Author Archive: Chris
I'm a factory certified trainer for Haas Automation and train the service technicians who repair CNC mills and lathes. I'm a bit of a computer geek and enjoy programming, web design, 3D printing, playing with my laser cutter/engraver and taking things apart to see how they work.
FREE Amazon gift cards with Honey
I’ve been using this Chrome extension called Honey for several years now. I just claimed my second free $30 Amazon gift card today and thought I’d make a quick blog post about it. Here’s how it works. You join Honey and install the Chrome extension. When you visit a website that supports Honey you will see […]
TorGuard VPN Promo Codes 50% off for life
After doing a ton of research about which VPN to get, I decided to go with TorGuard. The biggest factor for me was speed. The last VPN I tried years ago was painfully slow and turned me off to VPN’s in general. My internet connection is 400mbps download, 20mbps upload and I’m actually getting these […]
Loving my faster internet speed with Time Warner Cable
This faster Time Warner Internet service is Awesome! So TWC has been upgrading their system and that is good news for us because TWC Internet customers are getting a free speed increase. I’m not sure which area’s already have this higher speed service but we have it in Los Angeles. Here is the chart I received […]
Synology 412+ NAS Review
Have you ever made a purchase that you were so happy with that years later you were still looking back and thinking how good you did? That’s how I feel about my Synology NAS. I used to think that a NAS was nothing but a hard drive that you could access over your network. My […]
More Binary/BitWise Functions for VBScript.
I decided to write some functions to do left shifts, right shifts, signed right shifts as well as roll lefts and roll rights and more. The thing that I like about these functions is that they will work with Long Integers, Integers and Bytes automatically without the need for separate functions. I think they are […]
Generate valid GUID’s / UUID’s with ASP/VBScript
I’ve been working on a new ASP website and needed a way to generate valid UUID’s. I searched around a bit but all I could find for ASP were functions that just generate some hex and added a few dashes. They probably would have worked fine but if you’re going to do something you, might […]
WordPress upload permissions on IIS 7 Fix
This article will explain how to fix the permission problem on uploaded files in Wordpress running on IIS 7.
Using bit flags and bit-wise operations or converting decimal to binary in ASP/VBScript
Here are a couple of VBScript functions I wrote to easily use a 32 bit long integer as 32 separate Boolean values or “bit flags”. You could also use these functions to convert binary to decimal or decimal to binary or to learn about bit-wise operations.
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