Author: Robert Baindourov

The fracking that is taking place very close to my home is worrying me.

Tonight, I watched Josh Fox get arrested for trying to film a public hearing.
Tonight, I lost some hope. I was wounded by the corruption of our political system.

And today I am more scared now, that I am breathing in Nuerotoxins everytime I draw in air, then ever before.
Like the town of Dish, Texas, we are under attack by fracking operations that are taking place in Los Angeles.
Citizens United has placed money over votes. No longer is one vote per person shaping our democracy.
Now an elite few, who own and control most of the wealth, have rewritten the constitution and warped the law of the land

Using Psychological warfare tactics on United States citizens, according to Gasland part 2, to divide and conquer.
Releasing methane in such numbers as to almost entice conspiracy theorists to blurt out insane statements of alien takeover.

Can you imagine what 12 million people breathing in Nuerotoxins looks like? Rash, numbness, pain, nosebleeds, permanent brain damage.
Can you imagine the birds falling out of the sky, dead. The fish rising to the surface, uneatable, polluted, filth of decay.

Where is the outrage? where is the call to action?

Josh Fox, may God be with you, as you raise awareness about this insidious plot.

And may free energy rule the future,  so that we may all, live long, and prosper.

Wow. This really sucks. Looks like a cracked screen is not under warranty.

Man I barely even used my nexus. I took it with me, in my Y! backpack, when I went out on a drinking spree through Venice beach.  And some time last night, 2 am, I was going through my backpack looking for the Perrier, and a bunch of stuff fell, bounced off the sofa, and landed on the floor in a hard splat. One of the items my Bose headphones, the sunblock, but not the nexus, I’m sure. It popped out unto the couch, and there it staid until morning. I drank my mineral water and went back to bed. I had called it a night around 10, so I was pretty groggy, in darkness, searching for the Perrier.

This morning, afternoon really, nexus on the coffee table, moved, by my lovely wife, off the couch. I reach for it to google some info while watching “Saving Private Ryan” on HBO, can’t unlock it. There is a crack in the screen and below the crack, the touch screen is unresponsive. I hate it when I brake my own hardware!  Today I learn that the warranty doesn’t cover a cracked screen. And that ASUS charges mucho dinero for this kind of repair.

Damn it, man. This blows.

At least I got my replacement Raspberry Pi and it works. I tested it out by watching “Spun” on my big screen via usb flash drive and Raspbmc.

On a personal note, I should probably stop drinking like Frank Gallagher. Bad karma.

So I am trying to convert this open source project, Tweetr, to support the new 1.1 API by twitter.
I’m running into a compilation error.

C:\Users\Robert\Desktop\tweetr\com\swfjunkie\tweetr\oauth\OAuth.as, Line 403    1120: Access of undefined property AIR.

That particular line is “CONFIG::AIR”
I am trying to do this with the new source code up on Tweetr 1.0b3. Actually he warns not to download the source because it won’t compile and to use the SWC he distributes instead.
But honestly this isn’t going to work. How can I update the project if I have to use the SWC?

For a moment there it seemed like my Pi was functioning correctly. But now it constantly restarts.
My love affair with the R-Pi started when I bought it.
Then, when I got it, I had to actually secure the SD cards for it.
I wanted to make sure it was working so I had to install raspbian wheezy on one SD card.
Finally I got it to boot using my cell phone charger as the PSU. I executed the startx command and the GUI loaded correctly.
It seemed fine, I ran it for like 10 minutes, checked out the internet via wifi dongle and showed it off to my co-workers.

I wanted to load Raspbmc on it and turn it into a home theater system. That’s when I found out that there is a 10 dollar upsell with the R-Pi to unlock a GPU for true HD video!
I was bummed at first to hear that, but honesty If I can get this XBMC working, and control it from my Nexus via free Android application, that is worth it!
Plus, I would be able t take my entire DVD collection to my friends house by simply transporting the R-Pi and a couple of SD cards. How cool is that!

Again I put it away for a while until I had time to work on it. I always stored it safely in a static guard.
I also needed a case for it if I was going to place it behind the TV or something.
So I got a blue acrylic case from Adafruit. 15 bucks with shipping. The case arrives, I put the Pi in it, it looks cool.
But then I load up Raspbmc installer on another SD card, and I boot it up only to have it restart mid install.
I tried booting with and without HDMI / USB / Ethernet, no matter the combination, always the Pi restarts.
So I tried it with the original Wheezy SD card and again, it loads up only to restart less than a minute or two into being powered up.
Spent a lot of time on troubleshooting research as well. It was either going to fix itself or I had to replace it.

I let it rest overnight, and today I am getting the same thing with both installs.

Needless to say, I am super disappointed.
Because now I need to buy a multimeter,
just so I can see if I really need to send it back.

Thankfully the manufacturer is going to replace the Pi without me having to become an electrical engineer.

There was a zero day exploit in the news a while a back.

Another Java vulnerability.

This really sucks to see java take such a huge dump in its security.

Some experts say the vulnerabilities were always there.

If you’ve seen the movie Hurt Locker, then you’ve heard the phrase, “Dead man’s switch”. If you love Sean Luc Picard, then you’ve seen him in Safe House.

Finally beat this game.
I was avoiding it for the longest time. But I have this badass new Dell display, and I got the game when I worked at G4 (thanks guys for hooking that up!). So I finally mounted the ISO’s and installed the game.

I was not disappointed! I passed the whole single player in 2 days time. And now I WANT MORE! I don’t mind being behind in the franchise. It gives me lots of content to burn through when I do go back to gaming.
Don’t get me wrong, I played individual levels here and there. An xbox controller with the level “No Russian” was thrust into my hands by cousin. But this was the first time I played the game all the way through from start to finish.

I real cinematic experience. Quite addictive.

I bought three 64GB SanDisk microSD cards this week.
I figure, one for my wife’s phone, one for my new underwater shock resistance travel cam, and another one for the Raspberry Pi.
These microSDX come with SD adapters. So I thought it would be perfect. I download Raspbian, and install it on a SD card with UnetBootin, and then put it in my raspberry pi, power it up and NOTHING!
I was pretty shocked, there were multiple points of failure here. I had no choice but to try alternate methods.
I saw on adafruit that they sell a kit with SD / cables / case for 105USD. I felt remorse not being aware of this earlier, as I glanced on my Pi tangling off the edge of my desk, suspended by an HDMI cable.
“Definitely worth it,” I thought, “Maybe next time.” That is if I can get the current investment to pay off in some form of achievement. I had no choice but to venture worth and attempt yet another method.
I tried to download Fedora’s image installer utility as outlined by the adafruit tutorials. Alas, to no avail. The utility software could not recognize my external devices. A few horrible thoughts later, I found the solution  back on the pi’s flagship site, where I downloaded the OS in the first place.
They pointed me to an image writer utility on launchpads website. So once again I tried loading the Raspbian image file unto the microSD card. It loaded rather quickly, and I stuck the SD card in the Pi.
I powered it up and I was super excited, watching the green light flash for the first time, and the OS load up on the screen, from my dangling Pi. 🙂

Thinking back to why I didn’t find the solution on the Pi’s .org site in the first place. I realize I depend on google too much!
I googled each task separately, and went with the results, looking for a quick fix each time.

So sometime in 2011 I had the pleasure of working on DMO.

It was a short run, the product was being discontinued.
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