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Kevin Smith and I are pretty much best friends now

…he just doesn’t know it. But, hey, he responded to a Twitter post by one of the @PredFans participants! Oh, and if you didn’t know, he’s a HUGE New Jersey Devils fan and a pretty active Twitter user.
For those who do not know about @PredFans and ReTweetBot, it’s my little programming baby and [...]

Vista Activation Got You Down? Bypass it! (Sort of)

Let’s just start from the beginning (aka “the excuse”). I had to install Windows XP or Vista on my MacBook Pro for the data architect class I’ve been taking. Since this is work-related, I snagged work’s copy of Vista. We have a volume license, etc, etc, so it’s legit. However, I [...]

Time Machine Backup to Samba NAS with Mac OS X 10.5.8

After a couple of days of struggling and Googling, I finally came across a resource that worked to allow Time Machine to back up to my NAS over Samba with Mac OS X 10.5.8. The resource I found is How to setup your QNAP NAS with Apple Time Machine. However, it’s not put [...]

That’s Me on the Griffin Technology Blog!

I was featured on the Griffin Technology Blog as a prize winner from this past weekend’s BarCamp!
Here’s a screenshot just in case they archive the post and it goes away.

Networking at BarCamp Chattanooga 2009

We all know BarCamps are about networking. Typically people networking or social networking. The kind of networking I’m talking about is wireless networking.
This past weekend was Chattanooga’s first ever BarCamp. The announcement of the BarCamp was made shortly after I got back from my first ever *Camp (PodCamp Nashville 2009). Upon [...]

Structs, Arrays, and Arrays of Structs in WSDL

I’ve been getting into creating web services lately for all sorts of tasks. I started out with XML-RPC and was hammering away pretty well with it until I discovered that .Net didn’t like to play with XML-RPC. Since this was for a top-priority project at work, I dove head first into SOAP despite [...]

Windows XP: Access is denied.

Error Deleting File or Folder
Cannot delete filename: Access is denied.
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.
Sound familiar?
Over the years, I have stumbled into this error more times than I care to count. And I’m pretty sure the culprit is doing rsync backups from [...]

Laptop Photo Frame – SketchUp

After assembling the prototype template using cardboard, I started taking external measurements. Refinements to cutouts were made and all dimensions were converted to millimeters. I’m strongly considering using Ponoko for this project. It’s a good excuse to try it out.
Here’s a shot of the external part of the frame in SketchUp. [...]

Laptop Photo Frame – Cardboard Version

After stumbling across this site, I decided to dig up my old eMachine M5310 laptop and see what I could fashion out of it. Fair warning, I was lazy and didn’t feel like getting out a real camera. All of the pictures were taken with my iPhone 3G.
My old eMachine has been a [...]