Author: Roman

Buggy Microsoft Forums

It seems that everything is buggy nowadays. Some things – more buggy, some are less. I did not expect Microsoft Forums website to be so… so… of so improper quality. Especially compared to variety of popular forum software, free phpbb, google news etc. MS WYSIWYG post editor can stand no criticism at all, it is…

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ATL Registration Script

Since ATL version 3, and actually it probably existed even since even earlier time, I have seen Microsoft Visual Studio (and its predecessor Visual C++) generating .RGS registration script with hardcoded CLSID value, ProgID values and other strings entered through IDE wizard. While it seems to work nice at the moment of generation, it still…

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Customer Quotes

Customer quotes about our product: By the way, wanted to tell you.  I work in the NVR industry, I’m a sales engineer for S* http://www.s*.com.  I use your DVR for my 3 home cameras that I’ve recently put up due to some break ins lately in my community.   I’ve worked with many commercial DVR/NVR systems in my…

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Network Cameras and Video Servers

An example to give an idea of how robust and reliable network cameras and video servers today are. Fl***h made video encoder hardware. The request is http://***.***.***.***/cgi-bin/***.cgi?***, it informs on capabilities of the device. … SupportDigitalOutputCount=4 SupportDigitalIutputCount=4 …

WinHTTP escaping problem

WinHttpCrackUrl and WinHttpCreateUrl API functions are breaking URL string into components and recompose back to string. There was a mess with passwords and security issues since when putting password into URL is no more acceptable. Experienced users might remember the times when URL could embed password, e.g. ftp://john:mysecretpassword@host.com/path. Password is lo longer accepted by major…

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