Our 2017 Florida road trip was a resounding success with the whole family! Here are some highlights:
2017 Florida Road Trip
Are you writing effective emails?
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A CFO I used to work for insisted that alternatives be listed clearly at the beginning of a message in a/b/c fashion when his input was required. Since he was frequently away from a full-fledged PC, it had to fit on a Blackberry screen with any additional background information tucked below.
Well Kabir Sehgal goes a bit further. Follow this link to discover how to write email with military precision.
H.264 might just be Magic indeed
If “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”, as Arthur C. Clarke put it, then Sid Bala might just be up to something with his brilliant layman’s overview of the H.264 compression standard.
Flight VLOG by steveo1kinevo
steveo1kinevo coined the term “Flight VLOG” for an online experience where he brings you with him in his cockpit for an entire flight. I’ve been hooked for a few weeks now. And that Socata TBM850 sure seems like a nice airplane… I really need to get to work on that pilot licence someday…
Setting up Ezdok Camera Addon (EZCA) for FSX under Windows 10
I recently went through the trouble of installing EZCA for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) on a Windows 10 64bit system. Installing EZCA is notoriously difficult and there are plenty of useful resources online to get you going. What I will do here is simply document for future reference some of the specific steps I had to take.
- Disable antivirus during the installation. If you don’t, chance are good that it will quarantine or even delete the main EZCA executable at (\Program Files (x86)\EZCA\EZCA.exe)
- If you installed FSX in a non-standard location (G:\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\ in my case which is a dedicated SSD), make sure that the “Authenticated users” group has full control on that entire folder – or at least the user that will be running FSX
- Since the EZCA installer requires to be run as an Administrator, it ends up creating files under the account used during installation, which is not necessarily the one you’ll be using when you run FSX. You will want to copy c:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\EZCA\ to the \AppData\Roaming\ folder of the FSX user
On a totally unrelated note, once EZCA was installed FSX started crashing after just a few minutes. That seemed related to the famous UIAutomationCore.dll issue faced on recent 64bit Windows installations. Since I was uncomfortable downloading that dll from random places online, an easy way to obtain a clean copy was to open a Windows 7 ISO that was safely stored on my LAN, search for the install.wim file, open it with 7-Zip and get a copy of UIAutomationCore.dll from there.
Back on a monoski!
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hanks to the fine folks at Snowgunz, I’ll soon be back on a monoski (as soon as there’s enough snow around here, that is). Fine, call me a dinosaur but it’s felt like a long 12 years stuck on two spatulas to help the kids get up to speed on the slopes. They’ve made some serious progress and will soon be the ones waiting for their slow dad, so it’s time for another kind of fun…
ITIL Foundation Certification
‘just got my ITIL Foundation certification. It was a good intense three days. I’m glad I picked the English version – other students seemed to be struggling with the poor french translation…
