Author Archives: Brian Gallimore

The Basis for Law is Religion

DID YOU KNOW? As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world’s law givers and each one is facing one … Continue reading

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Using WonderWare Script to Check for Correct Number Format

Here is how I used a WonderWare window script to check to make sure the batch number entered by the operator meets the following requirements: must be 9 digits first digit is a 8 2nd and 3rd digit are the … Continue reading

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Wood Repair Using Plastic Filler (bondo)

The house we just bought had damage to several of the stair trim pieces of wood from a dog.  Here are some pictures I took of my fix.  I started with a dowel glued in a hole I drilled, then … Continue reading

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Use cron, grep, ps to monitor and restart a program (x11vnc)

As a band-aid to check if a program stopped running, and then restart it if it did stop, here is what I came up with.  x11vnc is the program that gave me trouble, seems like every once in a while, … Continue reading

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Redirect, Pipe, and Tee

Redirect – ls command creates file called file_list.txt instead of sending to stdout: $ ls > file_list.txt Redirect Append – ls command appends file_list.txt instead of sending to stdout: $ ls >> file_list.txt Pipe – sends output of ls command … Continue reading

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Fire Hose Pants

Amber bought me a pair of fire hose pants for Christmas.  I wore them today to do some clean-up work outside.  Right off the bat, there are two things that are awesome about these pants:  1) There is a diamond-cut … Continue reading

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Government Can Not Grant Freedom

from Adrian Murry’s facebook post One thing I have learned over the last five years of politically righteous indignation is that if we protest from a position of victimhood we too easily enable ourselves to be victims. My outrage since … Continue reading

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blinksticks showing opposite colors

A few hours of tinkering with the new blinksticks, here is what I came up with: The light on the right is set to a random color every 1/2 second.  The stick on the left morphs to the opposite color. … Continue reading

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Blinkstick – a single pixel controlled by USB

I ordered 2 blinkstick kits a while back — they came in today!  I dug out the soldering iron and assembled them.  Within a few minutes I had the blinkstick python libraries installed on my computer.  Now I’m wondering what … Continue reading

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Subversion (svn) on shared web host (bluehost) and Linux client setup

This explains how to configure and use a Subversion client from a GNU/Linux box*  to connect to a Subversion server on a shared web host account.  (bluehost.com)  If you have already set up a shared key for password-less ssh access … Continue reading

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