David Cumps

Today I went to a BENUG session about test driven development, and I finally got NUnitAddin to work ;)

A small recap of today:

• Get TestDriven.NET-0.9.615d.msi, this includes MbUnit along with NUnitAddin already setup to work with MbUnit. No more need to edit that config file yourself. The future testing tool is TestDriven.NET ;)
• Reference Core, Framework and TestFu in your project.
• Add [TestFixture] as attribute to your class.
• Add [Test] as attribute to a method.
• Right click somewhere in the class and Run Tests, to run them all, or right click in one method to only run that one.
• Watch the Output window display success or failed, and display the report url at the end.
• CTRL+Click the url to see a detailed report (view example).

Right, someone trying to convince me why Firefox is so much better than IE brought up the issue of being able to type "google searchterm" into his Adress bar and immediately being taken to the site.

Well, here's some news: IE can do that to, along with imdb, whois, vandale, php and everything else that uses parameters as query terms.

How? Look at this registry key and see the light:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\google]
@="http://www.google.com/search?q=%s"
" "="+"
"%"="%25"
"&"="%26"
"+"="%2B"

%s is where your search term comes, and the name of the key is the prefix.

Another example to get the hang of it:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\imdb]
@="http://us.imdb.com/Find?%s"
" "="+"
"%"="%25"
"&"="%26"
"+"="%2B"

Got it? Sweet, enjoy your new IE power! ;)

I have uploaded a .reg file which contains altavista, astalavista, cd, download, google, googlenl, imdb, php, sub, vandale, vcd, whois and lucky as search terms. Feel free to invent more :)

Update: Google feeling lucky keyword.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\lucky]
@="http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky"
" "="+"
"%"="%25"
"&"="%26"
"+"="%2B"

Today something very weird happened and I doubt something this weird will ever happen again.

I was working on a site at school when I browsed to a file-server to check some paths, and to my surprise I could suddenly access ALL shares, not only the ones for students, but all of them...

When I tried creating files they got made under BUILTIN\Administrators! But I was logged on with my own student account. So, being nice and all, I reported it...

Then we spent almost entire afternoon trying to determine why I was suddenly an admin.

And this is when the weird stuff started to happen:
On PC1 I was an admin on the server, but when I logged in to PC2 I couldn't access it.
We tried different student accounts on PC1 but they also couldn't access the shares.
Then we removed all groups from my account except Domain Users, and I still could get in.
We cleared the profiles from PC1 and 2 and also deleted my roaming profile.
Nothing changed...

First conclusion: It's tied to username X and PC1, examine PC1 later.

Then we go to another room and try it on different computers. And there it starts all over again.
PC3: I'm an admin, PC4: I'm not.

In the end we checked all groups I belonged to, and their membership, deleted my profile, checked all NTFS permissions (which I could change as well..), and nowhere there was a trace of me or any groups I belonged to. Nothing had admin rights.

We forced replication to make sure I was group-less but it still worked!

Conclusion: User X has the rights of an Admin, but does NOT show up in any group, NTFS permissions or anything else...

Solution: We disabled the account and created a new account.. (Which means I have to recreate my entire profile again...)

Has anyone else every encountered this, and found out why this was happening?

Ah, well, 11 blog posts on a day is fine as well :p

With all those people giving away GMail accounts, I got 6 as well.

I got one someday, never used GMail, but hey, I can give them away.

There's too much hype around it, and I'm really not into webbased mail when I just can read it from Outlook.

But anyway, if you want one, it seems I have to supply a First and Last name and an email adress, so, the first 6 people who supply them in the comments get an invite.

Update: I just got 5 more invites, will update post when they're all given out...

Update2: All gone, closing comments

I own a Sony Ericsson T630 and manage my contacts with Outlook trough Bluetooth.

This has the side side-effect that I finally started adding everyone I might need to contact to my Contacts, before that I just picked an email and used the Reply-To ;)

But there is one thing that bothers me, I store my numbers in international format (eg: +32 50 .....), but Outlook always removes the + in front of it, and I can't find how to change that. And my phone needs the +!

So I wrote a C# tool that would let me fix my contacts.

You can download it here and read the full article here.

I own a Sony Ericsson T630 and manage my contacts with Outlook trough Bluetooth.

This has the side side-effect that I finally started adding everyone I might need to contact to my Contacts, before that I just picked an email and used the Reply-To ;)

But there is one thing that bothers me, I store my numbers in international format (eg: +32 50 .....), but Outlook always removes the + in front of it, and I can't find how to change that. And my phone needs the +!

So, let's write a tool to fix this.

First we need a reference to Outlook. So add a reference to 'Microsoft Outlook 11.0 Object Library' (or 10.0, if you use 10.0 leave a comment if this source worked for you!)



When you did this you'll have two new reference, just remove the Office Core... so that you have something like this:



Our application has a very simple logic, where the Main controls it all.

1using System; 
2using System.Text.RegularExpressions; 
3using System.Collections; 
4using System.IO; 
5using System.Diagnostics; 
6using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook; 
7 
8namespace FixContacts { 
9 class FixContacts { 
10 static void Main(string[] args) { 
11 // TODO 
12 } 
13 } /* FixContacts */ 
14} /* FixContacts */

1 //string contactFolder = @"Cumps David\Contacts"; 
2 Console.Write("Contact Folder: "); 
3 string contactFolder = Console.ReadLine();

1 Outlook._Application appOutlook = new Outlook.Application(); 
2 
3 Outlook.NameSpace olNS = appOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI"); 
4 olNS.Logon("", null, null, null); 
5 
6 Console.WriteLine("Searching Folder..."); 
7 Outlook.MAPIFolder olContactFolder = GetFolder(contactFolder); 
8 Outlook.Items olContactItems = olContactFolder.Items;

1 Console.WriteLine("Fixing Phone Numbers..."); 
2 foreach(Outlook.ContactItem olContact in olContactItems) { 
3 CheckNumbersToReplace(olContact); 
4 }

1 olNS.Logoff(); 
2 
3 olContactItems = null; 
4 olContactFolder = null; 
5 olNS = null; 
6 appOutlook = null; 
7 Console.WriteLine("Done"); 
8 Console.ReadLine();

1Outlook._Application appOutlook = new Outlook.Application(); 
2Outlook.NameSpace olNS = appOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI"); 
3olNS.Logon("", null, null, null); 
4 
5Outlook.MAPIFolder olFolder = null; 
6folderPath.Replace("/", @"\"); 
7string[] arrFolders = folderPath.Split('\\'); 
8 
9foreach (Outlook.MAPIFolder olTmpFolder in olNS.Folders) { 
10 if (olTmpFolder.Name == arrFolders[0]) { 
11 olFolder = olTmpFolder; 
12 break; 
13 } 
14}

1if (olFolder != null) { 
2 for (int i = 1; i < arrFolders.Length; i++) { 
3 Outlook.Folders olFolders = olFolder.Folders; 
4 olFolder = null; 
5 
6 foreach (Outlook.MAPIFolder olTmpFolder in olFolders) { 
7 if (olTmpFolder.Name == arrFolders[i]) { 
8 olFolder = olTmpFolder; 
9 break; 
10 } 
11 } 
12 olFolders = null; 
13 } 
14}

1arrFolders = null; 
2olNS = null; 
3appOutlook = null; 
4return olFolder;

1 private static void CheckNumbersToReplace(Outlook.ContactItem vContact) { 
2 ArrayList phoneNumbers = new ArrayList(); 
3 string countryPrefix = "32";

1 if (vContact.HomeTelephoneNumber != null) { 
2 string phoneNumber = vContact.HomeTelephoneNumber; 
3 if (phoneNumber.Substring(0, 2) == countryPrefix) { phoneNumbers.Add(phoneNumber); } 
4 }

1 if (phoneNumbers.Count > 0) { 
2 string vCardLocation = ""; 
3 Outlook.MailItem vCardMail = vContact.ForwardAsVcard(); 
4 Outlook.Attachments vCardArray = vCardMail.Attachments; 
5 foreach (Outlook.Attachment vCard in vCardArray) { 
6 vCardLocation = Environment.CurrentDirectory + @"\" + vCard.FileName; 
7 vCard.SaveAsFile(vCardLocation); 
8 foreach (string phoneNumber in phoneNumbers) { 
9 FixNumber(vCardLocation, phoneNumber); 
10 } 
11 } 
12 vContact.Delete(); 
13 Process launchvCard = new Process(); 
14 launchvCard.StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(vCardLocation); 
15 launchvCard.Start(); 
16 launchvCard.WaitForExit(); 
17 File.Delete(vCardLocation); 
18 }

1 private static void FixNumber(string vCardPath, string phoneNumber) { 
2 if (File.Exists(vCardPath)) { 
3 StreamReader readvCard = File.OpenText(vCardPath); 
4 
5 string vCard = readvCard.ReadToEnd(); 
6 readvCard.Close(); 
7 vCard = vCard.Replace(phoneNumber, "+" + phoneNumber); 
8 
9 StreamWriter writevCard = File.CreateText(vCardPath); 
10 writevCard.WriteLine(vCard); 
11 writevCard.Close(); 
12 } 
13 } /* FixNumber */

Wow, apparently I made 8 blog-posts today (9 now), that's a record ;) Well I've been away for a while as well, so..

Busy holiday, little time for computer, and plenty of new projects, a new laptop, airport express, all the toys ;)

I guess it'll be a bit more quiet the coming days, as I said everything today ;)

But to give this post some information, here's how to set up a Dell truemobile 1450 under linux. (I got it working under Fedora Core 2)

Get ndiswrapper and the .exe file that came with your card.
Extract the exe to a location on your disk
Install ndiswrapper (make install)
Install the driver (ndiswrapper -i bcmw15a.inf)
Check if it worked (ndiswrapper -l)
If it worked, check iwconfig to see wlan0

Now set up your wlan
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
iwconfig wlan0 key open 12345..6 (your hex WEP key)
iwconfig wlan0 channel 11 (your channel)
iwconfig wlan0 essid HEAVEN (your essid, without quotes)

You can test with iwlink wlan0 scan (I believe) if it finds your AP.

I found that when you are unable to set your essid, it is because your WEP key is invalid. I don't know WiFi tech enough, but it seems that you only need a valid WEP key and it'll find your wlan.

If it's associated, bring it up with ifup wlan0 and it'll get an ip trough dhcp.

It took me a while, especially the essid part. Also sometimes it can bark at you when trying to set your key, then you have to do:

iwconfig wlan0 key open
iwconfig wlan0 key open 12345..6 (your hex WEP key)

Don't know why, but that solved it.

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