Archive for the Category: General

T.Rob Wyatt and IoPT Consulting

April 22, 2013 Roger Lacroix

T.Rob Wyatt of IBM and Bank of America fame has decided to become an independent consultant. His new company is called IoPT Consulting and he will be doing consulting work in the following areas: WebSphere MQ WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition (FTE) WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security (AMS) WebSphere MQ Telemetry (MQTT) WebSphere Message Broker [...]

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The Best 404 Error Pages Of All Time

March 21, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Now this web page at Business Insider is seriously funny: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-404-error-pages-of-all-time-2013-3 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Pictures from a Developer’s Life

March 5, 2013 Roger Lacroix

If a picture speaks a 1000 words, then this web page is worth a thousand laughs: http://martinvalasek.com/blog/pictures-from-a-developers-life Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Emergency Broadcast System Hacked

February 15, 2013 Roger Lacroix

I’m sorry but I can’t stop laughing when I read this article. I especially like the police’s response. http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/zombie-alert-hoax-emergency-broadcast-sy/240148355?cid=nl_IW_daily_2013-02-12_html&elq=f2fe05f4fed74f9eac66c2cababa620e Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Rogers internet was broken on Wednesday

January 10, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Once again Rogers Communication totally screws its paying customers. Yahoo article: Rogers Internet back online after outage. Around 6:40PM on Wednesday, I started getting errors in FireFox and Eudora (email client) around domain name resolution. Usually, resetting the cable modem box fixes the issue but not last night. I checked the internet on my iPhone [...]

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

December 24, 2012 Roger Lacroix

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, etc… and a Happy New Year. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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I hate my cell phone company

September 25, 2012 Roger Lacroix

I hate my cell phone company! Yes, I know everyone says that but I REALLY hate my cell phone company. By the way, my cell phone company is Rogers Wireless. This blog is about programming and the products I develop for Capitalware, so complaining about my cell phone company is not one of those topics. [...]

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Tokelau Becomes First Country To Go 100% Solar

August 3, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Jess Lee of Stuff has a really interesting article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/7408149/Tokelau-to-shed-diesel-dependence Lead contractor Powersmart Solar is helping Tokelau replace its diesel generators – which burn about 200 litres of fuel daily – with 4032 solar panels, 392 inverters and 1344 batteries. Some countries/politicians just get it – they just get it. There are far better ways [...]

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Get Fake Credit Card Numbers for Testing Purposes

July 27, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Working in the financial industry, sometimes you need fake data (i.e. names, credit cards, etc..) for testing purposes. Over 10 years ago, I came across a Windows program called: Credit Card Verificator Engine. It has the ability to generate credit card numbers. I posted it to my web site at: http://www.capitalware.biz/pc_win_general.html I now have come [...]

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Here’s another idea for the world!

April 11, 2012 Roger Lacroix

For anyone who parks a car/truck/van on a city street or parking lot, at some point, you have had to put money or a credit card into a centralized parking payment machine and then place the issued parking receipt on your vehicle’s dash (face up of course). Pretty standard stuff if you live in a [...]

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