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Installing Mythtv on OSX Yosemite
This is a log of my experiences installing MythTV on OSX Yosemite. I started by following the documentation at mythtv.org: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Mac_OS_X You’ll need to download t... Read More
2014 Fall BOOK: Mini Stories with Pictures
Shannon put together these 2 sweet books with her usual colorful drawings: BOOK 1: I See BOOK 2: I Love You ... Read More
2014 Fall BOOK: Things That are Called Pennies (Thanksgiving Story)
Shannon wrote this book based on the Thanksgiving story she heard at school (I think). She gave her book chapters and a TOC! Or perhaps she was just using the TOC page as an outline; also impressive. ... Read More
2014 Fall BOOK: Creepy Carrots
I’m not sure exactly when Shannon wrote this book – I just found it at some point. It was obviously before we started work on her spelling. I’m not entirely certain the pages are on ... Read More
2014 Fall BOOK: Shannon’s Daily Routine
Shannon made an impressively detailed book about her daily routine. This was prior to our work on her spelling, so I’ll add comments for clarification: 1. Wake up, 2. Shower 3. Get dressed... Read More
2014 Nov BOOK: Watch Out for Stuff on Your Bike Ride
Nana and Poppy bought Shannon a new bike for her birthday while they were here visiting around Halloween. Shannon put this book together after several family bike rides, in the first week of November,... Read More
2014 BOOK: Color Songs from Kinder
Shannon learned these color songs during the first season of Kindergarten. She took it upon herself to create a book to record them all in one place: ... Read More
2014 Oct BOOK: About My Brother and Me
Shannon wrote this book during “Centers” at school on 10/6/14: ... Read More
2014 BOOK: Black Kitty Pepper Series Books
Shannon started writing books this year (2014 – 5 yrs old), so prolifically that I had to start quizzing her on spelling. I knew she would get some of these incorrectly spelled words stuck in he... Read More
VBA dictionaries and arrays & performance log analysis
Back to the main data prep VBA page I’ve been experimenting recently with Excel VBA dictionaries and arrays to avoid writing to disk while parsing log files. I have been using a dictionary to ca... Read More
Extracting data with Excel VBA from SVMON output
Back to the main data prep VBA page This is a small Excel VBA script I wrote to pull the SVMON memory statistics for a specific PID that contains concatenated SVMON output. I’ve had to modify th... Read More
Extracting data with Excel VBA from DB2diag logs
Back to the main data prep VBA page Here’s a relatively obscure Excel VBA script that you would likely never use, but it is helpful if you care about IBM DB2 buffer cache sizes over time that ca... Read More
Extracting data with Excel VBA from DB2 snapshots
Back to the main data prep VBA page I use this script to compile data from multiple DB2 snapshots into a single time series table that can be used to generate time series plots for use in enterprise w... Read More
Extracting data with Excel VBA from NMON output
Back to the main data prep VBA page This is a script I use for extracting data of interest from NMON output. Often I need t0 extract data from a variety of tools a customer is comfortable using, an... Read More
Extracting data with Excel VBA from IOSTAT output
Back to the main data prep VBA page This is a sample script that I used in Excel VBA to extract data from IOSTAT output trapped at a regular interval (typically 15 seconds) to create a single row time... Read More