This is the simplest way I know to get samba up and running. This isn’t the most secure, best, smartest, etc. It’s just for testing and getting up and running as quickly as possible.

This goes for just about all versions of windows. The file you are looking for is %systemroot%system32\drivers\etc\hosts.

The structure for graphics drivers changed completely from Windows XP To Vista. So forget your video card. You might have the latest and greatest money pit of a video card, but it still won’t run Battlefield 3.

There are multiple ways to do it. Some are platform dependent.The best way is probably through socket, but you can use platform and os too.

ver wish you could test your code on a machine that’s not connected to teh interwebs and doesn’t have python installed? I like portable applications for many reasons, mainly because they just work.

Win32 namespaces for accessing devices instead of file systems and for disabling string parsing can be helpful but not all APIs support their use.

This is especially needed for any Windows application. It would save the typical user from his/herself. So many apps want to install a toolbar, take over as the default choice, or select some other intrusive behavior as the default. If you could have an app that you run before launching any kind of installation program, and that app just unchecked all the defaults, forcing you to choose the options that you feel are best, well the world might explode.

For Linux it’s a simple shell script, nothing fancy is needed. If the script ends with a 0 exit value, the commit will work, if it exits non-zero, the commit will fail. In Windows the syntax is different because you don’t have a real shell. Instead, you use batch file commands to accomplish the same thing. The logic is pretty much the same because it’s simple.

Internet Explorer garbled the terms and conditions when I installed Google Chrome for Windows. It doesn’t seem to be a language pack thing, so what’s going on here? More importantly, what terms and conditions am I bound by? I accepted the terms you see pictured and installed chrome, so now what?

If you have proxy settings set up in Internet Explorer already, then you can just run proxycfg -u and you’re done. It will add the registry keys for you. In the run dialog (Start -> Run) enter this command. It will flash the command prompt black screen and exit …