Lunch Today
Spoiled, yes 
August 30, 2010
Filed under: About Me?
“Checking in” from the bottom of the bay
Some pictures and a map from my bike ride along the Stevens Creek Tidal Marsh trail tonight, which took me to the bottom of the San Francisco Bay.
August 25, 2010
Seattle’s Wurst Sausage
‘The Shultzy’ @ Shultzy’s Sausage: I approve of this sausage sandwich.
August 6, 2010
MN Summer Vacation Photos
Photos from my uber-awesome vacation in Minnesota last week.
Also, view photos in Google Earth/Maps: KML
August 4, 2010
Random Snail
Possibly the highlight of my day so far, an extra-large snail seen on the way to work.
August 4, 2010
kcea.org
A gift from me to you, kcea.org, the best big band station I’ve yet come across…
August 2, 2010
Building a new HTPC/Web server
The stars have finally aligned such that I’ve been able to put together my dream Home Theatre PC / personal server. Over the past 3 weeks, I’ve gotten the individual pieces ordered, installed, and integrated across several platforms. The result is a centralized server for media and hosting, which (through the miracle of SSH, DAAP and UPnP), I’m able to stream and control across a variety of mobile/remote devices. The setup is mostly complete, the pieces are below, with some commentary).
Network
- Comcast Business (static ip for hosting, 50Mbps down, 10Mbps up)
- Asus RT-N16 router with DD-WRT firmware
- *OpenVPN install to support remote/mobile media access
Server
- Optiplex 980 SFF (purchased refurbished from Dell Outlet)
- Notable hardware
- Intel Core i5-650M Processor (3.20GHz,4M cache)
- ^8 GB CORSAIR XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz
- ^Seagate ST32000542AS Barracuda LP Hard Drive – 2TB, 5900 RPM, 32MB, SATA-3G
- ^HIS H555HS1G Radeon HD 5550 (didn’t fit in case, need to RMA, using VGA for now)
- Notable software
- Fedora 13 (my linux distro of choice, totally painless install)
- MediaTomb (UPnP server, streams media library (*mp3, *.avi, *.jpg) to PS3 etc)
- Samba (Share Apache webdocs folder for cross-box development,
- *Deja Dup (simple backup of /home directories to cloud (Amazon S3) or e-SATA 2.5″ 500GB drive.
- RhythmBox (podcast harvesting, iTunes-like media library control, DAAP streaming)
- Apache (*hosting of currently co-located websites)
- NX/TigerNVC (for accessing machine remotely)
Clients
- Samsung-LN46A650 46″ HDTV
- PS3 (stock)
- MLB.TV (for watching the Twins and not the Giants (damn blackouts))
- Netflix (watching not-downloaded movies/etc)
- Motorola Droid (Android 2.2 “Froyo”)
- Nexus One (Android 2.2 “Froyo”)
- *Root to CyanogenMod 6 for OpenVPN?
- Android DAAP (plays DAAP-served music across network, provides access to media library from phone, nice)
- AndroMote (provides full access to UPnP media (from Meditomb) on phone)
- RemoteDroid (allows for mouse/keyboard control of remote machine via wif
- Dell Latitude e6410 (per usual, purchased refurbished from Dell Outlet)
- Notable Hardware
- Intel Core i5-520M Processor (2.4GHz)
- ^OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX60G 2.5″ 60GB SSD (using for an apps and boot drive, uses Samba share for all downloads/important stuff)
- 512MB NVIDIA NVS 3100M
- ^G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333
- YP021 Dell Latitude E-Port Plus Docking Station
- Random 24″ Dell lcd
- Notable Software
- RealVNC, N
- Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
- Google Earth
Legend
^Not stock
*Not started completed
Photos
See Also
RemoteDroid demo from Joshua Sera on Vimeo.
July 11, 2010