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Electronic Property Document Recording – SECURE 8:00 AM Documents

Back in December, Los Angeles County went live with the multi-county electronic property document recording system, SECURE. (You can read the article HERE.)

It was considered a live pilot to ensure issues were worked out and that we did not fail. At the time, we only allowed title companies to submit what are called “daily” documents. Those are documents which are not required to have a time stamp of 8:00 AM.(Title companies typically submit documents which show ownership changes early in the morning and are customarily given an 8:00 AM time stamp so that no private entity can assume title of the property before the title company’s customer on a given day.)

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Electronic Property Document Recording - SECURE Goes Live!

Introduction

As a manager with the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder, I am in charge of the software development team who creates applications to handle property document recording. Whenever one buys, sells or refinances a house or land, property documents are generated. These documents must be submitted to a County Recorder for storage and indexing to be made available as a public record. Los Angeles County – having well over 10 million residents – is the most populous county in the United States and contains 88 separate cities. As such, my office records – or processes – over 2 million property document recordings per year.

Until now, each one of those documents must be brought in by hand, looked over, entered into our application and then scanned for permanent storage. (The current system was brought online in January 2007, as documented by this video: ELECTRONIC RECORDING ARCHIVE - 2007)

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Windows 7 Review

Introduction
This is a review of the latest and greatest offering from Microsoft. Windows 7 is here and ready to be unpacked. I've been honestly using Win7 for some time now. For a Microsoft product, it is - well - mostly harmless. Vista came out and was supposed to right the injustices that plagued the horrendous Windows XP - poor user interface, bad support options and continual crashing. I - for one - stuck with Windows 2000 one my one home Windows machine until I could no longer find support for most of what I needed. (Windows XP was the reason I switched many of my machines over to Linux.)

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Installing the Cisco VPN Client on openSUSE

Introduction

I telecommute at least one day every two weeks and need access to my corporate network. Since we use a Cisco VPN at my office, I have been using the Cisco client to connect.

However, after a recent kernel upgrade, I noticed that I got the following message when I tried to run the client:

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Windows Vista Kernel Source Code Revealed

After exhaustive study, I have obtained a copy of the Windows Vista Kernel Source code. It appears that Microsoft has moved to utilizing more of the .net environment to handle kernel events.

Here is the kernel386 source code:

using genuineadvantage;
using propriatery.codecs;
using os2.core.modules;
using vms.core.modules;
using sun.java.core.libraries;
using apple.macintosh.gui;
using Win31.api.thunk;

public class kernel386 {
public static void Main()
{
long int iCount extends infinity;
for (i=1; 1>0; i++)>

{
SpinHourGlass();

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ERA Application Video

We did a promotional video for our enterprise recording archive. This is now being hosted at YouTube.

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Tux Math 1.4.5 RPM available

I just uploaded an openSUSE RPM of Tux Math 1.4.5 to my open directory.

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/rpm/openSUSE10.2/

You can download it from there and install on your openSUSE systems. I don't believe it needs any extra libraries (SDL) but let me know if you run into any dependency issues.

I'd try and get a screen shot but can't seem to do it on a full screen.

Oh, and for those who are curious, the tux math website is here:

http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxmath/

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DonutMonster Tip of the Day

After some work on Arraylists and reading/writing to text files - something we all should know about - I got the tip of the day working exactly as I like it.

Here is a screen shot of the tip working on my system.

Now, for a comparison, here it was back when I was using the third party control. For almost as much work with the third party control, I have a tip that is mine. Cool

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Video Capture from Linux

One of the things frustrating me about linux - until now - is the inabilty to have a good video capture program. Screen captures are a piece of cake with KSnapshot, which I use all the time and have setup to run on CTRL + F2. However, I've failed miserably at installing a video capture program with even decent capibilities like the old SnagIt I used to use on Wintendo.

Well, my wait is over. I now can do tutorials and demonstrations on Linux.

http://www.youtube.com/v/mQAjPIZR2dg

The above is a video shot on my laptop. It is a quick demo of my donutmonster application (www.donutmonster.com) and done using RecordMyDesktop. I installed it - and the GTK front-end - using SMART and all is well.

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Built In SD/MMC/XD Card Slot on HP Compaq nw9440

For those who are curious and have a built-in SD card slot on a
notebook, here's how to enable it.

I have an HP Compaq nw9440 laptop with SUSE 10.2 and a built in
SD-MS/Pro-MMC-SM-XD card slot.

It doesn't work out of the box.

I saw this person had the same issue and solved it:

http://nw9440.narod.ru/

From his site:

After quick investigation i have found a note related to Texas
Instruments SD MMC pci controller. The one is quite old but remains
actual for TI [and SuSE?]
for pci device:
# lspci -s 6.2
02:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia

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