So I'm house-sitting. I never fail to amaze myself when I look at my hierarchy of needs and what is required to establish a comfort zone.

http://statuscodedrinkinggame.com/

then hit refresh

I grabbed some sound banks of my D-10 off of Synthzone.com. Some of the patch names are disturbing.

Obiwan's Horny

Many years ago I discovered Hotrail style pickups as a problem solver for awkward guitarists. My strat quickly gained a full sized humbucker (ie two coils sided by side wired in series, with both the coils and magnets arranged opposingly, so the motor effect is (nearly) doubled but electromagnetic noise is (almost) cancelled out).

[img_assist|nid=343|title=...so spank me and call me eldrich....|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=367|height=640] Tomorrow I'm going round to see a few friends and there is the prospect of music being played. Ok, the intention is for all 3 of us to play instruments, whether it's music is debatable. Anyway, I have spent the last few hours collecting kit together. The intention is to sequence at least the drums, probably some synths too, leaving me with hands free to either pilot more synthage or to play good ol' fashioned electric bass.

If one installs Service Pack 1 (as opposed to installing a version of vista that included service pack one), copies of all the updated files are retained so that Servce Pack 1 can be uninstalled. Once you are satisfied that you won't need to remove service pack one, there is a utility that can remove thse obsolete files. Just find and run c:\Windows\System32\vsp1cln.exe. Note that the .exe extention is hidden by default in Windows Explorer.

I'm doing the hard-drive shuffle thing. I have a lot of data and I'm paranoid about losing it. I've been let down once or twice by bad copies so I thought I should take checksums before copying. I had a lot of fun arguing with wildcards and string escaping so I thought I'd share my adventure, as I've already worked out how to do this and forgotten at least once.

My first attempt. It dies when fed directories.

[code lang=bash]md5sum * | md5sums.txt
[/code]

I try again, and it occours to me to use tee in append mode so I get output to the screen as well

I've been messing around with SVN, trying to set up a WebDAV service to stash some drupal themes in. I keep screwing up the initial import at which point a quick round of rm -r /var/svn/rocksoc && svnadmin create /var/svn/rocksoc and I'm back to where I started. Intill I take a break for lunch and have a brain fade and type rm -r /var/www/rocksoc

Opps

It's a really good job I keep backups

I search through the backup server. /var/www is missing

To cut a very long explanination short, google have some linux repositories for a number of the more packaging systems inclusing APT (debian, ubuntu etc), YUM, RPM, urpmi and YaST2.

http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/index.html

Currently only contains google-desktop-linux and picasa

I've just been searching for a how-to to give my mother. I am resisting the temptation to scream at my computer and vent my frustration in some entirely non-constructive manner.

Let's compare how-tos to cookery. Most of my recipe books will say 'beat the eggs' as opposed to going into a ridiculous amount of detail on how to beat eggs every time beaten eggs are called for, instead having a 'basic techniques' section in the front where the beating of eggs is explained in great detail.