Author Archives: tallganglyguy

in the garden

Posted on 2010, April 11 by tallganglyguy

Well, the garden has been started. Amy and I spent yesterday building two garden boxes and planting some plants. We’ve got tomatoes (of various types), strawberries, cucumbers, and herbs in the ground. Hopefully everything takes off and we have a … Continue reading →

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kontron pitx-sp

Posted on 2010, April 6 by tallganglyguy

Well, my Kontron pITX-SP 1.6GHz board finally came. This is the souped up version of the 1.1GHz board that I evaluated in February. This version in addition to being clocked 500MHz faster also features a bootable microSD socket, and two … Continue reading →

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nas server

Posted on 2009, December 30 by tallganglyguy

After seeing Jeff Atwood’s recent data loss I had my own nightmare about losing data. Unfortunately for me it involved the loss of all of the photos I’ve taken since 2003. Plus a good deal of other stuff. So, I … Continue reading →

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making it DRY-er

Posted on 2009, October 22 by tallganglyguy

I am a huge fan of DRY (don’t repeat yourself). It has the obvious perk of making code easier to read and comprehend. There are also other benefits that are less obvious.

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the “empty” toolbox

Posted on 2009, October 22 by tallganglyguy

If you wouldn’t trust a carpenter who did know what was in his toolbox work on your house, why do you let developers who don’t know what tools they have work on your code?

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at&t uverse woes

Posted on 2009, June 20 by tallganglyguy

The last two weeks I have been on a bit of an adventure with AT&T attempting to get Uverse service and this is my story.

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long way ’round

Posted on 2009, March 27 by tallganglyguy

I want to know why you might approach assigning “Longitude” to a CString using this method: CString temp_str; sprintf(temp_str.GetBuffer(), “%s”, “Longitude”); temp_str.ReleaseBuffer();

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project update

Posted on 2009, March 4 by tallganglyguy

So, I’ve been running down the list of features that I want in my system backup application. I’ve decided that this is the must implement feature list: Full system backup (i.e. support bare metal restore) Hourly backups of changed files … Continue reading →

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software project

Posted on 2009, March 2 by tallganglyguy

Work has been keeping me ridiculously busy lately, but I’m starting to formulate plans for my next side project. I think I am going to develop a volume shadow copy backup system. The system will be similar to TimeMachine but … Continue reading →

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slow updates

Posted on 2009, February 21 by tallganglyguy

I’ve been slow at getting new photos uploaded for the last week. I’ve been fighting a bit of a deadline at work. The paper that I am working on with my boss at work is coming up and I’ve got … Continue reading →

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