•November 1, 2009 •
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I just got asked this, and my response ended up so involved that I decided to make a post out of it so I can point people to it and not have to retype it later.
“I’m thinking of starting a wine cellar, what wine should I buy a case of to start?”
You’re asking a Virgo, who lives in wine country, what wine to buy for long term storage and all the variables that come with such a choice?! Way to open a can of worms!! You’d better sit down….
Continue reading ‘Which Wine For Cellaring?’
Posted in Observations, daily
Tags: wine
•October 17, 2009 •
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The seasonal change is upon us. Things are cooling down, leaves are changing, we had an early rain and there was a great day during the week with some of the nicest photographer’s light that I’ve seen in a while. It’s far too flat and sunny during summer.
Unfortunately, I was a bit busy fixing a Superintendant’s computer to go running off into the hills, but there will be other chances soon.
In the mean time, I’ll be keeping a close watch on the forecast.
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•October 12, 2009 •
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The drawback to having an iPhone is that it doesn’t play well with anything but the horrid excuse for an application called iTunes. It also just so happens that iTunes only plays well in OSX or Windows and since I use Linux, that means I need to keep a virtual machine of XP lying aroud.
Since I’m on a development line, my VM has been non-operative for the past month or so due to a bug, which means I’ve had no chance to go into Windows. (A blessing in disuise really.)
Now it seems the bug has finally been fixed and I can actually use my mouse in the VM again. So I’ll finally get to sync my latest changes to my song ratings and upload a few more tunes.
Rumor has it MediaMonkey can play nice with the iPhone 3g, so I’m going to have to put my list of things to check out. If it does, and they have either a Linux version or it plays nice with Wine I will be ecstatic.
Of course, I’ll still keep the VM of XP around even if it does. It’s handy to be able to peek into the other world for things every now and again.
Posted in Apple, GNU/Linux, Technology, daily, microsoft
•October 3, 2009 •
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We have a “spare” desktop that we primarily use as a system for guests and as a burning station when we don’t want to create coasters of costly media because we did something silly like actually use the computer while creating a disk and caused a buffer underrun as a result. (Not to mention, my laptop’s optical drive is acting all wonky and needs to be replaced) The system dual boots XP and Debian (w/KDE 3.5) at the moment. But Debian is not friendly enough for the Better 3/4ths tastes.
I figure one of the better tests I could do for finding out how ready KDE 4.3 is for the desktop is to load it on this system and let the Better 3/4ths have at it. So my plan for today is to blast that system over as soon as I burn the ISO of the latest release of Karmic on it.
Besides, it will be a nice break from programming a Google Apps Provisioning application that I’m doing as a prototype/proof of concept.
[EDIT: I installed Karmic on it and it seems to be running well. Karmic is now in Beta and is scheduled for official release at the end of the month.]
Posted in GNU/Linux, daily
Tags: human trial, karmic, kde, kde4, kubuntu
•September 26, 2009 •
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Here’s an oddity for you that I was just talking about with the Better 3/4ths. When I was growing up and caught the flu, sometimes the only thing that I could keep down was Ginger Ale. Now, many years later, if I drink it when I’m feeling perfectly fine, I’ll get that blah sick feeling.
I know it’s completely in my head, but Ginger Ale is so closely associated with feelings of nausea that it actually can cause it for me. At the same time, when I’m actually sick and curled up in a little ball of misery, it’s the one and only thing that I can turn to with any sort of confidence and it actually makes me feel better. Weird eh?
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Tags: oddity
•September 15, 2009 •
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I’m still hacking away at getting remote support setup. The idea is to have it so that someone who needs assistance can click a link, either on a web lage or sent via email, and they they then run a little program that will give me access to their desktop temporarily.
My current stumbling blocks are that the solution I’m looking at doesn’t have the server portion available for Linux (which is what I’m running on my VPS) and I’m not especially clear on whether it will work on Linux desktops or not either (Yet I can’t test that part until I at least get it up and running server side).
I have the client software pretty much ready to go though, so as soon as I have time to play with it some more, I’ll try to hack a solution on the server side and I hope to at least be able to offer it to those running Windows shortly thereafter.
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