Wednesday, January 20, 2010
V i n y l N i g h t
V i n y l N i g h t has it's own page! This is where most of the music related posts will go from now on.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
V i n y l N i g h t 18.09.09
V i n y l N i g h t 18.09.09
Yet another successful V i n y l N i g h t. As usual a great time had by all, looking forward to a full house for the next one, but thanks for all who came.
Tried for a more mellow atmosphere last night, with a pretty soft mix from the 70's. The following is what we played:
Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (new pressing)
Only listened to side one of disk one, mainly for Victoria so she could hear 'Bennie and the Jets'. Didn't matter, she went upstairs to watch Hannah Montana. Still, Elton impressed all with the live rendition of 'Bennie", even if it was a little bass shy.
An old one from my sisters collection, one that managed not to melt when it was up at my parents place sitting beside the old Franklin stove. Played both sides, enjoyed immensely. It's an album I had not listened to in years, and then shunned when Mr. Joel came out with his MOR 90's albums. Glad we revisited this one.
From Ceri's brother stash (which he foolishly gave away to me). Had no idea what this would be like, turned out to be a perfect fit, and set the tone for the rest of the night. Vinyl looked to be in rough shape, but the Pro-Ject cut through the dirt and it sounded very good. A nice album. It's great when something unknown worjs so well.
Always a big fan of the Dan. Again, perfect fit for the evening. Played both sides, album was in great shape.
If anything didn't belong, it was this one. This will be the night I learned that the earlier the Styx album, the harder it is. Will need to listen to all the Styx we have one night to figure out what goes with what.
Works with just about any crowd. Almost timeless music.
Thought I'd end it with a splash of 80's. Not the more esoteric 80's that comprises a large part of my collection, but some forgotten mainstream. it worked.
As usual, a great night.
-Andy
Yet another successful V i n y l N i g h t. As usual a great time had by all, looking forward to a full house for the next one, but thanks for all who came.
Tried for a more mellow atmosphere last night, with a pretty soft mix from the 70's. The following is what we played:
Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (new pressing)
Only listened to side one of disk one, mainly for Victoria so she could hear 'Bennie and the Jets'. Didn't matter, she went upstairs to watch Hannah Montana. Still, Elton impressed all with the live rendition of 'Bennie", even if it was a little bass shy.
An old one from my sisters collection, one that managed not to melt when it was up at my parents place sitting beside the old Franklin stove. Played both sides, enjoyed immensely. It's an album I had not listened to in years, and then shunned when Mr. Joel came out with his MOR 90's albums. Glad we revisited this one.
From Ceri's brother stash (which he foolishly gave away to me). Had no idea what this would be like, turned out to be a perfect fit, and set the tone for the rest of the night. Vinyl looked to be in rough shape, but the Pro-Ject cut through the dirt and it sounded very good. A nice album. It's great when something unknown worjs so well.
Always a big fan of the Dan. Again, perfect fit for the evening. Played both sides, album was in great shape.
If anything didn't belong, it was this one. This will be the night I learned that the earlier the Styx album, the harder it is. Will need to listen to all the Styx we have one night to figure out what goes with what.
Works with just about any crowd. Almost timeless music.
Thought I'd end it with a splash of 80's. Not the more esoteric 80's that comprises a large part of my collection, but some forgotten mainstream. it worked.
As usual, a great night.
-Andy
Sunday, August 9, 2009
The Spinning Disk
yup, with the 'so far so good' V i n y l N i g h t, i thought that i would start posting some of the records, and on occasion cd's that we listened to. since i am taking the girls up to see their grand parents in the morning this will have to wait. a week. bbut look out, i hope to actually stick to this one.
tootles
andy
tootles
andy
Monday, November 24, 2008
Convert RHEL5 to CentOS5
I bet everyone will be wanting to know this.
OK, start with downloading the following from CentOS
RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
centos-release
centos-release-notes
yum
yum-updatesd
Un-install the following:
rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release
rpm -e --nodeps yum-rhn-plugin
Add the CentOS key:
rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
Then add all the rpm's you downloadedL
rpm -Uhv *rpm
The system is ready, run:
yum -y upgrade
Done.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Windows at Work
Unfortunately, I have to use Windows at work. What do I work on? Solaris and Linux. This makes sense. Oh well, it is paying the mortgage.
How do I cope? With these:
RocketDock, this gives me the wonderful Mac OS X dock application. I moved the Windows bar to the top, and have it auto-hide. Much better.
VMware Server gives me a free virtualisation environment, where I have CentOS 5 and Solaris 10 installed, both running in headless mode (no GUI).
Xming gives me a fast and light Xwindow environment. Better than eXceed I think, also free.
putty, the wonderful ssh client also allows X tunneling over ssh, which is then picked up by Xming.
Looks good, huh? None of the Windows GUI nastiness, all of the Linux/Solaris/Mac OS X goodness I need, with the Windows connectivity that corporate demands.
Command Line Disk Cloning
I have my two paint scrapers ready, so you know that I am about to upgrade my mac mini. Picked up a 250 GB disk last time I was in Dallas at Fry's. Since the Hackintosh came into my life, a Quad-Core Q6600 4GB box running Mac OS X 10.5.5, I have moved the mini to the TV room, as was intended. The mini came originally came with 2 x 512 MB DIMMs and a 60 GB disk. Ages ago, I upgraded the memory to 2 x 1024 MB DIMMs and a 100 GB disk. At that time I just reloaded the OS, and took the opportunity to go to 10.5. As the mini is also at 10.5.5, and with lots of codecs and applications installed, this would be a pain. I was looking at SuperDuper!, but they want actual money for their product. Checking the 'net, I came across this nice and easy command line method.
Become root
So, lets get started.
First off, I put my new drive into a USB box and connected to the mini.
Next, in Disk Utility, I partitioned and formatted the drive to one partition, and added the Mac OS X partition table. The New disk has the label, Mac OS X
Now, in a terminal window (my favourite place), I ran the following:
Become root
sudo -s
Copy all the disk contents to the new disk, mounted on /Volumes/Mac OS X
Copy all the disk contents to the new disk, mounted on /Volumes/Mac OS X
rsync -Eavx / /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X
Now, it needs to be bootable,
bless -folder /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X/System/Library/CoreServices –bootinfo –bootefi
Bob's your uncle.
Now, it needs to be bootable,
bless -folder /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X/System/Library/CoreServices –bootinfo –bootefi
Bob's your uncle.
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