Old School Park Stylee
June 11, 2008 – 6:57 pmThe “new” city park in Chico is a concrete jungle joke.
The way it was:
You can find more great images from Chico and California courtesy of Chico State:
CSU Chico Special Collections
NIN - The Slip (More Free Music!)
May 5, 2008 – 1:19 amNine Inch Nails is a band I would otherwise not typically follow. However, when a group gives our their latest album for free I tend to take notice. Follow this link if you want to take a listen:
Free Music: Blueprint VS Funkadelic
April 30, 2008 – 11:37 amThis release really snuck up on me. Finding it was really just a fluke, and I am damn glad I stumbled my way there. It can currently be downloaded for free, or it can be purchased as 1 of 500 limited edition CDs. I am really liking the way some artists are taking distribution lately. So many are being creative with “download for free”, “choose your own price”, “extremely cheap”, or “buy it, but get a little extra” methods of online distribution.
Preview Track: Blueprint VS Funkadelic - Checkmate
Was Grandpa Really A Badass?
April 26, 2008 – 3:05 pmAs a kid, ever wonder why Grandpa always exuded the scent of being able to knock out a moose in a single punch? Probably because he was using this stuff. I snagged a pack at S&S this week. It definitely gives off the smell of rugged.
Chico Paper Company Art
April 22, 2008 – 3:05 pmSome art work that I am considering for purchase. Check out The Chico Paper Company website for more.
King Corn (Documentary)
April 15, 2008 – 11:52 pmTonight PBS’s Independent Lenses program aired an excellent documentary on the Corn Industry in the United States, specifically the commodity corn that goes into the production of ethanol, cattle feed, and high fructose corn syrup. As somebody that previously had only a vague idea of the process I highly recommend taking a look at this movie. At times it is even quite goofy (funny), if you like subtle and deadpan humor. It also points out some of the absurdities that exist in our subsidy style agriculture.
Documentary Website: http://www.kingcorn.net/
Al Gore: New Thinking on the Climate Crisis
April 14, 2008 – 11:23 amHere we have Al Gore’s newest slide show about climate change, the urgency we should have to change our habits, and how humans have the ability ro rise to the occasion when the moment requires. The video runs for about 22 minutes, and I highly recommend viewing it.
Link to the video on TreeHugger.com: Al Gore: New Thinking on the Climate Crisis
WordPress Testing
April 12, 2008 – 5:36 pmI am testing out WordPress as an Alternative to Blogger. I pay for webspace, and I use it with Blogger, but why not use a premium service like Wordpress when you have the facilities.
Having problems with Azureus and SafePeer?
December 17, 2007 – 1:18 amLately I’ve been having problem with Azureus being unable to successfully download the newest SafePeer list. It might be a bandwidth problem on their part, or my client may be getting banned due to its persistence. Today wget will get a crack at fixing the problem so that the safepeer list gets downloaded locally, and only gets updated if the safepeer list changes on the server. Here are the steps if you want to give it a try.
1. Download and install wget for windows: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/wget.php
2. Setup wget as an environmental variable in Windows:
a. Right click “My Computer” > select Properties > click the Advanced tab > select “Environmental Variables”.
b. Under “User variables for” click “New”.
c. For variable name use: “wget”
d. For variable value use the location of the wget executable. For me it is here: “c:\program files\gnuwin32\bin\wget.exe”
e. Click OK twice to submit the changes. You may also need to restart Windows for these changes to work. Test them by opening to the command prompt and typing: %wget%
3. Create the directory c:\Safepeer. This is where wget will save the safepeer list.
4. Save splist.txt to c:\Safepeer. Download it here.
a. Open c:\safepeer\splist.txt
b. Modify the contents of the file to this: PG,file:///c:/safepeer/splist.zip,splist *,1,splist-zip
Note: Now when we use this file safepeer will look to the local hard drive for the list instead of the BlueTack server.
5. Create a batch file at c:\safepeer called “safepeer.bat”. To do this just create a new text file called safepeer.txt and change the “.txt” to “.bat”. The contents of this file should look like this:
cd c:\safepeer
%wget% -N http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/splist.zip
This is telling the commandline to change to the safepeer download location, and then save splist.zip there. The -N switch tells wget to only download the file if it has changed. This will help BlueTack save on bandwidth, and prevent your IP from being banned.
6. Run your SafePeer.bat file. It should download the splist.zip.
7. Now that you have this in place, tell Azureus to use splist.txt from your hard drive. In Az, Select Plugins > select SafePeer > choose the Blocklist tab.
a. Enter the following for the blocklist URL: file:///c:/safepeer/spconfig.txt
8. Restart Azureus. You should now have a good 200,000+ IP addresses being blocked by SafePeer. Verify this by looking in the lower left of Azereus. You should see something similar to this: IPs: 208,581 - 0/0/0
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