Where Are The Wise Men?

Sorry for the delay in this post — I’ve been busy and a bit under the weather. More will be explained here . . .

All of Gina’s family was in town this past weekend and all of them had heard about this geocaching thing. I offered to take any or all of them [...]

I’ve been hearing and reading a lot about GSAK but it’s not open source and, maybe more importantly, not on Linux. So I simply googled “linux geocaching” and got to the geo-* tools. They are a set of shell scripts in the public domain — not, not GPL’d, really in the public domain.

These [...]

Yes, you can’t connect to SQLServer 2005 just out of the box — you have to turn on TCP/IP first. How do you do that?

All Programs-> Microsoft SQL Server 2005-> Configuration tools-> SQL Server Surface Area Configuration

Click on “Surface Area Configuration for Services”. In the window you get, click on [...]

Most comic strip fans know that Bill Amend, author of Fox Trot is a bit of a geek. Today’s FotTrot has a little wink to the geeks. Can you decode the message?

Who says you can’t do anything in Emacs?

If you are writing a Bash shell script and need to parse your command line, get familiar with getopts — it’s a good friend. Tony Lawerence has a good write about it, and I’m sure there many more.

That said, if you have more than two options you need to parse, don’t use an if [...]

Gina and I had been plotting what we need to do to start losing weight again. We’ve tried many different plans, always lose weight, but we quickly put it back on again. We decided we weren’t going to do Akin’s again — too much meat, and we can’t keep at it for long [...]

So I got a hold of IronPython 1.0 Beta 1 and started mucking around with it. I noted that the “Lib” directory had only one module in it. No bother — I copied my Python 2.4 Lib directory into IronPython’s Lib and I had a standard library.

As I’ve seen many of the regex [...]

So, finally, after many years I have an MSDN Subscription — employeer paid, of course.

I’ve been going without Microsoft as much as possible for years now, and personally, I had done quite well. But professionally, I have been creeping back into the MS world. Well, not really “back” because I’ve never really started [...]