This shall serve as both proactive and retroactive notice.
I am not your nigga. I am not a nigger.
I am a male human with many dominate genes that are likely African in origin.
I will appreciate your remembrance of this.
Thank you!
N-vent
January 9th, 2012
Odd Hobbies
December 20th, 2011I am considering two new hobbies.
- Wine collecting
- Brewing beer (perhaps root beer)
Although these are not uncommon hobbies, for me they are exceptional since I only ingest alcohol via cooked food or cough syrup.
I was just given a bottle of wine by my manager. I must say that I am rather interested in learning about the stuff. Great stories can be captured within a bottle of wine. I think that I’ll experience an Amazon moment following this post. One night, while flipping through the channels on the tele with no destination, I stopped upon a documentary about wine. It was either at that moment, after watching A Good Year, or the calamity that came upon the crashing together of these two memory sets that was the start of this desire. A book shall be had.
Beer. Towards the end of my drinking career, I became very interested in beer. Beer spoke to me far more than liquor. The effects being more subtle allows a longer period of evaluation of its qualities before the inebriation took ownership of its host (the drinker). This interest sends me down a different path than the notion of wine collecting. I happen to be a great fan of root beer. I have a Pokémon-esque motive in this arena, I want to try them all. Whenever I taste a new local brew, I become more interested in the pursuit. It calls me like the moon calls a wolf.
I think that I can manage to begin both with little conflict. The wine collection seems to be somewhat passive whereas the beer brewing will be quite an active endeavor.
Lab Images
December 15th, 2011This is essentially a ToDo list of items for the next iteration of my department’s lab image.
Working:
- Windows 7
- Office 2010
- 7zip
- Wireshark
- Nmap w/ WinPcap
- Adobe Reader
Remaining:
- Visual Studio 2010
- 3ds max
- Adobe CS 5.5
- Alice 2.2 and Alice 3
- VLC
- Arduino
- Processing
- Anki
- Audacity
- LAME
- Windows 7 Movie Maker
- Axure
- Blender
- Camtasia
- CSE HTML Validator
- Cyberduck
- dot net framework 4 client profile
- Eclipse
- EndNote
- Filezilla
- Game Maker
- Google Chrome
- Inform 7
- iRise
- Java
- Kies
- Mozilla Firefox
- MySQL
- Notepad++
- OPNET
- PSPad
- Second Life
- Splunk
- SQL Server 2008
- SQLyog
- Steam
- Symantec
- Unity
- VMWare
- XAMPP
I also need to add drivers to the workbench.
Pulse
December 14th, 2011I need to revamp my Pulse feeds. I’m also considering giving Google Currents a whirl. Back to Pulse.
I believe that Pulse allows 5 tabs with 12 feeds each, totaling 60 feeds. 60 feeds seems like a lot. I’ve maxed it out in a few seconds; I imagine that this is the case for many people. For categories, I’m considering Locals (people I know), Tech, Games, Business, World. I would really like an Art tab but, I don’t know what to scrap.
Its official…
December 12th, 2011I concede to that one thing. What is that one thing? Some know, some others will soon know and the rest may become aware of the result without knowing that it is the result of any concession.
- My curiosity has been piqued.
BE-LE
December 12th, 2011According to my text (978-1-4496-0006-8), Big Endian ISAs is better suited for handling bitmapped graphics than Little Endian ISAs. Intel always uses Big Endian and Motorola always uses Little Endian. PowerPCs were Motorola units. Windows machines were traditionally Intel based. Apple was traditionally Motorola based. This might mean that Windows systems were more capable of handling bitmapped graphics than Apple machines.
Of course this is somewhat shocking to me since the Mac has been touted as being the choice machine of graphic designers. This could mean that the value is held elsewhere. One potential reason being that not all image files are use bitmapping.
Apparently the Windows BMP format was developed on a LE machine; it therefore needs to be converted in order to be read/viewed on a BE machines. Other formats are below:
Big Endian
- Adobe Photoshop
- JPEG
- MacPaint
- Sun raster
Little Endian
- GIF
- PC Paintbrush
- RTF by Microsoft
Dual Support (BE and LE) often via encoding an identifier in the file
- Microsoft WAV and AVI
- TIF
- XWD (X Windows Dump)
To be continued…
The (My) Office
December 9th, 2011I just realized that I have a thermostat. Cool!
Clock Cycle Time
November 14th, 2011For the sake of memory.
Chipotle: Vegetarian Burrito
November 8th, 2011I have never really cared about calorie counting…
until now.
I just came from Chipotle with Foodie. Quite frankly, we love the place. I also had an Izze.
However, I’ve been messing around with the fitbit website for a while and recently bought the device. As a result of the device purchase I have began to make the regular effort to use other services that fitbit provides such as the food and activity logs. I added the Izze and quickly saw that it contributed 120 calories to my total caloric intake for today. I had to add the Chipotle burrito by individual ingredient. I think that I may need to modify my diet just a taste. See Figure 1. Do you see the problem?
Figure 1: Chipotle Veggie Burrito Nutrition Facts
Just in case it escaped you, see figure 2.
Figure 2: Chipotle Veggie Burrito Total Caloric Value
That is more than half of the calories that should be consumed by a lot of people.
Besides that, Heavy D died today, which I learned on the way to get the grub… Celebrities React To Heavy D’s Death
Law enforcement tell TMZ … Heavy D had just returned from shopping and walked up some stairs when he began having trouble breathing.
http://www.tmz.com/2011/11/08/heavy-d-dead/#.TrnViFYu5b0
I don’t know the details of his death but, he wasn’t a small cat. Now I have to dig out some music.
Good day sir.
Heavy D
Midterms, a long week, malware and Tron
November 4th, 2011This week semester has been insane. I started the semester by needing to rapidly recover the functionality of a failed computer lab setup as well as hunting a great deal of license information for various software packages. The labs were eventually functional. Unfortunately, this resulted in a very sparse study allotments. Computer Science being a heavy topic means that only a little studying results in a deficient understanding. I imagine that the grades of both of my midterms this week suffered horribly at my hand.
In other news, I am trying to figure out how to generate a password file for VisualSVN; I may have just found my answer. I had to generate md5 passwords earlier during the semester for another tool; this current need is very different. This research was quickly interrupted.
I somehow managed to forget to install a Windows Live Movie Maker in one of the labs. I’ve spent a good portion of this week muddling through manually installing the software via a series of *.msi files. This was very messy and though it installed the main program, several prerequisites were skipped which prevented the actual program from running. Windows Live Movie Maker is also dependent on Photo Library which would also not run without the dependencies. I eventually found info about a full installer for Windows Live Essentials which accepted switches that can be used to modify installation parameters from the command-line. In the words of Mayfield, “where do you learn that?” He is essentially inquiring as to where the info is initially publicized.
My command-line parameters for Movie Maker:
wlsetup-all.exe/AppSelect:MovieMaker/q/log:c:\admin\logs\MovieMaker.log /noHomepage /noSearch
The next thing is to update the hardware in one of the labs. I have a student tomorrow so we are going to rock off with new tech. Mayfield has volunteered to help me to get the systems setup on Sunday, we’ll see what happens.
One of the relatives called over the weekend about some malware on her system. These buggers are getting slick with the settings that they modify. IT folk gone rogue. This set modified the registry to hide nearly every user file and application. Some settings had to be manually reconfigured after the removal of the malware. One the the guys at my job reported a similar problem.
While that was scanning, I watched Tron: Legacy for the nth time. I noticed during the scene when Sam was looking for Zeus that Sam was mocked and attacked for being the son of the creator. Upon realizing this I recalled a conversation with The Pants about this movie being a metaphor for the coming of Jesus Christ. I initially didn’t think that it was. I still don’t think so for that matter. However, that depends on how knowledgable the filmmakers were on the topic. Jesus wasn’t targeted merely because he was the son of God. He was targeted because he caused a lot of noise (via people favoring and following him and such) in his era.
While I was writing this I should have been doing one of two other pertinent things. I need to prepare a lesson on Microsoft Access for Saturday and I need to read my chapters for school so that I don’t have a repeat performance of my midterms during finals week.
EOP