The ASCII character set consists of 128 characters. 32 of these are control characters (meaning that they do something rather than appearing as an actual character. The rest of the standard ASCII characters can be found listed alongside their decimal and hexadecimal values on this reference page. There is also a link to a section [...]

Windows XP and more recent operating systems all use TCP/IP as the protocol for networking computers together. Back in the days of Windows 95/98 the protocol used was NETBEUI. Now it doesn’t really matter what each of these two protocols are and how they work. The important thing is that the two are incompatible and [...]

Not all of the new pages on the site are web related. Here’s one where I answer a question regarding GDGs on mainframe computers.
With a Generation Data Group you have both the individual datasets as well as the catalog that groups them together. The purge and force keywords determine whether one, the other, or both [...]

People’s expectations on how ffast a page should load changes as they move from dial-up to slow broadband to fast broadband. While a page might have been considered to have an acceptable load time if it took 20 seconds to load on a dial-up, two seconds might be considered to be too slow on a [...]

Converting a PDF into a Word document (provided that the PDF isn’t protected) doesn’t require any special software provided that all you are after copying is the text content and are not worried about if some of the formatting gets lost. At least that was the case back when I wrote this article. More recent [...]

While this old tutorial talks about reinstalling Windows 98, the same situation can occur if you have to reinstall Windows XP or Vista. Windows just doesn’t like to play nice with other operating systems installed onto the same computer.
I Reinstalled Windows and it Wiped Out Linux

Early monitors supported graphics modes that allowed for far lower screen resolutions than the 640 by 480 of VGA mode. Some even allowed for fewer than the 16 colours that VGA mode is guaranteed to support as a bare minimum. By the time that Windows came into common use VGA mode was the accepted minimum [...]

Both C and C++ (as well as many of the more recent languages derived from them) distinguish between a constant containing a single character and a constant containing a string of characters. The way you quote the content does count.
The Difference Between Characters and Strings