At home I have a fairly good backup scheme for ensuring my main PC and the wife’s laptop have their critical data stored on at least a couple of other disks. In addition to using cross-copying each other’s content, I have a second hard disk in the main PC just for backups and an external [...]
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A simple Perforce backup script for the home
July 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Perforce
I use the free license of Perforce on my home network just to ensure version control and management of home coding projects, university thesis stuff, and general files that I just want to ensure I have previous versions of. It’s a really nice part of the Perforce licensing model that I can get two users [...]
Plotting your GPS tracks in Google Earth
June 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Google Earth/Maps, GPS
As a follow up to my previous post about using Google Maps in conjunction with your own GPS data, you can also do the same thing in Google Earth. Something I missed before was that the same GPSVisualizer site provides the service so that you upload your GPS file, and it generates a Google KMZ [...]
Tags: geotagging·tips·travel
Playtime with Google Maps and GPS
June 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Google Earth/Maps, GPS
I’ve been dabbling with Google Maps recently as I want to download some GPS data from my PDA to visualise and analyse journeys that I have made. I also think Google Maps and its 3D sibling Google Earth are the absolute dogs doodads of applications and so any excuse to play with these was welcome. [...]
Tags: geotagging·Google maps·tips
Tips for returning IDENTITY values from INSERT
January 14th, 2007 · No Comments · ASP2, SQL
There’s a good article by Scott Guthrie here that describes the basics. Just scroll down to Tutorial 5 for the INSERT specific bit – it is pretty straightforward and there is no point my repeating it here. One point to note, however, and why I wrote this particular post. The key step in getting this [...]
Tags: programming·tips
Perforce server logging problem
January 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · Perforce, Software Development
When setting up a server it is often useful to enable one of the logging levels. The admin guide states that you need to do this: p4 set P4DEBUG=server=2 which sets the server logging level to 2. You then need to restart the Perforce server. However, if Perforce is running as a service (the default [...]
Streamlining your PC to play games
December 29th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Computer Games
Overview Before I run a resource intensive game, I execute a little batch file that kills a bunch of background processes that are simply not needed when playing the game. I’ll explain the details below. I have also noticed that before I used to do this, I experienced awful crashing problems with my PC just [...]
Gotcha on setting up a data connection
December 29th, 2006 · No Comments · ASP2, Software Development
This one gets me every time. When you set up a new data connection to a database running on a local copy of Sql Server Express, in the “Add Connection” dialog you need to prefix your machine name to the defaulted value of “SQLEXPRESS”. E.g. if the network name of your PC is called “devpc”, [...]