Archive of posts from 2016

• Worcestershire Fried Rice 2016 December 07
  • cooking
  • recipe

  I recently made fried rice with Worcestershire Sauce. It was really good, here’s how to make it.

• Calculating the Size of Your Video Library 2016 December 07
  • bash
  • ffmpeg
  • linux
  • programming
  • shell
  • snippet

  This command will calculate the size of your movie and video library in days. You can modify the awk command as you see fit to calculate the time lengths.

• Coin Frequencies 2016 November 07
  • analysis
  • programming
  • statistics
  

  I was counting some coins and was wondering if some coins should be produced more frequently because they would be used more often so I wrote an minimized change count algorithm to decide if certain coins should be produced more often.

• Sine-Cosine Demo App 2016 September 06
  • demos
  • programming

  I had to create a sine-cosine demonstrator for a class, this is that demo.

• My Thoughts on the Amazon Fire TV 2016 August 14
  • reviews
  • technology

  I recently bought an Amazon Fire TV Stick. I really like it. It’s not a bad streaming device, although I would like it to have more integration with the various streaming services. As it can search Hulu through the voice interface, but it cannot search Netflix. In my personal opinion it would make it much better. The other major flaw is that the keyboard sucks. If it didn’t have the voice search, it would be impossible to use. I hate clicking and scrolling to type, it stinks. Other than those flaws, I would have to say that I really like it. It has a real smooth interface for most uses. It supports casting from your cell phone for the major apps, so that’s nice. The remote feels slick and well put together.

• A Complaint About Modern TVs 2016 July 22
  • rant
  • technology

  I recently bought my first TV and I have to say that the audio quality on them just does not live up to some of the older TVs my family has had. The old TVs had such dynamic range to them, and the audio didn’t sound tinny. On my TV, all the audio seems to lack feeling to it. It’s just pathetic. How the mighty have fallen, in order to sell us more junk like sound bars and stuff. Just a few years ago TVs actually sounded alright without a sound bar, and now you kind of need to buy one to make it sound correct. It is sad, this death of quality. Such a shame.

• Quick and Dirty I/O Benchmark for Linux 2016 June 25
  • benchmarks
  • linux
  • performance

  A quick and dirty benchmark to see how much I/O bandwidth your machine has is as follows. I created this because I just learned about pv, and I’m sure its been done before.

• Creating a Database to Track How Long You Worked 2016 June 23
  • database
  • sqlite
  • tutorial

  I actually created a sqlite database to track exactly how long I worked at various jobs. I created this database, because I don’t trust the payroll system we use at work. I will share the schema and views in this post. If you don’t want to read through this post you can get it here.

• Things I Learned Setting up a Linux Lab 2016 May 06
  • life-lessons
  • linux

  This is a list of things I learned setting up a Linux lab for my university. The lab contains 10 workstations, and 1 server. The users are authenticated centrally against LDAP, and their home directories are mounted as NFS shares on the server. The lab is powered by Scientific Linux, which is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivative.

• Tutorial on Using Apache as a Media Server 2016 April 25
  • apache-httpd
  • linux
  • tutorial
  

  This is a tutorial on how to use Apache httpd as a media streaming center. I wanted to be able to stream my media across my local network, without having to mess with a lot of things, so I will explain how I set it up using apache and the built in modules. So, lets get started.

• Technology Student Association Tips 2016 January 31
  • technology-student-association

  I participated for 4 years in Technology Student Association (TSA). These are some of the things that I learned to be successful at the competition as a student.