David Trebacz Blog

Lightkeeper pro was very easy to use to fix. Incandescent Christmas lights I bought this at my local Walmart for twenty dollars -figuring I'd take it back since it probably wouldn't work. Got it home and watched the videos on the manufacturers website ( long and short video from the manufacturer ) . LightKeeper really works and just as easily as in the video. I had 10 strands of 300 count miniature icicle Christmas lights that I could no longer buy (white wire with green bulbs). Here was the procedure. 1. Remove 1 miniature bulb (with the lights plugged in). 2. Plug the tester in where you removed the light bulb. 3. Pull the trigger a few times (In most cases the section lit on the first pull). 4. Replace the bulb. This will be especially helpful on prelit Christmas trees or Christmas lights that go out once there on the tree. This product really is true genius. This was the best money I've spent in a long time. It literally saved me about 3 hours of playing

Overall I'm pretty happy with the Motorola Droid hardware. It powerful, well built device. The only rip would be that the slide out physical keyboard takes some getting used to. I never had any issues hitting the keys on my Treo 700 W, but often times I find myself having to hit the "DEL" key on the droid. I'm very satisfied with the Android 2.0 operating system. In general it works well and seems pretty mature. Many of the default applications that came with the phone are well designed and work well. The navigation in Android 2.0 is really well done. 3rd party applications I really like: Amazon (scan it and buy it from Amazon) Astro (file manager for basic copying and moving files around on your device) Barcode Scanner (scan pc screens for apps to download) KeypassDroid (Password manager application for Android, Windows, and Linux -great!) Locale (automatically change GPS, WIFI, Bluetooth settings based on where your at to conserve battery) PhotoBurst (Nic

I finally found a phone that would modernize my mobile communication platform. Things I like: Beautiful large screen -Pictures look great on it Internal GPS to take advantage of location aware applications WIFI capabilities - Quick surfing on my home WI-FI and hotspots Quick and responsive device, but pretty similar to my Treo 700WX Lots of apps and easy to install -I can't seem to find any missing apps Android App Market is easy to navigate Open operating system -should be able to find something for whatever I need and don't have to wait Runs on the Verizon network - good reliable and fast network Things that annoy me: 3rd party app needed for: Automatic file synchronization Outlook/exchange task support Outlook/exchange meeting requests Battery life was pretty poor on the first day - (Motorola *228 option 2 technical support was GREAT) Lot's of apps, but someone needs to sort through them - many seem to have stability issues Car charger -from Amazon

I was looking for a simple method to understand regular expressions. In this particular case it was to analyze an ignore rule used by logcheck log monitoring tool. I knew that the Linux environment offered some powerful tools to use regular expressions, but I was looking for a simple pass in this string and show me what matches via my regular expression. After quite a bit of time looking at man pages for grep, I initially didn't find the simple solution that I was hoping to... AMD-ubuntu /USR/SBIN/CRON[9999]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) And it was ignored by the entry in /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/cron ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ /USR/CRON\[[0-9]+\]: \([_[:alnum:]-]+\) CMD \(.*\)$ The log entry I wanted to ignore was: Nov 2 19:17:01 AMD-ubuntu CRON[6877]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) The regular expression that I ended up using to ignore my routine CRON job log entries was: ^\w