I have been using a great utility Cryptext from Nick Payne since long ago. The utility is a shell extension that encrypts/decrypts selected files with a password using well known cryptographic algorithms and even has sample source code to derypt included. A fool proof check for correct password and an option to keep the password in memory until shutdown is included, it is great… I am using version 3.40. There already is no homepage of the utility and the author but it still works fine, expect one problem I stumbled upon just recently. It failed to process a large file, larger than 2^31. Oops!
Fooling Around
// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
Fresh goodies from Microsoft
- Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (ISO, x86fre and amd64fre)
- Windows Server 2008 Standard (ISO, x86fre and amd64fre)
- Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5
- Visual Studio Express Editions
- Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition 90-Day Trial (ISO, Registration Required)
- Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition (90-day Trial) (ISO)
- MSDN Library (April 2007 Edition) – Includes Visual® Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 documentation
- DirectX Downloads
MSDN Community Distribution CD March 2008 (ISO, Registration Required)
Zero-Defect Software Development
When it comes to software bugs it is useful to know the gradient how to avoid and how to fix. What I recently found is an article about the accumulated experience on the topic:
- Zero-Defect Software Development (ZDSD) by Steve Pavlina [devnewz.com, securitypronews.com]
- ZDSD in Russian
- NASA Software Safety Standard NASA-STD-8719.13B
Was Sticky: Blog Navigation
- If you are searching for software or an utility:
- Software: check NTFS Links, DHCP Server pages
- WordPress Plugins: check Google Talk Sidebar Widget pages
- Utilities: check Utilities category and check subcategories on the sidebar
- If you are interested in C++ development, ATL and WTL:
- If you are interested in C++ DirectShow/Media Foundation development, check DirectShow and DMO tags;
Important: if you have a DirectShow question which is not directly related to posted material, please rather post it at DirectShow Development MSDN Forum (you might want to prefer another DirectShow forum if you speak Russian), especially instead of asking me in the website chat - Check Technology category, ATL and WTL subcategories, you might also be interested in Source Code; additionally source code is available via Assembla’s Trac
- If you are interested in C++ DirectShow/Media Foundation development, check DirectShow and DMO tags;
- Many downloads are hosted on Assembla, who changed download links a few times as a part of their maintenance. Should any download link be broken, please (a) post a comment and (b) check if you can modify it manually to the form of http://www.assembla.com/code/roatl-utilities/subversion/nodes/trunk/… to have it fixed fix it.
- Note that due to an incident with a web hosting service, screenshots and images for older posts are no longer available. Sorry for inconvenience.
Google search specifics
I am curious if Google has a bias against Microsoft websites in search results. It was rather unexpected to see this site first in search for _CONVERSION_DONT_USE_THREAD_LOCALE with following results from connect.microsoft.com and blogs.msdn.com (at least as relevant as I think).
Google Talk Sidebar Widget 1.0 for WordPress 2.5
WordPress is great but each upgrade or theme change is a bit painful because all customizations have to be moved manually and as long they are direct file edits, including fixes for not quite correct theme files.
So after all at least some of the updates have to be made as WordPress Plugins.
Here we start with Google Talk Sidebar Widget Plugin (for WordPress 2.5). Google offered chatback badge to offer web chat through Jabber/XMPP compatible Google Talk instant messaging network.
User quotes:
What’s cool about it is it’s anonymous both ways. I don’t have to expose my Google-ness to random visitors on the web, and if it gets annoying I can turn it off. Also, and most likely to be actually useful, people I actually know can go to my blog, check my status, and ping me if I’m around, all without downloading a client. On their end, Google is just running a web browser session for them. They don’t even need a Google account.
Download link: wp-googletalk.zip
Permanent link: https://alax.info/blog/tag/wp-googletalk (to bookmark or revisit)
Installation is standard for plugins and after activation a new widget is available on widgets page.
Copy paste <iframe> code from Google chatback badge page into Text field and the widget is ready for use. on your website.
See also:
Be Informed: Event Log Notification
Alax.Info Be Informed update is available.
What’s new in this build?
- New: System event log notification; event notification can be configured to be written to Windows Application event log (case study will follow)
Keywords: RegisterEventSource, ReportEvent
Application Name: Alax.Info Be Informed
License: Free for personal use, request commercial licenses via email or contact form
Latest Version: 1.0.4
Download Link: Alax.Info Be Informed 1.0.4 (730K)