Jun 10
20
WordPress 3.0
Easily accomplished a manual upgrade to this version by:
- Made a backup of my wordpress contents, by using the export feature under tools, from the admin control panel
- Downloaded and extracted wordpress 3.0 from here
- Only change l made to my exisiting wp-config.php file, was to replace the key section with code from here.
- Deleted the entire contents of my wp-admin and wp-includes folders
- Left intact all contents of my wp-content
- Copied/uploaded all files from root folder of extracted wordpress 3 folder, to my site
- Uploaded wp-admin and wp-includes folder from extracted wordpress 3 folder to my site
- Logged into my sites admin console and an upgrade of the database was requested, l agreed to this and that was all.
Jun 10
20
Street Car Racing..
Jun 10
19
Video compositing
Just created my first good composite video using Adobe Premiere CS4, Adobe Media Encoder CS4 – for h.264 720×480 final media output, a video clip from ArtBeats, and a sound clip from The Nutcracker. Reference book l used is Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 – Classroom in a book.
Heres a picture of my workspace setup during the final stage.
Below is a web 360×284 Flash 2Mb version of the original NTSC DV 10Mb opening title video. This was also encoded using Adobe Media Encoder.
Start_Video from Steve M on Vimeo.
End video
EndVideo1 from Steve M on Vimeo.
End Video 2 – Black Backgroud
EndTitleBlack from Steve M on Vimeo.
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Jun 10
19
Interesting Pictures…
Jun 10
1
PSU Robotics Event 2004
Jun 10
1
Iron Baby
May 10
28
MCITP Exam 70-450
Microsoft Exam 70-450:
PRO: Designing, Optimizing and Maintaining a Database Administrative Solution Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Passed this exam on 5/25. It rained heavily all day.
Books for this exam arent really out yet, even from Microsoft. Theres a new book that came out l’ll immediately recommend to anyone – its very concise, real-world practise sections and scenarios – SQL Server 2008 Administration: Real-World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond (Exams 70-432 and 70-450) by Tom Carpenter. I googled last week for any book and came up with this one, and l immediately bought this from amazon.com. This arrived the weekend before my scheduled exam, and l read the entire book that weekend, did all the practical excercises, highlighted all the core points etc. for my review sheet. Heres a link to Tom Carptenter’s blog. Other material l used was the CBTNuggets Video Course. This is very very good. I also used for the 2nd time - practise exam software from Kaplan. Had installed for my review daily on my bus commute their Selftest software. This comes with practise tests, review notes etc.
Obviously l cant go into what the questions asked were, but my advice is – make sure you cover all new features provided with SQL Server 2008, and most admin stuff like database performance optimization, high availability etc. Download trial SQL Server 2008 [developer version] from Microsoft’s website and have at least 2 instances installed for your personal practise. If you attend any Microsoft launch event. they usually give away a licensed copy of SQL Server Standard edition. You dont need to install SQL Server 2008 R2, but it doesnt hurt to get familiar with that version.
Good luck!
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May 10
28
Fedora 13 on Toshiba A505-S6986
Installed this operating system – click here for fedora 13 - on a 2nd partition on my laptop. I installed the full x64 DVD iso version.
Needed to get the wireless card working, this is what l did.
My first partition already has Windows 7 installed. Both operating systems co-exist perfectly. Make sure you install Windows 7 first. I usually reserve about 45Gb from any laptop harddrive for my linux installations, this gives about 1.5Gb for the swap partiton and the rest dedicated to linux.
The card is a Realtek RT8191SE / 8102E – got this from Windows 7 command prompt by simply typing ipconfig/all
Download and extract the linux drivers from Realtek taiwan website here
Commands:
Change into the extracted files subdirectory then -
82 su -
83 ls
84 cd /home/steve/Downloads
85 ls -al
86 cp rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0015.0127.2010 /usr/src/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0015.0127.2010 -r
87 cd /usr/src/
88 ls -al
89 cd rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0015.0127.2010
90 ls
91 cp -rf firmware/RTL8192SE /lib/firmware
92 make
93 ls
94 cp HAL/rtl8192/r8192se_pci.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/
95 depmod -a
96 reboot
May 10
25
Intense movie list..
Friends usually ask me for my recommended movie(s) list. Below is my list of very intense emotional, strong message kind of movies, listed in the order of which movie moved me the most. I’ll update this list as l remember more. – 
Each of the movies below, l can relate to something in the flick and sometimes l hum the soundtracks daily or recall words/phrases used in the movies. Most of the movies below l either own and/or own also the soundtrack album. If l could wave a wand, l’ll wish these all were available in HD – high definition – but then again, they wouldn’t be classics in HD would they?
- The Champ – 1976
- Hotel Rwanda 2004
- Amistad 1997
- Crash 2004
- Million Dollar Baby 2004
- Rocky IV – 1985
- AI – Artificial Intelligence – 2001
- Tears of the Son – 2003
- Miracle at St. Anna
- John Q
- Anthwone Fisher
- Seven Pounds – 2008
- Jason’s Lyric
- White Man’s Burden – 1995
Sometimes you can make out a person by what movies/TV shows they watch!
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May 10
19
Prince of Persia…
Determined to play my old DOS classic game of Prince of Persia. I spent countless hours on the IBM x86 PC and/or British made Amstrad PC 1512 playing this game!
This game is available as an extra feature if you complete the Xbox version of Prince of Persia ‘sands of time”. Even though l own this game on the Xbox with all its 3D, top CG graphics – l miss the old classic.
Downloaded the DOS game – as an amazing little 339kb zip file from here.
Installed DOSBox from here
Below is a screen shot of DOSBox running on my laptop – Window 7 64bit
Below is Prince of Persia running on my Win7 PC !!
Next game to look for – the original DOS Lemmings!!!
By the way, the movie Prince of Persia: Sands of Time comes out in USA on May 28th.
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