The Demon Werx

Technology is an interesting and very much evolving entity.

What if you had a hand in the next generation technology? Or the generation after that? What would you want available that is beyond bleeding edge today?

Who is to say you are not the driver of this tech, and how do we exercise our ability to push on the creators of tech to get there or make it ourself?

~Demon

The winds of change are afoot.

It is time to cut ties with the negative, release from the death hold of the chaos, move away from corrupt and monotonous and test the waters through a new door.

I’m not talking about me, but it’s time for the wife to move away from her current company. Much better for her and her dreams and sanity.

Another friend at work put his 2 weeks in yesterday, this is hopefully a killer move for him. I bet it is a nerve wracking experience leaving a place you’ve worked at through thick and thin for the last 6 years. It will be a sad day to see him go as he has defined and built absolutely critical pieces of this company. It will be interesting to see what ripple effect will be seen as we lose such a core and critical part of our environment.

It’s a game, you’ve got to know when to bulldoze through or fold and keep your wits about you.

Embrace the change, be dynamic, don’t just survive -> LIVE!

~Demon

Merry Christmas All!!!

I’ve uploaded a number of movies to YouTube but they are not showing, I will be working on getting them uploaded before we leave tomorrow.

The link is to the Right under Important links.

I bought the Moto Droid, it rocks!

They have rooted it, put busybox on it, and are working on recovery images.

I just saw a commercial from AT&T about Verizon where they say VZ customers can’t surf the web and talk on the phone. So I tried it out, and it’s true. The Droid disables the data link when the phone is engaged, I wonder why they did this?

Very interesting.

These are two excellent sources of internet music, I enjoy blip.fm for the ability to find a lot of the songs I listened to in the past at a few keystrokes away.

Last.fm is awesome as well, you listen to the stations of artists similar to the one you picked. My favorite so far is the DJ Tiësto station, it has enough trance and bite but also has a large chill factor to help mellow out.

Maybe they have Wordpress plugins.

Talking to Ammon, as I do just about every day at work, we got in to a discussion about cookie man, cookie-men, and then finally gingerbread men. Apparently the Gingerbread men are Geniuses.

Here is a wicked awesome link he gave me: NotsoHumblePie

I think there are some recipes on here that demand to be used!

~Demon

So my new Droid can take awesome videos and upload them to YouTube. Here is my YouTube chunk: d3m0n117

I will be uploading the videos as I take them, I love this phone and I absolutely love these boys!!!

Thanks to a friend at work I’m going to be installing OpenVZ on a box at home, I think I may turn the old desktop that is currently running a VM OS, but not doing anything, into this OpenVZ box to build 3 little VMs inside of it.

2 web servers and a load balancer.

Then I’ll have to play with some php code to get it to display the server names and have a little website thats routed between the machines.

Sounds like a BLAST!

The droid is still not rooted, but is still awesome!

The wife is currently standing in line for the movie New Moon, she’s not a night owl by any means so it’s going to be very interesting to see how she handles being up until 3am.

So it showed up, I took a lunch and picked it up… this thing is sweet! Sturdy, solid, very very slick… I am impressed!

Android2.0 is cool, I’m still trying to figure out where all the settings and so forth are. It will take some time moving from WiMo6.1 and the iPhone3.1 to Android.

The videos are AWESOME, supremely impressed by the video capture quality, and I figured out how to upload the stuff to YouTube. This will be linked or shown here shortly, and on fb.

Next step will be to get GoogleVoice all hooked up.

-Demon

Date/Time Activity Location Details
Nov 11, 2009 8:11 AM On FedEx vehicle for delivery PHOENIX, AZ
Nov 11, 2009 8:03 AM At local FedEx facility PHOENIX AZ
Nov 10, 2009 8:08 PM At local FedEx facility PHOENIX AZ
Nov 10, 2009 10:04 AM At dest sort facility PHOENIX AZ
Nov 9, 2009 1:22 PM Left FedEx origin facility ONTARIO, CA
Nov 9, 2009 6:00 AM Picked up ONTARIO CA
Nov 9, 2009 4:11 AMShipment information sent to FedEx

I want to put some of the cool Droid pics up on the site, nothing like an ominous robot eye to welcome people… Finding them has been problematic though.

I am getting a Motorola Droid, hopefully today. I am an iPhone user (work phone) and though its probably a better complete user experience with the vastness of the apps and aesthetics I don’t like AT&T enough to switch over. Nor do I want to pay the price for a GS, they are pricey.

Regardless of the iPhone and Apple, Droid is the first phone since the bluetooth capable Moto phone (that Verizon and Motorola) stripped Obex (Object Exchange) that I wanted from Verizon. With Android it will increase the openness of the device and it’s capabilities. I’m tempted to hold off on buying it, but it is the chance to move from my current phone (which I have greatly enjoyed HTC Titan).

Droid is going to be Slick! Big screen, fast processor, Android2.0, 5MP camera, and a thin sliding keyboard. I think this is Motos finest device I’ve had the opportunity to potentially purchase.

Next thing that is needed is to ROOT THE PHONE! I wish I had the skills to help in that venture, maybe I’ll pick some up once I have the phone.

I learned two important lessons this year about ventilation, well more about filtering for the Air Conditioner.

If you go with a higher filter you will see interesting results – the more pleats so more particles filtered will cause your AC to work harder, reduce air throughput, and raise costs. We moved from a $17-20 (for 1) filter to, which we ran all summer, to a $6 (for 3) set about a month ago, and I think we’ve already filled those up.

So expensive crazy filters are good for somethings but a little harsh on the budget when it comes to initial cost, wear and tear, and electricity.

Second lesson I learned was about running the fan the whole time, yes this definitely increases the cost and wear and tear on the unit… however it also keeps air moving around the house which is especially useful when you have not so great smells running amok inside while your gone. It also adds background noise, you can nearly hear everything without the fan running. Spooky stuff really ok, not really.

I have had 2 or 3 DELL computers for years that I finally turned into little centOS boxes a while back, I have apache and mysql running on them so they act as good little webservers and actually on a few occasions made at least one available to the wold by my IP.

Well now the day has come (a few days ago) where the boxes are here and not just by IP anymore: http://demons.homedns.org:45457. I have to use a higher port because Cox doesn’t like me being a web host .

I have a ventrilo server set up and in the process of configuring a IRC server. Like the site says: more functionality and information to come soon.

~Demon

So we have an situation at work where we need to delete around 7 million files from a NetApp, it’s something that has to be done. An associate was working on getting a powershell script all worked up to handle the CSV lists when another Admin reminded him of something much much simpler… DOS.

In this day and age with the technology available we’re going to a simple but super effective del command in dos. It’s going to be awesome, 13 batch files with del z:\this\that\here with over 7 million files cleaned in a matter of minutes. No scripting fubars only deleting what was specified, no fat fingering, pure awesome!

Is working on getting an IRC server running, I have the config written up, just need to play with it to get it going. I hope to be adding some PHP portions to the front/splash page, though I’ve been saying that for years.

About IRC, maybe I’ll just put a trivia channel that sounds cool.

Life goes crazy sometimes because of work… End of the month means more work for the wife, and the beginning of the month means more work for me as we report about the previous month. It’s tiring.

Windows7 freaking rocks, found out today that it definite handles networking better than XP with no contest. Wireless-N gave me 100mb wired cable speeds a good distance away from the AP. I’m impressed. I need to learn more about linux one of these days too.

So a while back I expressed extreme displeasure with my Linksys 350N router, it sucks… the wireless recently has been dropping out or causing severe lag when on the xbox. Instead of investing in a decent piece of hardware I am once again improvising using my old WRT54G that I was hoping to replace with the 350N.

Well they are both up and with some forethought I was able to do it as easily as swapping the cable from one router to the other and changing IPs. Will this solve it? No, temporary at best.

One thing I found interesting is the average ping time to the 54G has increased, but instead of going from the switch to the router, I’ve added a second hop, so there has been a slight increase. I am still toying with the idea of offloading DHCP to a computer, or at least to another router. Sadly the old old netgear I have has no custom firmware, because unlike linksys it’s not running on an open source linux base.

I need to build a router/firewall one of these days, just for fun. I have a lot of “needs” that are just wants, but hey there is no pain in dreams and aspirations.

~Demon