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Hi! My name is Robert Schaffrath
and I currently work for Meta5,
Inc. since 1998 doing development work in C# 3.0 under Visual Studio
2008 with .NET 2.0 through 3.5, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic 6.0 and
Visual C++ 6.0. In addition I installed the category 5 LAN wiring and hubs,
Windows 2000 and 2003 servers, Linux server as well as client PC
configuration and installation, Microsoft Exchange 5.5 and 2003 installation and Avaya
phone system installation configuration. I also worked as a self-employed
consultant with Netsurf Technologies and RealHome.com (both now defunct) on
various internet related projects including Perl script development, Oracle
database maintenance, Solaris 2.6-2.8 administration and Web
programming. I currently
program in C#, Visual Basic, C, SQL and Perl. I
also know the FORTRAN and Pascal programming languages and other scripting
languages such as DCL and the BASH, Korn and Bourne Unix/Linux
Shell’s.
Prior to this, I was a Senior Staff
Consultant with the Kraft Foods Information Technology department based in White Plains, New York until
January 1997. I was with the company for almost nine years (most of it in Maxwell House) and
I was involved with many areas of computing science including Unix,
OpenVMS, DOS/Windows, Windows-NT, TCP/IP networking and its related
applications including Intranet Projects, Wireless Messaging, Systems
Management, Oracle DBA, systems programming and computer hardware
construction and repair.
In my "spare" time, I dabble
in Amateur Radio (my FCC callsign is N2JTX), Electronics, Baking, Beer Brewing,
Bicycling, Botany, Geology, Numismatics, Philately, Reading and Computer
Programming. I also serve on the Board of Directors for the group Adventures in
Learning.
On Saturday, April 28th, 2001 I became
the owner of a Silver 2000
Honda Insight. It replaced my 1988 Honda CRX with 168,300 miles (that still got 44mpg!).
It is still a lot of fun to drive and the stares I sometimes get from
people as I drive it are priceless.
Before the government mandated that Ethanol be added to gasoline, I
could get a typical mileage of 75.2
MPG for a 19.6 mile trip on the Insight's Fuel Consumption Display. A photo of my all-time best recorded
mileage of 82.2 MPG is available here.
Various
links to other web pages on this site:
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Here in
Nassau County, Long Island they have started installing Red Light cameras at various intersections. As of
January 4, 2010 there are twenty-five installed in various areas of the
county. I have developed a CSV formatted file of Nassau
County Red Light Camera POI data for use with a GPS. I will update it
as new lights are added. It has been tested with the Garmin
POI Loader. If necessary,
it can be converted to different formats using GPSBabel. These red light camera locations can
also be viewed in Google Maps.
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Quite some
time ago I discovered that "Nixie
Tubes" (numerical indicators in use before seven segment LED
displays) have been making a comeback in the form of digital clocks. Having
built one myself back in 1979, I can say that
they are very interesting. Some day I hope to build a few other types of
clocks using various different types of Nixie tubes.
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For owners
of the RadioShack®
Weatheradio® with NWR-SAME model
12-249, information on its EAS event code support is available here. For owners of the model 12-250,
information on its EAS event code support is available here.
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For owners
of the Heath® Most Accurate Clock II (model GCW-1001), information on programming the RS-232 port and
undocumented commands is available here.
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This is a
page containing links to various Weather
Radar sites for the New York City area as well as a few national
sites. I got tired of trying to
search out different sites while on a computer where I did not have my
bookmarks available.
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Government
of Ontario COMPASS
camera’s for the QEW and 403 highways.
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A page
about to the two AN/PDR-27 series Geiger
Counters I own. One is an AN/PDR-27G that I have had since 1978 and the
other is an AN/PDR-27R that I acquired in early 2008.
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Some pictures of various elemental gas Spectrum Tubes in operation. These
tubes, with the exception of the Chlorine and Mercury Vapor tubes which I
purchased, came from my late Father's collection of elements. He was a Professor
of Chemistry at C.W. Post College on Long Island and collected elements
as a hobby and for use in class.
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A brief
article on Amplivox Audiocups
headphones that I acquired and use for radio communications. Several
pictures and product specification links are available.
My C# and .NET Articles on CodeProject.com:
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TreeView C# .Net Multiselect using TVS_EX_MULTISELECT
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Transferring Virtual Files to Windows Explorer in C#
Winamp Plugins I have developed:
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gen_autoclose.dll v2.1
binary and source. Gen_Autoclose is a plug-in
that will shut down Winamp
at a specified time and as an option, will shut down the computer or put it
into standby mode. This is useful in situations where Winamp is running on
system that must remain running such as a server.
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gen_whatsplaying.dll
v2.5 binary and source. Gen_WhatsPlaying is a general purpose Winamp
plug-in that is designed to create a file containing information about
the currently playing Winamp
track based upon a template file. This is most useful in situations where Winamp is running on a
server and the player screen is inaccessible. This latest version includes
a user configurable speech interface to Microsoft Speech API v5.0 and
higher. This allows the plug-in to speak the track title and other
information as configured by the user.
Last modified February
6, 2010
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