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Angry Birds For Linux, Mac, and Windows!

dlarmeir — Mon, 23 May 2011 12:22:32 +0000

Google recently released Angry Birds for Google Chrome! I’ve spent countless hours playing on my Google Android and now, I can play on my Desktop and Laptop as well

To play, download Google Chrome from http://google.com/chrome and then visit the following link:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aknpkdffaafgjchaibgeefbgmgeghloj?hl=en-US

Click install and you’re off! – Enjoy!

Updated the about me page.

dlarmeir — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:50:43 +0000

It was a long time coming and is done

http://larmeir.com/about-me/

DNS issues resolved

dlarmeir — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:08:32 +0000

I worked through the DNS issues and they are solved permanently, The issue appeared to revolve around a bad serial that was generated for my zone file. A small issue but enough to mess up several resolvers ability to properly resolve my urls.

DNS issues

dlarmeir — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:18:51 +0000

I have heard from some of my visitors that the page is messed up and they are seeing other problems. This is being caused by a strange DNS issue I am tracking down. In the mean time I have switched DNS providers until I can further isolate the issue and you may see intermittent errors in DNS cache until the changes are 100% propagated. – Dustin

Whew… Sorry for the downtime everyone

dlarmeir — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:42:20 +0000

For those who visit my blog often I am sorry for the downtime. I moved over to a new hosting setup and ran into a few migration issues ( I completely changed my entire hosting platform on a planned maintenance) and the site was down for a little under 18 hours. Everything is good now through – not without pulling some hair out though

Ripping CD audio to MP3 in Debian or Ubuntu using Grip

dlarmeir — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:20:04 +0000

I recently had a need to backup some CD audio to my file server and was looking for a good, free, open source way to do this from a Debian or Ubuntu desktop. I found the solution in Grip. This tutorial is specifically for Debian but by enabling restricted repositories in Ubuntu, you can accomplish the same thing ( Ubuntu tutorial here) So lets get into it:

Installation of Grip

If you don’t have it already, in Debian you will need to add the Debian Multimedia Repository to your APT configuration. Login or su to root, Visit http://debian-multimedia.org/ , find your Debian version listed on the page and add the repo line to /etc/apt/sources.list. In my case I am using Lenny so mine is configured as show below:

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main

Once you have added this execute the following commands as su or root to get the software we need:

#apt-get update
# apt-get install lame grip cdparanoia

That is it! Your now ready to go – stick in a cd and go to the menu shown below:

Then you will see Grip open as shown in the next screen:

Select the files you wish to rip by clicking the check box as shown below:

Before ripping, select your desired encoder. I prefer LAME which will encode this to mp3 for us:

The click on the RIP tab and you will see the rip and encode selection screen:

Click on rip and encode and the slected tracks will be processed. This will keep any id3 tags etc intact during the encoding process. This particular CD does not have any. You will now see the ripping and encoding status windows which will progress as it rips the cd. Note that damages cd’s will take longer, but this does seem to handle those pretty well.

By default, the files once completed will be in /home/youruser/ogg/ as shown below:

If you have any questions or comments on this please post them here

Awesome Space Picture collection!

dlarmeir — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:28:40 +0000

Here is an awesome collection of space pictures. The high resolution copies can be obtained by clicking on the Pics – Enjoy!

Pictures courtesy of NASA – http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/

Expanding Bubble in Space

Galaxy NGC 4214

Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula

Abell 2218

The Reflection Nebula in Orion

NGC 6751

Galactic Silhouettes

Crab Nebula

Two Spiral Galaxies

Utraviolet Light

Butterfly Nebula

Quintuplet Cluster

Ancient Stars

Spiral Galaxy

Life Cycle of Stars

Supernova SN1987A

N81

The Cat's Eye Nebula

Cygnus Loop Supernova

Lagoon Nebula

Stellar

Venus

The Sun

A great quote from Confucuis

dlarmeir — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:16:52 +0000

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

Merry XMAS!!!!!!!!!

dlarmeir — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:36:07 +0000

Robocop – So old school

dlarmeir — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:37:12 +0000

I love this movie, Classic!