Archive for January, 2009

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 at 3:00pm

Dinking around in the hay field with the sled cam

Posted by Brian Higgins in 2009 Photos

Matt does a small jump from the vineyard.
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Dinking around in the hay fields on the farm.
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009 at 10:36pm

Boxee

Posted by Brian Higgins in Ubuntu

“sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list”
    IF Heron: deb http://apt.boxee.tv hardy main
    IF Ibex: deb http://apt.boxee.tv intrepid main
“sudo apt-get update”

OR

“sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/boxee.list”
    IF Heron: deb http://apt.boxee.tv hardy main
    IF Ibex: deb http://apt.boxee.tv intrepid main
“sudo apt-get update”

OR

System > Administration > Software Sources > Third-Party Software
    IF Heron: deb http://apt.boxee.tv hardy main
    IF Ibex: deb http://apt.boxee.tv intrepid main
UPDATE your source lists

THEN

“sudo [...]

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 1:02am

2006 and 2007 Photos have been migrated.

Posted by Brian Higgins in Announcements

Most of the 2006 and 2007 photos have been migrated to this new site. I am missing quite a few photos from this batch, and will update more as I come across them. I haven’t started 2008 photos yet, but hope to keep up with 2009 as time progresses. In the meantime, enjoy.
-BH

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 at 5:00pm

Processing Remote Apache Weblogs

Posted by Brian Higgins in Ubuntu

A quick script I wrote to locally process and display Apache2 web logs on an Ubuntu workstation from a remote server:

Saturday, January 17th, 2009 at 1:00pm

Sledding to Hancock

Posted by Brian Higgins in 2009 Photos

Spending the weekend sledding to Hancock and back, staying at Pat and Leah’s house overnight. Matt and Anya (just back from an extended stay in Russia) drove up to meet us for a few drinks.

VIDEO – 100mph+ through fields
VIDEO – Catching some smooth and easy air a few times along the fence
VIDEO – Around the [...]

Saturday, January 10th, 2009 at 7:30pm

Hagens on the sleds

Posted by Brian Higgins in 2009 Photos

Pat and Lucas decided to take the sleds for a run from Columbia County into Adams County. It was Luke’s first time snowmobiling.

Video – Lucas dinking around in the parking lot
Video – Lucas dinking around some more.

Friday, January 9th, 2009 at 8:00pm

Grand Marsh and Oxford Snowmobiling

Posted by Brian Higgins in 2009 Photos

Our 9th trip out this year, we tried a new route throughout the night, putting on another 140 miles by trail. I was a little too cocky along the irrigation ditches with the untested suspension adjustments, spinning a 180 then flipping the sled. My hip aged another 10 years as a result, but at least [...]

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at 12:45am

Ubuntu – Google Earth

Posted by Brian Higgins in Ubuntu

Installation:

http://earth.google.com/intl/en/download-earth.html
chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Installation path = /opt/google-earth
Binary path = /usr/local/bin
“googleearth” to start, OR
Installs under APPLICATIONS / INTERNET / GOOGLE EARTH

Uninstallation:

sudo rm -rf /opt/google-earth && sudo rm /usr/share/mime/application/vnd.google-earth.* /usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.google-earth.* /usr/share/applnk/Google-googleearth.desktop /usr/share/mime/packages/googleearth-mimetypes.xml /usr/share/gnome/apps/Google-googleearth.desktop /usr/share/applications/Google-googleearth.desktop /usr/local/bin/googleearth
rm -rf ~/.googleearth

Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 8:47pm

Ubuntu – TED

Posted by Brian Higgins in Ubuntu

To install and run TED:

DOWNLOAD the latest version
Extract to any directory (~/Downloads/tedv096/ for example)
ALT-F2 to execute command:
$ java -jar ~/Downloads/tedv096/ted.jar&

Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 7:37pm

ufw

Posted by Brian Higgins in Ubuntu

To install:
sudo apt-get install ufw

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