Today networks are becoming quite pervasive – and as a by-product, so too is the remote control application. Today we have a number of application choices when it comes to controlling a computer remotely. Of these choices there are often small quirks that make them easier or harder to work with.
I bought one of my very first computers for $999.00 from Business Depot. The computer was made by Pine and not very well at that. At the time I decided to try the beta that was floating around of Microsoft’s new Operating System called Windows 95. I guess I was too inexperienced, or the computer […]
Recently, an eWeek magazine conducted an informal poll that showed ‘Internet Connectivity’ as the #1 concern of IT consultants. What happens when your provider goes out of business or otherwise cannot serve you? What is shocking is many companies don’t know the pain that may be involved in such a switch.
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: