Friday, February 24, 2012

President's Day!
Grrr. I dislike useless holidays--the kind where the bus isn't running normally but I do not get the day off work. Had to walk 3 miles to get there. (Monday)

Learned I can do cgi scripts in my embedded Linux devices as simply as throwing in a bash script! Happy I discovered this, wish I'd figured it out sooner. (Tuesday)

Bash scripts cannot handle non-integer math... (Wednesday)

Late getting to work. _sigh_

Pro-tip: If you've used buildroot to assemble a Linux OS for your embedded device and need to cross-compile some c code to run on said device, you can use:

/path/to/buildroot/output/hosrt/usr/bin/arm-linux-gcc

I spent literally 3 days (on & off) trying to find that particular bit of info.  You're welcome.

Was super excited to see the tekkit (modded minecraft) server pack is up! I've installed a test-server on my rig and once it's ready will be trying to move my players to it...

Hey, when coding in C, if some function that should be in there isn't working, check you're included headers.  And then, check again.
(Thursday)

Didn't get home till near midnight last night--stupid bus system.  Today, arrived late. Feels like I have a hot knife in my left temple... _sigh_  Hoping for a good weekend.
(Friday)

Monday, February 20, 2012

--sick days--

Tuesday: Valentine's day, back to work after 3.8 days, 1.8 of which were sick days. Stupid nasty cold/flu thing...

Thursday: Major brain strain, troubleshooting cellular connectivity issues... Learning to compile c code for a different type of ARM processor... Anybody out there have any insight on how to compile for an AT91SAM9G20 processor?

Anyhow, not much this week. Have some music:


Friday, February 10, 2012

Router Blues

This weekend I bought a small, cheap switch so I could connect more wired devices to my router...

Got a "new" (to me) computer to run my minecraft server on--it's now much more stable.

My last weigh-in was 256.0 lbs.  I've been counting my calories (and so on) for over two years and slowly but surely losing weight.

Tuesday: Today, I learned what a 'CGI' is, in reference to web development... means 'common gateway interface' and apparently its function is to let coders make something which interfaces with web servers! Wooo!

If you do any coding or scripting, here's a couple links which pointed me in the right direction:
http://farm2440.blogspot.com/2011/06/creating-web-interface.html
http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/cgi/

Wednesday: Discovered 'jquery' very cool web development tool.

Thursday: I *hate* Internet Explorer.  Any time I'm making anything web related, I must take several extra steps to make sure it works with IE--everything else works fine, just not IE... no, IE needs extra crap just to work right.

Friday: And illness strikes... but I went to work anyhow.

Reality being what it is... my reliable old router has been all sorts of whacky lately, so I'll be teaching a 2-ethernet port computer to be a router and just hooking the switch to that.  I'll let you know how it goes.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Monday, Monday!

So, this weekend I moved my minecraft server to a dedicated machine--as opposed to "crashey" my computer. Sadly, in order to wire it to the network I had to disconnect the PS3 from the wired ethernet and connect it to wifi. _sigh_ First world problems, I guess.

Plus, totally forgot the add an SSH server to the minecraft-server... so while it's running fine at the moment, I'll have to move it to my keyboard/monitor in order to correct that.

Mentally debating getting a cheap switch to go with the router...

Tuesday: Due to the modem & router being lumped together; both were over-heating and causing intermittent flakiness of the internet connection.  Separated them and now it's better.

Plus, totally got home to discover the *new* minecraft server's hard-drive had gone kaput.  So, spent two hours installing Ubuntu server, ssh, samba, java, and the latest bukkit jar on a hard-drive which was just hanging about.  Restored from the backup made last Sunday--and up and running again.

Wednesday:
Piracy the excuse, creating the "crime" so they can get laws passed http://youtu.be/WJIuYgIvKsc

Recently found out Blogger (Google's Blogger) has started a by-country censorship program... which sucks, 'cause I totally dig Google.

Thursday:
Ugh, I think I sprained my brain yesterday--it still hurts today.
Today I learned one can use 'ssh -X' and be able to launch graphical x-server apps via ssh connection.  Very cool.

Friday:
Nothing to report.  Stay strong y'all.


-Stray Thoughts-
Inspired by this video:
http://www.dump.com/2012/02/01/how-to-destroy-a-washing-machine-video/
How hard would (self balancing) spinning device be?  We could use it on washing machines and car tires...