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Making putty look nice on Windows

I don’t like the default look of putty on windows, so I usually do two things:

Download the DejaVu fonts
Get this PowerShell skript to tangoify the putty palette
Note: On Windows 7 you might need to enable yourself to be able to execute powershell skripts.

How to examine binary registry dumps in Linux

Say you have a binary registry export or dump from Windows and need to have a look at its contents. What do you do? The solution I came up with is:

WINEPREFIX=/tmp/dump regedit *.reg

Which gives you nice plain-text ini-style registries to examine in /tmp/dump. That obviously needs Wine installed.

Using postfix and ActiveDirectory

Quick reference for using postfix as a “shield” server to Exchange to check valid mailboxes against ActiveDirectory (SBS edition):

create a LDAP configuration file:

server_host = ad-server.your.domain
search_base = ou=MyBusiness,dc=your,dc=domain
query_filter = (&(objectClass=*) (proxyAddresses=smtp:%s))
result_attribute = sAMAccountName
bind=yes
bind_dn = dn of user account
bind_pw = pw of user

Is that all, bob?

No, it isn’t. You don’t only get the mingw version of gupnp, there will be a shiny version compatible with MSVC! Lo and behold, the unavoidable screenshot

Mono vs. COM

Please. I have nothing against C# in general or Mono. But please, please do not encourage the use of something as broken as COM, even if it’s to ease the bridging between C# and C++.

Thank you for your attention.

Concerning gnupg…

I wrote earlier about compiling libgpgme for use with Visual Studio. Forgot to mention that this is an useless effort because the filedescriptor passing does not work and as such you can only encrypt decrypt from or to memory.

Samba as AD client

If net ads join ever again fails with Failed to join domain: failed to find DC for domain just throw the stupid NetBIOS name of the ActiveDirectory server into the hosts file, will you? Sheesh…

GUPnP on windows howto

I threw together some instructions on how to build the GUPnP stack on windows:

gupnp on win32

Small demo showing the effort of porting GUPnP on windows:

WPFP(document).ready(function() {
//load player
$f(“saiweb_5edba4548abeb928b57382d418d34fe4″, “http://jensge.org/wp-content/plugins/word-press-flow-player/flowplayer/gpl/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf”, {
plugins: {
controls: {
buttonOverColor: ”,
sliderColor: ”,
bufferColor: ”,
sliderGradient: ‘none’,
[...]

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