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Space Reality Check
Gee, this guy is even more brutally honest than I am: 5 Horrifying Facts You Didn’t Know About the Space Shuttle Also, an EASA administrator was roasted for his answer that reusable spacecraft would...
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Guitar Pedal Board Links
Rhett Shull is the pedal board whisperer. Rhett’s Fly Rig: – for travelling now, has to pack in one check-in – TSA can disassemble your board, so KISS so you can quickly re-assemble it – Mono board...
View ArticleBOSS GT-1000 and BCB-60 Pedal Board Review and Tips
I’ve been thinking about what case or pedal board to use with my BOSS GT-1000 guitar effects processor. I looked around online for reviews but didn’t see much as of Nov. 2019, aside from the BOSS ME-80...
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Kinko’s Campbell as a Third Place
Kinko’s Campbell used to be 24 hours around 2004, and as the only place open, had a vibrant late-nite community of regulars. Later the hours were reduced by the regional manager, and then Fedex bought...
View ArticleUkraine International Airlines Flight 752
Things that make you go, “Hmmm …”: How do you confuse a scheduled airliner on takeoff with a cruise missile? How was the airliner “unidentified”? It sounds like Iran, which is a regional industrial...
View ArticleEMB-170/175 Airliner Wire Chafing
An old problem, but you have to wonder how the installers and inspectors overlooked this. 10 aircraft means they didn’t know what they were doing: “Investigators found a chafed wire in the captain’s...
View ArticleStorm Ciara Helps Plane Beat Transatlantic Flight Record
I love the jet stream. Some factoids: one of the Greek airlines used to always fly in the jet stream for decades, no matter how rough. I had one flight from SFO to Manila in under 10 hours here’s a new...
View ArticleOdd Band Relationships
Every band has drama, but these are especially notable: EVH played Michael Anthony’s bass parts on the Van Halen albums. Also, their songs went pop so that David Lee Roth could try to get a #1 hit....
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tcpdump Tips
I tend to use tcpdump when working on remote servers with multiple services running. Thus it’s important to specify exactly which hosts and ports I want to see, or end up buried in output. Here’s a...
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Change Data Capture at Netflix with DBLog
Netflix Tech Blog has a post on relatively new change data capture tool called DBLog. When I worked at Netflix a while ago, they also had a hacky tool that would find changes in one database and copy...
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Slick SL57 Guitar
Got a Slick SL57 Aged Vintage Sunburst Maple Fingerboard Alnico Pickups with camo hard case for $259+$59. Slick is famous/notorious for guitar prices being less than cost of hardware parts. And...
View ArticleInstalling Cubase AI 10.5 on Mac OSX
Most Yamaha music instrument and audio interface products come with a free license for the Yamaha/Steinberg Cubase DAW Windows and Mac OSX software. The Cubase AI installation process is obnoxious and...
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Music: Understanding the Steinberg UR22C Power Requirements
The Yamaha/Steinberg UR22C audio interface just came out in 2019, so I haven’t seen detailed information on it, aside from what’s in the manual. I did some research, and the UR22C can be powered the...
View ArticleBoeing Pushes Estimated MAX Return To Midyear 2020
I predicted in early 2019 that the 737 MAX wouldn’t fly in 2019, based on my engineering and commercial pilot rating experience. I was right, and most other pundits were very wrong. Boeing took a $5...
View ArticleYamaha DX7 Links
Mark 1 (12-bit DAC), Logo “DX7”, pastel, membrane Insane custom patches – 80’s Hits, Van Halen Jump, Rush Subdivisions, Rush Tom Sawyer, UK Alaska, Berlin Herbie Hancock Yamaha DX7 Vintage Demo 80s...
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Meetup: New Security Features in Redis 6
Redis Labs Security Product Manager Jamie Scott talked at the Redis Meetup today about “New Security Features in Redis 6 Open Source.” Because of the Corona virus, the lecture was streamed on Youtube...
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Korg ARP 2600 Synthesizer Available
ARP 2600, new! lol. It was the first portable (van instead of truck) synth, and used in the original Star Wars movie. ARP went out of business after some failed products, and Korg bought them. The ARP...
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Music: Affordable Guitar Rack
I recommend ebay seller alienbid’s “New 9 Folding Multiple Guitar Bass Holder Rack Display Stand Black” if you need an affordable guitar rack. It’s about $19.79+tax, including free delivery. The rack...
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Can Web Apps Rot?
Can Web apps rot? Why yes, yes they can, mainly if you rely on cloud integrations. Just looking at an old web app (finished 18 months ago) recently and found the following: Twilio changed an API path...
View ArticlePerl Sample Code for Geolocation Lookups with MaxMind GeoLite2
There’s been a lot of changes with MaxMind’s GeoIP database: You must register for an account to download databases. The database format was changed from GeoIP to GeoIP2. The free databases are called...
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