I don’t know if you liked my Indigo Render of Suanne as much as I did, but I wanted to make it into my desktop background. Thus I left Indigo running for 42 hours at the size of my destktop and came up with this beauty.

And I figured that I may as well share with others - perhaps someone else wants Suzanne to grace their desktop. Indigo, as you probably know, is a renderer where you let it render as long as you want. With each pass it becomes better and better and then you stop when it looks nice enough. I think 42 hours is the longest I’ve run it for and, being such a great number of hours, it seemed a good place to stop.

Afterall, if it’s real, why not show it to everyone?  Here’s a great xkcd strip to illustrate:

This had the subtitle: Facebook defines relationships. ‘Yeah, we would have broken up last night, but the net connection was down.’

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Recently I wanted to install VMWare on Danielle’s computer.  I’ve installed Kubuntu on her Linux machine (Toad) and I wanted to get a clone over her Windows computer onto there in VMWare player.  I used VMWare Converter to create the VMWare clone of her Windows  computer and then put it into the Kubuntu box.  But then there was a bit of a problem:  the Ubuntu repositories did not have VMWare Player.  I went to VMWare’s site and they only had rpms and the source code.  I was hesitant to compile VMWare Player from source.  I was sure it would be a monstrous mess.  After all, I’d had problems with much less complicated programs.

I looked at the top 60 of 365 search strings people type into search engines when they come to my site.  These represent 34.14%  of the search terms people type to get here.

It seems that most people come here looking for:

• Relient K ( 7.4%)
• Gnewsense ( 5.2%)
• Fedora 8 ( 4.71%)

The best thing is that ever since I switched from blog posts with URLs that look like http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/p?923 to http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/year/month/day/posttitle/ the search engines have been bringing more and more relevant searches over to my server.  Before they were way off topic due to the fact that the search engines were not picking up on my topics efficiently enough.  As you know, I love having more people come because it means more readers and I don’t feel like I’m typing for no reason.  Also, especially when it comes to Linux issues, I’d like to think that my posts can help others who are going through the same situations.  When it comes to the specific search terms that people are coming over for when it comes to Fedora 8, it’s obvious they are coming with questions I provide the answers to.  Here are some examples:

Things are always changing and some surprising shots can make it to the top sometimes.  Here are my top 20 shots on flickr by views:

Well, almost.  I got everything installed and configured for the remote to work.  However, there are currently some buttons that don’t do anything - so I need to go into the config and get those buttons to do something.  There are definitely some things that I need to program into the remove to get full functionality out of it.  However, it’s pretty much done.  If Danielle were to pick up the remote tomorrow, I think it would be self-explanatory how she would begin to watch live tv.

I think that the single largest source of mirth at the Thanksgiving dinner was Dan’s xkcd tshirt.  Dan and I were the only ones who knew what this meant.  Dave was the only other person capable of grasping it.  Everyone else kept asking Dan to explain the shirt over and over.  No matter how many ways he tried to do it, the response was always “I don’t get it”.  Later on the response was a sarcastic “OK”.  Later on in the evening/night everyone was sudo ordering people to do things even though they had no idea what that meant.  The person who was ordered to do something would invariably answer “OK!”  IT was hilarious and maddening at the same time.

Well, I’ve have my MythTv box for about 24 hours now.  I have figured out everything that was bugging me about the system except for the remote control.  I hear this may require some compiling on my end.  Not something I’m fond of, but I’ve done it before, so it shouldn’t be too bad.

So I went from not knowing what to record last night to now having 16 programs to record over the next two weeks.  I’m not too worried about filling the drive because I can hold approximately 250 hours of programming before the hard drive gets full.  Most of these episodes are things I would probably only watch once anyway, so I’ll probably be deleting them once I watch them.

I’ve wanted one for quite a few years now.  I’ve really wanted one since I got my Jetway MiniQ case about 2 years ago - almost to the day.  Now I finally got all the necessary parts today and put it together.  If Jetway was still selling the MiniQ (it’s discontinued) I would DEFINITELY recommend AGAINST using them for a MythTV setup.  The Hauppauge PVR-500 just barely fit in there.  In fact, I had to move a badly placed capacitor slightly out of the way to fit the card in.  I also had to remove the DVD burner (temp for the installation) and unplug the hard drive.  But I finally got it up and running.

from the brilliant mind over at xkcd who captured exactly how I feel when I’m apart from my better half: