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Dennis Moul
Director of Information Technology
Landslide Technologies, Inc

d m m (at) c i t y - n e t (dot) c o m


NOTE: This is my personal home page, and is neither sanctioned by nor officially represents Landslide Inc.

I am the IT Director for Landslide Technologies, a start-up company based in Pittsburgh that is developing and hosting a web-based "Sales Force Effectiveness" application. I am also on the faculty at the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University, and do independent IT consulting. See my plan file for contact information.

Prior to Landslide, I was the IS Director for CoManage Corporation. I built the IT infrastructure, team, and services to scale the company from 30 people in a shared office space to nearly 200 people across four separate facilities in the North Hills of Pittsburgh. Before CoManage I was the Senior Systems Architect for the City of Pittsburgh. I worked for City Information Systems, which is responsible for all computing in the city government and agencies. Prior to working for the City, I did network management and interface design for Psychology Software Tools, Inc. For the three years prior to that, I was working on my Master's degree in Telecommunications at the University of Pittsburgh. During that time I worked for the computer lab at the School of Information Sciences, and also took on the occasional consulting project.

CMU Class
Intro page for 95-799 Linux, a graduate course that I teach at CMU's Heinz School of Public Policy and Management.
I also teach 90-811 Local Area Networks there. In both cases the full course web site is available only to students through CMU's Blackboard system.

Software
Programs that I have written to make my life easier. Available here so others can make their lives easier too. The first entry: SVCMON, a Perl script to monitor and restart Windows NT services.

City Internet
1997 Request for Proposals (RFP) for Internet Access for the City of Pittsburgh.

Comic Book Cover Art
A long time ago when the Web was young (and so was I), I put together a small Comic Book Cover Art Collection, featuring scans of the covers of Bubblegum Crisis, Dirty Pair, and Flaming Carrot. The individual pages for each series also contain the introductory text describing the characters and their context.

Steam Tunnel stack
An amusing remnant from my CMU days is a Hypercard map of the CMU Steam Tunnels. I wrote it as a simple Hypercard demo (on a dual-floppy Mac Plus, as I recall) for a Mac application show called StraightTalk. If you've ever wondered how the steam tunnels were laid out, or where that metal hatch in the middle of the Mall goes, take a look.

Infobits
3/25/02 Network World Wireless LAN article with quotes from me.
9/14/01 Network World Wireless LAN article with quotes from me.

A suggestion of mine on how to pronounce http:// has been included in Tasty Bits from the Technology Front, a widely-read online newsletter.

An article pointer I posted on Slashdot about laser-based retinal displays generated some interesting replies.

How to create multi-line "graybar" backgrounds in Excel with conditional formatting: use the formula "=MOD(TRUNC(ROW()/n),2)", where n is the number of rows you want to be the same color before switching. For example, n=3 gives three rows of normal background, followed by three rows of whatever background you set the conditional format to, then three more normal rows, then three formatted rows, etc.

I can never remember this formula when I need it, so I post it here in the spirit of Linus Torvald's famous quote: "Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.". Whenever I need it, I just google "multi-line excel graybar" and up it comes.

HP 200LX Palmtop PC Pointers
A local copy of the HP 95/100/200LX FAQ File

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