I think I found a fellow geek..

August 27, 2010 · 2 comments

in Geek Stuff, Photography

I was walking the dogs this morning, and ran across this car up the street.. Minnesota license plate ‘1RQ’.. I don’t know anything that this could mean besides ‘IRQ’.. a rather geeky concept.. what d’ya think? Is there another meaning? Inquiring minds and all!

Car with '1RQ' license plate

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Android: AT&T Captivate’s wifi networking is broken

August 27, 2010

I’ve finally made the switch from Windows Mobile to Android by way of an AT&T Captivate (which is one of the many Samsung Galaxy S phones.) So far, I’ve been fairly happy – app selection is good, it’s great to have the ability to tinker on it (no, have not rooted it or flashed a [...]

Tagged as: Android, AT&T, Cell, Google, Hardware, Linux

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LSI command-line utility for SAS2 non-RAID controllers

August 23, 2010

If you are using a LSI Logic 92xx (ie, 9211-8i, 9211-4i, 9200-16e, etc) SAS2 controller for your OpenSolaris or NexentaStor storage machine (Solaris-based distributions use the mpt_sas driver for these), you may have had trouble finding the utilities to manage it from a command line (this is useful to force a rescan, bus reset, blink [...]

Tagged as: Nexenta, OpenSolaris, Storage, ZFS

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HDR photography – around the house and vices

August 21, 2010
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I recently posted the results of my first attempts at HDR photography. Since then, I’ve been craving more – what can I say, it’s fun! I had some time to myself at home tonight, so I found some random items and, well, took pictures of them. For better or worse, most of this collection should [...]

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Playing around with HDR Photography

August 19, 2010
Stillwater Lift Bridge in HDR

My wife and I recently took a quick overnight trip to Stillwater, MN for our anniversary. We came out of the Dock Cafe right around dusk, and I saw some opportunities for some pictures that I thought could be cool, but knew that a single standard exposure would not capture the reality of what is [...]

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One of the best company slogans I have ever seen

Garbage truck with a great slogan July 3, 2010

I was driving to work the other day, and spotted this garbage truck with the best company slogan I’ve ever seen..
The slogan on the garbage truck is “Satisfaction Guaranteed or Double Your Trash Back”.

Tagged as: Cars, Funny, Photography

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Lots of rain in a short period of time != good roads

June 25, 2010
Pizza guy's car stuck in the water

A friend of ours was having a engagement party up in New Hope, MN tonight (June 25 2010).. we knew the weather was going to be kind of nasty, but we figured that Tiff’s parents live about four miles from our friend’s house, so Kai could be with a babysitter nearby, and decided that we’d [...]

Tagged as: Cars, Life, Photography

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Woofdah has a new location!

May 15, 2010
Woofdah's logo on their new building

Our pups (Chimo and Oakley) have been going to Woofdah for a couple years now.. we tried a few different doggy daycares in the Minneapolis area, and this is by far the best one we have found (which is also conveniently located near us in Burnsville.) The staff actually gets to know our dogs, and [...]

Tagged as: Customer Service, Life, Pups

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Fun with cameras and Photoshop..

May 8, 2010
Sampler image for this photoblog page

Technology never ceases to amaze me. It’s been a long time since I attempted to stitch images together; last time was probably five years ago and the results were.. mediocre. While I was in the process of writing the post about eliminating the smoke odor in our new 2009 Mercury Sable, I wanted to toss [...]

Tagged as: Cars, Photography

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Review: SuperMicro’s SC847 (SC847A) 4U chassis with 36 drive bays

May 7, 2010
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[Or "my quest for the ultimate home-brew storage array."] At my day job, we use a variety of storage solutions based on the type of data we’re hosting. Over the last year, we have started to deploy SuperMicro-based hardware with OpenSolaris and ZFS for storage of some classes of data. The systems we have built [...]

Tagged as: Deduplication, Hardware, Nexenta, Open-source, OpenSolaris, Storage, SuperMicro, ZFS

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Kind of stating the obvious..

Kind of stating the obvious - license plate 'A RED CAR' April 28, 2010

..but I can dig it. (License plate: ‘A RED CAR’. On a red car. A red Honda Civic to be specific.)

Tagged as: Cars, Funny

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How I got rid of the smoke smell in my new (to me) car

April 27, 2010
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As I mentioned in my previous post, we purchased a 2009 Mercury Sable that had been smoked in by the previous owner. The smell of smoke wasn’t horrible, but it was enough to give both Tiff and I sore throats while test driving the car (we’re both sensitive to smoke.) If you’re interested in what [...]

Tagged as: Cars, Cheapskate, Life, Odor

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Oh Passat, how I will miss thee… (or, “my tale of a new car”)

April 26, 2010
Our Passat before trade-in

Our beloved 2007 Passat just came up on lease end, which means that it was time to decide if we wanted to keep it, or if it was time to go car shopping.

Tagged as: Cars, Cheapskate, Customer Service, Life, Personal Finance

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Some small wins..

March 9, 2010
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So I’ve been trying to have some wins in life.. and in the last weeks, I’ve managed to make a few, albeit small ones. I figured I’d post these publicly so all my friends, enemies, and random haters on the ‘net can mock me mercilessly if necessary. ;)

Tagged as: Life

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Sun’s Unified Storage 7210 – designed to disappoint?

February 23, 2010
Sun Logo

At my day job, we purchased 3 Sun (er, Oracle) 7210’s (part of their ‘Unified Storage’ platform; the machines are X4540’s with their specialized Unified Storage OS) on the recommendation of one of our vendors. The models we purchased contained 48 250gb disks and 32gb memory — no SSD’s. Our intent was to use these [...]

Tagged as: Customer Service, Oracle, Storage, Sun Microsystems, ZFS

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Sarah Anthony of The Letter Black (aka Rock Photography is Fun Part 8)

December 25, 2009
Sarah Anthony of the band The Letter Black singing

Sarah Anthony of the band The Letter Black singing; shot at the Minneapolis Convention Center on November 14, 2009 during Skillet’s ‘Awake and Alive’ concert tour.

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Sarah Anthony of The Letter Black performing during Skillet’s Awake and Alive tour

December 15, 2009
Sarah Anthony of the band The Letter Black opening for Skillet during their Awake and Alive tour

Sarah Anthony of the band The Letter Black; shot at the Minneapolis Convention Center on November 14, 2009 during Skillet’s ‘Awake and Alive’ concert tour.

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DRBD accepted to mainline kernel for 2.6.33!

December 8, 2009
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As announced on Florian Haas’s blog, DRBD has been accepted into the mainline Linux kernel, and will be released with 2.6.33. Congratulations to the DRBD team on this major milestone! This will make the lives of all DRBD users much, much easier.
For those of you who are not aware, DRBD is a synchronous block-level replication [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Storage

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Mediacom, stop messing with my packets!

December 4, 2009
Mediacom - We Edit Your Packets

Mediacom keeps getting worse and worse. As I’ve mentioned before. Mediacom is my ISP at home. Unfortunately, it’s the only service of reasonable speed at a decent price available for my address.

Tagged as: Customer Service, Mediacom

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Web interface with Java console for XenServer (and Xen Cloud Platform)

December 4, 2009
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One of the things that is nice with the release of Xen Cloud Platform (which I mentioned previously) is Project XVP. As the site mentions, it has four major components – xvp (a VNC proxy to allow you to connect to the console of a VM hosted on XenServer or Xen Cloud Platform), xvpviewer (TightVNC’s [...]

Tagged as: Citrix, Cloud, Open-source, Virtualization, Xen

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Google launches new public DNS resolver service, OpenDNS competitor

December 3, 2009
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Google recently launched a new Public DNS resolution service. I’m very excited to see this.. the most commonly-used public resolver up until now has been OpenDNS, which works fairly well, but has some features that I do not likely — namely, it will (by default) redirect any requests for non-existing domains to a host on [...]

Tagged as: DNS, Google

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