Quick background Have you ever thought your manager keeps shelling out more on your plate other than the officially tracked tasks? Do not feel bad. You are not alone My manager recently asked me to clean up the build server we use for our project. To put simply, it was a mess. I ended up [...]
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HowTo: Use Dosbox as a Quick & Dirty disassembler
Dosbox is an open source DOS emulator available for many OS flavors. Dosbox allows you to run any old DOS game, relive some of the golden games of DOS era. It has full support for multiple video standards (VGA, CGA, Tandy,…) and sound cards (Adlib, SB, …). Amazing program! I was even able to bring [...]
HowTo: Fix "The response to the metaWeblog.newMediaObject method received from the weblog server was invalid"
Today I got this error message from WLW: “The response to the metaWeblog.newMediaObject method received from the weblog server was invalid“. Why did WLW think the response was “invalid“?? What exactly did it receive from WordPress?? Luckily, WLW logs a lot more in the background. You can access that log file via Help -> About [...]
Cleaning up your Hard disk
Yesterday I took some time off to clean my office systems – a Dual Xeon desktop and a T41p laptop. The effort would have cost me at least 2 days, if not for the following tools! CCleaner – The best utility for cleaning up the temporary files, IE/Mozilla/Opera cache and lots of other junk. This [...]
WP-Mollio comment_form hook fix – HowTo?
If you are using WP-Mollio theme in your WordPress site, I’d suggest adding the comment_form hook in to your comments.php. Only if you have this statement, the plugins like “Subscribe-to-comments” will work. How to add this hook? Open comments.php Find the lines of code shown below. You will find it near the end of the [...]
How to play XVID files in a DIVX certified DVD player?
TO Do you have one of those DVD players that can play DivX? The ability to cram in 4 or 5 movies in a single DVD5 disk is something that I simply loved, when I got one of these DVD players. Mine is a part of DAV DZ720 that I bought from eZone, Bangalore. It [...]
How irritating can be a HTTP Proxy??
It is pretty difficult to shake off certain habits, downloading from Internet is one such thing. I am sure many will agree with this. It doesn’t matter what you download, be it movies, documents or whatever… many people download stuff just for the sake of having/owning it. The knowledge that you have so much data [...]
Autoincrementing the Build Numbers in VC++
The option to automatically increment the build numbers (for successful builds) is one thing VC++ misses. AFAIK, VB & Borland C++/Delphi users have long had this ability. http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/V-S/devstudio_macros/versioncontrol/article.php/c3129 This solution makes use of Application_BeforeBuildStart() handler to increment the RC VERSIONINFO. The Build # is incremented even for failed builds. http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/rcversion.asp Not exactly an auto-increment solution. [...]
Some interesting links on 360 deg panorama pictures…
Do-It-Yourself : 360 degrees panorama A lens attachment for taking 360deg pictures Another lens attachment – Egg 360 And here is a review of iPIX 360 degree rotator Link to this post!
