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You can now visit me on your mobile phone! Simply goto www.tap3w0rm.com/ on your mobile phone or PDA to get started!Welcome to my world!
My name is Brandon Allen I live in Portland Oregon.
I am a developer and a system administrator by trade.
As far as development is concerned I work with both Windows and Linux. My preferred programming languages are all forms of .net up to 3.5, ASP, PHP, C, C++, C#, VBS, HTA. I dabble in java with eclipse. You may call me crazy but I get a kick out of Database administration. I am competent in MSSQL (TSQL – Transact Structured Query Language) but have no issue doing work in MYSQL or PostgreSQL. I have done some work with Oracle (PLSQL - Procedural Language Structured Query Language). I am a large fan of Microsoft reporting services and I am so in love with it it’s not even funny. The ease of creating even the most complicated reports is amazing assuming you’re really good with SQL.
I am a Microsoft guy as well as a Linux guy when it comes to system administration. My personal belief is that both have their place in a corporate environment. If you leverage the systems correctly a mixture of MS and Linux machines can be highly productive. Especially if you're also leveraging virtualization and keep an open mind. I am not as much of an OpenBSD fan or really a BSD fan at all. I will use it if it’s needed and it works really well if you have a single use for it such as OpenNas or M0n0wall. My favored distribution of Linux is Gentoo for my own systems. When it comes to workstations and Linux I must admit to being a Ubuntu fan. For Microsoft I have experience in server 2000/2003/2008 and the SBS flavors of both 2003 and 2008. I also have experience setting up and managing exchange 2000/2003/2007 with 2003 and 2007 I have used both the standard versions and the SBS setups.
I have 8 years of hand soldering and IC replacement, 13 years employment experience with network hardware, 7 years SQL / Database experience, 13 years on the job experience with Microsoft server environments, and 6 years of enterprise administration in an active directory environment as well as Cisco switch and router maintenance.
I attend the monthly 2600 Meetings. Check http://pdx2600.blogspot.com/ (I am a blog contributor) if you’re interested (updates monthly). If you want to know where it is or to find one in your local area check this link http://www.2600.com/meetings/mtg.html. The local meeting is at Backspace down town.
A local map: [Google Map]
The backspace website: http://www.backspace.bz/
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Wednesday 25 November 2009
Fark photoshop about reflective glasses.
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Wednesday 28 October 2009
Performance testing
Ok so if you want to get information on how long it takes your c++ program to run here is how.
First thing you need to add to your program in an include so you can deal with time:
#include <ctime>
setup these globals:
clock_t timeStart;
clock_t timeEnd;
int diff = 0;
when you want to start timing use this command:
time(&timeStart);
When you’re done use this command:
time(&timeEnd);
Now you have information on when you started and ended. All you need to do is find the difference between the two:
diff = static_cast<int>(difftime(timeEnd,timeStart));
now diff contains the number of seconds it took:
Run the following code at the end of your program to output the information:
if (diff < 1)
cout<<endl<<"It took less than 1 second to run"<<endl;
if (diff == 1)
cout<<endl<<"It took 1 second to run"<<endl;
if (diff > 1)
cout<<endl<<"It took " << diff << " seconds to run"<<endl;
I have an example C++ file you can download HERE
First thing you need to add to your program in an include so you can deal with time:
#include <ctime>
setup these globals:
clock_t timeStart;
clock_t timeEnd;
int diff = 0;
when you want to start timing use this command:
time(&timeStart);
When you’re done use this command:
time(&timeEnd);
Now you have information on when you started and ended. All you need to do is find the difference between the two:
diff = static_cast<int>(difftime(timeEnd,timeStart));
now diff contains the number of seconds it took:
Run the following code at the end of your program to output the information:
if (diff < 1)
cout<<endl<<"It took less than 1 second to run"<<endl;
if (diff == 1)
cout<<endl<<"It took 1 second to run"<<endl;
if (diff > 1)
cout<<endl<<"It took " << diff << " seconds to run"<<endl;
I have an example C++ file you can download HERE
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My Laptop CPU - CPU-Z Info
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Sunday 11 October 2009
Creating RTF files from Office 2007
If you own Microsoft Office 2007 eventually you will end up in a situation where you send someone a document and they can’t open it. The reason for this is because Office 2007 by default saves in the DOCX format. The problem with this is unless the person you sent the file to shelled out the money for Office 2007 they won’t be able to open it. The good news is you can solve this issue simply. Office 2007 can save in the RTF file format. RTF stands for Rich Text Format and is a standard that anyone with any computer built after 1995 will be able to open.
Step 1
Write your document.
Step 2
Click ok the Office logo ball in the upper left hand corner of the office document
Select Other Formats.
Step 3
From the other formats box change the save as format to “Rich Text Format” and then save.
Have Fun!
Step 1
Write your document.
Step 2
Click ok the Office logo ball in the upper left hand corner of the office document
Select Other Formats.
Step 3
From the other formats box change the save as format to “Rich Text Format” and then save.
Have Fun!
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Wednesday 19 August 2009
The short version of my life.
As an update to the picture I reposted of my sister and brother on FaceBook. I got a few questions from people so here are some answers.
My father (sperm donor) Tommy J Allen (TJ for short) started out as a nice guy (This won’t last long). My mother got hitched to him then they had me. At some point while working (not 100% sure of this) for Cascade Corp this nice guy got himself some bad friends. These friends turned him onto drugs. After that he became a total abusive dick. He was violent towards everyone in his life. My mom finaly got sick of his crap and left him (GO MOM!!!!). We were alone just the two of us for quite a while. Then mom met Lyle Warden and Life got much better. Lyle took care of us both and I finally knew what it was to have a real caring father and to be part of a loving family (again GO MOM!!!!). I also got from this marriage two step brothers, Chris and Jason. Years later Jason got hitched and our family expanded to include my sister in law dolly. That sprang a new branch of this whole tree and I got molly and cooper. I love being an uncle.
While all this was going on with us TJ was doing god knows what with god knows who. From time to time I would hear from somewhere or another that he settled down with someone. Honestly I didn’t care. All I wanted him to settle down with was a gun and his cranium. But it turns out he actually met a quite wonderful woman her name is Amy Berck. So TJ fathered (and I use this term lightly, more like was a sperm donor) my sister Christine and then my brother Robert. As in TJ style he flushed his life down the crapper again. So In what I am calling classic TJ style he left behind 2 children.
Now don’t get me wrong I am very thankful for the opportunity to have a brother and sister with whom I share blood. However the emotional wreckage that he left behind when he again became an asshole again. I am sure this has not been easy on either of the children or Amy. But in the end at least we all have each other. Amy and her children live on the east coast now and I don’t get to see them anymore. But I try and keep in contact with them and if I ever move their way or they move mine I know we will come together as a happy family.
So that’s the short version of a long messed up existence.
Ohhh and TJ wherever you are. If you ever read this and I don’t think you ever will. Do me a favor. Just stop having kids. No one wants your genes. Especially if they actually get to know you.
TW - Out!
My father (sperm donor) Tommy J Allen (TJ for short) started out as a nice guy (This won’t last long). My mother got hitched to him then they had me. At some point while working (not 100% sure of this) for Cascade Corp this nice guy got himself some bad friends. These friends turned him onto drugs. After that he became a total abusive dick. He was violent towards everyone in his life. My mom finaly got sick of his crap and left him (GO MOM!!!!). We were alone just the two of us for quite a while. Then mom met Lyle Warden and Life got much better. Lyle took care of us both and I finally knew what it was to have a real caring father and to be part of a loving family (again GO MOM!!!!). I also got from this marriage two step brothers, Chris and Jason. Years later Jason got hitched and our family expanded to include my sister in law dolly. That sprang a new branch of this whole tree and I got molly and cooper. I love being an uncle.
While all this was going on with us TJ was doing god knows what with god knows who. From time to time I would hear from somewhere or another that he settled down with someone. Honestly I didn’t care. All I wanted him to settle down with was a gun and his cranium. But it turns out he actually met a quite wonderful woman her name is Amy Berck. So TJ fathered (and I use this term lightly, more like was a sperm donor) my sister Christine and then my brother Robert. As in TJ style he flushed his life down the crapper again. So In what I am calling classic TJ style he left behind 2 children.
Now don’t get me wrong I am very thankful for the opportunity to have a brother and sister with whom I share blood. However the emotional wreckage that he left behind when he again became an asshole again. I am sure this has not been easy on either of the children or Amy. But in the end at least we all have each other. Amy and her children live on the east coast now and I don’t get to see them anymore. But I try and keep in contact with them and if I ever move their way or they move mine I know we will come together as a happy family.
So that’s the short version of a long messed up existence.
Ohhh and TJ wherever you are. If you ever read this and I don’t think you ever will. Do me a favor. Just stop having kids. No one wants your genes. Especially if they actually get to know you.
TW - Out!
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Saturday 08 August 2009
The 2009 Portland Retro Gaming Expo , Lloyd District Portland, Ore., July 2009
The 2009 Portland Retro Gaming Expo takes place September 20 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Ballroom in Portland’s Lloyd District Portland, Ore., July 2009
Hundreds of classic home video game fans from around the Northwest and beyond will converge on Portland this September 20 for the 2009 Portland Retro Gaming Expo (PRGE). Celebrating its fourth year, the PRGE has grown into a new venue at the Crowne Plaza Hotel near downtown in Portland’s Lloyd District.
The Expo will feature a large area of free-play video game consoles, a classic video game “museum”, common areas for socializing and competitive gaming, organized tournaments and plenty of classic video games for sale from our many vendors. Additionally, the expo will include contests, door prizes and a performance from Seattle chiptune artist, Leeni.
Several developers in attendance will be releasing new homebrew and authorized-reproduction games at the Expo including Chunkout 2600 for the Atari VCS. Homebrews are newly released games for play on classic video game consoles.
The classic video gaming hobby is most closely associated with home consoles like the Atari 2600/5200/7800, Nintendo NES and SNES systems, Sega Master System/Genesis and other game systems released in the 1980s and early 1990s. Expo attendees can expect to see and play these and rarer systems at the Expo.
Doors open at 9:00 AM for presale ticket holders and 10:00 AM for admissions purchased the day of the show. Admission is $10 for adults and children over 10 or $30 for a family pass good for up to five people. Children 10 and under admitted free with paid adult admission.
Presale tickets are available at retrogamingexpo.com or Video Game Wizards game store at 9712 SE Foster Road in Portland. There will be a PRGE pre-show party at Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade on 511 NE Couch St. starting at 7:00 PM on Saturday, September 19.
For more information on the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, visit RetroGamingExpo.com
John Hancock, Show Organizer, 360-606-6703, john@retrogamingexpo.com
Chuck Van Pelt, Press & Promotions, 503-349-3970, chuck@retrogamingexpo.com
Website: http://www.retrogamingexpo.com
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Friday 07 August 2009
Bananas ... and ACCESSORIES!!!!!
Ok so i am browsing around the internet at random and i came across this.
So there are people in this world who can’t manage to slice a banana? This is a problem that necessitated the mass production, packaging and advertisement of this product. WTF!
Ohh and while looking into this I found this other product. I am speechless! They call it "The Banana Guard" and i found another one called a "Banana Safe" Seriously! WTF! It looks like a banana Powered dildo!
TW- Out ( of his mind )
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Tuesday 04 August 2009
Fuck Twitter
A friend of mine last night pointed me to a t-shirt hell image that sums up my general feelings about twitter.
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Friday 31 July 2009
Computer manufacturers and large hard drives
People want computers with large hard drives. But do they need them.
Lets say you have a 500GB hard drive In you new computer.
Empty 500 nothing on the drive
Windows Vista -8
Office 2007 -1
Drivers and other apps Installed by the vendor -20
Total left for data 471
Now what can we do with this left over space. Most people use sentences like “Well I take a lot of pictures”. Ok so lets work this out.
The average camera will be anywhere from a 4 to a 12 Mega-pixel camera. So for the sake of this write up lets take a 12 mega-pixel camera.
12 mega-pixel picture will be about 2.5 MB each if you use JPEG compression which most cameras do by default ( http://web.forret.com/tools/megapixel.asp?width=4240&height=2824 ).
So here is the math
1GB = 1024MB
so
471GB * 1024 = 482,304MB
482,304MB / 2.5 = 192,921 Pictures
If you took 100 pictures every day it would take you over 5 years to fill your hard drive. Most hard drives produced today only have a 1 or 3 year warranty. This means that you should not trust the drive after 3 years anyway. So why buy the huge hard drive.
Now other people say “I have allot of music”. This is also easy to work out lets take the above samples. The average MP3/MP4/AAC files are between 4MB and 5MB for the sake of this write up lets take 5MB. The average song is 3.5 minutes long ( common knowledge ).
482,304MB / 5 = 96,460 songs with a total listening time of
337,612 Minutes
or
5626 Hours
or
234 Days
If you purchased that much music from i-tunes at $0.99 ( http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/9002/itunes-hike.htm ) per song your looking at $95,496.19 in songs. If you assume artists fill their CD's to full capacity ( and none of them ever do / 60 minutes per CD ) at an average of 17.95 (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_average_price_of_music_CD_2007) per CD your looking at $97,626.27.
So why the big hard drive.
Computer manufacturers like to impress you with large numbers. When it comes to hard drives. Don't be fooled into buying something you don't need.
Lets say you have a 500GB hard drive In you new computer.
Empty 500 nothing on the drive
Windows Vista -8
Office 2007 -1
Drivers and other apps Installed by the vendor -20
Total left for data 471
Now what can we do with this left over space. Most people use sentences like “Well I take a lot of pictures”. Ok so lets work this out.
The average camera will be anywhere from a 4 to a 12 Mega-pixel camera. So for the sake of this write up lets take a 12 mega-pixel camera.
12 mega-pixel picture will be about 2.5 MB each if you use JPEG compression which most cameras do by default ( http://web.forret.com/tools/megapixel.asp?width=4240&height=2824 ).
So here is the math
1GB = 1024MB
so
471GB * 1024 = 482,304MB
482,304MB / 2.5 = 192,921 Pictures
If you took 100 pictures every day it would take you over 5 years to fill your hard drive. Most hard drives produced today only have a 1 or 3 year warranty. This means that you should not trust the drive after 3 years anyway. So why buy the huge hard drive.
Now other people say “I have allot of music”. This is also easy to work out lets take the above samples. The average MP3/MP4/AAC files are between 4MB and 5MB for the sake of this write up lets take 5MB. The average song is 3.5 minutes long ( common knowledge ).
482,304MB / 5 = 96,460 songs with a total listening time of
337,612 Minutes
or
5626 Hours
or
234 Days
If you purchased that much music from i-tunes at $0.99 ( http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/9002/itunes-hike.htm ) per song your looking at $95,496.19 in songs. If you assume artists fill their CD's to full capacity ( and none of them ever do / 60 minutes per CD ) at an average of 17.95 (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_average_price_of_music_CD_2007) per CD your looking at $97,626.27.
So why the big hard drive.
Computer manufacturers like to impress you with large numbers. When it comes to hard drives. Don't be fooled into buying something you don't need.
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Thursday 30 July 2009
Missing hibernation in Windows Vista
One of the most common problems in Windows Vista is "Missing Hibernate option in start menu". I visit many forums and see this question all the time. I also get this question via Email quite a bit as well. But while I was using my wife’s new dell mini 10v a few days ago it was missing the hibernate option. I used the standard fix for this on her computer but it didn’t help at all. Below you will find the methods I used to fix the issue as well as an explanation of why this happens.
One of the causes for not being able to hibernate is option disappears whenever you run "Disk Cleanup Wizard". The wizard removes any “JUNK” files it finds on your machine. One of these “JUNK” files is the hibernation file that is stored on the root of your hard drive. So if you use Hibernate then make sure you deselect "Hibernation File Cleaner" option from the list in future when running the Disk Cleanup Wizard.
To re-enable missing Hibernate option by following these simple steps If these steps fail you there are more steps below:
1. Click on "Start button -> All Programs -> Accessories". Right-click on "Command Prompt" and select "Run As Administrator". If you are prompted to enter password, enter the password and continue. You can also open Command Prompt in Administrator mode by typing "cmd" in Start menu Search box and press "Ctrl+Shift+Enter".
2. Now type BOTH of the following commands:
Yes we are aware they both do the same thing. But I have found in some instances that one will work where the other doesn’t. so I just use both commands.
powercfg /hibernate on
powercfg -h on
3. Type Exit at the command prompt and Hibernate option should appear in Start menu.
If this fails to work try the following fix:
1. Click on "Start button -> Control Panel "
2. Open the control panel item for “Power Options”.
3. You will see mutable power profiles. Select the option for “Change Plan Settings” for the one you currently have selected.
4. When the Plan settings window comes up click on the option for “Change Advanced Power Settings”
5. Click the [+] next to sleep then the [+] next to allow hybrid sleep
6. Change the vales for “On battery” and “Plugged in” to OFF.
The Hibernate option should appear in Start menu.
One of the causes for not being able to hibernate is option disappears whenever you run "Disk Cleanup Wizard". The wizard removes any “JUNK” files it finds on your machine. One of these “JUNK” files is the hibernation file that is stored on the root of your hard drive. So if you use Hibernate then make sure you deselect "Hibernation File Cleaner" option from the list in future when running the Disk Cleanup Wizard.
To re-enable missing Hibernate option by following these simple steps If these steps fail you there are more steps below:
1. Click on "Start button -> All Programs -> Accessories". Right-click on "Command Prompt" and select "Run As Administrator". If you are prompted to enter password, enter the password and continue. You can also open Command Prompt in Administrator mode by typing "cmd" in Start menu Search box and press "Ctrl+Shift+Enter".
2. Now type BOTH of the following commands:
Yes we are aware they both do the same thing. But I have found in some instances that one will work where the other doesn’t. so I just use both commands.
powercfg /hibernate on
powercfg -h on
3. Type Exit at the command prompt and Hibernate option should appear in Start menu.
If this fails to work try the following fix:
1. Click on "Start button -> Control Panel "
2. Open the control panel item for “Power Options”.
3. You will see mutable power profiles. Select the option for “Change Plan Settings” for the one you currently have selected.
4. When the Plan settings window comes up click on the option for “Change Advanced Power Settings”
5. Click the [+] next to sleep then the [+] next to allow hybrid sleep
6. Change the vales for “On battery” and “Plugged in” to OFF.
The Hibernate option should appear in Start menu.
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