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Moonlight Meadery – Kurt’s Apple Pie

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

Moonlight MeaderyKurt’s Apple Pie is another from Moonlight Meadery. Text on the side:

Kurt’s Apple Pie is made with honey and apple cider from New Hampshire, additionally we used natural vanilla and cinnamon spices. So enjoyable is the wine we think it pairs with any meal or as an after dinner treat. Get your piece of the pie… before it’s all gone.

The drink has a bit of a bite, but it’s a bite from an apple. The rest of it has a faint honeyness.  It’s a bit watery, but the syrupyness of the honey is there.   It’s sweet, too.  It’s a bit dry..

Aftertaste is tangy, with the sweetness still remaining.

 

I paid about $12 for this bottle–as meads go, I’d definitely call this a nice ‘default mead’– it’s not overly sweet, fruity, or syrupy.  So while it’s a bit more wine-y than meady, and I wouldn’t ask expect anybody to stay with it, it’s a good introduction that isn’t Chaucer’s.

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Swag at PAX East 2012 (Pre-Game notes)

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

Hey, here’s a bit of information on the PAX East swag I’m aware of, before I go:

(Last updated: April 5th, 2012:  4:40PM EDT

(Still constructing, but posting for now.)

 

 

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Does location.href work for IFrames? Even Redirection?

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Short answer– yes.

I just did a test that worked with three domains–
on domain A, I had an iframe pointing to a file on domain B. Domain B’s iframe was to: alert “location.href”, write it to the document, and then redirect the browser to domain C.

All tests worked.

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How to get Old Windows 3.1 Applications Running on Debian Linux, but forwarded to your Windows Machine using XMing, a X Windows Server Forwarding Tutorial

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

What you’ll need for getting old Windows 3.1 applications running.

one thing to note:
I read recently that MSDOS applications are having problems in WINE (the solution I have below.) On that note, if you’re having problems, try running the program in DOSBox on your windows machine!

apt-get install alsa

Which will install ALSA, a Debian sound environment,
And

apt-get install xserver-xorg-core

Yes, I had very little success getting any WINE application running without the “X” windows setup.

apt-get install wine

Install Wine.

Now, let’s say yo’ure on a desktop PC and you want to connect

Continuing on..

winecfg

Lets you configure WINE when you install it. :O

alsaconf

And that lets you configure Alsa. It should be done.

Last few moments:

Follow this tutorial to get PuTTY to forward your X Session to XMing:
http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/trouble.php

So let’s go over this:

  1. Putty is set up to receive windows from your server
  2. Your computer is set up to receive windows from Putty
  3. Your Linux server is ready to create windows for use with WINE.

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NATHAN + TERMINAL MAN + Wired + Autopia!

Friday, September 11th, 2009

OMG.

Terminal man, nice to meet you :D Also nice to meet you too, Nicole and Keith (Keith of Wired’s Autopia!)

OMG, WIRED. Twitter REALLY does help instant interaction, eh?

OMG, WIRED. Twitter REALLY does help instant interaction, eh?

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(13) Permission denied: FastCGI can’t create server (problem solved)

Friday, August 7th, 2009

I was getting the following error on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 server.  (RHEL 5)

[Thu Aug 06 17:48:03 2009] [crit] (13)Permission denied: FastCGI:
can’t create server “(Fast CGI File)”: bind() failed [(location of FastCGI location)]

I fixed this by:

chmod o+x /parent/directory/of/fastcgi

EG:
If Fast CGI was /var/log/httpd/fastcgi,
I’d do chmod o+x /var/log/httpd.

Worked fine.  (Kudos to my coworker who originally proposed the idea and it worked– Mentioning it again ’cause I did it again.)

Did it help you? Leave a comment! :)

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Firefox hates Webdings– or at least, is moving on

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

http://dwcourse.com/dreamweaver/firefox-webdings.php

Great article that discusses why Webdings is no longer usable for FireFox. Because of this reason, it will likely be unusable into the distant future, as well.

This sucks, ’cause it’s hard finding the right unicode character I want. Lame.

Anyways, this involves the redesign of this blog. Stay tuned.

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Recent BIND release has bugs — causes (host map: lookup (domain): deferred)

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

I had a problem on a server where a recent update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) caused all sendmail mail to be:

  1. Inserted into the queue
  2. Never sent
  3. Never sent with message “(host map: lookup (domain): deferred)
  4. Only sent when the mail queue is pushed ( sendmail -v -q )

I found an old post from 2006 that gave me an idea about what to do when sendmail constantly defers mail. I ran yum update and found BIND had some udpates.

After that, all I had to do was restart the sendmail server and we were good to go.

Good news!

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WARNING: Your fish may contain plastic, if it doesn’t poop out the bottle.

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

FA’s Link of the Day is an article describing 6 Real Islands Way More Terrifying than the One On ‘Lost’.

You know what #2 is? A BIG FUCKING TEXAS-SIZED ISLAND OF PLASTIC. I had NEVER heard of the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” before, and NOW .. it’s ludicrous. It’s insane. Read the cracked article above. This article, about a cleanup attempt of the ‘great garbage swirl’, says that Rich Owen saw a Fish shit plastic.

The last concept I had of environmental danger were six-pack soda holders entangling fish and birds.

NOW I read about Jellyfish eating teensy plastic particles, THEN FISH eating the Jellyfish, getting hormonal due to the bad plastic, and THEN you eating this motherfucking plastic fish.

I had NEVER Known it got that bad. Did you? Did you know that shit was THIS BAD?

Please. Spread awareness of this. I hope Owen’s attempt to clean up the swirl gets going. Once I see more people talking about it, my money’s going in.

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Need to get NetGear WG111v2 running on Linux / Debian ?

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Here are some helpful links I used to fix my Debian-running-a-USB-wireless-stick problem:

This thread on NDiswrapper, a way of using Windows XP drivers on Linux, helped me a lot with my NetGear WG111v2 Problem on Debian Linux..

Afterwards, this article at the Debian Wiki on how to use WIFI / Wireless utilities helped me out afterwards with my NetGear WG111v2 problem.

Anyways, Make sure to apt-get install openssh-server and configure it to your needs. Did you get IPtables, too? Should come with your package of Debian.

Me? Well, I’m fine. Just playing some indie games, drawing, etc. :)

Edit: Update as of 11/24/2009: It’s been working fine. I wanted to leave a bit more information about this.

  1. Here’s a copy of my /etc/network/interfaces file: 
    # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

# My secondary, Wireless Iface

auto wlan0
        iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        wpa-ssid WirelessNetworkNameExactly
        wpa-psk password
  2. Keep in mind I got NDisWrapper installed with apt-get, got the drivers for the WG111v2. When NDisWrapper was working with the windows drivers for the WG111v2, it detected the wireless device.
  3. A GREAT idea would be to configure the router/wireless router to do a “DHCP Reservation” for each Mac Address that requests an IP Address from DHCP. this is because DHCP will change the IP address of your server in your local network once in awhile! This means that the IP address it had before may not be valid at the next time it reboots! Ergo, you should either ALWAYS find the IP address of your server from your router’s DHCP clients table page, log into the server manually and do ifconfig to find out what the IP address is, or you should set up a DHCP reservation so the IP will never change.

EDIT Mar 18 2010:

The following debian page also helped on NDISWRAPPER: http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper

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