DNS issues with Windows 7

Note: I have transferred this blog from my old blog site: http://dcarapic.blogspot.com/ so I am reposting most of the stuff from there Recently I’ve had a problem with my laptop connected to my home network. For some reason DNS was working intermittently .. meaning that it sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t. It also seamed that… Read More »

Right click to block programs in windows firewall

Note: I have transferred this blog from my old blog site: http://dcarapic.blogspot.com/ so I am reposting most of the stuff from there I am using the standard windows firewall and in several cases I wanted to quickly block an application from accessing the internet. Usually this would require me to start up the standard windows… Read More »

Using full observer pattern instead of events

Note: I have transferred this blog from my old blog site: http://dcarapic.blogspot.com/ so I am reposting most of the stuff from there Wikipedia (at the time of this writing) defines Observer pattern as following: The Observer pattern (a subset of the asynchronous publish/subscribe pattern) is a software design pattern in which an object, called the… Read More »