Alex Lowe on Software and Startups

Remember the EFF Blue Ribbon Campaign in the 90’s? Remember the Black World Wide Web protest? I recently stumbled upon the EFF Blue Ribbon Campaign again and found they are active in something very close to us, blogger rights. The EFF is working to bring awareness and I’d like to echo their message. As a blogger […]

This code snippit will show you how to detect if there is a network link on one of the network adaptors on your system. The function is written in C# and uses the Windows Management Instrumentation to get the link status.

/// <summary>
/// Checks if a network is connected to the local machine.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>true if […]

Interested in robotics? Brian Peek has published an article about using Microsoft Robotics Studio with the Lego Mindstorms NXT kit. This is a great combination for an introduction to robotics for hobbyists or students. This is very similar to a system used by the Females In Science Club that I tutored in programming for the […]

When attempting to run Microsoft .Net based applications, like many of those available from http://www.lowesoftware.com, you may get the following error on startup:
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135)
The cause of this error is that the Microsoft .Net framework is not installed or is damaged in some way. Therefore applications will fail to launch.
To […]