The best X-mas ever. Mucho robotico. Here is my new robot arm: My new Arduino Electronics board: We’re always having problems with electric motors going out in the house:...
A handy checklist for reseting a canon MX-700 ink cartridge after you refill it: 1. Disconnect the power cable 2. Connect it while holding down the power button 3....
had a hard time finding this so if you need to get html from an HTTPS connection in java, here is an example: import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader;...
So I have military date formats in my MySql database and I need to change them to regular mysql dates. Some of these dates are like this: 8001 For...
I was updating another browser on my Windows 7 system and all of a sudden IE 9 decided it didn’t want to start up anymore. After a day of...
I have a hybrid network which means wired and wireless and spent part of yesterday hooking up the wired parts to the wireless parts with a D-Link DAP-1522 wireless...
On my Windows 7 box this morning I received a new gift. A CPU burnin’ up piece of pseudo malware calling itself Macrovision Software Manager was chewing up 70%...
Lately I’ve been writing a Java program to post a web form and then scrape the data from the resultant web page. For some sites this is pretty easy,...
I have this recurring debate with other analysts and manager’s: which is better using readiness as an argument, or using mean time between failure? Readiness, is the amount of...
Jim died 3 years ago. Here’s a link to his obit: http://www.yellowfootprints.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10531 Jim helped us out with Toys for Tots at 4th Tank Battalion and was always cheerful and...