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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4610 total views
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
envigorated
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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
Tue - May 29, 2007 : 11:29 pm
tired
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Nature's Way
PoeticIntensity
Holy moly. I'm not sure I can type everything I need to, but I'm gonna try.
I gave my two-weeks today at Truenorth Academy after talking with two people at Nature's Way to make certain the offer they are making me. I'm not exactly sure where this decision will lead me, but after praying and doing some analysis of our own, Sarah and I believe t...
Mon - Jun 16, 2008 : 04:51 pm
blah
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Gen. Conf. - Best Investment - Child
PoeticIntensity
For some reason, I love the commandment of paying tithing. It's probably one of the top 10 commandments of which I have a burning testimony.
I love this quote (as well as Jacob 2:19)
"President Heber J. Grant stated, “I want to say to you, if you will be honest with the Lord, paying your tithing and keeping His commandments, He...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Apr 17, 2008 : 01:55 pm
envigorated
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Writers
Hello all of you journal people. I was thinking about something today. There is something all of us have in common. We love to write. There are thousands of people out there that love this too. We may not be professional writers, but we will make a difference in the...
Fri - May 23, 2008 : 08:05 pm
blah
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UGH
koyote Dreams
So Anyone ever heard of Paul Michael Glaser? He is like the best actor! Well next to Johnny Depp. But any way my Pa loves him, in high school he and his best friend were called "Starsky and Hutch" because they acted so much like the real Starsky and hutch. My PA was Starsky, and to this day is called that! he owns all the old tv shows on ...
Wed - Oct 03, 2007 : 10:41 am
happy
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MythTV Basement Home Theater
PoeticIntensity
About 2 years ago I got this hairbrained idea to use mythtv to create a computer-based full-media center for my basement home theater. At the time, I had a sweet side-job which was paying me nicely, so I had the means to do pretty much exactly what I wanted.
I had a couple of things for which I wanted to use the basement, namely 1. My Home...
Computers / Linux
Wed - Feb 04, 2009 : 11:58 am
energetic
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8180 total views
Car Mods and Emissions
PoeticIntensity
Last spring, I modified my car - and then modified it again.
The 2nd modifications entailed me re-programming (or flashing, or tuning) my car's computer. One thing I didn't realize at the time was that evidently, a standard protocol for most tuners out there is to turn off the O2 sensors which monitor emissions after the catalytic converter...
Cars
Thu - Oct 25, 2007 : 11:13 am
angry
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Microsoft Makes Me Sick
PoeticIntensity
I don't even know where to begin on this one. Maybe I'll start by screaming in frustration due to Microsoft's complete incompetence..... or is it incompetence? Maybe, and more likely, it's completely calculated, thought-through, planned, and executed....
Apparently, Microsoft sent out an "automatic update" to all XP a...
Gentoo / Linux / Microsoft
Wed - Dec 14, 2011 : 11:05 am
excited
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HTF : Carry the Stone
AudioGuru
Herod the Fink is a Christmas collaboration project between Jesse Crowley and Jason Jones which has been going on now for 3 glorious years at Advanced Budget Studios. This year's offering is a 4-song EP.
The music this year ranges from a bluegrass crossing punk style of "Joy To The World" to an introspective look in to each of our...
Music
Wed - Aug 22, 2007 : 11:28 pm
exhausted
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Viruses, Parasites, Yuck.
PoeticIntensity
Wow.... Ya know those news stories about that sickness being spread by people in swimming pools this summer? Well... I've got one thing to say about em':
BELIEVE THEM. THEY'RE TRUE.
I'm just getting over a sickness that pretty much was a worst case scenario of what they explain as a parasite called "cryptosporidium", w...
Personal
Fri - Apr 10, 2009 : 08:15 am
refreshed
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Alma : 21
PoeticIntensity
Confrontation and contention has always been an interesting thing for me. For one, I hate it and I don't know how to deal with it. I'm a passionate person in every sense of the word. The moment I feel like I'm being attacked, it's everything I have to do to keep my head level and my blood from boiling. Unfortunately, this ke...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Spiritual
Sun - Sep 23, 2007 : 03:27 pm
no mood
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Texture Extraction
orson
(how-to)
Using The Gimp to remove low frequency data from an image.
When I take a picture of something I would like to use for texture, there is often a slight change in the color across the entire image. I want to keep the detail, but make the overall color even across the image.
This is a picture of dusty rain marks on the hood of my car:
It is l...
Thu - Oct 01, 2009 : 04:40 pm
okay
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It's All About The Ears.
AudioGuru
So, over at homerecording.com, we have quite a few discussions about, well, pretty much anything that has to do with recording audio. One of the dicussions we recently engaged in had to do with critiquing a member's song he was working on.
Of course, there were the usual suggestions on what this person should do, whether it be "bring ...
Audio / Mixing / Music
Tue - Nov 25, 2008 : 01:21 pm
grateful
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Being Daddy
PoeticIntensity
I recently wrote a piece about how much I miss the things that used to come so easily before I had children.
Although everything I wrote is true, writing that article caused me to reflect on how lucky I am to be a parent at all.
The things which I now miss due to parenthood are luxuries related to selfishness. The things I enjoy because...
Children / Family / Life
Mon - Feb 27, 2012 : 04:42 pm
pensive
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Musical Ramblings...
PoeticIntensity
Okay, so I recently watched a documentary on the Foo Fighters called "Back and Forth", and I thought it was really well made - okay, I thought it was awesome. The funny thing is - I don't own a single Foo Fighters album, and am really not familiar with them as a band, even though I generally like the "rock" genre they asso...
Music
Tue - Oct 28, 2008 : 03:36 pm
bored
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Mosiah : 26 - Belief
PoeticIntensity
Upon beginning this study session, I found myself quite uninterested in doing pretty much anything. Maybe it's just because I'm tired.... or maybe it's because I just finished one of my projects at work, thus putting me between projects again. Who knows...
When I got to verse 3, though, I found a gem of a scripture that I had fo...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - May 13, 2008 : 05:05 pm
sick
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Gen. Conf. - Three Presiding - Walker
PoeticIntensity
I just finished reading through this talk, and it brought some thoughts to mind...
With Elder Walker's example of his grandparents displaying a photo of the First Presidency, I totally agree with the analogy, "Years later I concluded that displaying the picture of the First Presidency was equivalent to Joshua’s beautiful expression: '...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sat - Apr 05, 2008 : 10:30 pm
content
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Day 2 - Colorado Trip
PoeticIntensity
Wow... It really is amazing what a good night's sleep can do to one's attitude. I don't know if everyone is affected this way, but man... Yesterday, it was all I could do to keep myself from just walking away from everyone and going to sleep. I was irritable, quick to frustration, and a general jerk to pretty much everyone.
...
Personal
Tue - Jan 13, 2009 : 02:40 pm
grateful
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Alma : 8 - Christ-like Love
PoeticIntensity
It's good to be back. I feel like I really got a lot out of this chapter. It could be simply because this chapter has a couple of verses which always seem to prick my heart. Maybe, maybe not. Anyway...
It seems this chapter is all about love. One of the verses found here is so poignant, it pricks my heart every time...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Sun - Dec 02, 2012 : 10:08 am
excited
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Live Room is framed!
AudioGuru
Well, I'd say last week was a success for the progress of the studio! I'd also say it was a pretty big failure for the state of my body. Man, I'm getting old. Even my 70-year-old dad out-did me, and that's just sad. Even though my fingers are swollen, and my feet hurt, I've gotta say it was 100% worth it.
We started ...
Studio
Sat - Apr 16, 2011 : 04:01 pm
excited
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Ibanez S570B - Newest Addition!
AudioGuru
So I wasn't really interested in getting yet another member of my little growing studio family, but I couldn't help but get this one after playing it at the local music store. Found it on a killer sale at samash, so I pulled the trigger.
Available to all studio clients for recording.
Isn't she gorgeous? She sounds awesome, too....
Audio Hardware