You can use the system.log event to do this.

Put this in your controller:

function custom_log()
{
  error_log(Event::$data[0] . ' ' . Event::$data[1] . ' ' . Event::$data[2]);
}

Event::add('system.log', 'custom_log');

Now when you call Kohana::log, the message will get written out to the PHP error log.

Unfortunately, XP does not support these icons, so if you want to support XP, you can’t use them. And your WPF app will throw an XamlParseException with an error message about the image format not being supported.

What if you have icons in the new format and want to use them on XP?

Well, here’s what I did and it worked:

• Download the Gimp.
• Open your Vista/W7 icon file.
• Save As a new icon file.
• Uncheck all the “compressed PNG” checkboxes. Make sure to scroll down and get them all.

There you have it.

After making Mantis configuration changes as specified in that page, I threw together a SVN post-commit hook that I named post-commit.cmd. It looks like this:

@echo off
setlocal enableextensions

set SVN_PATH="c:Program Filessvn-win32-1.6.1bin"
set REPOS=%1
set REV=%2
set TEMPFILE=c:temp%REV%.txt

set MANTIS_PATH="c:Program FilesApache Software FoundationApache2.2htdocsmantis"

cd %MANTIS_PATH%scripts

%SVN_PATH%svnlook log -r %REV% %REPOS% > %TEMPFILE%

php checkin.php < %TEMPFILE% > c:post_commit.log

Obviously, update the paths to Subversion and Mantis.

Now, when somebody puts “issue #56″ in a commit comment, a note gets added to the bug in Mantis. When a developer adds “fixes issue #56″ in a commit comment, the issue also gets set to “resolved.”

At first, we thought it was SharePoint, but then I found this article by Microsoft. It looks like WinHTTP doesn’t check your Trusted Sites before prompting for credentials, even if you’ve checked “Automatic logon with current user name and password.”

I’m testing it now, and will update this post if I keep getting prompted.

However, new versions of the device return a screenshot that is twice as large. Making the new screenshot small then stretching it resulted in a hard to read display.

First off, I changed the code to paint the screenshot in the PictureBox separately, so it wouldn’t get painted then stretched. Then, I started looking around at sharpening. I found this really helpful article, but the results weren’t really what I was looking for.

Then I found another post that pointed me towards settings in the Graphics class that can change the output. I used a simple WinForms app with a couple forms displaying the same bitmap with different Graphics settings to subjectively compare the output. This seems to result in the highest quality for text in a resized screenshot (assume g is an instance of Graphics below):


g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.None;
g.PixelOffsetMode = PixelOffsetMode.None;
g.CompositingQuality = CompositingQuality.HighQuality;
g.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;


Amazingly, so far it works pretty well. The graphics card and network adapter worked out of the box, albeit with no support for Aero acceleration. To install the NVidia nForce 2 audio drivers, read these two pages.

To get my old NVidia RIVA TNT2 Model 64 GPU running, I followed the instructions on this page. It worked!

Here’s how I currently have it configured:

Verizon Fios wifi router -wired-> Cisco ASA 5505 -wired-> Linksys WRT54GL -wifi-> Linksys WRT54G V.3

Both Linksys routers are running the latest version of DD-WRT. Installing the new firmware went smoothly on both routers. The one catch on the WRT54GL is I didn’t let it sit and finish booting, as the wiki instructs. You really have to give it a few minutes.

The WRT54GL is configured as an AP, and the WRT54G is set to be in client bridge mode. The ASA is plugged in to one of the switch ports on the WRT54GL. The result is, any devices connected to the WRT54G will be on the subnet hosted by the ASA.

The only downside I can find thus far is the DHCP and DNS (for the VPN only?) are not forwarded to clients that are physically connected to the WRT54G. When I configure my desktop to have a static IP that is served by the ASA, I have connectivity. When I try DHCP, I don’t get an IP. From what I can find on the net, some people claim it works for them, while there are descriptions of why it doesn’t work from others. I’ll dig deeper into this at some other time.

Since my work laptop connects to the WRT54GL via wifi, DHCP works fine there. And DNS does as well, although I’m assuming the reason I get DNS resolution for hosts on the extranet and not for hosts served by the VPN is my desktop is not on the work domain, and my laptop is.

Thanks to the DD-WRT team for producing a very impressive open source product!

A couple notes:

• You’ll need to download the Apache PHP mod 44-2 source tarball from the Apple site. This doesn’t match the PHP build version number in php_info(), but that’s ok.
• Use the 64-bit instructions. Even though PHP info said I386, when I used the 32-bit instructions GD was enabled when I ran php -i from the command-line but not from php_info() in a browser.
• Add --disable-dependency-tracking to the configure command line for the JPEG library.

1. Boot, if you see a RAID configuration screen, hit Ctrl-I to enter setup and remove all drives from the RAID array.
2. Reboot, enter BIOS setup and make sure your drive configuration is set to “RAID ATA.”
3. While you’re in the BIOS setup, enable virtualization in the CPU settings. This will let you create 64-bit virtual guests.
4. Follow these steps to install VMWare ESXi