Hace calor, mucho calor…how bout’ this weather it sure is hot!

Whew!! It is mighty hot outside, and you probably are wondering where I got the title of this post from.  Well, when I was a little kid I watched a show called Sesame Street, and one episode had them singing about the weather.  It popped up in my head so I decided to go ahead and write about it.

Let me make this clear…I love hot weather!!! Especially when I can go swimming, which is one of my favorite things to do.  Today however,  I won’t be able to go 😦 .     But don’t cry for me Argentina because I will be fine.   Although it doesn’t help to be on the bus and seeing people on there way to a local pool.  Such a teaser!!!

Right now the temperature outside is 103 degrees Fahrenheit! Although the real feel temperature is 111 degrees.  Here are some of the cities that have hit or surpassed their temperature records for today: June 29,2012.

“During the next couple of days, temperatures are forecast to reach 100 degrees or higher once again in the central and southern Plains to the Ohio Valley. However, even areas in the central and southern Appalachians and the coastal plain in the South and mid-Atlantic will do the same.

Columbia, S.C. has broken their all-time record high of 107 degrees set on multiple dates. During Friday afternoon, temperatures reached at least 108 degrees.

During Friday afternoon, Nashville has at least equaled its all-time record high of 107 degrees set in 1952. Nearby in Smyrna, Tenn. the temperature has reached at least 113 degrees

Charlotte, N.C., is also on track to reach its all-time record high of 104 degrees set in 1954 and tied in 2007.

Washington, D.C., broke its June record of 102 set in 2011, when the temperature reached at least 103 degrees Friday afternoon. The all-time record high is 106 degrees set on July 20, 1930.

Temperatures Friday afternoon inched close to the all-time record of 108 degrees at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor“.

I am curious if it is going to get any hotter today, but we’ll have to see.  I am glad to be somewhere that has A/C which isn’t something I would normally say.   But after being out in this heat getting to bus stops and then waiting for the bus I am perfectly fine with it.  Plus its  not icebox cold, just cool enough to be rather comfortable.

Thankfully, I do have plenty to drink as well so that makes things better.  A lot better.

So, is there anybody else that likes this weather as well?  Let me know I would love to hear from you.

Special thanks to http://www.accuweather.com and for the full article which is partially quoted above check it here.

I hope you all be safe.

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Talk about a great show: The Linux Action Show

I’m back guys.  Thought I would at last write about a show that I watch on a regular basis.  Its called the Linux Action Show.   Its hosts are Brian Lunduke and Chris Fisher.   I started watching this show back in 2010 and have been looking forward to it being available every Sunday.   I enjoy the humor and insight of the hosts as well as the guests that come to the show.

Generally when there is a new version of a distribution of Linux it is featured in an episode and there you get to pretty much hear some of the pros and cons of that particular operating system.  This is something I find to be rather useful as it helps me to choose which ones to use.   There is also the hot picks for android and various open- source projects are talked about as well.

A couple weeks ago we got to see a desktop that has been produced by a company called system 76.  That was awesome!!!  I can’t think of anything you cannot do on that machine.   But more on that another time.

Something else that makes this show cool is the fact that is available so many different ways.  Directly from the site, it can be downloaded or streamed and then it is available as a torrent or on youtube as well.  Not only that but its available in .ogg format which is a smaller file since it is more compressed than its cousin the mp4.

If you want to up the ante when it comes to video quality have no fear for the downloads are available in HD as well.

Of course this is only one of quite a few shows on the Jupiter network which can be accessed here.

The show is also family friendly and that adds to its appeal as far as I am concerned so by all means:  don’t just stand there….bust a move!!!

 

In fact, I’ll make it easier for ya.  Here’s a link to the latest episode.

 

http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/20956/linux-logging-basics-las-s22e05/

 

Enjoy!!!

Feelin hot hot hot!!!

The Mallorca Photo Blog

AEMet, Spain’s Meteorological Institute, has given a weather alert concerning an Ola de Calor, a heat wave.  That’s early. The big Summer heat wave normally comes around July 20th, give or take a week. That makes it three weeks early for this year’s early Ola de Calor. In Southern parts of mainland Spain, temperatures are said to be going up to 38° C, even 40° C in some places. Here in Mallorca, temperatures are forecast to reach 30° C today and tomorrow, and may go up to 31° C in some places, and even 33° C by Friday. UV radiation will be higher than normal as well these next few days with a reading of 11 and above.

My advice would be to take it easy. Be wise. Put a straw hat on your head or some other cover whenever you go out. Drink plenty of liquid, preferably…

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If you love chocolate, check this out!

The last few days have been spent learning, researching and understanding all about the cultivation of cacao right from the tree to the bean.

As I am shown round some of the local cacao farmers’ fields, I begin to understand how cacao needs to be cultivated and harvested to obtain high quality cacao, which will ultimately influence the taste of fine chocolate.

Looking at the cacao tree, it is hard to imagine that the world’s favourite delicacy starts from here.

The main cacao variety grown in this area is CCN-51, which stands for Coleccion Castro Naranjal, where 51 stands for the cross number of this variety. The CCN-51 is a clone introduced from Ecuador. About 80% the cacao production in the region of San Martin is CCN-51 variety.

This specific variety was mainly introduced as an alternative crop to coca because of its high productivity levels. In comparison to…

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Don’t you forget about me

Hello all, I just wanted to let you guys know that I don’t have any plans for any new material until at least tuesday of the following week.  I know, I know your sad and you miss me.  Yet I have good news……Yes you can read my blogs going back to August of 2011.   I have over 200 so you have plenty to look at.  Also feel free to give me ideas as well and I will check them out and I may very well end up doing some of them at least.  Thanks so much for the support and you all enjoy the remainder of your weekend!!

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Lets go under the Surface…Microsoft will you make this work?

Just today I was reading about a new tablet from Microsoft featuring Windows 8.   I would love to be able to say off-hand that it is going to be an #epic fail I decided to actually take a look at the info that was available for it and give it a chance based on what I learn.

Honestly speaking I think that Windows 8, while not suited for desktops unless perhaps you have a touch screen PC may be better for tablets so I am really curious as to how this is to turn out.

You may have heard about a product from Microsoft called Surface and that was basically a huge tablet built into a table, which I think is an awesome idea.  Yet that surface is different from the tablet.

Here are some of the specs according to Forbes magazine from yesterday:

“At an event held in Los Angeles this afternoon, Microsoft announced a new Windows 8 tablet called “Surface“. Not to be confused with its current “Surface” product, this tablet features a 10.6″ display with a microSD slot, USB 2.0 port,  and a magnesium case with PVD features. With edges beveled at 22 degrees and only 9.3 mm thin, the total weight of Surface is incredibly light at just 1.5 pounds. Another version of Surface designed for professionals, Surface for Windows Pro, is built with the latest Intel CPU.

Surface for Windows Pro also features the ability to use Digital Ink with pen input. During the announcement, it was noted that the distance between the stylus and the screen is .7mm. Surface for Windows Pro also features a microSDXC slot and a USB 3.0 port instead, and is slightly thicker at 13.5 mm.”

For the full article see http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2012/06/18/microsoft-announces-surface-its-new-windows-8-tablet/

You probably want to look at it don’t you? Well here it is.

It looks nice I’ll give it that, yet why in the world does Microsoft decide to reuse the name “surface” couldn’t you have come up with something new?

Another question speaking of tablets.   Since we like to compare such and such with the Ipad  so Will this Surface tablet be better than the Ipad? Some seem to think so in certain respects.

Please give me your thoughts on this I look forward to them.   This is probably going to be very interesting indeed!

Thank you for being a friend!!

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Yes, I know I can be rather random.  Yet this time I am random for a reason that just came to me.  I was sitting in Barnes and Noble bookstore and I thought it would be a great idea to write a blog today.  Even though I don’t normally write one on tuesday I decided to do  it anyway.  Then came the question of what to write about and like a lightbulb it came to me!

Thank you all so very much for your support!!!!!

Your comments, replies and reblogs have truly made blogging even more enjoyable to me.   I know I have said it before but this is something I love to do and to actually get readership over a period of time is an awesome thing.  Also having 136 followers is cool as well and that number is constantly going up.

I now have had over 7,000 views all-time, which is way more than I was getting before I came to WordPress.  I had learned about a site called Triond and it just got kind of boring after a while.  I have also used Blogger which is something I haven’t used in ages, but I will have to check it out again.

Anyway I wish to thank you all again and I wish you the best in not only your blogging endeavors but in life in general.

 

 

 

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Today I read a new article on Anandtech, discussing the Bulldozer architecture in detail, focusing on where it performs well, and more importantly, where it does not, and why. There weren’t too many surprises in the article, as I mentioned most problematic areas (decoding, integer ALU configuration, shared FPU, cache configuration…) years ago already. But that is not really what I want to talk about today. What I want to focus on is multi-core and multi-threading performance in general.

The thing is, time and time again I see people recommending a CPU with more cores for applications that require more threads. As Johan de Gelas points out in the aforementioned article, it is not that simple. Although the Bulldozer-based Opterons have 16 cores, they often have trouble keeping up with the older 12 core Magny Cours-based Opterons.

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A trip to New Delhi….club that is!

Chicken Makhani, murgh makhani, or “Butter Chicken” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

There is nothing like a nice meal, when you are hungry and are looking to try something new.  In fact there are even times when one is alone where it can be rather refreshing.   I found this to be true earlier today when I went to an Indian restaurant.   I decided to go to that particular one as a result of seeing in the window that they offered a lunch buffet.   For $9.95 it sounded like an awesome deal.   It just kept  coming back into my mind, so I decided to check it out.  It is so fun to be random.

Upon arrival to the restaurant I found very kind and attentive waiters, also what added to such a pleasant experience was the quiet atmosphere that I found there.   I like that a lot! Amazing considering that the restaurant is situated on a relatively busy intersection in Clarendon, VA.

I haven’t even gotten to the food yet either, but believe me it was some kind of wonderful!  I can further describe it as “outstanding”.  I loved the nice basket of tandoori bread that was a nice touch.

Starting off I decided to first make a bed of rice, then I added spinach pakodas, as well as a generous topping of butter chicken.  Those succulent morsels of chicken breast were so tasty!   My second place was rice with channa masala which is made with chickpeas and saag paneer which is spinach spiced just enough to give it a wonderful flavor.   Upon completion of the second plate I found myself having a happy feeling already.  So I asked myself: Do I have room for more?

As it turns out I did, but for the third plate I decided to be a bit more conservative with how much I put on it, as I was starting to run out of room for more food.  I also want to make sure there was  plenty of room left in my jeans for myself lol!!     I decided to sample the lamb vindaloo which was a CHOICE, not a bad one but lets just say I got bit back.  Thankfully I didn’t get bitten too hard.  Yellow dal and tahjeeri chicken were also on that plate.  Some people might say grease is the word, and you take my taste buds and you throw away conventionality.

Lol! the food wasn’t greasy at all, but I felt like being random.  In other words, I made a CHOICE.

Saag is a popular Kumaoni dish made from any of the various green vegetables like Spinach and Fenugreek (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I observe several other guests entering the restaurant.  As they start to get their food the son lets one of the waiters know that his mother does not like spicy food.  (It really wasn’t a problem since all that I had tried was quite mild.)   Yet, its a bird, its a plane, its superman, so I decided to approach the mother and gave some suggestions as to what I knew she would enjoy.   I was thanked and went back to my seat.  They proceeded to get their meal, sat down and enjoyed it quite a bit.

Just a little while later, I was approached by the mother who thanked me for the suggestions I had given earlier and it really was my pleasure to be able to assist.   I love to see people smile!

Hold on for a moment, we seem to have a vistor.  You see that guy over there?  He just got here, His name is Mr. Itis.  He’s a really great guy. I’ll only be a while, tell you what, I’ll greet him then I’ll get right back to you.  I promise.

“Oh, hello Mr. Itis, so nice of you to arrive, its been a while since I last saw you. I hope you enjoyed your trip. Feel free to stay for a while”.  He responds by telling me he would be around for a while and that was just fine with me.

I left the restaurant with a smile on my face and a  nice full tummy.  Looking forward to my next visit.

I tell you there is nothing like a see-food diet!

Here’s a song that I like a lot

Here’s a song that I like a lot.

Here’s a song that I like a lot

Previously I have written about how times have changed when it comes to music and how I feel things have deteriorated quite a bit over the years.  I have in my life been exposed to numerous genres of music, and I must say that I generally prefer music that sounds happy, and I  am completely turned off by anything with a sinister tone to it.

As a result, I prefer music that is older, whether its R&B from the 90’s or back several decades before that.  Music that elevates the mood and you can sing along and feel good about what you are saying.  I also like to listen to Artists that have real talent, and are not auto-tuned to death.  There is nothing wrong with experimenting with something, but when it is overdone it becomes lame to me.

Lots of times I surprise people with the songs I know, and to me that is a lot of fun as well.   One of those songs is this one, it is called: “Brandy (you’re a fine girl”) and if you haven’t it is definitely worth a listen.  This is of course but one of the songs I am used to hearing while with my uncle and aunt and would be something we would listen to on a long car trip.  As a result it brings back fond memories for me. So lets talk more about it.

The song turned out to be very successful and made a group called the Looking Glass, a one-hit wonder in 1972.  The lyrics tell of Brandy, a barmaid in a port town. She wins the admiration of many of the sailors, but she cannot return their feelings – the love of her life was unwilling to abandon his true love, the sea. In spite of this, Brandy continues to love the sailor and wears a braided silver chain with a locket that bears his name. It has been suggested that the song was inspired by the real life story of Mary Ellis, whose grave resides in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where the band was formed.^[1

What I found to be so funny was when I was looking up this song I ran across a comment that said it sounded like Barack Obama singing.  I listened to it again, and it really does!

As a matter of fact I made a video with my brother and I singing this song and I hope you enjoy!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSk38qOn8LA&feature=plcp

Catalyst Forever

Catalyst Forever.

I am still learning in Linux

 

 

 

I came across something very cool a few days ago and I thought I would share with you all.  It just goes to show that there is always something new to learn everyday.  This of course is just one of many times this has happened to me.  Sometimes we come across something we didn’t know before simply from looking at options on a screen which is what I did.

 

As it turns out I was going through the “system” tab on Ubuntu 10.10 , and I was looking at the various options under the “administration” tab.  Then i went to “system monitor” because I was looking for information as to how much RAM my laptop was using at the time. Well while doing that I went through each of the tabs and came across the “file systems” tab.

 

Now keep in mind on my laptop I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 in a dual-boot environment.   I had Windows 7 on there first and I divided the partitions.   I decided to run Ubuntu 10.10 as an experiment and so the partition was much smaller than I wanted later, but that’s not really a big deal as you will see in a little while.

 

Back to the list of two file directories.  I clicked on the one that said sda2 and got into my Windows files from there.

 

I then double-clicked sda2 and went through several folders until I finally got to “users” I went there and was able to get to my desired files.

 

Learning how to do this proved to be very helpful because what I would do previously when I wanted to access something from Windows 7 I would reboot my system and then in Grub or the book menu choose Windows 7 then run that operating system.  Now I can get whatever I want without rebooting at all and this is so useful to me now.

 

Hopefully this will be of some benefit to you, and once again I have learned something new by simply pressing buttons and investigation menus.

Keep on the lookout since I will be sharing more things that I learn about Linux, Windows or even other topics.

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Dear EA: (Electronic Arts) please don’t disappoint me

Dear EA: (Electronic Arts) please don’t disappoint me.