VB – Thread Pooling Part II

So what calls for a part two on this project? The fact we can only have 64 parral threads :/. If you havent already ready my first tutorial go and read it http://www.deadcore.co.uk/?p=21. So how can we make something thread out and have more then 64 threads? Well…
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Linux – Back up script

So my website got hacked about 2 years ago and that really put a hole in my motivation to run this website and opened my eyes on the importance of back up. So after leaving my website for 6 months I decided to use it for a gaming clan website (www.clan.deadcore.co.uk) but knowing my website has been hacked once I built a small back up script and I thought I would share the code
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VB – Thread pooling Part I

So with programming I like to look at it with two perspectives; linear and threaded programming. Taking from the word of Adam Smith (And if you don’t know who he is then look up “Pin Factory”) many men doing smaller jobs is better then one man doing all the jobs… Or something like that. This is what Visual Basic thread pooling is much about; taking a repetitive processes and getting many people (or threads) to do many of them at the same time. Take for example a port scanner; we can have linear program that simply does the following:
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VB – The Prime Number Generator

So I wonder how hard it is to make a program that just finds prime numbers? Not hard actually, if we set a for loop running that takes a number and runs through all the divisions it could be. We then check if any of those divisions output a remainder and all of them output a remainder, our number is prime.

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