Posts by Rob Raesemann
Configuring your vCampus environment. Every PI Geek needs a Sandbox. (Part 1)
You need a sandbox To become good at building reliable solutions you have to be really good a breaking things. You must have a sandbox that allows you to play, experiment, and develop an intuitive sense of how things work. Over the years, I have literally spent thousands of hours in sandbox environments making a…
Read MoreCalling a SharePoint list using Web Service using GetListItems now expects XElement
I recently ran into a problem trying to run CAML queries against a SharePoint 2010 list using the web service and the stub code created by Visual Studio 2010. It seems that Microsoft has made some changes so the GetListItems method now expects the query parameter to be of type System.Xml.Linq.XElement instead of an XMLNode.…
Read MoreProud sponsor of UNF Play a Round fore Scholarships Golf Tournament
Raesemann Enterprises is once again proud to sponsor the University of North Florida Alumni Association’s Play a Round fore Scholarships golf tournament. This is the 6th year of the tournament that raises money to support first generation scholarships at UNF. These scholarships are awarded to students who are the first in their family to attend…
Read MoreInstalling PI Server 2012 RC0 on Windows 2008 R2 Core
It’s always a good day when you check the tech support page at http://techsupport.osisoft.com and see something new that you are interested in. I downloaded the PI Server 2012 Release Candidate yesterday and decided to setup a test VM so that I could play with it. I’m working on a new blog post about my…
Read MorePI in the Cloud – aka – “PI in the Sky”
I attended the UC session discussing “The Cloud” and OSIsoft’s mobile efforts. Their engineers have playfully dubbed this “PI in the Sky”. One of the refreshing things about the UC and the overall culture of OSIsoft and their Users Conference philosophy, you see presentations by the very engineers who are building the products. You aren’t…
Read MorePictures from the OSIsoft UC 2010
Here are some pictures that I took of the VEEDIMS technology demo at last year’s user conference. They have developed the technology that allows them to send network signals and power over the same cable which greatly reduces wiring complexity. You simply plug the modules together and power and data flow. Video…
Read MoreKennedy Space Center – Payload Ground Handling Mechanism
In 2000 I did some work for Dynacs Engineering at Kennedy Space Center. I was working on the Payload Ground Handling Mechanism (PGHM pronounced “pig ham”)which loads payloads into the Space Shuttle after it is positioned upright. I primarily worked on the HMI and code to pass data between the Ormec motion controller that moved…
Read MoreAn update for the website
It seems like the end of the year triggers an itch to try something new with my website. Last year was no exception. I decided that I wanted to look into ways of supporting a mobile view of my website. A couple of years ago I converted my site to a CSS based design and…
Read MoreMore on Stuxnet and warnings about the coming worms that will be using the techniques pioneered by the worm
I am posting a few more interesting items on Stuxnet. In addition to the information that I posted yesterday, here are a few more facts. Symantec reports that 60% of the infections have occurred in Iran Fewer than 2% of the infections have occurred in the United States The developers created fake device drivers that were…
Read MoreStuxnet virus – fascinating and scary
Today seems to be a cyber security day. I spent some time this morning talking to Brian Owen of OSIsoft about PI architectures and NERC CIP compliance. Later I was looking at Slashdot which eventually led to an interesting blog post by Symantec regarding the Stuxnet virus. There are several interesting aspects to this virus… The virus uses…
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