So it has been a good long while since I posted a new blog so I figured it was time. I've been on vacation and I've been doing all the things I normally put off until I have time to do them. So what is new since we last spoke, well I graduated with my two degrees and I'm still at my new job in IT. Additionally, I'm back in school studying web technologies. I have to say so far I'm not a fan of HTML or CSS sheets. So I'm just putting my head down and pressing on. Its not that I can't do it just that its not as interesting as programming. Though I do feel a sense of accomplishment when I get the web pages built correctly.
So vacation, I've mostly caught up on things but I did make two new programs. Nothing special just some things to use with remote desktop or vnc. The first is DriveTime. What it does is adds a small set of two boxes to the system tray that simulates the drive lights on the front of the computer. Sometime when remotely connecting to a computer to install a program you can't tell if its frozen or if its just taking a long time to install. With this program you can see when the computer writes to or reads from the hard drive. The second program I wrote shows basic information about the computer. I this named InfoCPU and it shows a graphical representation of available physical memory and virtual memory as well as user name, computer name, domain name, IP address, max physical memory, max virtual memory, available physical and virtual memory, tells if the computer is on a network and also has the option to show drive read and writes. So far the only work on Vista and Windows 7. Something in the close on DriveTime keeps it from working correctly in XP. Also, if I remove the read write code from InfoCPU then it will run on the XP platform. I didn't discover I had broken InfoCPU till after I'd added that code. Anyway, both have Microsoft install packages written for them so they can be removed via add / remove programs on the control panel.
Anyway, it wasn't awe inspiring but it is a new blog. Until next time....-
