PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

Weather man was half wrong.

Oct

20

I played golf without getting wet today. But as I came back into the club house, it started to rain. I was really lucky today. Next golf is I Japan.

Oh, I shot 48:40, 88 today. A little tip I got from Bill at ALDARRA is working. It was even sunny for a while.

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#Mobile

Look what Photoshop can do!!!

Oct

19

We had halloween luncheon today. Look what little bit of Photoshop can do.

#Blog

Gas Price, Finally under $4.00

Oct

18

I filled up this morning at Chevron Gas Station near the office for $3.959. Finally it is under $4.00.

I did some research, in November 2008, the gas price was $1.719. That means when Obama too the office, the price was less than half of what we pay now.

#Life #Politics #Society

Cheap Ticket to Japan

Oct

17

This is not much more than the cost of flying between Seattle and L.A.
I wonder what Tax and Fuel Surcharges are.

#Travel

Are you ready for Microsoft Surface?

Oct

16

Same price as iPad.

Now you can preorder Microsoft Surface Tablet starting at $499. I heard it costs more to produce than the sales price. It looks interesting ... we will buy one to make sure we know what we are dealing with. I also have to make sure whether it supports multiple languages.

http://surface.microsoftstore.com

#Computer #Internet

Do you know how to setup WiFi Hot Spot?

Oct

16

If you own a restaurant, you should offer Free WiFi.

Do you provide Free Wireless Internet Access to your customers?
It add quite a value to your establishment. Also, setting up WiFi is more secure than having customers get to the net via your company network.

If you want to know how to securely setup WiFi Hot Spot at your company or restaurant, please contact me.

#Computer #Internet

RDBMS?

Oct

16

Compaq Portable 386 ... I loved this PC!

Where did the Relational Database Management System go?

How many of you remember software like dBase, R:BASE, DataFlex, Informix, Revelation for DOS? Do you remember companies like Ashton-Tate and MicroRIM?

They used to produce the software that can store, manage and manipulate data using 4GL (4th generation language). Experienced VARs (Value Added Resellers or Systems Integrators) can put together custom database solutions in very short period of time and deliver it to the customers.

I don’t see them any more. People are using SQL and other database software with the languages like PERL, PHP and C, C++ to program custom application software, which adds lots of cost and time. May be because it is not simple DOS environment but that should not be an excuse to make thing more difficult.

If you know any good RDBMS with 4GL, please let me know.

#Computer #Internet

Seattle Weather

Oct

15

I have put two forecast top and bottom. Top was on Thursday last week and bottom is today.

I played golf on Friday and Sunday ... I got wet little bit but not like this forecast. I am not picking on King5 ... they do as good a job as any other stations. It must be very difficulty to forecast the weather in Seattle.

#Nature

Panorama Photography

Oct

15

Have you ever used the PANORAMA photo capability of iPhone?
I just used it to take this ultra wide photo. It is very smooth and easy to use.
I do not see any patch work.

#Hobby

Pelican Drive Problem Update

Oct

15

We have finally figured out what made Pelican Drive http://www.pelicandrive.com not to operate correctly for many of our users. It had something to do with Windows Client Security setting. Starting with Windows Vista, Windows clients are design not to connect with external drives. We must provide the security setting instruction to those having problem using pelican drive. Please contact PSPINC if you need help. The setting changes will be posted on the Pelican Drive Web Site. Thank you.

#Computer #Internet