Monthly Archives: November 2011

Nov
30
2011
Wed
6

Ragtime

Thanks to a post over on Geeks Are Sexy, I was made aware of this piece of AWESOME: The Animaniacs Theme, done in Ragtime.

Stick around in the video for his second attempt at playing the song. Even MORE AWESOME.

I've always had a bizarre thing for ragtime. I don't know why. But I have very early memories of liking Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer". And always being drawn to the ragtime pianist at Disney World who was also over by Casey's Corner at the end of Main Street, USA.

Anyway.

I'm not really sure where I was going with that. But you just got a little more insight about me.

Until next time...
Erik

Nov
29
2011
Tue
12

Bad kittehs!

The Yaksmas tree was up for LESS than one day before the kittehs µ and m had destroyed it.

We put the tree up Sunday evening. And when we woke up Monday morning... well... there's a Doctor Who episode (or two) that has these remote-controlled, killer Yaksmas trees in them that basically spin around and try to kill you. That's what it looked like had happened to our tree.

The Husbear was not amused.

As the Husbear and I never found a solution that would keep them out of the tree last year, we have resigned ourselves to locking them up in the kitchen and mudroom when we're not around to watch them. And even THAT took some doing: we had to install a temporary door just to get that to work.

Damn you, kittehs!

I wonder if anyone markets perimeter-aware shock collars for kittehs....

I'm so tempted.

Until next time...
Erik

Nov
29
2011
Tue
3

Stupid Pogoplug

This post is more a note to myself, just in case I have to repeat this process again.

And it might be interesting to anyone who's geeky enough to understand it. ;-)

Sometime ago, I had purchased a Pogoplug. It's basically a network device that lets you plug in USB drives and access them from any computer.

It's a great idea, but the Pogoplug implementation of it is extremely poor. Extremely.

All access to any drives plugged into it goes through their servers, even when I just wanted to access files locally on my LAN.

Which makes it so fraking SLOW!

Which is not what I wanted. But that's what I get for buying it and not a real NAS in the first place.

So I started looking for OS replacement alternatives for the Pogoplug. And I found one!

I followed the instructions here and installed a flavor of linux on the Pogoplug.

And then I installed samba.

The only problem I noticed with it was that the LED on the front of it continually blinked. Which I fixed by editing /etc/rc.local. Because the model I have is slightly different that what the main install distro has (currently), I had to use use this path instead: /usr/local/cloudengines/bin/.

A little more info.

And since I'm a n00b at *nix, and I don't really know samba at all, I had to reference help here and here.

And now everything is up and running fine. And FAST! And I can now see my porn from any computing device in the house. ;-)

Until next time...
Erik

Nov
21
2011
Mon
8

I've Moved!

Well, the digital me has at least. If you can see this, then my move from my old web host to the new web host went well.

Back in October, I discovered my current web host was going out of business. I asked for recommendations, which many of you offered. Based on J.P.'s recommendation, I ended up choosing MacHighway. While I'm not a Mac guy in any way, I do like the fact that the servers are wind powered.

I first moved a couple of my "static" business websites over to them to see how that went. After not seeing any real issues, I decided I'd take the big leap and move this site over to them as well.

Which was a little more challenging.

MacHighway has excellent documentation on moving from one host to another, and all the things you need to do to make it work. I ended up having issues with both methods they document for moving WordPress sites, so I ended up doing it my own way. Which worked. ;-)

As I write this post, I see a few minor things I need to figure out what's going on with. But for the most part everything looks like it survived the move.

Until next time...
Erik