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Monthly Archives: June 2007

Hosting at DreamHost is funnier

I used to my code in Google’s subversion. It was good, but I needed more. The built-in wiki was to restrictive, and I wanted to track usage and downloads. So I signed up with DreamHost. The have shell access, lots of disk space, up and running subversion and one-click install Gallery and WordPress. My experience [...]

LoadLibrary fails when impersonating

I was playing around with SSPI, the Security Support Provider Interface. I stumbled across a behavior that I cannot explain : you cannot call LoadLibrary when you are impersonating. If you check you program with SysInternals (now Microsoft’s) Process Monitor, you’ll find an error saying”Bad Impersonation”. LoadLibrary returns NULL and a call to GetLastError() says [...]

A convenient way to run Apache Forrest on Windows

I use Apache Forrest to generate what will someday be the homepage of paralint.com. I use “forrest run” most of the time, and “forrest site”, “forrest clean” every now and then. I wrote a little batch file that will launch forrest in a new window when the “run” option is used, and in the same [...]