When you need to find out anything about how your networking is configured and you are using a Linux operating system then the ifconfig command is the place to start. In this article we look at what typing this command in by itself might produce and what all of the cryptic entries in that output [...]

Not just Windows NT but also the more recent versions of the operating system (2000, XP, 2003 and Vista) are also covered by this article. If you have windows already installed on your computer then the chances are that you will have networking already installed but if you need to do a reinstall of your [...]

I have reviewed quite a few computer books over the past few years and this one definitely stands out from most of them. This is not just another book on web design but one that will really make you think about the design process in a new way.
“designing the moment”

Rather than continuing to mix the web design articles and reviews in with the problem solving articles, I have now split these out into their own topic page.
Web Design

Using JavaScript with drop down lists is not the most obvious of interactions to code. In this article we look at the JavaScript code needed to copy the entry selected from the drop down list into an adjacent input text field. It would of course be just as easy to use the value retrieved from [...]

I have spent the last week or so setting up a new web site. The new site is basically a forum with the same categories listed on it as I cover on the main site and here in the blog. If you can’t find the answer you are looking for anywhere else on my sites [...]

When coding your C or C++ program (or any related language for that matter) you will need to specify that the files that you read and/or write be opened either in text mode or in binary mode. In this article we examine what the difference actually is between these two modes.
The Difference Between Binary and [...]

The old DOS operating system used a file system called FAT (file allocation table) which came in fat12, fat16 and fat32 variants. Windows NT introduced a new file system called NTFS (new technology file system) and that’s the preferred file system for the newer versions of that operating system such as Windows 2000, Windows XP, [...]