here is a quick time lapse of the night sky. nothing special or dramatic, just me having fun with my new gizmo.
geek
27
Oct 08
iphone & at&t
I am still getting used to the new iPhone but overall I am pleased. the ability to let the boys watch a movie has already come in handy. downloading applications could get me in trouble with amy so I will have to pace myself.
one thing that so far has surprised me is at&t’s cellular coverage. I was not expecting it to be so good. what shocked me was that I am getting better coverage now than I was with sprint. granted I have only stayed in the city, but for my day-to-day usage this is a big positive. data speed has been okay and I only hope that it gets better once Omaha goes 3g.
22
Oct 08
bye sprint, hello at&t
after being a sprint customer for ~10 years, i am leaving them to give at&t a shot. i’m doing this for a few reasons.
- i do not travel for work anymore, so coverage is not as big an issue as it was
- my sprint contract is up, and i can keep my number
- i no longer call anyone that is on sprint, other than amy
- i have had “issues” with sprint customer support
- at&t and verizon have better coverage at the in-laws
- iphone 3g is at at&t
at&t has said they are upgrading omaha to 3g before the end of the year, which “should” help with their coverage around here.
so today, i stopped by the at&t store and “reserved” my iphone and did all the preliminary “paperwork”. i will get everything switched over on friday.
i am not converting the family completely over, amy’s and the “home” phone contracts are not over until february. if all goes well with my conversion, we will move both of them at that time. if not i guess she can be a guinea pig with verizon.
15
Oct 08
new router
last night my wireless router died. okay, died is a little harsh… it’s looks to be in a continual reboot cycle. anyway, this gave me an “excuse” to pick up a new router. so today, i picked up an apple airport extreme. setup took all of 5 minutes, and amy and i are back online.
i have aspirations of sharing our printer through it as well as picking up a raid 1 array for the household backups, but will need to get the home network “ironed” out first. if you have do’s/don’t around this please clue me in.
7
Sep 08
howto install subversion on bluehost
i have finally taken the time to get subversion installed and running on my bluehost account. what follows are the steps i took. these steps assume that you have ssh access and your account is on a 64-bit server.
ssh into your account and create a directory to store all of the sources:
mkdir src
cd src
next download the sources for subversion:
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.2.tar.bz2
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.2.tar.bz2
untar and extract the sources:
tar -xjvf subversion-1.5.2.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf subversion-deps-1.5.2.tar.bz2
lets start with getting the dependencies configured, built and then installed:
cd subversion-1.5.2
cd apr
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME
make
make install
cd ../apr-util
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME --with-expat=builtin --with-apr=$HOME --without-berkeley-db
make
make install
cd ../neon
export EXTRA_CFLAGS="-L/usr/lib64 -fPIC"
export CFLAGS="-L/usr/lib64 -fPIC"
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME --with-libs=$HOME
make
make install
now configure, build and install subversion:
cd ..
./configure --prefix=$HOME --with-apr=$HOME --with-apr-util=$HOME --with-neon=$HOME \
--without-berkeley-db --without-apxs --without-apache --without-serf
make
make install
now edit your .bash_profile in the $HOME directory and replace:
PATH=$PATH
with:
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
and save the file. now either “source .bash_profile” or logout and then back in.
verify subversion is working:
svn --version
and should see something similar to:
svn, version 1.5.2 (r32768)
compiled Sep 7 2008, 11:55:08
Copyright (C) 2000-2008 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).
The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon.
- handles 'http' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
- with Cyrus SASL authentication
- handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
- handles 'file' scheme
the following sites helped get everything installed, unfortunately none of them worked out of the box for me: site 1, site 2, site 3
14
Aug 08
go
i’ve casually looked at the game of go for a couple years, never getting further than saying “i’d like to learn that.” well, i’ve taken the leap and have started learning. i am by no means good, and i am very much a beginner. i am having fun though. i’ve found a few books to help with my learning.
- the way to go
- go basics
- teach yourself go
- learn to play go
- go for beginners
i hope that one or all of these will start me on the right path learning this game. i’ve also played a couple games on kgs and was very humbled. if you see me on kgs, ask me (legobuff) to play, but please realize i am new to this so do not expect a challenge.
15
Apr 08
more restlessness
more restlessness has resulted in more playing around on my mbp. right now i have the following sitting in my dock:
mail, safari, delicious library, vmware fusion, remote desktop, transmission, gimp, handbrake, xcode, terminal, addressbook, iphoto, cyberduck, textwrangler, skitch, twitterrific, firefox, thunderbird, ibank, cuppa, ical
these have made it to my applications folder:
adium, appdelete, coconutwifi, colloquy, ffmpegx, flip4mac, google earth, gpsbabel+, growltunes, istumbler, magic number machine, mainmenu, mindnode, neooffice, sketchup, skype, vlc, xact
and these are in my preferences:
busysync, divx, geektool, growl, smartsleep
what am i missing?
22
Dec 07
sci-fi sound quiz
i just took the sci-fi sound quiz. depending on how you look at it, i didn’t do so bad.
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I received 85 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds Quiz How much of a Sci-Fi geek are you? |
| Guess the Sci-Fi Movie Sounds hereCanon powershot | |
13
Nov 07
all consuming
i was checking out binary bonsai and came across all consuming. i am now hooked.
so what is all consuming? all consuming’s faq says it best…
It’s a website where you can track and talk about the books, music, movies, food and other items that interest you. You can mark a product one of three ways: I am consuming this, I have consumed this, and I intend to consume this.
it may take me awhile to get what i have consumed loaded, but i think i have finally found a way to catalog my media in a reusable way.
