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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

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

Linux, Personal

Barclays Stockbrokers Have An Invalid Security Certificate

if you go to the barclaysstockbrokers.com url and try to login you get presented with an invalid security certificate error by firefox and ie 8.  The certificate is for www.stockbrokers.barclays.com not www.barclaysstockbrokers.com. I have rang them and emailed them but no one seems that interested in getting fixed they dont see it as a problem.  Well in these days of… Continue reading Barclays Stockbrokers Have An Invalid Security Certificate

Hardware, Microsoft Windows, Technical, Vista

Vista, Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player And Blu-Ray DVD's

My last upgrade of my media center included a blu-ray media player, it was  a cheap LG player although wasn’t as cheap as they are today.  This was bought a few years back when they first came out but didn’t install it for some time until now. Well I thought Vista was bound to support blu-ray and didnt think anything… Continue reading Vista, Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player And Blu-Ray DVD's