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You'll have to excuse me, I'm not a programmer. I'm just asking on 'behalf' of one. The developers we are using for our network tool are using IPWorks. Part of the process carries out a ping sweep. The timeout for the ping is 1000ms. They are convinced that it can't be changed, but this seems...

We have outsourced our development for the last four years. As you would expect, by now we know every problem there is with doing this. I know I could reduce the cost and time of any project by halving the number of developers and bringing them in house. However, if it was that simple, I could...

I have been working on a project for some time (3 years) as an analyst. Just at the point where we were due to release the product we were taken over and it was effectively left to rot. The Product Manager left, then we went through a management buyout. The product was resurected and I was...

I am using a listview where I want to show different columns. I have no problem populating the list view, but when I add new columns I still have the old columns. How do I get rid of them? Thanks.

We are currently testing an application that accesses SQL Server. We tend to monitor the processor usage quite a lot. Every so often the everything seizes up. We can shut down the application we are testing, but SQL Server still seems to be using 99% of the processor. Even when we stop the...

I am trying to set up a job in SQL Server Agent using the CmdExec option. Supposedly you just enter an operating system command or an executable name (courtesy of the extremely unhelpful Books Online). The job starts, but the executable never runs and I can't work out why. Other jobs I have set...

I have been told that it is possible to get hold of a free version of SQL Server (presumably considerably cut down) from Microsoft. I can find no reference to it anywhere on Microsoft's websites, but the source of the information is usually pretty reliable. Is what I've told been correct, or...

We are trying to write a utility that detects motherboard information for the purpose of determining upgrade and support requirements. I have hit a brick wall on a couple of things. Detection of bus type (ISA, PCI, AGP, USB) Detection of drive controller (IDE, EIDE, ATA, SCSI) We have tried...

We are trying to write a utility that detects motherboard information for the purpose of determining upgrade and support requirements. I have hit a brick wall on a couple of things. Detection of bus type (ISA, PCI, AGP, USB) Detection of drive controller (IDE, EIDE, ATA, SCSI) We have tried...