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Surviving An IT Depression
IT Recession - the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months or more. IT Depression - When you out of work for a long time and wonder if you made a mistake on pursing IT as a life long career. =P Swallowing that unforgiving pill of "job loss" is indefinate ...Submitted by Shawn263 | Published 6 months ago | -
Developing Windows Services using Visual Studio
One of the most difficult task for an entry to mid-level .NET programmer is developing and debugging a .NET Windows Service. Even if you do have a development server that you can use, debugging existing code may seem a mysterious task at first. I remember a few years back when I was researching this topic on the web, no one gives ...Submitted by digioz | Published 6 months ago | -
Deploying CAB Files Using ClickOnce Deployment
The purpose of this Article is to demonstrate how to modify a ClickOnce Deployment Application Manifest to include CAB and other resource files normally not permitted through ClickOnce.Submitted by digioz | Published 6 months ago | -
Supporting Multiple Versions of the Framework with one Application
Supporting different versions of the .NET Framework has been a much talked about issue for me for as long as the Framework has been around. Especially beginning with the .NET 2.0 Framework, with all the code breaking changes that went along with it. Code breaking changes come in two flavors: Design-Time breaking changes: These are changes that would only effect you, ...Submitted by digioz | Published 6 months ago | -
MSBuild Extras (MSBee) - Who should use it?
MSBuild Extras (MSBee) - Who should use it? For those of us who are not yet familiar with this product, MSBuild Extras Toolkit for .NET 1.1 (MSBee for short) is an addition to the Visual Studio 2005 MSBuild compile engine that allows developers to compile .NET 1.1 applications from within Visual Studio 2005. Normally, Visual Studio 2005 is only able ...Submitted by digioz | Published 6 months ago | -
The not so nullable .NET Date Data Type
The not so nullable .NET Date Data Type! Can a variable of type "Date" ever be null or nothing in VB.NET? Suppose you have a code that looks like this: What you will notice in the above code is that even if you set the variable to "Nothing" for a variable of type "Date", when you put a break point ...Submitted by digioz | Published 6 months ago | -
How to run a C# .NET Application on Fedora Linux
With the popularity of the .NET Framework, it should not come as a big surprise that starting with Fedora 8 Linux distribution (Redhat) comes with the Mono framework pre-installed fresh out of the box. There has also been a surge in the number of open source C# linux projects on open source community sites like SourceForge.net that take advantage of the Mono framework ...Submitted by digioz | Published 6 months ago | -
How to Compare Hosted DNS Providers (with Data!) Read more: How to Compare Hosted DNS Providers (with Data!)
This how-to describes a creative technique to speed test DNS solutions using a website monitoring tool (Pingdom). Also includes a comparison of BIND on EC2, Dynect, Netriplex, and UltraDNS.Submitted by jpg | Published 7 months ago | -
Extending LVM Partition
STEP1: switch user as superuser or root su - STEP2: 1st thing to do is to check if you still have a free disk space in your Volume Group, execute this command vgdisplay [root@erick ~]# vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name VolGroup00 System ID Format lvm2 ...Submitted by erickjuan | Published 8 months ago | -
How to optimize your computer performances with 2 hard drives?
If you have two hard drives in your PC, a good means of improving the output of the principal disc (i.e. that which contains the operating system) consists in moving the files “Temporary Internet Files”, “temp” and the file of exchange (also called “Swap”) on the hard drive where Windows 2000/XP is not installed.Submitted by cyril | Published 8 months ago | -
How to create your website in 10 minutes with Microsoft Office Live?
As I am always on the lookout of the latest web services that facilitate the web, I found several websites which can help me to create another website beside this one. There are many on Noovo, fun but limited, or more siteKreator already evolved. The problem is that in its free version, the proposed layouts are quite limited.Submitted by cyril | Published 8 months ago | -
How to Install the ACER ALN-320 Ethernet Fast Ethernet Adapter?
Note: if your motherboard has the VIA MVP3 Super7 chipset (e.g., the Epox EP-51MVPE-M or EP-58MVP3C-M) and is running Windows 98, We strongly recommend that you install the VIA IRQ Routing Miniport Driver before installing any network board. You should be adle to download it from the manufacture of your motherboard or, alternatively, from VIA. Determine what version of Windows your ...Submitted by cyril | Published 8 months ago | -
How to Protect your Wireless Network?
Wireless Network or Wi-Fi is great thing: there is no cables, you can connect devices which are do not have Ethernet adapter (PDA, mobile self phone,...). From other side, Wi-Fi network needs to be additional protected otherwise anyone can use your computer resources, so let’s remember of some basic stuffs.Submitted by cyril | Published 8 months ago | -
Activate parental control in Windows Media Player
You have certain DVD Videos (violence, horror, charm, etc) which you would not like that you dear small children can visualize in your absence when they are on your computer. If you use the multi-media reader Windows Media Player, you probably know that there is a parental control tool integrated inside Windows Vista which is very easy to activate. Here’s how ...Submitted by cyril | Published 8 months ago | -
How to defend yourself on work from curious colleges?
"Company in which I work is small, we have about 20 computers connected together in LAN network with router which exit on internet ( we don't have system-administrator). My PC is one of those 20 computers. He needs to be turned on hole time while I am not at work. Problem is that my colleges more often use my computer and ...Submitted by cyril | Published 8 months ago | -
How to filter pornographic content using Google SafeSearch Filtering?
If you have children, or maybe from some other reasons you can hide quite effectively pornographic content accessed through a simple search on Google. The search engine has long created several kinds of barriers to get rid of results which you do not want to show in your results.Submitted by cyril | Published 8 months ago | -
How to better protect your computer without any antivirus or antispyware program?
Every user is concerned about security when accessing the Internet, it downloads, access emails and installs programs. There are several security mechanisms that help to prevent users from virus attacks and hackers. The famous anti-virus, anti-spyware is a form of security used by most users, but also the sandbox, little known but very effective.Submitted by cyril | Published 8 months ago | -
SpeechPhone Tech
SpeechPhone Overview SpeechPhone Virtual/Digital Communication Services We are your audio/video streaming personal provider »FLAT RATE & » NO CONTRACT NOTE: SoIP (Speech Over Internet Protocol) the next generation of voip; is state of the art technology with digital and virtual abilities SoIP complies with the New California Driving Laws for Free Hands Device for Cell Phones; works with Bluetooth ...Submitted by AmericanPrestige | Published 8 months ago | -
Linux Filesystem Tour
Great introduction to the Linux filesystem.Submitted by m_w_schultz | Published 8 months ago | -
Tel me what you think
This survey blog was created specially to discuss our views on various topics which we struggle to find answers to in today's money oriented world. Share your ideas with an open mind to view the reality of life rather than being theoretical on various aspects on common struggles we go through in our day to day life. Please be kind enough ...Submitted by Shavsurveys | Published 8 months ago |