Hi! My name is Jonathan Heizer. I am a 24 year old from the United States and work as a .Net Developer. This site contains interest of mine, neat news stories, and progress of projects I am working on.
Jul
29
Initial tests resulted in complete failure. Not because of the microphone, not because of the dongle, not caused by too much noise, but the stinkin’ remote desktop conenction. For what ever reason I could not keep a stable remote desktop connection long enough to copy the blue tooth install over and run it. [...]
Jul
27
The new microphone is a success. For once, I actually had to read the instructions. I never would have guessed that holding down the button on the microphone for 4 seconds turned it on and 10 seconds put it in roaming mode to connect to the PC. So far I have only [...]
Jul
26
A box arrived today. It was my hard drive. I was a bit sad that I have yet to recieve my bluetooth headset, but it is scheduled to arrive tomorrow. I own a bunch of these Maxtor hard drives and they all perform wonderfully. This one is no exception. It has already been installed [...]
Jul
21
Once you get me going, I can’t stop. I just found this great deal on a Hard drive, 200GB for $70 with OUT REBATES. Can’t beat that. Check it out. http://shop2.outpost.com/product/3492233I am going to use it for backups. All to ofton files get lost to a failing hard drive, but not any more
Jul
21
After my desire last night to have a good quality microphone to pair up with my car computer, I ran into the bluetooth head set below. After a bit of thinking today I decided why not and ordered it a few minutes ago coupled with the Linksys Bluetooth dongle seen here.Being home for the summer [...]
Jul
20
In the description of my carpc application, I mention voice activation. Since i do not own a touch screen, I am attempting use voice control for the majority of the functions. Coding for this has been relatively easy, it has come down to the mic wiring that stinks. Massive amounts of moise are being introduced [...]
Jul
19
As the title says, heat is bad. Summers in southern Illinois don’t get extremely hot, but temperatures in the high 90’s is not rare. part of the car computer is being able to access the internet and local wireless network from within the car. This is used to transfer files, remote desktop for [...]
Jul
18
Yahoo! MySunfire.com is now the official link for this site. After countless years of designing web sites of other people, I finally have purchased my first domain name for personal use. I am not quite sure why I have never done it before, but it sure is nice having a real address [...]
Jul
17
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Jul
13
I have been using this program a lot at work over the last few days. It has really made my life a lot easier, but a few things could be improved upon. I added an open screen that will allow you to select a previous file in order of last viewed. This will make working [...]
Jul
10
On unix there are tons of little tools that are useful when working on a program. Tail shows the end of a file and tail -f will watch the file for changes and show them. This makes tail very yseful for watching file that are being written out to disk like logs files. I wanted [...]
Jul
7
Tonight instead of building the false floor, I decided to get everything cleaned up and working. Almost all of the wires are hidden from view and everything is in workign order. The amp is screwed down. The sub box is braced in the corner for now with small pieces of wood screw to the floor. [...]