Dudes, UltimateArcade.com has done it again with Ultimate Baseball. The game proves that you don’t have to have a complex engine to have a great game. The graphics are slick and you really can aim your shots. To play the game hit more. (more…)

I am so proud of my sister Mary. Last weekend she got on stage infront of a room full of people and played a bass solo as part of
Goodtime Music’s Music Education Program. In her performance, she played
Existentialism on Prom Night by Straylight Run. The part that she is playing was performed on piano in the original song. Here, she performs it on her bass guitar. I am really proud of her. Click more to see the video.
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Send your Console Number to a friend. This is a picture walkthrough of how to exchange Wii numbers with a friend.

Click More to see all the images. (more…)

Video, Photos, Audio from the show on May 17, 2008 at Harrigans. All of this was captured with a digital (photo) camera. So the video is a little grainy and overmodulated. Enjoy its crispy goodness. (more…)

Check out a really fun shoot at Elmhurst College I worked on recently. It may be my favorite shoot of the year. Even if you are not a huge jazz fan, the music was great! (more…)

for line in $(cat list.txt); do curl -O $line; done

Quantcast is a neat way for me to graphically show exactingly how unpopular this site is Just kidding… it is strange though, according to Quantcast, i am having 20+ visitors a day, what are you people doing here?

mailman can be adminned via its GUI …. if you are a wimp.
mail man comes with fun scripts located here.. /usr/share/mailman/bin (on the lincoln webserver)

learn more about the scripts here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/site.html

fun scripts of note:

• list_lists
• list_members
• config_lists

config_lists example:

/usr/share/mailman/bin/config_list -i ~/Desktop/defaultMailMan.config broadexperience

super hardcore (only with adult supervision):

(note this is a one-liner, the linebreaks are just so it fits on the webpage)

cat /private/var/root/Desktop/lists.txt | while read listname ; do
echo "####" $listname "####" ;
/usr/share/mailman/bin/add_members -r ~/Desktop/listmonitor.txt $listname ; done

A Full system save on the AS / 400 is a system backup that captures the whole “hard drive” to tape so that a full restore can be performed if needed. To perform this backup the system must be put into a restricted state, which means that while it is running, there will be no connectivity to the system.

There are two steps involved in running the backup, 1: initialize the tape, and 2: schedule the backup. The process is described below.

	First, log in and initalize (clear) the tape Log On to the 400 as QSECOFR
	Insert your backup tape into the AS/400 tape drive.
	Enter Go Tape Press enter
	Select option 2 to Initalize a tape Press enter
	Fill out the INZTAP form:  Device……………………….TAP01 New Volume Identifier……..BACKUP New owner identifier……….*BLANK Volume identifier…………..*MOUNTED Check for active files………*NO Tape Density……………….*CTGTYPE CODE……………………….*EBCDIC End of tape operation……..*REWIND CLEAR………………………*NO Press enter
	After a minute or two the status line at teh bottom of the screen will appear.
	Now, schedule the full system backup Note, this full system backup can ONLY be scheduled from the terminal that is physically attached to the AS/400. You must be sitting in front of the AS/400 to schedule this backup. (This is also the reason that my screen shots are actual photographs… because I could not screen capture the session.) Enter the command go backup Press enter
	Select option 1 to Run Backup Press enter
	Select option 11 to Back up the entire system Press enter
	This warning screen is displayed to advise you that this operation will take the system into a restricted and unreachable state for its duration.Press enter
	Fill out the Backup job form:  Device:……………………………TAP01 Prompt for commands:………….N Check for Active files:…………..N Message queue delivery…………*BREAK Start time:……………………….0200 (Pick your start time in military format with 4 digits and no punctuation) Vary off network servers:………*NONE Unmount file systems:………….N Hold shift and press the up arrow to scroll to the next page.
	On the 2nd screen select:  Print system information:….N Use system reply list:………N When you press enter the job will be submitted and will run when the time you specified is reached. Congrats, your full system backup is now scheduled. It should take around 2 hours to run.

My M0n0wall

My M0n0wall is running on a Dell Optiplex GX100. the PC is a medium-small form factor. It is only running one small fan on the powersupply. The P III processor is passively cooled.

One fun thing I did was wire the LAN NIC LED to make the hard drive indicator light flicker on the front of the box. I am using a CF card and no hard drive so now when there is traffic on the M0n0wall, the “HD led” blinks to indicate that there is traffic.

Specs

• Dell GX100
• 500MHz Celeron (passively cooled)
• 32MB Compact Flash Card
• 196 MB ram
• 135 watt PowerSupply
• 1 onboard NIC
• 1 Netgear FA311 (?)

Live Network Usage Graph from MRTG:

To see more stats, see my MRTG output page