Brief Introduction Microsoft Visual Basic for Application (VBA) is a powerful tool for Microsoft Office Suite. General users usually only use a small portion of functions Microsoft Office provides and never have a chance to touch VBA. However, Microsoft Excel is an great tool to do math and graph. If VBA is used with the [...]
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Zhanshan Dong
Synchronize files and folders Background It is very common that we want to synchronize two folders, either in same computer and different computers. There are a lot of different applications available in Windows OS. I have experiences using different tools in the past. About 10 years ago, I used to use a program called Mr.Mirror. [...]
SciLab and GreenSciLab – open source tools for systems modeling Introduction to SciLab SciLab is an open source software package developed at INRIA (France). It was introduced as an open source alternative to MATLAB. It is a vector based program. It has constantly undergone vital changes ever since its inception in 1994. It also features a wide [...]
Normally we see the IP address of our computers is a dotted quad, such as 192.168.2.1. Frequently, IP address is stored in database as integer to save space and provide high performance. How to convert the IP address from a dotted quad to an integer? Let us understand the algorithm of the conversion. Once we [...]
I bought a ASUS O!Play Air for $104 from buy.com with this coupon in the other day. I was amazed about the little box. I always like ASUS products. I started to play with it and upgrade it firmware to the latest release v1.17N. One thing I tried today is to enable its Samba sharing [...]