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11,968 | 2 | null | 11,964 | -1 | null | Um, [VMware is free](http://info.vmware.com/content/GLP_VMwarePlayer).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T04:36:17.037 | 2008-08-15T04:36:17.037 | null | null | 872 | null |
11,969 | 2 | null | 11,964 | 1 | null | I've been using vmware for about 8 years or so. Currently I'm using it on a mac and am very happy with it. I still have my old windows 95 in suspended animation, I boot it up every once in a while to show my kids the awesomeness of 32M and 256 colors.
That being said, you should probably try them out with the partic... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T04:36:51.403 | 2008-08-15T04:36:51.403 | null | null | 116 | null |
11,970 | 2 | null | 11,964 | 2 | null | I've only had experience with [VMware ESX](http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/esx/), and while it's a fairly expensive product, it is also very powerful. I would definitely recommend it if you have the resources. Depending on your needs, they also have a more basic (and free) version, [VMware Server](http://www.vmware... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T04:36:54.180 | 2008-08-15T04:36:54.180 | null | null | 423 | null |
11,975 | 1 | 11,983 | null | 20 | 5,442 | Store everything in GMT?
Store everything the way it was entered with an embedded offset?
Do the math everytime you render?
Display relative Times "1 minutes ago"?
| Handling timezones in storage? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T04:54:59.510 | 2019-02-22T20:24:08.567 | 2009-06-27T01:36:47.180 | 81,205 | 1,220 | [
"localization",
"internationalization",
"timezone",
"globalization"
] |
11,973 | 2 | null | 11,964 | 11 | null | Try [VirtualBox](http://www.virtualbox.org/). It's free, open source, and it runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T04:43:48.440 | 2008-08-15T05:11:28.837 | 2008-08-15T05:11:28.837 | 718 | 718 | null |
11,962 | 2 | null | 11,926 | 1 | null | On one of Rob Conery's MVC Storefront [screencasts](http://www.asp.net/learn/3.5-SP1/video-356.aspx), he encounters this exact issue. It's at around the 23 minute mark if you're interested.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T04:27:58.410 | 2008-08-15T04:27:58.410 | null | null | 404 | null |
11,964 | 1 | 11,973 | null | 3 | 3,519 | What should I use to virtualize my desktop, vmx, xen, or vmware?
@Derek Park: Free as in speech, not beer. I want to be able to make a new virtual machine from my own licensed copies of windows, for that vmware is kind of expensive.
| Pay for vmware or use Open Source? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T04:32:29.883 | 2009-01-03T03:00:56.643 | 2008-08-15T04:40:02.037 | 1,220 | 1,220 | [
"virtualization"
] |
11,974 | 1 | 12,057 | null | 5 | 3,751 | Basically, something better than this:
```
<input type="file" name="myfile" size="50">
```
First of all, the `browse` button looks different on every browser. Unlike the `submit` button on a form, you have to come up with some [hack-y](http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/inputfile.html) way to style it.
Secondly, there'... | What is the best way to upload a file via an HTTP POST with a web form? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T04:54:05.613 | 2016-07-22T13:59:51.047 | 2017-05-23T12:01:17.740 | -1 | 1,396 | [
"html",
"http",
"forms",
"post",
"upload"
] |
11,980 | 2 | null | 11,975 | 1 | null | Personally, I can't see any reason not to store everything in GMT and then use the users local timezone to display the time as it relates to them.
If you want to display relative time, you obviously still need the time and do a translation, but if you do want to do the translation I think GMT is still your best option... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T05:05:56.947 | 2008-08-15T05:05:56.947 | null | null | 493 | null |
11,985 | 2 | null | 11,831 | 2 | null | > It was not just a bunch of variables in a fancy dress because this was had dozens of responsibilities, like communicating with persistence layer to save/retrieve data about the company, deal with employees and prices collections, etc.
I must say you're not really describing somthing that should be a single object an... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T05:22:48.177 | 2008-08-15T05:22:48.177 | null | null | 1,327 | null |
11,981 | 2 | null | 11,975 | 0 | null | I like storing in GMT and showing only relative ("about 10 seconds ago", "5 months ago"). Users don't need to see actual timestamps for most use cases.
There are certainly exceptions, and an individual application might have many of them, so it can't be a 'one-true-way' answer. Things that need strong audit-ability ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T05:15:29.237 | 2008-08-15T05:15:29.237 | null | null | 1,190 | null |
11,987 | 2 | null | 11,975 | 1 | null | So I ran a little experiment with MSSQL server.
I created a table and added a row with the current localized timezone (Australia).
Then I changed my datetime to be GMT and added another row.
Even tho those rows were added around 10 seconds apart, they appear in SQL server as tho they're 10 hours apart.
If nothing el... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T05:23:13.260 | 2008-08-15T05:23:13.260 | null | null | 493 | null |
11,991 | 2 | null | 11,975 | 1 | null | MS Dynamics stores GMT and then at a user level knows your times zone relative to GMT. Then it displays items to you in your time zone.
Just thought I'd throw that out there as that's a pretty big group at MS and this is how they decided to handle it.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T05:27:40.413 | 2008-08-15T05:27:40.413 | null | null | 225 | null |
11,986 | 1 | 32,898 | null | 3 | 542 | I am running
- - - -
and I get the following error when trying to rake `db:migrate` on an app that works find connected to MySQL.
> rake aborted!
no such file to load -- sqlite3/database
| Why does sqlite3-ruby-1.2.2 not work on OS X? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T05:23:02.153 | 2015-09-09T09:47:48.977 | 2015-09-09T09:47:48.977 | 1,537,726 | 1,396 | [
"ruby-on-rails",
"ruby",
"sqlite"
] |
11,950 | 1 | 11,967 | null | 30 | 39,543 | I'm looking for the best way to log errors in an ASP.NET application.
I want to be able to receive emails when errors occurs in my application, with detailed information about the Exception and the current Request.
In my company we used to have our own ErrorMailer, catching everything in the Global.asax Application_Er... | How do you log errors (Exceptions) in your ASP.NET apps? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T04:05:10.843 | 2017-10-06T10:01:40.273 | 2017-06-05T13:47:14.303 | 1,709,587 | 1,130 | [
"asp.net",
"error-handling",
"nlog",
"health-monitoring"
] |
11,976 | 2 | null | 11,964 | 3 | null | @ChanChan, I don't think you can claim to be only interested in freedom when you ask if you should "Pay for vmware." I'm forced to assume you are talking about money there, not about freedom. :p
Nonetheless, I gave you a poor link. [VMware Server](http://www.vmware.com/download/server/) is free (as in beer) and wil... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T04:57:09.367 | 2008-08-15T05:11:22.270 | 2008-08-15T05:11:22.270 | 872 | 872 | null |
11,997 | 2 | null | 10,314 | 1 | null | Andrew: There actually are plenty of Cocoa developers who don't use instance variable prefixes at all. It's also extremely common in the Smalltalk world (in fact, I'd say it's nearly unheard-of in Smalltalk to use prefixes on instance variables).
Prefixes on instance variables have always struck me as a C++-ism that ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T05:36:36.043 | 2008-08-15T05:36:36.043 | null | null | 714 | null |
11,983 | 2 | null | 11,975 | 39 | null | You have to store in UTC - if you don't, your historic reporting and behaviour during things like Daylight Savings goes... funny. GMT is a local time, subject to Daylight Savings relative to UTC (which is not).
Presentation to users in different time-zones can be a real bastard if you're storing local time. It's eas... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T05:19:37.603 | 2012-11-06T14:00:22.637 | 2012-11-06T14:00:22.637 | 257 | 257 | null |
12,002 | 2 | null | 11,915 | 13 | null | Another crazy approach, but has its advantage, is to use a normal .aspx view to render the RSS. In your action method, just set the appropriate content type. The one benefit of this approach is it is easy to understand what is being rendered and how to add custom elements such as geolocation.
Then again, the other app... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T05:49:33.317 | 2008-08-15T05:49:33.317 | null | null | 598 | null |
12,005 | 2 | null | 11,974 | 0 | null | It is true, the file upload control is definitely behind the times. Hopefully this will be addressed in a future asp.net version.
Though it costs some money, I have found the [Telerik upload control](http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/controls/upload/overview.aspx) to have all of the functionality that you ar... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T05:56:22.227 | 2008-08-15T05:56:22.227 | null | null | 51 | null |
12,008 | 1 | 12,047 | null | 5 | 3,055 | I curious to how different people solve integration of systems. I have a feeling that the last years more and more work has gone into integrating systems and that this kind of work need will increase as well.
I wondering if you solve it developing your own small services that are then connected or if you use some sort... | How do you do system integration? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T06:06:13.720 | 2008-12-25T21:44:35.880 | null | null | 298 | [
"architecture",
"system-integration"
] |
12,009 | 1 | 12,032 | null | 35 | 33,517 | How can I pipe the new password to smbpasswd so I can automate my installation process.
| Piping password to smbpasswd | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T06:08:55.243 | 2018-11-22T09:56:05.690 | 2009-07-30T18:42:43.350 | 34,813 | 115 | [
"automation",
"installation",
"debian",
"samba"
] |
12,011 | 2 | null | 11,950 | 2 | null | I've been using the Enterprise Library's Logging objects. It allows you to have different types of logging (flat file, e-mail, and/or database). It's pretty customizable and has a pretty good interface for updating your web.config for the configuration of the logging. Usually I call my logging from the On Error in the ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T06:11:57.937 | 2008-08-15T06:11:57.937 | null | null | 721 | null |
11,989 | 2 | null | 11,986 | 2 | null | Looks like there's a [bug](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=20533&group_id=254&atid=1043) with 1.2.2. Just roll back to 1.2.1 with:
> gem install sqlite3-ruby -v=1.2.1
and that will fix the problem.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T05:24:54.943 | 2008-08-15T05:24:54.943 | null | null | 1,396 | null |
12,013 | 2 | null | 11,930 | 2 | null | You may be better off using something like checkmyip.org, which will determine your public IP address - not necessarily your first hop router: at Uni I have a "real" IP address, whereas at home it is my local router's public IP address.
You can parse the page that returns, or find another site that allows you to just ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T06:15:16.823 | 2008-08-15T06:15:16.823 | null | null | 188 | null |
12,016 | 2 | null | 12,009 | -4 | null | using either [pipelines](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_(Unix)) or [redirection](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirection_(Unix)).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T06:16:12.187 | 2008-08-15T06:16:12.187 | null | null | 1,063 | null |
11,943 | 2 | null | 11,930 | 1 | null | That is not as easy as it sounds. Java is platform independent, so I am not sure how to do it in Java. I am that .NET contacts some web site which reports it back. There are a couple ways to go. First, a deeper look into the ICMP protocol may give you the information you need. You can also trace the IP you go thr... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T03:49:48.800 | 2008-08-15T03:49:48.800 | null | null | 725 | null |
12,020 | 2 | null | 11,975 | 0 | null | I usually just use Unix time. not necessarily future safe, but it works pretty well.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T06:20:14.160 | 2008-08-15T06:20:14.160 | null | null | 1,063 | null |
12,018 | 2 | null | 11,045 | 135 | null | You should use `Application.Volatile` in the top of your function:
```
Function doubleMe(d)
Application.Volatile
doubleMe = d * 2
End Function
```
It will then reevaluate whenever the workbook changes (if your calculation is set to automatic).
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T06:18:51.387 | 2015-08-28T16:33:28.143 | 2015-08-28T16:33:28.143 | 2,237,785 | 224 | null |
12,025 | 2 | null | 11,950 | 9 | null | I've been using [Log4net](http://logging.apache.org/log4net/index.html), configured to email details of fatal errors. It's also set up to log everything to a log file, which is invaluable when trying to debug problems. The other benefit is that if that standard functionality doesn't do what you want it to, it's fairl... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T06:31:07.070 | 2008-08-15T06:31:07.070 | null | null | 775 | null |
12,027 | 2 | null | 11,930 | 1 | null | Matthew: Yes, that is what I meant by "I can get my internet IP using a service on a website." Sorry about being glib.
Brian/Nick: Traceroute would be fine except for the fact that lots of these routers have ICMP disabled and thus it always stalls.
I think a combination of traceroute and uPnP will work out. That is w... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T06:31:38.100 | 2008-08-15T06:34:49.607 | 2008-08-15T06:34:49.607 | 338 | 338 | null |
12,026 | 2 | null | 12,009 | 13 | null | Try something like this:
```
(echo oldpasswd; echo newpasswd) | smbpasswd -s
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T06:31:29.427 | 2008-08-15T06:31:29.427 | null | null | 116 | null |
12,030 | 2 | null | 11,930 | 12 | null | Java doesn't make this as pleasant as other languages, unfortunately. Here's what I did:
```
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class ExecTest {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
Process result = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("traceroute -m 1 www.amazon.com");
Buff... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T06:38:21.813 | 2008-08-15T06:38:21.813 | null | null | 422 | null |
12,040 | 2 | null | 11,919 | 0 | null | From my experience with windows/apache it's just a matter of install MySQL, I can't Imagine that IIS/Apache has anything to do with this.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T06:52:22.643 | 2008-08-15T06:52:22.643 | null | null | 115 | null |
12,037 | 2 | null | 11,275 | 0 | null | We used [CodeTwo-s](http://codetwo.com/) Exchange rules for a while on Exchange 2003.
However there is a known problem with it: if the messages stay in the queue for 2-3 minutes, the Exchange itself sends out the message without the footer. Most of the times it's not a problem, but we have something like 700 people in... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T06:50:38.187 | 2008-08-15T06:50:38.187 | null | null | 968 | null |
12,039 | 1 | null | null | 7 | 32,026 | I have an application that sometimes causes a BSOD on a Win XP machine. Trying to find out more, I loaded up the resulting *.dmp file (from C:\Windows\Minidump), but get this message when in much of the readout when doing so:
```
*********************************************************************
* Symbols can not ... | "Symbols can not be loaded" when trying to read dump | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T06:51:59.557 | 2015-09-07T20:56:15.093 | 2015-09-07T20:56:15.093 | 480,982 | null | [
"windows",
"windows-xp",
"crash-dumps",
"bsod"
] |
12,046 | 2 | null | 12,045 | 4 | null | I think what I would do in this case is test the code that actually executes when the timer ticks, rather than the entire sequence. What you really need to decide is whether it is worthwhile for you to test the actual behaviour of the application (for example, if what happens after every tick changes drastically from o... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T07:09:04.780 | 2008-08-15T07:09:04.780 | null | null | 1,975,282 | null |
12,032 | 2 | null | 12,009 | 51 | null | Thanks to Mark I found the answer:
```
(echo newpassword; echo confirmNewPassword) | smbpasswd -s
```
BTW: (echo oldpasswd; echo newpasswd) | smbpasswd -s does not work.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T06:38:59.287 | 2008-08-15T08:37:32.243 | 2008-08-15T08:37:32.243 | 115 | 115 | null |
12,045 | 1 | 12,054 | null | 20 | 7,768 | I am currently writing a simple, timer based mini app in C# that performs an action n times every k seconds.
I am trying to adopt a test driven development style, so my goal is to unit test all parts of the app.
So, my question is: Is there a good way to unit test a timer based class?
The problem, as I see it, is tha... | Unit testing a timer based application? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T07:02:45.993 | 2014-05-04T21:53:27.193 | 2014-05-04T21:53:27.193 | 1,537,726 | 276 | [
"c#",
".net",
"unit-testing",
"timer"
] |
12,043 | 2 | null | 12,039 | 3 | null | you actually need to either download the symbols to your computer, or configure it to download as you go if you are online while debugging.
Here's the link that talks about this in detail: [http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevTools/Debugging/debugstart.mspx](http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevTools/Debugging/debugstart.msp... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T06:58:44.770 | 2008-08-15T06:58:44.770 | null | null | 380 | null |
12,054 | 2 | null | 12,045 | 11 | null | What I have done is to mock the timer, and also the current system time, that my events could be triggered immediately, but as far as the code under test was concerned time elapsed was seconds.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T07:43:18.110 | 2008-08-15T07:43:18.110 | null | null | 259 | null |
12,052 | 2 | null | 12,051 | 2,178 | null | Modify your constructor to the following so that it calls the base class constructor properly:
```
public class MyExceptionClass : Exception
{
public MyExceptionClass(string message, string extrainfo) : base(message)
{
//other stuff here
}
}
```
Note that a constructor is not something that you c... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T07:40:22.157 | 2008-08-15T07:48:56.353 | 2008-08-15T07:48:56.353 | 372 | 372 | null |
12,051 | 1 | 12,052 | null | 1,800 | 1,324,026 | If I inherit from a base class and want to pass something from the constructor of the inherited class to the constructor of the base class, how do I do that?
For example, if I inherit from the Exception class I want to do something like this:
```
class MyExceptionClass : Exception
{
public MyExceptionClass(strin... | Calling the base constructor in C# | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T07:39:23.097 | 2023-01-13T16:30:10.490 | 2020-02-26T21:01:16.483 | 3,739,391 | 493 | [
"c#",
".net",
"inheritance",
"constructor"
] |
12,058 | 2 | null | 11,974 | 1 | null | You could have a look at the [Fancy Upload](http://digitarald.de/project/fancyupload/) script. Though it uses flash it still looks great.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T07:58:28.830 | 2008-08-15T07:58:28.830 | null | null | 87 | null |
12,057 | 2 | null | 11,974 | 9 | null | File upload boxes is where we're currently at if you don't want to involve other technologies like Flash, Java or ActiveX.
With plain HTML you are pretty much limited to the experience you've described (no progress bar, double submits, etc). If you are willing to use some javascript, you can solve some of the problems... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T07:54:33.063 | 2008-08-15T07:54:33.063 | null | null | 1,265 | null |
12,062 | 2 | null | 8,832 | 1 | null | You can use the `S` flag to skip the `404` rule, like this:
```
RewriteEngine on
# Do not separate these two rules so long as the first has S=1
RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ $1.cfm [S=1]
RewriteRule \.cfm$ - [R=404]
```
If you are also using the `Alias` option then you should also add the `PT` flag. See the [mod_rewrite d... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T08:02:25.513 | 2008-08-15T08:02:25.513 | null | null | 954 | null |
12,065 | 2 | null | 11,439 | 1 | null | I guess you'll have to go beyond the out-of-the-box setup and deployment package and try a third party app.
You may want to look at:
- [Wix](http://wix.sourceforge.net/)- [Nullsoft Scriptable Install System](http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page)
Both are free; they might give you the customization that you need.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T08:10:12.423 | 2008-08-15T08:10:12.423 | null | null | 372 | null |
11,963 | 2 | null | 2,798 | 5 | null | By Map Routing, you mean finding the shortest path along a street network?
Dijkstra shortest-path algorithm is the best known. Wikipedia has not a bad intro: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm)
There's a Java applet here where you can see it in ac... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T04:31:27.390 | 2016-11-20T00:28:03.443 | 2016-11-20T00:28:03.443 | 6,392,939 | 1,050 | null |
12,047 | 2 | null | 12,008 | 10 | null | wow - Ok - will get a post on this but will be big.
Intergration needs to be backed up with a big understanding by the business on the benefits - Get an opertating model sorted out - as the business may acutally need to standardise instead of intergrate, as this can be costly - its why most SOA fail! [Enterprise Archi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T07:10:14.217 | 2008-08-15T07:51:51.637 | 2008-08-15T07:51:51.637 | null | null | null |
11,999 | 2 | null | 11,291 | 2 | null | It's important to tell us what you're really trying to accomplish — the higher-level goal that you think capturing key events in an NSTextView will address.
For example, when someone asks me how to capture key events in an NSText what they really want to know is how to validate input in the field. That's done by sett... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T05:41:51.943 | 2008-08-15T05:41:51.943 | null | null | 714 | null |
12,071 | 2 | null | 12,039 | 9 | null | Quick answer is to
c:\> set _NT_SYMBOL_PATH=SRV*C:\WINDOWS\Symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
before starting windbg.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T08:24:51.630 | 2008-08-15T08:24:51.630 | null | null | 988 | null |
12,075 | 1 | 12,080 | null | 26 | 6,378 | I'm sure many readers on SO have used [Lutz Roeder](https://www.lutzroeder.com/dotnet/)'s [.NET reflector](http://www.reflector.net/) to decompile their .NET code.
I was amazed just how accurately our source code could be recontructed from our compiled assemblies.
I'd be interested in hearing how many of you use obfu... | Should I be worried about obfuscating my .NET code? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T08:36:19.783 | 2018-08-08T17:48:20.897 | 2018-08-08T17:48:20.897 | 770,254 | 1,078 | [
".net",
"obfuscation"
] |
12,066 | 2 | null | 11,199 | 1 | null | You might consider using ["ClickOnce Deployment"](http://www.15seconds.com/issue/041229.htm), which makes it very easy to add bootstrapping the .Net 2.0, 3.0, and/or 3.5 redistributable installers into your application. Just click a checkbox in your project's properties and your installer will automatically detect whet... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T08:11:31.893 | 2008-08-15T08:11:31.893 | null | null | 332 | null |
12,069 | 2 | null | 8,355 | 3 | null | Configure a single VirtualHost to serve both secure.example.com and dbadmin.example.com (making it the only *:443 VirtualHost achieves this). You can then use [mod_rewrite](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html) to adjust the URI for requests to dbadmin.example.com:
```
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerNa... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T08:21:28.300 | 2008-08-15T08:40:41.147 | 2008-08-15T08:40:41.163 | 954 | 954 | null |
12,077 | 2 | null | 12,075 | 3 | null | easy for me - if you need to protect intellectual property - obfuicate - if not dont.
Easy to do with the right tools.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T08:38:23.787 | 2008-08-15T08:38:23.787 | null | null | null | null |
12,079 | 2 | null | 12,075 | 2 | null | I think to some extent we should ALL be worrying about our IP :)
Good question though as its something I am keen to know more about (I currently do obfuscate).
Having had some discussions with my manager at work, he said he doesn't obfuscate, but does NGEN on install, apparantly that should be enough to stop Reflect... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T08:39:54.330 | 2008-08-15T08:39:54.330 | null | null | 832 | null |
12,087 | 2 | null | 11,974 | 1 | null | The problem here is that the browsers specifically work to block anything that changes the basic file upload input control. You can't change it with javascript for instance.
The reason is security - if I could script it I could build a page that when you visited it sent me various files from your hard disk. Not nice... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T08:52:06.397 | 2013-04-03T07:47:51.953 | 2013-04-03T07:47:51.953 | 905 | 905 | null |
12,088 | 1 | 12,133 | null | 51 | 52,233 | I wonder if anyone uses commercial/free java obfuscators on his own commercial product. I know only about one project that actually had an obfuscating step in the ant build step for releases.
Do you obfuscate? And if so, why do you obfuscate?
Is it really a way to protect the code or is it just a better feeling for t... | Do you obfuscate your commercial Java code? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T08:55:28.997 | 2014-06-25T13:09:33.270 | 2017-05-23T10:30:08.107 | -1 | 834 | [
"java",
"obfuscation"
] |
12,070 | 2 | null | 11,267 | 0 | null | OK, I checked this out, Inheriting from WebControl rather than UserControl.. All worked fine.
Looks like [Darren Kopp](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11267/aspnet-usercontrols-and-defaultevent#11307) takes the crown for this one! Thanks for the input!
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T08:22:42.447 | 2008-08-15T08:22:42.447 | 2017-05-23T12:33:27.093 | -1 | 832 | null |
12,091 | 2 | null | 12,075 | 7 | null | We currently obfuscate all our output, even though we are a small outfit who sells specialist software to a small number of clients.
We made this decision for one simple reason - we discovered a disgruntled ex-employee was actively approaching our clients requesting binaries - there was some some concern he was intend... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T09:00:43.463 | 2008-08-15T09:00:43.463 | null | null | 770 | null |
12,089 | 2 | null | 11,740 | 1 | null | Rather than use table prefixes instead have an application user that belongs to a `schema` (in MS Sql 2005 or above).
This means that instead of:
```
select * from dbo.clientAProduct
select * from dbo.clientBroduct
```
You have:
```
select * from clientA.Product
select * from clientB.Product
```
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T08:56:02.473 | 2012-05-18T21:46:19.433 | 2012-05-18T21:46:19.433 | 608 | 905 | null |
12,080 | 2 | null | 12,075 | 21 | null | I wouldn't worry about it too much. I'd rather focus on putting out an awesome product, getting a good user base, and treating your customers right than worry about the minimal percentage of users concerned with stealing your code or looking at the source.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T08:39:57.140 | 2008-08-15T08:39:57.140 | null | null | 422 | null |
12,093 | 2 | null | 12,075 | 5 | null | No new obfuscation, but lots of compiler tricks since 1.1
For instance every time you use an anonymous type you get IL that compiles back with a pretty obscure name. Every time you use yield you get a whole new class that implements both IEnumerable and IEnumerator (clever optimisation, unreadable code). Every time yo... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T09:14:09.270 | 2008-08-15T09:14:09.270 | null | null | 905 | null |
12,096 | 2 | null | 12,088 | 7 | null | I guess it really comes down to your Java code is for, how it's distributed and who your clients are. We don't obfuscate anything, as we've never found one that was particularly good and it tends to be more trouble than it's worth. If someone has access to our JAR files and has the knowledge to be able to sniff around... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T09:22:45.320 | 2008-08-15T09:22:45.320 | null | null | 1,030 | null |
12,103 | 1 | 12,108 | null | 5 | 1,463 | When I am running the following statement:
```
@filtered = map {s/ //g} @outdata;
```
it is returning an empty list instead of the filtered list that I expected. What I am trying to do is remove every occurrence of ` ` from an array of string (which is an XML file).
Obviously, I am not understanding some... | Why doesn't my Perl map return anything? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T09:38:31.250 | 2013-08-03T17:44:21.973 | 2013-08-03T17:44:21.973 | 471,272 | 274 | [
"perl",
"dictionary"
] |
12,098 | 2 | null | 10,980 | -3 | null | I'm not a lawyer but all licenses mentioned are okay to be used in commercial products as long as you don't make any changes and claim the code is yours.
I think if you don't wanna risk anything you should consult a lawyer.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T09:24:51.977 | 2008-08-15T09:24:51.977 | null | null | 198 | null |
12,106 | 2 | null | 10,810 | 2 | null | I found out from the event log that there was a security issue with the user making the call to AzMan from a remote computer. The user did not belong the local Users group on the computer running ADAM/AzMan. When I corrected that everything worked again.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T09:44:36.773 | 2008-08-15T09:44:36.773 | null | null | 966 | null |
12,078 | 2 | null | 11,783 | 13 | null | I'm guessing your code is like:
```
void DoSomethingIfCompFlag() {
#if COMPILER_FLAG
//your code
#endif
}
```
This won't get optimised out, however:
```
partial void DoSomethingIfCompFlag();
#if COMPILER_FLAG
partial void DoSomethingIfCompFlag() {
//your code
}
#endif
```
The first empty method is partia... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T08:38:41.137 | 2008-08-15T09:25:10.153 | 2008-08-15T09:25:10.153 | 905 | 905 | null |
12,104 | 2 | null | 12,095 | 2 | null | Maybe you can try the BackgroundWorker component. It makes threading easier. Examples here:
- [BackgroundWorker Threads and Supporting Cancel](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/BackgroundWorker_Threads.aspx)- [Using the BackgroundWorker Component in .NET 2 applications](http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/LivMic/B... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T09:38:36.613 | 2008-08-15T09:38:36.613 | null | null | 718 | null |
12,064 | 2 | null | 9,589 | 39 | null | Other suggestions you may want to consider:
- [Scons](http://www.scons.org/) is a cross-platform, cross-compiler build library, uses Python scripting for the build systems. Used in a variety of large projects, and performs very well.- If you're using [Qt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_%28software%29), [QMake](https:... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-15T08:09:26.123 | 2022-06-27T20:40:00.207 | 2022-06-27T20:40:00.207 | 63,550 | 1,304 | null |
12,100 | 2 | null | 12,088 | 18 | null | I use proguard for JavaME development. It's not only very very good at making jar files smaller (Essential for mobile) but it is useful as a nicer way of doing device-specific code without resorting to IDE-unfriendly preprocessing tools such as antenna.
E.g.
```
public void doSomething()
{
/* Generated config cla... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T09:29:07.790 | 2008-08-15T09:29:07.790 | null | null | 974 | null |
12,107 | 1 | 12,114 | null | 3 | 3,867 | We were having a problem with our build server not checking out modifications from source control despite recognizing that there had been changes.
It was traced to the control folder (not sure what it's real name is), the existing working builds were using _svn. Clearing the working folder forced a new complete checko... | Configuring VisualSVN Server to use _svn instead of .svn | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T09:47:38.110 | 2012-10-12T15:55:53.643 | 2012-10-12T15:55:53.643 | 761,095 | 982 | [
"svn",
"version-control",
"visualsvn-server"
] |
12,114 | 2 | null | 12,107 | 6 | null | The business about _svn vs. .svn was an issue with Visual Studio web projects only (and I'm fairly sure it was fixed in VS2005 anyway), it's not a general "_svn works better with VS" thing.
It's also only a working-copy issue, not a repository issue - i.e. it doesn't matter if some users of SVN are using clients set u... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T09:57:38.620 | 2009-03-24T11:07:18.997 | 2009-03-24T11:07:18.997 | 28,169 | 987 | null |
12,112 | 2 | null | 12,107 | 0 | null | As far as I know _svn is needed, because WebApplications have problems when one of their directories begins with a point.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T09:54:52.150 | 2008-08-15T09:54:52.150 | null | null | 1,069 | null |
12,109 | 2 | null | 12,095 | -1 | null | Are you sure that the UI thread is running freely during all this process? i.e. it's not sitting blocked-up on a Join or some other wait? That's what it looks like to me.
The suggestion of using BackgroundWorker is a good one - definitely superior to trying to sledge-hammer your way out of the problem with a load of... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T09:50:34.517 | 2008-08-15T09:50:34.517 | null | null | 987 | null |
12,115 | 2 | null | 12,095 | 0 | null | Maybe outside of the scope but, to sometimes its useful to do an `Application.DoEvents();` to make the gui parts react to user input, such as pressing the cancel-button on a status bar dialog.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T09:58:15.797 | 2008-08-15T09:58:15.797 | null | null | 1,192 | null |
12,119 | 2 | null | 12,095 | 0 | null | @John
Thanks for the links.
@Will
There's no gain from threadpooling as I know it will only ever spawn one thread. The use of a thread is purely to have a responsive UI while SQL Server is being pounded with reads and writes. It's certainly not a short lived thread.
Regarding sledge-hammers you're right. But, as i... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T10:07:06.447 | 2008-08-15T10:07:06.447 | null | null | 2,083,160 | null |
12,110 | 2 | null | 12,107 | 3 | null | I've been using .svn with Visual Studio 2008 and 2005 as well as on our CC.Net integration server (with MSBuild) with no issues. I'd stick with the .svn format.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T09:50:59.587 | 2008-08-15T10:17:38.267 | 2008-08-15T10:17:38.267 | 905 | 905 | null |
12,118 | 2 | null | 12,095 | 0 | null | Do you by any chance run Windows Vista? I've noticed the exactly same thing in some work related applications. Somehow, there seem to be a delay when the progress bar "animates".
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T10:01:57.550 | 2008-08-15T10:01:57.550 | null | null | 936 | null |
12,117 | 2 | null | 12,107 | 2 | null | > [http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.3_releasenotes.html](http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.3_releasenotes.html)Need to read the "Official support for
Windows '_svn' directories (client and
language bindings)" section
And need to be aware that you're reading documentation which is several years old, a fact which... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T10:01:03.217 | 2008-08-15T10:01:03.217 | null | null | 987 | null |
12,108 | 2 | null | 12,103 | 10 | null | Try this:
```
@filtered = map {s/ //g; $_} @outdata;
```
The problem is the s operator in perl modifies $_ but actually returns the number of changes it made. So, the extra $_ at the end causes perl to return the modified string for each element of @outdata.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T09:49:17.153 | 2008-08-15T09:49:17.153 | null | null | 893 | null |
12,129 | 2 | null | 8,761 | 1 | null | > Looks like CMFCVisualManager offers several methods for getting color information, e.g.CMFCVisualManager::GetSmartDockingBaseGuideColors()
CMFCVisualManager::GetToolbarHighlightColor()Take a look at the MSDN docs for CMFCVisualManager.
Good suggestion, but unfortunately they just return various shades of grey, when c... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T10:39:39.003 | 2008-08-15T10:39:39.003 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 1,078 | null |
12,120 | 2 | null | 11,145 | 2 | null | The simple answer is that (at time of writing) what you want almost certainly didn't exist. Sorry!
If you're Windows-based then I'd look for a product in the .NET space, where I expect you'd find something. You're probably going to have to pay real money though. I suppose, if you're brave, you may be able to talk to i... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T10:07:39.113 | 2014-12-04T05:43:41.117 | 2014-12-04T05:43:41.117 | 128,421 | 1,060 | null |
12,125 | 2 | null | 12,095 | -1 | null | > There's no gain from threadpooling as
I know it will only ever spawn one
thread. The use of a thread is purely
to have a responsive UI while SQL
Server is being pounded with reads and
writes. It's certainly not a short
lived thread.
OK, I appreciate that, and glad you found your bug, but have you looked ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T10:20:01.663 | 2008-08-15T10:20:01.663 | null | null | 987 | null |
12,130 | 2 | null | 10,599 | 2 | null | @David H. Aust
Using onblur for validation is problematic, because some folks use the enter key, not the mouse, to submit a form. Using onblur and the form's onsubmit event in conjunction could be a better solution. Back when I did JS validation for forms a lot more, I would run against keyup events. This gave the use... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T10:47:34.683 | 2008-08-15T10:47:34.683 | null | null | 1,344 | null |
12,133 | 2 | null | 12,088 | 64 | null | If you do obfuscate, stay away from obfuscators that modify the code by changing code flow and/or adding exception blocks and such to make it hard to disassemble it. To make the code unreadable it is usually enough to just change all names of methods, fields and classes.
The reason to stay away from changing code flow... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T10:57:31.463 | 2014-06-25T13:09:33.270 | 2014-06-25T13:09:33.270 | 988 | 988 | null |
12,055 | 2 | null | 10,793 | 12 | null | mmilic, following on from [your response](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10793/catching-unhandled-exceptions-in-aspnet-usercontrols#10910) to my [previous idea](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10793/catching-unhandled-exceptions-in-aspnet-usercontrols#10815)..
No additional logic required! That's the point, y... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T07:49:57.927 | 2008-08-15T08:11:27.570 | 2017-05-23T11:54:58.043 | -1 | 832 | null |
12,136 | 2 | null | 12,135 | 4 | null | The delay is because, having been unable to find the custom serializer dll, the system is building the equivalent code (which is very time-consuming) on the fly.
The way to avoid the delay is to have the system build the DLL, and make sure it's available to the .EXE - have you tried this?
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T11:06:41.773 | 2008-08-15T11:06:41.773 | null | null | 987 | null |
12,135 | 1 | 12,160 | null | 12 | 16,459 | I'm using an XmlSerializer to deserialize a particular type in mscorelib.dll
```
XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer( typeof( [.Net type in System] ) );
return ([.Net type in System]) ser.Deserialize( new StringReader( xmlValue ) );
```
This throws a caught `FileNotFoundException` when the assembly is loaded:
> "... | FileNotFoundException for mscorlib.XmlSerializers.DLL, which doesn't exist | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T11:03:30.157 | 2011-03-30T11:36:50.220 | 2009-04-25T11:23:24.013 | 49,246 | 905 | [
"c#",
".net",
"serialization",
"assemblies"
] |
12,132 | 2 | null | 12,039 | 10 | null | I usually go to the System control panel, then Advanced tab, then Environment. You can then add the requisite `_NT_SYMBOL_PATH` variable. Then you don't have to do anything on the command-line before running WinDbg.
The setting of `srv*C:\Windows\Symbols*http`:`//msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols` as suggested by st... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T10:56:39.937 | 2008-08-15T10:56:39.937 | null | null | 13 | null |
12,137 | 2 | null | 9,033 | 437 | null | > From [CLR via C#](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0735621632):When normalizing strings, it is highly
recommended that you use
ToUpperInvariant instead of
ToLowerInvariant because .
I remember one time my coworker always changed strings to uppercase before comparing. I've always wondered why he do... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T11:06:48.747 | 2008-08-15T11:06:48.747 | null | null | 718 | null |
12,140 | 1 | 12,185 | null | 2 | 667 | A database application that I'm currently working on, stores all sorts of settings in the database. Most of those settings are there to customize certain business rules, but there's also some other stuff in there.
The app contains objects that specifically do a certain task, e.g., a certain complicated calculation. Th... | Access to global application settings | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T11:12:35.240 | 2013-01-22T10:22:58.130 | null | null | 1,037 | [
"language-agnostic",
"oop"
] |
12,142 | 1 | 12,441 | null | 8 | 16,214 | I installed VS SP1 and played around with Entity Framework.
I created a schema from an existing database and tried some basic operations.
Most of it went well, except the database schema update.
I changed the database in every basic way:
- - - - -
The first three went well, but the type change and the column dele... | Update database schema in Entity Framework | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-15T11:15:05.080 | 2013-07-19T06:02:07.457 | 2008-08-25T05:05:06.977 | 2,134 | 968 | [
".net",
"entity-framework",
"schema"
] |
12,143 | 2 | null | 12,141 | 1 | null | I dropped the live database and deleted it.
Lesson learned: ensure you know your SQL - and make sure that you back up before you touch stuff.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T11:15:45.483 | 2008-11-09T17:24:30.207 | 2008-11-09T17:24:30.207 | 6,461 | null | null |
12,138 | 2 | null | 11,516 | 2 | null | Perhaps this might help:
Create a new Binding when you set the HeaderProperty property on the Header dependency property:
Header property is your normal everyday DependencyProperty:
```
public string Header
{
get { return (string)GetValue(HeaderProperty); }
set { SetValue(HeaderProperty, value); ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-15T11:08:05.780 | 2012-08-11T15:49:40.103 | 2012-08-11T15:49:40.103 | 1,477,076 | 900 | null |
12,146 | 2 | null | 12,141 | 1 | null | I discovered I didn't understand Oracle redo log files (terminology? it was a long time ago) and lost a weeks' trade data, which had to be manually re-keyed from paper tickets.
There a silver lining - during the weekend I spent inputting, I learned a lot about the useability of my trade input screen, which improved d... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T11:22:33.643 | 2008-08-15T11:22:33.643 | null | null | 1,060 | null |
12,141 | 1 | null | null | 6 | 3,508 | For example: Updating all rows of the customer table because you forgot to add the where clause.
1. What was it like, realizing it and reporting it to your coworkers or customers?
2. What were the lessons learned?
| What is the worst database accident that happened to you in production? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-15T11:13:53.070 | 2018-02-23T00:41:11.817 | 2012-01-31T16:47:29.200 | 4,714 | 990 | [
"database",
"production"
] |
12,150 | 2 | null | 12,141 | 1 | null | Worst case scenario for most people is production data loss, but if they're not running nightly backups or replicating data to a DR site, then they deserve everything they get!
@[Keith](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12141/whats-your-worst-database-accident-happened-in-production#12145) in T-SQL, isn't the FROM k... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T11:30:17.903 | 2008-08-15T11:30:17.903 | 2017-05-23T12:19:33.570 | -1 | 1,030 | null |
12,147 | 2 | null | 12,144 | -3 | null | What platform are you working on? I'd recommend trying to use the preferred/common method for it.
1. MacOSX - plists
2. Win32 - Registry (or are there a new one here, long since I developed on it)
3. Linux/Unix - ~/.apprc (name-value perhaps)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T11:27:09.033 | 2008-08-15T11:27:09.033 | null | null | 842 | null |
12,149 | 2 | null | 12,141 | 13 | null | I think my worst mistake was
```
truncate table Customers
truncate table Transactions
```
I didnt see what MSSQL server I was logged into, I wanted to clear my local copy out...The familiar "OH s**t" when it was taking significantly longer than about half a second to delete, my boss noticed I went visibily white, an... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-15T11:28:08.407 | 2008-08-15T11:38:00.587 | 2008-08-15T11:38:00.587 | 1,276 | 1,276 | null |