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Paul Rudd’s Computer
06-May-10ze frank’s The Show is “back”
24-Jun-09…in it’s new & permanently sponsored form, “That makes me think of”, the first of which is here at time.com.
as a fan of the original “The Show”, I see that Time has essentially allowed Ze to exercise his presentational art form to it’s near fullest. while I doubt very much we’ll see anything as awesome, like “fingers in food” (see vid below,) coming out of this new venue, I am excited for the world at large that once we again may bask in his comedic and insightful interpretation of current events.
LED SHEEP! very cool indie ad
23-Mar-09this brings a smile.
it is well known that the biggest (arguably) design defect in the v-strom is the wind buffeting that can be described as . I experienced it immediately and bought a madstad adjustable windshield bracket which helped, a little. as the winter weather really started kicking in, and I swear my hearing was getting worse, I went for the slick looking and larger (in both width and height) than stock GIVI D260ST Wind Shield.
the install was smooth as can be, the Givi attached to my madstad as readily as the Suzuki stock shield did. with the stock shield, I had madstad adjusted all the way up and forward. with the Givi this was unacceptable as I could no longer see over the shield. so now it’s almost all the way down and pulled a little way back from fully front.
with the Madstad + Givi combo, a total cost of ~$230 new, the buffeting problem as close to gone as anyone could reasonably expect. the shield itself is of high build quality and looks great. it does have one element of concern regarding an appearent “lens effect.” in bright direct sunlight it has been reported that the Givi shield can melt the dashboard. there is a warning sticker on the shield that states this as well. while a little disconcerting, not really a problem since I keep mine covered in the summer.
since its glorious DRM-free inception at the beginning of 2008, I’ve thought a few times, “hey I should but that album from amazon.” but then I load up rhapsody, which I already pay a ~$10/month subscription for, and there it is (usually…)
well today, as if the amazonian borg collective finally penetrated my mind, I get a no-strings offer of $5 towards their service just because I aready buy tons of my crap from them.
As someone who purchased $25 worth of products from Amazon’s Music or Electronics Stores between November 28, 2008 and December 25, 2008, you’ve qualified for a $5 promotional credit good for music downloads from Amazon MP3, Amazon.com’s digital music service.
it works, I bite. I go straight for an album I know won’t let me down, Metallica, Master of Puppets.
the process was extraordinarly smooth, even as a Linux user! amazon mp3 offers their little download app in four different software package flavors. I choose the most applicable to me, an Ubuntu .deb(ian) pkg.
within seconds it’s downloaded, installed, and my mp3s are on the way.
in short: great experience, if I ever need mp3s again I will buy from amazon. I can’t possibly foresee a single negative to using this service whatsoever.
a snowman in seven unicode chars
09-Oct-08☃
(the coolest unicode ☃ ever)
[via waxy and unicodesnowmanforyou]
I was totally expecting this program to be dropped due to all the CA budgety delays and global credit crisis’ riggamarole. anyway, good news for my old mercedes that has been sitting collecting bird crap and dust in front of my house.
if you have a california vehicle that doesn’t pass smog, like I do, do not dismay! you will probably be granted assistance under reinstated program known as CAP (consumer assistance program.) just fill out the form found on the ca bureau of automotive website and then after receiving ‘yes, you’re in’ go get the repairs done. in theory, this saves me (and you?) a few hundred buckaronies.
Effective immediately, CAP Repair Assistance and Vehicle Retirement service contracts, as well as the Referee contract, have been reinstated. Today, October 6, 2008, services provided under the CAP contracts may resume. Consumers can contact CAP at (866) 272-9642.
fired up over mega man 9 on xbox live
29-Sep-08two days until the nostalgic platformer blast fest commenses. I most enjoyed mega man games 2 through 6 with another go at it sometime in the X series though which I can’t recall.
it is already out on wii and playstation network and coming to xbox live 10/2/08.
patrick stewart is just so awesome.
using command line utilities to perform powerful tasks brings about a special bit of joy that only a geek can truly enjoy. I shall spare you my story (for now) and simply present the research and study that led to these short and slick commands:
to create entire disk image:
server: nc -l -p 12345 > image.bz2
client: dd if=/dev/sda bs=4M | bzip -9z | nc server's-ip-address 12345
to copy created disk image to new client hard drive:
client: nc -l -p 12345 | dd of=/dev/sda
server: bzip2 -dc image.bz2 | nc client's-ip-address 12345
assumptions & prerequisites:
- intermediate Linux/unix knowledge (this aint no point ‘n’ click guide)
- two networked computers on the same IP subnet; a “server” with ample free disk space and a “client” who’s hard disk you wish to backup/image
- client computer must be bootable by USB or CD/DVD – I used a Ubunutu install CD
- each computer must have utilities dd, nc, and/or bzip2 or gzip (compression utility)
- note: though the compression utility is not required, it is highly recommended as the image you create will be the same size as the hard drive capacity – i.e. 120G drive will create a 120G image file without compression.
- you may want to tweak which compression method you use and examine the dd syntax, particularly the bs= portion
- it is important to watch the network or process I/O for progress meter as these processes will not terminate automatically due to the nature of nc which maintains a connection until manually broken.
updated 9/24/08: fixed copy created image to new hard drive server steps and added another assumption step. good luck!
this fine specimen of the Suzuki DL650 is the 2007 version outfitted for the man.
I particularly like the luggage bags – utilitarian minimalistism yet stylin’. and while I think the flat black model would look better as a police vehicle, the befitting expression of the boys in blue makes up for it.
[via this stromtrooper thread]
update 9/5/08 – found a black and white one:
in honor of this weekends San Francisco Outside Lands festival going on, a couple rockin’ concert-esk animated gifs!
and don’t miss ye CrowdFire tent to publish your most awesome of media from the festival!
the animation begins after the jump!
michael phelps – animated gif friday ix
15-Aug-08
a little nostalgia with this one, as gold medalist michael goes super saiyajin with excitement.
and after the jump: phelps goes leo from sparta, and then some weird creature who fires blue plasma from his gaping jaw, and finally an info snippet about phelps’ ~12k calories consumed a day.
this entry outlines the steps I took to successfully get my sprint blackberry pearl (8130 II) to share its data connection with my ubuntu 8.04 laptop by using the phone as a bluetooth modem.
note/disclaimer:
you must have a data plan and it is highly recommended that it be unlimited. additionally, it is my understanding that this is gray area as far as sprint’s acceptable use (AUP) is concerned – chances are strong that this is against it.
a false start, or learning the hard way:
at first I figured bluetooth was most likely more trouble than it’s worth, so I went with this solution that uses a usb cable. after spending literally days figuring out how to hack the various source packages into compiling, the journey ended with this lovely and rather uninformative message:
XmBlackBerry.c:OptionPopupCallback(998) - GPRS modem device Not available
after all that, I was feeling distraught and demotivated – near giving up. then a miracle: I stumbled upon a simple, straight-foward and *functional* bluetooth modem solution .
the polished procedure:
- support in the linux kernel (or modules) for bluetooth, rfcomm protocol, ppp and ppp async connections
- enable bluetooth discovery mode on the blackberry, then get its MAC address and channel using command: hcitool scan
- edit /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf
rfcomm0 {
bind yes;
device MAC-address-goes-here;
channel 3;
}
- add /etc/ppp/peers/blackberry file with the following contents:
debug debug debug nodetach /dev/rfcomm0 115200 connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/chatscripts/blackberry" nomultilink defaultroute noipdefault ipcp-restart 7 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote # need lcp-echo turned off, at least for t-mobile # disconnects after few mn of inactivity. # thanks to 'loon' for this info lcp-echo-interval 0 lcp-echo-failure 999 modem noauth nocrtscts noipdefault novj # refused anyway, no point in trying every time usepeerdns user "" password ""
- add /etc/chatscripts/blackberry file with the following contents:
ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER' ABORT DELAYED ABORT ERROR SAY "Initializing\n" '' ATZ OK-AT-OK ATDT#777 CONNECT \d\c
- if all is setup correctly and BB bluetooth is on, you should now be able to initiate ppp with the following command: pppd call blackberry
Massachusetts state police motorcycle
31-Jul-08perhaps they were burned one too many times by those pesky uber high speed sport bike utilizing criminals.
and how handy, high speed tear gas deployment! it reminds me a bit of The Dark Knight’s new two-wheeled ride…
