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Adventures in Upgrading my MacBook’s Windows7 Beta to RTM Version, Part 1

Posted by Eric in Other on 08. Feb, 2010 | No Comments

My trials and tribulations upgrading from Windows7 beta to RTM on a Macbook Pro using Boot Camp.

Who is this Day of Service supposed to benefit, anyway?

Posted by Eric in Community Relations on 18. Jan, 2010 | 1 Comment

Today was DaneNet’s IT Day of Service, a day which sees hordes of geeks invade area non-profits to help with their tech stuff, just the way Martin Luther King intended it. Well maybe not exactly, but the spirit of community service was definitely in play.
My assignment was to help out with an Access database, a [...]

Day of Service coming on MLK Day

Posted by Eric in Community Relations on 12. Jan, 2010 | No Comments

Only one week till DANEnet’s annual Day of Service. We have a number of area non-profits requesting IT projects including database help, website design, network wiring and a lot more.
Head to our website for more details and sign up as a volunteer. I’ll be assigning volunteers to projects this coming Friday so sign up now.
http://danenet.org/dos/volunteer_inf.php
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=416432340436
Matt [...]

The Panda and The Fox

Posted by Eric in FoxPro on 24. Dec, 2009 | 1 Comment

Be careful when you name your software after animals, as not all animals get along well. At first.

Season’s Greetings!

Posted by Eric in Fun on 24. Dec, 2009 | Comments Off

Pictures 1 and 3 are from our trip to Seaside, FL in April.
Picture 2 is our impromptu “gotta get a Christmas Card photo!” photo.
Picture 4 is our dog Pickles (2) and Joey (6 mos.). Instant friends.
Picture 5 is up the beach in Seagrove, FL
Picture 6 is from the top of the Ferris Wheel at [...]

Fast access to Win7 resources via the keyboard

Posted by Eric in Other on 22. Dec, 2009 | 1 Comment

From WindowsSecrets, a great cheat sheet for keyboard shortcuts. This will save you time, and time is money!

Clean the OTHER side of your screen

Posted by Eric in Fun on 14. Dec, 2009 | 2 Comments

Sure, you sometimes wipe the dust and fingerprints off the outside of your screen when it gets so bad that you can’t stand it anymore, but how much care do you give the inside? Bits of phosphor and light residue build up in there, causing up to a 15% reduction in screen brightness.
Until now, [...]

Why is Outlook 2007 Slow?

Posted by Eric in Other on 11. Dec, 2009 | No Comments

What was causing Outlook to start slowly? Business Contact Manager looks like the culprit.

On VFP and MySql ConnectionStrings

Posted by Eric in Database, FoxPro on 30. Nov, 2009 | No Comments

I’ve begun doing some preliminary data warehousing of VFP data into MySql in order to test the speed, similar to what I did a few posts back with Advantage Database Server. Since MySql can’t just use VFP tables the way Advantage can, I created a script to manually load the already extracted and [...]

A Pause to Reflect

Posted by Eric in Fun, Uncategorized on 25. Nov, 2009 | No Comments

While I’m still a little euphoric from a great Ultimate game today, I’d like to pause and reflect on the things for which I’m thankful.