sitzmar!

I took a few panoramic shots while I was in Italy. Using the open-source app Hugin to stitch the photos together I got the following results.
I don’t like how the sky is over exposed in most of them, but overall I’m pleased with the results.

Hardware all arrived on Thursday, threw it all together and got it powered up with no troubles.

At the first power on, I immediately wanted to fix the fan on the north bridge. It started off with a bit of a clicking noise, but even after that quieted down, the motor noise was still pretty [...]

This King5 article talks about mercury contamination from the mining operation in the Silverton area years ago. I happened to be up there earlier this year and took pictures of the concentrators. As you can see, it’s amazing that one of them is still standing.

A buddy of mine built a nice Xubuntu image for the eee, and needed some mirrors to help get it out there.
The eeeusers wiki is getting hit pretty hard currently, so here’s a the current list of mirrors:
tivac.com
lildragon.eu
sitzmar.com (here)
I’d love to get my hands on one to play with, but I just don’t think I’d [...]

Just finished watching the Seahawks-Rams game, and the name of the Ram’s coach Scott Linehan caught my attention. The name sounded very familiar, so I did a little googling and discovered that the wife of Scott Linehan was my english teacher sophomore year of high school! At the time, her husband was the offensive coordinator [...]

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Okay, I promise. Can I please have a replacement drive now?

I finally googled one of my biggest annoyances in vista: automatic reboots after windows updates.
Turns out it’s a simple change using the group policy editor.
Here’s the details:
http://4sysops.com/archives/disable-restart-after-windows-automatic-updates/

Last night I used netstumbler to scan for wireless access points in my neighborhood. I found about 6 right away, and then another 5 after moving my wifi usb key closer to the window.
The original reason for my scan was to find out which channels were being used in the area. Not surprising 6, 9 [...]

I came home from work on Tuesday to find our internet connection was down once again. This has been happening with disappointing frequency since we moved into the new house. It always comes back after a few hours, so I busy myself with other things for the rest of the evening.
Wednesday morning, no internet.
Wednesday [...]

Looking back through my old posts, it was September when I last had troubles with the primary HD in my bsd box. Well, it started acting up again a few days ago, hardlocking the machine at least once a day, and finally refusing to boot, much like the previous time. So I decided to retire [...]