Government Contractors: Research US Federal Government Contract Awards
If you’re interested in knowing which contracts were awarded to US federal government contractors, there’s an app for that. Actually, there are several. Here’s the first one: https://www.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/en. Once you get there, just type the vendor name into the “ezSearch” box. FOIA Request Not Required There was a time when you had to file a Freedom […]
SSD Installation Problem: Windows 10 and Samsung 850 EVO
Recently I purchased a Samsung SSD and ran into an SSD installation problem. What’s SSD, you may ask? SSD stands for “solid state drive,” a faster version of a standard hard drive that has no moving parts to break. As successor to the Samsung 840 EVO, the Samsung 850 EVO is very similar but features […]
Geographical / Spatially-related Data
Google Earth Pro allows us to generate high-resolution aerial / satellite imagery for use in proposals, websites, and project design and construction. The video export features have been used to mimic project flyovers, create flyovers that orient clients geographically, and “off-label” as a method of recording motion through custom-designed 3-dimensional models. Quantum GIS is a […]
Visual Studio 2013 Perform a Switch User Operation
Recently I was trying to activate a Visual Studio 2013 installation that had been installed on a machine for a different user. When entering the new user’s credentials, I got an error message directing me to “perform a switch user operation.” Of course, switching users can mean different things to different people. Did they mean […]
Solution for MS Access Form Error Message “The OLE Object is Empty”
I have an OLE object field in a MS Access linked table (linked, meaning the table itself actually resides in a different database file). This field is represented by a Bound Object Frame in a subform that’s nested inside a Tab Control in an Access 2002-2003 MDB. When I visit the tab with the subform […]
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
Equivalent to: Adobe Photoshop. Website: https://www.gimp.org/. Uses: Photo retouching, image composition, image authoring. My experience: Sometime in 2003 I needed to edit some images and no one would give me a Photoshop license. A little Googling led me to GIMP. The features are very similar to Photoshop with mild differences. Where GIMP excels is the […]