Basically, it prompts for a GITI ID, user enters an assignment number from the Education module, and it calls the database server and asks for the class code and the assignment name. Nothing special yet. I’m using the MySQL Connector for ADO.NET. It’s kind of lame, but is my first step towards a version of […]

http://arachnode.net/ This thing has been keeping up with my blog, maybe even more regularly than my normal stalkers do. It has been keeping up with my tags, categories and everything. Its a little bit odd. http://arachnode.net/blogs/disturbingthoughts_net/default.aspx

http://www.publicroot.org/technical/INS-TLD-compilation.txt This is a complete list of TLDs that had been detected as in-use on the Internet as of the survey date on the file. This means that a DNS server somewhere on the Internet had to announce the TLD on the Internet. If the DNS system is open, then it is likely that a […]

It used to be that an Internet user had 2 choices for a web browser, IE or Netscape. Or in short, the browser that worked or the one that didn’t. Nothing ever worked on Netscape, everything worked on IE, then we jump forward a few years and now there is Internet Explorer, FireFox and a […]

In the last few days I’ve been working with an individual at my old high school on some problems related to the DNS of the schools domain name. Today one of the emails included the following line: "I know this goes beyond the scope of your contract with us, so I just wanted to let […]

A:\CSC153\PROJECTS>dir Volume in drive A is DATA Volume Serial Number is DCA1-B951 Directory of A:\CSC153\PROJECTS 08/19/2008 23:39 <DIR> . 08/19/2008 23:39 <DIR> .. 08/19/2008 23:39 <DIR> HelloWorld 08/19/2008 22:58 <DIR> InvoiceTotal 08/19/2008 22:58 <DIR> VSMacros80 08/19/2008 22:58 <DIR> WindowsFormsApplication1 0 File(s) 0 bytes 6 Dir(s) 67,751,673,856 bytes free A:\CSC153\PROJECTS>cd HelloWorld Invalid directory A:\CSC153\PROJECTS>cd HelloWorld Invalid […]

Well… I didn’t get the perfectly universal option I wanted, but I did find where Google hides their status information. Google uses the Google Talk Badge to convey status, and also provide a guest access to the system for chatting.   For anyone else doing this, if you are a Google normal user, you will […]

Last night I started playing with the idea of setting up a status page for myself, like I have considered many times. This time I took a different approach though, I started designing as a non-functional sample page, something I could build from. I started laying out a variety of ways I could provide information, […]

I have never been one to compliment GoDaddy Software on anything, but I now believe that all of my negative feelings towards them are due to their previous status… a cheap domain registrar. One of my domains, Kularski.org, was registered through GoDaddy because of an arrangement with Google Apps. Now I am starting to wonder […]

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/we-feel-your-pain-and-were-sorry.html This event is only notable because it doens’t happen that often, but yet it happens all the time, just not to Google. Corporate email servers have problems all the time… academic email servers even more often (some have planned weekly outages of 4 hours or more). As I pointed out a week ago in […]