Michael Bates: October 2012 Archives
Oklahoma House of Representatives - House Historic Members
A very neat web app that lets you list past Oklahoma state representatives. You can select by county, by range of years, or by district. You can download your results as a spreadsheet. Very interesting to see the shift from county at-large representation prior to 1965 to district representation ever since. Tulsa County had seven state reps in 1964; in 1965 Tulsa County had 15.
Tech Support Guy Forums - Safely remove hardware in command prompt?
When the "safely remove" icon disappeared from my system tray, I found this article. I created a shortcut to run the command "RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll" then changed the icon for the shortcut to the "safely remove" icon in hotplug.dll, so I can easily recognize it.
Jezra.net: projects: serial switch - a simple input device
More fun with PC ports -- serial port, this time.
Interfacing the Standard Parallel Port
How to turn your PC's parallel port into digital I/O for interfacing the computer to the real world.
