One of the more interesting services out there on a server is the DNS service. The DNS resolves human readable names (calwell.ca) to an IP address (127.0.0.1). This service makes use of a huge distributed database on the Internet to keep the list of names and IP addresses up to date.
In this article I’ll look at a few that I’ve come across and let you know the best I’ve seen so far.
Thanks to 2600 Magazine and the folks at Zappadoodle.com, I have learned of a new and quite interesting bug inside of Windows NT/2000/XP that I think all should hear about. I am not going to give you the exact technical details of this new bug (let Zappadoodle.com take care of that. The bug is a […]
From the very first days of designing applications with Delphi I have lent much of my interface enhancements to things I have seen while using Applications or even the big behemoth, Windows itself. One of the coolest interface element that evoked a “How do I do that?” out of me was the ListBox addition and […]
Recently a major problem befell one of my bigger customers and I was at a loss as to the cause of this issue. Many different causes were thrown around and a few methods were used to eventually solve this problem. This article will describe the symptoms of the problem experienced and the method I used […]
I’ve been wanting to try this for some time now, and today I decided to venture into the realm of installing Lotus Domino Server on a Linux Box. Today I decided to use a version of Domino I downloaded from notes.net as well as the Red Hat Linux 7.0 distribution. From all reports I’ve seen, […]
Learn how to create a DLL file and use the Win32 API to gather information
After deciding it was time for me to explore the process of making a DLL file in Delphi, I started to think about where this might be applied. I decided a DLL would be the perfect solution to my problem. I needed the ability to create a system information utility that was reusable in Windows. A DLL as defined in the Delphi (v5) help files:
The next version of Office is about to undergo another name style change. We started off with Office 3.0, then we ended up with Office 97 and 2000 and now Office will Don the name of Office XP (short for X Experience). You can consider this version Office 2002 or even Office 10.0, as it is strewn all over the application and is registry entries.
I have been out of the OEM pre-installation game for quite some time now so it’s hard sometimes to get access to new versions of OEM Microsoft product and have the time look them over. Recently, I was overjoyed to have access to the pre-load tools and disks for Windows Millennium Edition (supposedly the last in this line) and Windows 2000 Pro.
The following article describes the process of understanding the usefulness of the different Technologies that make up the core product called Windows DNA and the technical usefulness of these products. Microsoft seems to have won the fight to makes its products more obscure and unintelligible.