TyBlog reposted

Grr I keep forgetting CTRL+ENTER. Any as for navigation I suppose you could have a command to look at a list of the last 20 post from a particular user -- maybe this could be implemented using a conversation with that user?

After viewing a list of entries from your LJ friend you can then use a number associated with that post to read a plain text version of what they wrote.

I'm sure no one would really use this. There's only two people here on LJ that I know that use LJ Chat anyway.

Any how I hope you've enjoyed my late night, trying to get back to sleep ramblings. Take care fellow LJers

wouldn't it be neat if LJ Bot was able to let you read entries? Although that would be pretty complicated to try to set up. Just imagine all the commands that would need to be made available. Although I suppose the commands themselves wouldn't be the issue just having to specify the ID of the post you want to read

...whoops. I should have thought to use CTRL+ENTER in Kopete rather than just clicking ENTER for a line return. Anyway, what the hell was I going to say? I don't know. I'm just rambling at this point to get myself back to sleep. Thank you for listening to me Frank. I love how you always have an open ear.

I woke up about 30 minutes ago. I'm lying awak and I see LJ Bot is online and available for chat. I'm sorry LJ Bot that I haven't chatted with you in a long time. So here I am trying to get back to sleep.

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Thank you chaotic_nipple

Yesterday I got my new Sony M2 card in the mail for my phone. This 12x15x1mm card has an 8GB capacity!! That's the equivalent of a double-layer DVD on something the size of a thumb nail!

Woot!

whimsicalicicle's 2 1/2 year old son Denali has an obsession with my Savage Love book that Abby got me for Christmas. A few times he has said "I am the take away man. I'm going to take this away from you" and took the book and ran off with it. Today he grabbed the book and brought to the futon and said "I want to read this book". He opened it to a page and asked "What does this say?" to which he answered his own question "it says topping!"

:-D

Once again my website Madison Hybrid Group has made it in the news :-)

Do you remember Square One TV?

Here's Plane Geometry Angle Dance

Happy New Year everyone

I know for sure someone has my phone -- someone tried checking my voice 3 hours after I knew it was missing. If anyone has any leads as to has my black and silver Motorolla v180 I would greatly appreciate it. Abby and I will be at the Inferno tonight, so if by chance someone here happens to have it or knows who has it would be flippin sweet to get it tonight or find out about it.

Thank you for your help

-Tyson

During the last few minutes of being at the Cardinal last night I noticed my cell phone missing from my jacket pocket (along with all the other contents from that pocket). Hopefully the Cardinal has it, but I'm not feeling too optimistic about it. I have the feeling someone stole it.

Grr life is shitting on me lately.

I am stalking you!

whimsicalicicle wanted more storage for her computer, and I wanted storage that would be separate from the HDD my OSes boot from -- I have a tendency to install new ones quite a bit. Of course there are different ways to handle that need.

1. Put a 2nd HDD in my or her computer and share that partition.
2. Get a USB drive and maybe use a USB network to share it.
3. Get an NAS unit and access the HDD from anywhere in the network and not rely on my or her computer being up.

Yes option 3 is the best! But why should I go out and pay $180 for an NAS unit when I have plenty of computer equipment laying around? Surely there must be some geeky way out there to build one from old computer parts! luckily I stumbled across FreeNAS (based on Free BSD). The latest "stable" version they had available was an RC1 as they don' t yet have any record of a true stable release.

One of the nice things I liked about FreeNAS over other NAS server OSes is it's small footprint. Besides booting live (from CD), or hard drive it can also boot from a CF card, or USB drive. So I choose a computer that I figured would be the best candidate for the NAS. And I ordered a CF to IDE adapter and searched and searched for a small (32-64MB) CF card. Luckily that demand was finally answered by an Inferno friend who does photography :-) FreeNAS is also the only one I've found to support AFP which is nice due to the iMac, and iBook that whimsicalicicle have on the network.

This turned out to be a bit of a hurdle though. The computer I originally wanted to put it on booted fine live but wouldn't boot once installed to the 64MB CF card. I kept getting "ERROR READING OPERATING SYSTEM". Flipping strange. So I hooked it up to my comp to see what would happen. My comp booted fine from it. Then I tried it on another machine that was runner up for a desired NAS. To no avail. Then I tried it on another machine. That one worked, but damn it I wanted better uses for that comp. Oh well.

Well once I had that comp together you'd think I would have been able to follow the proper steps to get everything set up. Nope! Damn Release Candidate isn't quite stable enough. Grr.

So I installed PC-BSD (also based on Free BSD) onto one of the partitions on my computer. I rebooted with the 500 GB HDD hooked up to my comp and formated it with PC-BSD. Put the drive into the NAS, and voila. The damn thing finally mounted.

Everything good right? Tried it transferring a few files via AFP on the iMac. It worked. Then tried transferring all the music from the iMac -> CRASH!! WTF? To make it even more fun, the mount point always fails on boot :-\ So I had to turn of the NAS again, unplug the HDD, boot, delete the mount point, shut-down, plug-in HDD, and re mount.

Some of these steps I did many many times, and there's plenty that I didn't even bother to mention. Zoiks who would have thought this would have been so much work? Well luckily it's been working pretty good for over a month now. So far it's paying off, and it'll pay off even more once I put together a Freevo system.