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When developing network applications, it's always necessary to capture network traffic. Windows ce has built-in sniffer tool, netlog for this purpose. It captures network traffics to a file that can be examined with wireshark or network monitor.To enable

On android, when a process crashes in native code, the call stack of the process will be saved to a log file in /data/tombstomes/, and written to logcat as well. The information is helpful for debuggi

remote tools for windows ce is a set of powerful tools for debugging. I have Visual Studio 2005, Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 installed, but the remote tools don't work. They fail to connect to device with following error message:The Microsoft ActiveSync re

h.264 plugin isn't a standard part of linphone installation on ubuntu. We must manually compile and install it.1. Download msx264 plugin source code.2. Run sudo apt-get install libmediastreamer-dev libx264-dev libavcodec-dev libswscale-dev libtheora-dev

I've used and enjoyed the benefits of reversion control system for several years. RCS makes my life a lot easier. And it pushes me to highly prefer text format files over binary files, because text files can be managed by RCS more easily. metauml is a m

agdb is a utility aims to ease the task of debugging android native application. Its working mechanism is similar to ndk-gdb. But it's intended to assist debugging native applications in android source tree, not for application created with ndk.It does f

mplayer is a powerful utility that is helpful for examining the raw yuv file.We decoded this h.264 media file (test_avc_amr.mp4) coming with android opencore to yuv format, saved as a.yuv. The command below can display the yuv file frame by frame:mplayer

Having tried metauml as my primary design utility recently, the experience isn't as good as I expected. At the beginning, I thought I would be more focused on the content/design while using a pure textual editing tool, but the result is very frustrating. B

To help me memorize commonly used programming and debugging tools on windows and linux, I created a wiki page here:http://code.google.com/p/rxwen-blog-stuff/wiki/CommonProgrammingAndDebuggingToolsOnWinAndLinux

The default scim input method doesn't work well with freemind on my computer, so I'd like to switch to fcitx. The fcitx package in ubuntu repository is an old version, and to install fcitx manually isn't very straightforward, so I make this post about how

To be able to paste something to vim's command line is a feature makes our life a lot easier. For instance, say we want to change a frequently used variable name in c source file from a_super_long_inproper_variable_for_caching_bank_account_balance to balan

Many guys have used make utility with makefile to compile source code. The official introduction of gnu make also introduces it as "Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's sourc

Having used consolas font for a period, I felt very comfortable with it. I've used it in putty, vim, visual studio. And I tried to use it in windows console (cmd.exe) by following scott's post, Using Consolas as the Windows Console Font. But consolas font

I read from Tomas's post that newer version windbg can't be downloaded from microsoft directly anymore. To get newer windbg, we have to download the huge 620 mb WDK iso and extract windbg installer from it manually. The newest windbg standalone installer i

ipython is a powerful interactive shell for python. With it, we can tak advantage of python programming language in our daily works.One of ipython's power is its tab-completion feature that needs readline to work. On mac system, it lacks this library due

Personally, I prefer wireshark to network monitor for:Wireshark runs on many platforms including windows, linux, mac os x, etc. I need to work both on linux and windows, and I'd like to keep my toolbox as compact as possible. Wireshark uses a widely adop

I generated a pdf file from a word document with word 2007. But the pdf file looks very uncomfortable in my pdf viewer. So I looked it closely to see what makes me feel so. The culprit is the spacing between characters. As shown in the image blow, the spac

I've used freecommander for years. It greatly improves my efficiency. Unfortunately, for some unkonwn reasons, my freecommander configuration file get corrupted after my machine power down unexpectedly several days before. Rather than making these configur

One of the most used function on a pc is switching between tasks. We may write some code in vim, switch to firefox to search for the usage of an api. And then switch back to vim continue writing code.