Give Me GigBit NetWorking OR Give Me Freedom!

Oh Lord.
Trying to frantically backup a DroboFS to a Synology DS214SE.
The latter, I have to say, was a brilliant purchase.
But networking.
Networking.
Sigh.
GigaBit Networking required.
And I only have 10/100.
Expensive weekend I fear,

Mincraft - Series 2 A Mob Interlude - complete

Series 02 - A Mob Interlude is now complete.
A tad dry but fun dialogue.
Plus I make a massive mistake between D H Lawrence and H P Lovecraft.
Wait.
What?
Yes really.
Joy of joys.
But I make amends with the last video.

Why certain practices in companies stay the way they are despite being silly.

Two points:

1) See http://freekvermeulen.blogspot.com.au/2008/08/monkey-story-experiment-involved-5.html

This story illustrates the point succinctly.

2) I have a personal non-work example.

When I was very young in the early 60's we didn't have a 'cooker'.

We had a coal fireplace and 'hobs' which were swinging cast-iron arms that moved over the fire.

You put kettles, pots etc on them and your food got cooked.

For several years we moved from house to house and then to Australia in 1968.

It had a gas cooker that was so big you could put a side of beef in.

I watched my mother get a roast ready.

She got the roast and cut the top third off and placed the 2/3rd and 1/3rd next to each other in a tray.

I wondered why, but didn't ask her why.

Then in 1977 I travelled to the UK and visited my Aunt and Uncle.

My Aunt did exactly the same thing my mother did.

2/3rd 1/3rd of a roast in a tray.

Later that year I visited my GrandParents.

To my total surprise I saw her do the same thing.

I asked why.

Her response:

"When I was young we only had a cooker that was about 4 inches tall run by coal.

So I cut the top off the roast so that it would fit.

I just haven't changed."

Ah. I see.

We tend to do the same things because other people do it that way because of some reason that doesn't matter anymore.

So. Re-evaluation time for your habits.

Seriously. You know you'e neurotic when a HDD gets down to 1Tb and you start panicking.

Cleaning an old Drobo.
Copying stuff across from another.
Status shows 1.10Tb left on target Drobo.
OH NO!
WORLD IS GOING TO END!
Because?
Aliens!

Wake up call. 1 Frickin TerraByte left. Seriously?

I've being doing this for waaaaay too long.

Transcript todo list for episode 6 - Minecraft, YogsCast, Mekanism, Metallturgic Infuser

The last video had to be split into two parts for which I am apologise.
There was a point where I showed a text file showing my 'process' which I'm sure people will ask for.
So here it is in all its glory and typos included for hilarities sake:

Building a metallurgic infuser chain.

Make four furnaces
    cobble  cobble  cobble
    cobble          cobble
    cobble  cobble  cobble

Place 2 furnaces down

Get Coal
    At least 4 Stacks of it
    Put 1 stack in each of 2 furnaces

Get Sand
    Smelt 36+ glass blocks

Get Osmium Ore

Make Osmium ingots
    Smelt them in the furnaces to create a bunch of ingots
    Need one to make the infuser

Get Iron Ore

Make Iron ingots
    Smelt them in the furnaces to create a bunch of ingots
    Need 4 to make the infuser

Get Red Stone
    At least 8 stacks of it!
    Actually as many as possible.
    Try getting 32 stacks if possible.

Make one
    Iron    Furnace Iron
    Ingot           Ingot
    
    Red     Osmium  Red
    Stone   Ingot   Stone

    Iron    Furnace Iron
    Ingot           Ingot
    
Make some enriched alloy
    Purple top left box <= Stack redstone
    Green right top box <= Stack redstone
    Red box <= Stack iron ingots
    Output => Enriched Alloy

Notice what you see when you mouse over the right moving arrow.
    You'll see 'recipes'.
    9 pages of them.
    READ THEM ALL!

Extract the Enriched Alloy

Extract the Redstone from the top right box

Click the 'Dump' key.
    This will remove ALL redstone from the left vertical power bar.

However you want to create osmium dust
    This can be done with a crusher or whatever    

However you want to create gold dust
    This can be done with a crusher or whatever    

Create 9 Speed Upgrades
                Glass
                Block
    Enriched    Osmium  Enriched
    Alloy       Dust    Alloy
                Glass
                Block

One by one right click the speed upgrades and drag them to the top right upgrade area.
    You probably will have to type xxx in the NEI input to clear the massive menu.
    Tjis is a pain as sometimes the right-click-hold fails.
    Persevere.
    Do all nine.

Create 9 Energy Upgrades
                Glass
                Block
    Enriched    Gold    Enriched
    Alloy       Dust    Alloy
                Glass
                Block

One by one right click the energy upgrades and drag them to the top right upgrade area.
    You probably will have to type xxx in the NEI input to clear the massive menu.
    Tjis is a pain as sometimes the right-click-hold fails.
    Persevere.
    Do all nine.

Now create encriched iron.
    Top left purple <= coal or charcoal
    Left red <= iron ingot
    Top right green <= Red Stone
    Blue output => enriched iron

Now create steel dust
    Top left purple <= coal or charcoal
    Left red <= Enriched Iron
    Top Right Green <= Red Stone
    Blue output => Steel dust

Place steel dust in furnace to smelt Steel Ingots.

Gradually building up my Minecraft, Mekanism, JABBA, and YogsCast videos on YouTube

Yeah. Yeah.
I'm now officially a YouTuber...
It's actually kinda a lot of fun.
Plus...
I get to hear what I sound like for real.

Scary...


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKqnDY-A2QkgxxN6Z5bjmNQ


Hope you like them.

Hmm. How the hell do I make money from this?
Anyone?
Just me?
Uthgar?
No?

Ok. As of today I'm a MineCraft YouTuber! Mekanism, ProjectRed, JABBA etc YogsCastComplete

Soooo....
Yeah...
Had a go.
Few false starts with SoundFlower on Mavericks, but it worked in the end.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E30lOC6Ta80&index=2&list=UUKqnDY-A2QkgxxN6Z5bjmNQ
For the first instalment.

Hmm. How many people would be interested in minecraft cheat sheets for Mekanism, ProjectRed, JABBA etc?

I've been a avid fan of Minecraft for some time.
I tend to always "build" in survival mode.
And since I'm just shy of 60 I tend to forget the recipes and have to sit there running back and forth between a tool station and chests as I use the '?' button to remember what I need to make stuff.
So in sheer frustration I created a series of A3 PDFs of various components I use regularly, printed them out and stuck them to my wall.
Then I could just glance sideways and know what I needed.

Because I may be over-stepping copyright boundaries and what not, I decided to contact the authors of the various mods to see if they would be amicable to having me make these available outside of their 'official' wikis.

No response.

Hmm. Ok. It's only been a coupla days... So I thought I'd ask my readers if they would be interested in giving feed back that I could use to bolster support.

So you're not left hanging as to what these sheets look like here are some partials I took:

So... Any bites? I'll gather results and pass them on to the authors of the ModPacks and see if I can get these out there...

Your call...

Ta muchly
Kimbo

Minecraft - Sieve Automation

You have a mouse.
It has a right boo-ton. Yes. That's how you pronounce it...
Not 'T-u-n', but 't-o-n'.
Booo-Ton.
(Watch YogsCast on YouTube for how you pronounce stuff. Like Bah-bee not Bay-Bee)
Anyway.
Rant over.

So to avoid RSI of one of your fingers...
Get your sieve.
Fill your inventory with Earth or Gravel or what the frick ever.
Carefully right click to start the process.
And then gently place a reasonably heavy object in the same spot your RSI addled finger was.
I use an iPad cover.
Then you can safely sit back and watch shattered ores, seeds or what-the-frick-ever fill your inventory.
While you sip (or gulp) at your favorite beverage.
(Mine's bourbon).
So PLEASE stop searching for some mechanistic approach and go back to basics.
You have a mouse.
It has a right boo-ton.
You have a heavy object.
You have a glass of your favorite beverage.
Thimk.
Thimk.
Do... There is no try. There is only Dig or No-Dig.

People wear hats in Peru! Because: Aliens!

Re-Watched Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Daniken for the first time in years.
(Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods)
I first watched it in 1971 (I think) when he was touring the world showing it in school/church halls.

ROTFL.

Can't believe I ever took this seriously.

The process is something like this:

"People in Peru wear hats. Here are pictures of statues on Easter island. The hats are strikingly similar."

"Huge stone blocks! Pyramids! Thousands of tons!"

And so on.

It's never explicitly stated but the underlying message that should be added to every sentence is:

BECAUSE: ALIENS!

Sorry.
Nope.
The past is human and when this kind of bollocks is produced and distributed it demeans the achievements of our ancestors.

Here is a table:

+---------------------------+----------+
| Question:                 | Because: |
+--------------------------------------+
| Vimyana?                  | Aliens!  |
| Ark of the covenant?      | Aliens!  |
| Wall paintings of people? | Aliens!  |
| Ezekiel?                  | Aliens!  |
| Hats?                     | Aliens!  |
| Maths?                    | Aliens!  |
| Legs?                     | Aliens!  |
| Brains?                   | Aliens!  |
| iPhone?                   | Aliens!  |
| Democrats?                | Aliens!  |
| Republicans?              | Aliens!  |
| Sean Hannity?             | Aliens!  |
| Putin?                    | Aliens!  |
| Glenn Beck?               | Aliens!  |
| Obama?                    | Aliens!  |
| Taxes?                    | Aliens!  |
| Big Foot?                 | Aliens!  |
+---------------------------+----------+

Depressingly familiar, no?

And just for the heck of it, go to http://aeon.co/magazine/ and read some of the articles.
I was particularly entranced with:

http://aeon.co/magazine/world-views/beauty-is-truth-theres-a-false-equation/

And:

http://aeon.co/magazine/world-views/logic-of-buddhist-philosophy/

As it has a lot to do with:

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/05/programming-sucks-why-a-job-in-coding-is-absolute-hell/

Because I'm a developer and *KNOW* the web consists of chicken wire and chewing gum.
We're all doomed.

Because: Aliens!