If you know anything about my classroom control system that I built, you know that the project requires Bonjour. This is the technology Apple uses to help you share your music on a network. Computers discover one another by publishing their address on a multicast port. Because the port is …
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You may have heard me talk about Media Monkey before. If not, it is my favorite music player. It’s based on the winamp engine but is very powerful for handling mp3 tags, converting music formats, monitor and import music (great for amazon mp3 stuff) and has integration with a …
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Many of you may remember that I wrote a script for BeyondTV (BeyondTV Renamer) that utilized a command line tool that someone had written to create an XML file giving detailed information about the given file. My script compared the airdate from this dumped XML file with airdates of matching …
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So the software company that I work for 3-GIS has decided to start to adopt some agile development practices. This document describes a little bit about why the waterfall process isn't that great. It's a primer for "The Daily Scrum" which prepares developers for a "sprint" which is an iteration …
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What is CCS?
You may have heard about CCS in my blog post here, but here’s a brief description anyway. CCS allows teachers to block websites and programs on student computers (both blacklists and whitelists) as well as perform other actions such as remote desktop. The teacher and student software can be …
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What operating systems are supported?
Windows XP - Windows 7. This software is untested on 64 bit OS's.
Are there any prerequisites?
.Net Framework 3.5, Java Runtime Environment, and Bonjour. Links are provided in the readme and the installer.
read moreIs CCS secure?
Yes, CCS is in face very secure. Commands …
Subverting Vista UAC With a Service
This is exactly what I was looking for, it took me forever to find it. And so here it is: code to subvert vista uac with a service! http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vista-security/SubvertingVistaUAC.aspx?display=Print. Please thank me later for giving you a link to this. I …
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So, I've been working on my open source Classroom Control System this month, and I've just started to write the installers. If you are familiar with NetOp's School6 software, you know how powerful a classroom control system can be.
My classroom control system will allow teachers to see what student …
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