remote access

web development

Are Web Interfaces "Good Enough"?

Torrent [http://www.utorrent.com/], my favorite BitTorrent client, now offers a web UI. See if you can spot the differences between the Web UI and the Windows UI: After spending about a year interacting with Torrent exclusively through Remote Desktop, I was pleasantly surprised to discover how good the

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power management

Remotely Waking Up Your PC

My home theater PC is set to automatically enter a low-power sleep mode after 25 minutes of inactivity. This works well with Vista's Media Center, which wakes the machine up when it's scheduled to record. This way I can avoid the additional electricity cost of a

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microsoft visual studio

Whidbey ships with Visual SourceSafe

At this week’s Triangle .NET Users Group, Microsoft’s Doug Neumann gave a presentation on Visual Studio 2005 Team System, which looks great. What wasn’t so great, however, was the related news that Doug delivered: Whidbey will ship with a “new” version of crusty old Visual SourceSafe. There

By Jeff Atwood ·
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