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Thomas Shinder If you’re consulting with small businesses, you probably have noticed that the users like to keep their information at their desktops. You have tried to tell them that it would be wiser to place all their files on a central server, but because they feel like they have “no control” over stuff that […]

Thomas Shinder It was about 11 PM when I heard the all too familiar groaning of the hard drive. “Clunk, clunk, clunk” and then the sound of the disk powering up and down, and finally the friendly “blue screen” telling me that something was wrong. It was about 11 PM when I heard the all […]

Ian Stallings Validating user input is a basic but very necessary part of web development, especially when dealing with databases. Queries don’t go too well when you have !@)#

Ian Stallings I think this has been covered about a godzillion times but I want to show ASP newbies a clear and easy method to pull data from a database and place it in a webpage. I think this has been covered about a godzillion times but I want to show ASP newbies a clear […]

When I first started developing websites it was a lot easier than today. Back then the biggest issue around was the addition of the table tag. Nowadays websites with 100,000 pages changing daily have more important issues. Ian Stallings ASPimping ain’t easy When I first started developing websites it was a lot easier than today. […]

Paul SmullenOutline… Building a simple chat room using ASP is just that – Simple. Chat rooms make a good example of when to use local, Session and Application level variables. The chat room in this example uses a frameset with four frames; An advertisement frame Messages/Chat frame Login/post message frame Application Status frame Advertisement Frame […]

Paul Smullen When designing a web site using ASP you have to think about all of the possibilities when it comes to user interaction. This article will deal with how you display the results from a search query and why you should always presume the worst. When designing a web site using ASP you have […]

Sean Stecker Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional can be deployed within your organization in many different ways.  This article will discuss the crhme of the crop, Sysprep.  Sysprep is not an all in one deployment utility.  Rather, it is a complement to many of the popular disk cloning utilities, such as Symantec’s Norton Ghost.  Sysprep allows […]

A.Stokes Something that I’ve seen quite a lot of in SMS are computers that have been discovered and assigned to a site, yet never become clients. Something that I’ve seen quite a lot of in SMS are computers that have been discovered and assigned to a site, yet never become clients. There are plenty of […]

Bart Teunis Introduction: Just like a whole lot of other people I have to do my exams for W2K. Not the most funny part of the job, but there’s no escape. I was very glad that Microsoft gave us the opportunity to do a accelerated exam. So I looked around for the study material and […]

Bart Teunis Introduction: I think we all can remember the problems we had when a NT server or workstation wouldn’t go through the boot process. Most of the times there where several causes for a hang, most of the times it was related to hardware, a service which didn’t come up properly or a missing […]

Andy Thompson If any of you have had the opportunity to be responsible for discovering where the bandwidth has gone can sympathize with the scenario that I was in recently. And, I’m not talking about the LAN bandwidth, I’m talking about the WAN bandwidth. We as a company, use roaming profiles, throw in the mix, […]