Proprietary closed-source software solutions have the dubious honor of providing little or no advancement in the state of the art for computer technology. In fact, open software designs are the principal reason for the the success of the Internet. Without open source, we would not have electronic mail, web browsers, Read more…
Developers building applications with the Microsoft .NET platform are no doubt aware that a CLR (Common Language Runtime) is necessary in order for the .NET bytecode to execute. In essence, C# and VB.NET produce a intermediate representation of a computer program that requires an interpreter to run. One of the Read more…
Since ugrading my gaming system to Windows XP from Windows 98, the grim truth is the XP operating system is clearly not up to the task at hand. My first hurdle was the HP PSC 500 scanner. While the XP documentation claims extensive scanner support, my scanner is only occasionally Read more…