SO.......
After leaving this post to stew a while, seeing that blogger just didnt post my very well tought out and politicaly correct post, I guess its time to rewrite this one.
The walter family has been well strewn. There was a time when we had one bro in the states, another in uganda, another in germany, 3 siblings and a mom in romania, with 3 in japan.
This year, we have a small family reunion going on in taiwan. phil, sony, gabe n jess are all off in the far off asia.
Moms spending the summer in romania.
Stef and joykie along with kai and myself are still here in DE.
Sims , mum n dad are further east then the rest....
So , you may be asking yourself, "Why is rew going on about this?". Simple, well statisticly Im kinda sure most of us will agree with me, that together we may have spent more time in far far way far off places then any other family that ...atleast, I know of.
The big deal is; it would appear as if we are trending more towards family gatherings. Im thinking, if we keep this up we may just may...tend further towards this trend of gathering.
Im seeing things this way:
Bro #1 works for colabora
Sister #1 works for the scouts international
Bro #2 is getting a job at buffalo networks
Bro# 3 is a very very famous Teacher in taiwan
bro #4 Is studing art
Sister #2 is in university (awsome)
Sister #3 is a missionary
and my favorite sister of all is studing and is an aspiring young writer.
That little list was , not for the walters, but more for all the others who dont really get my very strewn family. :)
Cheers
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
A cool site promoting hardware hacks.
This is a cool hack...DTMF is soemthing I have been interested in figuring out more about as its also apperantly what is used to encrypt certain Radio package transferes.
This however is way cooler. Its a bluetooth weatherboard that uses a java app on your phone to recieve all variometer information and display it on your phone. It even has GPS.
What it does:
This however is way cooler. Its a bluetooth weatherboard that uses a java app on your phone to recieve all variometer information and display it on your phone. It even has GPS.
What it does:
it tells me my speed over ground.
It can tell me my climb and decend speed.
What it dosnt:
I would still need to write some software to caculate things like...interface....more on this later
Price: The Price is not exactly dirt cheep (Im counting @ 200 usd afg), it is however about the same ammount that I would pay for a kinda "okay/used/old" vario from back in the day. Lets just say for this kind of capability , you usually pay around >400€
Benefit: you use your phone to monitor the information via bluetooth, so if your paragliding, you dont have to worry about getting an extra piece of gear to lug with you. I have a small solar charger panel, so adding these two items might be a really cool idea.
any way. Theres alot of fun stuff on this site...so check it out.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
woes of mac
Yesterday I awoke to a frozen mac. Nothing was responding. I forced a reboot and found that the system was apparently screwed.
I spent the better part of the day trying to figure out what could have caused the problem, was it the 64 gb of swap that I removed from my hard drive last week (8gb ram). With all that ram, osx seems to like putting a bunch of swap there for no apparent reason.
At the end of the day, I figured that the drive was shot. That would be really bad, as for one, a bunch of documents that I was finishing for my AB would have been gone with no backup, as well as a software project due in September (have been working on it since December) would have to be rewritten from scratch.
I broke out in panic when trying to boot hirens or sysrescue. Nothing could find sda, and due (I assume) to macs different device naming, none of my live systems could find /dev/cdrom. This meant that none of the live systems could mount their images on /mnt to continue on to the actual file repair systems.
Finally I found a copy of ubuntu 10.10, It booted. I started Gparted and ran some package updates to get hfs and journaled hfs+ file system support. I assume that hfsprogs is a kernel add-on, which means I would need to reboot or reload the kernel before being able to fix up the file system. On a live system this would mean acutally loosing hfs support since the cd is not writeable to save any changes, and a usb system cant be done due to apples stupidity and not allowing usb boots, something that has been standard since 07 or so.
A wisp of genious came along as I found a 2gb sdcard. I decided to install the /boot partition to the sdcard, as well as grub boot loader and install the rest of the system on a 8gb usb drive ... Its installing now.
--update--
The nice part about this, well at some point in time I installed an ubuntu system on a resizrd partitions free space, I gave it @30 gb, more then enough to install a rescue OSX.
Still I have the porblem of accessing my main hd as it is encrypted.
A cool thing is also, on my iomega ix-200 nas; to get time machine to backup over the network you do have to turn off security completely. Seeing that I am the only one to access my wpa2 enterprize encrypted wireless network (provided by the great dd-wrt people over at Buffalo) I think Im kinda safe, maybe thats the problem; I am too secure in my knowledge, so when it breaks, so do I. :( Also a nice aditive of not having security on is, the ssh connectivity to the drive. You can still controll access via users and shadows, the old linux way, but no shiny new web interface for that.
Oh these words of wisdom while fixing broken things that I could have avoided by trying to be less complicated in my "apparent Knowledge"....Im working on it.
I spent the better part of the day trying to figure out what could have caused the problem, was it the 64 gb of swap that I removed from my hard drive last week (8gb ram). With all that ram, osx seems to like putting a bunch of swap there for no apparent reason.
At the end of the day, I figured that the drive was shot. That would be really bad, as for one, a bunch of documents that I was finishing for my AB would have been gone with no backup, as well as a software project due in September (have been working on it since December) would have to be rewritten from scratch.
I broke out in panic when trying to boot hirens or sysrescue. Nothing could find sda, and due (I assume) to macs different device naming, none of my live systems could find /dev/cdrom. This meant that none of the live systems could mount their images on /mnt to continue on to the actual file repair systems.
Finally I found a copy of ubuntu 10.10, It booted. I started Gparted and ran some package updates to get hfs and journaled hfs+ file system support. I assume that hfsprogs is a kernel add-on, which means I would need to reboot or reload the kernel before being able to fix up the file system. On a live system this would mean acutally loosing hfs support since the cd is not writeable to save any changes, and a usb system cant be done due to apples stupidity and not allowing usb boots, something that has been standard since 07 or so.
A wisp of genious came along as I found a 2gb sdcard. I decided to install the /boot partition to the sdcard, as well as grub boot loader and install the rest of the system on a 8gb usb drive ... Its installing now.
--update--
The nice part about this, well at some point in time I installed an ubuntu system on a resizrd partitions free space, I gave it @30 gb, more then enough to install a rescue OSX.
Still I have the porblem of accessing my main hd as it is encrypted.
A cool thing is also, on my iomega ix-200 nas; to get time machine to backup over the network you do have to turn off security completely. Seeing that I am the only one to access my wpa2 enterprize encrypted wireless network (provided by the great dd-wrt people over at Buffalo) I think Im kinda safe, maybe thats the problem; I am too secure in my knowledge, so when it breaks, so do I. :( Also a nice aditive of not having security on is, the ssh connectivity to the drive. You can still controll access via users and shadows, the old linux way, but no shiny new web interface for that.
Oh these words of wisdom while fixing broken things that I could have avoided by trying to be less complicated in my "apparent Knowledge"....Im working on it.
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