Bought some walleye fillets at Fresh Market, finally cooked them. Used the Cooking with Vince Spice Rub and whew! that’s a spicy walleye. And I even backed off on the red pepper.
But darn good. Some asparagus, some red wine. Good night.
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So in a Lifehacker post a few months ago on the Hive Five top monitors, number 2 was a Yamakasi Catleap. I spent an afternoon researching monitors and got the same Dell, Best Buy etc. Supposedly this was a IPS panel that was number 2 in line for the Mac display, which is great. The Dell Ultra Sharp 27″ is $800, this was $400. Issues. It’s shipped from Korea. Dell will come to your house. eBay will not. Pixel stuck? 5 is accepted in Korea. Power? 240 in korea, 120V here. Website? In Korean. Support? Nah. Lots of questions. Enter eBay and korexmall. They listed a “[Yamakasi] Catleap Q271 LED 27″ S-IPS HDMI Speaker (Perfect Pixel&Free Voltage)”. So no stuck pixels, and includes the 110V adapter. For $450. Free shipping. Wow. So I dithered for a day or two, then pulled the switch on Sunday. In the meantime, I thought the new panel only had HDMI and Dual-Link DVI so I could not use my existing video card. So I did some more research, and found a cheap Asus E1427U0-C with Nvidia GeForce GT 640 and 2GB of RAM, with HDMI and Dual DVI outputs. But not ridiculous on power consumption or graphics power – not a gamer, thanks. Except maybe for Guitar Hero, and I have not played that for a year. While on NewEgg’s site, I downloaded the Crucial RAM sniffer and got another 4GB of DRAM. In for a penny. The video card arrived Thursday on the front porch, and a note in the mail saying a parcel was waiting at the post office. Bette was out and got it and came home with a huge box. From South Korea. Some damage on one corner. Unscathed otherwise. Opened it. A layer of pillows around the main box. The main box. Kinda scary. Opened the main box. Nicely packed in foam corners, all look good. Base comes out, then monitor. Left over: Manual in Korean, switching power support for 120-240V -> 24VDC. One DVI and one audio cable. Setup. Snap in base. Try to plug in VGA; plug is too long. If you use VGA D-SUB with this monitor, make sure the plug is 1/2″ long or less – consider cable bend. The D-SUB port is just over the tilt, and it interferes. Menu buttons along bottom right. Not exactly easy to use. Found Menu button (labeled M, assume S is for Source, that selects between VGA/DVI/HDMI). Blindly found the way to change to English. Finally gave up on VGA – went to DVI. Plugged it in, reboot. Wow. Reviewed the customs doc. Shipping listed at 250,000 Won ~ $120 USD. Yow. If they would have listed that on eBay, I might have thought twice. Base is a bit wobbly, and I did not figure out how to tilt it. A new clamp-on mount is on the way from Monoprice anyway. ps. I searched for a similar one today and found this listing, for $777 USD. Yow! What gives? Ordered a monitor from South Korea. Here is the tracking information from eBay, which looks like it comes from the Korea Post Office:
Notice Left (No Authorized Recipient Available) Out for Delivery Sorting Complete Arrival at Post Office Depart USPS Sort Facility Processed through USPS Sort Facility Processed Through Sort Facility Origin Post is Preparing Shipment Processed Through Sort Facility Acceptance So eBay holds it, but someone collects it. This is good tracking. I have never seen this on USPS stuff – it just says “Delivered”. A friend is waiting for a registered letter from Chicago for the last week. No tracking at all. Better get it together, USPS. And Congress, lay off making them pay retirement benefits up front. For a “conservative” Congress, supposedly advocating for business, you are killing this one. For those traveling to Florida or other points, make sure to stop in the Lodge factory store in Sevierville TN. The traffic and construction made it a bit tough, but it was worth it. We got a 12″ Carbon Steel Skillet for $40, a blemished cast iron 10″ skillet (absolutely perfect for corn bread) for only $12, and a blemished cast iron two-burner (e.g. pancake) griddle for only $40. The blemished items are completely don’t care – as far as I can tell, they are perfect. Worth the trip. You are there anyway! I spend my day in the magnificent Git Bash shell. Recently I started bring work home by pushing the project to a bare Git repository on the flash drive at
If the flash drive was not mounted before Git Bash is launched, it can not be seen. Some Googling resulted in folks saying there was no way to make this happen, some said setting I tried closing all the Git Bash shells and restarting. Still nothing. But then I remembered that the ssh-agent is run by .bashrc (if not already running) and that might use the same runtime and drive table. So I killed the ssh-agent process and restarted the shell. Yay! Not sure which, but I set the environment and will kill the ssh-agent first. Now I can push… I modified an existing job in Jenkins to use a boolean flag, so I could check it if I wanted to disable the Maven tests. To do so, you define a property:
So for the boolean config I set the name to After running, blam! Pages of Increase memory to -Xmx1024m. Same. Downloaded the source. Problem with recursive calls to a parse, using Running in debug, I copied the command string into a shell.
Little Googling. The param is $X, not ${x}. Aargh! Now it works. On to the next problem. I have several Bitbucket-hosted Mercurial repos for my binary baseline and some development projects. I started to use Mercurial because the syntax was easier. In the meantime I have been using Git at work and could not remember the Mercurial commands. Time to convert. How? Thanks to this article, “Converting Mercurial to Git”, it is easy. Kind of. Had to install ActiveState Python, then install the Mercurial package >pypm install mercurial Then here are the basic instructions: $ cd ~/Desktop $ git clone git://repo.or.cz/fast-export.git $ git init git_repo $ cd git_repo $ ~/Desktop/fast-export/hg-fast-export.sh -r /path/to/old/mercurial_repo $ git checkout HEAD Since I use the wonderful msysgit git-bash shell, the script worked, except the `dirname $0` failed for some reason. I just replaced the dynamically generated value with the actual location of the repo. So mine was ~/Desktop/git_repo (master) $ ~/Desktop/fast-export/hg-fast-export.sh -r /c/bin ROOT=/c/Documents and Settings/Loaner/Desktop/fast-export master: Exporting full revision 1/130 with 1/0/0 added/changed/removed files master: Exporting simple delta revision 2/130 with 7118/0/0 added/changed/removed files Exported 1000/7118 files Exported 2000/7118 files ... master: Exporting simple delta revision 127/130 with 0/1/0 added/changed/removed files master: Exporting simple delta revision 128/130 with 1/0/0 added/changed/removed files master: Exporting simple delta revision 129/130 with 3/9/0 added/changed/removed files master: Exporting thorough delta revision 130/130 with 6/25/1 added/changed/removed files Issued 130 commands Everything was on master, so this was an easy test. So far so good. Of course, the EOL issues exist – so on the validation comparison, I set WinMerge to ignore line endings. We’ll see how that works out. BTW make sure you update the source repo before you convert. I’m just sayin’. jenkins$ ps -wwE -p 38654 PID TTY TIME CMD 38654 ?? 67:40.42 /usr/bin/java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -jar /Application /Jenkins/jenkins.war SHELL=/bin/bash TMPDIR=/var/folders/5f/qnywwqmx3h5fxnwlcssp2sr00000gn/T/ USER=jenkins __CF _USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0 JENKINS_HOME=/Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin PWD=/ CATALINA_OPTS= -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote SHLVL=0 HOME=/Users/jenkins LOGNAME=jenkins SECURITYSESSIONID=1c2 92 com.apple.java.jvmTask=CommandLine JAVA_ARCH=x Ahhhhhhh. I use the Picasa app on Windows to use facial recognition to assist in tagging photos. Recently with the passing of a relative, I needed to locate photos with her face in them, so Picasa worked nicely. Once you find them, you can type Ctrl+A to select all the photos, then File Export to write them to the other computer where I was making the program. Once opening the target folder, I found that only the faces were written to the target folder. I wanted the whole image. As it turns out, you can toggle the main view (on the top right) from face view to entire photo view. Once it displays in the normal main view, Export will now export the entire image. By selecting the correct settings, you can export at a good quality. However, it DOES convert all the .tif files to .jpg. For this application, that is fine. For an archival process, that is unacceptable.
At some point, Rhapsody (Windows 7) started popping error messages every time I did something in the GUI. Annoying. Found this article that described a possibility of firewall or AV software. I drilled into Internet Options, the Security tab, then looked at Trusted Sites. (Click the “Sites…” button.) The offending URL was there, http://pagead.googlesyndication.com/. SO why is it failing? Check the checkbox, “Require https for all zones”. This URL does NOT have https, so it is being blocked. Uncheck the box, and it now works fine. It is still a risk that I had to disable the HTTPS option. But I don’t use IE anyway. It IS very annoying that Rhapsody DOES use IE as the basis for their application. Besides being non-portable, it stinks. I volunteer to rewrite it in Qt. For cash. |
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