I found a website full of mouth-watering high-resolution pictures of local food, if you are at work and need some motivation to go out of the office for lunch, then click this link: http://www.pictorymag.com/showcases/local-flavor/
I really like how the layout seems to be unafraid of using a lot of bandwidth to display big, high quality images, it’s definitely not a site you would want to browse on a phone. I’m considering changing my blog to be more optimized for high-res browsing instead of phone browsers and then having a separate mobile version with a compact layout… not sure what most people coming here are using in terms of screen sizes.
I started doing some consulting for some home clients recently, in La Jolla and Pacific Beach. They’re all private residences, where I help fix general networking and computer problems. One client had a huge list of problems but I was somehow able to fix all of them in a few hours! That allowed us to move on to planning her blog and website layouts, getting a lot done but also leaving a lot more work to do later on.
Jobs like these are kind of fun for me – I love being able to solve problems for people, especially nice ones who don’t know where to go for help. (usually having to visit best buy etc…)
Fixing these small problems that just require a little bit of experience, it feels like such a mutually beneficial exchange; to me, the gratitude I’ve received feels great and then I even get paid! My clients (several moms) are getting a great deal because the value of having annoying problems solved is so much greater than the cost to get rid of them.
Just checked my power meter again, the new readings are as follows:
Total Usage: 241 kWh
Uptime: 1583 h
Current Load: 275 W
Averages out to 110 kWh/month, about $30.
Sorry for not posting much lately, I ran into a hosting problem this month where some of the permissions on my server were set incorrectly during an account transfer. (the migration script’s fault, not mine)
I don’t have root access on my server, so I wasn’t able to log in or make posts until I found all the offending files and contacted support about them.
The good news is that I’ve had a lot of other things to work on that were keeping me away, including installing some virtual appliances, searching for a job, and getting a lot of computing hardware setup and networked.
I had some trouble compiling after doing the subversion checkout, but finally figured out which packages I was missing.
This is what worked for me, ran this from a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 desktop installation:
$ sudo apt-get install subversion libgtkmm-2.4-dev libxml2-dev libxml2++2.6-dev
$ svn://gtkevemon.battleclinic.com/GTKEVEMon/trunk/gtkevemon
$ cd gtkevemon
$ make
$ cd src
$ ./gtkevemon
Then I was able to create an application launcher with this command:
‘/home/username/gtkevemon/src/gtkevemon’ (~ doesn’t work in launchers)
Not sure yet how to update it automatically when new branches are available, but at least this gets it running. Leave a comment if this didn’t work for you, and fly safe, it’s dangerous in space.