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I am in the planning stages of building a diy opensolaris box. In the wake of Oracle acquiring Sun, who knows how well Oracle will keep OpenSolaris up to date. However, the potential of zfs entices me to try it out in the original habitat.

The most important part of a computer is always the case. I had a tough requirement this time around: I wanted 8 3.5″ bays and as quiet as possible. It may seem greedy, but I like the idea of setting up two four drive raidz2 mirrors. The quietest one I could find is made by Fractal Design in Sweden and gives Antec a run for their money in terms of loudness.

Fractal Design Define R2 Black Pearl:

You can see that this is an awesome potential box for storing a beast of a NAS. I am nailing down the final details for the internals, but it looks like I should be able to come up with a fairly affordable machine. I may also need to wait for the 2TB drive price point to drop since the low power “green” drives are apparently quite awful in performance and the server based drives are right now cheap at 1TB size. In addition, It looks like AMD consumer chips are the only processors that will support server type ECC memory. So, there you have it. More to come.

I have spoken about this before locally, but it is quite fascinating what one can find. Embedded in a number of Chinese characters are what is believed to be pictographic representations of many of the Genesis stories from the Bible. In this example, the verb ‘to create’ is made up of a subset of other character words. It appears that the Chinese might actually embed both meaning and story within their traditional language. Now that is super cool! But really, how interesting that the Genesis story would be in there. Another tid bit of info… The Chinese culture was once theist, worshiping a singular being named Shang Ti (forgive if any misspelling please).

Behold, the mixer I have been waiting for. It can record 16 channels simultaneously at an affordable price yielding professional results. It is on the very top of my to buy list at the moment. The company supports linking two mixers together to allow for 32 channels of recording, but I would prefer to have one solid 24 channel desk to work with instead because the snake I use has 24 channels.

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You’ve probably seen Iron Man. One of the coolest parts of Tony Stark’s mansion was the window in his bedroom. It was literally a transparent screen hooked up to his computer network. That technology is not far away. Samsung recently unveiled their own transparent OLED screen. Imagine waking up in your bedroom with an epic sized window that shows the current weather reports while being unobtrusive enough to allow you to still enjoy the view.

Sub derpurtSortColumns()
'
' derpurtSortColumns Macro
'
    Dim mySheet As Worksheet
    Dim myRange As Range
    Dim LastRow As Long

    Set mySheet = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets(1)

    mySheet.Activate

    'Determine Last Row
    LastRow = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count

    mySheet.Sort.SortFields.Clear

    'Sort Data
    mySheet.Sort.SortFields.Add Key:=Range("W6"), _
        SortOn:=xlSortOnValues, _
        Order:=xlAscending, _
        DataOption:=xlSortNormal
    mySheet.Sort.SortFields.Add Key:=Range("V6"), _
        SortOn:=xlSortOnValues, _
        Order:=xlAscending, _
        DataOption:=xlSortNormal
    mySheet.Sort.SortFields.Add Key:=Range("S6"), _
        SortOn:=xlSortOnValues, _
        Order:=xlAscending, _
        DataOption:=xlSortNormal
    mySheet.Sort.SortFields.Add Key:=Range("M6"), _
        SortOn:=xlSortOnValues, _
        Order:=xlAscending, _
        DataOption:=xlSortNormal
    mySheet.Sort.SortFields.Add Key:=Range("L6") _
        SortOn:=xlSortOnValues, _
        Order:=xlAscending, _
        DataOption:=xlSortNormal

    With mySheet.Sort
        .SetRange Range("A6:Z" & LastRow)
        .Header = xlGuess
        .MatchCase = False
        .Orientation = xlTopToBottom
        .SortMethod = xlPinYin
        .Apply
    End With

    Range("A1").Select
End Sub

Red, the camera company that made the Red One camera has been working on a whole slew of new film cameras. It will be a wonderful day when I can use one of these. They film at a higher quality than most theatrical release films. Nonetheless, I’m more than content with my HVX, which is capable of quality images. To stir my abilities, I’m planning to get something filmed either this weekend or the next depending on how soon I can fully map out the project. Should be a good result since the idea for it is pretty cool already.

Note: “editor” is the id of the FCKEditor instance. You can navigate the DOM to discover the ids for the instances of the FCKEditor that are currently in the page.

FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance("editor").SwitchEditMode();