I need some program ideas [Resolved]

[Porsche944]

Hey Guys,
I got no programs to make right now so I have some personal free time to design something. Anyone have any cool ideas for a program? My programming skill is intermediate in most areas. I'm looking for something that has possibly not been done before but, thats not terribly complex.

Any ideas are welcome

Thanks

[Codehammer]

If you got spare time try make a Virus, that will teach you stuff you aint known before.

My 1st Idea (non-virus) was to apply policy through regisrty settings. I wanted to make the Program enable the Firewall with only Http & Ftp protected, then disable the time changes on a Machine, remove all windows automatic updates and disable background changes. I Actually need some of these for work even though everyone has admin Rights.

Second Idea:to somehow get the gateway and wins and DNS that windows stores in the properties if TCP/IP protocol. I Think it stores it in the Registry in Unicode, it'd be nice to be able to read it.

Let me know if you do any of these.....

[wossname]

Buy one of those neat little back-lit LCD pixel displays and write a program to stream a News website (CNN or BBC maybe) RSS feed to it, then mount it on the wall behind your PC to impress your friends.

They usually have Serial cable interfaces so the coding is dead easy.
You can get the LCD hardware from www.Maplin.co.uk

There is a decent article about this on the MS website under "Coding4Fun" then follow the link to "some assembly required" (that doesn't mean assembly language by the way, its a bit misleading ).

I plan to do this if I ever get any spare cash.

[Porsche944]

Buy one of those neat little back-lit LCD pixel displays and write a program to stream a News website (CNN or BBC maybe) RSS feed to it, then mount it on the wall behind your PC to impress your friends.

They usually have Serial cable interfaces so the coding is dead easy.
You can get the LCD hardware from www.Maplin.co.uk

There is a decent article about this on the MS website under "Coding4Fun" then follow the link to "some assembly required" (that doesn't mean assembly language by the way, its a bit misleading ).

I plan to do this if I ever get any spare cash.

Now thats a really cool idea

[Andy]

Im glad you brought up the topic and I'm glad Wossy knows about the hardware part 'cause I have been wanting to write a nifty little program to control and monitor the environment of fish-tanks and lizard tanks.

What advice do u have for that Wossy?

[Xenobius]

why don't you write a small application which interfaces with either parallel, serial or even PCI SLOT of the computer.. then when you manage to make things work, write an application to TEACH others. for example makeing sort of a tutorial in GREAT GREAT detail about interfacing and how things should work out.. when your done you will prolly be exhasuted.... i read that interfacing with pci is unbelivabley difficult.

cheers buddy

[wossname]

Im glad you brought up the topic and I'm glad Wossy knows about the hardware part 'cause I have been wanting to write a nifty little program to control and monitor the environment of fish-tanks and lizard tanks.

What advice do u have for that Wossy?

Beats me. You need to have the actual device in front of you before you can start coding for it. You need the tech specs for the device and a copy of the protocol definition that is uses to communicate with the host PC. This is why I have a copy of the Garmin GPS serial protocol specification in front of me.

For your particular fishtank idea I'd suggest you get hold of one of those small simple parralel port things that measure moisture, heat, light levels and so forth.

You can get those from Maplin's too.

[RobDog888]

Buy one of those neat little back-lit LCD pixel displays and write a program to stream a News website (CNN or BBC maybe) RSS feed to it, then mount it on the wall behind your PC to impress your friends.

They usually have Serial cable interfaces so the coding is dead easy.
You can get the LCD hardware from www.Maplin.co.uk

There is a decent article about this on the MS website under "Coding4Fun" then follow the link to "some assembly required" (that doesn't mean assembly language by the way, its a bit misleading ).

I plan to do this if I ever get any spare cash.

I did that back in the day in Digital Electronics class using chips like counters, shift registers, and a single chip of 2k RAM.

@Codehammer, now your not trying to promote Virus' are you

[Codehammer]

No RobDogg888, but I Do Plan on those things. When using a Public Computer(users we support) Like I Do all the Time, Right-Click, properties, Enable Firewall, disable windows Updates....takes forever.

Thats what programming is for, making routine Simpler. Well, nobody is responding to this so since the dude has free time, go here if you free:
http://vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=339307

[Codehammer]

& wid this I now got 100 Posts!!!!!!