February 2008 Entries
foreach (IPAddress ip in Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName()).AddressList) Console.WriteLine(ip.ToString());
So in my previous post, I set the following goals for my MyBook WE2:Serve as a storage point for all files I wanted to manually backup.Automatically download torrents from a directory I would put torrents intoAutomatically download predefined lists of videos and convert them to various formatsConsume schedule video from my PCTV2GO and convert it to various formatsDownload predefined lists of blogs etc I wanted to read and convert them to audio.Serve as a print server? Maybe print out predefined documents for consumption.Let's see what we can get accomplished. We'll start with the first goal and get our storage point...
Had a burning need for some linux loving recently. I'll post about
that shortly too. I found a great linux command line cheat sheet at http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html
CommandDescription
•apropos whatisShow commands pertinent to string. See also threadsafe
•man -t man | ps2pdf - > man.pdfmake a pdf of a manual page
which commandShow full path name of command
time commandSee how long a command takes
•time catStart stopwatch. Ctrl-d to stop. See also sw
•nice infoRun a low priority command (The "info" reader in this case)
•renice 19 -p $$Make shell (script) low priority. Use for...
So, with the recent announcement of CompUSA's closing, I have been swinging by there on occasion to check out the deals on whatever stuff there is. I recently purchased a MyBook World Edition II 1TB model and have been having a lot of fun with it. They were down to 299 which isn't ridiculously cheap, but it's far, far below the retail of... whatever it was. Something crazy like 450 i think. I found them several places online for around 320ish. I went by the other day and they are now down to 257 which *is* a pretty sweet deal....
If you've never used the 'for' command in windows, it is your friend. It longs for you to use it! It is 'Da Bizzle' as the kids say. Here's a silly little example of using it to delete all of the temporary internet files from all of the profiles on a machine.cd C:\Documents and Settingsfor /f "tokens=*" %i in ('dir /b') do rd /s ".\%i\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\"
Curved monitor happiness! Thanks Alienware/Dell! =)
If you haven't heard about it, Amazon had an outtage the other day with some of it's shared services. Here's a great article explaining "what up with that"http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/02/why_s3_failed.php Here's a quote from Amazon about what happened:Early this morning, at 3:30am PST, we started seeing
elevated levels of authenticated requests from multiple users in one of
our locations. While we carefully monitor our overall request volumes
and these remained within normal ranges, we had not been monitoring the
proportion of authenticated requests. Importantly, these cryptographic
requests consume more resources per call than other request types. Shortly before 4:00am PST, we began to see several other users
significantly increase...
Those of you that know me personally are aware I'm an amateur guitar player. I started playing a little over a year ago and it's been a great experience. A couple months ago, Gibson released the Robot Guitar! Here's a little blurb from the Gibson site:
Since the dawn of the instrument, musicians have come to accept the
guitar's imperfections and lack of tonal precision as necessary evils.
Onstage and off, guitarists have fought to stay in tune. Every music
lover and performer has had to suffer through the show—halting,
mood-killing atonal droning of a loudly amped guitar being brought into
tune. And in the studio,...