A busy, busy day --- we've been up in Manchester since 11am and just got back with enough time to throw some dinner at the kids and send them out for trick-or-treating.
The ol' digital camera decided it no longer liked the CF SanDisk (blinky 'CF') so I was forced to rely on the limited internal memory and take photos at the lowest quality. Fortunately I had the ol' Minolta SLR, which was working and took three rolls, but those will have to wait until tomorrow.
At this rally I took some notes between keeping a eye on the kids -- Wendy had a 'pink ticket' which means she got to stand up on stage with Kerry and a ton of other folks.
Right now most of the kids are our prowling the neighborhood so a writeup will have to wait unti later. There were a ton of people there!
Head over to flickr to see some kinda crappy photos from the event.
Sunday, October 31, 2004
Saturday, October 30, 2004
John Kerry in Manchester, NH tomorrow
George W. Bush was in Manchester at the Verizon Center on Monday and word is they were hoping for 12,000 but only 7,000 showed up! The gossip at the kids soccer game today was lots of people didn't bother to go when they heard Red Sox pitcher Kurt Schilling backed out at the last moment. Weakening Bush support in NH!
From the flyer:
- - -
See John Kerry for the final New Hampshire Rally
Sunday, October 31st
Gates open at 12:00
City Hall Plaza, Manchester
900 Elm Street
Featuring:
* Musical Guests Bruce Hornsby
* Children's Halloween Costume Content
* Candy and Free Kerry Gear
Please limit personal items
No Bags. No Signs. No Umbrellas.
For more information:
Manchester Democratic Headquarters
311 Lincoln Street
(603) 622-2549
- - -
I strongly recommend that you call the headquarters and try to get tickets for the indoor portion.
Here are some directions to City Hall Plaza.
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Directions to
900 Elm St
Manchester, NH 03101-2007
From the flyer:
- - -
See John Kerry for the final New Hampshire Rally
Sunday, October 31st
Gates open at 12:00
City Hall Plaza, Manchester
900 Elm Street
Featuring:
* Musical Guests Bruce Hornsby
* Children's Halloween Costume Content
* Candy and Free Kerry Gear
Please limit personal items
No Bags. No Signs. No Umbrellas.
For more information:
Manchester Democratic Headquarters
311 Lincoln Street
(603) 622-2549
- - -
I strongly recommend that you call the headquarters and try to get tickets for the indoor portion.
Here are some directions to City Hall Plaza.
Directions to
900 Elm St
Manchester, NH 03101-2007
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Digital photo of last night's lunar eclipse
This photo I took with an HP 318 digital camera came out much better than
those taken with the SLR.
A coworker said "gee, I just used my timer to take the picture so I don't have the jitter". D'oh!
those taken with the SLR.
A coworker said "gee, I just used my timer to take the picture so I don't have the jitter". D'oh!
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Creating an audio blog reply using Festival
I listened to Dave Winer's Coffee Notes for 24-Oct-2004 podcast on the way home tonight and felt compelled to reply to him with an audio reply email about Richard Scoble/Scooble's voice mail. Here is how I created it.
* Get the Festival Speech Synthesis package for your Debian GNU/Linux box
* Create a snappy reply. I like emacs. This is exactly what hi-dave.txt looks like:
Hi Dave!
This is Marc No-zell and I just listened to your Coffee Talk with
Richard Scoble. It sounds like Microsoft's voice mail system is using
a descendant of the DECK-talk system that was created by DECK in the
1980s.
I'm creating this audio reply using the Festival Speech Synthesis
System on my Deb-ian GNU Linux laptop. Neener, neener, neener!
Well, thanks for the Coffee Notes!
Now I did do a little cheating here. Festival follows strict pronunciation rules and sometimes gets words wrong. For example my surname would be said as 'nozzel', so I spell it how I want it to sound. The same is true for DECtalk and DEC, which sounds like 'dec-tork' and 'december' (trying to be a little too clever ;-)
* Convert from text to wave format:
* Convert from wav to mp3 format
* Listen to the result:
* Get the Festival Speech Synthesis package for your Debian GNU/Linux box
$ sudo apt-get install festival
[...bunch of status about installing a festival and dependancies removed...]
$
* Create a snappy reply. I like emacs. This is exactly what hi-dave.txt looks like:
Hi Dave!
This is Marc No-zell and I just listened to your Coffee Talk with
Richard Scoble. It sounds like Microsoft's voice mail system is using
a descendant of the DECK-talk system that was created by DECK in the
1980s.
I'm creating this audio reply using the Festival Speech Synthesis
System on my Deb-ian GNU Linux laptop. Neener, neener, neener!
Well, thanks for the Coffee Notes!
Now I did do a little cheating here. Festival follows strict pronunciation rules and sometimes gets words wrong. For example my surname would be said as 'nozzel', so I spell it how I want it to sound. The same is true for DECtalk and DEC, which sounds like 'dec-tork' and 'december' (trying to be a little too clever ;-)
* Convert from text to wave format:
$ text2wave hi-dave.txt -o hi-dave.wav
* Convert from wav to mp3 format
$ lame hi-dave.wav hi-dave.mp3
* Listen to the result:
$ xmms hi-dave.mp3
Monday, October 25, 2004
Wendy introduces John Kerry at rally in Dover, NH
This morning Wendy had the honor to introduce John Kerry at this Dover, NH rally.
Check out some of these photos:
John Kerry rally in Dover, NH (25-Oct-2004)
He was on fire today!
[update 27-Oct-2004]
Check out this picture on JohnKerry.com -- Wendy looks so serious. Here is a taste:
Thanks to Shannon for this picture:
Some other coverage of the event
can be found on Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar?
Check out some of these photos:
John Kerry rally in Dover, NH (25-Oct-2004)
He was on fire today!
[update 27-Oct-2004]
Check out this picture on JohnKerry.com -- Wendy looks so serious. Here is a taste:
Thanks to Shannon for this picture:
Some other coverage of the event
can be found on Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar?
Friday, October 22, 2004
Installing ubuntu 4.10 on an Compaq Armada m700 laptop
In addition to a work-provided nc6000, I also have personal Compaq Armada M700 and gave ubuntu 4.10 a install this evening.
Absolutely no problem installing or having X properly configured! One nice touch is the installer found the Orinoco wireless PCMCIA card and configured it so the network was available immediately on boot.
Absolutely no problem installing or having X properly configured! One nice touch is the installer found the Orinoco wireless PCMCIA card and configured it so the network was available immediately on boot.
Installing ubuntu 4.10 on an HP/Compaq nc6000 laptop
Here are my notes on install ubuntu 1.0 on an HP/Compaq nc6000 laptop.
Used warty-install-release-i386.iso downloaded on 21-Oct-2004. (md5sum a491903a2d2197651864dec3836d85e0)
The laptop has currently installed WinXP (hda1), Debian/Sarge (hda7) and now ubuntu (hda6).
Booted the laptop while in the docking bay and started install. Complained that it couldn't find a NIC, I told it to continue and not to use a static IP address.
The nc6000 has:
* Pentium M (should do power management, but stock debian kernels don't seem to include it), 1G memory, 60g internal drive, 30G or CD/RW in multibay
* embedded intel wireless -- works with ndiswrapper
* bluetooth -- don't have any other bluetooth devices, haven't tried
* IR -- haven't tried, but should try to get going with my palmpilot
* Broadcom nic -- works
* SD bay -- works under WinXP, but appears to be impossible under Linux
The docking bay pretty much just has a USB breakout, passthrough nic and power. There are 2 multibays which usually have a CD/RW and/or an extra disk.
At the point it asked about installing GRUB in the master boot record, I skipped that and continued
on with the installation. I prefer to let debian/sarge manage grub.
After the ubuntu installer finished, I booted into debian/sarge and added the following to
it's menu.lst file:
title Ubuntu 1.0
root (hd0, 5)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro
initrd /initrd
savedefault
boot
Then rebooted to Ubuntu...
After about 40 minutes it started poking around and found that kacpid was sucking up 95% of the cpu. I did
renice 19 -p 5 (which was the pid of kacpid)
and the install proceeded much faster.
The X displayed looked nice along with the drum sounds.
But the Broadcom or tg3 driver wasn't loaded. Using 'sudo network-admin' fixed that.
Still looking around.
[still installing -- watch here for more info]
Used warty-install-release-i386.iso downloaded on 21-Oct-2004. (md5sum a491903a2d2197651864dec3836d85e0)
The laptop has currently installed WinXP (hda1), Debian/Sarge (hda7) and now ubuntu (hda6).
Booted the laptop while in the docking bay and started install. Complained that it couldn't find a NIC, I told it to continue and not to use a static IP address.
The nc6000 has:
* Pentium M (should do power management, but stock debian kernels don't seem to include it), 1G memory, 60g internal drive, 30G or CD/RW in multibay
* embedded intel wireless -- works with ndiswrapper
* bluetooth -- don't have any other bluetooth devices, haven't tried
* IR -- haven't tried, but should try to get going with my palmpilot
* Broadcom nic -- works
* SD bay -- works under WinXP, but appears to be impossible under Linux
The docking bay pretty much just has a USB breakout, passthrough nic and power. There are 2 multibays which usually have a CD/RW and/or an extra disk.
At the point it asked about installing GRUB in the master boot record, I skipped that and continued
on with the installation. I prefer to let debian/sarge manage grub.
After the ubuntu installer finished, I booted into debian/sarge and added the following to
it's menu.lst file:
title Ubuntu 1.0
root (hd0, 5)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro
initrd /initrd
savedefault
boot
Then rebooted to Ubuntu...
After about 40 minutes it started poking around and found that kacpid was sucking up 95% of the cpu. I did
renice 19 -p 5 (which was the pid of kacpid)
and the install proceeded much faster.
The X displayed looked nice along with the drum sounds.
But the Broadcom or tg3 driver wasn't loaded. Using 'sudo network-admin' fixed that.
Still looking around.
[still installing -- watch here for more info]
Thursday, October 21, 2004
quick anti-Bush joke from the internets
Q: What's the difference between Vietnam and Iraq?
A: Bush had a plan for getting out of Vietnam.
A: Bush had a plan for getting out of Vietnam.
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-10-17
- NHPR News - Bush Campaign Official (James Tobin) Resigns Over Jamming Scandal --
Why hasn't the national press picked this 2000 GOP dirty trick and James Tobin is working for Bush/Cheney 2004? Tagged as: [politics nh]
Friday, October 15, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-10-15
- Program Details for Perversion for Profit (Part I) --
Unintentionally funny video featuring Charles Keating (yes of the Savings & Loan scandel of the late '80s) Tagged as: [video funny] - Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting --
Tagged as: [cool] - The Atlantic Online | November 2004 | Karl Rove in a Corner | Joshua Green --
Karl Rove's antics Tagged as: [politics]
The first year we put out political signs...
We've been in our home 11 years and our mailbox has been fine the whole time. This is first year we put out political signs and our mailbox is vandalized. Hmm.
Well, now in addition to a couple Kerry/Edwards, there are now signs for Pam Green and Deborah Pignatelli
Well, now in addition to a couple Kerry/Edwards, there are now signs for Pam Green and Deborah Pignatelli
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Monday, October 11, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-10-11
- bu!&h� umoC ap!s&� (Upside Down Typing) --
strange, but interesting Tagged as: [reference]
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-10-06
- Spencer's 13th Birthday party - a photoset on Flickr --
We climbed Pack Monadnock Tagged as: [nh] - Wendy was one of four women up on the stage with Elizabeth Edwards for a Town Hall meeting on 'Security Mom' issues. Wendy got 6 standing ovations and a number of laughs. She rocks! - a photoset on Flickr --
Tagged as: [politics nh] - The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - 05-Oct-04 - Elizabeth Edwards faults Bush on security --
Wendy is quoted! “If I were the mother of George Bush,†Thomas said, “that kid would be grounded right now.†Tagged as: [politcs nh]
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-10-05
- GOP Convention highlights --
funny/sad video 'highlights' of the GOP convention. Count the number of times they say the catchphrases Tagged as: [politics] - Frontier (cross-platform [well, Windows/Mac OSX] content engine) under GPL --
This could be the engine of next personal desktop content-publishing era; But first they need to port it to Linux... Tagged as: [blog gpl] - Faces of Frustration --
All the faces GWB make, in order, during the 1st debate Tagged as: [politics video] - BAGnewsNotes --
Good stuff lately, like various videos, mp3 remixes of political events Tagged as: [politics] - Open Laszlo -- toolset for rich web-based GUIs --
Requires Flash 5 on the client, and java/tomcat on the server side, released under CPL (and OSI open license) Tagged as: [web] - The Pelican File - Politics and Public Policy Headlines --
Nice roll up of political headlines Tagged as: [politics] - How Bush Did --
Edited video of all of GWB's responses during the first debate Tagged as: [politics video]
Saturday, October 2, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-10-02
- HP/MySQL Database Server Solutions --
This document discusses how the HP ProLiant server is a excellent Industry Standard platform for creating a Linux-based MySQL database server. Scale-out and high availability are possible using Intel® Xeon®, AMD Opteron and HP Blade technologies. Using Tagged as: [hp linux selfpromotion]
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