Oct 31
My old Kenwood KDC-519 receiver in my F-150 died two weeks ago so I decided to replace it with a new Kenwood Excelon KDC-X492. I liked the KDC-X492 because it has both 3.5mm and USB interfaces on the front so you can connect your iPod and other auxiliary devices. It also supports Bluetooth, Sirius/XM satellite, …
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Oct 30
I was looking for a version of PyXML for Python 2.5 and had some difficulty due to the project being unmaintained. I was able to find someone that compiled PyXML 0.8.4 for Python 2.5. You can find it here.
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Oct 21
When Oracle first announced that they were acquiring BEA, the first thought that went through my head wasn’t “I wonder if Oracle AS will be dropped in favor of WebLogic.”; it was “Oh great! Now I won’t be able to find shit on the WebLogic forums too.” It’s been several months since the acquisition, but …
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Oct 14
It’s official. The FTC and CCB have both approved Pfizer’s acquisition of Wyeth. No doubt the Collegeville airspace is going to be a bit more busy over the next few weeks. You can read about it here. I’ll be spending the rest of the week performing a global search and replace on all the professional social websites …
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Oct 13
We have some applications that leave files sitting in a folder location out on some file server. Eventually the disk space gets used up, or Windows starts choking because there are too many files in a directory, etc. To delete the ‘old’ files, a support technician will try to connect to the file share, sort …
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Oct 13
Finally got around to picking up a case of Stoudt’s Oktober Fest. It’s still a high quality brew that never disappoints.
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