Recently a friend informed me of this antenna you can buy that lets you pick up virtually tons of wireless connection in your area. He’s been using it for some time now, and he says he has about 10 wireless connections to choose from. 5 of those connections had one bar without the wireless booster [...]
It’s for real, a dual 15.4 inch screen laptop for under $3000. The dual screen laptop, the SpaceBook, is expected to come with Windows 7 and Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 4GB of RAM and high-end Nvidia GF900M GT discrete graphics. You’ll probably find a DVD RW drive and the other usual goodies with [...]
The PC-Z1 is the latest mobile/handheld device announced from Sharp. The “netbook” type device runs Ubuntu Linux over an Arm based processor. Sharp also announces that the PC-Z1 has a 10 hour battery life. Although Sharp uses Ubuntu for their OS, they choose some fairly lightweight programs for their application suite.
Just thought I’d drop a line to all you .NET CF programmers looking for an alternative solution to the MS SQL mobile database engine. Check out SQLite. There are .NET drivers as well as drivers for virtually every major programming language including Java, PHP, Perl, .NET, C++ and more. PHP 5 comes with SQLite compiled [...]
I don’t know why I didn’t think of this early, maybe the bad round of gold today freed my mind! Get rid of FTP forever on your Linux machines! We recently got a bad Linux worm from an FTP vulnerability. FTP security has been a big problem for us lately and I think I found [...]
Analysts say the Playstation 4 plan will most likely fall in the 2010/2012 area. Sony has not made an official statement, but they really don’t need to be planning the PS4 when they have so many problems with PS3 at the moment.
The U.S. Is short on PS3’s, and there just aren’t very [...]
Do you need to upload a file to your php web server from a .Net application? I did, and I found that it was actually pretty easy. Basically the upload.php file works that same way as if you were uploading via a php/html form.
MacJournal is a computer application for your Apple PC. Basically you can record stuff via audio and text into your Journal. When searching on Google for Mac Blog Software this was one of the first major results I got, however MacJournal is not a blog publishing package. MacJournal does allow you to update your blogspot [...]
Gosh this error message drove me up the wall. I’m working in Visual Studio 2005 and for some reason my Setup.msi files when run are displaying the message “This installation package is not supported by this processor type.” Researching on the Internet tells me this error happens when your try to run the file on [...]
Hey guys, long time Wordpress user here. I wanted to give a little info about the “missed schedule” problem people have been having in Wordpress. The Wordpress scheduler (wp-cron.php) needs access to your blog (http://www.yourblog.com). If your hosting provider isn’t setup correctly it (your ISP) will not be able to access your site. This is [...]
Adding a simple ListBox widget in your GTK application is easier than you think. This tutorial will show you how to create ListBox-like functionality in GTK using Glade3. GTK uses the TreeView control as their do-all list control. You can create simple lists, tree-like lists and all sorts of various list views. What is really [...]
Read More »Today I whipped up a simple GTK application using the Anjuta IDE, Glade 3, and the new GtkBuilder system. As some of you know, Glade 3 and GTK changed things up. First Glade stopped using generated code which required you to use libglade. Now the GTK developers created their own interface interpretor called GtkBuilder. [...]
Read More »This code will show you how to search for Windows Services. The ServiceController class handles almost everything service related. You can also check if services are running by checking the service.Status property and you can search for installed services using the sample code below. The services we are talking about are the services that run [...]
Read More »Visual Basic for Linux is here, sort of. In my search for the perfect RAD environment for Linux I came across a project called Gambas. Gambas is a Visual Basic like development environment for Linux which is very much like Microsoft’s drag and drop Visual Basic but it is not a clone. For an Open [...]
Read More »This code snippet will let you force a background color into a PNG file with C#. When working with PNG files in Visual Studio sometimes you’ll run into situations where the background of a PNG shows up as grey or even blue. This is because of the PNG files transparency and Windows can sometimes [...]
Read More »The following code shows you how to build a UDP server in C# using the UUdpClient class for the networking and BackgroundWorker class for reporting data back to the application. This particular UDP server class is designed to be used with a Windows Forms or GUI. When using the UDP server you pass a BackgroundWorker [...]
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