Dell Perc S300

8149: Acronis Bootable Media Does Not Support Dell PERC S300 or S100 RAID

http://kb.acronis.com/content/8149

this took up way too much of my weekend.

a client asked me to image an old PowerEdge 2850 and slap it into a new AMD powered Dell PowerEdge r415.. imaging the older system with its PERC 5i hardware RAID posed no challenge. Not so with the new PowerEdge R415 and it's Software based "windows only" PERC S300 RAID controller.
I recommended that the client migrate applications (Peachtree accounting and a few other legacy apps + 200 gigs of files) and also to purchase a hardware based PERC H700 RAID controller.

Election day November 2011- polling place

http://gis.nyc.gov/vote/ps/index.htm?number=688&street=10th+avenue&borough=Manhattan&lang=en

As of: 11/08/2011
Poll Site: Park West High School
Poll Site Number: 11220
Address: 525 West 50 Street, Manhattan
Voter Entrance: 525 West 50 Street
Accessible Entrance: 525 West 50 Street

A park will replace tunnel 3 construction site. "when" is still unclear

Tunnel 3 construction site block 1077 lot 29 in Hell's

Block 1077, Lot 29 was acquired by the New York City Department of
Environmental Protection (DEP) pursuant to a Uniform Land Use
Review Procedure (ULURP) application for site selection in 1993. CB4
and the community have been advocating for park/community open
space on the site since 1993. Correspondence has been ongoing since
then between DEP, Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), CB4,
local elected officials, and the block association, all expressing a
commitment that the site will be developed as a park when construction
of the shaft is complete. DEP will require a permanent easement for
access to the shaft for maintenance, which could easily be
accommodated with surrounding park use.
The Tenth Avenue Site should be developed with housing on the
western portion of the site, over the rail cut, and park on the eastern
portion of the site. The building should run through the block on the
western boundary, with arms pointing east toward Tenth Avenue. After
the rezoning in April 2008, in connection with the Real Estate
Industrials project, the entire site is zoned R8 and maximum FAR is 4.2
per ZR Sections 96-101 and 96-31. A special permit should be used
under ZR 96-104 for maximum height of 99 feet.
The park should be mapped and developed as Hell’s Kitchen Park West,
with facilities for older children and teens (volleyball and basketball
courts moved from Hell’s Kitchen Park), adult seating areas, and lots of
green. The park should include a comfort station, which could be in the

adjacent housing development. DPR should design, the housing
developer should build, and the City should fund the park, which should
be fenced the same as Hell’s Kitchen Park. A full-time attendant, not to
be shared with other parks, should be assigned to Hell’s Kitchen Park
and Hell’s Kitchen Park West.
To absorb neighborhood population, the eastern portion (where
volleyball and basketball courts now are) of Hell’s Kitchen Park should
be renovated, along with other nearby parks including Raymon Aponte
Playground on West 47th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues and
May Matthews Park on West 45th and 46th Streets between Ninth and
Tenth Avenues.
In regards to the water tunnel easement on the site, a minimal amount of
renovation is required for hatchways and vent, it should be fenced,
landscaped, and become an integrated element of the park.(CB4, HCC)

SOURCE-

http://www.mta.info/mta/planning/wry/pdf/finalscope.pdf

Great Infographic: Android's version fragmentation problem

from techcrunch.com

Brooklyn Farmacy

513 Henry St at Sackett St, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

Peter Freeman. I never knew him growing up in central Maine but I had heard of him. Been meaning to make it down to his store that has been getting some good press since hearing about it from Meghan Meyers (Solon Maine) a few months back. Best of luck Mr. Freeman! Sounds like you are cooking up some great treats across the river... One of his concoctions (Maple Egg-Cream) just ended up in the best seasonal drinks section of TimeOut New York. Congrats Peter! See you down there soon. Sounds like I can bring my dog too.

http://newyork.timeout.com/things-to-do/2134727/maple-egg-cream-at-brooklyn-farmacy-soda-fountain
(picture source is listed below, which is also a great little intro to the Brooklyn Farmacy)
http://eardog.com/blog/2011/04/brooklyn-farmacy/

Occupy Wall Street.

Q: what do
Drummers, wikileaks, artists, anarcho capitalists, Ron Paul supporters, the green party, the NYCISO.org, goths, anarchists, democrats, independents, tourists from poland, and me all have in common?

A: We all agree that some heads need to roll after the american public was ripped off by wall street led by Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and Larry Summers in 2008. We have been in Zucotti park since early October protesting the criminally lame government response from the Obama Administration. I have personally been down there for only a few days but am completely in solidarity with their basic cause, which is that middle class (and poor, working poor) Americans are not getting a fair shake.

"Labor groups are now praising the Wall Street demonstrators for clarifying a message they say has been theirs all along: that no one on Wall Street has been held accountable for causing the financial crisis, and that cuts to government budgets hurt the lives of working people."

- source city hall news - Bob Master, political director of Communications Workers of America District 1 and a co-chair of the labor-backed Working Families Party

And while many of the city’s larger unions are eager to piggyback on the rising media popularity of the Wall Street protestors, others are more cautious.
“I’m not going down there,” said Greg Floyd, president of the Teamsters Local 237. “I’m looking for permits and I’m looking for an agenda. We want to be supportive, but I need to know what I’m supporting.”

- source city hall news



Here are the pictures I have taken hastily with my cell phone so far.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallaroo/sets/72157627944969602/

Shit my uncle says on facebook

"I am on some hot chick's lap top that I got drunk with at Chili's and now we are at Day's Inn (Krist I don't even know her name . . .) anyway she's passed out in the bed right now (not much use to me - think I will go through her wallet and see if there is anything worth taking) pretty sure she wont remember me - damn - she's hot - if she starts puking I'm definitely leaving . . ."

My kids brought some ecstasy back from school and wanted me to try it - Woooooo0000OoooooW . . . know I feel like dancing my fucking brains out (and lots of alcohol seems to go quite well with it) guess my living room will have to do (now if only I had a dancing partner - where's that fucking dancing bear!)

Spelling Bee Practice links

http://www.spellingbeethegame.com/
http://www.jenisfamous.com/dev/category/spelling-word-of-the-day
http://www.learner.org/interactives/spelling/spelling.html?s=g11-12 (for the more basic words that still stump the overly confident)
http://www.spellingbee.com/
http://www.spellingbee.com/champions-and-their-winning-words (it is my goal to know all of these by november 5th)

http://www2.sharonherald.com/herald/nie/spellb/spelllist3.html


I'm actually thinking about starting up an "adult" spelling bee of my own in hell's kitchen.

Turkey or Turkiye? always wondered about this

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1972/is-turkey-the-bird-named-after-turkey-the-country-or-vice-versa

Dear Straight Dope:

With the recent earthquake in Turkey, I started to think about the fact that there's a bird and a country named the same thing. How did each get its name? And are there any other countries named the same as animals or food? Is there a place named Chicken?

— Aron Siegel

My thoughts exactly Aron! The answer is anything but straight forward.

let me tell you how I dislike your website and its in text advertising.

http://www.vibrantmedia.com


this company under the good intentions of saving users from having to watch flash banner ads or pop up/pop under video ads have given us something similarly annoying but different. They are to web content as the burdock is to the outdoors. Sticky burrs have a place in the larger scheme of life but they still annoy the hell out of me and unlike arcitum lappa... they have no redeeming qualities such as having a tasty root and leaves. How much of their click through revenue is made completely by mistake. I am willing to bet it is over 30-40% accidental click through with an immediate browser window close.

http://video.about.com/onlineadvertising/Doug-Stevenson--Gabe-Greenberg.htm

this interview makes some sense and I agree... people want control over the content they are viewing. Doug Stevenson has crossed the line with this product. It isn't saving anyone any time or making the web a better place. It is just creating more noise in an already noisy place. I hear some people disagree with me about this, but I think you are wrong.

This topic tends to bring out strong emotions for or against. That, I also find interesting. read the discussion on the bottom of the following article for what I see as a typical argument regarding in text adverts.


http://nanopublishing.weblogsinc.com/2004/12/03/vibrant-media-kicked-out-on-their-ass-by-forbes-ceo-jim/

a melange.

Gordon's Great Escape



"In this globe-trotting docuseries, British alpha-chef Gordon Ramsay leaves his comfort zone and travels abroad to learn more about world cuisine, sampling popular dishes in India and Southeast Asia." Netflix description

People have been urging Gordo to get back in the kitchen for some time now, but the message was rather more to leave the cameras behind. He doesn't seem able to turn down the exposure (and presumably, the fees are pretty persuasive in troubled times) but in an attempt to salvage his reputation, he's turned to a different style of programming akin to the Stein or Oliver culinary travelogue / personal journey model. As his production company, Optomen, has it, "we'll gain insights into the real Gordon Ramsay. We'll see a very different side to the nation's favourite chef: more thoughtful, confessional, and open-minded".

quote source

Silicon Alley Talent Fair

Showed up rather late due to a voip mishap at a client site. The fair was a good time and a good networking event. Had some good conversations with at least a dozen people and ate about that many bahn mi sandwhiches smartly provided by http://www.sonarapp.com/ cold delicious beers were provided by Beerlao thanks to ideeli and beats from DJ eRock.

They had a small panel discussion between the job fair part and the after party featuring some luminaries from the local scene. One of the most memorable speakers was a guy from Pivotal Labs. Not sure if it was Rob Mee but it probably was. He chided everyone for complaining too often about what they want to do and not walking the wallk i.e. going to hackathons, contributing to local tech meetups and generally needing to JUST FREAKING DO IT. Loved his take and wished I could hear more of what he said which was at times difficult. More thoughts on this event to come.


My photos from the event

http://www.myworkster.com/myworkster/page/eventdetail/1587252515

10gen, Adaptly, Adconion Media Group, ADstruc, Animoto, Appdrenaline, AppFirst, AppNexus, Aviary, AxialMarket, Behance, bitly, BurdaStyle, Cellufun, CityPockets, Crowdtap, CrowdTwist, Datalot, EasyBib, Enterproid, EquaMetrics, Everyday Health, Exfm, EXPO, Fast Society, Freedom Teleworkers, GameChanger.io, GateGuru, GetGlue, Gojee, Group Commerce, H.BLOOM, Hara Partners, Harvest, HereWeClick, ideeli, iGottaGuide, IndustryGraph, iSEC Partners, Jibe, JoorAccess, Jumo, KeyWifi, kikin, Kindara Inc., Krossover, Late Nite Labs, LeadPlace, LivePerson, LocalBonus, MLB Advanced Media, Mediamorph, Meetup, MergeSkills, Mind Body Play, Mojiva, NYC Footy, Ology Media, Organic Spread Media, Pagane, Paperless Post, PhotoShelter, Pixable, Quirky, Red Rover, Referio, RentTheRunway, RevTrax, Schoology, Seamless Receipts, SeamlessWeb, SeatGeek, Shapeways, Shelby.tv, Skillshare, Social Media Link, Socialbomb, SocialBon, Solvate, Sonar, Squarespace, StuffBuff, Stylesight, SuburbanMomma, Sulia, TargetSpot, The Echo System, TheLadders, Tremor Media, TwoChop, VYou, Wantworthy, XGraph, Yipit, Yodle

Peter Van Buren's "We Meant Well"

I heard this entirely sane commentary blaring out of my tivoli radio. Lots of nonsense tends to spout from it but on occasion someone like Peter comes along and makes something people wish to make quagmireishly complex seem simple and just says the plain truth.















We meant well blog

The war’s initial aim was to stop those weapons of mass destruction from being used against us. There were none, so check that off the list. Then it was to get rid of Saddam. He was hanged in 2006, so cross off that one. A little late in the game we became preoccupied with ensuring an Iraq that was “free.” And we’ve had a bunch of elections and there is a government of sorts in place to prove it, so that one’s gotta go, too.


What follows won’t be “investment,” just more waste. The occupation of Iraq, centered around that engorged embassy, is now the equivalent of a self-licking ice cream cone, useful only to itself.

Otis funkmeyer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN6q_kVlGcM

I get what he is doing here and I think it is fine... if the non PCness of the title gets you please post a comment about your racial critique of the song if you have one.

I have to give it to him, as a shout out song for scientists and luminaries it is awesome, and very funny. as a white man with swagger you know I love this!

I got that

White nigga swag.

trapping. foraging, and panning. Finlay McKay and the new Yukon gold rush

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/magazine/mag-15Gold-t.html

Ayahuasca and my girlfriend

"Ayahuasca is famous for the visions it generates, and the sense of communion with nature and spiritual reality – as well as more mundane, less pleasant lessons about oneself. The Daime is thought to reveal both positive and various negative or unresolved aspects of the individual, sometimes resulting in difficult or blissful ‘passages’ involving the integration of this dissociated psychological content."

source link


That's funny. from this passage ayahuasca like lessons could also be obtained by spending time with my girlfriend.

CPU Comparison Charts and the mystery that is Pricewatch.com

I'm always looking for a good website with obvious and easy to interpret lists of the comparative speeds of intel and amd cpu's. I have been paying attention to the market for these "chips" since Intel was making the DX series of processors and Apple was using Motorola 68020 chips circa 1992.

I have seen the i486DX, Pentium, P2, P3, P4, Centrino, Duo, and many more come and all of the miniscule updatyes they do in between those major goalposts. It is mind boggling and absolutely made to confuse. The product managers figured out long ago that making many miniscule upgrades (then pumping each one up like it was the next greatest thing) makes more money than wider spaced major updates. I always kept one or two steps back from the edge of the pricing precipice and I have paid way less over time for that decision! Chip makers taught me valuable lessons about life, marketing, and human behavior. YOU DONT NEED THE FASTEST chip. You really don't! That is, unless you can afford it.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Here is a site I have been using for years as well. Really great concept and seems to be run by a shadowy cabal like organization. They have no about us section... thats pretty shadowy. here is a typical post if you run a quick search for "who runs pricewatch.com"

Does anyone know who owns and runs Pricewatch.com? I don't want guesses or rumors. They don't have any phone numbers on the site, no email, no addresses, etc., and the WHOIS info is no help either. Anybody know?

Reason for asking? Well, I've been using their search engine for several years now, and have seen changes come and go. It would be really nice to know who they are.

LINK

http://www.pricewatch.com/

extending the Amtrak in Maine

More highspeed passenger rail being extended farther into Maine? I'm all for it. Here is a good article I found on MaineBiz.biz about a plan to extend the Downeaster . The story within the story related to Florida giving up the funds for the Tampa-Orlando high speed Rail is something to follow up on too. It seems like all that funding that was available keeps getting turned down. Chris Christie in New Jersey, Rick Scott in Florida, what about the LA to Vegas high speed line idea that I keep hearing about?



http://www.mainebiz.biz/news47796.html

WOW a plan to link the

North Station/South Station
acela/downeaster tracks.

that will be 10 years and lots of corruption cooked in it but makes sense to make it happen eventually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%E2%80%93South_Rail_Link

Blogger is starting to feel really old to me

The concept of posting things of interest to me to blogger is becoming less and less attractive to me. The loss of long-form anything in my personal day to day life is becoming more and more pronounced. It makes me think of Newspeak from 1984. Is twitter/facebook/foursquare/ a subtle self imposed form of newspeak for our generation? The generation of ADHD and attention deficit issues are going to be the proponents of the 140 word post. Will any Proust's, Micheners remain?

I started posting in August of 2004. I almost can't believe blogspot/blogger has been around that long!

here is a time capsule list for perpetuity.

1) Bike riding around the streets of New York 2010 an 2011... its been fun, dangerous, exhilerating, and amazing! I promise I will wear a helmet more in 2011 Heather!
2) Car crash in front of our place at 688 10th avenue
3) Our trip to Yale for Heather's mock board exam
4) eating way too much egg foo young and sweet and sour chicken at New Kam Wei and Foo King
5) Eating at Il Melograno, Vynyl, Don Giovanni's, Cafe Olin, Terakawa Ramen, Island Burgers and Shakes, the Punjabi Tadka, Bubby's, Mamoun's Falafel, Joe's Pizza, Katz's Delicatessen, Eataly, Toro (spansih food), 92Y, Beach St Eatery, Sullivan Bakery, Francois Payard Bakery on Houston, Amy's bread, Hill Country Barbecue, Dinosaur Barbecue, Daisy Mays BBQ, Brother Jimmy's BBQ, Blue Ribbon Restaurant, Pho Bang, Nha Trang, Pho Pasteur, XO Cafe, Shake Shack on 8th and 44th, and of course much much more! Hey what can I say I came for the food!
6) trips to the MOMA, Statue of liberty, Natural History Museum, NY Public Library, City Hall.
7) All of the bit actors that came into our life since moving here, Al, Marci, Lia, Lance and the staff of Al’s Cycle Solutions (Chase, James, Michael & Ruben). The yemeni guys who work at the corner store's around our place in HK at Nagi's and 5 Brothers (Sonny). The neighborhood characters like Bobby and the Irish brothers who lived in hells kitchen their whole life. The laundromat employees and regulars at "Washland", The people and their dogs that we see all the time, "Bully" the beagle mix, Lance the big Black lab, Michael C. from upstairs and his little old pug JoJo. Jova The counter person at the Cameo on 50th st. last but not least THE SHINERS my job at Sunshine Suites put me on the fast track to meeting people in New York for sure. Joe, Cheni, Jake, Austin, Caitlin, Farid, Sarah Cho, Kristina, Katie Jean, Ahnia, Boumediene and all of the vendors, tenants and rotating cast of characters that make up sunshine suites.
8) Going to see broadway shows and plays with Heather and her family. Thanks for paying for me all those times Heather, I OWE YOU!. Best times so far have been watching "Rock of Ages" over and over! What a great show. Race by David Mamet, "The 39 Steps" at the NWS across from our first place in New York "The Cameo".

that's it for now but the list goes on and on! This was actually kind of fun and I am sure someday I will be happy I made this list.

That is one of my favorite parts about Blogger, I have never been great at keeping a paper diary or journal and this occasionally does the trick for that. I want to remember some of these times I am living when I am 65 (maybe). Who knows I might be having too much of a good time to go back through all of the old blogger posts. If the blogger servers survive until 2065 I will be shocked. Cuneiform lasts! Hard drives and all of the fads in storage will come and go. Might want to start transposing some of the important stuff onto clay tablets sooner than later.

Good Will Hunting and Me

So if you know me well you know I like to go out and dance at after hours clubs and absolutely worship dance music. I also get accused (jokingly mostly) of being gay quite often because, well, it's hard to explain why you are 30 year old man and go out dancing at mixed dance clubs like RISE in Boston at 3AM by yourself.

I often think of this quote when people give me shit about it. When I was living in Boston at first I didn't know where "the paradise" or "the dise" was. I saw this little bar across from street and up the road from the main MIT building entrance at the corner of Mass Ave and Albany and assumed maybe that was the paradise I had always heard of. It wasn't until I went to some shows at the actual Paradise music venue that I finally knew the Paradise Cafe wasn't "the dise". I didn't realize the nature of the place or that this was the place mentioned Affleck&Damon's "Good Will Hunting". Apparently it's least attractive aspects are that it has strippers and porn playing on Projectors. Yah, it's a gay bar I guess. The whole context of the quote I knew so well made alot more sense.

source http://www.moviescriptsandscreenplays.com/BenandMatt/goodwillhunting.txt

PSYCHOLOGIST
Like what, Will?

WILL
I go places, I interact.

PSYCHOLOGIST
What places?

WILL
Certain, clubs.
(beat)
Like, Paradise. It's not bad.

Will gives the Psychologist a furtive look.

WILL (cont'd)
It's just that feeling when you can
take your shirt off and really dance.
(beat)
When the music owns you. Do you
understand?

PSYCHOLOGIST
I might understand that.

WILL
Do you find it hard to hide the fact
that you're gay?

PSYCHOLOGIST
What?

hilarious.

And I also leave you with this. A hilarious military Blog written by an agnostic Unitarian Universalist soldier who spent time in Afghanistan.

http://traversa.typepad.com/afghanistan_without_a_clu/

youtube is down

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

as of 12:50AM 2/16/2011

688 10th Avenue

Our building had a gas leak that was probably only found out about due to the (attempted) opening of a new restaurant below our building (that is an interesting story for another time and directly related to this post). The gas system here has no doubt been leaking for years with no attention. The owner of the building is "E&W Realty" aka Elizabeth Wolf hailing from far away Queens NY. We have lived here at 688 for not quite one year now but I gleaned from discussions with most of the other long term tenants (10-17 years tenancy) that she has been less than helpful with problems ranging from insects, bedbugs, heat, and noise from the commercial restaurant units on the first floor. She sounds like your sweet grandmotherly figure on the phone but I speak to her less these days as Metropolitan Property Services, Inc. is now running point as building management. Previously people spoke directly with E&W when problems would arise... and from the history of the building shown by the NYC.gov buildings webste... problems sure did arise! Any 20 unit walkup apartment in New York City is going to have a checkered past of some sort and I am sure this building is no worse than any other hells kitchen apartment of similar size and condition. Farther up 10th ave between 49th and 52nd there are some apartments on the East side of the street that would no doubt make our building seem like a palace.


Here are a sampling of the complaints gleaned from the super helpful website at the buildings section of the nyc.gov website http://bit.ly/f5XqMG


"Category Code: 65 GAS HOOK-UP/PIPING - ILLEGAL OR DEFECTIVE"
30 BUILDING SHAKING/VIBRATING/STRUCT STABILITY AFFECTED



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43 STRUCTURAL STABILITY AFFECTED

Overview for Complaint #:1253450 = RESOLVED
Complaint at: 688 10 AVENUE BIN: 1026580 Borough: MANHATTAN ZIP: 10019
Re: CLR STS THAT THEY WERE DOING STRUCTURAL WORK AT LOCATION AND NOT THE BUILDING IS SAGGING. CLR STS THAT THEY ARE SPLT BEAMS, ELECTRICAL WIRES HANGING AND THE BUILDING MAY COLLAPSE AT ANYTIME

Category Code: 10 DEBRIS/BUILDING -FALLING OR IN DANGER OF FALLING

this one (code 43) is a little disturbing and I still wonder about the veracity of the claim it is resolved... from my trips to the basement with Thomas Vicari (Owner of a Casa Havana for more info on Thomas's public battles as a restauranter read the links below!) I've been shown first hand the sad state of the structural beams in the basement. Rot and termites have done a number on them over time.
http://bit.ly/fYmd49
http://bit.ly/i6IIsu

Wish us luck! We can't wait until our gas is turned back on so I can use our stove and oven once again. We are currently fighting to keep our rent from being raised while we have no use of our gas stove. It will take months of construction to fix the gas system in our building and we have already been without gas for 2 months. \