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Connecting Visual Basic to SQL Server 6.5

LeBokov — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:17:46 +0000

In the company I am working in right now, they are still using a very old database server which is MS SQL Server 6.5. We have a program that query the database for customer information. The program was designed in-house 10 years ago by the person I am replacing. There are some issues with the [...]

Quick Tips: Clearing Your Printer Spool

LeBokov — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:33:48 +0000

In our company, we have several Windows 98 systems connected to our domain. These systems are mainly there for some old programs that couldn’t be migrated to Windows XP. When it comes to printing, these Win98 machines are connected to printers that are shared from a server that is running Windows Server 2003. The printings [...]

ASUS Tops Laptop Reliability Research

LeBokov — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:13:19 +0000

SquareTrade has recently published the results of a research about laptop reliability. The conclusion is that reliability of today’s laptop is very dependent on the manufacturer. The research results are very similar to my laptop experiences based on my own purchases and repair requests from my clients. In the research, ASUS comes out to be the [...]

Linux Version of App Store?

LeBokov — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:45:36 +0000

Today I read a blog post from the technology section of Canada.com. In the post, the author mentioned about Apple’s App Store in which it is really true that “there’s an App for that”. He was saying that there are over 100,000 applications available on App Store and you can find anything you want. As [...]

Connecting Visual Basic to MySQL Database

LeBokov — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:21:10 +0000

Over the past year, I have spent a lot of time in learning and doing programming with Visual Basic using Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008. As a “junior programmer”, I have found myself spending a lot of time in searching for solutions to problems that I have encountered during the development of the program. Therefore, I [...]