I picked up the plans from plan check today (this is from 2nd submittal), and there were 8 changes needed. This is tiny compared to the 1st submittal.
At least the 3rd (and hopefully final) submittal can be done “over the counter” right there since there are so few changes.
UpdatePlans are at the fire department […]

Dude, this issue has been bugging me for months on my Mac… A couple apps would never play any sound (most notably Macromedia Flash). Anyway, I finally was able to find the solution, so hopefully someone searching Google will find this post useful.
Go to Applications -> Utilities -> Apple MIDI Setup
Check the Audio Output […]

I did an interview with Zeropaid.com a week or two ago, and it was just posted in case anyone wants to read more about the MPAA stuff going on…
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6466/MPAA+v+Shawn+Hogan%3A+The+Zeropaid+Interview

Finally got the last (physical) piece for the blade servers (120GB RAM [60 x 2GB DIMMs]). I’m a swell counter because I counted them 5 or 6 times, and each time I counted them, I came up with 40, so I thought they shorted me 20 DIMMs for a 10 minutes or so. […]

I spent most of the day getting crap installed on the first blade as well as learning about little quirks with SuSE Linux Enterprise 9.3.
MySQL 5.0.21 was an easy install (a nice little RPM for SuSE Linux comes from MySQL).
Memcached was a pretty easy compile/install… just needed to compile/install eventlib first.
The big bitch was getting […]

Well awesome… came home from playing poker last night at around 12:30 am, parked in my “secure” gated parking structure, and went to run some errands at 11:00 am this morning, and my car is gone.
That’s rad.

My company, Digital Point Solutions (formerly known as Data Point Solutions) has been on the web for 10 years now. It sure seems like a lot longer though considering how much different stuff I’ve done in that timeframe (for example, I’ve dominated [hehe… no really] 3 different industries).
Will be interesting to see what happens […]

Just got back from the Early Neutral Evaluation Conference with Judge William McCurine, Jr. (who was a remarkably nice and likable guy). Overall it was a waste of time (as expected) though because they really just want the two opposing sides to figure out a way they can settle without going to a full […]

I was getting a map to the courthouse for my Early Neutral Evaluation Conference this afternoon, and I noticed something… Broadway Avenue in downtown San Diego seems to have some sort of quantum warping going on. The buildings on the north side of the street appear to be leaning on the buildings on the […]

Paralells has their Intel Virtualization solution for Intel based Macs, but someone combined it with VirtueDesktops for a “fast OS switching” system (basically like the fast user switching that is built into OS X).

So you can run OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc. all at the same time without needing an emulation layer.

Yesterday I spent about 2 hours configuring all sorts of crap in the new network switch… port assignments/names, QoS, SNMP crap, etc.
I forgot that even though changes you make are applied right away, they are lost if you power cycle the equipment. Hahaha… whoops!
Don’t forget this, I know I won’t ever forget it again. […]

There are some pretty cool architectural designs from the old Soviet Union that never came to fruition…
http://www.muar.ru/ve/2003/moscow/index_e.htm

(via digg)

FIFA’s new rule about racist soccer fans will go into affect next month for the 2006 World Cup. Basically if fans are judged to be racist against an opposing team, the fan’s team will lose 3 points.
Should be interesting to see how they control that. Soccer fans are crazy enough that they would […]

The blade chassis arrived on a palette today (and boy, was that an awesome time getting it upstairs), so that means all the new server equipment is here (except for additional RAM).
We got 1 blade chassis, 10 loaded blades (except for RAM right now), 2 load balancers (1 is a hot spare) and a managed […]

I know this is old news for people that have been following the RIAA and MPAA lawsuits, but it’s new to me (now that I’ve been dragged into it, I’ve been reading all I can find). This entry is more of a bookmark entry for myself.
http://p2pnet.net/story/8273
Some interesting stuff that I may find useful for […]

At the beginning of last November, I had the idea to do an automatic geolocation system for blog/website owners called Geo Visitors.
This blog got quite a bit of traffic in the last 24 hours (because of a front-page digg). Anyway, check out what the maps look like for visitors to this blog in the […]

Here’s one I got (in it’s entirety like always)…
I FUCKING HATE THIS DAMN SITE IM GOING TO FUCKING MILK MY COW YOU BITCH!!!!
Okay… I can understand someone hating my site… I’m sure he/she isn’t the only one. But This dude hates my site so much that he’s going to go milk his cow. […]

It’s amazing how no matter how many times you tell someone something, they don’t seem to “get it”. Someone called me letting me know they are preparing whatever paperwork they have to file for next weeks Early Neutral Evaluation Conference. They keep letting me know they are working on getting the issue settled.
But […]

The new blade servers were delivered this morning (10 of them). Hopefully should get the chassis tomorrow (it shipped separately), and the new switch and load balancers later in the week.

Wiggly (one of my cats) is terrified of change, and now he won’t leave my office because there are big boxes in the hallway. […]

My primary MySQL server has been VERY overloaded lately (which is the main reason new blades are on the way), but today I decided to see what I can do about it in the meantime (the parameters have already been tuned as much as possible).
First I toyed around with a single node MySQL Cluster… it […]

The BBC was doing a news piece on the Apple music vs. Apple Computer case and they were trying to do an interview with Guy Kewney, but instead they accidentally pulled his cab driver into the interview.
“I am very surprised to see…this verdict to come on me because I was not expecting […]

Hmmm… John Quincy St. Clair has filed an interesting patent with the US patent office back in 2004. A “Full body teleportation system”. He must have also invented a time machine and traveled back from the future to file the patent.
View patent filing here
(via digg)

As far as being a good skateboarder, on a scale of 1-10, I would say this guy is at least a 6…

“Ask A Ninja” tackles the topic of Internet Neutrality. For those of you that don’t know what it is, telecoms are trying to make it legal to prioritize Internet traffic based on the who’s the highest bidder.

Some interesting stuff here… light traveling at speeds other than the speed of light (slower, faster and backwards)…
Boyd, along with Rochester graduate students George M. Gehring and Aaron Schweinsberg, and undergraduates Christopher Barsi of Manhattan College and Natalie Kostinski of the University of Michigan, sent a burst of laser light through an optical fiber that […]

I really would like to meet some of the people that are on the sending end of these emails.
Iwon’t sex film
That’s the whole email… I don’t know why this dude (maybe a girl, I dunno) feels like they need to email me telling me they are not going to “have sex with […]

Google Trends is a neat little tool that lets you see how keyword searches compare historically over time. There seems to be more people searching for myspace than porn these days.
http://www.google.com/trends
myspace   porn   

The more I watch this guy, the more I realize what a lyrical genius he is… He’s good. Real good.

First, I go to the game and the Padres winning streak starts… then as soon as I mention the 9 game winning streak (starting with that game), it ends.
I’m a prophet of some sort.

On one of my ultra-high traffic web servers, I switched from eAccelerator to APC today (an opcode/caching system for PHP). So far it seems pretty nice… Especially the ability to disable stat for each PHP request.
I ended up making a datastore class for vBulletin also so I could use it for the forum, so […]

Starting with the great game I went to last Sunday, the San Diego Padres have not lost. That’s 9 games in a row (and counting).
Maybe if the Padres would just give me dugout seats for every home game, my presence would cause them to go undefeated the entire season. Or […]

I’m thinking this would knock the wind out of you, and you are going to be sore for a few days.

I think this guy might actually be serious…
You can thank Julien for bringing this glorious video to my attention.

This aired a week ago, but it’s still funny and it just recently showed up on Google Video (they aren’t letting you embed the video unfortunately, so you need to click the link).
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879
President Bush didn’t look like he was having a terribly fun time during it. heh

Here’s another random one…
pls,i want to connected with u ,pls
Say what dude??

This crazy fool does a 125 foot back flip over the Ceasers Palace fountains. Evel Knievel did the same trick (without the flip), and ended up breaking about 100 bones in his body, and put him in a coma for 29 days.

Someone has *way* too much time on their hands. Not just a little time… WAAAYYY too much time. Watch the whole thing.
http://blake2.orachost.net/misshapenfeatures//media/StarLords_lrg.mov

What in the hell dude???
Now we are back to the $66,030 pricing for the 10 blades. This is $30,000 cheaper than the pricing yesterday.
UpdateRather than wait around until tomorrow when their pricing will probably change again, I went ahead and ordered them (without RAM, which I’ll add myself). So now […]

Another random email I got today (in it’s entirety)…
please let me how can i hack a yahoo id?
Do I look like “Grand Master Hacker Shawn” or something? Why don’t you call Yahoo and ask them how to hack their whole site… then you can access all the Yahoo IDs you want.

This guy seems to be coming along fairly well with his “Guitar For Dummies” book.

As I mentioned previously, I’m looking to get a bunch of Dell blade servers, but their pricing system (seemingly random pricing changes every day) is really irritating me. So I think I may have come up with a solution… Just buy stripped down blades and add the RAM, hard drives (and maybe even […]

I bet the consummation of the marriage was a glorious and beautiful site to behold.
A 33-year-old man in northern Malaysia has married a 104 year-old woman, saying mutual respect and friendship had turned to love.
It was Muhamad Noor Che Musa’s first marriage and his wife’s 21st, according to reports in the country.
Muhamad, […]

We are going to Costa Rica this August, so I bought 6 plane tickets today. Here’s something interesting… if you book 1-4 tickets, they were $439 (plus tax/fees), but if you book 5 or more at once, all the tickets were $702 (plus tax/fees).
So the tip of the day is… just buy two different […]