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I am looking for a way to remotely install a program to other computer units running Windows on the fly ,without the need of running the installer steps on each computer (next,next,finish...) all over again , .exe installers don't usually have an easy way to do this without using the GUI installer.
a solution that i came up with , running the installer on a single pc
and try to trace each file the installer adds (location,file names,registry files) using FileSystemWatcher then copy these files and send them to the desired hosts that need the program installed with the location of each file will this work ? is there any easier implementation
the problem with FileSystemWatcher that although it detectes which files have been added,edited or deleted its not capable to tell which process did the change ,Why would i need to know ?,other programs depends alot on files and will keep editing them so i need to isolate the installer process to easily study how its functioning and what files are added..
the only way that i know to overcome this problem is developing a file system filter driver...
please give me your opinion or some recommendations on which is the best way to do this ,sorry for my bad english .
Almost every modern installer has some way to perform a silent install. You may need to do some digging to find the answers, or ask the publisher. Try running the installer with /? as a command line switch and see what it tells you.
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I am very new to programming in anything. I want to get started with Ruby. I have a pc and laptop. I don't want to limit myself to just the pc. As long as Ruby is installed on both, of course, can I keep my project files in DropBox so I can work on them from either device?
Thanks for your help.
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Yes. Source code files can be kept in Dropbox just like any other file. You can use Dropbox to keep your files in sync between your two computers.
As you find yourself more comfortable with programming and make programs of greater complexity, you will probably want to use a version control system (VCS), such as Git. Among many other things, a VCS will keep your project files centralized in a repository. If the repository is in the cloud (e.g. on GitHub) you will be able to access it from all your computers.
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My windows application tries to parse the command result of command line tools and it works well in English language pack.
However, I was wondering if when customer is using a different language pack so if the result of the command is in Japanese/Chinese/Korean, I think I should modify the parsing logic accordingly.
I think this approach doesn't seem to be a right direction.
Is there any way to force English output ?
First of all you are not talking to MS-DOS because this is its own operating system. Windows no longer is build on a DOS base, the last versions that did so were Windows 95 and 98 I think.
You are calling command line commands / executables of Windows and they can't be forced to use all English. Perhaps you can interpret the return code and detect an error this way. Some tools can be forced to return csv (wmic for example) but I don't think sc can be.
My suggestion is that you search SO for a solution how to call the CreateService from your programming language.
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I was trying to install a virtual machine on my Mac, and I followed the directions in an article from Digital Trends. I have since found additional resources, which have made me concerned about a step in the original instructions that said to type this into the Mac terminal:
curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash
I initially trusted this code because I thought Digital Trends was safe, but is this code safe?
You're running whatever the contents of that URL are as your current user.
For certain definitions of safe, sure, this is fine, as it won't influence other users of your machine. I'd still take a look at the code in the URL to see if it's doing something you'd approve of doing yourself.
In your specific case, it appears to be a boring install of Microsoft binaries, so if you trust Microsoft to not do anything stupid/dangerous to your machine (I don't), you're likely fine.
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A friend of mine is showing me how to use the shell (on my mac) and I used ls -a to look at all of the files in my home directory and there are a few that I'm wondering if they're garbage.
The ones that seem non-native to the computer (I'm running Mountain Lion)
.cups
.drjava
.nbprofiler
.netbeans
.profile
I googled netbeans (and "cups" unsuccessfully) and it seems like netbeans is an IDE, but I never installed it and it's not on my computer. I'm just curious if some of these files are garbage that piggybacked here on other downloads. Thanks for any knowledge you guys might have of this!
All of the files that you mentioned are part of Mac OS X already. Cups is to manage printers, netbeans is an IDE, drjava is for writing java applications, nbprofiler is to uncover memory leaks, and .profile can be used to set up aliases that act as shortcuts to commands. It is an optional file which tells the system which commands to run when the user whose profile file it is logs in. Hope this helped!
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As part of our product we use 3rd party hardware and drivers. Unfortunately, these drivers aren't signed so up pops the "Found new hardware wizard" when installing or upgrading our product. Our product is web based and allows the users access to everything they need remotely, apart from this one case.
Is there a registry hack or other OS setting that will stop the wizard appearing?
Can we sign the drivers ourselves?
Could we write a program that would click "Next, Next, Next" on the wizard that will work on all language variants of Windows?
There is 2 ways to get silent installation:
1) Sign the driver and that can be hard/impossible if you don't have the driver source code.
2) You can write a co-installer dll using this api's. The problem that this is not reliable and from our experience there is a lot of workarounds for different Windows flavors.
The only 100% reliable option will be option one.