So its been a few months and I have used up most of my ginger beer. I say used up because of a few things. First I didn’t care all that much for the flavor because i made it from an extract it came loaded with an artificial sweetener (because it was supposed to be sweet) so it tastes like a diet soda it dose have a nice kick of alcohol ~10% and the ginger taste is good if you can get past ...
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Bottleing ginger beer
I got my ginger beer bottled today YAY. now to let it do its second ferment for 2-3 weeks. I got 24 750ml bottles from my 5 gallon carboy (yay for mixed units)
I just used an extract for a base and added a lot of fresh ginger (i also should have reduced the sugar its way too sweet)all the barefoot wine bottles are from the recycling bin at work i hope they can handle the pressure ...
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Headach = Arduino + PLC;
For my college’s open house I made an Arduino send serial commands to a Siemens s7-200 that in turn controls a thyristor firing unit to control the speed of a DC shunt motor. I can also send direct commands through a PC via the Arduino. Sorry for the short video I didn’t think about getting video until the last minute.
I will probably add more to this post at a later date
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Followup to vistaprint
so i got my vista print order about 5 minutes ago let me first go on to say the address labels are useless absolutely useless for their intended purpose. Because I used the template based editor I wanted something else ware the “address line fields” were so i put it there so I wouldn’t have to play with the formatting too much but of coarse they use the same fields for the “promotional” addres ...
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Helpin a friend out
so I have an old friend that back in high school we kind of started a metal internet radio station that we dubbed black phoenix FM long short short it died. any way a month or so ago he wanted to start it back up so he did his thing (hes studding journalism and he has a strong interest in music especially local groups) and has an internet radio station set up and now he has a live website Blac ...
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Dirty Business Practice
So the other day I had to make a business card for a class I decided to use vista print since that’s what the teacher recommended due to its price point for the most part the design process was somewhat limited with a decent set of templates with their background images. I found one i liked made it up and was fairly happy with it so i went to the check out process. First its all good select yo ...
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Blody HDDs
im sure some of you noticed the server went down quite often in the last month first I downgraded the system to 12.04 LTS in the process I backed up my home folders in a .tar.gz this was my first problem NEVER use tar.gz on critical backups use tar.bz if you need the tarball compressed. Any way I just threw the the tarballs on my older media HDD and when I tried to decompress it it kept gettin ...
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server back up… kinda
so as you see the website is up my mail server is bearly working and i still need to get the minecraft servers working and get my network setup to the way it should be so much fun downgrading servers
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FUCK this shit
so i have been having a shit time with my server since i upgraded to 14.04 nothing worked very well the NIC kept bugging out random system crashes etc and it all started when i updated to 14.04 im finnaly done with it im going to downgrade to 12.04 LTS so now im backing up data and config files so i can reinstall and be up as quickly as possible i may do the actual downgrade in the next few da ...
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beefgir down
the server is still running (i can access the back end) but the site is inaccessible right now it may be an issue with the domain host or the servers IP may have changed when the web host updated the server
orrrr Beefgir may have forgotten to pay the domain host (wouldn’t be the first time something like that happened)UPDATE:
beefgir had an issue with his credit card the site should be back u ...