Category Archives: Windows
GnuPG Not Working Under Cygwin
I was having trouble using the GnuPG plugin for vim under Cygwin. The GnuPG plugin allows seamlessly integrated decryption, editing, and re-encryption of GPG-encrypted content within vim. However, on my Windows 7 box, it just showed gibberish. Attempting to edit … Continue reading
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Converting MP3 to AAC
Here is a Windows command shell script I wrote to convert MP3 files to AAC for my Softbank 821SC phone. The script uses FFmpeg, which I downloaded from here. @echo off REM ————————————————————————— REM Set the following variable to the … Continue reading
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SSH Tunneling Windows RDC
This article explains how to securely port-forward Windows Remote Desktop (Terminal Services) over SSH, using standard SSH command line syntax. If you prefer to use GUI SSH tools, such as PuTTY, there are other guides for that. Terminology Notes My … Continue reading
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CoCreateInstance Fails With “Class Not Registered”
Recently, I had a problem unique to my test machine. Attempting to call CoCreateInstance on a COM class provided by one of our DLLs resulted in HRESULT 0x80040154, which corresponds to “Class not registered”. This was a mystery since regsvr32 … Continue reading
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