Coming soon to this server, Downtime.
With my change in employment, I have to move my server, and I really want to move a lot of it off the physical hardware. Well I have a lot moved, but the family and lug-nut sites aren't yet. I'm awaiting some different hardware still, so tomorrow I have to take this box down, and migrate it home for a while, before I can set up my replacement box.
Not that it matters too much, I mean how often have I posted this year :) Oh, it's my *other* services that matter to me.
With my change in employment, I have to move my server, and I really want to move a lot of it off the physical hardware. Well I have a lot moved, but the family and lug-nut sites aren't yet. I'm awaiting some different hardware still, so tomorrow I have to take this box down, and migrate it home for a while, before I can set up my replacement box.
Not that it matters too much, I mean how often have I posted this year :) Oh, it's my *other* services that matter to me.
I didnt' get a chance to blog about the early start to paintball this year. The regional SPPL qualifiers was held in Utah on May 2nd and 3rd this year, which as those who know me will note was the last day at my previous job :). What an exciting day.
What was really fun is this year DesertEdge fielded two squads (Yin and Yang), which gave me the chance to captain the Yang group. This had several seasoned team members, as well as a complement of our Junior group, and a couple of team tryouts (talk about trial by fire).
Through two days on very challenging fields though, we proved ourselves. As the sun set on the championship game in the Masters division, it was DesertEdge vs. Desertedge for first and second places. (gee, who won?).
What a great way to start the tournament season, with a nice first and second place standing, and nationals qualifications.
What was really fun is this year DesertEdge fielded two squads (Yin and Yang), which gave me the chance to captain the Yang group. This had several seasoned team members, as well as a complement of our Junior group, and a couple of team tryouts (talk about trial by fire).
Through two days on very challenging fields though, we proved ourselves. As the sun set on the championship game in the Masters division, it was DesertEdge vs. Desertedge for first and second places. (gee, who won?).
What a great way to start the tournament season, with a nice first and second place standing, and nationals qualifications.
For a while I've been trying to get a better way of managing my calendars on systems. Between my iCal on my laptop, at home, my phone, and my google cals (gmail account, and apps for my domain), I've gotten worse, rather than better at keeping things in sync.
My largest problem was that I didn't want any single location to be the absolute truth in terms of knowledge, especially when it came to choosing where to edit. As an example, I dont' have to have to go to google calendar to edit, just because my iCal can only *read* from there, or vice-versa. So enter GCALDaemon, a Java (I know) app which can run on linux, mac, and more and allow bi-directional work between my gcal, and ical, kontact, and more. It works quite well, except the direction don't apply for the current Leopard release of OSX. The main difference is in the location of where iCal stores its information, which is now in:
~/Library/Calendars/<Unique-id>.calendar/Events/*.ics
Which just happens to be the data you need for the config file, instead of the location they originally suggest. Also of concern was that by default, my google apps calendar wouldnt' give me a "private" link, but I just had to munge the url of the public ics file with a s/public/private/ and it worked. I now have my google calendars syncing bi-directionally with my laptop and desktop.
I haven't tried yet, but it also has a tool for getting an LDAP access to your google contacts, which will be nice.
My largest problem was that I didn't want any single location to be the absolute truth in terms of knowledge, especially when it came to choosing where to edit. As an example, I dont' have to have to go to google calendar to edit, just because my iCal can only *read* from there, or vice-versa. So enter GCALDaemon, a Java (I know) app which can run on linux, mac, and more and allow bi-directional work between my gcal, and ical, kontact, and more. It works quite well, except the direction don't apply for the current Leopard release of OSX. The main difference is in the location of where iCal stores its information, which is now in:
~/Library/Calendars/<Unique-id>.calendar/Events/*.ics
Which just happens to be the data you need for the config file, instead of the location they originally suggest. Also of concern was that by default, my google apps calendar wouldnt' give me a "private" link, but I just had to munge the url of the public ics file with a s/public/private/ and it worked. I now have my google calendars syncing bi-directionally with my laptop and desktop.
I haven't tried yet, but it also has a tool for getting an LDAP access to your google contacts, which will be nice.
What a night, after my team paintball practice, I had to run down to the American Fork pool to help my brothers' ward scout group learn basic kayak safety. They've decided that they are doing a kayak high adventure at lake Powell this year. So my brother and I brought down two of the kayaks, and started with the basics of entry, seating, control, and water escape. It's been a few years, so the demo of water re-entry was a little scary, but I did it.
It was great to get the boats back in some water (and quite warm at that), and we'll be getting quite a few more chances to take these guys out to practice this summer so they can get the feel for kayaking before their trip. And yes, these aren't tiny little whitewater kayaks. :) 19' Seda Glider, and a 17' Necky
The past couple of months have had me running around forever busy, and especially in regards to work, unable to *do* things. With the change in employment I've been kept out of being able to do any development work, which as most of my friend will probably agree with is something that begins to drive me batty.
So this weekend turns into the first time in a while that I am home with no outside commitments, so I had to do *something*. My wife is out in Colorado for a baby shower, so I've been a bit constrained watching my 3 kids, but still managed to get phase one of some new shelving done.
My basic premise was this wall in my garage. Previously here was some old thin metal shelving, totally overloaded with assorted cruft. It also made the "outside" fridge sit in front of other shelving, and was about "Windows ME" in terms of stability. It also made access to my kayaks a bit difficult (you can see the end of one there in the top corner). With my growing food storage, I had run out of other areas to put in cans, and wanted to improve the ability to rotate commonly used staples. Systems such as the "Shelf Reliance" products are very nice, but were quite out of my budget. Especially considering my needs in this situation. I wanted the can rotation, but I needed the ability to have standard shelving also. This would be much more apparent if you looked at the rest of my garage, which is stuffed, much of it the contents of the shelving I just pulled out.
Now I say Phase 1 with this project because this is not complete, in fact I plan on doing more tonight as my children hit the actual "sleeping" stage. Right now they are *going* to sleep which means I have to stay in earshot to refill water and the like. The next phase will be building out standard shelving from the wall I have just built, encaging the fridge, and providing storage on its side. The beauty of this project is the can rollers take up so little space, and then provide a wall in which I can do something like this. Heck, I could have surfaced it and just had it look like another wall.
So this weekend turns into the first time in a while that I am home with no outside commitments, so I had to do *something*. My wife is out in Colorado for a baby shower, so I've been a bit constrained watching my 3 kids, but still managed to get phase one of some new shelving done.
My basic premise was this wall in my garage. Previously here was some old thin metal shelving, totally overloaded with assorted cruft. It also made the "outside" fridge sit in front of other shelving, and was about "Windows ME" in terms of stability. It also made access to my kayaks a bit difficult (you can see the end of one there in the top corner). With my growing food storage, I had run out of other areas to put in cans, and wanted to improve the ability to rotate commonly used staples. Systems such as the "Shelf Reliance" products are very nice, but were quite out of my budget. Especially considering my needs in this situation. I wanted the can rotation, but I needed the ability to have standard shelving also. This would be much more apparent if you looked at the rest of my garage, which is stuffed, much of it the contents of the shelving I just pulled out.
Now I say Phase 1 with this project because this is not complete, in fact I plan on doing more tonight as my children hit the actual "sleeping" stage. Right now they are *going* to sleep which means I have to stay in earshot to refill water and the like. The next phase will be building out standard shelving from the wall I have just built, encaging the fridge, and providing storage on its side. The beauty of this project is the can rollers take up so little space, and then provide a wall in which I can do something like this. Heck, I could have surfaced it and just had it look like another wall.
The build is really simple, I simply took some 1x1/2 slats, and cut them to fit my 70" wall, giving a 4" height difference at the end, what seemed like a good incline. 8" between rows, then build the opposing wall to match. 1/4" particle board was laid in my 8" width. This size fits your #10 can perfectly, with 1/2" in each side for wiggle room, and just under 2" on top.
With my wall size, this will accommodate 96 cans (I could add one more row at the top, but it's a little to tall for anybody in the family except me). That's a lot of food I'm able to move out of my basement, under-the-stairs closet, which I can't get to most of the time anyways. Given that this is just outside the kitchen <-> garage door, it makes it a nice accessory to the pantry. And since my garage is well insulated, and I know the temperature ranges in it, I can put in a pretty wide range of foods without them being affected adversely.
All told, the materials were $61 for this project, including the wood to frame out the front end shelves which aren't done yet. Not a bad price for largely increased storage, with can rotation.
With my wall size, this will accommodate 96 cans (I could add one more row at the top, but it's a little to tall for anybody in the family except me). That's a lot of food I'm able to move out of my basement, under-the-stairs closet, which I can't get to most of the time anyways. Given that this is just outside the kitchen <-> garage door, it makes it a nice accessory to the pantry. And since my garage is well insulated, and I know the temperature ranges in it, I can put in a pretty wide range of foods without them being affected adversely.
All told, the materials were $61 for this project, including the wood to frame out the front end shelves which aren't done yet. Not a bad price for largely increased storage, with can rotation.
Yes, I'm moving on. It's time for me to go to a new place, so I'm starting to troll along with my resume for anything interesting. I won't go into my reasons here, as I am still employed :) but would like to find something new.
If for some reason you are reading this and don't know what I do, or what I'm good at, wow, I'm surprised :) but here goes a little.
I'm a very experienced Perl programmer,with previous experience in the usuals (C, C++), but those are pretty outdated in terms of experience. The larger part of my experience and background is in dealing with Billing and Finance applications, and large scale replicating site/cms tools. I'm a core developer on the Freeside billing system, and heavily involved with the local Open Source community. Go ahead, check out the resume - http://halls.lug-nut.com/jayce/resume.html
If for some reason you are reading this and don't know what I do, or what I'm good at, wow, I'm surprised :) but here goes a little.
I'm a very experienced Perl programmer,with previous experience in the usuals (C, C++), but those are pretty outdated in terms of experience. The larger part of my experience and background is in dealing with Billing and Finance applications, and large scale replicating site/cms tools. I'm a core developer on the Freeside billing system, and heavily involved with the local Open Source community. Go ahead, check out the resume - http://halls.lug-nut.com/jayce/resume.html
After a a few casual tweets, a website is born :)
http://geeksnguns.com/
Phil801 had been discussing shooting to blow off some stress, and I mentioned that it sounded time to have another geeks-n-guns event. He found the name amusing, and the site is born. Go check in if you are a geek with and interest in things that go boom!
http://geeksnguns.com/
Phil801 had been discussing shooting to blow off some stress, and I mentioned that it sounded time to have another geeks-n-guns event. He found the name amusing, and the site is born. Go check in if you are a geek with and interest in things that go boom!
For those that haven't already heard, perl 5.10 was just released for perls 20th birthday. I had hoped to note this earlier, but was in my car the last two days transporting the family to the Holiday festivities. So, what's with 5.10? why a big deal for just another small release? Well, unlike some languages that change major version numbers at each small release, Perl has actually kept its numbering sane. So what is in 5.10? A lot of new features, many of which were specifically brought down from the perl6 design.
Syntactic things like the say operator, built in switch statement, smart match, named regex captures, regex plugins and more. Add to that interpreter improvements for speed and memory.
A good help with understanding some of the new syntactic sugar can be found in Ricardo's Slides.
Syntactic things like the say operator, built in switch statement, smart match, named regex captures, regex plugins and more. Add to that interpreter improvements for speed and memory.
A good help with understanding some of the new syntactic sugar can be found in Ricardo's Slides.
A big thanks to our friends at Tier 4 for buying 15 cases of marballizer paint, and inviting all of us to play. It was a great day for paintball with beautiful weather, lots of fun players (both first timers, and experienced people), and plenty of action. It was fun to begin setting up teams by calling out for .RPM vs .DEB, and then watch as destruction happened in various game formats.
Make sure to thank the sponsors, and maybe they'll buy for us again! If you did enjoy it and would like to do it again, also let us at UTOS know, so we can plan more activities for the groups in Utah. Also thanks to the non-geek Team DesertEdge members for helping out with team balance, and keeping the games moving :)
Make sure to thank the sponsors, and maybe they'll buy for us again! If you did enjoy it and would like to do it again, also let us at UTOS know, so we can plan more activities for the groups in Utah. Also thanks to the non-geek Team DesertEdge members for helping out with team balance, and keeping the games moving :)
Found this article on Popular Mechanics recently: 25 Skills Every Man Should Know
Use it as a scorecard, where did you wind up? I do like that it is updated to include concepts such as backing up your drive.
Use it as a scorecard, where did you wind up? I do like that it is updated to include concepts such as backing up your drive.
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