http://elektronkind.org Navigator of the synapse Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:26:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's time to clear out some space and so I'm putting a bunch of things up for sale or to give away. Music gear Access Virus Indigo virtual analog synthesizer - $1000 With original box and manual Works great, mainly studio-kept and gigged out only a few times Includes custom ballistic nylon bag I'll throw in two MIDI ... http://elektronkind.org/2008/09/fall-cleaning Photos from my two week trip to Portugal to see the country and attend Boom Festival are up. Various places in Portugal Boom Festival 2008 photos http://elektronkind.org/2008/09/portugal-vacation-photos mercury.elemental.org is the server which hosts my $HOME and this website. It's my Solaris 10 play-box, and I guess you can say that maintaining it is something of a hobby. Its hardware is a quad core Xeon-equipped Dell PowerEdge 860, a small 1u server. Its pair of internal drives are Seagate ... http://elektronkind.org/2008/08/mercury-gets-a-hba-upgrade This past weekend the X crew and I went up to Adventure Sports Center International's artificial whitewater course, near the Wisp Ski Resort in western Maryland. We had a lot of fun and I brought along my new Canon lens, the 70-200mm 2.8L, to see what I could do with ... http://elektronkind.org/2008/07/telephoto-fun Posting these for posterity: Time Magazine - When Your Name Isn't Yours Wired - Burners Sweat Over Package Prank http://elektronkind.org/2008/07/i-need-to-start-pranking-again Many reviews have been written about OpenSolaris since its release, but all of them barely tread beyond the desktop aspect, with the obligatory screenshots of the GNOME environment and a high-level description of only the major features most are already familiar with, or at least have heard of. I'd like to ... http://elektronkind.org/2008/07/opensolaris-2008-11-storage I took this photo of the 1st half Moon while at the April 10 HAL star party at Alpha Ridge Park, Maryland. Although I've taken many photos through my telescopes, I really consider this one to be my first "real" astrophoto, having gone through the motions of equipment setup, settings selections, ... http://elektronkind.org/2008/05/my-first-real-astrophoto I accidentally left my trusty 3rd gen 40GB iPod on the plane when I arrived in San Francisco yesterday, so I headed to the Apple Store around the corner from my hotel in downtown SF to treat myself to a new 160GB iPod Classic. I happily bought a silver one, ... http://elektronkind.org/2008/03/doa-ipods-suck I've started a project of my own to port the HFS/HFS+ filesystem driver from Apple's XNU kernel to OpenSolaris/Nevada. Hopefully this will work well enough to allow Solaris users to read and write to HFS or HFS+ formatted disks and disk images. This includes iPods that were initialized on a Mac. ... http://elektronkind.org/2008/03/making-solaris-hfs-aware I've been really quiet with the astronomy-related blog posts over the past year, but that doesn't mean that I've been straying from the hobby of amateur astronomy - far from it. I've signed up with two local clubs and have been brining my scopes out to star parties (or just ... http://elektronkind.org/2008/01/new-megrez90