Month: May 2014
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Notes To Myself: Fixing TortoiseCVS breakage (permissions, crashes, missing overlays) on Windows 7 64-bit
Problem 1) TortoisePlink.exe crashes when attempting CVS operations. Win7 throws the error message “A problem caused this program to stop working correctly” (gee, thanks, that’s a most helpful crash dump) and checks The Interclouds for solutions (finding none). Groveling down to the actual crash report (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer -> Windows…
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Palram Mythos Greenhouse Hacks / Improvements
My brother-in-law and I put this together over a long afternoon. Much of that time was spent building and leveling a 4×4 frame – the actual construction went pretty smoothly. On the other hand… It stayed intact for about 24 hours. The very next day, a typical springtime storm rolled through with a bit of…
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Tim Tears It Apart: Honeywell R8184 Oil-fired boiler controller
Its official designation is “R8184 Intermittent Ignition Oil Primary”. “But Tiiiim! That sounds booooorrrring. Why this thing, and not one of those fancy cloud-enabled thermostats containing more RAM than the desktop computer you had in college and not less than five processors capable of running Angry Birds at a playable framerate?” Yes, excitement-wise this one…