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    Computers and computer programming terms are no more complex, as with every progressive day one does learn a newer term owing to its increasing impact and pervasiveness. Prominent in software development service , redundant code is one such computer programming term.



  • OEE Performance Paramount According to Hertzler Systems’ Evan Miller

    Hertzler Systems provides seamless, accurate data acquisition solutions that drive business transformation. The company provides the leading real-time data acquisition and analytics SPC software, the GainSeeker Suite. This system is best used by lean and progressive companies, connecting with devices and other information systems, collecting data and alarming key personnel when problems arise; this technology allows organizations to analyze data for root cause problems, converting data into knowledge.



  • Ensuring Security of Wireless Networks

    Nowadays, implementation of wireless networks is very common. There are very less clutters in a wireless network, so it is a convenient way of network implementation and management. The troubleshooting of wireless network is easier than wired networks, so people prefer having wireless networks at workplace as well as at home.



  • Virus Scanner Myths

    There are many programs out there that tell you they are the best at removing Viruses and Malware. I have seen this too many times now where I show up at a home and they tell me well I have Norton or some other name brand product, so I should be safe from viruses and stuff. I look at the program and see it is not only outdated, but the last scan was sometimes years ago. I then break the news to them how they are probably infected with all kinds of goodies.



  • What Causes a Runtime Error?

    A runtime error is experienced by the end-user of the software. The error is displayed in the form of a message box. Runtime errors are usually computer errors that either occurs due to untested bugs during a particular web and software development test project or other reasons.



  • Excel Corruption Due to Virus Infected Macros

    When you try to open a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, you may encounter one of the following error messages:



  • Make Your Screen Presentations Superfast with SCREEN2SWF

    Whenever you launch a new product or service in the market, the best way to popularize it in the public is actually showing people or demonstrating how the product works. So, you set out to give a wonderful presentation of your product and start playing with your computer screen to record the software. This process no doubt, consumes several intense hours and takes a long time to download.



  • Great Plains Dynamics ERP, as it was raising and winning the market in earlier and late 1990th

    Great Plains Software had its DOS Accounting and in essence ERP and even MRP application – Great Plains Accounting in late 1980th. When Microsoft Windows OS system graphical platform was introduced in around 1995-96 as reliable computer graphics, comparing to traditional text only DOS and Unix, there was obvious direction among computer and ERP systems programmers – to move from text application to Windows (or Macintosh) graphical versions. Nowadays trend might seem as very small question, however in time it was a revolutionary idea and it required a lot of effort, and it was engaged in numerous ERP, and computer hardware vendors competition: SUN, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, plus DB platforms (some of them trying to stake on UNIX and some of them were bought by Microsoft to be transitioned to Windows). To be open to you, our readers, likely software programmers, IT specialists, Vice Presidents in IT, Controllers, we are not professional computer industry historians, so our articles are not retrospections, they are rather associations, and our goal is to give you feedback and additional details on ERP and MRP software market in USA and Internationally and how Dynamics GP Great Plains fits there