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I just love ‘Celebrate that nothing is precious’. That somewhat sums up my personal Zeitgeist. I would say the opposite as well, that everything is, but people don’t grasp ‘Everything’ the way i reckon I do.. big surprise, who thinks exactly alike? Cultmembers? Mormons?(no offense) jeez, as soon as I said Mormons I realized that i was persecuting them when there are so many mainstream religions that endeavour for their flock to think alike.. WOW. And government organizations too.. what is precious to people? i write off the materialists immediately. Material goods are the most solid objects thus the most coarse on a ‘Everything’ level. So is carbon monoxide more precious because of its’ gaseous form? I think I’m heading toward getting into the ‘God Particle’ maybe so i’ll shut up and enjoy the image. (and order the book).
“Celebrate that nothing is precious”

I came across a decent blog post about formatting a flash drive to install windows vista/7 etc from. Thanks to Kevin’s Blog. for this info. I have completed all the steps on my 8G generic-ish drive and will copy the OS files over now.. Thanks!

Required:

• USB Flash Drive (4GB+)
• Microsoft OS Disk (Vista / Windows 7)
• A computer running Vista / Windows 7

Step 1: Format the Drive
The steps here are to use the command line to format the disk properly using the diskpart utility. [Be warned: this will erase everything on your drive. Be careful.]

1. Plug in your USB Flash Drive
2. Open a command prompt as administrator (Right click on Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt and select “Run as administrator”
3. Find the drive number of your USB Drive by typing the following into the Command Prompt window:
   diskpart
   list disk
   The number of your USB drive will listed. You’ll need this for the next step.  I’ll assume that the USB flash drive is disk 1.
4. Format the drive by typing the next instructions into the same window. Replace the number “1” with the number of your disk below.
   select disk 1
   clean
   create partition primary
   select partition 1
   active
   format fs=NTFS
   assign
   exit
   When that is done you’ll have a formatted USB flash drive ready to be made bootable.

Step 2: Make the Drive Bootable
Next we’ll use the bootsect utility that comes on the Vista or Windows 7 disk to make the flash drive bootable.  In the same command window that you were using in Step 1:

1. Insert your Windows Vista / 7 DVD into your drive.
2. Change directory to the DVD’s boot directory where bootsect lives:
   d:
   cd d:\boot
3. Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7 image. I’m assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk G:\ by the computer:
   bootsect /nt60 g:
4. You can now close the command prompt window, we’re done here.

Step 3: Copy the installation DVD to the USB drive
The easiest way is to use Windows explorer to copy all of the files on your DVD on to the formatted flash drive.  After you’ve copied all of the files the disk you are ready to go.

Step 4: Set your BIOS to boot from USB

OK, I saw a press release for these guys http://layar.com then read up their site and pretty much lost my mind and had to contact them in a slightly tongue in cheek / overtired email at 4:30am (10:30am ish Amsterdam) going off about how cool and revolutionary a ‘product/service’ they have come up with and how they -must- allow me to work with them and likening their bits to the order of magnitude changes when we moved from BBS’s to the eventually graphical internet. (among other rantings). I was slightly taken aback when I got a reply within 10mins saying we should skype chat soon. Wow.. Here was a group of people (Well the one woman and co-founder to whom I spoke anyway, Thanks Claire) who as far as I’m concerned are changing the world as we know it.

Basically it’s an AR browser that’s had a wide adoption in europe and asia and of course the netherlands. It is based on geolocation data and they allow people to create ‘layars/layers’ (of reality) where one could create something like ‘find a variety store in hong kong’ or similar such searches for ones’ own area.  So the domain reg process starts..(although i usually swear off regging domains sober) I may have to make an exceprion (may not).

So I guess i’m off to find a crackhead to steal me a nice shiny new Android device.. or maybe just kijiji..

They have a limited number of dev licenses at the moment and one can sign up for one here http://layar.com/api/ There is also a teleconf/gotomeeting tonight 9/3/2009 at 7pm CEST geared to developers that I am going to try and catch. Anyway, thats it for now..;)

Craig / Chemmyone

Well.. after 3-4 days of backbreaking slaving and lots of help from my folks and Matt.. Where were all my treacherous friends? Good question.. Anyway, the place I was set to move into isn’t ready and may not be or … it was difficult to determine if the owner of the apt even wanted to rent it… WTF? Maybe she has something against white folks.. or crusty bald guys maybe.. Anyway, as is most is on hold, all the servers are in storage. I should have automatedhome.ca back up in a few days though or maybe tomorrow.. This isn’t much of a rant but I sure as fuck was pissed off earlier… Good thing I was eating all the pills I came across on the floors.. hehe.. most were diazepam (probably saved some lives) and a couple 15mg XR morphs.. Well, that’s it for now.. I’m staying with Corky for a while whilst I search out the perfect abode in ol’ Hamilton.. meh.. nites

Craig

I picked this and another server up the other day but haven’t had time to really sort it out. I am moving at the end of the month and am a bit rushed to get all the pieces together. Here are a few pics of the madness in my apt atm. Pics to come..

Intel® Entry Server Board SE7230NH1-E – Intel® Entry Server Board SE7230NH1-E support.

And more info———- http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Filter_Results.aspx?strOSs=All&strTypes=All&ProductID=2162&OSFullName=All%20Operating%20Systems&lang=eng
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Thanks to the how to geek for this one..;)

Telling what version of Ubuntu you are running is extremely easy. You would commonly use this command to figure out if you are running Edgy after you upgraded from Dapper.

cat /etc/issue

Ubuntu edgy (development branch)

Note that the version numbers might change over time. I’m running the beta version so that’s what shows up when I run that command. Either way, it should be clear that you are running Edgy.

Holy Shit!

KFC Covertly Jacking Up National Health Care Costs With Terrifying New Monstrosity

You won’t find a word about it on the KFC website, or in most regional advertisements, but out in the mysterious moon colony of Omaha, the televisions are advertising a new sandwich. This is the only footage known to man. Believe it: KFC is selling a sandwich in Omaha, and god knows where else, that serves as a bellwether for the current state and future hopes of America: Two patties of fried chicken as the “bread,” between which are various forms of cheese, two strips of bacon, and “Colonel’s Sauce” — likely a combination of butter, salt, and cum.

This is utterly transfixing, especially with the corporate secrecy. Fast-food companies are apparently selling INSANE specialties, under-the-counter, in specific “fat” regions of the country! Anyone from Alabama or Mississippi or wherever? Does your McDonald’s sell you like a NINE-patty deep-fried cheeseburger?

Now this is cool. Reliance on HMD’s and other ‘VR’ glasses for Augmented Reality (AR) would become unnecessary. While I wait for Vuzix to release their Wrap 920 and gear, this is an exciting idea to say the least.

YouTube – Bionic Contact Lenses.

1962-63 H.M. Cowan / Screenart Tiles Lot of 31-32. Click on image above to view the gallery and more information. compusure@hotmail.com

This is a direct quote from “Vintage Hockey Collector” Price Guide 1910-1990 By Bobby Burrell (the current expert on non mainstream hockey collectibles)

“Although these very attractive hockey tiles were apparently never officially released to the public, quite a number of them did come into circulation and managed to survive. These tiles were originally meant to be sold at the souvenir booths of the NHL arenas. The rumor is that proper licensing was not obtained from the players or teams prior to their production and most of the tiles were destroyed because they couldn’t be sold. The tiles were originally fired in England but they were screened and transformed into hockey tiles in Canada by Screenart. The name HM Cowan is printed on each tile within the design and we believe that this was the artist who created these wonderful hockey player designs. Each tile measures 6″ x 6″ and the cork backing is 3/8″ thick. There are 104 different player tiles from the original six teams in this unconfirmed set. Single tiles vary from $50 – $1000.”

Earl Ingarfield
Harry Howell
Al Langlois
Ted Hampson
Jean Ratelle
Andy Bathgate
Andy Hebenton
Vic Hadfield
Tom Johnson
Bill Hicke
Phil Goyette
Don Marshall
Jean Beliveau
Henri Richard
Boom Boom Geoffrion
Dickie Moore
Red Berenson
Claude Provost
Ralph Backstrom
Lou Fontinato
Bob Rousseau
Cesare Maniago
Gilles Tremblay
Doug Harvey
Larry Cahan
Dave Balon
Bronco Horvath
Gump Worsley
Muzz Patrick
Charlie Burns
Jerry Toppazzini
Marcel Pronovost

Please contact me at compusure@hotmail.com if you have tiles that I am missing that you wish to sell or if you have information about this set as i/we are trying ot gather the entire set as well as make a comprehensive list of all tiles..