Screws In My Coffee

This is an age old question. I have asked this of myself several times in my life.  I do not believe that I have ever written about this aspect of my life before.  I have discussed it with my friends and family a lot. I just finished a drawing that took a month to draw. [caption id="attachment_1231" align="alignleft" width="200"] O Magazine Lancome ad[/caption] I started it on September 10, 2010 and I finished it on October 10, 2010. My Landmark Education training confirmed my belief that life is a game.  I like creating games to motivate my life.  I have not drawn a picture in about two years so I wanted to kick start my artistic brain with some inspiration.  I said that I was going to draw on a picture for one month.  Now I need something to draw. Usually I do not have a problem coming up with ideas for a drawing.  I am one of those artist that creates art with an improvisational style.  I call my type of art Colored Acid Jazz. My brain has always run a...

I suppose that 100 years from now everything that is written in blogs will be forgotten and in some recycling dump. Is anyone writing anything worth remembering for 100 years? Is there a Thomas Jefferson or a Mark Trawin out there writing Blog entries that will stand the test of time?  I seriously doubt it. Take this Blog entry.  I am writing this just to test RSS feeds on my Facebook account.  Who else cares about this but me yet it is here for all to see if they really care. What I want to be remembered by is my pencil artwork.  I am just finishing up another wonderful portrait that I am truly proud of and will share with you all shortly.

I love it when I push a machine to it's limits. Some day I'll review the errors and figure out what caused this bomb.  I must say that I do miss the old Mac bomb icon in system 6.  the new multi language message that tells you to that your system has crashed is so boring. Interval Since Last Panic Report:  3102596 sec Panics Since Last Report:          1 Anonymous UUID:                    F2C3F164-E22C-4CED-9F75-D38C6BF746D9 Wed Sep 29 06:48:58 2010 panic(cpu 1 caller 0x2a8ab2): Kernel trap at 0x96fb3f40, type 14=page fault, registers: CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x0cefb004, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x00000660 EAX: 0x818d3e2c, EBX: 0x0cefb004, ECX: 0x0cefb004, EDX: 0x00000000 CR2: 0x0cefb004, EBP: 0x818d3dd8, ESI: 0x818d3ecc, EDI: 0x818d3ec0 EFL: 0x00010282, EIP: 0x96fb3f40, CS:  0x00000008, DS:  0x00000010 Error code: 0x00000000 Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack) 0x818d3bd8 : 0x21b455 (0x5cf328 0x818d3c0c 0x2238b1 0x0) 0x818d3c28 : 0x2a8ab2 (0x591664 ...

Sometimes I for get about the Mac OS x being a variant of BSD. I am working on getting my Soekris appliance updated from Debian 3 to FreeBSD 8.1.  In the process I was using a VMware Fusion FreeBSD virtual machine to build my image for my embedded network appliance.  When it came time to update the BIOS on the Soekris box I needed to work from the command line and not through the GUI serial terminal procram that I had been using called CoolTerm. So I proceeded to install Lrzsz, which needed the Mac Ports which needed Mac Developer environment XCode. The hardest part about this step was registering as an Apple Developer to get the free download of XCode SDK. I am registered as a Safari Developer, Yooo Hooo!. Mac Ports installed Lrzsz here: /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/lrzsz /opt/local/var/macports/software/lrzsz /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/comms/lrzsz /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/lrzsz/opt/local/var/macports/software/lrzsz/opt/local/var/mac...

The way that it was explained to me is that Exchange needs to authenticate you for each email session.  This should happen only once when you start Outlook.  Every time that you quit Outlook Exchange will ask for your credentials once.  Make sure that your are authenticating with asuramsyourusername and no other server.  Once you do this you will not be prompted again for authentication until you exit Outlook. This is an enhanced security feature for Exchange.  One advantage to this feature is that it allows you to access email without VPN.  The email connection is secure and encrypted between your remote Outlook client and Exchange.  To make sure that it is you when your laptop or computer starts up Exchange wants your authentication to give you access to your email. I fixed the problem with Dr. King-Jupiter because the pop-up was populated with webmailyourusername.  I am not sure why that happened, but after I changed this to asuramsyourusername the pop up only displayed once each ...

Here is my latest dump file. Interval Since Last Panic Report:  1127014 sec Panics Since Last Report:          1 Anonymous UUID:                    F2C3F164-E22C-4CED-9F75-D38C6BF746D9 Tue Aug 17 00:36:22 2010 panic(cpu 1 caller 0x2a8ab2): Kernel trap at 0x002945e6, type 14=page fault, registers: CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x0d6d1004, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x00000660 EAX: 0x102ba41c, EBX: 0x00000034, ECX: 0x0000000d, EDX: 0x00000034 CR2: 0x0d6d1004, EBP: 0x7c323528, ESI: 0x0d6d1004, EDI: 0x102ba41c EFL: 0x00010202, EIP: 0x002945e6, CS:  0x00000008, DS:  0x03f60010 Error code: 0x00000000 Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack) 0x7c323308 : 0x21b455 (0x5cf328 0x7c32333c 0x2238b1 0x0) 0x7c323358 : 0x2a8ab2 (0x591664 0x2945e6 0xe 0x59182e) 0x7c323438 : 0x29e9a8 (0x7c323450 0x874fa4 0x7c323528 0x2945e6) 0x7c323448 : 0x2945e6 (0xe 0x48 0x7c320010 0x220010) 0x7c323528 : 0x1ad47c7 (0x13801124 0x34 0x34 0x102ba41c) 0x7c323588 : 0x1ad582a (0x7c323628 0x7e10e536 0xe 0x1cc...

I like using my MacBook Pro 17 inch laptop. I love running Windows 7 on it and switching to Mac applications and the wonderful BSD terminal for work on my Linux servers. Today I fixed an annoying problem on my virtual machine running Windows 7. I needed to resize my 40GB virtual disk and make it larger. I used this tutorial to get it working. What I used in this process is a bit of software that I had heard of but never used, Gparted . Gparted is a Linux application and you can boot the ISO file and repartition your disk space.  I did it and it worked like a charm.