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Author Archives: Sam
DEF CON: The story so far
Night 0
Our planes landed close to 2300 Pacific Daylight Time, and we took a Town Car straight to our hotel, the Treasure Island. Even though we were all exhausted, we decided to venture out for some food. For some reason, a strange girl invited Joe to say hello to her friend because it was her 21st birthday. Now he’s in their pictures.
We finally retired after 0100 PDT, which for us was 0400 EDT.
Day 1
We woke up from our jetlag comas and caught the view from the hotel. Sadly, it is not of the strip.
Steam Summer Sale: The Aftermath
Now that the dust has settled, the children have stopped weeping, and we’ve started the process of replacing our soiled underpants, let’s take a look at the damage I suffered through the Steam Perils of Summer Sale.
- June 23 – Counter-Strike: Source, $6.80 (Even though this occurred before the sale, the game went for the same price during the sale a few days later)
- June 24 – Commandos Pack, $5.09 (This went a few days later for $3+change. Damn you Steam!)
- June 24 – FarCry, $6.69
- June 24 – RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Platinum, $10.19
Look Mom, I contributed to society
Before I head to the beach for the rest of the week (I won’t be at Game Night™), I thought I would unleash unto the world some code I wrote a while back. My brothers and I like to share a modest music library. I encoded my library in Apple’s AAC format using iTunes, while my brothers wanted everything to be in MP3 format to be able to play it on their portable devices. So I wrote a Perl script to combine the powers of faad, lame, and id3v2. I set up a cron job to run this script every night.
Dreams Really Do Come True
My Dad walked into my nerd cave and saw it. His response: “Oh. My. God.” Not the “this is totally awesome” OMG, but the “what the hell is wrong with you?” OMG. What was it that I had done? Did I take a sledge hammer to my computers? Did I paint the room pink? Did I take a crap on the floor? No! I built a server rack:
In living room, after assembly
Since I love being at work so much, I decided to make my house look like it. Who needs peace and quiet when you can have 2 80mm fans roaring away? It’s the way computing should be.
They have television over the air now?, Part 3
In my two previous posts about antennas, I explained what I did to research and install an over-the-air TV antenna. Now that I’ve gotten everything installed, I’ll share with you my results.
The Channels
These are all the stations (including subchannels) that I pull in with my new installation.
- 4.1 WRC (NBC)
- 4.2 NBC Weather Plus
- 4.3 Universal Sports
- 5.1 WTTG (FOX)
- 7.1 WJLA (ABC)
- 9.1 WUSA (CBS)
- 9.2Weather Radar (Doppler 9000 HD)
- 20.1 WDCA (MyNetworkTV)
- 26.1 WETA (PBS)
- 26.2 Create
- 26.3 WETA Kids
- WNVC (MHz Networks)
- 30.1 MHz Worldview
- 30.2 NHK World TV