This is something I learned a long time ago but forgot and actually had to google to find again. Sometimes you want a certain local or domain account to have the right to start or stop a specific service, but not give the account admin privileges or even access to other system services. To do […]
I’ve got a couple EMC AX150i iSCSI SAN boxes I use for network storage. They are designed to function with write-caching turned on when they are in contact with the 1U APC UPS they ship with. When you buy one of these SAN units new, the UPS and special communications cable comes with it pretty […]
I’ve recently had insulation installed under my house and, as winter approaches, I wanted to check to make sure no rats or pests were getting under there and wrecking it. I looked into building a little tracked robot with an IR camera, but the costs for this singular project were just too high. Instead I […]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. I’ve been working so hard on so many things lately I’ve hardly had time to think, let alone write anything. However I found myself tonight with a handful of minutes to fire a few neurons and I started pondering the last few years of my life. Sometimes […]
Once again I’m blogging something to assist my own memory. I use HP Procurve switches because I can’t afford Cisco gear, but still need decent performance. Unfortunately I just hit a snag with one of my switches where a single port has failed. As the switch is fully committed, I need to swap it out […]
The guys over at Trossen Robotics are throwing a “not so official contest” and giving away 5 free RedBee Experimenter’s Kits. From the Trossen contest page; Here is what I’m thinking. Those of you who are interested and can pull yourselves away from your robots for a few hours can pitch for one of the […]
Sometimes you find yourself with an MS-SQL transaction log that grows in size very rapidly, quickly out-pacing your scheduled backup/truncation routines. I found when such events occur, you can manually truncate the log file without doing a huge time/space consuming backup by issuing these commands in sequence; DBCC SHRINKFILE(‘LFLFLFLFLFLF‘,1) BACKUP LOG DDDDDDD WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY DBCC […]
The kit includes a RedBee RFID reader module, several RFID tags in various form factors, and a software CD with full source code for the following applications; RFID Logger – Learn programming techniques to communicate with the RedBee RFID reader. RFID Deadbolt – Enhance an electronic deadbolt to accept RFID authentication. RFID Login – Log […]
Overall the IEEE ISTAS 2010 was a great experience, but not without its challenges… more on that in a later post. For now, I just want to say my talk went off without a hitch. I had 45 minutes but I think I went through it in something like 20, which was good because stretching […]
I’m up early today ripping apart my lame powerpoint presentation and trying to put it back together so it seems more, well, intelligent. Yesterday was filled with really great presentations. I wasn’t sure what the crowd would be like here but I should have known it would be a small number of people with a […]
