Check out Process Monitor at

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Microsoft Process Monitor is better at this job. I&#39;ve tried other tools but they are not as good. And MS is most trustworthy in this case, since it is made by the OS developer anyway

I haven&#39;t tried it myself but someone should try [Regmon][1] and maybe post how it goes.


  [1]: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Other-Programming-Files/Regmon.shtml

Check out process explorer: http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

I use ADO.NET as well as the sqlcmd utility to send SQL scripts to SQL Server 2008. What is the difference between using `;` and `GO` to separate chunks of SQL?


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I am getting this error in my git repository:

    22:09:15 $ git status
    # On branch master
    error: Could not read 8124cc15c63be92d534e4cdfa33c38d54deee122
    error: unable to read tree object HEAD
    nothing to commit (working directory clean)

A Google search for `error: unable to read tree object HEAD` doesn&#39;t result in much help, this error seems to be very rare. I am not sure how to deal with it. Could it be a hard drive failure?

**Edit**:
The output of `git fsck` is the following:

    broken link from  commit 607328dc80e4901a55b95c683d4fbf43e6df28bf
                  to    tree 8124cc15c63be92d534e4cdfa33c38d54deee122
    missing tree 8124cc15c63be92d534e4cdfa33c38d54deee122
    dangling tree 56b5d4a5e429d251582ec927bca7ef1225510c41
    dangling tree 0259d2d38b18b6136bb6070fb41faf3624453cc6


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How do I install SciPy on my system?

For the NumPy part (that SciPy depends on) there is actually an installer for 64 bit Windows: [numpy-1.3.0.win-amd64-py2.6.msi][1] (is direct download URL, 2310144 bytes).

Running the SciPy superpack installer results in this
message in a dialog box:

&gt;Cannot install. Python version 2.6 required, which was not found in the registry.

I already have Python 2.6.2 installed (and a working Django installation
in it), but I don&#39;t know about any Registry story.

The registry entries seem to already exist:

    REGEDIT4

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python]

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore]

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6]

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\Help]

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\Help\Main Python Documentation]
    @=&quot;D:\\Python262\\Doc\\python262.chm&quot;

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\InstallPath]
    @=&quot;D:\\Python262\\&quot;

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\InstallPath\InstallGroup]
    @=&quot;Python 2.6&quot;

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\Modules]

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\PythonPath]
    @=&quot;D:\\Python262\\Lib;D:\\Python262\\DLLs;D:\\Python262\\Lib\\lib-tk&quot;

----------

What I have done so far:

**Step 1**

Downloaded the NumPy superpack installer
numpy-1.3.0rc2-win32-superpack-python2.6.exe
([direct download URL][2], 4782592 bytes). Running this installer
resulted in the same message, &quot;Cannot install. Python
version 2.6 required, which was not found in the registry.&quot;.
**Update**: there is actually an installer for NumPy that works - see beginning of the question.


**Step 2**

Tried to install NumPy in another way. Downloaded the zip
package numpy-1.3.0rc2.zip ([direct download URL][3], 2404011 bytes),
extracted the zip file in a normal way to a temporary
directory, D:\temp7\numpy-1.3.0rc2 (where setup.py and
README.txt is). I then opened a command line window and:

    d:
    cd D:\temp7\numpy-1.3.0rc2
    setup.py install

This ran for a long time and also included use of cl.exe
(part of Visual Studio). Here is a nearly 5000 lines long
[transcript][4] (230 KB).

This seemed to work. I can now do this in Python:

    import numpy as np
    np.random.random(10)

with this result:

    array([ 0.35667511,  0.56099423,  0.38423629,  0.09733172,  0.81560421,
            0.18813222,  0.10566666,  0.84968066,  0.79472597,  0.30997724])


**Step 3**

Downloaded the SciPy superpack installer, scipy-0.7.1rc3-
win32-superpack-python2.6.exe ([direct download URL][5], 45597175
bytes). Running this installer resulted in the message
listed in the beginning


**Step 4**

Tried to install SciPy in another way. Downloaded the zip
package scipy-0.7.1rc3.zip ([direct download URL][6], 5506562
bytes), extracted the zip file in a normal way to a
temporary directory, D:\temp7\scipy-0.7.1 (where setup.py
and README.txt is). I then opened a command line window and:

    d:
    cd D:\temp7\scipy-0.7.1
    setup.py install

This did not achieve much - here is a [transcript][7] (about 95
lines).

And it fails:

    &gt;&gt;&gt; import scipy as sp2
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File &quot;&lt;stdin&gt;&quot;, line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
    ImportError: No module named scipy


----------

Platform: Python 2.6.2 installed in directory D:\Python262,
Windows XP 64 bit SP2, 8 GB RAM, Visual Studio 2008
Professional Edition installed.

The startup screen of the installed Python is:

    Python 2.6.2 (r262:71605, Apr 14 2009, 22:46:50) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
    Type &quot;help&quot;, &quot;copyright&quot;, &quot;credits&quot; or &quot;license&quot; for more information.
    &gt;&gt;&gt;

Value of PATH, result from SET in a command line window:

    Path=D:\Perl64\site\bin;D:\Perl64\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\PC Connectivity Solution\;D:\Perl\site\bin;D:\Perl\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;d:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\;D:\MassLynx\;D:\Program Files (x86)\Analyst\bin;d:\Python262;d:\Python262\Scripts;D:\Program Files (x86)\TortoiseSVN\bin;D:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;D:\Program Files (x86)\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit\

  [1]: http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/project/numpy/NumPy/1.3.0/numpy-1.3.0.win-amd64-py2.6.msi
  [2]: http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/project/numpy/NumPy/1.3.0rc2/numpy-1.3.0rc2-win32-superpack-python2.6.exe
  [3]: http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/project/numpy/NumPy/1.3.0rc2/numpy-1.3.0rc2.zip
  [4]: http://pmortensen.eu/1/until2039-12-31/SO/numpyBuildTranscript_2009-10-03.html
  [5]: http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/project/scipy/scipy/0.7.1rc3/scipy-0.7.1rc3-win32-superpack-python2.6.exe
  [6]: http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/project/scipy/scipy/0.7.1rc3/scipy-0.7.1rc3.zip
  [7]: http://pmortensen.eu/1/until2039-12-31/SO/scipyBuildTranscript2.html


How do I install SciPy on 64 bit Windows?

I am looking for a sniffer that can work with the loopback address in Windows.

So far, I found Microsoft Network Monitor which is a nice tool, but for localhost it&#39;s useless because on Windows, localhost packets don&#39;t pass through the regular network stack, so they&#39;re invisible to an ethernet sniffer like MS Network Monitor.

How do you debug applications that send data in the loopback mechanism? Any good (open source) sniffers that can work with localhost?

UPDATE: If you have experience with a tool, it would be nice to have a short description for future reference

Sniffer for localhost (Windows OS)

This is concerning Windows XP processes.

I have a process running, let&#39;s call it Process1. Process1 creates a new process, Process2, and saves its id.

Now, at some point Process1 wants Process2 to do something, so it first needs to make sure that Process2 is still alive and that the user has not not killed it.

How can I check that this process is still running?
Since I created it, I have the Process ID, I would think there is some library function along the lines of IsProcessIDValid( id ) but I can&#39;t find it on MSDN

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I&#39;m developing a project that has a number of hardware sensors connecting to the deployment machine through RS232 serial ports.

But ... I&#39;m developing on a machine without an physical RS232 serial ports, but I would like to make fake serial ports that I can connect to and output data from with the aim of faking input from hardware sensors.

Does anyone know of a way to create a fake serial port and control it on Windows XP? 

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When running a command-line script, is it possible to get the name of the current user?

How do you find the current user in a Windows environment?

So I&#39;m starting like Python a bit, but I&#39;m having trouble erm...running it. Lol

I&#39;m using IDLE for now, but its no use whatsoever because you can only run a couple of lines at a time.

I&#39;m also using Komodo Edit to create the actual .py files.

My question is, how can I run the .py files to test out the actual program? 

I&#39;m using Windows 7, and Komodo Edit 5 as my IDE. Pressing F5 in Komodo doesn&#39;t do anythin at all.

![alt text][1]


  [1]: http://imgur.com/x8DJK.png

How do I run a Python program?

I have a variable 

    char* x = &quot;asd\nqwe\n ... &quot;

and I want to print it with newlines printed as newlines not _backslash n_.
Is it possible?

How to print a null-terminated string with newlines without showing backslash escapes in gdb?

I have been studying and reading about Scrum in the last few days and reading about Sprint Planning and tasks. One problem that popped into my mind is how to deal with bugs in Scrum. Henrik Kniberg lists some ways of dealing with this issue in his very nice book [Scrum and XP from the Trenches][1] :

 1. Product owner prints out the most
    high priority Jira items, brings
    them to the sprint planning meeting,
    and puts them up on the wall
    together with the other stories
    (thereby implicitly specifying the
    priority of these items compared to
    the other stories). 
 2. Product owner creates stories that refer to Jira
    items. For example “Fix the most
    critical back office reporting bugs,
    Jira-124, Jira- 126, and Jira-180”.
 3. Bug-fixing is considered to be
    outside of the sprint, i.e. the team
    keeps a low enough focus factor (for
    example 50%) to ensure that they
    have time to fix bugs. It is then
    simply assumed that the team will
    spend a certain amount of time each
    sprint fixing Jira- reported bugs 
 4. Put the product backlog in Jira
    (i.e. ditch Excel). Treat bugs just
    like any other story.

Is this really something that needs to be decided per-project basis or are there better solutions? I can think of problems with each of those approaches. Is there a hybrid coming from those approaches that works best? How do you handle this in your projects?

  [1]: http://www.crisp.se/henrik.kniberg/ScrumAndXpFromTheTrenches.pdf

Best ways to fit bug fixing into a Scrum process?

I should probably know this already, but I&#39;m not sure and I don&#39;t see it documented.

I use System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine quite often during the development process to be able to track changes to variables or exceptions as I&#39;m debugging the code.  This is meant to make development and understanding what&#39;s happening easier **only** during development.  I normally either comment out the code or delete it when I go to production.

I&#39;m wondering what happens if I forget to comment the code out.  Say, for example, that during the development cycle, I&#39;m tracking error information that may log a connection sting to the output window using Debug.Write Line.  This is obviously OK while developing, but I&#39;m wondering if when I go live, if there is a risk here.  Can someone attach a debugger to my live executable and trap this output?  Or is it something that only produces output in Visual Studio?  

And what about when we switch from debug to release?  Does this code get ignored by the compiler if we compile for release?

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine in production code

When I try run `make` from cmd-console on Windows, it runs Turbo Delphi&#39;s `make.exe` but I need MSYS&#39;s `make.exe`. There is no mention about Turbo Delphi in `%path%` variable, maybe I can change it to MSYS in registry?

Where can I set path to make.exe on Windows?

I have some code that reads the registry and looks for a value in `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\App\` but when running on 64-bit versions of Windows the value is under `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\App\`. 

How should I best approach this? Do I need a 64-bit installer or should I rewrite my code to detect both places?

Reading the registry and Wow6432Node key

I&#39;ve developed an application that load an image using the context menu of window (right click on the file) and for the moment is working, but the reg key is on

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*

and it works with all files.

I want that the menu item on the context menu should be displayed only with .jpg files.

How can I do that? Which registry keys should I use?

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Now that Office also comes in a 64bit install, where in the registry do you find out if the version of Office installed is 32bit or 64bit?

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I&#39;m having trouble getting command line arguments passed to Python programs if I try to execute them directly as executable commands from a Windows command shell.  For example, if I have this program (test.py):

    import sys
    print &quot;Args: %r&quot; % sys.argv[1:]

And execute:

    &gt;test foo
    Args: []

as compared to:

    &gt;python test.py foo
    Args: [&#39;foo&#39;]

My configuration has:

    PATH=...;C:\python25;...
    PATHEXT=...;.PY;....
    
    &gt;assoc .py
    .py=Python.File
    
    &gt;ftype | grep Python
    Python.CompiledFile=&quot;C:\Python25\python.exe&quot; &quot;%1&quot; %*
    Python.File=&quot;C:\Python25\python.exe&quot; &quot;%1&quot; %*
    Python.NoConFile=&quot;C:\Python25\pythonw.exe&quot; &quot;%1&quot; %*

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