Archive for December, 2007

Resize Digital Camera Pictures Using Only MSPaint

December 30th, 2007

I’m going to go over a quick and easy way to resize your digital camera images to something more manageable so that you’ll be able to post them online, email them, send them over im, and whatever else you want to do with them. This technique is a quick way to resize a few images, up to about 4-5 I would say before this technique is not useful and there is a better approach.

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Why We Lie: Book Review

December 29th, 2007

Stunning.  I wish I had read this all in one sitting, or in a span of a few days instead of putting such a gap between reads.   David Livingstone Smith has a knack for choosing words that flow together ever so eloquently.  I really enjoyed this one.

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Einstein’s Dreams: Book Review

December 29th, 2007

Great read. It initially took me by surprise in that I wasn’t understanding what was going on at all. It’s an easy read and I finished it in an afternoon, but about 1/4th through it hit me. I was reading dreams. Now it makes sense why he’s talking about crazy things.
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We beat Burbenog Expert 41 Levels!

December 29th, 2007

We beat Warcraft III Frozen Throne Burbenog TD ver3.2-EC

edit: we beat it again.

ya buddy!

after ~40 hours of playing this damn game we finally beat it.

here’s the map: The Map

here’s our winning replay: We Win Burbenog

here’s our second winning replay:  We Win Burbenog easily~

GG!

General Tso’s Chicken was a HIT!

December 27th, 2007

Omg. sooo good.

I will write out how I did it and with what later but for now – here is some eye candy.

Final Meal

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Linux: device manager corollary

December 26th, 2007

In Ubuntu, my distribution, run:

sudo lshw

This is quite a long command for some of us, so if you’d like to put it in a file and then look at it after it’s already ran, do:

sudo lshw >> myfile.txt

Make Menuconfig / XConfig Error

December 26th, 2007

First you need make:

sudo apt-get install make

Then you try make menuconfig or make xconfig and you get this:
/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
/bin/sh: line 1: gcc: command not found
make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 127
make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2

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Kernel Location Ubuntu 7.1

December 26th, 2007

Kernel’s aren’t included by default in Ubuntu, but you can grab them easily with the following command:

sudo apt-get install linux-source

This will grab the most recent kernel release and put it in /usr/src, which is the default location.

Knock on Wood!

December 26th, 2007

I think I got it!

I completely disassembled pwroftwo all the way down to the last screw.  I set the motherboard up on my desk with just it, the CPU’s, the Video Card, RAM, and power.  Surprisingly — it didn’t cut off!  It ran smoothly for 20 minutes with my old power supply! Crazy, I know.

Anyways, I’ve built it back piece by piece trying to make sure there are no shorts anywhere, etc.

I’ve reinstalled Linux on it because one of the times it shut off it messed up the partition, so that went well, and I’m now about to try to install the RocketRaid drivers for my PCI-X card and then subsequently get my 2TB Raid Array up and running.

Actually.. before I do all that I’m going to let it run overnight  — Let’s hope it’s still running in the morning.

New Power Supply! Yippee!!!

December 24th, 2007

New power supply is installed and pwroftwo is about to be in action!~~

I’m burning it in a little bit to make sure it’s not going to die on me, and then I’ll plug in the hard drives and look at all the stuff that’s on them. Hopefully emery won’t want too much and then I can wipe it and start migrating data!

…….errrrrrrrrr in the middle of writing this it did the error beep again… gah what the hell

let’s hope that once I get this new CMOS battery I can fix it once and for all!