Marc's Mind | Software, Side Projects, and Decades of Building Things

Last fall, Amazon introduced its new Kindle Fire lineup, and we very excited by the new Fire HD Kids Edition Tablet for our soon to be 4 year old, Alex.

So back in December, Amazon was running a promo for Prime members to purchase the new Fire TV Stick for 50% off, making it just about $21 after tax.

I’ve been chewing on this since the latest Android update hit Jessica and my phones, and I posted about it here.

Dear Google, Stop it.

I’ve had a Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus for about three and a half years.

No, really, I wish I could quit you.

A couple months ago, my parents finally replaced their old Sony console TV (a tube TV) with a bright shiny new Samsung 60" Smart TV.

So a few weeks ago I started in on a ground-up rewrite of an existing project.

So last week for my birthday, Jessica told me that I had to buy myself a present to open up in front of our oldest son.

Yesterday I attempted to upgrade from Ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 on my office system.

With this week’s announcement of the Amazon Fire TV, I thought it would be a good time to review our Chromecast.

So, I’ve been working with JetBrains PhpStorm for about 6 months or so now.

So I’ve encountered a strange exploit being attempted against the VoIP system I maintain.

After I posted Google Protocol Buffers Where Have You Been All My Life, I started thinking about the multiple inheritance issue a bit more.

So two weeks ago I discovered Google’s Protocol Buffers, and I have to ask, where have you been all my life?

A few months ago we moved into a new place with a much smaller living room, it didn’t have nearly enough room for a full size computer case in the room.

I’ve been writing code in PHP for a long time now, both for my own projects and as a freelancer.

Thank You!

Over the years, I’ve written a lot of code.

This week I started the process of migrating from GFS to GlusterFS.

This posting is mostly just a reference for myself since I don’t do this often enough for me to have it memorized.

I’ve been working heavily with VoIP for the last couple of years, and every few months I find myself looking at SIP soft phones again.

The silence for the last few months has been because my life got crazy.

So, in the last 3 weeks I’ve done a lot with MythTV.

Going to preface this by stating this will be a multi-part blog post, and I have no idea how many parts there will be when I’m all finished.

So I was planning to work from home on the Friday after thanksgiving so I wanted to be able to access my work desktop from home just in case.

The number of minor annoyances in Fedora 11 turned into a major annoyance.

So this week I did something unprecedented for me.

As I mentioned before, I keep coming back to MediaTomb, playing with it for a few hours and then going back to uShare.

So after a bit more Googling, I took another look at FUPPES.

After doing quite a bit of research on media players in 2007, I convinced Jessica to get me a D-Link DSM-520 for Christmas that year.

Well, the last two years have been…..Interesting.

I’ve been running Linux as my primary desktop since about 1996 (switching from OS/2 when IBM started dropping support for it), and running Linux servers since early 1994 (my first Slackware system was running Linux Kernel 0.99pl15).

From Wikipedia on Frivolous litigation there is a great quote from Lawyer Danial B.

Woot!

So its that time of year again.

We got the first coat of paint on the walls on Sunday and the room immediately transformed, still no appropriate adjectives -- Jessica says that her choices for colors escape description.

After Jessica saw what I had posted today, we had the following IM conversation: [11:55:49 AM] <Truffle> there’s a gnome in the first set of pics [11:56:05 AM] <gottafixthat> LOL.

Since we moved into our house back in early 2003, we’ve slowly but surely been redecorating rooms and fixing the place up.

After a very long wait, Aspyre has finally released Pirahna Bytes’ Gothic 3 in the states.

Its that time of year again!

That last post about Gothic II, model trains and Al Lowe’s new game I started back in May.

Talk about out of character for me.

Study Shows Coffee OK For HeartFrom the article: “Coffee lovers can drink up without fear of increasing their risk of heart disease, according to a major new study that found people could consume as many as six cups a day without upping their risk.”

Well, a few days ago Jessica started having problems with it.

Its been a busy few weeks since my last posting.

So, I’ve been working on the MP3 player project quite a bit over the last few weeks.

So, yesterday afternoon Jessica and I went out to get pumpkins to carve.

Quick update on the MP3 player project.