holy cores!

March 1, 2012

Creative Sound Blaster XFI USB and Ubuntu

February 2, 2012

As of kernel in Ubuntu 11.10 (at least as of late 2011 updates), XFI USB (and Titanium HD support) is there. However for whatever reason, it’s disabled by default as a preference/rule in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, and doesn’t show up in listed devices nor does it play. Had to go in that conf file, right near the […]

creating a tar ball with exclusions

February 2, 2012

The example: taring up “proto/” directory, but excluding all the hidden “.svn/” subversion metadata directories. # tar -czvf proto.tgz –exclude=.svn proto/

powder day

March 10, 2011

niece julia

March 10, 2011

tantrum and a wreck

October 13, 2010

I believe this is the only proof of me landing a tantrum this year, and then followed by a good wreck! Thanks wifey for the fine video job.

interesting stats on tweets

October 12, 2010

“Toronto-based social media analytics company Sysomos scanned 1.2 billion messages that were sent in August and September 2009 to try and get some idea of the kind of conversations that are going on. They discovered that more than seven in every 10 tweets sink without any kind of reaction from the world.” Link to article […]

big 360

October 7, 2010

fastcgi bind() error: permission denied

October 6, 2010

[Wed Oct 06 16:27:53 2010] [crit] (13)Permission denied: FastCGI: can’t create server “/opt/ai/core/gui/bin/start_aigui_fastcgi.sh”: bind() failed [/etc/httpd/logs/fastcgi/d6b459611d6278dea13062a91e78bbbb] Mental note, if you see this error in /var/log/httpd/error_log … Know that /etc/httpd/logs is a symlink to /var/log/httpd/ and this error is either permissions problem having to do with “apache” user trying to write following this symlink, OR SELinux […]

end of the wake season

October 5, 2010

Injury list…

October 1, 2010

I think we might need to start having our friends sign a liability waiver. I’m joking, but as the season comes to an end this week the SNOB has chalked up 6 injuries this year: In rough order… Fractured foot: k8 Two cracked ribs: Casey Cut ear: k8 Fractured rib, trip to ER: Ian Sprained […]

K8’s jumping!

September 22, 2010

Aww yeah… Makes me so proud 🙂 Now that she’s jumping, her skills will grow quickly next year.

anniversary numero uno

September 7, 2010

WBM #3331732

August 27, 2010

DIY seat cushion

June 11, 2010

Quick and dirty: How to reinforce a wakeboard tower

May 29, 2010

New seat sliders for the snob…

May 15, 2010

…follow up on The Road (movie)

January 21, 2010

To sum it up in one word, “grim.” The movie was good, it was graphic and true to the book. But I’ve decided the movie just can’t relay the poetic beauty of the book. You leave the book touched, whereas I left the movie theater depressed or slightly disturbed.

sneak preview…

January 8, 2010

… if only there were 48 hours in a day.

Old pic…

December 3, 2009

Ha! Just found this good old pic from one of the earliest MBM rides:

The Road

November 30, 2009

Kate and I are anxious to see “The Road” that is just now hitting certain theaters. We both read the book over the summer (Cormac McCarthy) and it was fantastically dark and beautiful. The movie looks good too: