This will be the last of the trench. The only thing left is covering it up. I shot a video of it and walked down the trench. The video is really short, only 2 minutes of your life gone, so there might not be much there.
I have the power cable in the ground now. Neighbor helped hook up the wire to the main and sub-panel. I now have power to the shop. I was able to get 2 circuits wired up last night, a 20 amp for the kiln and 2 wall outlets that are on one 20 amp circuit.
I don’t think that I will ever hit the 20 amps that it will take to trip a breaker. Maybe I should run 15 amps on it, I do have 12 gauge wire in the place so it should be good. I only plan on running a small fridge, a radio, and phone chargers off of it. but who knows. I will keep track of what I’m running just because of how small of a space it is.
So here is the video
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So the wife surprised me this weekend with a camping trip. So I knew about the trip but didn’t know where I was going to go. I’m thinking I’m getting out of work a little later than i would like, and I just knew that I would going to have to setup a tent.
Wrong.
The with had gotten a yurt!
I had talked about them in the past to her. I thought that it would be really cool to live in one ever since a co-worker introduced me to them. I thought that they were of great design and good for simple living. We all know that there is no such thing as simple living any more, even less when you are 30 minutes from downtown Atlanta.
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I started Saturday the 14th, about 9 am, on the working on the trench for the power wire to the shop. A good friend of mine shows up around 10:30 ‘ish.
Now this trench needs to be no less that 1 foot deep and no more than 1.5 feet deep. You don’t really need to go any deeper than that. It will stay out of the way from planting flowers and other stuff.
While digging on Saturday we made it to the edge of the woods. The woods cover about a half the back yard. We hit a large sand stone that I have not broken down yet. I still need to get that done so the wire will bury correctly. Going to need a sledge for that, and maybe some chisels.
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In case some of you have been living under a rock, or don’t keep up with technology companies and what is happening with everyone, I have a bit of news about Oracle. Oracle bought Sun Microsystems. Sun was the company that bought up the OpenSource titles OpenOffice.org, MySQL, and Java.
- Oracle sues Google over its Java Virtual Machine that was built for the Andorid OS.
- Oracle has all pulled the OpenSolaris from production.
I’m starting to wonder how far Oracle will go. Oracle seems like it is out to kill OpenSource in a big way. If anything right now, they have companies just watching and not acting. Those companies that have acted in the past are now looking for alternative. While those that were really considering OpenSource as an option might have just put it on the chopping block.
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At times it is really hard to see the true cost of life. Companies hide the cost of different things all the time. The “Look what a great deal you are getting” line works most of the time. T-Mobile is laying it all out for you. You get to pick if you want a contract or no contract.
I must say that this has to be the first time that a company wants to save you money and not put you into a contract. Crazy I know, but hear me out.
I have been looking around at the phones on T-Mobile’s website and I hate looking at the retail price of the phone. You see, about a year ago the wife was talking to a T-Mobile rep when this deal first came out, when she bought her MyTouch. The deal was that you pay full price for your phone, you get a lower price on the contract and you can finance part of your phone at 0% interest. What a wonderful thing.
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This script is used to copy files and/or folders between to Windows shares. The script might work with Samba shares as well, though it has not been tested with Samba shares. The script make use of GVFS.
The script does three things:
- mounts shared folders
- copies files/folders between the shares
- unmounts the shares
Usage: gvfs_copy name/ip_of_destination
Ex: gvfs_copy 10.1.1.5
** I normally just use the IP address as I don’t have time to wait for local DNS
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My G1 is dying. The batter is fading and seems to be doing it a lot quicker these days. Who is to blame? I’m blaming a friend of mine for going into the hospital of course.
The day my friend went in was the day that my phone over heated. This was also the same day that I closed on my house. I just really want to blame my friend, so that is what I’m going to do. It is his fault that my phone has issues now.
On the way to visit my friend in the hospital, who just happened to be 2 hours away. I thought that it would be a good idea to run Pandora and Navigation at the same time. Screen at full power as well. It was great. The entire trip was filled with maps and music. Nothing could have been better.
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I have been working on my glass shop recently. I take a good bit of pride in doing things myself. I work hard both mentally and physically. Most of my mental work is done at the day job, while the physical work is done at the house. This time just focusing on my glass shop.
As I have written about getting my bench in place in the shop. I wanted to share a picture with you on it. Now it is not the best looking bench in the world, but it was made from re-purposed pallets. I wish I had more uses for pallets.
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… I had this big drawn out post almost ready to go up and I deleted it. I’m not even sure that I want to write about Linux and techie type things on this blog, but what the hell right. I’m just going to give it straight to you. If you have question or trouble digesting what I’m telling you, then you will have to leave a comment (which I will write back), or you can search elsewhere in the Internet. Also most, if not all of anything PC related will be about Linux.
Onward!
You will need one of 2 thing or both of the 2 things. What 2 things? These 2 things: ssh server/client. Yes you can just install the server with out the need of the client and you don’t have to have a server if you are just going to be a client. It is best to not install what you do not need installed.
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I started writing a post this morning about negative things. It was going to be a post of me bitching. I feel that I often bitch way to much and would like to just stop bitching.
I don’t really think that I’m a pessimist, but i’m not really an optimist either. I have always thought that I’m a realist. This is ofter construed with pessimism.
It is not that I see the glass half full or half empty. I see the glass full all the time. Though it might only be half full of what I want, it is still completely full. I have to accept that the other half is something that I do not want, but I do not have to like that other half.
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