tig.log - Part 20

Regex

April 22, 2004 by tig

I’m still an absolute n00b when it comes to regex. Even after reading Mastering Regular Expressions. But man, is it powerful. Tonight my wife asked me to help her create name badge labels for an org … Read more

Page 23

February 5, 2020April 21, 2004 by tig

From Larry Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 23. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. “Right,” I said. “And in Star Wars, … Read more

Domain DFS from a non-domain joined client

April 21, 2004 by tig

As I mentioned before I use DFS on my home network to help manage my storage resources. Almost all of my machines at home are domain joined. You get a lot of management benefits from doing … Read more

Distributed File System (DFS)

February 5, 2020April 21, 2004 by tig

If you have a network with lots of storage that includes a Windows 2000 or W2K3 Server the Distributed File System (DFS) is your friend. This very cool technology makes it easy to move around where … Read more

Thin Media Clients and Home Servers

February 5, 2020April 16, 2004 by tig

Ravi posted an article on www.hageeks.com on the topic of “thin media clients vs. thick media clients“. He’s got the right general idea but fails to talk about the other end of the equation: The thing … Read more

Premise and .NET

February 5, 2020April 16, 2004 by tig

Premise Systems has been sold (to an unannounced, but apparently BIG, buyer) and they have released preview versions of both thier Hardware and Services Development Kit (HSDK) and MiniBroker that are .NET based. I’ve spent some … Read more

The Green Button

October 7, 2026April 10, 2004 by tig

Wow. I’m impressed. It was just a week or so ago that The Green Button had issues with the hoster and now they have the site up and running on a new host. New look & … Read more

I love Strong Bad

April 9, 2004 by tig

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html Strong Bad is my hero.

Technology Complexity

February 5, 2020April 2, 2004 by tig

Mostly when I read Don Box’s blog I say to myself “Hmmm, interesting. I didn’t know that. I wonder how long his hair is these days?” What he’s working on (Indigo) is interesting to me (it … Read more

MCE Controller 1.0.3 Released

October 7, 2026March 27, 2004 by tig

No code changes. Just added an installer using the very cool NullSoft Scriptable Install System. Wow, that was easy! Download and install from https://github.com/tig/mcec

New MCE Controller Version

October 7, 2026March 24, 2004 by tig

Tonight I posted version 1.0.2 of MCE Controller. Basically one new feature: The ability to shutdown, restart, standby, or hibernate the system. See the V1.0.2 readme at https://github.com/tig/mcec. The product page is at https://github.com/tig/mcec. Looking for … Read more

Source Control

February 5, 2020March 23, 2004 by tig

Tonight I moved my source code out from the under the control of Visual Source Safe to Source Gear Vault. Even though I’m a single developer I really like having all my source stored in a … Read more

Spring

February 5, 2020March 22, 2004 by tig

It’s the time of year again for the sun to start showing here again. That means fun yard projects! Man, do I have a list of things to do this year: Get the sprinkler system up … Read more

Web based photo gallery using SQL

February 5, 2020March 10, 2004 by tig

In an entry last November I noted that I was enjoying ADO.NET and ASP.NET so much that I’d have another go at writing a web based photo gallery app that stored the images in SQL. I … Read more

Cat Skiing

February 5, 2020March 4, 2004 by tig

Wow. My cat skiing trip was amazing. This was the 6th year I’ve done it and while the conditions were not as good as they had been in the past, the experience was still unbelievable. Now … Read more

Powder Skiing

February 5, 2020February 25, 2004 by tig

This week I’m in Canada on my annual Cat Powder skiing trip. My buddy Erik and I have been doing this (along with a bucnh of other guys) for 6 years. We go to this place … Read more

MCE Controller v1.0.1 Released!

October 7, 2026February 23, 2004 by tig

Today I released the first public version of MCE Controller. MCE Controller allows the Media Center application of Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) to be integrated into an advanced AV control system by enabling programmatic control … Read more

Why do I do this to myself?

February 12, 2004 by tig

I had my Crestron system talking to Media Center just fine. I had written an MD5 implementation required by the Girder iserver component, and although the solution was a bit of a hack, it worked. And … Read more

I’m a hardware geek

February 12, 2004 by tig

Well, actually, I’m just a geek in general. If it makes noise, has to do with moving lots of electrons around, or involves code I’m into it. And even though I’m mostly a software guy in … Read more

Quick Reivew Creative Labs “SoundBlaster Wireless Music”

February 12, 2004 by tig

I purchased a Creative Labs “SoundBlaster Wireless Music” (the product name is in quotes!) to play with. $249 from Creative’s website. Creative’s website on this is here: http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=119&subcategory=121&product=9192 Summary: The SoundBlaster Wireless Music (which I will refer … Read more