I recently bought my first TV and I have to say that the audio quality on
them just does not live up to some of the older TVs my family has had. The
old TVs had such dynamic range to them, and the audio didn’t sound tinny.
On my TV, all the audio seems to lack feeling to it. It’s just pathetic. How
the mighty have fallen, in order to sell us more junk like sound bars and
stuff. Just a few years ago TVs actually sounded alright without a sound
bar, and now you kind of need to buy one to make it sound correct. It is
sad, this death of quality. Such a shame.
A quick and dirty benchmark to see how much I/O bandwidth your machine has
is as follows. I created this because I just learned about pv, and I’m
sure its been done before.
I actually created a sqlite database to track exactly how long I worked at
various jobs. I created this database, because I don’t trust the payroll
system we use at work. I will share the schema and views in this post. If
you don’t want to read through this post you can get it here.
This is a list of things I learned setting up a Linux lab for my
university. The lab contains 10 workstations, and 1 server. The users are
authenticated centrally against LDAP, and their home directories are
mounted as NFS shares on the server. The lab is powered by Scientific
Linux, which is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivative.
This is a tutorial on how to use Apache httpd as a media streaming center.
I wanted to be able to stream my media across my local network, without
having to mess with a lot of things, so I will explain how I set it up
using apache and the built in modules. So, lets get started.
I participated for 4 years in Technology Student Association (TSA).
These are some of the things that I learned to be successful at the
competition as a student.
Idiot Engineering is exceptionally visible in the ships of Star Trek. This
article will focus on Star Trek: The Next Generation, because each of
the series has more than enough engineering failures for one of these
articles. From the many console explosions to frequent warp core breaches,
the engineers of the Enterprise-D made many failures in design and the
writing of emergency procedures. The designers of the Enterprise made many
serious engineering flaws, and this article will investigate those errors
in design.
I recently went to see Pixels, and I thought it was rather good. Even
though it had an absurd premise. There is a possibility of spoilers
below, so read on with caution if you care about that.
The Indominus rex is the ultimate president. He is smart. He is willing to
go to any lengths to survive. He will eat the terrorists, and make them
sorry they ever existed. He will eat the stupid pundits. Therefore
Indominus rex for president. Hey, he’s the lesser of 2 evils. This year
vote for the wolf instead of the wolf in sheep’s clothes. Vote for
Indominus rex for president in 2016.
Drake Well is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I went there
on vacation recently. It is so impressive to see what people in the past
accomplished with nothing more than mechanical systems. From the way they
distributed power to the logistics of the well, it is really impressive. I
highly recommend visiting Drake Well at least once.
I just decided to start a series about idiotic engineering in movies. The
first movie I’m going to do is Jurassic World. Which is an
awesome movie, however it is full of idiot engineering. So fair warning
there will be spoilers below, so if you haven’t seen it stop reading
now, or keep reading for a detailed examination of the engineering
failures in Jurassic World, and how they could have been prevented.
This is my in-depth SQLite tutorial for C++. This is the first
tutorial I am doing on this website. It is really difficult to find a good
tutorial for prepared statements with SQLite, and that is what this tutorial
will remedy.
