Combined charts in excel

I’m doing some combined data charts in excel.  I have separate semi-related bar and line charts that I wanted to combine into one graph.  I found the following tutorial extremely helpful:

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-excel/archive/2007/08/24/combining-chart-types-adding-a-second-axis.aspx

Big thanks to Diego M. Oppenheimer for the post.

Droid 3 Rooted!

Droid 3 has been rooted!!

More info:

HERE

and

HERE

Installing DDD on RedHat 5.4

Recently I’ve been using GDB to debug an application and wanted to use DDD for a better experience (no I’m not interested in using Eclipse).  I ran into some dependency issues on a pretty basic RedHat 5.4 box and I wanted to share them with you.

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Android 2.3 released, but only basic SIP

I took a cursory glance at the newly release Android 2.3 SDK. There’s one item that immediately caught my attention, the addition of SIP.

My impression is that it is a very basic SIP stack. There’s not much to it. Create your session, tell it who you want to talk to (URI), make the audio call. What I don’t see (or it’s not readily apparent to me) is a way to easily extend the class to add to or modify the SDP. If I’m wrong, please correct me.

Doesn’t seem to support video. Doesn’t seem to allow use of different or custom media streams.

How I backup my digital photos

A couple friends of mine have asked how I protect my most valuable digital possessions, the 1000+ pictures of my daughter.

Over the last 9 months we’ve amassed 1000′s of photos.  I quickly realized that if my computer hard drive failed (and some day it will), I would lose every single one of those memories.  I’m going to share with you what I think is my full proof plan to backing up my digital photos (and any other files or data you need to backup).

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