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Best language communities

Often, a language won't have its own community, or the "official" community isn't the most popular one. For all the languages you use, what is your favorite place to visit (besides SO!) for help - or just plain discussion/complaints? EDIT: Just based on the answers I've seen so far, there appear to be plenty of reference sites too. I do...

Is 1-to-n multicast on the open internet reliable?

I'm a newbie at networking. I understand the concept of multicast, but was wondering if it's reliable on the open/public internet? It seems like sort of an edge case that different backbones or ISPs might intentionally break to reduce router load or generally segment the network for practical high-use applications. Is my fear reasonab...

Best tutorial for application multicasting?

I've recently become aware that there's a distinction between IP multicasting (which apparently doesn't work that well on the public internet) and application multicasting (which is apparently used in IRC and PSYC, per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast). Is there a good tutorial on implementing application-level multicasting? I th...

What you do to restrict yourself from browsing internet unnecessarily?

I find myself browsing internet all the time and most of the time unnecessarily. I do find some interesting stuffs, learn something new daily. But I think most of the time I browse internet without any purpose. When I finish my basic tasks such as checking email, reading couple of news and browsing stackoverflow, I either go to Digg or S...

How to log a bug on Internet Explorer?

Hello, I found a clear squared bug on IE7/8, which appears via automation (still looking for a workaround, btw). So, I tried with no luck to find a way to log this bug. Tried the forum way, but it seems this site is somehow not so active these days. I even tried to mail Chris Wilson, but honestly, I don't put so much hope in this att...

DNS in Twenty-One Hours

I want the equivalent online resource to DNS in Twenty-One Days. I need one evening's reading that will explain what the different record types do, how do propagation and caching work, what is an SoA, etc. I don't want anything that begins by explaining what DNS is. Can anybody please point me in the right direction to find some onlin...

.mobi is it worth it?

Where is .mobi headed? Will the mobile devices use proprietary browsers that simplify a .com site or are they going to use browsers on a .mobi basis? I have a feeling it will be a flop... not sure though. Thanks ...

SMS Communication Through The Internet

If I am to send a message to a mobile device from a website and viceversa, how can that be done? What I know: A couple of years ago I developed a simple enrollment system on J2ME platform(just for trying J2ME out). I had a mysql database that I setup in a pc/server, and for the communication I used the static IP of that server. I had a ...

Internet and Intellisense bad for your memory?

Having programmed for a while now I have noticed that I am becoming more and more reliant on the internet and intellisense to do my job. But I was wondering how much that has effected my knowledge over the past year or so. But does this matter? For example I am more likely now to remember that when I need to program against objects I ha...

How to stream semi-live audio over internet

I want to write something like Skype, i.e. I have a constant audio stream on one computer and then recompress it in a format that's suitable for a latent internet connection, receive it on the other end and play it. Let's also assume that the internet connection is fairly modern and fast, i.e. DSL or alike, no slow connections over phon...

JQuery Return Link Not supported By IE 7

Dear all, I am using JQuery and Aajax, My Ajax.php file has returns the following field into Main File. While I am Click In Mozilla And Chrome , It Working Fine Gives alert, But when I use IE 7 Version 7.0.5730.13 ,It Didnt Supported , Does i Need to do anything on browser side or i have to modify Will u please Help Me in this contex...

What's the best way to detect an internet connection using .NET?

I have a Windows Forms application. When the user imports a license for my application I'd like to "phone home" (hit an aspx page on the web) and register the license information. The problem is that the user may not have an internet connection working at that moment. I'd like to test this first. What's the best way to detect if the use...

How do I detect whether a given IP is in a given subnet in Javascript?

I'd like to write a function in Javascript along the lines of: in_subnet(ip, network, slash) { ... } in_subnet('1.2.3.4', '1.2.0.0', 16) # True, since it's in 1.2.0.0/16 in_subnet('1.2.3.4', '1.2.0.0', 24) # False, since it's not in 1.2.0.0/24 Should I write it from scratch, or are there some good libraries I could use? Or is the...

Ad supported free WIFI based internet access point

We would like to setup a small Wifi access point where we provide free internet in and around our store, with store banner pop ups added to any web content they browse using this net connection. What do we need to do this ? I am expecting some kind of C# solution, but I can live with Java too :) ...

Exposing SQL Server 2000 to the Internet safely

Hello Everyone, I've got a SQL Server 2000 box that I'd like to put on "the Internet" so that developers could connect remotely without VPN access. What's the safest way to do so? It might be temporary, e.g. every once in a while, but it's definitely necessary. Thanks, Rob ...

Windows internet shortcuts: starting with IE maximized?

I have an internet shortcut on my desktop, with the contents looking like this: [InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&pver=6&ar=IStart Modified=D03458CE7738C801A2 I was wondering if there are any tweaks I can do to guarantee that the browser starts maximized after someone loads the link. Thank...

What is the best way to implement communication between game-server and game-agents over the internet?

I am planning to create a site that provides several games for self written game-agents. There will be a Tic-Tac-Toe for example (and some more complex games of course). Programmers can register their agents and from time to time there will be a tournament. The gameserver will contact the registered agents, present the board and ask for...

Free Available databases over Internet for connecting?

There are available any free instance database over Internet? I mean, there are any Oracle/MySQL/SQLserver database instance (read only is enough) in which I can connect for free (may be registering, of course)? ...

When should one use a 'www' subdomain?

When browsing through the internet for the last few years, I'm seeing more and more pages getting rid of the 'www' subdomain. Are there any good reasons to use or not to use the 'www' subdomain? ...

Clear Internet Explorer 6.0 browsing history using Script

Hi, I was using the following script to delete the browsing history in IE 7.0 RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 255 But now I need a script to clear browsing history in IE 6.0 I get an error that "missing entry ClearMyTracksByProcess" I have passed different parameters like 2 ,5 etc and wasn't successful. ...