Making Life Simple » Windoze http://www.lalitmehta.com/home Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:36:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 CSV to Excel – keep leading zeros http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2010/02/09/csv-to-excel-keep-leading-zeros/ http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2010/02/09/csv-to-excel-keep-leading-zeros/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:36:57 +0000 lalit http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/?p=149 When opening a csv file in excel, leading zero’s are displaced as below:

if the CSV file has “010101″, when opened in excel, it becomes “10101″.

To overcome this issue, store data in CSV file as =”010101″ (add ‘equals’ sign before the first quote.). If now you would open this file in excel, the leading zeros will stay as is.

]]> http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2010/02/09/csv-to-excel-keep-leading-zeros/feed/ 0 IE 6 bug in window.location http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2010/01/13/ie-6-bug-in-window-location/ http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2010/01/13/ie-6-bug-in-window-location/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:09:51 +0000 lalit http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/?p=123 There is a bug in IE 6 where following code does not work

var newUrl = "http://www.google.com/";
window.location = newUrl;
// This also doesn't work!
// window.location.href = newUrl;

After a scratching head for couple of hours, found the solution here

var newUrl = "http://google.com/";
setTimeout(function()
{
window.location = newUrl;
}, 0);

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  • CWE-20:Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-116:Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
  • CWE-89:Failure to Preserve SQL Query Structure
  • CWE-79:Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure
  • CWE-78:Failure to Preserve OS Command Structure
  • CWE-319:Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
  • CWE-352:Cross-Site Request Forgery
  • CWE-362:Race Condition
  • CWE-209:Error Message Information Leak
  • CWE-119:Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
  • CWE-642:External Control of Critical State Data
  • CWE-73:External Control of File Name or Path
  • CWE-426:Untrusted Search Path
  • CWE-94:Failure to Control Generation of Code
  • CWE-494:Download of Code Without Integrity Check
  • CWE-404:Improper Resource Shutdown or Release
  • CWE-665:Improper Initialization
  • CWE-682:Incorrect Calculation
  • CWE-285:Improper Access Control
  • CWE-327:Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
  • CWE-259:Hard-Coded Password
  • CWE-732:Insecure Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
  • CWE-330:Use of Insufficiently Random Values
  • CWE-250:Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
  • CWE-602:Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security

    • Full story

    ]]>     http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2009/01/13/top-25-most-dangerous-programming-errors/feed/ 2     How to RDP Vista Home Premium with SP1 http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2008/05/30/how-to-rdp-vista-home-premium-with-sp1/ http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2008/05/30/how-to-rdp-vista-home-premium-with-sp1/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 01:53:55 +0000 lalit http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2008/05/30/how-to-rdp-vista-home-premium-with-sp1/ Previously I had written a blog entry to enable RDP on Vista Home Premium. After installing SP1, I realized that I could not connect to my machine.  After a little search in google, I found the same group has done their magic for SP1 too. For your reference, here is the file.

    ]]>     http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2008/05/30/how-to-rdp-vista-home-premium-with-sp1/feed/ 0     Edit Windows Vista Hosts File http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2008/03/09/edit-windows-vista-hosts-file/ http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2008/03/09/edit-windows-vista-hosts-file/#comments Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:32:54 +0000 lalit http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2008/03/09/edit-windows-vista-hosts-file/ 1. Open Notepad with Administrative privileges by clicking Start, All Programs, Accessories, and then right-click Notepad and select to open as Administrator.

    2. Browse to (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc) in Notepad and open the hosts file.

    Now you can edit and save the hosts file.

    ]]>     http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2008/03/09/edit-windows-vista-hosts-file/feed/ 0     How to RDP to Vista Home Premium http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2007/12/12/how-to-rdp-to-vista-home-premium/ http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2007/12/12/how-to-rdp-to-vista-home-premium/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:27:36 +0000 lalit http://www.lalitmehta.com/home/2007/12/12/how-to-rdp-to-vista-home-premium/ I cannot believe it. I recently bought new computer which came with Vista Home Premium installed. Everything was cool and only thing I missed was that I could not RDP to it. After searching a little on google, found a great great hack to fix the problem. Kudos to the hackers who made this possible!!

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