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State of the GUPnP stack on Windows and other scary tales

Jens — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:21:36 +0000

I updated the windows ports of gssdp and gupnp today, did some further clean-up on the gupnp port and filed merge-requests for both on gitorious.

I also deleted the gupnp-win32 repository on github. New development will go to this repository on gitorious. There is still the gssdp-win32 repository on github since I have not yet taken care of the MSVC additions.

I also started wrapping gssdp et al into *mm (hey, I work for Openismus now but this has proven to be somewhat difficult.

Mr. Fusion

Jens — Sat, 01 May 2010 11:16:38 +0000

That was easier than I expected. After a bit of googling and hand-crafting libtool archives, Rygel’s plugins now work on Windows as well. Now I just need to clean-up all that hackery.

1.21 Gigawatts

Jens — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:38:44 +0000

The beast is alive… Well. Sort of. Plugins still missing…

$ ./rygel.exe -g 5
** (rygel.exe:8080): WARNING **: Failed to load user configuration: Es wurde keine gÂ³ltige SchlÂ³sselwertedatei in den Suchordnern gefunden
** (rygel.exe:8080): DEBUG: new network context {C457B4A8-2516-46B9-837A-F5167D574A2E} (192.168.200.64) available.

** (rygel.exe:8080): WARNING **: Failed to create context for host/IP '{C57C8A03-20D6-4A0F-8C5D-946804401865}': Der Vorgang wurde erfolgreich beendet.

** (rygel.exe:8080): WARNING **: Failed to create context for host/IP '{8946F41B-6765-4205-8238-82786C175392}': Der Vorgang wurde erfolgreich beendet.

** (rygel.exe:8080): WARNING **: Failed to create context for host/IP '{846EE342-7039-11DE-9D20-806E6F6E6963}': Der Vorgang wurde erfolgreich beendet.

Making putty look nice on Windows

Jens — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:24:52 +0000

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

Jens — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:36:22 +0000

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

Jens — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:00:08 +0000

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?

Jens — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:01:00 +0000

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

Jens — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:05:41 +0000

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…

Jens — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:17:07 +0000

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

Jens — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:36:10 +0000

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…