Guh! Two solder points away from being complete and I screwed this up. I guess I’ll be redoing it another day.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to solder .6mm connections? to wires, a resistor, and a few other components?
Uggh. I’m mad at myself for this.
In case anyone is interested, I’ve got some photos here (photo gallery retired) of the initial work I’ve done in an attempt to fit my iPod into my new car:
http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/v/stuffivemade/ipodin2006civic/
Well, I just finished removing the head unit and parts used to connect my iPod to it from my car, returning it to the factory stereo. I guess I’ll be listening to CDs for the next few days.
Then it’ll be time to figure out how to properly connect an iPod in the new car. It ought to be interesting, to say the least.
At least I’ve got the old Belkin dock connector / charger / line out thing which I can base the new cable off of. I just wish I had black dock connectors. Ah well.
Except for a depth of field problem and an issue with wrapping the sandwiches, I think they came out pretty good.
For reference, I took a package of ‘baby bella’ mushrooms, tossed them with some olive oil, salt, pepper, and two thinly sliced cloves of garlic, then spread them in a single layer on a tray and roasted for 12 minutes at 450°F. Then the mushrooms were allowed to drain and cool.
Next I sliced a baguette part-way through, lined it with cheddar, filled with mushrooms, cut it into three pieces, and called it done.
I think I’ll be having one of these for dinner along with a light spring mix salad (w/ the dressing shown here (Brianna’s Home Style Real French Vinaigrette)) and a glass of Senorial Sangria-flavored soda.
Well, I’ve got a tray of ‘baby bella’ mushrooms roasting now. They are sliced up and have been tossed with sliced garlic, olive oil, salt, and pepper. The intention is to stuff a baguette with them and sliced cheddar cheese. This will then be sliced and hopefully result in order to have three or four pre-made sandwiches in the fridge.
Yes, this is a food idea I got while in the UK.
Sidral Mundet is one of the best beverages I’ve ever had. It’s a Mexican apple soda made with sugar and apple juice and a few other things. It’s absolute wonderful fizzyness in a bottle. I was able to purchase it at Meijer, so I have to recommend that you look for it next time you are there.
I also bought another Mexican beverage called Senorial which is a sangria-flavored soda. I haven’t tried it yet, though, and I’m not sure I want to before leaving. It’ll go flat. :\
UPDATE: I’ve tried the Sangria soda. It too is good. Quite good.
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Does anyone here know how to have OS X (10.4.3) do the equivilent of a ‘diskutil repairVolume’ on reboot, before the OS is up? I’ve got a machine I don’t (currently) have physical access to which needs the root disk repaired so I can’t boot the install CD and run the check that way.
Also, anyone remember the issue with rsyncing to external volumes that I’ve been incessantly complaining about? I’m now thinking that I’ve got an issue with the source data, which was somehow manifesting itself in errors with rsync being unable to find destination files after they were written. There’s some weird inconsistancy here. Or maybe I was reading the rsync errors backwards? Hrm.
Anyway, any idea how to make diskutil do my bidding? I know how I’d do it under Windows, but OS X doesn’t seem to support this here…
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Hey everyone, I just thought you’d want to know that it’s possible to compile the version of rsync that ships with 10.4.3 (found here) on OpenBSD 3.8 (x86) with the Apple patch that enables extended attributes.
To compile it, just grab the 2.6.3 version from Apple, apply the patch, do a ./configure –enable-ea-support, and compile it. I know it’s a bit behind the 2.3.6 version which ships with OpenBSD 3.8, but it does work.
With this I’m able to back up the HFS+ volumes on my Macs to an OpenBSD box and preserve resource forks. Woo!
Look:
$ ls -als
total 150696
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 c0nsumer c0nsumer 512 Nov 3 14:01 .
4 drwx------ 3 c0nsumer c0nsumer 512 Nov 3 14:00 ..
28 -rw-r--r-- 1 c0nsumer c0nsumer 12292 Sep 10 02:08 .DS_Store
4 -r-------- 1 c0nsumer c0nsumer 82 Sep 10 02:08 ._.DS_Store
44416 -rw-r--r-- 1 c0nsumer c0nsumer 22710505 Aug 23 11:34 01_PolkaMegamix.m4a
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Well, that’s the watch I ended up getting. It was only a $28 at Target, so at least it didn’t really cost much. I’m still not quite sure what I think of it — although I do know that the compass band-like thing in the top of the frame needs to be removed — but it is only going to be use for this trip and possibly times when I’m in areas where there is no cell phone reception. It should work for now…
Also, when I swung Camera Mart in Pontiac to get some lens cleaning things today, I found out something interesting. First off, their single-lens Nikon D70s is $1189, which is just below the price Amazon and Adorama and such have it for. Second, on the weekend before Thanksgiving they are having some sort of promotional special where they will cover the sales tax of such a purchase. That means that I could get the camera for a decent price from a local high-end camera shop, tax free, and without paying shipping. Not a bad deal, I don’t think.
I’m wondering if this would be the time for me to get a DSLR finally. While I will be out of town that weekend, the person I spoke with said I could order by phone and get the same price, so maybe I could ask them to just hold it for me until I got back.
Hmm… It’d be really swell… Well, at least I’ve got the watch / alarm taken care of.
UPDATE: Or hell, maybe it’d be more worthwhile to just get the body and this 18mm – 200mm lens? That’s a 35mm equiv. of 27mm – 300mm (11x) which would be an ideal all-around lens. Couple that with a nice macro lens, and I’d probably be all set.
This is one of the coolest pieces of software I’ve played with in a while. It’s the bit from Tron, and it answers questions when you click on it.