Sat - Jan 23, 2010 : 12:00 am
okay
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Destroying an LVM Array
PoeticIntensity
Alright... So one of my hard drives failed in my backup server LVM array, and I received the new replacement disk today.
So, I turn on my computer and even though the volume group isn't initialized (due to the missing disk), it still exists, and has all the other drives in the array still held captive.
So, this is how to completely destroy your...
Gentoo / Linux
Fri - Jan 22, 2010 : 11:08 pm
excited
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Support Sugarstone!
AudioGuru
Sugarstone, a signed band of Advanced Budget Studios is gonna make it big-time! Go and show your support for Sugarstone by attending the biggest Battle of the Bands concert in Utah! The show starts at 10:00am and goes well into the evening.
Details can be found here. ...
Music
Fri - Jan 22, 2010 : 04:04 pm
grateful
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Alma : 53
PoeticIntensity
I'm always pleased and grateful that the Spirit comes so quickly when I read the Book of Mormon. Sometimes I forget how much I love how the Spirit of God makes me feel and think and act.
Anyway... Great chapter this was....
Of all of the stories in the Book of Mormon, I think I like the one of the 2000 Stripling Warriors the best.&n...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Scriptures / Spiritual
Fri - Jan 22, 2010 : 03:48 pm
content
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Alma : 52
PoeticIntensity
Onward and upward towards the goal of finishing the whole Book of Mormon, writing about each and every chapter, by the end of this year.
This chapter was all about war, and strategy. I didn't find anything particularly enlightening about it, yet I firmly believe that each and every word written in the Book of Mormon has a meaning - and will...
Book Of Mormon / Lds
Tue - Jan 19, 2010 : 06:11 pm
okay
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Gentoo XFCE4 / XDM / TWM Problems
PoeticIntensity
Okay... So with the latest update to xorg-server (I think it was 6.5), xdm stopped loading XFCE4 and I couldn't get it to load anything but TWM.
Here was the problem:
Somehow, an important file got removed. The file is this one:
/etc/env.d/90xsession
The contents of the file is simply:
XSESSION="Xfce4"
With that...
Gentoo / Linux
Tue - Jan 19, 2010 : 12:15 pm
okay
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Alma : 51
PoeticIntensity
Stupid Kingmen. Nothing like having your own people fight against you in the middle of a war. One thing I noticed this time, which I had forgotten, is how Moroni followed the correct line of authority in order to do what he had to do with the kingmen. He asked Pahoran for the right to take care of them, and Pahoran gave it to him....
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures
Mon - Jan 18, 2010 : 10:59 am
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Here I Am
hopeandme
Here I Am
New year in a new town, new state, new sisters and brothers in a new ward and I feel wonderful! To end the year 2009, in December I went to the Temple in North Houston and was so warmly embraced by the Holy Spirit I could hardly contain my excitement.
Tomorrow, I make the first Temple trip in the New Year. And I am ecstatic! Last mont...
Mon - Jan 18, 2010 : 01:25 am
happy
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Blues Aces Session
AudioGuru
Last Friday, we had the awesome opportunity to meet a fairly incredible group of girls. They call themselves The Blue Aces, and after having listened to them strum a few chords, I'd say they've earned their title.
Their manager contacted me after hearing a few samples from Advanced Budget Studios, and was interested in getting a pilot song...
Audio / Mixing / Music
Fri - Jan 15, 2010 : 05:42 pm
content
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Alma : 50 - Happiness
PoeticIntensity
If the fortifications that Moroni built in the beginning were enough to astonish the Lamanites to the point that they were afraid to fight, and then failed to kill even one Nephite, while they themselves were slain to the tune of over 1,000 - I can only imagine what the additional fortifications did... Goes to show that a good Christian...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Wed - Jan 13, 2010 : 11:02 pm
tired
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Alma : 49
PoeticIntensity
Okay... So this chapter wasn't brimming with the deep doctrines of the Gospel, but it did have a few nuggets.
I would absolutely love to see some sort of diagram of exactly what the Nephites did to build up their cities. I have so many ideas in my head of what it could have been, but to what extent that's true, I have no idea. I...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Wed - Dec 05, 2007 : 05:34 pm
excited
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Skype 2.0 Beta + Webcam
PoeticIntensity
Earlier today I wrote about my experience trying to get a Logitech Orbit AF webcam installed in Gentoo Linux.
About 2 hours later, I finally got Skype 2.0 beta to work (after figuring out a problem with QT), and upon loading it, configuring it, and finding someone with whom to test it (thanks, mindjuju), I finally got a webcam to act as a streami...
Computers / Gentoo / Linux
Fri - Aug 03, 2007 : 11:56 pm
happy
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Friends and Friendship
PoeticIntensity
Hmm.... I'm wondering how I can write this entry without offending anyone, so... if you are offended by it, I'm sorry. What is going to be said has to be said, and it will, hopefully, enlighten at least someone.
Due to this wonderful blog, I've been feeling quite pensive lately and liking the change. Midst this change, I asked on...
Thu - Apr 22, 2010 : 02:34 am
envigorated
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Fatigi Demo Almost Ready!
AudioGuru
Well... Not really. They're done, but I'm not. So....
You know you've just had an incredible recording session when everyone has gone home AND it's 1:45AM, and you can't get yourself to go to bed, because you know how good the end product will be after mixing and mastering...
...SO you spend the next 1.5 hours mixing and mastering...
Audio / Mixing / Music
Fri - Aug 21, 2009 : 03:08 pm
okay
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m4a audio conversion in Linux
PoeticIntensity
Today, an audio file was sent to me in an email. This audio was compressed and encoded using the aac codec for compression and wrapped in m4a. In order to use it, I had to convert this file to a wav format. Usually, I receive files in mp3, ogg, or flac file types, and use lame, oggdec, or flac to decode them back to wav. Wit...
Audio / Gentoo / Linux
Thu - Aug 27, 2009 : 02:01 pm
blah
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Linux + ATI != ETQW
PoeticIntensity
Okay.. I have no idea why I'm writing this, but to heck with it. People should know. Either that, or I need to figure out what the hey I'm doing wrong.
So, about a year ago I began a crusade to help AMD / ATI as much as I possibly could. I've already been buying AMD processors now for at least 5 years for myself, my work,...
Computers / Games / Linux / Microsoft
Sun - Aug 16, 2009 : 05:09 pm
grateful
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Alma : 38
PoeticIntensity
Of course, verse 1 immediately reminds me of verse chapter 36 and what I wrote about that. But then, verse 2 held just as much interest for me. First off, it seems that Alma talking to his three sons in these chapters has something to do with his being old enough to die at any time. Yet, Alma's words talk about him having great jo...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Sat - Sep 01, 2007 : 11:33 pm
tired
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html Images
orson
(how-to)
I was goofing around with The Gimp and noticed it had a couple save as html options. I played around with them and settled on using the colorxhtml one.
This is how I took this image and turned it into a cool text html thingy.
Before:
After:
The process goes like this:
Open the image.
Make sure the image is in the cor...
Mon - Jan 23, 2006 : 07:46 pm
no mood
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FHE Tonight... My Testimony.
PoeticIntensity
We've been trying to get into the habit of having Famiily Home Evening together as a family, and tonight Sarah planned a splendid lesson that would have been enjoyed much more if I wouldn't have been ill, and dead-tired. But... such is the life of a husband/father/bread winner. :)
Anyway... After the lesson, she wanted all of us to write down ...
Wed - Nov 21, 2007 : 02:47 pm
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Women's Roles / LDS Beliefs
PoeticIntensity
A couple of weeks ago, I spent some time in my car driving to and from Salt Lake City. During the trip, I had the opportunity to listen to one of the best talks on Women's Roles in the LDS faith. I was so impressed by the contents of this talk, I had to listen to the entire thing twice.
Both times, both my heart and my eyes were fille...
Lds / Personal
Wed - Jun 17, 2009 : 10:51 am
content
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Kaboom!
PoeticIntensity
Man... When, at the beginning of this year, I wrote that 2009 was gonna be a doozie, I didn't know the half of it.
After having been employed for only a month, two days ago, Monday, at 5:00pm, my superior came in to my office and told me, with a red face, that they had to let me go. The red face was undoubtedly due to the fact that nob...
Conexm / Life / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Aug 25, 2008 : 04:48 pm
tired
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Generating SSH Key Pairs
PoeticIntensity
Today I needed to sync a file on two servers using ssh, and I needed to do it automatically. I knew that ssh could use key-pairs to enable a secure authentication system without requiring passwords, but I couldn't remember how to do it. I googled a bit and found this gem of a tutorial on how to do precisely what I needed: I'll pos...
Computers / Linux / Programming
Tue - Nov 30, 2010 : 04:55 pm
grateful
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3 Nephi : 19
PoeticIntensity
It might be that I'm a techno-geek, but the first thing I thought of when I read this was "social media". People went from house to house and "labored exceedingly" all through the night to let it be known where Jesus was going to come the following day.
Also interesting are the activities of the people when the arrived t...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - Dec 29, 2008 : 03:50 pm
blah
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Christmas 2008
PoeticIntensity
Hmmm.... It's hard to write about something so wonderful when I'm not in the mood... But I've found that when I feel like "blah", and I write about something wonderful, I usually am feeling closer to wonderful when I'm done... So, here goes.
First off, I'm at work, so I don't have any pictures, but I'll update it when I get...
Fun / Life / Personal
Fri - Dec 21, 2007 : 03:08 pm
content
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Ardour, Jack, Digital Mix Reset
PoeticIntensity
Since I began using Ardour to record music, (and more music), I've always managed to have the same problem crop up, year after year. The symptoms of this problem are annoying to say the least.
I'm running all my audio through an M-Audio 1010 digital interface and I use envy24control to monitor and adjust the channels via. software. I ...
Audio
Thu - Jul 08, 2010 : 02:42 pm
amazed
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Daddy's Little Soldier - Finished
AudioGuru
Last night, Christie Berube came over for the finishing session on her new song, Daddy's Little Soldier, and to be honest, it was a complete honor to work with her on such a brilliant piece of musical artwork.
As an afterthought, I usually like to listen to the final master on as many different sound systems as possible, just to learn from what ...
Music
Thu - Oct 30, 2008 : 02:19 pm
content
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Mosiah : 28
PoeticIntensity
The first thing I thought of when reading this chapter was, "Man, if my teenagers (or young adults) came to me and asked if they could go to a nation bent on destoying ours, and teach them the Gospel. Man... My initial reaction would definitely be one of incredulity. No wonder they had to pester Mosiah for so long before he'd even ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Fri - Nov 05, 2010 : 11:02 am
excited
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Brand-New HTF Album Available!
PoeticIntensity
Okay, friend, family, and others. I just wanted to let you know that the season has finally arrived!
Jesse and I have been working all year long on Herod the Fink's 2nd studio album. We are so excited to announce that it's finally available for purchase!
The album has eight songs on it, and all of them are awesome. I'll post...
Herod The Fink / Music
Thu - Mar 12, 2009 : 05:16 pm
tired
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25 Reasons to Linux
PoeticIntensity
Just encountered this list: Seems like a good list for those of you who are considering Linux as an alternative to Windows.
Just a quick FYI....
Computers / Linux / Microsoft
Thu - Jan 06, 2011 : 12:11 pm
excited
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AnythingSlider is Awesome
PoeticIntensity
So, when I started the re-design of my studio website, I knew I would need sliders, but I didn't realize how many unconfigurable, and generally static sliders were out there. I must have gone through 5 iterations of sliders before I found one that matches my needs (and probably will be the go-to slider for any project I work on in the future)...
Programming
Sat - Jan 24, 2009 : 10:35 pm
grateful
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A Great Day
PoeticIntensity
It's raining outside.
...and I love it.
Today was pretty much wonderful from the beginning to the end. I don't have as much time as I would like to express myself here and now, so I pray my fingers will be fast!
Amidst all the stress going on in my life right now, today was definitely a day given to me as a gift. Possibly to do no...
Babblings / Fun / Life / Personal