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Evening Reading

by Steve Gibson, Dec 17, 2007 6:00pm PST
Related Topics – Wack News

Lingering winter colds really kinda suck. The good news is my voice is kinda scratchy

and I actually sound older than the 12yr old boy I usually sound like at times. I could

pass for probably 15! Sweet!

  • Future of

    href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/12/16/transistor.anniversary.ap/index.html">transistor

  • Sluggish

    href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/17/eveningnews/main3627106.shtml">holiday

    sales :( Go consume!

  • The hot

    href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GadgetGuide/story?id=4002853&page=1">tech toys?

  • Best iPhone

    href="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/multimedia/2007/12/gallery_iclones">clones

Lastly, one of my favorite authors as a kid

href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/12/17/people.arthurcclarke.ap/index.html">has

some wishes.









  • .NET Menz

    Can't figure out why this isn't working... have a Function that sends a ping and returns a result, but it never works correctly for me.

    Public Function Ping(ByVal hostNameOrAddress As String) As Long
    Dim pSender As New Ping()
    Dim pOptions As New PingOptions()

    pOptions.DontFragment = True
    pOptions.Ttl = 128

    Dim data As String = "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
    Dim buffer As Byte() = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data)

    Dim pReply As PingReply = pSender.Send(hostNameOrAddress, 1000, buffer, pOptions)

    If pReply.Status = IPStatus.Success Then
    Console.WriteLine("Address: ", pReply.Address.ToString)
    Console.WriteLine("RoundTrip time: ", pReply.RoundtripTime)
    Console.WriteLine("Time to live: ", pReply.Options.Ttl)
    Console.WriteLine("Don't fragment: ", pReply.Options.DontFragment)
    Console.WriteLine("Buffer size: ", pReply.Buffer.Length)

    ' Return Response Time in milliseconds
    Return pReply.RoundtripTime
    Else

    ' Return -1 if Ping wasn't Successful
    Return -1
    End If

    End Function

    And no matter what IP address or Hostname I input into the Function it always gives me Nothing as a result? This is what I get in the console, just blank lines for everything.
    Address:
    RoundTrip time:
    Time to live:
    Don't fragment:
    Buffer size: