Archive for 2007

Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder

Posted on Sunday 18th February 2007 under Work by

Another one of those utilities I use once in a blue moon, and then forget the name of; Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder – this is the Beta version, which works with Vista & Office 2007 too.

It’s free and it works, and if there are any other reasons for using it they escape me for the moment…

ASCII Characters

Posted on Wednesday 14th February 2007 under Work by

I have searched for (and used) an ASCII table so many times over the last few days, and I thought that it would be worth posting my own for convenience. Here it is, both as an Excel file and as text (below). Of course there is a man page for ASCII on Unix…

ESC/POS control for customer display cursor

Posted on Wednesday 14th February 2007 under Reference by

OK, so Epson’s support proved to be useless – “isn’t there a DIP switch on the back” and “we don’t do programming here” seemed to be the best they can offer.

Inspiration led me to lookup the ESC/POS sequences for cursor display – not DC2 & DC4 as previously though, they use the ASCII US (31 decimal) commands:

USC 3167n select/cancel cursor display
n=0,1 (48,49 decimal)

So, back to uedit and try to work out what difference 0, 1, (48 & 49 decimal)  make to the thing…

15/02/2007: answer: None at all!

SAP DBM Help links

Posted on Tuesday 6th February 2007 under Work by

Here is a collection of links for DBM Ramp-UP v6:

IS-A-DBM v6 Help in English

IS-A-VMS  Help in English

Solution Manager 4.0 SP9

Ute Gramman’s old DBM overview (last page contains DBM v6 additional functionality)

SAP safe passage for TBC Corp (Tyres)

Posted on Monday 5th February 2007 under Work by

CRMchump has an article about SAP agreeing a deal with TCP Corporation for safe passage – it doesn’t say from which Peoplesoft platform, but it does note that they are proposing to use IS-Retail and POS for the dealerships. This gives me pause for thought regarding NBKS / Michelin.

UTW URL rewrite problem

Posted on Thursday 25th January 2007 under IT by

Various solutions to this problem are discussed on the UTW forum.

Parents want to move house

Posted on Saturday 20th January 2007 under Personal by

Andrew Grant is the agency that are selling Mum & Dad’s house; the listing for the property is here.
Also this is the bungalow they want to buy in Winsford.

Domesday 1986

Posted on Monday 15th January 2007 under IT by

I have found it – and it finally works – the 1986 Domesday Project rescued from laser disc and available on the web here.

Somewhere in there is an article written by Christopher as a child – I vaguely remember something about canals, but I haven’t found it yet.

RSS feed plugin for WordPress

Posted on Monday 15th January 2007 under Reference by

Plug in page.

10 minute SEO check

Posted on Sunday 14th January 2007 under Reference by

Must spend some more time following this up:

http://www.sarahfreelance.co.uk/2006/02/28/10-minute-seo-check/