Olympic Rowing and Canoeing
I was just watching the Olympic Rowing, and I saw a spectator. OK, So I was watching it on TV, but that does not matter – I saw a competitor. There must have been about 15 slabs of stands. I …
Month: August 2004
Olympians and Olympian problems
Just found out – there is an Olympian from Ingleburn where I live – a swimmer named Geoff Pike. I think he got silver yesterday in swimming in a relay. Yesterday I had two issues with blogging. First was that …
Visual Studio Ad-In Contest – Add-in Contest
The awardees of the VisualStuidio Ad-In Cnest have been announced on dev.magen.com. Of all the entries, the best is Increment Version which will increment the version number. Now, the versioning in VS is horrible. It is one more thing that …
Astaro
This is my second attempt to write this BLOG. The first attempt went into the Ether. I did save a copy in the clipboard but I killed it off almost accidently. I have been using ASL for about three years …
Lazy…
People I have been a bit lazy lately with blogging – other things on my mind. Like organizing a trip arround the world and things like that. A lot of things on, and a lot of things to do. So …
How not to install into a clients vehicle.
It has been said that mistakes are a good learning experience. I certainly did learn yesterday doing an install in a *NEW* Holden Statesman. I mean 63Km on the clock. This seems like a nice vehicle. Anyway I needed to …
SUSE Linux
Ok. I have finally upgraded my RedHat box to SUSE. Well, by upgrade I mean that I have built a new machine and installed SuSE, and now I have moved most things across. It has been a tiny bit hard …
Adding ADSL Central Splitters
Telstra have released some informatioon on theirBuilding Information Web Site about moving the network boundary. Us poor cablers are still not allowed to add an MDF, but we can play a bit. Whilst not specifically allowed, one option may be …
Blast from the past.
I got a blast from the blast when I was told about a paper from 1999 that seemed to make some superfical statements about GPS tracking using Packet Radio. The paper is available on a Canadian Uni Site. Reading through …
network feature codes datasheet
I know I meant to BLOG this at the time, but I think it slipped my mind. If it is a dupe, then sorry. Every now and then I search for codes to do things such as call divert, or …
Programming Windows Services
Last night I almost made a post with a big mistake. I was thinking about the X-Copy deply in VB.NET and realised that it did not work for Services. I know it does not – but not in that way. …
VB.Net Services – No public installers with the RunInstallerAttribute.Yes attribute could be…..
I have been playing mroe with services. I have an install to do on monday and i am working with a new GPS receiver that is smaller and less conspicuous. I am also playing with a server for the GPS. …
DIY FAQ
I was looking for PinOuts for the LeadTek GPS receivers and stumbled on a site listing the pinouts of many GPS recievers. Sure they leave one or two out – like the Garmin GPS16, but it is cool none the …
(Lack Of) Windows Stability
Pet Peeve with this PC. Sometimes the computer crashes. But what is strange is that it seems not be the PC that crashes itself – it seems to be the video system that crashes. It seems that all the system …
Installing Windows
Well, notice how the description here above does not actually say which version of windows I am instaling. There is a good reason for this. Let me first say that I am doing everything on this PC. Let me explain …