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  • HD Video Playback on iBook G4

    I’ve been upgrading the MythTV server in the basement. I still have the Hauppuage card, so NTSC works fine. But, its time to havs some HDTV… I have to prepare for the transition. I purchased a pcHDTV 5500. It was plug and play to get it work, I did upgrade the [...]
    Posted: October 05, 2008, 3:52pm EDT
    by David
  • 7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable

    From Cracked.com How many of your friends have you only spoken with online? Some days, the Internet reads like humanity’s huge, whiny suicide note. Here’s why. [...]
    Posted: September 26, 2008, 5:06pm EDT
    by ianagain
  • tech fails me

    When the smoke detectors battery fails, it’s always at 4AM. Me: “zzzzzsnnnnrkk” Beep Me:”huh…zzzzsnrrrkk” BEEP Me:”aw hell, wtf is beeping?….zzzzsnrrkrrkk” BEEP Me:”mutherf*ckin som-b*tch goddam sh*ta$$ smoke alarm….crap” BEEP Stumble out of bed, find which of the 3 smoke alarms is beeping, wonder what the hell, since they are tied into the electrical of the house…oh it’s a backup battery…extract [...]
    Posted: September 24, 2008, 5:35am EDT
    by ianagain
  • The Beeb and the Box

    “The Box is an ambitious and unique year-long project for BBC News to tell the story of international trade and globalisation by tracking a standard shipping container around the world. “ This is cool on a bunch of levels, and you can track the container in real time. Pretty spiffy. I [...]
    Posted: September 09, 2008, 5:09pm EDT
    by ianagain
  • Lawyer Pron

    If ever wondered where all those gossip sites (The Superficial, Perez Hilton, Popoholic, etc.) get their scoops? From the Courthouse News Service. Interesting stuff from the litigious side of the law. [...]
    Posted: September 08, 2008, 6:32pm EDT
    by ianagain
  • Longest drive in the world.

    OMFG, these guys are driving from the UK to Alaska, by way of Russia and across the Bering Strait. Cruising along in a highly modified Land Rover, they recently crossed over the Bering Strait into Alaska. There is a great gallery of the crazy vehicles these guys have been using [...]
    Posted: August 25, 2008, 6:53pm EDT
    by ianagain
  • Graphing fun for numbers geeks

    Nothing boils a bunch of complex data into a tasty nugget of info like a well created graph. Us geek love graphs, and really, how else could anyone comprehend something as complex as web traffic? From the folks who brought you countless LOLcats, comes a fun site where pop culture and [...]
    Posted: May 22, 2008, 5:03pm EDT
    by ianagain
  • Ubuntu to you too! Verdict…good to go.

    So, I decided to quit pirating operating systems and installed Ubuntu on a slightly more modern laptop. It rocks. Hands down. It found all the funky parts of the hardware, including a slightly non-standard Cisco WiFi card. No problems at all. Now I am in the middle of finding fun [...]
    Posted: February 18, 2008, 5:07pm EST
    by ianagain
  • DCC and SystemImager

    I have installed Debian Sarge, and the DCC components. I’ve gotten through most of the setup instructions for DCC.I’m at step 3.4 Deploying the image on work nodes.dcc_discovernode worked well enough. But now I’m trying to get the node to acquire the boot image. And this is proving to be [...]
    Posted: January 21, 2008, 3:27pm EST
    by David
  • Cluster pt 5. Next steps & challenges…

    First off, I need to shake the hands of the support folks at DCC. They have been responsive, and helpful - even to a hobbyist. I got Debian 4.0 (etch) installed, and started to configure it to use the DCC packages, things were not going as smoothly as they could have. [...]
    Posted: December 08, 2007, 4:40pm EST
    by David
  • Cluster pt 4. Which Distro, cont’d.

    I dropped a PC on my toe yesterday. I have been rooting through all my carcasses of computers, looking for more and better RAM for the cluster nodes. A pc slipped out of my hands while I was lifting it… So far, I have 512MB in the master node. Once I [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2007, 12:27pm EST
    by David
  • Cluster pt 3. rocksclusters.org

    Well, I did a google for ‘Debian Clustering’ and I found the link in the previous post to the Debian DCC package. I downloaded that, and am installing it as we speak. In looking at the search results, I clicked the second link, and got to the beowulf.org site, which had [...]
    Posted: November 22, 2007, 9:16pm EST
    by David
  • Cluster pt 2. The Distro

    We all know that outside of the hardware, the OS is the most important component of a well behaved system. But this issue becomes more complex when you start to build a cluster environment because maintenance becomes more of a hassle. The reason for this is that so much is shared [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2007, 9:52pm EST
    by David
  • Cluster pt 1. Hardware

    For many years I wanted to have a cluster. Mostly for the challenge of setting it up, but also to learn about what kinds of applications work best in a clustered environment.I started with a group of identical 486 boxes purchased from Laclede Computer Trading. These were adequate machines to [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2007, 9:16pm EST
    by David
  • Manatee Cam (I think)

    I found this neat thing…a screensaver that shows live images of network surveillance cameras worldwide. Not working on a Mac at the moment, I have to wait till the Linux version is out…though if I really felt like it I could probably port it. Nah. Anyway, the search string that they use [...]
    Posted: November 16, 2007, 3:27pm EST
    by ianagain
  • Autumn Pensiveness?

    I get home, and I don’t wanna watch TV. It’s only a bit chilly out, its temperate, and verry humid.These days, I’ve got projects that cant seem to finish on time. It’s really starting to get annoying, and i want to start yelling at programmers, but that wouldn’t help the [...]
    Posted: November 13, 2007, 6:46pm EST
    by David
  • Getting all web 2.0 an’ at.

    Not much to say here, this is more of a proof of concept post, from my Blackberry, on the bus. Heh. [...]
    Posted: November 13, 2007, 4:14pm EST
    by ianagain
  • Cluster f**k of a situation

    Well, as you can see not much activity over here lately. I’m busy as HELL at work. I’m building things here at home, trying to fix my toilet, and working on getting the cluster in the basement to run MM5. In the process of doing that, I tried to upgrade the [...]
    Posted: November 10, 2007, 5:12pm EST
    by David
  • Damp… Wet… Rainy…

    I think it’s been raining for the past week or so here in Pittsburgh, and everything is damp and waterlogged. The slugs love it though!

    [...]
    Posted: August 23, 2007, 11:23pm EDT
    by ianagain
  • Damp, wet, rainy

    I think it’s been raining for the past week or so here in Pittsburgh, and everything is damp and waterlogged. The slugs love it though!

    Rants Rants [...]
    Posted: August 22, 2007, 8:52pm EDT
    by Ian
  • My Pretty City

    If you want to see just how pretty Pittsburgh is, you should watch The Kill Point on Spike TV. The cinematography really uses the vistas of the city almost as another member of the cast. Check it out, you may get a fresh perspective on The Smoky City.

    [...]
    Posted: July 31, 2007, 11:23pm EDT
    by ianagain
  • My pretty city…

    If you want to see just how pretty Pittsburgh is, you should watch The Kill Point on Spike TV. The cinematography really uses the vistas of the city almost as another member of the cast. Check it out, you may get a fresh perspective on The Smoky City.

    Travelogue [...]
    Posted: July 30, 2007, 9:05pm EDT
    by Ian
  • Brush with stardom

    Walking across the street today, a woman with a british accent asked me where the Post Office was.
    I wasn’t sure, and as I looked up, there is Michael York. He’s in town with his wife for a run at the Benedum, in Camelot. I looked at him [...]

    Posted: July 20, 2007, 6:34pm EDT
    by Ian
  • Brush With Stardom

    Walking across the street today, a woman with a british accent asked me where the Post Office was.
    I wasn’t sure, and as I looked up, there is Michael York. He’s in town with his wife for a run at the Benedum, in Camelot. I looked at him [...]

    Posted: July 20, 2007, 5:20pm EDT
    by ianagain
  • Buttrick Museum Highlight of New England Trip

    This journalist has been remiss in failing earlier to post the account of a recent trip to Massachusetts. When I mentioned to a certain Super Geek, known to this site as David, that my friend, Linda, and I were on our way to Concord, Mass, he suggested we mention [...]

    Posted: June 20, 2007, 12:46am EDT
    by char
  • Ubuntu to you too!

    With the death of my home desktop, I decided that I would try Ubuntu Linux. I could have found a version of XP to install, and gone through the joy of installing it, configuring it, loading anti-virus, and what not, but I get enough of that at work.
    So [...]

    Posted: May 27, 2007, 8:20am EDT
    by Ian
  • Life Insurance and Ending it All

    At some point in life, we all sit across our kitchen table from an insurance salesman to purchase, or at least contemplate purchasing a life insurance policy.  Though I don’t have the slightest inclination to talk anybody into doing that, I thought I’d quickly share how the somewhat-still-Mob-controlled industry works [...]

    Posted: May 26, 2007, 4:33pm EDT
    by Phil Baker
  • The ATM Machine and the Card Swipe - Going Back

    In the late 1980s I worked at a then-dominant check printing company’s distribution and web press operation a bit west of St Louis, in St Chuck county. 

    In t hose days, everybody had to order checks and use them across counters at grocery stores, retail, and to pay bills.  On-line billing [...]

    Posted: May 26, 2007, 8:58am EDT
    by Phil Baker
  • When in Bosnia, Shake Your Head…

    …and that means ‘yes’.

     Nod your head, and that means ‘no’.2714.img

    Second behind learning the bewildering, exception-packed English language, our head nods are THE HARDEST aspect of American culture that our new friends have had to learn.

    Uncategorized Uncategorized [...]
    Posted: May 23, 2007, 8:15pm EDT
    by Phil Baker
  • Dead hard drive no cause for panic

    Dead drive at home, damn thing won’t even spin up…sigh. Where’d that data go?

    [...]
    Posted: May 22, 2007, 10:53am EDT
    by Ian
  • Barry Bonds and the Record

    I really haven’t gotten into baseball whatsoever in the past couple of years, and given that I caught every game I could and ingrained radio broadcasts into me my whole life prior, I have to assume that my pause from it is temporary.I know the game, though. [...]

    Posted: May 22, 2007, 5:04am EDT
    by Phil Baker
  • (Extramarital) Affairs of the (Working) Heart

    It’s absolutely inevitable that extra-marital affairs occur where we all spend an absurd amount of time–work.  It matters not whether it’s in an office or anywhere, or if it’s a higher or lower salary level, and they occur across racial lines:  black, white, Hispanic, and toss in our Slavic friends (By [...]

    Posted: May 21, 2007, 2:11pm EDT
    by Phil Baker
  • Shaker al-Absi’s the Bad Guy Here

     Monday, 5-21-07

     It’s nearly impossible to meaner through the oft-partisan U.S. press to get the true scoop of a story, particularly a Middle Eastern one.

    The deal, though, with Shaker al-Absi is straight as an arrow, be it via The Washington Post (leftist) or the Washington Times (rightist).  He’s a villian to [...]

    Posted: May 21, 2007, 12:37pm EDT
    by Phil Baker
  • ‘Kay’ Got a Bit Too Wild

    Since I started my job up here in the klondike of North County, I’ve pretty much eaten every day at McDonalds.  The chicken sandwhich is nothing particularly to brag about, but at least it doesn’t pack a load of whatever’s unhealthy in burgers.

    Anyway, ‘Kay’, mid-twenty-ish (I guess; I’m not good [...]

    Posted: May 21, 2007, 12:04pm EDT
    by Phil Baker
  • Peter Tosh Weighs In - ‘Bush Doctor’ (1978)

    Peter Tosh will probably forever be remembered more as Bob Marley’s bassist during the sixties and seventies than he’ll ever be known as a solo artist.

    His powerfully strong aspirations and convictions toward the legalization of marijuana endures as his most striking memory. Performing early on as a VERY vocal activist [...]

    Posted: May 21, 2007, 11:18am EDT
    by phil

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