Paul Farrow

Microsoft Windows, Software, Technical

Moving From One Computer To Another With Existing Checkouts In TFS (Team Foundation Server)

My laptop was corrupted and decided to move to another laptop at work. I had existing checkouts so I copied all the code involved to the new laptop. Then I couldn’t add the workspace with the same name as it kept saying the workspace exists on my old machine. I looked around at posts on the internet and they were… Continue reading Moving From One Computer To Another With Existing Checkouts In TFS (Team Foundation Server)

Personal, Software

Global Emergency Resources LLC – 57th Presidential Inauguration.

Over the last couple of weeks I was very privileged to have some of the software that I have worked on being used for the 57th Presidential Inauguration. It is probably my biggest career moment ever – so far ! My employer Global Emergency Resources LLC landed a contract to supply the first aid locations and command centers with their… Continue reading Global Emergency Resources LLC – 57th Presidential Inauguration.

Linux, Software, Technical

BackupPC Has qw(…) Warnings Since Upgrading Perl

So since upgrading Perl I am presented with qw warnings coming out of the cron job checking that BackupPC is running. Use of qw(…) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm line 301. Use of qw(…) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1412. The way to get rid of these warnings is to enclose qw in parentheses and Perl processes… Continue reading BackupPC Has qw(…) Warnings Since Upgrading Perl

Personal

End Of An Era

Back in May of 1994 I opened my company Farrow Computing Limited when I was a mere boy.  I never thought I would be as successful as I was with it.  But finally because of my emigration to the USA, it was closed at the end of March 2010, sixteen years of running my own business. Looking back there were… Continue reading End Of An Era

Hardware, Microsoft Windows, Mini-ITX, Windows 7

Zotac ION-ITX-F Wi-Fi Dual Core 1.6GHz Atom N330 Mini-ITX Motherboard with PCI Express x16 With Windows 7 Home Premium

Zotac ION-ITX-F Originally uploaded by paulfarrow After putting a power meter on my home entertainment system realised that my equipment was using a lot of power 350 watts at peak. So thought I would do some investigation into a recent low power mini-itx board from Zotac. I chose this one because it was dual core and it has a pci-express… Continue reading Zotac ION-ITX-F Wi-Fi Dual Core 1.6GHz Atom N330 Mini-ITX Motherboard with PCI Express x16 With Windows 7 Home Premium