I choose you, sharpie!
Posted by tuckie - 04/01/08 at 01:01:37 amJust messing around with a long exposure while changing the zoom on the camera:
edit: so I now have a flickr account, but things are still acting a bit wonky, (alignment does nothing, and I can’t have more than one image per line using the flickr plugin, now just some behind the scenes stuff is acting up) but hopefully it will get resolved (I asked the author of the plugin)
State of the tuckienet
Posted by tuckie - 03/01/08 at 02:01:04 pmFor anyone who wants to look back to the older posts (or who may have read the older posts already), I’ve gone through quite a few changes in regards to my network setup. The plans on using the Netra fell through (although not hooked up, it is operational), as I ended up running pfsense as my main routing software on an old dell. It’s been going strong for some time now, and handles bit torrent traffic much better than the old wrt54g was able to (it now just serves as an access point). The emachine is, for the time being, out of commission, although it may come back as some form of backup solution. I’m now running Ubuntu on my main server/mythtv box. I had originally went with Knoppmyth for mythtv, as it offered much easier installation configuration process, but now, mythtv is a snap to install, and I actually was able to get it up and running more quickly than with knoppmyth. The server now has 3 main functions: mythtv server, file/media server via samba (aka windows file sharing protocol), and a bit torrent box through a variation of torrentflux. As far as hardware specs go, its a big jump from what I was running. I now have:
- 80GB system drive
5, 500GB WD RE2 drives in a software raid 5 (via linux’s mdadm), giving me roughly 2TB of storageedit: make that one more drive, so I’m now at 2.5 TB of storage.- An Athlon X2 3600+ running at 1.9Ghz
1GB of memory (I’m tempted to upgrade, its so cheap these days)edit: it’s so cheap, that I did upgrade (although its giving me some spuratic stability issues), currently at 2GB of memory.- pvr-150 from my emachine for mythtv
For those interested, the specs of my workstation are:
- Core2duo, e6400, running at 3.3Ghz (2.1 is stock)
- 400GB WD RE2 drive
- 8800 GTS
- 2GB of Crucial Ballistix
- EVGA 680i motherboard
Oh, and there’s a gigabit router between server and workstation, as well as a 1500VA ups between the two, as I really don’t feel like parting with 2TB of data a second time (note to others: raid is no excuse for not having a true backup, I know that now).
Almost finished
Posted by tuckie - 03/01/08 at 11:01:01 amWell, I just ported the remainder of the posts from the old blog, hopefully this one will stay a bit more updated. I still haven’t decided what the ideal solution is for forwarding from tuckie.net to tuckie.net/wordpress, but then again, I haven’t put much thought into it.
Services!
Posted by tuckie - 02/01/08 at 04:01:17 pmHelp me, help you.
Scripting!
Posted by tuckie - 02/01/08 at 03:01:24 pmOne of the aspects that I like about *nix in general is the power of scripting. Using shell scripts, I can accomplish a lot more than I could ever hope to do inside of a batch file. One such example is is my script to convert dvd rips to isos. I’m currently working on taking this one step further, and converting the movies using a handbrake script, so that I can watch them on my iPod, but the script is still pretty buggy.
On that note: does anyone know of a good script/program to convert avis, mkvs, etc to the iPod format (Linux preferred, but Windows is doable)?
First post!
Posted by tuckie - 02/01/08 at 02:01:52 pmI’m thinking about switching over from pluggedout blog to the ever popular wordpress. Should be a bit more stable and a bit less susceptible to comment spam, but we shall see.
Edit: now switched over, if you see something below this post, its ported from the old blog.
die phpBB die
Posted by tuckie - 26/07/06 at 09:07:06 pmWell, I’ve nuked phpBB and switched over to punBB after being sick of spamming on the forum. I still have a bit of work left to do on the site, but its definately a lot cleaner looking. If you guys have any suggestions feel free to throw them my way.
It’s been a while
Posted by tuckie - 24/04/06 at 09:04:42 amYeah, I’ve kinda slouched off on the blog for a while; it’s been a busy semester for me. In terms of projects, I have a few that I have been dabbling with.
What has been taking up most my time as of late has been devising a remote controlled ignition device for this year’s Fourth of July. Using a 12 channel remote controlled relay board located here, I am in the process of rigging it to a 12 volt battery and putting it in a fancy enclosure. If anyone has ever used a model rocket kit, think of one of those electronic igniters, but with 12 channels, and a wireless controller.
I have also been doing a bit of work (not much at this point) with my wrt54g from fon. Right now I have openwrt installed on it (think mini linux) and have installed a kismet drone for wardriving.
Well, that’s it for now, hopefully things will pick up when the term is over.
E=MC something something…
Posted by tuckie - 10/01/06 at 09:01:10 amWell after taking a stab at my calculus homework, I have realized that I really should look over my old math notes–this being my first math class in a year and a half. For the most part, I remember what I’m doing, but I need to brush up on some various things such as some methods for simplifying (I need to find those old “cheat sheets”). Fun stuff really. It should make for an interesting semester. If anyone has a site that they suggest for math guides, that would be appreciated. Hopefully it will all come back to me in a week or two. ;)
No matter what your religion is…
Posted by tuckie - 12/12/05 at 11:12:14 am…have a merry Christmas.
Its Christmas morning and I have yet to open all of my presents. I’m at my Grandpa’s house and we’re getting ready to leave. A few presents were brought to be opened, including a few books, more Family Guy, Serenity, and my free iPod Shuffle (I signed up for a credit card, they send you a shuffle). The shuffle is a pretty neat piece of hardware–minus the lack of a screen. I’ll probably just use it for podcasts and data, although I’m a bit turned-off at the lack of a plug and play podcast sync for the shuffle (it appears to only work on the regular iPod, although it would be nice if someone told me otherwise).
I’ve managed to keep myself busy here thanks to an access point that the neighbors were kind enough to leave open ;). I don’t even need my cantenna.
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