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Ever connected to public Wi-Fi and been hit with a weird login page or a button that says “I accept the terms” before you can browse?That’s called a captive portal – a gatekeeper page that pops up when you connect to open networks in trains, hotels, cafés, airports, or universities. These portals are used to:… Read More » Surviving the TGV Captive Portal on Linux: A Simple Browser Trick That…
Some unexpected experiences caused by the fact the vcpkg C++ package manager is still based on OpenSSL 1.0.2. The post openSSL vs. vcpkg – some strange experiences appeared first on Silviu-Marius Ardelean's blog .
I am pleased to announce my first cross-platform and open source project, the Process Status Analysis tool, available on GitHub. The Process Status Analysis (psa) is a command line tool that offer some Operating System processes analysis features: - Get all processes loaded in memory information - Get process only used memory - Print processes tree - Top most “expensive” processes - Redirect…
Some inside from my first hackathon experience, the #HackTM2016 from Timisoara. The post The First Hackathon Experience #HackTM2016 appeared first on Silviu-Marius Ardelean's blog .
This is a story of how I got over a blocking situation within some Windows 10 OS installs on my Samsung laptop. The post Finally, I got Windows 10 appeared first on Silviu-Marius Ardelean's blog .
This is the story of my first experiences with Raspberry PI 2 card computer. Back in March, I bought a new toy, a Raspberry PI 2. I have downloaded the Raspbian OS ISO image, wrote it on the microSD card and the toy was up and running. As most probably you already know, the default package… Read More » apt-get and the static IP challenges within Raspbian OS The post apt-get and the static IP…
The title might be as well “When the pathname is not what it has to be”. The experience of developing plugins for Adobe Acrobat/Reader reserved me different surprises, that made the task more challenging. One of the biggest surprises I had was the impact of the Adobe’s Cloud idea over the Acrobat’ API within Acrobat products.… Read More » The Chameleon Pathnames The post The Chameleon Pathnames…
I wrote this document after a challenging experience I had recently within an Adobe Acrobat/Reader plugin creation. Even if the Adobe’s SDK it’s nicely documented within PDF files, one of the major reason that determined me to write this article was the frustration I got sometimes when, for instance, trying to see “why the plugin… Read More » Experiences with Adobe Acrobat/Reader Plug-ins The post…
Trying to get table indexes information in SQL Server 2012 I identified a strange situation within a specific method that I was using so long but it was not acting as expected in one situation. Usually, I got the right information about indexes but in one situation I encounter a strange behavior. It's about having a clustered index into a scenario. I have a table that contains two indexes…
This short tutorial shows how easy it’s to generate reports in HTML pages using Microsoft XML DOM API together XML and XSLT. XML (Extensible Markup Language) became a universal standard of encoding data in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. It’s widely used in business applications and even Microsoft Office uses it into… Read More » HTML files generation using XML and XSLT…
As you most probably know, this website uses WordPress. Last Saturday, trying to access the site admin area I was faced with an error generated by too many redirects. Having other things to do, I ignored it for that moment. Later a friend of mine published on his website some information about an existing world-wide… Read More » Some experiences with the last world-wide WordPress brute force…
The Problem Trying to paint a background image into client area of a MDI application build in VC++ 6.0 to VC++ 2005 IDE it’s not a difficult task. In case you need, you can find easily good references. For instance, there are two references from Microsoft (KB129471 and KB103786) and one I prefer: a FAQ… Read More » SubclassWindow() method issues in projects base on MFC Feature Pack The post…