Geek-N-Out

Merging

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:17:38 +0000

Ok, I’ve been putting this off for too long. I had a chance to breath this evening and thought I’d spend a few minutes getting up to date. We’ll see how well it actually works. Update later.

Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Conference

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:15:34 +0000

Presented on Saturday.

http://www.cedarville.edu/event/eqrc/

Codec Identifier

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 17:01:23 +0000

Gspot codec identifier will tell you what codec is used by a video (regardless if you can play it) and if you have the codec installed. Nice for troubleshooting.

Scenario: I had an avi that would play in VLC but would not import into Movie Maker. This told me about the DX50 that I needed, plugged it into google and downloaded it from the codec’s home page @ http://www.divx.com/divx/

Another codec identifier is http://avicodec.duby.info/ Haven’t tried it.

Advanced Searches

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:07:00 +0000

1. Find Music: -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Counting Crows” 2. Find Videos: -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(mpg|wmv) “chapelle” 3. Find Ebooks: -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(pdf|doc) “george orwell [...]

Guitar Amp

admin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:41:15 +0000

I think I’m going to look into buying a new guitar amp. Main debate at the moment is to go with the 1×12 or the head and buy a 2×12 cabinet. hmm….

Java Install

admin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:14:04 +0000

So there I am, setting up a Wimba meeting for a group and it doesn’t connect properly. Vas ist das? me thinks… So I go to the java site and follow their download and install. Java updates have been known to be a pain but I do it anyway. It actually gives me a prompt stating that there is a website that will show me how to disable the automatic updates. Is Sun playing nice? So I go to the page for the fun of it and find that its only a search menu with no information on how to disable the updates. It doesn’t work. So I start writing this post, get to the point where I’m going to insert the link for the page and it works!?! Crazy. So I go through the requirements and it takes me to a tab that says “Java Last Updated on 5/19/09.” I click on update (remember I just updated to get this whole ball rolling) and it says I have the latest version. Silliness. A virus or java is dumb. I’m going with the latter.

So which of the conferencing solutions can I implement into Moodle? I know a couple of them work but I’m pretty sure that I would need to have direct access to the actual installation directory. I’d really like to see some of these LMS/CMS (which one are we calling it again?) stepped up a notch but it takes so much time. People wonder why schools just take the easy route and purchase one system for everyone to use i.e. blackboard.

Rant Warning: iPad is a ripoff

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:26:25 +0000

I have to admit, I was rather excited about the new iPad. But there’s just one problem. Its a ripoff. Why? No USB. You would have to be blind as a bat or just another wanna be geek to waste your money on this. NO USB! Why? Because with a USB port we don’t need to buy the upgraded version. Lets see…whats the price differences

	16GB	32GB	64GB
Wi-Fi	$499	$599	$699
Wi-Fi + 3G	$629	$729	$829

So let me get this straight, $200 dollars more for 48 GB of memory? Are you serious? It’s pretty obvious why American kids are so far beyond the rest of the world. Their parents and schools know NOTHING about manufacturing and are slaves to media marketing techniques. Let me guess, you get great reception on that iPhone and it plays TV great too? Don’t even get me started on the lousy quality of Hulu. Hulu – Watch your favorites. Anytime. For free. Free? If having lousy quality is your definition of free then take it. Oh, I have an upper-end creme-de-la-creme ATT U-Verse account so don’t try my internet stinks bit on me. If you think it works just fine then you obviously have low standards and haven’t received proper HD TV at home.

Ok…back to reality, sorry about that!

Flash Vs. Silverlight

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:33:54 +0000

So Macromedia Flash was the new kid on the block back in 1999. Start the Flash revolution! I wish I could find the old flash video, it was really pretty good. Now we have Silverlight by Microsoft! Just another download for you to install. Let’s take a look at some of the products being created:

and Google Street View. I don’t have to time to incorporate these tools into my website I’m afraid. Going to have to take a simpler route most likely.

Transfer from IIS to Apache Wordpress Hosting

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:26:43 +0000

So I need a new cell phone but need to justify spending an extra 5-6 bucks a month. What services are repetitive at the moment? An extra hosting account! I’ll just run it at home & save 7 bucks a month which will be sent over to my cell phone bill =P

So I spent my afternoon combining two godaddy accounts. A nice little adventure. The biggest issue was really just sitting down and focusing on what I was trying to accomplish.

1. Backup everything from both accounts

2. Setup Wordpress on new server

3. Backup database from original

4. Import database

5. Copy over uploads and themes into new server directories

6. Goto phpMyAdmin and edit the variables for the old URL to the new

7. The upload dir may have to be adjusted. Haven’t tested yet but will with this post.

upload_test

Here’s the site with a quick-guide for backup & restore. Your own your own for editing the data within the database.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

Indesign Work

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:24:10 +0000

I haven’t done much work with Indesign in awhile so when given the assignment of creating a definition for the term Luddite, I thought it would be a good opportunity to refresh myself. Below is a thumbnail that links to the pdf and a partial view of the project using Indesign.