Category: oscon
07/16/12 09:54 - ID#56620
OSCON Sausage Fest
The conference was pretty good today. I attended the git session taught by the guys from git. Unfortunately the whole first half was old hat but there was some new stuff. Those guys put on such a great talk.
The afternoon I was going to attend the erlang session but at lunch they had the tables divided up by "tribe" and I met another PHP guy who convinced me to go to see the "Integrating PHPunit with Jenkins" using ANT, etc session. The session was taught by the creator of phpunit himself. I took a lot out of that session that I think I can bring back to work in a useful way for all teams, not just PHP.
The most enlightening moment was when the speaker suggested using yum, the RPM package manager to do server deployment. Not sure why I hadn't thought of that before.
The lunch itself was quite delicious. Though I forgot to take a pic ;( Now I am bored. I am so bad at socializing and I was one of the more social at my table. For a few minutes no one said anything.
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Category: portland
07/16/12 12:32 - ID#56617
Two beds and a grilled artichoke
The homeless population here is so confusing. Many of them seem to be opt-in teens and 20 somethings.
The conference schedule runs from 9am till like 9pm. Let's hope I have both the stamina and battery power for that. I only brought the MacBook air and I still haven't really tested out its battery at all.
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Category: bars
07/15/12 02:52 - ID#56615
Strange Evening At The Funky Monkey
Their very nice and slippery dance floor makes up for it partially.
For years I would just drink vodka and tonic water but I am tired of tonic. My new favorite drink is absolut flavored vodkas and water as the mixer. Of all of them, my favorite so far, is either the Ruby red or the citron. Haven't tried pear yet and the peach was not as good as the citrus ones.
Terry's new favorite flavor is vanilla.
Mike has turned getting ill into a near Olympic sport.
I ate a hot dog with nacho cheese from a street vendor.
Wish me luck on my next plane flight. The one I just got off of was pretty turbulent.
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Category: religion
07/14/12 03:05 - ID#56612
Mormon Pagaent - Hill Cummorah
It was so weird to see all the same Christian protesters that protest at gay pride, Thursday in the square, etc. Its especially weird because despite a few key strangenesses, the mormons still believe in God and Jesus and the teaching of Jesus including compassion, love, etc. It was unbelievable to hear the one old protestor guy screaming about such insignificant differences like which city was Jesus born in (Jeruselem or Bethlehem.) Especially when there are groups with more fundamental differences like not believing in Jesus altogether. It makes me think the real issue is fighting over sheep and who can have the most. Nothing about the way these people act reminds me of the teachings of Jesus.
In general mormons seem like a friendly bunch of people. Not that I want to be one or that I believe in their nonsense, it just seems like they are not as bad as the evangelicals I am constantly exposed to in public settings. At the same time they still have that gay hate thing going on.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: computers
07/13/12 01:16 - ID#56607
Macbook Pro Santa Rosa Wireless Issue Replace Airport Card
The other night I thought maybe it was time for a replacement part. I ended up switching out the AR5BXB72 that came with it for a BCM94321MC. Strangely, they came out the same year. The AR5BXB72 that came with the laptop had three connectors while the BCM94321MC that I ordered had only two connectors. At first I thought it would not work but I just connected the two antennae on the left (black and grey), and left blue unconnected.
For 14.95 and an hours worth of work I solved the issue. Strangely, the replacement part has two antennae connectors instead of three but it still gets wireless N and never goes out. Its basically a miracle for a machine I thought was trash. I got the idea from this mac support page where someone else had success with the same thing:
Clearly the part needed replacement. It smelled like melted plastic in the worst way possible. I think its time to write an email to apple.
Its like a resurrection for the television.
This is the original AR5BXB72
This is the the new BCM94321MC
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: weather
07/12/12 06:40 - ID#56606
Dry as a Bone
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: travel
07/11/12 12:46 - ID#56604
Sites Around Pittsburgh
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: computers
07/11/12 12:35 - ID#56603
Fedora 17 Macbook Air 11in Native Resolution 1368x768
$ xrandr --newmode "1368x768_60.00" 85.25 1368 1440 1576 1784 768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync $ xrandr --addmode VBOX0 "1368x768_60.00" $ xrandr --output VBOX0 --mode "1368x768_60.00"
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: dance
07/10/12 09:22 - ID#56602
Fantasyland Rave Pittsburgh, PA
I got these pictures in the last few minutes as the "police" were supposedly shutting down the party at 11PM shortly after it started. It sucked because the music was good and the floor was very danceable. At the same time it was about 150 degrees in there with no ventilation and no return entry.
Originally the party was supposed to be at a much larger venue. We I saw it was moving to the small Moose Lodge, I wrote and asked the promoter how 2000+ people were supposed to fit in there. He said, "don't worry we have it covered." Maybe, we have it covered meant we are going to cover all of the windows and doors and then pretend the police are shutting down after we steal all of your money.
It was pretty terrifying because they really had no exits. I didn't realize at first but the fire exists and windows were all closed up like on those horrible after school specials where everyone dies at the concert.
It was weird because as far as we could tell the police never showed up. So basically there were a bunch of drugged out ravers all over the street which was a pretty fun spectacle in and of itself.
Afterwards we ended up just crusing around Pittsburgh. We already had the hotel so we went to their version of Allentown, followed by their version of Chippewa. The dance club we ended up at called Diesel was pretty sweet on the inside. I feel like (e:lilho) would have loved it.
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Category: food
07/07/12 02:08 - ID#56598
Delicious Summertime Meal
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/07/12 02:08
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There is the Society side: Aka How people are brought up and gender roles and alll that: Computers are science and that is still thought of as a man thing.. Or if you are a chick and you are hot it isn't that you are really into it, it is that you are into geeks....
Now some science: Would say that men (again though society above and gender roles do play into this sum girls are given barbies not instructions on how to fix her car) minds are better with science and math and girls brains it is more history or social studies and reading.. So it would make sense that less women would be in computers...
But based on (e:Heidi)'s comment it sounds like the ones whom would be good at a conference like this want nothing to do with the boys who are there.. I wonder if there is also a kind of learn and play thing going on... and also for people with families a way to escape them... Mom say would miss the family or the boyfriend... The boyfriend "Oh no one to nag me about the trash" Ha...
In any event before I get tons of hate mail nice picture enjoy and learn and make contacts and network and all that kind of stuff.....
You seem to have confirmed this. ;-)