This morning I’ve managed to mis-install a display adapter, which resulted in a BSOD on my Windows 10 on startup. Before the windows screen, before I had a chance to request safe-mode…
Searching on Google brought up generic and uninformative results, and I found myself diving through uncharted waters (for me), playing with stuff until (unbelievably) I managed to recover the computer.
This post tries to recount my story, in the hope it might help other users facing a similar issue. Continue reading “Today I almost bricked my [wife’s] computer”
When we suggested to our bosses SQLite as a production solution for our large-scale servers, they thought we were kidding.
Could SQLite be appropriate for a high-throughput server (up to a billion requests a day) in a production environment?
We believed the answer is yes, if only for the specific use case we needed to solve.
Continue reading “Using SQLite for Production??”
I’ve written a cool bash tool to help me easily connect to my EC2 instances called Sash.
Continue reading “Connecting to Amazon’s EC2 machines via SSH using the machine’s name”
Now you should have a folder of scanned documents, backed up securely. It’s time to meet my new best friend – Evernote.
Continue reading “Going paperless – using Evernote”
After you have scanned all of your documents, your computer contains a large part of your life’s paper trail.
When it was paper, you thought very little about backing it up – making copies of it, storing it off site, etc. Now, as digital data, you should consider changing that attitude.
Continue reading “Going Paperless – backing up”
A couple of months ago, my wife and I took upon ourselves to move our paper clutter to the computer. We have accumulated over the past decade and a half all sorts of documents, which we annually or semi-annually go over, throw 30%, ‘sort’ 30%, and the rest stays jumbled till next time.
Continue reading “Going Paperless”
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I’ve read this book right after I’ve read “Bad Science”, which is funny, since the two books seem to cross paths in more than one way…
Continue reading “My review on The Drunkard’s Walk”
In my previous post I’ve described how you can take grid data and turn it into contour data. In this post I’ll show how I implemented this using C#.
Continue reading “Creating Isolines (Contours) from grid data – part II”
(if you want to see code – check part II)
Since this is my first post, I thought I’d start with something I could not find anywhere on the net – an algorithm for taking gridded data (for example, in GRIB format), and turn it into contour line vectors.
I needed this type of algorithm when I wanted to add a meteorological layer to our GIS application. After some digging, I found some data sources I could use to get current wind speed and direction, waves height, and barometric data.
Continue reading “Creating Isolines (Contours) from grid data – part I”
