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2006.12.15 at 03:55 AM CST Work recently purchased more, much needed, storage. Sometime tomorrow (er today), roughly 2TB of raw space should arrive in a mini-SAN bundle. Since we still have somewhat old Linux installs with custom kernels, I did some research to find FC HBAs that have easy driver support in Linux 2.4. (Moving to 2.6 would require back-installing new modutils and other things, which while possible, uses time I think better devoted to other work tasks until we move to a different distribution.) Anyway, I found that HBAs by LSI Logic are supported by the existing driver in 2.4.3x and by an update released by LSI in source form suitable for dropping in place over linux/drivers/message/fusion in your favorite 2.4 source tree. This isn't amazing, really, but it is nice that they made it that easy. :) In other news around the world, it appears some organizations that fight AIDS may start supporting male circumcision as a way to slow the spread in Africa. They stress that getting "cut" isn't a way to prevent infection. It appears to reduce the chance, but does not remove it. I don't think that fact can be stressed enough. They do appear to be trying; I just hope they're heard. Thankfully, the better and less expensive solution, condom use, does get mentioned. In Austin news, Stubb's will be growing in the near future. Also, it is mid-December, and I'm still able to be comfortable outside in a t-shirt and jeans during the day, though we've been varying between 30F and 60F at night.
Finally and now that you've seen a few new photos, I have a few photo taking plans for this weekend, so I should have more "autumn" in Austin photos (and probably some SAN shots) for you next week. Current music: My Morning Jacket - Okonokos (at Epoch)
2006.12.05 at 03:35 AM CST After finally updating my months and months out of date Debian Sid install (on the workstation, not any of the servers), I finally got around to doing today's round of photo processing. I found that the bug or compile issue with ImageMagick that was affecting /usr/bin/composite last time I updated is still around. (I'd reverted to the build from Sarge to get around it.) Upon further research I now find that ImageMagick has been forked to form GraphicsMagick, with nearly identical features and an emphasis on stability (according to the package description). Maybe it's version of composite will work. :-) In other conversation (at work), "cyberpunk" authors such as William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Bruce Sterling came up. Eventually, In the Beginning was the Command Line was referenced. (More info is available from Wikipedia.) Also, the annotated (for 2004) version is around. Finally, tomorrow...er...today is the Day of the Ninja. And continuing with the humor theme, have you done your yak-shaving lately? ;-P
2006.11.22 at 02:15 AM CST Tonight at dinner Liz surmised: her + Tex-Mex + a cute gay waiter = a "date" with Jonathan. This is the second time (essentially in a row) that we've had such happen. Over the past several days I've been getting some photos together and ready to submit to JPG Magazine. We'll see how that goes and if I think I have more images worthy of submitting to future themes they open. Finally, recent discussion of trackballs at work and in IRC prompted me to pull my Co-Star Stingray out of the closet. :) Current music: Martha Wainwright (at Epoch)
2006.11.06 at 01:40 AM CST Whee....another <ul>:
Finally, a few pictures from the previously mentioned ACL photos:
2006.10.18 at 05:25 AM CDT My usual pretty minimal photo processing is finally complete for the last month and a half worth of photos. Below are a few hilights (mostly informal portraits):
Current music: My Morning Jacket - Z
2006.10.06 at 03:20 AM CDT Several updates... I finally gave in and have a new cell phone. Yes, they're evil, but I did already have one, and sometimes being reachable is good. ;) I went from a TDMA Nokia 6360 to a quad-band GSM Motorola Razr V3i. I've mostly adjusted to it. It is syncing with Address Book.app via Bluetooth and to iTunes.app via USB. I don't expect I'll use the music feature too much (who knows, that may change), though I now have no real reason to get an iPod. And, for those that have them, my digits did not change. Next, I do have a set or three of photos to pull from CF and put online. I should get to that in the next day or two. Also, I wanted to list who I saw at ACL. The following are acts for which I saw or was near enough to hear all or part of the set: Van Morrison, Ben Kweller, Nada Surf, Los Lobos, Aimee Mann, South Austin Jug Band, Willie Nelson, Jack Ingram, Ween, The New Pornographers, The Flaming Lips, and Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. (Yes, I stayed through the rain delay in Petty's set. *grin*) I was shooting film in the Minolta SRT-102 which was technically not allowed (yay for entrance security who don't check quite well enough), so photos are forthcoming but delayed due to an unfinished roll. Finally, while reading/editing this, I remembered that via a friend, I was able to attend the 11th annual anniversary celebration for the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) this past weekend. It was good to see the photography of several friends in the silent auction, and fun to see Carolyn Wonderland and Guy Forsyth perform, all as a fund raiser for TFN. :) Thanks for the invite Rachel. Current music: Madonna - Something to Remember (the album, from the V3i)
2006.09.15 at 04:35 AM CDT In the interest of time a bulleted list:
2006.09.04 at 10:30 PM CDT So yes, the office move is done. It went as well as could be expected, though it did result in long days (as we expected). In other news, I have new glasses with an updated prescription. They're not very different than my previous ones. Also, while waiting, I nearly didn't avoid buying an iPod Nano. So, I am sill not a member of the "iPod Generation" or the "podsters," whichever is the more appropriate term. We'll see if that holds. I expect there will be requests for pictures of the new glasses... They will be honored, eventually, either by me or some photo-person friend of mine.
2006.08.30 at 12:40 AM CDT Two out-of-context thoughts from my day... Crickets! In my server room?! While sitting at Epoch I was able to hear the use of both stereo channels in music. I think this is the first coffee shop where that's happened. :)
2006.08.22 at 05:25 AM CDT As of four or so days ago, we have the wireless working correctly at Epoch. Problems were due to an incorrect setting on the APs. (Said option was confusingly labeled in the configuration interface.) Clients that had no issues also probably had power saving disabled in their wireless NIC(s) or in the case of Mac OS X were plugged in (as I guess that Apple is smart and uses 802.11 power saving features only when on battery). Anyway, lesson learned. :) I also have photos of/from Epoch now:
In other news, the office move has now been delayed twice. Both from "interesting" telco interaction (guh @ SBC & telcos in general). At the moment, we think this coming Monday will be the day. Next some humor stolen from irc. The following does not do anything tricky, other than change your bash(1) prompt, though it is not really work safe.
<randi> export PS1=" _\n /\) [\u@\h]\n / /\n( Y)\n \"\" \w: " Finally, two quick updates. Some leo I know had a birthday recently. :) And, the "fun" between AISD and a former Austin High art teacher is resolved. TH, I wish you and CD luck in future endeavors. Current music: Radiohead (at Epoch) Entries (most recent to oldest): 1 - 10 | 11 - 20 | 21 - 30 | 31 - 40 | 41 - 50 | 51 - 60 | 61 - 70 | 71 - 80 | 81 - 90 | 91 - 100 | 101 - 110 | 111 - 120 | 121 - 130 | 131 - 140 | 141 - 150 | 151 - 154 |
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