Thank you so much for your kind words! I really do have great support, my husband hired a nursing group a few months back that come in every morning. They check up on me, cook a meal or two when I feel like I can keep it down but I survive mostly on those milk drinks that they feed malnourished children. The biggest thing they do for me though is make sure the doses for my medication is what it needs to be, which I have to tell you is probably the most difficult thing when your taking handfuls at a time. During most of my day though I'm pretty much alone except for my nutty dog who's idea of comfort is to bring me bugs from the garden and sleeps on top of me, snoring and passing gas. So I surf a lot, especially sites like this and watch a lot of cancelled TV shows from the 80's. Personally I would have killed that Gilligan years ago.
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Oh wow, I think I went off on a tangent there didn't I, sorry about that. Again thank you sweetie for the beautiful post. I hope to talk with you more as the this blue ball of ours spins.
Your new friend,
Relic
Thanks for the laughs, I had a couple literal LOLs. But hey, we're supposed to be keeping you in good spirits, not the other way around, right?! ;-) Then again, if you want to entertain us, just keep passing along stories about how your dog sleeps on you, snoring and passing gas, and about your friend who was in the porn business. LOL again.
It's great to hear about your family being there for you. Ideally that would always be the case, but not everyone has that support. It's not easy for anyone when long-term illness strikes, though I'm sure I don't need to remind you of that. Hugs all around!
Since you brought up Gilligan, I'll mention that I always relate that show with I Dream Of Jeannie and Bewitched. Not that they have similar content, but I think they were designed to appeal to the same (vintage now!) audience. That, and they were on back-to-back-to-back in the afternoons here in the states. Not sure if you brought the show up because you enjoyed it, but if you did, what the heck, give some of the other similarly aged stuff a shot. Other same-era stuff that I remember enjoying at the time would include The Munsters, The Adams Family, Beverly Hillbilles, Mr. Ed, and oh I'm sure there are plenty more. They're obviously dated now, but what the heck, worth sampling.
But speaking of TV shows (and lots of time to watch them! ;-) ), there's one modern show I want to make sure you haven't missed. I know the odds you haven't seen it over the past 6+ years are small, but myself being a watcher of very, very little TV as an adult meant that I completely missed this series until just a few months ago: The Big Bang Theory. I think anyone with a non-trivial amount of geekiness should definitely give it a shot. I've watched the entire 6 years over the span of about 4 months, which for me was crazy!
Well, enough about TV. Enjoy the moments you can, and willpower yourself better!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I really do have great support, my husband hired a nursing group a few months back that come in every morning. They check up on me, cook a meal or two when I feel like I can keep it down but I survive mostly on those milk drinks that they feed malnourished children. The biggest thing they do for me though is make sure the doses for my medication is what it needs to be, which I have to tell you is probably the most difficult thing when your taking handfuls at a time. During most of my day though I'm pretty much alone except for my nutty dog who's idea of comfort is to bring me bugs from the garden and sleeps on top of me, snoring and passing gas. So I surf a lot, especially sites like this and watch a lot of cancel TV shows from the 80's. Personally I would have killed that Gilligan years ago.
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Oh wow, I think I went off on a tangent there didn't I, sorry about that. Again thank you sweetie for the beautiful post. I hope to talk with you more as the this blue ball of ours spins.
Your new friend,
Relic
Thanks for the laughs, I had a couple literal LOLs. But hey, we're supposed to be keeping you in good spirits, not the other way around, right?! ;-) Then again, if you want to entertain us, just keep passing along stories about how your dog sleeps on you, snoring and passing gas, and about your friend who was in the porn business. LOL again.
It's great to hear about your family being there for you. Ideally that would always be the case, but not everyone has that support. It's not easy for anyone when long-term illness strikes, though I'm sure I don't need to remind you of that. Hugs all around!
Since you brought up Gilligan, I'll mention that I always relate that show with I Dream Of Jeannie and Bewitched. Not that they have similar content, but I think they were designed to appeal to the same (vintage now!) audience. That, and they were on back-to-back-to-back in the afternoons here in the states. Not sure if you brought the show up because you enjoyed it, but if you did, what the heck, give some of the other similarly aged stuff a shot. Other same-era stuff that I remember enjoying at the time would include The Munsters, The Adams Family, Beverly Hillbilles, Mr. Ed, and oh I'm sure there are plenty more. They're obviously dated now, but what the heck, worth sampling.
But speaking of TV shows (and lots of time to watch them! ;-) ), there's one modern show I want to make sure you haven't missed. I know the odds you haven't seen it over the past 6+ years are small, but myself being a watcher of very, very little TV as an adult meant that I completely missed this series until just a few months ago: The Big Bang Theory. I think anyone with a non-trivial amount of geekiness should definitely give it a shot. I've watched the entire 6 years over the span of about 4 months, which for me was crazy!
Well, enough about TV. Enjoy the moments you can, and willpower yourself better!
Thank you for the kind words in your very sincere post. I know people think they have to tip around the subject of cancer but those of us who have had to ‘peer into the abyss’ have discovered that laughter and tears are more closely related than might ever be imagined. When around people I try to keep things as light and pleasant as possible, I don't do it for me but for those around me. I noticed after I break down peoples defense barrier, (you know what I am talking, the whole aaaahhhhh you poor thing attitude), we can then get down and start having real conversations again, then of course start in with all those great cancer jokes. My daughter always reminds me to eat, she says's, "Mom don't forget, your eating for two now", referring to myself and the tumor.
I love watching older TV shows, I recently came across a cartoon called, "Wait Till Your Father get's home and the purchased the first season on NetFlix. Just finished the 4th episode and I'm really enjoying the series. Next on the list for me to watch is Mash, a girlfriend of mine raided her husbands DVD collection for me. Since I have to give them back before her husband finds out, I'm just ripping them into MP4's to watch on my iPad and/or Chromebox. The cool thing is I got to use my 7 disk DVD ripper again. I bought a cheap tower, really cheap AMD motherboard with a half way decent but also inexpensive AMD processor (80 bucks and it is as fast as an i5), filled the case to capacity with 7 DVD readers that I bought for 5 bucks a piece from an over-stock auction. It's perfect for ripping entire seasons without having to constantly replace the disks when their finished. The OS is Debian but it doesn't have a GUI, when disk(s) are inserted it automatically rips them, creates a folder and then uploads the file to my NAS. Wrote the program myself using Python and mencoder. When the machine is done ripping it ejects the CD's and then sends an email telling me it's done. I built this machine originally to copy our insanely huge DVD collection but after my son was finished the machine kind of went into retirement. So I am excited to rip a DVD, gives me something to do and I might fuss around with the program, maybe have it send and SMS instead of an email.
Not sure why I went off like that, you guys probably aren't interested in such things but I think it's therapeutic to tell you guys what I am doing during the day. Not much, basically, but I do try to keep my mind a little stimulated instead of vegging in front of the monitor all day. I think I ruined my dog as well, she is spending so much time with me that she rarely leaves my bed, potty breaks and getting someone for me is the extent of her exercise. My son takes her on daily walks but he tells me she's not that enthusiastic about it , at least not like she once was. Do you guys think she is in danger of depression because of me, I know dogs sometimes take on their masters state of mind. I'm not depressed and talk to her the entire day, seriously I talk to my dog as if she as sister, she seems to dig it and I'm absolutely positive she understands most of what I am saying. When I'm on youtube she snoggles with me, when she bounces her head against my belly she want's to watch kitty or doggie videos. Funniest thing ever, I'll have one of the kids take a video of it and we'll post it here. Please be warned, I don't look very good right now,
So I sold my Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 2 and some other gadgets I had laying around on ricardo.ch, Swiss version of Ebay, I've decided to consolidate the technical side of my life. I have been getting along fine with just my iPad and Chromebox. I did buy a Nexus 7 V2, the last gadget purchase I made but my son stole it, so I made him deal that he can keep it as long as he sells his iPad Mini then takes the money to buy a Nexus 7 for his sister, you can't just give something to one child and not the other. So that's up on ricardo as well, now before you call foul on the Nexus 7, it is the LTE version and he really wanted it, sooooo. I still have a monster of a workstation in my office which I can connect to if need something more. But I'm doing just fine with those two, I had played around with notion of getting the new Surface 2 but the more I think about it, it will just sit in the corner collecting dust so I will wait till/if I get better to think about purchasing anything new.
Anyhoooo, please excuse the babbling and thanks to everyone for reading, luv yea all.
No need to excuse yourself Relic, really nice write ups you give us. I enjoy them. The technical ones. The emotional ones are more, well, life, and makes me feel alive because it shows how precious everything is. Health issues are all around us, and now I read them from you, here, someone I never met, many miles away, yet I feel 'attached'. Thank you for the sharing you do, I have no idea if I would do the same.
Your DVD ripper is interesting, not only because how you configured it, but also as a sing of the times thing. It seems to me it's like a negative scanner for photos and dia's; you'll need it at some point, but only to digitize everything and once it's done, everything on HDD and backed up, it can be handed down to the next person in need of it. Not implying I want your ripper, though you have given me the idea of pulling the BR drive out of the set-top player and put it in the empty slot in my Mac. Yeah, that is actually what I'm going to look into; I know my previous player, a regular DVD one, had a standard 5.25" drive in it and could be used in a PC as well. Maybe this BR player, Samsung, total shyte thing anyway, used it 2 times, has a standard drive as well. Thanks!
I hope this isn't weird, but I just created an account to say you are awesome and I wish you and yours the absolute best.
I stumbled on this site about a month or so ago. Then I stumbled on a post of yours, clicked on your name and read a bunch more. You are an amazing person with a great attitude who genuinely seems to want to tinker, help people and be positive about life. Again, I hope its not weird that I registered only to tell you that the world needs more people like you.
About 10 years ago I lost my best friend to cancer. When we knew the end was near, I quit my job and we took a road trip all over the US for about 3 months and he was gone shortly after we got home. At the time the internet was a godsend for me when my best friend died. Without the support I found from all of the wonderful random internet people out there that I never knew, I am not sure how I would have made it through. Sorry to get so heavy there, but that is where I am coming from.
Please never stop posting your excellent posts. You are an inspiration for people whether you know it or want to be. I sincerely wish you the best and hope you make a full recovery.
It pleases me immensely to know that someone else likes Debian.
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I'm not depressed and talk to her the entire day, seriously I talk to my dog as if she as sister, she seems to dig it and I'm absolutely positive she understands most of what I am saying.
Dogs seem to understand expressions, tone, and gestures better than anything. It could be one of those rather than the actual words.
It pleases me immensely to know that someone else likes Debian.
Dogs seem to understand expressions, tone, and gestures better than anything. It could be one of those rather than the actual words.
Oh Gosh I was using Debian waaaay before OSX, when Apple seemed to be going down the drain and their crappy OS9 didn't even offer multitasking, I bailed and found refuge in Debian and FreeBSD. I still use it as my go to OS for my mad scientist projects.
Aaaaahhhh, don't ruin it for me, my doggy understands what I'm saying, really she does.
I hope this isn't weird, but I just created an account to say you are awesome and I wish you and yours the absolute best.
I stumbled on this site about a month or so ago. Then I stumbled on a post of yours, clicked on your name and read a bunch more. You are an amazing person with a great attitude who genuinely seems to want to tinker, help people and be positive about life. Again, I hope its not weird that I registered only to tell you that the world needs more people like you.
About 10 years ago I lost my best friend to cancer. When we knew the end was near, I quit my job and we took a road trip all over the US for about 3 months and he was gone shortly after we got home. At the time the Internet was a godsend for me when my best friend died. Without the support I found from all of the wonderful random Internet people out there that I never knew, I am not sure how I would have made it through. Sorry to get so heavy there, but that is where I am coming from.
Please never stop posting your excellent posts. You are an inspiration for people whether you know it or want to be. I sincerely wish you the best and hope you make a full recovery.
Thank you.
Oh wow, I'm overwhelmed, thank you so much for you lovely words. I have to ask though, the house across from me is empty and I have this funny feeling someone is in there, is it you, if so I will send my son over with a plate of cookies and sandwich's, maybe night vision goggles, do you like tuna. Hehe, just kidding, I've just never had someone actively search me out before, well except maybe for a bill collector. I'm so sorry about your friend, what you did for him was absolutely amazing, it is people like you that keeps us going.
The worst thing that can happen is that friends disappear. This is happening to me in spades. It may be that they are afraid they’ll say the “wrong” thing. But I think it also has to do with the fact that death and illness make people uncomfortable. I represent their fears. People who should be in touch with me at least every week or two (because that is how often we saw each other before) have just dropped away.
That said, there are so many people in my life who are so wonderful. Who offer to help, who make it easy to accept it. Who send notes or emails of support months after the initial shock. Who keep asking what they can do. Who pointedly give ways they can help and ask if I could use it. You were one of those people for your friend and he loved you for it.
I got an email that you responded, which means my comment was approved (new member). Wee Hoo!
You are absolutely right that people are scared and full of fear and become paralyzed. That feeds into a cycle that is difficult for them to deal with. If they only knew that there is little "wrong" that they can say, and being uncomfortable is just part of the deal. Just being there is enough most of the time.
Its too bad I don't live across the way, otherwise I might come around until you kick me out.
I am freak just like you. Although your programming acumen is light years ahead of me from what I read in a few posts. (I know, I know... stalker alert)
I like geeking out on hardware the most. Trying out all of the new toys is great fun for me no matter who makes it. Tinkering and fixing if I can is even better. Taking parts from one thing (anything really, could be a washing machine) and making something else scratches a certain itch. For example there is something extremely satisfying about re-soldering a broken USB on an otherwise perfectly good old lap top. It gives a sense of joy when it works again.
Don't get me wrong I like the beautiful and sleek hardware these days, but playing around with the inside is most interesting to me. I am a sucker for tech in general, anything tech piques my interest. It never ceases to amaze me what they can cram into a device these days.
Oh Gosh I was using Debian waaaay before OSX, when Apple seemed to be going down the drain and their crappy OS9 didn't even offer multitasking, I bailed and found refuge in Debian and FreeBSD. I still use it as my go to OS for my mad scientist projects.
Aaaaahhhh, don't ruin it for me, my doggy understands what I'm saying, really she does.
Debian has always been stable, which is what attracts me to it. I actually used one of the truly ancient Apple notebooks around the time of 10.8 or 9. I don't remember. I didn't do anything interesting with it though, and early notebooks sucked. I didn't become interested in Linux until more recently. Dogs are awesome, but they always make me sneeze. If I wanted a pet today, it would probably be a barred parakeet, a turtle, or a dart frog (because they're awesome). I can't be around anything with fur for very long. I did have a rottweiler years ago that liked to run at people with a tennis ball in his mouth then drop it at their feet like a demand to play fetch. It was awesome.
I am freak just like you. Although your programming acumen is light years ahead of me from what I read in a few posts. (I know, I know... stalker alert)
I like geeking out on hardware the most. Trying out all of the new toys is great fun for me no matter who makes it. Tinkering and fixing if I can is even better. Taking parts from one thing (anything really, could be a washing machine) and making something else scratches a certain itch. For example there is something extremely satisfying about re-soldering a broken USB on an otherwise perfectly good old lap top. It gives a sense of joy when it works again.
Don't get me wrong I like the beautiful and sleek hardware these days, but playing around with the inside is most interesting to me. I am a sucker for tech in general, anything tech piques my interest. It never ceases to amaze me what they can cram into a device these days.
I don't know what it is about computers that makes me so googly inside. I just love building them. I still use prefabbed stuff like my Macbook Air or my HP Z station(highly modified, still) but when it comes to power and hacking I always turn to my imagination and skill to build the best machine from parts I can for the least amount of money. The crazy thing about it is these machine always turn out much faster than what you can get on the market for the same price. A real big secret around here is that installing OSX on none Apple machines actually works, quite well. There is a local PC shop by me that is selling those Intel NUC computers with OSX installed in them, he gives a two year warranty(3 - 5 years are available), Core-i5 D54250WYKCPU (Haswell), 8(16 available)GB RAM, 128(256,512 available)GB Samsung HD, costs; 450 starting and includes a Mac keyboard and mouse, wireless keyboard is extra of course. It's faster than the Mac Mini i5, better graphics, easy to get into for upgrading the HD or RAM and it's cheaper. Want 16GB of ram, sure, 80 bucks extra vs. the 300 Apple charges. Not saying the Mini isn't any good, I have one and their wonderful machines but I think it will be my last. I personally have successfully installed OSX in over 6 computers for friends, all of them still kicking, running the same software I am for a whole lot cheaper then what Apple offers. Now their laptops are a whole other story, I really like their portables so I will defiantly continue buying those, here and in heaven. I'm sure God has a visa card that I can borrow, I will just tell him about all the air miles he will get, joke will be on me if all he has is Discover.
I get flak here every time I mention such things, Apple computers just work, their works of art, it's not ethical ti inatall OSX on none Apple hardwaew, your a beutiful woman (just through that in for me). A working machine is well, a working machine; hide the thing in a drawer or the floor, buy a nice looking monitor and then your in business. Besides, I always buy cool looking cases for the people I build machines for, check this out;
For the more powerful machines (they come in all black, silver or two tone blue, yellow, green ,black and white) and;
....for the rest.
Now that is a work of art, but alas my efforts will never be appreciated here. Hehe, "Hack The Planet".
I think I may have messed up my post somehow, if this is a double post sorry.
Anyway, what is the name of that blue case and where can I get one? Next time I do a build I need it! Style is so subjective and to me that has some great style. Those even look like heat pipes going through the fins. Hopefully that is available in the US.
I admit I like to play games on the PC with Steam (thanks to Microsofts strangle hold on DirectX). Steam is supposed to be coming out with their own OS soon, hopefully sooner than later. I wonder if it will be possible to dual boot a machine with OSX and Steam OS at some point. That would be an amazing build, especially with that case.
That would be great to have a system without fans, and with SSD's you wouldn't even have moving parts. They make some serious passive coolers theses days that would match the design of that case nicely. Depending on the video card used, the only fan noise would be the power supply. I like the sound of that!
I think I may have messed up my post somehow, if this is a double post sorry.
Anyway, what is the name of that blue case and where can I get one? Next time I do a build I need it! Style is so subjective and to me that has some great style. Those even look like heat pipes going through the fins. Hopefully that is available in the US.
I admit I like to play games on the PC with Steam (thanks to Microsofts strangle hold on DirectX). Steam is supposed to be coming out with their own OS soon, hopefully sooner than later. I wonder if it will be possible to dual boot a machine with OSX and Steam OS at some point. That would be an amazing build, especially with that case.
Their called IN WIN, they have some really cool cases.
I admit I like to play games on the PC with Steam (thanks to Microsofts strangle hold on DirectX). Steam is supposed to be coming out with their own OS soon, hopefully sooner than later. I wonder if it will be possible to dual boot a machine with OSX and Steam OS at some point. That would be an amazing build, especially with that case.
Steam OS is an interesting development. I don't see how they can offer DirectX compatibility as it's Microsoft's software and yet they say it will have access to the full Steam catalog. I'd rather it wasn't an OS that required a partition but one that could be run inside another OS like OS X at 90%+ performance. No dual-boot, full compatibility, uses the same drive space as OS X. If they manage to convince publishers to port to OpenGL, the games can probably run quickly in a virtualized state or be ported natively more easily.
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Thank you so much for your kind words! I really do have great support, my husband hired a nursing group a few months back that come in every morning. They check up on me, cook a meal or two when I feel like I can keep it down but I survive mostly on those milk drinks that they feed malnourished children. The biggest thing they do for me though is make sure the doses for my medication is what it needs to be, which I have to tell you is probably the most difficult thing when your taking handfuls at a time. During most of my day though I'm pretty much alone except for my nutty dog who's idea of comfort is to bring me bugs from the garden and sleeps on top of me, snoring and passing gas. So I surf a lot, especially sites like this and watch a lot of cancelled TV shows from the 80's. Personally I would have killed that Gilligan years ago.
...Oh wow, I think I went off on a tangent there didn't I, sorry about that. Again thank you sweetie for the beautiful post. I hope to talk with you more as the this blue ball of ours spins.
Your new friend,
Relic
It's great to hear about your family being there for you. Ideally that would always be the case, but not everyone has that support. It's not easy for anyone when long-term illness strikes, though I'm sure I don't need to remind you of that. Hugs all around!
Since you brought up Gilligan, I'll mention that I always relate that show with I Dream Of Jeannie and Bewitched. Not that they have similar content, but I think they were designed to appeal to the same (vintage now!) audience. That, and they were on back-to-back-to-back in the afternoons here in the states. Not sure if you brought the show up because you enjoyed it, but if you did, what the heck, give some of the other similarly aged stuff a shot. Other same-era stuff that I remember enjoying at the time would include The Munsters, The Adams Family, Beverly Hillbilles, Mr. Ed, and oh I'm sure there are plenty more. They're obviously dated now, but what the heck, worth sampling.
But speaking of TV shows (and lots of time to watch them! ;-) ), there's one modern show I want to make sure you haven't missed. I know the odds you haven't seen it over the past 6+ years are small, but myself being a watcher of very, very little TV as an adult meant that I completely missed this series until just a few months ago: The Big Bang Theory. I think anyone with a non-trivial amount of geekiness should definitely give it a shot. I've watched the entire 6 years over the span of about 4 months, which for me was crazy!
Well, enough about TV. Enjoy the moments you can, and willpower yourself better!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I really do have great support, my husband hired a nursing group a few months back that come in every morning. They check up on me, cook a meal or two when I feel like I can keep it down but I survive mostly on those milk drinks that they feed malnourished children. The biggest thing they do for me though is make sure the doses for my medication is what it needs to be, which I have to tell you is probably the most difficult thing when your taking handfuls at a time. During most of my day though I'm pretty much alone except for my nutty dog who's idea of comfort is to bring me bugs from the garden and sleeps on top of me, snoring and passing gas. So I surf a lot, especially sites like this and watch a lot of cancel TV shows from the 80's. Personally I would have killed that Gilligan years ago.
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Oh wow, I think I went off on a tangent there didn't I, sorry about that. Again thank you sweetie for the beautiful post. I hope to talk with you more as the this blue ball of ours spins.
Your new friend,
Relic
Thanks for the laughs, I had a couple literal LOLs. But hey, we're supposed to be keeping you in good spirits, not the other way around, right?! ;-) Then again, if you want to entertain us, just keep passing along stories about how your dog sleeps on you, snoring and passing gas, and about your friend who was in the porn business. LOL again.
It's great to hear about your family being there for you. Ideally that would always be the case, but not everyone has that support. It's not easy for anyone when long-term illness strikes, though I'm sure I don't need to remind you of that. Hugs all around!
Since you brought up Gilligan, I'll mention that I always relate that show with I Dream Of Jeannie and Bewitched. Not that they have similar content, but I think they were designed to appeal to the same (vintage now!) audience. That, and they were on back-to-back-to-back in the afternoons here in the states. Not sure if you brought the show up because you enjoyed it, but if you did, what the heck, give some of the other similarly aged stuff a shot. Other same-era stuff that I remember enjoying at the time would include The Munsters, The Adams Family, Beverly Hillbilles, Mr. Ed, and oh I'm sure there are plenty more. They're obviously dated now, but what the heck, worth sampling.
But speaking of TV shows (and lots of time to watch them! ;-) ), there's one modern show I want to make sure you haven't missed. I know the odds you haven't seen it over the past 6+ years are small, but myself being a watcher of very, very little TV as an adult meant that I completely missed this series until just a few months ago: The Big Bang Theory. I think anyone with a non-trivial amount of geekiness should definitely give it a shot. I've watched the entire 6 years over the span of about 4 months, which for me was crazy!
Well, enough about TV. Enjoy the moments you can, and willpower yourself better!
Thank you for the kind words in your very sincere post. I know people think they have to tip around the subject of cancer but those of us who have had to ‘peer into the abyss’ have discovered that laughter and tears are more closely related than might ever be imagined. When around people I try to keep things as light and pleasant as possible, I don't do it for me but for those around me. I noticed after I break down peoples defense barrier, (you know what I am talking, the whole aaaahhhhh you poor thing attitude), we can then get down and start having real conversations again, then of course start in with all those great cancer jokes. My daughter always reminds me to eat, she says's, "Mom don't forget, your eating for two now", referring to myself and the tumor.
I love watching older TV shows, I recently came across a cartoon called, "Wait Till Your Father get's home and the purchased the first season on NetFlix. Just finished the 4th episode and I'm really enjoying the series. Next on the list for me to watch is Mash, a girlfriend of mine raided her husbands DVD collection for me. Since I have to give them back before her husband finds out, I'm just ripping them into MP4's to watch on my iPad and/or Chromebox. The cool thing is I got to use my 7 disk DVD ripper again. I bought a cheap tower, really cheap AMD motherboard with a half way decent but also inexpensive AMD processor (80 bucks and it is as fast as an i5), filled the case to capacity with 7 DVD readers that I bought for 5 bucks a piece from an over-stock auction. It's perfect for ripping entire seasons without having to constantly replace the disks when their finished. The OS is Debian but it doesn't have a GUI, when disk(s) are inserted it automatically rips them, creates a folder and then uploads the file to my NAS. Wrote the program myself using Python and mencoder. When the machine is done ripping it ejects the CD's and then sends an email telling me it's done. I built this machine originally to copy our insanely huge DVD collection but after my son was finished the machine kind of went into retirement. So I am excited to rip a DVD, gives me something to do and I might fuss around with the program, maybe have it send and SMS instead of an email.
Not sure why I went off like that, you guys probably aren't interested in such things but I think it's therapeutic to tell you guys what I am doing during the day. Not much, basically, but I do try to keep my mind a little stimulated instead of vegging in front of the monitor all day. I think I ruined my dog as well, she is spending so much time with me that she rarely leaves my bed, potty breaks and getting someone for me is the extent of her exercise. My son takes her on daily walks but he tells me she's not that enthusiastic about it , at least not like she once was. Do you guys think she is in danger of depression because of me, I know dogs sometimes take on their masters state of mind. I'm not depressed and talk to her the entire day, seriously I talk to my dog as if she as sister, she seems to dig it and I'm absolutely positive she understands most of what I am saying. When I'm on youtube she snoggles with me, when she bounces her head against my belly she want's to watch kitty or doggie videos. Funniest thing ever, I'll have one of the kids take a video of it and we'll post it here. Please be warned, I don't look very good right now,
So I sold my Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 2 and some other gadgets I had laying around on ricardo.ch, Swiss version of Ebay, I've decided to consolidate the technical side of my life. I have been getting along fine with just my iPad and Chromebox. I did buy a Nexus 7 V2, the last gadget purchase I made but my son stole it, so I made him deal that he can keep it as long as he sells his iPad Mini then takes the money to buy a Nexus 7 for his sister, you can't just give something to one child and not the other. So that's up on ricardo as well, now before you call foul on the Nexus 7, it is the LTE version and he really wanted it, sooooo. I still have a monster of a workstation in my office which I can connect to if need something more. But I'm doing just fine with those two, I had played around with notion of getting the new Surface 2 but the more I think about it, it will just sit in the corner collecting dust so I will wait till/if I get better to think about purchasing anything new.
Anyhoooo, please excuse the babbling and thanks to everyone for reading, luv yea all.
Relic
Your DVD ripper is interesting, not only because how you configured it, but also as a sing of the times thing. It seems to me it's like a negative scanner for photos and dia's; you'll need it at some point, but only to digitize everything and once it's done, everything on HDD and backed up, it can be handed down to the next person in need of it. Not implying I want your ripper, though you have given me the idea of pulling the BR drive out of the set-top player and put it in the empty slot in my Mac. Yeah, that is actually what I'm going to look into; I know my previous player, a regular DVD one, had a standard 5.25" drive in it and could be used in a PC as well. Maybe this BR player, Samsung, total shyte thing anyway, used it 2 times, has a standard drive as well. Thanks!
http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/160147/apple-expected-to-offer-more-affordable-budget-imac-next-year/120#post_2416558
I hope this isn't weird, but I just created an account to say you are awesome and I wish you and yours the absolute best.
I stumbled on this site about a month or so ago. Then I stumbled on a post of yours, clicked on your name and read a bunch more. You are an amazing person with a great attitude who genuinely seems to want to tinker, help people and be positive about life. Again, I hope its not weird that I registered only to tell you that the world needs more people like you.
About 10 years ago I lost my best friend to cancer. When we knew the end was near, I quit my job and we took a road trip all over the US for about 3 months and he was gone shortly after we got home. At the time the internet was a godsend for me when my best friend died. Without the support I found from all of the wonderful random internet people out there that I never knew, I am not sure how I would have made it through. Sorry to get so heavy there, but that is where I am coming from.
Please never stop posting your excellent posts. You are an inspiration for people whether you know it or want to be. I sincerely wish you the best and hope you make a full recovery.
Thank you.
It pleases me immensely to know that someone else likes Debian.
I'm not depressed and talk to her the entire day, seriously I talk to my dog as if she as sister, she seems to dig it and I'm absolutely positive she understands most of what I am saying.
Dogs seem to understand expressions, tone, and gestures better than anything. It could be one of those rather than the actual words.
It pleases me immensely to know that someone else likes Debian.
Dogs seem to understand expressions, tone, and gestures better than anything. It could be one of those rather than the actual words.
Oh Gosh I was using Debian waaaay before OSX, when Apple seemed to be going down the drain and their crappy OS9 didn't even offer multitasking, I bailed and found refuge in Debian and FreeBSD. I still use it as my go to OS for my mad scientist projects.
Aaaaahhhh, don't ruin it for me, my doggy understands what I'm saying, really she does.
I hope this isn't weird, but I just created an account to say you are awesome and I wish you and yours the absolute best.
I stumbled on this site about a month or so ago. Then I stumbled on a post of yours, clicked on your name and read a bunch more. You are an amazing person with a great attitude who genuinely seems to want to tinker, help people and be positive about life. Again, I hope its not weird that I registered only to tell you that the world needs more people like you.
About 10 years ago I lost my best friend to cancer. When we knew the end was near, I quit my job and we took a road trip all over the US for about 3 months and he was gone shortly after we got home. At the time the Internet was a godsend for me when my best friend died. Without the support I found from all of the wonderful random Internet people out there that I never knew, I am not sure how I would have made it through. Sorry to get so heavy there, but that is where I am coming from.
Please never stop posting your excellent posts. You are an inspiration for people whether you know it or want to be. I sincerely wish you the best and hope you make a full recovery.
Thank you.
Oh wow, I'm overwhelmed, thank you so much for you lovely words. I have to ask though, the house across from me is empty and I have this funny feeling someone is in there, is it you, if so I will send my son over with a plate of cookies and sandwich's, maybe night vision goggles, do you like tuna. Hehe, just kidding, I've just never had someone actively search me out before, well except maybe for a bill collector. I'm so sorry about your friend, what you did for him was absolutely amazing, it is people like you that keeps us going.
The worst thing that can happen is that friends disappear. This is happening to me in spades. It may be that they are afraid they’ll say the “wrong” thing. But I think it also has to do with the fact that death and illness make people uncomfortable. I represent their fears. People who should be in touch with me at least every week or two (because that is how often we saw each other before) have just dropped away.
That said, there are so many people in my life who are so wonderful. Who offer to help, who make it easy to accept it. Who send notes or emails of support months after the initial shock. Who keep asking what they can do. Who pointedly give ways they can help and ask if I could use it. You were one of those people for your friend and he loved you for it.
Thank you again sweety,
Love Relic
I got an email that you responded, which means my comment was approved (new member). Wee Hoo!
You are absolutely right that people are scared and full of fear and become paralyzed. That feeds into a cycle that is difficult for them to deal with. If they only knew that there is little "wrong" that they can say, and being uncomfortable is just part of the deal. Just being there is enough most of the time.
Its too bad I don't live across the way, otherwise I might come around until you kick me out.
Take care and see you around the forums!
I got an email that you responded, which means my comment was approved (new member). Wee Hoo!
Yeah they''ll let any old riff raff in here. I'm glad your here. Are you just a Apple fan or just an overall computer freak like myself.
I am freak just like you. Although your programming acumen is light years ahead of me from what I read in a few posts. (I know, I know... stalker alert)
I like geeking out on hardware the most. Trying out all of the new toys is great fun for me no matter who makes it. Tinkering and fixing if I can is even better. Taking parts from one thing (anything really, could be a washing machine) and making something else scratches a certain itch. For example there is something extremely satisfying about re-soldering a broken USB on an otherwise perfectly good old lap top. It gives a sense of joy when it works again.
Don't get me wrong I like the beautiful and sleek hardware these days, but playing around with the inside is most interesting to me. I am a sucker for tech in general, anything tech piques my interest. It never ceases to amaze me what they can cram into a device these days.
Oh Gosh I was using Debian waaaay before OSX, when Apple seemed to be going down the drain and their crappy OS9 didn't even offer multitasking, I bailed and found refuge in Debian and FreeBSD. I still use it as my go to OS for my mad scientist projects.
Aaaaahhhh, don't ruin it for me, my doggy understands what I'm saying, really she does.
Debian has always been stable, which is what attracts me to it. I actually used one of the truly ancient Apple notebooks around the time of 10.8 or 9. I don't remember. I didn't do anything interesting with it though, and early notebooks sucked. I didn't become interested in Linux until more recently. Dogs are awesome, but they always make me sneeze. If I wanted a pet today, it would probably be a barred parakeet, a turtle, or a dart frog (because they're awesome). I can't be around anything with fur for very long. I did have a rottweiler years ago that liked to run at people with a tennis ball in his mouth then drop it at their feet like a demand to play fetch. It was awesome.
John Cleese sketch posted here
http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/160147/apple-expected-to-offer-more-affordable-budget-imac-next-year/120#post_2416558
I like this one.
I've ripped off the countdown from this one on a few occasions. No one ever gets the reference.
They're from "how to irritate people", not that I required instruction.
I am freak just like you. Although your programming acumen is light years ahead of me from what I read in a few posts. (I know, I know... stalker alert)
I like geeking out on hardware the most. Trying out all of the new toys is great fun for me no matter who makes it. Tinkering and fixing if I can is even better. Taking parts from one thing (anything really, could be a washing machine) and making something else scratches a certain itch. For example there is something extremely satisfying about re-soldering a broken USB on an otherwise perfectly good old lap top. It gives a sense of joy when it works again.
Don't get me wrong I like the beautiful and sleek hardware these days, but playing around with the inside is most interesting to me. I am a sucker for tech in general, anything tech piques my interest. It never ceases to amaze me what they can cram into a device these days.
I don't know what it is about computers that makes me so googly inside. I just love building them. I still use prefabbed stuff like my Macbook Air or my HP Z station(highly modified, still) but when it comes to power and hacking I always turn to my imagination and skill to build the best machine from parts I can for the least amount of money. The crazy thing about it is these machine always turn out much faster than what you can get on the market for the same price. A real big secret around here is that installing OSX on none Apple machines actually works, quite well. There is a local PC shop by me that is selling those Intel NUC computers with OSX installed in them, he gives a two year warranty(3 - 5 years are available), Core-i5 D54250WYKCPU (Haswell), 8(16 available)GB RAM, 128(256,512 available)GB Samsung HD, costs; 450 starting and includes a Mac keyboard and mouse, wireless keyboard is extra of course. It's faster than the Mac Mini i5, better graphics, easy to get into for upgrading the HD or RAM and it's cheaper. Want 16GB of ram, sure, 80 bucks extra vs. the 300 Apple charges. Not saying the Mini isn't any good, I have one and their wonderful machines but I think it will be my last. I personally have successfully installed OSX in over 6 computers for friends, all of them still kicking, running the same software I am for a whole lot cheaper then what Apple offers. Now their laptops are a whole other story, I really like their portables so I will defiantly continue buying those, here and in heaven. I'm sure God has a visa card that I can borrow, I will just tell him about all the air miles he will get, joke will be on me if all he has is Discover.
I get flak here every time I mention such things, Apple computers just work, their works of art, it's not ethical ti inatall OSX on none Apple hardwaew, your a beutiful woman (just through that in for me). A working machine is well, a working machine; hide the thing in a drawer or the floor, buy a nice looking monitor and then your in business. Besides, I always buy cool looking cases for the people I build machines for, check this out;
For the more powerful machines (they come in all black, silver or two tone blue, yellow, green ,black and white) and;
....for the rest.
Now that is a work of art, but alas my efforts will never be appreciated here. Hehe, "Hack The Planet".
Relic
Wow. That looks like it dissipates the heat through all that metal. If so, will it still need a fan?
I think I may have messed up my post somehow, if this is a double post sorry.
Anyway, what is the name of that blue case and where can I get one? Next time I do a build I need it! Style is so subjective and to me that has some great style. Those even look like heat pipes going through the fins. Hopefully that is available in the US.
I admit I like to play games on the PC with Steam (thanks to Microsofts strangle hold on DirectX). Steam is supposed to be coming out with their own OS soon, hopefully sooner than later. I wonder if it will be possible to dual boot a machine with OSX and Steam OS at some point. That would be an amazing build, especially with that case.
That would be great to have a system without fans, and with SSD's you wouldn't even have moving parts. They make some serious passive coolers theses days that would match the design of that case nicely. Depending on the video card used, the only fan noise would be the power supply. I like the sound of that!
I think I may have messed up my post somehow, if this is a double post sorry.
Anyway, what is the name of that blue case and where can I get one? Next time I do a build I need it! Style is so subjective and to me that has some great style. Those even look like heat pipes going through the fins. Hopefully that is available in the US.
I admit I like to play games on the PC with Steam (thanks to Microsofts strangle hold on DirectX). Steam is supposed to be coming out with their own OS soon, hopefully sooner than later. I wonder if it will be possible to dual boot a machine with OSX and Steam OS at some point. That would be an amazing build, especially with that case.
Their called IN WIN, they have some really cool cases.
Drooooooool. Thanks Relic.... there goes the rest of my morning!
Drooooooool. Thanks Relic.... there goes the rest of my morning!
Did you see their new case;
Steam OS is an interesting development. I don't see how they can offer DirectX compatibility as it's Microsoft's software and yet they say it will have access to the full Steam catalog. I'd rather it wasn't an OS that required a partition but one that could be run inside another OS like OS X at 90%+ performance. No dual-boot, full compatibility, uses the same drive space as OS X. If they manage to convince publishers to port to OpenGL, the games can probably run quickly in a virtualized state or be ported natively more easily.