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Electric Pusher Trailers
2007-08-02 07:36:00 Some co-workers brought up the idea of creating an electric pusher-trailer to take the load off a gas-powered car… you know, incase you wanted a hybrid but couldn’t afford a Prius… or maybe you just can’t give up your Ferrari, but the gas bills are starting to get to you. Anyway, I was curious if anyone else had ever thought of this, so I did some digging. It turns out no one has ever built an electric pusher, but the concept of pushing a car with a trailer is nothing new , except that usually its an electric car being pushed by a gas trailer. Here are a few examples . I did find two electric pusher trailers for bicycles however. More About: Trailers , Electric , Pusher , TRAI , Trail
mDNSResponder / GCC 4.1 / Ubuntu Problem persists
2007-05-04 23:46:00 A while back I reported on an obscure problem when compiling applications against the dnssd library that comes with Apple’s mDNSResponde r. This post is just to report that these problems persist in mDNSResponder 108.4. As I reported before, here is what you’ll see when compiling your program: hidden symbol `__stack_chk_fail_local' in /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(stack_chk_fail_ local.oS) is referenced by DSO /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output As you can see, its all very intuitive. More About: Ubuntu , Problem
mDNSResponder / GCC 4.1 / Ubuntu Problem persists
2007-05-04 23:46:00 A while back I reported on an obscure problem when compiling applications against the dnssd library that comes with Apple’s mDNSResponde r. This post is just to report that these problems persist in mDNSResponder 108.4. As I reported before, here is what you’ll see when compiling your program: hidden symbol `__stack_chk_fail_local' in /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(stack_chk_fail_ local.oS) is referenced by DSO /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output As you can see, its all very intuitive. More About: Ubuntu , Pond , Problem
Blister in the Sun
2007-03-27 06:02:00 You know there is something wrong with the world when you start hearing Violent Femmes songs about masturbation in the background of Wendy’s commercials. Or maybe I’m just getting old. More About: Blister , Lister
Blister in the Sun
2007-03-27 06:02:00 You know there is something wrong with the world when you start hearing Violent Femmes songs about masturbation in the background of Wendy’s commercials. Or maybe I’m just getting old. More About: List , The Sun , Blister , Lister
Sticking it to the Cable Company
2007-03-13 20:20:00 We recently returned our rented cable modem and cable box (neither of which we wanted anyway, we have our own cable modem) and downgraded out TV service to ‘basic’, which is pretty much the old 2 through 13 of yester-year. Combined with the cable modem charge of $60/month, or total monthly bill should be around $75. But we can’t watch BattleStar Galactica! What to do? Step one: BitTorrent plus RSS I’m using Azureus and one of its RSS plugins, but Windows users might want to try uTorrent. Setting this up is well documented on the internet, so I’ll let you figure it out. Oh, http://tvrss.net/ will be helpful. I’m using the legacy RSS feeds, but I’m not sure if it matters. Step two: Tivo.NET This tool is fantastic. Point it at the directory of your downloaded videos, and it will seemlessly transcode and send them back to your TiVo using ffmpeg. It runs in the background as a service or a daemon, and it provides a web page for ... More About: Company , Cable , Tick
Sticking it to the Cable Company
2007-03-13 20:20:00 We recently returned our rented cable modem and cable box (neither of which we wanted anyway, we have our own cable modem) and downgraded out TV service to ‘basic’, which is pretty much the old 2 through 13 of yester-year. Combined with the cable modem charge of $60/month, or total monthly bill should be around $75. But we can’t watch BattleStar Galactica! What to do? Step one: BitTorrent plus RSS I’m using Azureus and one of its RSS plugins, but Windows users might want to try uTorrent. Setting this up is well documented on the internet, so I’ll let you figure it out. Oh, http://tvrss.net/ will be helpful. I’m using the legacy RSS feeds, but I’m not sure if it matters. Step two: Tivo.NET This tool is fantastic. Point it at the directory of your downloaded videos, and it will seemlessly transcode and send them back to your TiVo using ffmpeg. It runs in the background as a service or a daemon, and it provides a web page for ... More About: Company , Comp , King , Stick , Cable
Home improvement: Washer and Dryer Install
2007-03-04 00:45:00 We got a new washer and dryer today. The delivery was pretty straight forward, but it took the plumber about 5 hours to create the drain and move the pipes and everything. That cost $450. On top of that, my wife and I built a new stand for the washer and dryer, the materials for that were about $30. Here are some pictures of before and after… More About: Home , Improvement , Home Improvement , Washer , Dryer
Home improvement: Washer and Dryer Install
2007-03-04 00:45:00 We got a new washer and dryer today. The delivery was pretty straight forward, but it took the plumber about 5 hours to create the drain and move the pipes and everything. That cost $450. On top of that, my wife and I built a new stand for the washer and dryer, the materials for that were about $30. Here are some pictures of before and after… More About: Home , Men , Tall , Improvement , Improve
Not Exactly Highbrow...
2007-02-18 02:46:00 ...but at least I’m drawing… Don't anger Frylock More About: High
Quick Sketches
2007-02-18 01:10:00 Here are a few quick sketches I did a while back… A camera... My parent's dog Sydney More About: Sketches , Quick , Sketch , Etch
Encoding PSP Video on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) Linux - 2
2007-02-18 00:00:00 Encoding Now that you’ve gotten ffmpeg installed correctly, you can start encoding video. I started with “this website:”http://can.homeunix.org/sw /psp/ffmpeg_psp/” More About: Video , Linux , Ubuntu , Coding , Odin
Encoding PSP Video on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) Linux
2007-02-17 23:07:00 Part 1 – A better ffmpeg You would think transcoding video for playback on the PSP would be something trivial to do these days on Linux , with a nice gui frontend and everything, but as is typical, we’ll have to wait until approximately when the PSP2 is releases before its easy to do anything with the PSP1 on Linux. Anyway, here’s how I got my Linux box (running Ubuntu ) to encode video from my Tivo to my PSP. Since these write-ups are going to be long, I’ve broken them into multiple posts. This article deals with compiling and installing ffmpeg with additional codecs Ubuntu didn’t ship with. The short cut If you want, you can try skipping the instructions and just install my ffmpeg deb, but I haven’t added any dependancies to the deb, so it may or may not work, and I haven’t tried it. Give it a shot, and if it doesn’t install, come back here and try the rest of these instructions. Get out your compiler The ffmpeg th... More About: Video , Coding , Odin
Getting Started with Motorsports
2007-02-11 22:38:00 I struck up a conversation with someone online and began explaining how to get started with motorsports, and I figured maybe other people would be interested too. Autocross Autocross is definitely the way to start. Its a time-trial through an obstacle course. Because you are racing the clock, not any other cars, so you can use your own street car. The course is setup in a parking lot or on an old runway so there is little chance of an accident. The club SCCA, NASA, or a local club sets up a series of cones and you have to drive through them as fast as possible. Each cone you hit costs 2 seconds, going outside the cones is a DNF (Did-not-finish). Any car is eligible, assuming it passes a tech inspection (generally ok mechanical shape, battery is tied down, it brakes straight, no bad wobbles). Cars and drivers are divided into performance categories for scoring. The cost of an autocross is usually around $25 a day, it takes the whole day, and you have to help out by fixing... More About: Sports , Sport , Motor , Motors , Arte
mDNSResponder and GCC 4.1 compiling issues
2007-01-23 17:11:00 I have found an issue with compiling mDNSResponde r-107.6 (and probably older versions) with GCC 4.1. This will bite you if you are using Ubuntu Edgy or another gcc-4.1 based-distro. In short, you’ll get this error message: cc dns-sd.c -L../mDNSPosix/build/prod/ -ldns_sd -I../mDNSShared -o build/dns-sd /usr/bin/ld: build/dns-sd: hidden symbol `__stack_chk_fail_local' in /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(stack_chk_fail_ local.oS) is referenced by DSO /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output The solution is below…Here is the full output of the compile command you should see: jpollak@moya:/tmp/mDNSResponder-107.6/mDN SPosix$ make os=linux Responder daemon done Client library done make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/mDNSResponder-107.6/Clients' cc dns-sd.c -L../mDNSPosix/build/prod/ -ldns_sd -I../mDNSShared -o build/dns-sd /usr/bin/ld: build/dns-sd: hidden symbol __stack_chk_fail_local' in /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(stack_chk_fail_ local.oS) is refe... More About: Issues , Comp , Pond , Issue
Sucking Cold Air
More articles from this author:2007-01-19 02:29:00 I’m not a big fan of trucks, but my friend James did a good write-up on his Chevy Colorado cold-air intake install, so if your interested, here is a link. If you’ve ever thought of dabbling with car modifications, a cold air intake is one of the easiest things to get started with. It won’t turn your Neon into a race car, but it’ll make a small difference, and combining it with a few other changes and a computer ugrade can create a lot of power. More About: Cold , King , Suck 1, 2 |
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