I'd like to keep a "compile-counter" for one of my projects. I figured a quick and dirty way to do this would be to keep a textfile with a plain number in it, and then simply call upon a small script to increment this each time I compile. How would I go about doing this using the the regular Windows command-line? I don't really feel li...
I'm doing a fair bit of work in Ruby recently, and using ruby script/console Is absolutely critical. However, I'm really disappointed with the default Windows console in Vista, especially in that there's a really annoying bug where moving the cursor back when at the bottom of the screen irregularly causes it to jump back. Anyone have...
How do you run Emacs in Windows? What is the best flavor of Emacs to use in Windows, and where can I download it? And where is the .emacs file located? ...
If not, what are the significant differences? ...
I am about to write an audio file converter for my side job at the university. As part of this I would need sample rate conversion. However, my professor said that it would be pretty hard to write a sample rate converter that was both of good quality and fast. On my research on the subject, I found some functions in the OSX CoreAudio-fr...
So creating a Windows service using Visual Studio is fairly trivial. My question goes a bit deeper as to what actually makes an executable installable as a service & how to write a service as a straight C application. I couldn't find a lot of references on this, but I'm presuming there has to be some interface I can implement so my .ex...
First off, I am using Windows XP. I have multiple hard drives and it looks like something decided to make some folders on the second one ( which is just a data drive, no os ). These folders all have names like "e69f29f1b1f166d3d30b8c9f7156ba" and "bd92c24cc278614082cd88e7a64b". They contain folders named update, whose "access is denie...
I have a form with 2 tree views, the user can drag and drop a node from one to another. After a node has been dragged and dropped, I change the color[highlight] of the source node in the DragDrop event handles.The color of the node changes fine. But when the users hovers the mouse over the source tree view after that, it flickers and th...
X Windows has special processes called Window Managers that manage the layout of windows and decorations like their title bar, control buttons etc. Such processes use an X Windows API to detect events related to windows sizes and positions. Are there any consistent ways for writing such processes for Microsoft Windows or Mac OS/X? I kn...
I am using .NET remoting to retrieve periodic status updates from a Windows service into a 'controller' application which is used to display some live stats about what the service is doing. The resulting network traffic is huge - many times the size of the data for the updates - so clearly I have implemented the remoting code incorrectl...
I have two unrelated processes that use .NET assemblies as plugins. However, either process can be started/stopped at any time. I can't rely on a particular process being the server. In fact, there may be multiple copies running of one of the processes, but only one of the other. I initially implemented a solution based off of this arti...
For certain programs nothing beats the command line. Unfortunately, I have never seen good documentation or examples on how to write console applications that go beyond "Hello World". I'm interested in making console apps like Vim or Emacs. Well not exactly like Vim or Emacs but one that takes over the entire command prompt while it is...
Update: Check out this follow-up question: Gem Update on Windows - is it broken? On Windows, when I do this: gem install sqlite3-ruby I get the following error: Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing sqlite3-ruby: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe e...
When I open cmd on my laptop it is defaulting to the F: drive. This is troubling me does anyone know how it got that way or how to get it back to where it opens to the C: drive by default? ...
We've seen an issue where one of our installers (msi) returns the error code 2908, which is used to indicate that an assembly failed to register. Later in the installation, we get the following (sanitized) error: MyAssemblyName, version="1.0.1.1", culture="neutral", publicKeyToken="119EFC79848A50". Please refer to Help and Sup...
I have a console app that needs to display the state of items, but rather than having text scroll by like mad I'd rather see the current status keep showing up on the same lines. For the sake of example: Running... nn% complete Buffer size: bbbb bytes should be the output, where 'nn' is the current percentage complete, and 'bbb...
I wondered whether anybody knows how to obtain membership of local groups on a remote server programmatically via C#. Would this require administrator permissions? And if so is there any way to confirm the currently logged in user's membership (or not) of these groups? ...
I've had some trouble forking of processes from a Perl CGI script when running on Windows. The main issue seems to be that 'fork' is emulated when running on windows, and doesn't actually seem to create a new process (just another thread in the current one). This means that web servers (like IIS) which are waiting for the process to fini...
We have a pretty classic client-server app built using MS RPC, with both ends implemented in C++. The client establishes a session to the server, and makes calls to it over a long period before closing the session. Periodically, particularly under heavy load, we get an RPC exception via code 1754 (RPC_S_NOTHING_TO_EXPORT). This happen...
Friend of mine has a problem :). There is an application written in Visual Basic 6.0 (not by him). One of users reported that when it run on Windows 2000 and tried to scan folders on disk it raised box with message: Run-time error 1012 Error accessing application data directories We couldn't google anything about it and didn't find a...