2048, message, ArgList);\ va_end(ArgList); \ string strMessage(szMessageBuffer);\ CQLogTimer t(strMessage); // CQLogTimer is a sel...

MIDL (Constant) References

Are there no constant references in MIDL method declarations???? eg. [id(1), helpstring("My Method")] HRESULT MyMethod( [in] IID & const rclsid ); for HRESULT MyMethod( IID const &rclsid ); ...

How to get windows search history?

Hi is there any way to get windows search history in some form? I mean programatically in some kind of structure. Thx for answer. ...

How Can I Blink Scroll Lock,Num Lock LEDs Using Programming Language....

Hello There Its Me vijay... Is There Any Method To Blink The LEDs Of Scroll Lock etc???... Post me the Code Snippet in any Lang....But My Preference Is c/c++,Java... PS:I M Making a Morse Code Program Which Blinks The Scroll Lock LED.... ...

get value of Checkbox in datagrid

I am working with windows application. I have a datagrid in vb.net. Its first column is a checkbox. I want to know which checkboxes are checked and which are not. My code is : Dim dr As DataGridViewRow For i = 0 To gdStudInfo.RowCount - 1 dr = gdStudInfo.Rows(i) att = dr.Cells(0).Va...

how to go through a string array and apply functions for different strings?

Ok, this may be really noobish question, but i am wishing there is something i dont know yet. I go through a file, and check which string each line has, depending on the string value i execute a different function for it (or functions). This is how i do it now: Edit: I need to use variables outside the if-else-if range inside the if's...

What is "Virtual Size" in sysinternals process explorer

Hi My application runs for few hours, There is no increase in any value ( vmsize, memory) of Task Manager. But after few hours i get out of memory errors. In sysinternals i see that "Virtual Size" is contineously increasing, and when it reach around 2 GB i start getting memory errors. So what kind of memory leak is that ? How can i d...