I got a couple of more rides in today. For about a total of 3 hours of biking in. It feels great to get a few rides in. I am going to see if I can get some rides in this weekend. I have a friend that is into meteorology and he said that this weekend looks good. I probably will take some more pictures this weekend.
Well it seams that the new season of biking is on us again. I went on a nice short trip today, about an hour long. I did a run down the jail trail. The only problem was that the city found it necessary to turn off the drinking founts on both side the trail.
I have added the new pictures from today. Also I made a new album for this year pictures, and renamed the album of last year’s pictures. I only got 5 pictures today, since I was on a bit of a tight schedule for the bike ride (I only had an hour for it) so I could not spend to much time taking pictures. It is going to rain for rest of the week (well according to the weather forecasts) so I will not get another chance for a bit, but once I get a chance I will try to get more pictures for the site.
I found this post on Backup DNA on another blog. Would it not be cool if humans did have this same backup DNA built in. If humans did, maybe we could find a way to cause the backup to be brought forth. This probably would have to be done very early in a womans pregnancy.
This probably would kill on of the arguments that abortions use, “what if the child has a genetic defect”, this would kill the argument by making it a moot argument.
I am going to say something controversial here. I love debugging; I find it fun and very interesting. It is like a puzzle to solve. When you think you have found the problem, you find that you are only chipping at the tip of the iceberg. And to do debugging on a multi-thread program makes the puzzle all that more interesting to go after. The area I am debugging right now seams to be the semaphores that I am using, I know that for every time I grab for a semaphore I free it when I am finished but it seams that my code is all blocked up in the grabbing for the semaphore, I am starting to wonder if the WIN32 API is not a atomic function, which will make the code all that more harder to deal with.
I love the show South Park; it does things so absorber it is funny. Right now I am watching some DVD that I am borrowing from my dad. I am on season two.
Well we had the Easter Vigil at First Trinity tonight, it was beautiful as usual. I have taken some pictures. I hope every one has a happy Easter.
One of the internet radio stations I like has started to do pod casting. The station is KFUO, and the radio show I really like is Issues Etc. It will be nice since I can not listen to it in full live, I can now at lest have it downloaded automatically to my computer and put on my iPod for listening to the next day. I might not be able to call in to the show like I use to, but I can still listen to it. I just wish I could tell iPodder to look for the last few shows and download them all.
I just tried to compile the kernel of BSD, and I got linker errors, I have never gotten an error on the linker while compiling a kernel, what is up with the BSD kernel?? I would love to spend the time figuring this beast out, but I don’t really have the time for that, I guess I will be grabbing a copy of a Linux to server as the VPN server. I might some day in the future try BSD again, but at this time I don’t have the time for it. I don’t even have the time for the VPN server that is needed but, it will take less time then trying to get BSD to compile then installing and testing the VPN stuff. Now that it is 3:30am I might want to consider going to bed now, since I have to be up in 4 and a half hours from now.
I am trying to get the BSD system going, and it not working as well as I has hoped. It does not see my network card, and if I can not get it to see the network card I will have to bail on the BSD idea. I would like to use BSD for it, but if it does not see the network card, I will have to go back to Linux, since the main reason for this computer is for network stuff (the VPN stuff) But for now I am compiling a new kernel, I have included all the network drivers, if none of them work I will have to kill the idea. The problem might be that the computer has a SMC-Ultra card, and those have always been nasty to get going, so I can not blame BSD for that, but I don’t want to spend any money on this system, since I got the box free, there should never be a reason to put more money into a computer accessory then you put into the computer, also the computer is only a Pentium 1 (maybe 2 if I am lucky) 300MHz.
I am back working on the VPN now; I am looking at putting a BSD flavor on it. From what I can get form some of my friends on wplug, I might be going with FreeBSD and see how it goes, that is the nice thing about getting another unused computer for the server, you can mess with it before you get all things in place, and you don’t have to worry about messing up your work boxes since it is not a work box to begin with.
Well three things have happened as of late that made me think about how we keep our pictures today. I was in the past the only way to lose your memories (pictures) was to a disaster such as a flood or a fire. Now we don’t only have that to worry about, but we have hackers to worry about, virus writers to worry about, and computer crashes to worry about, it seams that we can loss years of photos really easily now. No I am not bad mouthing digital pictures; in fact I am working on scanning in all my old pictures that I have recently found to put them in with all my other pictures. What I am questioning is why we don’t have better off site backups of personal data. Yes many of us will do backups, but we leave them on site, so if something were to happen to where we live we still would lose our data. As of now personal off site backups are very expensive and out of the reach of most people, but the technology are there. The broadband pipes are there, one could have a program that would back up your system every night over the internet (only the files that changes) so that God forbid something ever did happen, you would not loss your precious files. I and I use the word precious because files now are very valuable, not in the monetary sense but in the sense that a picture, or an heirloom is. Just a thought, do with it what you will.
These thoughts today are triggered (there were two other things of more importance then this, but this is what triggered the thoughts tonight) since I did just scan in 65 old pictures, and found that after adding them to my iPhotos Library I had over 3300 pictures on my computer, many of them not replaceable, yes I have them backed up to 2 places, but both are on site, if something were to happen I would lose them all.
The final thing I have to think about, and maybe you my reader, do I scan all my old pictures, even the bad ones? I am thinking not, but it might be nice just to have all my pictures in one place, but I still have about two hundred more pictures to do, I can do about 60 pictures an hour, not bad timing, but still 200 minutes or 3 and a 1/3 hours is a long time to be scanning.
Digital photos do make sharing your memories with you family easer so that is a strong case to keep at lest a copy of all your pictures on the computer.
And if you read this far thanks for reading, and please let me know your thoughts.
Well I have rearranged my home, freeing up some room in the center of the place, it looks bigger now, I have also did some cleaning of the APT, maybe some time I will finally get around to doing a video tour of the place for my friends and family. I still do not know what to do with the stupid TV, just sites in the way, or just at an odd area.
So far as it stands I have not finished working with the VPN yet. I have made some progress, I know which type of VPN I want, and how I am going to do it, I now just have to recompile the Linux kernel to get the stuff I want done, I have not done my own kernel in 6 years as it stands, so I am not getting things as easy as they use to be. Got a warning when I did the “make dep” about it being decrepit (when did that happen) And now that I have the kernel building, I try to boot it, and I must had done something wrong, I am getting a kernel panic because it can not fulfill the kernel paging request, I have a few ideas where the problem is. It just I have not done a custom kernel is such a long time, the last time I did a custom kernel was 98, and I always used the config from that in all kernels after that; I built them using the make oldconfig, that is nice since it only ask you about the stuff that was added to the kernel since the last time you configured it.
So I will have to put the VPN on hold till the weekend again.
This weekend I am hoping to be able to start reading the VPN book I got at the cplug security conference, and maybe have some thing setup so I can have full access to my home network and shutdown all the other ports I have open up at home, I am thinking the few ports I have open the few chances I have to get hacked into on the home network, call me paranoid if you must. Plus if I do this right I am hoping that I will be able to see my iTunes Library that is at home from work. I just have to make sure that when I am connecting to my iTunes, no one can connect though the iTunes at work and get to my iTunes at home.
My cousin Michael Skoviera is working to make the worlds largest Duct Tape Ball. Michael S. I wish you luck, just make sure it does not break lose and cause havoc all over the US!
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