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Disabling the Browser Back Button

Question: Is there a method that will prevent a user from going back to the previous page without modifying the browser code? (Does it matter if it is a CGI

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Changing trademark symbol in VID 1

Question: We have trademark symbols sprinkled in our HTML Although MSIE 4.0 has no trouble with it, some browsers cannot interpret [ampersand]trade”. We try to replace them with the ASCII

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Object passing between threads

Question: Am implementing a network simulation program thatrequires a sender and receiver thread, with a frame object being passed between the two threads.Could you suggest a way of connecting the

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Cross-platform socket communication

Question: I am writing a server written in Java that needs to take input from a game written in Visual Basic and sends the output to clients on the Internet.

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Java and videoconferencing

Question: I am conducting a study of operating system capabilities to support desktop videoconferencing.Would Java be a good Operating System for this purpose? Answer: Java itself is not an operating

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Templates in java

Question: Any suggestions on a good way to implement templates in java? Answer: The normal way to implement template behaviorin Java is to create an interface defining thecommon behavior that

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Clipboard

Question: I’m having problems with application clipboard usage for “non strings”. If I try to create my own dataflavor it still seems to think the clipboard is a string. Answer: