Arcade Cabinet Project (updated 1/20)

Catchy title, I know. Anyway… “It has begun!”

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Fitting Non-Dimensional Inventory into Dynamics AX’s Dimensional Inventory Model

In this article I chronicle the business and technical decisions and hurdles encountered in fitting a product that doesn’t fit a finite dimensional model (in this case steel pipe and tube) into Microsoft Dynamics AX’s dimension-driven inventory model. We’ll start off with a quick overview of the Dynamics AX item/dimension model, go into a bit of an overview of pipe and tube manufacturing and stocking and why this material doesn’t fit base AX (or likely any other out-of-the-box ERP) due to a need for ‘variable’ or non-exclusive item dimensions, and finish with the solutions successfully implemented in the marketplace. There will be a mix of business and technical jargon but none of it should be out of reach to a programmer, implementer, or analyst at any level.

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Funny From ./: Toothpick Eye

>> Xcode is free if you’ve got a Mac. Otherwise it costs 1 Macintosh worth of dollars.

>You can develop directly on your windows mobile pda.
>You can also develop for windows mobile pda under linux.

You can remove your appendix using a toothpick sticked into your left eye…

Trash the Language Toolbar Once and For All

I hate that thing… No matter how many times I hide it, it always finds a reason to come back. In fact, on one of my machines it comes back depending on which program you hover over in the task bar, so crap is always moving around. Make it gone for good! Run:

regsvr32 /u msutb.dll

You may need to reboot for it to take.

AMD a Conteder Again?

I used to be the biggest AMD fanboy. Back in the K6 days when AMD cheaps were slowly eeking up to their Intel counterparts, I jumped on board. The next few years there was fierce competition at the top-end with AMD and Intel constantly exchanging the ‘Fastest Desktop Chip’ trophy. Through the Athlon days AMD chips were almost always solidly in the lead in the oh-so-important speed-per-dollar benchmark. Their chips were enthusiasts’ dreams; cheap, fast, and highly overclockable. Those were the golden days of AMD.

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