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it helps to know this

to register ASP.NET:

Open Command Prompt.
Change directory as follows:
For 32-bit machines change to:
\Microsoft.NET\Framework\\
For 64-bit machines change to:
\
Run the command ‘aspnet_regiis.exe -i’ and press enter.

So I tried Unix Service for Windows. Installed it on XP Pro, not sure if you can use this on home edition w/o a reg hack. Once I got it installed I set up a folder to share using the standard folder properties. I had to reboot after installing the software so that the tab would show up.

It took me hours to figure this out but what I had set wrong was the Anonymous UID and GID was set to a “-2″ I checked on my /etc/passwd file on my os X box and -2 mapped to nobody and as an unprivileged user. That was not good. So I set anonymous GID on the xp box to 0, 0 is what is set to root.

Voila, I was able to mount the share from os x into windows XP using NFS with full control. Don’t forget the account “ANONYMOUS LOGON” which needs to be added to the “Security” tab of the fileshare on the xp side.

why can’t all os’s call the things in common the same name?

unix says /mnt and OS X says /Volumes if you want to do nfs mounts

As an owner of a full frame camera now, only took years to get this far, I decided it was a good time to refresh some of the “taken for granted” options in this great digital world of cameras.  I am amazed at how far this has all come.  So when looking at the exposure mode dial, I forgot how bulb came about, you will see this as “B” on most cameras, I heard it was marked as “T” on some others.

Quoted from another website, as David Kwechansky, Toronto wrote:

“In one site area you asked why long exposure is called “bulb.” In the very early days (wet plate era) shutters were released by a squeeze bulb attached to a long, thin air hose. If you wanted the shutter to just click you set it for that, squeezed, click. If you wanted it to stay open as long as you kept squeezing the bulb, you set it for bulb, and then the bulb governed exposure.

I am impressed with Apple’s products.  I always have been really and the new iPhone, appleTV are amazing products.  The setup is brilliant, I can control the apple TV with the iPhone, stream music from my server with the touch of a few screens on the phone.  The movie process is long but it is worth it, no more DVDs, all I have to do is scroll thru and select the movie and voila, its playing on my TV.  I am at 2 Terabytes of video so far, and counting.  I estimate my DVD collection will span to 8TB and with 2TB of MP3s.  If you know me I am a collector, I totally hoard bits and bytes   Next week I start picking up the pace to begin learning the Cocoa API environment.  Stay tuned; it’ll be a while before I get my first app written but I feel like sponge for the knoweldge!!!

was listening to “no more sorrow” by linkin park.  As soon I as heard the first verse, I was thinking, this is Depeche Mode’s Strange love!

 Listen for your self…

Depeche Mode 

There’ll be times, When my crimes
Will seem almost unforgivable
I give in to sin
Because you have to make this life liveable

 
and now ….Linkin Park

 Are you lost, In your lies?
Do you tell yourself, I don’t realize?
Your crusade’s a disguise
Replace freedom with fear,
You trade money for lives.

The use of aluminium in cookware reportedly began when Napoleon III served the King of Siam at a state banquet with plates and cutlery made

ok, so some of you know by now that computers and technology is something i do make my living at. i like it probably more than i realize because some hate to do this stuff and i guess i understand. my real background is music, it’s a whole other life than being an engineer even though that has changed in the last 30 years.

the news i am getting at is i scored a piano finally in my life. one must wonder well you seem to be making some decent money as an engineer and that answer is yes and no. if you have kids and work as a contractor then that good money is gone. health insurance costs me 800 a month out of a pocket. student loans, car payment, kids and other expenses wipes the rest out.

last july it didn’t stop me, i got a petrof piano used, an almost 6′ grand and it is the best thing i have ever play for that size and for the price. So, i have done numerous recordings which i will present online soon and here is the moral of my blog.

I need to start a paypal fund to keep this piano. I have ideas…. not looking for handouts but I gotta start somewhere. I have tried to return this piano twice since it was a rent to own thing. Each time I got almost sick to my stomach and yesterday i have committed to keeping it. giving it up is like giving up a child, and i know the difference, it isn’t the same, I have children, but it is a good analogy to how i was feeling. Plus the kids love this thing and already playing at 2 1/5 years old is amazing.

So, my idea, www.savemypiano.com is registered, and I will setup paypal there, and each week put up a piece of music that I will write on it. I have other ideas where I would donate to a charity too, a percentage of my paypal donations. Anyone know of good places and how this works online, please comment.

I never made it as a musician because I didn’t try at all really, I started in many ways but raising a family and working full time surely puts the music on the back burner. Well I am back, no screwing around….. i have some pieces already recorded, looking to get feed back on them soon.

Ideas? suggestions? Stupid idea?

To come to think of it, I have donated to other people’s costs, not often but a little while back I supported my friend Andrea to go to China and because I had the money I helped out… some paypal transfer from her website. I’d do it again if I had the money ’cause I know what came out of it for someone like her, passion to learn, travel, teach and guide others. I wanna do the same thing, but thru music.

okay enough rambling… i am posting this and hope i see some feedback.

So, you heard by now about alternative fuels? 

Carl’s Jr. Fuels Arizona Fleet With Waste Vegetable Oil 

They say it smells like french frys cooking when used.  Very interesting… did you see the movie Idiocracy?  Pretty dumb movie? In this movie, Idiocracy, Carl’s Jr. sponsors everything and including the gov’t.  Now they are supplying vegetable oil in lieu of fossil fuels.

French fries do not meet the standard to be listed as a “processed food”, it is a vegetable accordng to the US dept. of agriculture. 

On another note, while we’re talking about the middle east.  SAE audio school had opened up a location in Kuwait last year.  http://www2.sae.edu/me/kuwait/   That’s hardcore, western designs sitting in the desert to teach middle easterners to use transducers… There is also another one in the middle east in Dubai.  What an awesome looking city for their buildings.  I remember when i was a kid reading an article about a Saudi prince investing millions into Apple Computer.  Fascinating I thought, as these oil giants knew good machines.  I wonder if they like french fries?

The warm weather recently has made several of my roses from my rose gardens to bloom.  What I noticed that was creepy was tiny little green insects in clusters on them.  I figured they were aphids but then I realized I didn’t really know what aphids are; I must had heard that expression before.  So I googled it and sure enough they are aphids.  I am glad I didn’t use an agent on them because all you need to use is water.  I have read about garlic oil and flour, and the flour thing is interesting as it tends to suffocate them.  I’ll post some new pictures of the rose gardens soon as more come in and as I get rid of these pests.