Month: February 2006

PDH.DLL and Locales

PDH is a performance data helper API. Performance counters have indexes and names, the names may be available for several languages. It seems English is always available. The problem is that the indexes are not fixed. Well we can assume some well known indexes to have constant indexes but it’s very difficult to make it…

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Search engines

Quite amusing, this blog shares first two positions with elsdoerfer.info on query for “soft link ntfs” and is 4th on MSN search, 3rd is elsdoerfer.info again. Yahoo search lists elsdoerfer.info but this blog is somewhere far away. This is probably because “soft links” are better known as “symbolic links”. The mentioned elsdoerfer.info is a very…

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Speech Codecs Library

Summary The library implements some of the speech codecs provided with Intel IPP Library samples (G.726, G.728, GSM 06.90 AMR) as DirectShow filters (using DirectX Media Object technology) making it available to a wide range of DirectX 9 compatible applications. Usage of Intel Integrated performance primitives make the processing performance efficient. See DirectX GraphEdt utility…

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Serial Numbers

It seems our approach with serial numbers (registration keys) appears to be quite efficient. So far at least. Thousands of legitimate installations around the world and only a few episodes of unauthorized usage (that we are aware of, of course). Mostly from ex-USSR by the way. IP: 83.146.79.xxx IP location: Russian Federation [RU] – Chelyabinsk…

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NTFS Links Update

Multilanguage support added and Russian translation is also put into this update. No features added. Russian locale is detected automatically but you can also overrdide through registry: Key Name: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alax.Info\NTFS Links\Locale Value Name: Default Value Type: DWORD Value: 1049 (decimal) for Russian Translation is implemented as a satellite DLL, so more languages are possible if…

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