Tape 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 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 […]
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