transMorphicMike Roberts' blog on tech and life(Untitled)- December 31, 2002 Cygwin + TightVNC = Windows remote access heaven (and a possible .Net winner...) Cygwin always was good at making Windows more usable, but it now has SSH server capabilities which means I can log in to a Windows machine remotely (and fairly securely.) A useful guide to setting it up is here. Now some windows applications will barf if run from a Cygwin command prompt because they get confused by the UNIX environment, but in a Cygwin shell you can always run 'cmd' to get a Windows..http://radio.weblogs.com/0112015/2002/12/31.html#a35 (Untitled)- December 30, 2002 NetTime A simple, open-source NTP client for Windows. Exactly what I was looking for the other night. http:nettime.sourceforge.nethttp://radio.weblogs.com/0112015/2002/12/30.html#a34 (Untitled)- December 27, 2002 NAT-tacular (or secure home networking on a budget) I finally got ADSL a few weeks a ago and have been having fun with sorting out my home network. If anyone is interested in this kind of thing, feel free to read on... ADSL Provider - Plus - I thoroughly recommend them if you are in the UK. Cheap, very efficient and loads of 'added-value' stuff built-in. And they give static IPs without even being asked! And if you do go with them tell them your referrer was 'tmorph' and I get a bonus!...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112015/2002/12/27.html#a33 (Untitled)- December 3, 2002 Interfaces considered Important. Coding Conventions - _I_ want to kill the Impl. <Snip> What I do know, however, is that classes are the principle objects in Java, not interfaces. Interfaces are handy, dandy and cool, but they're there to help structure your classes and allow interoperation without multiple inheritance, NOT to be the prime way of programming. If you're thinking "I'll just program to interfaces and forget about those classes", you need to come up to speed because..http://radio.weblogs.com/0112015/2002/12/03.html#a32 |