Temporary Server Rack
PitelSPOT server will shutdown on December 31st 2009 and will not become active again until Janurary 6th 2010 (at earliest).  We are moving from Illinois to New Jersey and are taking the …

If you have ever used the the Electrical  Engineer Library included with Visio, you will quickly learn just how crappy it is. Symbols do not align to the grid, they contain long connectors, and the …

Revenge of the permalink errors.  A had a similar problem happen when I upgraded to 2.7.1, which I posted about here.
Downgrading to Wordpress2.7.1 was really simple:

Download the previous version.
Drag the files into your Wordpress installation …

This article covers chapter 5 of my dissertation.
    - Single-Phase Grid Connected Control
    – Direct Digital Synthesis
    - All Digital Phase-Lock Loop
    - Software and Hardware in the Loop Experiments
    – Rapid Control Prototypes and System Products
 G. Pitel, “Fast …

Good news, my transactions was accepted–which means I can start letting dissertation chapters  trickle out into Internet land. Enjoy.
This article covers chapters 1 and 2 of my disstertation. These chapters cover:
- Dissertation Introduction
- Voltage Source …

This post adds to the collection of fixes for the dreaded WordPress HTTP 500 and HTTP 404 errors  users can encounter after an update . In particular, the article targets the scenerio when default Permalink …

In an effort to make my life easier I decided to put PitelSPOT on its own dedicated server. In the past, all my web applications were run from my workstation, which has obvious disadvantages. …

Expect server outages this week. PitelSPOT is getting a major upgrade that will be described in a later post.

I decided to post my University of Illinois doctorate dissertation. If you have questions, please leave a comment below so we can have open discussions. This dissertation applies large-signal and time-domain models along with digital …

Somehow, my wife and I managed to share a car for the past five years. This arrangment worked because we live in a small town, both work at the University, and are attached at the …