One of my favorite books I’ve listened to on Audible, “The Art of Happiness”, has a section where the Dalai Lama talks about envisioning how dependent we are on people around us. Really, we all have a lot to be grateful for, and thinking about how dependent we are on others is really a pondering point on the matter. I […]
Read moreFor quite a while, I’ve had a growing desire to travel. I’ve mentioned it on one of my initial blog posts. So, I decided to sit down, give it some thought, and come up with an actual list of places I want to see. The list will be a “live” document that I plan to change as I see and […]
Read moreFor those of you who love the Marvel Comics movies such as Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and Avengers, the order of watching movies may not be clear especially if you haven’t followed it very well over the past few years. Here is a link to the order to watch the movies in for chronological order. I also made a […]
Read moreTape drives – do they still exist? Apparently they do. I never figured as a child I would have anything to do with tape drives. I didn’t have any exposure to them and what I knew of them was that they looked like they were just for huge mainframe computers that never existed anymore. I had no clue about data […]
Read moreFor a couple years now, I have been working on figuring out a perfect recipe for Alfredo sauce. There are a few things about how I make Alfredo sauce that can be perfected. The few that I’ve thought about over the dozen or so times I’ve tried are: the thickness and consistency; how cheesy it tastes; how much garlic taste […]
Read moreI had an interesting problem at home. I have a bathtub on our second floor – the drain was extremely slow. The first problem I had was I initially had never pulled a drain out before. There is a tool they make to remove it. My recommendation – don’t waste your time. I had nothing but trouble trying to use […]
Read moreI was working with a scheduled task the other day and for some reason it would not run a Powershell script I had for cleaning up old files, complaining of an exit code 2147942401 (0x80070001). The resolution was in the parameter. The parameter passed for the script filename had spaces. It seems silly that fixed the problem but after the […]
Read moreSerial connectivity – you’ve got to be kidding me, right? No one uses that anymore! Well, guess again! Business Ethernet switches and many utility devices still utilize a serial connection. Consider that utility devices use not only the RS-232 serial that goes strictly between two devices as most consumers would know about, but also use a variant called RS-422 and […]
Read moreAbout five years ago, I started working a lot more with Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3). I was used to working exclusively with MODBUS. There are so many advantages of DNP over MODBUS. Here are a few things I can think of that are improvements. Before going over the improvements, I want to expand on some terminology differences. Register Type such […]
Read moreAmericana Philadelphia was a great time. There is a lot to do there. And not a destination people think of first. It took a bit of thinking on my part to even think of it as a destination for a vacation. My current wife and I went here. Our flight there had issues. Our flight from Boston to Philadelphia was […]
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