A friend and coworker of mine, Arthur Freyman, told me about a miniature device that provides all the security you’ll ever need out-of-the-box. It’s called Yoggie. Reading the specs and services it provides is so far pretty good – and not surprising, it runs Linux under the covers. Just think how cool it would be [...]
My area is “owned” by Comcast, now Time Warner, when it comes to cable TV and Internet services. Unfortunately, their DNS servers have become unreliable numerous times over the years. With that in mind, I’d like to share memorable IP addresses of DNS servers that I use that I have found to be very reliable. [...]
A C# web app I’m developing requires pulling (and deleting already read e-mails) from an Exchange 2003 server. I used the POP3 code that I actually shared/posted about yesterday; however, I was getting this error, though I had the correct user name and password: -ERR Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. It was [...]
Here’s an excellent how-to on using POP3 in your C# apps. I’ve used it successfully. The Pop3 class derives from the System.Net namespace: public class Pop3 : System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient And the class consists of the following fields and methods: public ArrayList List() public class Pop3Message public void Connect(string server, string username, string password) public void Disconnect() public [...]
Ruby has been getting a lot of praise for a while now, so I decided to give it a try. I was surprised to find so many resources already out there, and one I think worth mentioning is this website. Ruby is a programming language from Japan (available at ruby-lang.org) which is revolutionizing the web. [...]