Category Archives: Free Software

Ninject: connect an IProxyFactory component to the kernel

Posted on December 16, 2009 by timvw

Because it’s the second time that i run into this i will post the solution here so that i (and all the other people that run into the same issue) can easily solve it next time. Anyway, i was playing … Continue reading →

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Using sed

Posted on March 5, 2009 by timvw

For a couple of days now i’ve been pondering about posting something about my love for GNU text-utilities but never got round to it. A couple of minutes ago i read Phil Windley’s Using Grep and Find post so here … Continue reading →

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Build OpenSSL with Visual Studio 2008

Posted on April 21, 2008 by timvw

These days building OpenSSL with Visual Studio 2008 has become really easy. I don’t like to edit .cnf files so i decided to patch the code a little so that the default configuration file becomes openssl.config: string basePath = @"C:\src\openssl-0.9.8g"; … Continue reading →

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Running .NET applications on Debian GNU/Linux with Mono

Posted on April 25, 2006 by timvw

Today i noticed Running .Net applications on Linux with Mono and the author wrote the following: I found that on Debian at this stage I got an error: The assembly mscorlib.dll was not found or could not be loaded. It … Continue reading →

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Building apache-win32 with Visual Studio 2005

Posted on April 15, 2006 by timvw

Today i decided to build apache-win32. Here’s how i did it: Download Apache httpd-2.2.0-win32-src-rev2.zip. Unzip and read README.TXT, INSTALL.TXT and docs/manual/platform/win_compiling.html.en Save awk95.exe as awk.exe in a directory that’s in your %PATH%. Open Apache.dsw with VS2005 and choose “Yes To … Continue reading →

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GNU screen

Posted on February 6, 2006 by timvw

Another tool that belongs to my favorites is GNU Screen. A couple of years ago i had a bad internet connection and when i was working on a remote shell i was always logged out and had to start over. … Continue reading →

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GNU sort

Posted on February 6, 2006 by timvw

I already wrote that GNU Core Utilities (GNU Textutils) have become my favorite text processing tools. Today i wanted to sort a couple of lines using the last three numbers of each line. Here is an example: c:/data/backup/JA-229 c:/data/backup/JA-221 c:/data/backup/JA-233 … Continue reading →

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Setting up an SSH tunnel

Posted on January 19, 2006 by timvw

On the machine example there is a (tcp/ip) program listening on port 12345. The protocol it talks is some plaintext language. I want to talk with it, but i don’t want others to know what i’m sending to it. I’m … Continue reading →

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Format sourcecode with VIM

Posted on January 14, 2006 by timvw

I once read an article that explained how i could make Vim format my code but i forgot what the command was. Many websearches for “vim indent code” later i had the luminous idea to search for “vim format code” … Continue reading →

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Problem with Base and MySQL support

Posted on November 4, 2005 by timvw

Today i decided to try out the new OpenOffice.org release. Creating a presentation with Impress went pretty smooth. After that i wanted to check out Base with a MySQL backend but i got an error message that the JDBC driver … Continue reading →

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