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Jan24

Brownie Project 7 - The Sleeping Bag Swindle

the happy castComplete!  Check it out either on its page on the Brownie Project website or here after the break.

If I were inclined to blog about such things, I'd talk about the various technical challenges, probably.  Jeff Pedersen shot the thing on my T2i, which we'd stepped down to 720/60 in case we wanted to use the other camera that I've got handy.  We didn't, but I'd say that 720p is enough p for just about any Brownie Project.  At least for now, right?

The full video and more notes about what I learned and such after the break.

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Jan19

Backing Up a WHS images

WHSWith the decommissioning of my old computer, I really took notice for the first time of a strange limitation in WHS - there's no way to export an image of one of your computer's backups to a compressed folder.

I'm officially retiring Tombstone, as you already know, and I'll want to remove it from the "Computers & Backup" tab in the not-too-distant future because I'm a neat freak and because I hate having yellow things in my Home Network Status screen, even if I can check "ignore this issue" to get my thing back to green.

So, with some google-fu and a lot of time, I managed to mount, export and compress Tombstone's final backup, which now sits on my desktop as a 275GB .wim file.  That seems a little small, but it'll have to do until I can take a few days and try to restore it.  I'm sure I'll learn something interesting during that process, but at the moment, I feel as if the peace of mind I've gained by having the data there is good enough.  Even if it's not restorable, I'm sure I can mount the image as a drive to get at anything I may need.

Anyway, this post isn't a how-to, just a note on the fact that it's do-able, and probably worth it.

 
Jan17

Speed Test TWC

I'm looking into leaving Time Warner for our Cable internet, and decided to check on my speeds over at speedtest.net.  Turns out not to have sucked too much, really.  Faster than 72% of the US using "Road Runner Turbo" is okay.  I'd like to be in the 90th percentile, though.

Fredonia Drive

 
Jan12

Meet DESTROYER, my not-at-all absurdly-named computer

It's January 2012, and that seems like a really good time to upgrade my workstation.

It's been a long time since I've done a real overhaul on my computer system.  Although I did replace my video cards about 6 months ago, the rest of the system has been plugging along for a year and a half or more.  Because of some end-of-the-year corporate spending requirements, I found myself looking at computer components on the 29th of December, and a few days later some boxes showed up at my door. Destroyer, my new Computer Go figure.

Anyway, what follows is a list of hardware because last time I wrote a post like this it was supremely helpful in terms of remembering what was in the box that sits next to me all day long when I needed to download drivers, troubleshoot problems or generally do something useful.   Sometimes posts like this are purely for me, and for that, I apologize. Tombstone, my old system, is still mostly running, although in a semi-gutted state, waiting to be re-purposed as something awesome, either a system in Andrew's growing empire or the hub of my still-theoretical porn empire. Dunno which yet. Maybe something yet different from that.

Anyway, after the break you'll find the components, names and some reasoning behind each piece of the puzzle.

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Jan18

SOPA & PIPA for the record

I am opposed to SOPA & PIPA.  I recognize that the government has outsourced the writing of laws to the highest bidder, and I recognize that music and movie execs are a bunch of half-human oafs with their heads too far up their collective asses for them to be scientifically still alive (a medical miracle!), but I still believe that an outcry from regular people can make a difference.

Every sentient American opposes these two bills.  Every one.

From the oft-brilliant Oatmeal:

 
Jan17

Ruby-on-Rails is hard

okay, that's not true, maybe, but installing it is hard on my Ubuntu VM, that's for sure.  I tried on Thursday, with no success.  I'm trying again today, and have already restored my snapshot once, and the error I just got means I'll probably have to do it again.

There has been an error while running make.
Aborting the installation.

Really?

Sorry I've been bad about updating - I haven't done much of note so far this year.  Not that I ever update about things "of note" but still.

Edit: It got easier.  I followed this tutorial for Ubuntu 11.10 and had only one glitch that was solved by reading the first few comments.

 
Jan05

Soup Week - The Thrilling Conclusion

Soup Motherfucking WeekSo the week of soups comes to its thrilling conclusion, culminating in what Casey said was her favorite soup: Custom Tortilla Soup.

Steak Tortilla SoupIt's custom because I didn't want to make chicken tortilla because we had awesome chicken noodle earlier in the week and I didn't want to compete with my own product.  What I decided to do was to buy Skirt Steak, do a mexican-style marinade on it (salt, pepper, chili powder and lime juice, refrigerate for an hour or more), then pan-sear the steak and use the juices as part of the soup.

Pictures and more notes post-break.

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