BurnPC.com

I have been a big fan of DigitalBlasphemy.com and have paid the subscription on several occasions, which I think is well worth it. Of course it depends if this kind of art is your thing or not…

So anyways, the guy from DB recently did a small facebook contest to have fans post pictures of their desktops. Here is one picture that I took to show the 3D desktop cababilities.

Here is the image: http://www.burnpc.com/wp-content/screenshot3.JPG

Brought my laptop, tethered phone (thank goodness I have reception with AT&T 3G here), extension cord, and a power strip. I’m all good to go while sitting in this tiny room all day.

I thought I had a bad drive. I had tried installing Ubuntu several times on these drives as a RAID-0 array (4xWD360 10000 RPM SATA drives). It turns out that the dmraid package was somehow causing problems recognizing them. Removing the dmraid package allowed for recognition from the installer when launching it from the live desktop.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1393415

Have not posted in quite some time… but hey I’ve been busy!

The summer is definitely over. With Ciderfest approaching this weekend it’s probably one of the last outdoors events of the year before we start dealing with snow. We had snow this last weekend but at least it didn’t stick!

At 8:31 this morning Alexander was born, 7 lbs 2 oz, 21 3/4 inches. Mom is doing great!

The hardware arrived this week for my final model of the Mobile DRC Project. I’ve created a page outlining the hardware and reason for the choices here.

I’m experimenting with this software to see if it can help me focus better while working on the computer. http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/

Weird stuff, not so exciting for listening.

I’ve recently become very interested in Cloud Computing with things like Google AppEngine, Amazon EC2, and even Salesforce. I think there are some very compelling benefits to running your apps in The Cloud. All the hardware stuff that software developers should not need to worry about (although many of us do because we LIKE hardware), such as performance, scalability, redundancy, and the like, are addressed by letting someone else handle those pieces.

How is this different from say, hosting your servers at a data center with super bandwidth, monster generators, multiple OC192 hookups from different providers? [Read more →]