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MDY Industries developed a popular World of Warcraft bot by the name of MMOGlider. Popular because, I would imagine, it took much of the donkey work out of progressing through the virtual world by automating repetitive tasks. You know, the boring stuff such as slaying monsters and scavenging for loot. …

With Inauguration Day finally upon us, mobile phone operators across the US are preparing for what could be a bigger test of capacity than the traditional biggest strain on the mobile network, New Year's Eve. Hopefully the months of hard work, involving adding capacity and prepping networks to cope with …

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In the run-up to Inauguration Day, just about has been everyone speculating on what changes our newly-elected president will bring to the table. Naturally, we talk a lot around DaniWeb about how Obama's plans will affect the tech sector. As long as everyone else is making predictions and suggestions, I …

I've been writing in the UK's Guardian newspaper about the prospects of 3D in the television world. There was some excitement at CES about the new technology (I say 'new', I'd seen demos in 2006 in Paris) and it's apparently going to be the Next Big Thing. Or not. In …

Hi everyone, this may be very out of place, but I'm a marketing student interested in going into sales for an IT company after I graduate and was told that I definitely need to have technical understanding of key IT technologies. Further more, this is an area that I'm very …

Last night (yes night, I'm in UK) I downloaded Windows 7 and got the activation key. After that I ran search & rescue mission to locate my 2nd HDD. Installation took just 20 min, that was little surprise. As I never "infested" my PC with Vista I'm left only with …

My youngest daughter got a Nintendo DS for xmas, complete with a bunch of cutesy games which seem to involve patting animals of various kinds. It is, of course, pink. Which has kind of summed up the DS, a handheld games console for the family which is all cuddly and …

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A reader at Slashdot [URL="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/13/222229"]posed an interesting question[/URL] this week. His (or her?) company has instituted a new scheduling policy known as "9/80." It compresses 80 hours of work into only nine days, instead of the more traditional 10. In exchange for working longer days, employees get every other Friday …

It's true, Elvis Presley's birthplace and I are complete strangers. But if I had been there, or better still if I were planning to visit, I hope I wouldn't say anything overtly insulting about the place. Unlike, say, James Andrews, VP of Ketchum PR. He seems to have [URL="http://mumbrella.com.au/2009/01/16/two-digital-blunders-pr-man-disses-his-clients-city-on-twitter-radio-trade-bodys-rogue-email/"]embarrassed himself[/URL] …

...to find a job in IT? Graduated last year with a BS in Computer Science /networking and can't seem to get my foot in the door. Sent out hundreds of resumes with little no reply. Could be my resume sure....but i changed it three times using IT resumes online as …

[B]Obama Against Outsourcing ??[/B] During his campaign, Obama said he would offer incentives to companies that created jobs at home and halt tax breaks to those that ship work abroad. what do you think ? Rolling Eyes

Didn't know where to put this, sorry Do any of you loverly people know of a proggy that will allow me to view an SQL database file ( .sql ) Its a wordpress database and I would like to extract the posts and comments. I have searched on the google …

Just curious to see who has memorized the 70 or so lines to create a window, I for one am almost to the point of having it totally memorized, and I also know what it all means, thats obviously important :P

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im supposed to do a project for my computer programming class ths project deals "movie booking system".im supposed to come up with the proposal report which should include the motivation(why movie booking system) the goal and the programs im going to use..can sumone help me with the motivation and goal …

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According to the latest figures to be released, it would seem that as far as gamers in the UK are concerned Nintendo is the bees knees grabbing nearly half the market. The [URL="http://www.elspa.com/"]ELSPA[/URL] numbers show that the [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22425/532/"]Wii[/URL] managed to increase game software sales by 112 percent over the previous …

I wrote a [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3687.html"]post[/URL] the other day criticizing the RIAA for failing to understand 21st marketing techniques. The night I wrote the RIAA post, I listened to an interview on [URL="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98591002"]Fresh Air [/URL]with author and Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig, who recently published a book called [URL="http://remix.lessig.org/"]Remix[/URL], and he articulated …

India-based IT company [URL="http://www.satyam.com/"]Satyam[/URL] is facing scandal after its chairman, Ramalingam Raju, admitted he falsified approximately $1 billion of profit in the last several years. The incident, which some are calling India's Enron, may end up costing hundreds of IT workers in Australia their jobs and undermining confidence in one …

A new [URL="http://www.e-janco.com/Salary.htm"]study[/URL] by Janco Associates, Inc. is full of gloom-and-doom about the state of employment in the IT industry. A year-long survey of U.S. and Canadian businesses indicates a combination of job outsourcing, layoffs, and other cost-cutting measures have led to the worst job market IT professionals have seen …

Hey people, This is for Windows Admins and such like, and I guess to some degree Windows users. I am basically trying to find out people's thoughts and predictions - When will Windows Server 2003 and related technologies become "outdated"? When will there be a greater proportion of 2007 servers …

Reports just in suggest that a couple of manufacturers are about to launch televisions with the capacity to view films immediately built in. At least that's what the confusingly-worded [URL="http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKTRE5040E820090105?feedType=nl&feedName=uktechnology"]news report[/URL] I picked up said (unusual for Reuters to confuse us in this way). What it means is that TVs …

Hello all, This really doesn't fit here nor anywhere else for that matter. I have a question that i desperately need a solution for. I have written a program for the HP35s Scientific Calculator. Thus far I have had to keystroke program the calculator as it was built specifically for …

CNN’s Rick Sanchez is the latest victim of the “Twitter” curse. Sanchez, a CNN on-air anchor, reportedly fell victim to a phishing scam that could undermine the investment rationale for Twitter by big investors, one of the most popular social networking sites on the internet. In a “tweet” on Monday, …

Remember the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3670.html"]Idaho elected official[/URL] a few weeks back who got in trouble for forwarding a message, comparing Michelle Obama to a black widow spider, to 26 people from his official email account? It gets better. The [I]Kuna-Melba News[/I], a weekly paper that covers western Ada County and eastern Canyon …

I need to connect several remote LANs with VPN so that the remote LAN machines should be in in the same subnet. For example, LAN1 PC 192.168.0.20, remote LAN2 PC 192.168.0.30. I have an application to which the clients connect by shares (Netbios - network device). I want to use …

Hi, I work at a school which has a small network. It has the following servers: [LIST=1] [*]Domain Control - DNS server [*]Domain Control - DHCP server [*]ISA (proxy) ( I don't know what ISA stands for...) [*]Antivirus Server [/LIST] There is another box which all these are connected, but …

Hi guys I am an electronic engineer doing mostly embedded device programming. Lately I want to switch fields to become from a half behind IT guy to a full IT pro. The two field I am interested in are: 1. Embedded linux development 2. Oracle DBA (specialize in tuning) From …

Everyone is familiar with social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, or virtual world environments like Second Life, but the chances are you have not heard of [URL="http://www.clubpenguin.com"]Club Penguin[/URL] With the acquisition of this virtual world for kids today by the Walt Disney Company, that is all about to …

Most of my life I considered computers to be video game machines. A friend introduced me to other possibilities a couple of years ago, and I have been operating a couple of levels above my skill and knowledge ever since. I Have found a ton of useful info on this …

An interesting report from the BBC this morning suggests that smartphone sales will decline worldwide except in developing nations over the coming 12 months. Well, duh. It's been known for a while at least in the UK that there are now actually more handsets than there are people. And as …

The time has come to drag the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) kicking and screaming into the 21st century because it clearly has a lot to learn about marketing on the internet. The RIAA had a [URL="http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/music/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212501507&subSection=Management"]good news/bad news announcement[/URL] on Friday. The good news was that it would …

Ah, yes, the wonderful Christmas tradition of watching Santa's travels around the world using a missile defense system. It's actually a very sweet story. "The tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement for children to call Santa misprinted the telephone number," explains the NORAD …

For many people, the first they heard of Saturday's plane crash at Denver International Airport was via a Twitter message from someone who'd been on the plane, which quickly made its way through the Internet: "Holy ****ing s*** I wasbjust in a plane crash!" (Despite what some overly dramatic news …

Quick, what segment of your IT setup uses the most electricity: your servers and network technology or the assorted PCs scattered around the cube farm? If you said the stuff in the server room, you're wrong. According to recent [URL="http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1599"]data released by Forrester Research[/URL], desktop computers, printers, and monitors account …

An IT expert within the Bush administration was killed in a plane crash over the weekend when his single-engine airplane went down just short of the Akron, Ohio, airport where he was trying to land. Michael Connell has made headlines recently for his alleged part in the rigging of both …

If you ever wondered just what it takes to look for aliens, then prepare to get informed. Sure, you might imagine it doesn't take much more than hooking up a load of computers to form a gigantic zombie network which, for a change, does not use spare CPU cycles to …

No matter which political camp in which you choose to pitch your tent, it's hard to deny that technology is at the heart of President-Elect Barack Obama new plans for the United States. As we learn more about what ideas he has in mind to strengthen the economy and gird …

I want to start my own .com company. I am all ready with the software, i wanted to how do i register my company? What are the procedures? What is the cost? Is the process very tedious? We are two people who will be part of this company... My basic …

A newly elected Idaho state legislator is considering drafting a bill to make anonymous blogging illegal. Ironically, the legislator in question is a retired newspaper editor. (Idaho has a "citizens legislature" that meets only three months a year; few of them are professional politicians.) Steve Hartgen, R-Twin Falls, was quoted …

Perhaps Idaho politicians and government workers just shouldn't be allowed near the Internet. Steve Rule, commissioner for Canyon County, was [URL="http://www.newwest.net/city/article/commissioner_sends_racist_email_using_official_account/C108/L108/#comments"]criticized[/URL] earlier this month for forwarding an email message, comparing Michelle Obama to a black widow spider, to 26 people, many of them at Canyon County government email accounts. To …

I was checking the statistics of our company website and I noticed a unusually high number of hits incoming from another design company's website... Well sure enough they copied our entire site design, scripts, and even the text!!! Their contact page even has our company's contact information and their portfolio …

If you're a tech worker that's been recently laid-off, [URL="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/seeking-laid-off-tech-workers"]Silicon Alley Insider wants to talk to you[/URL]. Beware, though, what they're asking isn't for the faint of heart. The Web site is planning to chronicle the follies and foibles of five people searching for new jobs in the tech sector. …

I've been noticing a trend in recent weeks among large companies, small businesses, and consulting firms and I must say, it warms my heart. It seems that people are more interested in giving to the less fortunate this year than exchanging wacky Secret Santa gifts or having indulgent holiday parties. …

Hey all, thought i would get some opinions on this matter. I'm currently working towards a degree in Computer and Information Science, and studying for A+/CCNA certs. I'm determined to get into networking, though i have to admit thus far my knowledge base is still fairly limited. I was wanting …

Hello all- I am new here and to IT itself. I have a Bachelor of Music degree. Currently, a music career is not panning out for me the way I'd like. I have a great interest in computer language; so recently I have decided that I would like to be …

All of a sudden my version of the Vanbasco karaoke software stopped playing. The karaoke software appears to work fine (it shows varying volume levels in the Output monitor. The Windows media player and other software works fine thru the speakers, so it must be a software setting or something …