I ran into a little struggle trying to save a live stream web video that was utilizing the JWplayer 7.12.11. I tried every chrome and firefox downloader add in and came up empty handed. Through digging and looking I discovered that it was using a m3u8 playlist to manage the video file fragments.
Website with video stream I was trying to save: http://hopenow.tv
1. use firefox, developer tools to find the url to the actual page that has the JWplayer embedded, which was: http://trbcmedia.com/live/43stream.php
2. download youtube-dl from https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
3. ran command: youtube-dl http://trbcmedia.com/live/43stream.php -j
4. look through the data and choose the appropriate manifest url that ended in .m3u8 which in my case was http://live-cache.trbcmedia.com/TRBC-Edge/smil:43.smil/playlist.m3u8
5. ran command: youtube-dl http://live-cache.trbcmedia.com/TRBC-Edge/smil:43.smil/playlist.m3u8
6. After letting it go until the content that I wsnted played, I pressed ctrl+c and renamed the xxxx.mp4.part file to xxxx.mp4
7. Profit!
Sunday, December 24, 2017
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Tonight...
Tonight I was reminded how wonderful it is to be a Mac user. A month ago or so, my in-laws bought a new laptop and I started getting emails from them that had images hosted on a skydrive. I thought nothing of it, but tonight I was asked why it was happening, so I took a look. For some unknown reason Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, has decided that if you use their default windows mail application and you attach images to an email or if you use their client to send images from picasa, etc, it labels it as a "photo email" and takes the images hostage and automatically uploads them to the skydive and attaches some tiny thumbnails in the .png format to the email.
I spent the better of an hour trying to work around the problem, finally stumbling on to a setting buried several levels down in the windows mail live 2011 app. The setting supposedly was to disable emails with images being sent as "photo emails", but alas, the still did...
In the past 3 years as a Mac user I have never had to work so hard to get my computer to do a simple task that I asked of it.
This would have been such a non-issue with Apple Mail and iPhoto!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Re: hi
I hope that no one clicked the link. Oh well, looks like my email was
hacked. My apologies!
hacked. My apologies!
Luckily my gmail password is unique to my other logins.
I'll take this time to remind folks not to have a single password for
all their logins. And it's a good idea to periodically change those
passwords!
I wonder who in china is responsible for this!
Marlin Schrock.
On Monday, November 22, 2010, Marlin Schrock <marlin.schrock@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, my dear friend
> i am really happy with my new Ipone4 .
> i order from here :< www.newelecn.com>
> take a look , sure you will like it
> thousands of products .
> save more than 30%!
> enjoy here
>
--
Marlin Schrock
See my blog at: http://ki4aoa.blogspot.com
Monday, December 6, 2010
My what a pretty lock you have there…
If you have ever used the basement door at the house I live at you know of the Master Lock 5400D portable lock box attached to the door knob. Usually I pinch myself on it when I open the door. It was put on there by a previous resident, and no one knew the combo.
My father-in-law said he was going to cut it off with a bolt cutter, but I told him to hold off and let me see if I could remove it intact. I was introduced to the sport of lockpicking from my brother-in-law, Mark. Doing a little research online yielded very little other than lots of other folks with the same question as I. Could the master 5400d be easily opened without destroying it?
Let it be known that the $29 lockbox is fairly insecure, as I an inexperienced novice who has never picked a lock an has no lockpicking tools opened it in less than an hour. And that was cut to less than 2 minutes after I did it the first time!I look forward to more lockpicking challenges in the future!
Saturday, June 26, 2010
How I scored an iPhone 4 on launch day.
On June 15 I tried to preorder an 32GB iPhone 4 and have it shipped to
my home on launch day. I started at 4:30 am and finally gave up at 8
am. Due to a little thing called work, I couldn't try again until 11 pm, and by that time, the shipping date
had slipped to July 2nd. I said screw it, and placed the order. I
wasn't happy, but I was getting an iPhone. By the next day I was
feeling good! The shipping date for new orders had slipped to july 15th.
June 23rd I decided to stop by Best Buy to see if they were going to
have any phones for walk up customers on launch day. When I asked,
the girl said to hold on that they had a situation, and that she would
have to call the manager and ask her. Umm. She called the manager and
then she asked me what time I could be there to pickup a phone! I
said I could be there at 7 am.
Apparently, they had a person back out of a preorder, and they had an extra!
I gave her my info, and she wrote my name on the glorious iPhone 4 box.
Thursday morning I arrive at the store at 6:40am. There were two other
guys and the best buy mobile manager. We chatted for a while, then a
little after 7 am they let us in the store and I got my phone!
I drove home and immediately cancelled the apple.com preorder.
The only downside to all this was the small detail that I ended up
getting a 16GB model instead of a 32GB.
At any rate, I'm loving my iPhone 4!
my home on launch day. I started at 4:30 am and finally gave up at 8
am. Due to a little thing called work, I couldn't try again until 11 pm, and by that time, the shipping date
had slipped to July 2nd. I said screw it, and placed the order. I
wasn't happy, but I was getting an iPhone. By the next day I was
feeling good! The shipping date for new orders had slipped to july 15th.
June 23rd I decided to stop by Best Buy to see if they were going to
have any phones for walk up customers on launch day. When I asked,
the girl said to hold on that they had a situation, and that she would
have to call the manager and ask her. Umm. She called the manager and
then she asked me what time I could be there to pickup a phone! I
said I could be there at 7 am.
Apparently, they had a person back out of a preorder, and they had an extra!
I gave her my info, and she wrote my name on the glorious iPhone 4 box.
Thursday morning I arrive at the store at 6:40am. There were two other
guys and the best buy mobile manager. We chatted for a while, then a
little after 7 am they let us in the store and I got my phone!
I drove home and immediately cancelled the apple.com preorder.
The only downside to all this was the small detail that I ended up
getting a 16GB model instead of a 32GB.
At any rate, I'm loving my iPhone 4!
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Amarillo Pale Ale
Saturday, April 24th, 2010, I brewed my first solo all grain batch of beer. I am eager to see how it turns out, since I failed on so many levels.
- Killed my thermometer, and didn't know the exact temp of sparge water.
- Apparently when I took the pre-boil specific gravity reading, the first running and the second running weren't mixed properly, so it showed 1.060, freaking me out.
- Added approx 3 quarts of water, to the boil correcting the then feared "to high of efficency."
- At end of boil, wort was at 1.050, way under what I wanted.
- Took longer to chill than I wanted.
- Forgot to aerate wort.
- When pitching yeast, found that the Activator smack pack wasn't "smacked." Before brewing, I tried for 20 minutes to break the tiny inner pouch, thought that I did. However, at pitching time the pack was swelled tight.
Looking back at the few facts:
After boil and water addition specific gravity: 1.050
Starting pre-boil wort volume: 7.5 Gal
Freakout water addition: 0.75 Gal
After boil wort volume: 6.75 Gal
Entering that info into several online calculators, I can deduce:
The actual pre-boil SG was: 1.045, which translates to a mash efficiency of 80%. (Pretty Good!) Had I left it alone and not diluted the wort, it would have been fine, with a OG of 1.056, or 5.6% ABV. Instead with the 0.75 Gal of water added, I'll get 4.9% ABV, which is what I would have had with a 70% mash efficiency.
Lessons learned:
- Stir wort before taking preboil gravity
- Buy waterproof thermometer
- Need 50' wort chiller
- Don't brew on empty stomach, low blood sugar affects brain function
- Make checklist to follow while brewing, I.E. don't forget to aerate.
- Make a yeast starter
Who knows, it will probably turn out to be the best beer I've made yet.
- Killed my thermometer, and didn't know the exact temp of sparge water.
- Apparently when I took the pre-boil specific gravity reading, the first running and the second running weren't mixed properly, so it showed 1.060, freaking me out.
- Added approx 3 quarts of water, to the boil correcting the then feared "to high of efficency."
- At end of boil, wort was at 1.050, way under what I wanted.
- Took longer to chill than I wanted.
- Forgot to aerate wort.
- When pitching yeast, found that the Activator smack pack wasn't "smacked." Before brewing, I tried for 20 minutes to break the tiny inner pouch, thought that I did. However, at pitching time the pack was swelled tight.
Looking back at the few facts:
After boil and water addition specific gravity: 1.050
Starting pre-boil wort volume: 7.5 Gal
Freakout water addition: 0.75 Gal
After boil wort volume: 6.75 Gal
Entering that info into several online calculators, I can deduce:
The actual pre-boil SG was: 1.045, which translates to a mash efficiency of 80%. (Pretty Good!) Had I left it alone and not diluted the wort, it would have been fine, with a OG of 1.056, or 5.6% ABV. Instead with the 0.75 Gal of water added, I'll get 4.9% ABV, which is what I would have had with a 70% mash efficiency.
Lessons learned:
- Stir wort before taking preboil gravity
- Buy waterproof thermometer
- Need 50' wort chiller
- Don't brew on empty stomach, low blood sugar affects brain function
- Make checklist to follow while brewing, I.E. don't forget to aerate.
- Make a yeast starter
Who knows, it will probably turn out to be the best beer I've made yet.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
New Brew Kettle
I've been wanting to get my brewing out of the kitchen. Beth, my wife, isn't as enthusiastic as I am with the beer brewing, and it fills the house with the wonderful aromas of malt and hops. After many hours looking up info on the web, I decided on the electric keg kettle as the brewpot I will be making/using.
I scored the 15.5 gal sanke keg from my uncle. He found it abandoned. It wasn't the most desirable keg, since it has a rubber coating on the top and bottom. It wouldn't have worked at all for a propane heated pot, but I think that it will be ok for electric. This was the only straight sided keg that found.
Here is how it went. I took the keg down to my uncle's shop and had my cousin Larry help me:
1. Cutting the top. This proved to be the most difficult. I wanted an approximately 12" opening in the top. We started by removing the top layer of rubber. Scoring it with an utility knife, and prying it off with a large screw driver. Then we drilled a starting hole and used a reciprocating saw to do the cutting. It was not going very fast. Actually it wasn't going at all. We discovered that there was a layer of metal, then a 1/4 inch layer of rubber, and then the keg wall. I gave the OK to use the plasma cutter, we filled the keg with water to prevent the slag from messing up the inside, and less than 15 minutes later we had a ragged smoking flaming hole in the top of the keg. The rubber was burning and it was really awful smelling.
2. Cleaning up the top. This took a lot of time. Larry, finally got it so it wasn't like a razor blade all the way around the top. The OCD in me wishes that it was more perfect. It is 11.5" in diameter and has a 1/2' rim so if anything was to spill or condense it will not run in the pot, it will run off. Since this keg was rubber coated, it realy complicated this process, as we had to fiddle with the rubber.
3. Prepping the couplings. I decided to put three couplings in the keg. One 1" for the 4500 watt electric water heater element. I chose a RIPP style element, and this made the process more difficult. The 1" coupling had to be cut shorter because it would not slide around the curves of the element. We cut about a 3/4 inch piece off with a bandsaw and faced it with the lathe. Next was a 1/2 inch coupling for the drain. And last, a 1/4 inch coupling for a thermocouple. These didn't require any modification.
4. Drilling the holes. We drilled the keg with a slightly smaller bit than the actual coupling. We didn't want to make the hole to large, as I wanted a really nice weld job. The element hole and the drain hole we enlarged with a reamer in a die grinder, and then pulled the coupling through from the inside. This yielded a thight fit, but the last coupling turned out perfect. For the 1/4 inch coupling we drilled a 5/8 inch hole for the coupling that measured 3/4 inch. We didn't enlarge the hole, and pulled it through. It was hard to pull through, but it was perfect.
5. Welding. We chose TIG welding as the means of welding the couplings in the wall. Larry did this while I wasn't there, and did a nice job. He said that he burnt through a couple of times, and had to use filler in those places. We didn't have the necessary equipment to back gas, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I told him that I didn't want chunky bumpy yucky weld on the inside. This is bad because it can harbor bacterial and is impossible to keep sanitary. I was impressed with what he did, the only less than perfect spot is where he tried to TIG it on the inside around the element coupling. He did all the welding on the out side, and it looks good to me.
6. Leak test. We cleaned up the threads with a thread tap, and screwed in the element, valve, and a plug in the thermocouple coupling. We filled it with water and it didn't leak a drop. We drained ti through the drain, and I'm glad I used a 1/2 in valve, as a 3/8 inch valve would take forever!
Lessons learned:
1. Don't try to use a rubber coated keg, it isn't worth it. We would have been done in less than half the time and had a much better looking finished product if we had used a all stainless keg.
2. Use a straight folded water heater element. We could have left the 1 inch coupling full length. (and saved even more time)
3. Leave the holes 1/16 inch smaller than the object you are putting in, and pull it through with a bolt, nut, sleeve arrangement.
When all was said and done, I had a 15.5 electric brew kettle for only the cost of:
$ 0.00 - Keg
$10.00 - Stainless Steel Couplings
$ 3.00 - 1/2" Brass ball valve and coupling
$24.99 - 4500 watt RIPP water heater element
and the welding and machine work cost me our old coffee maker.
There will be more costs for the electrical stuff needed to drive the element. I have a few things on order, and will do another post when they get here and I get that part finished. I also am going to make a dip tube for the drain so it will empty the kettle.
I scored the 15.5 gal sanke keg from my uncle. He found it abandoned. It wasn't the most desirable keg, since it has a rubber coating on the top and bottom. It wouldn't have worked at all for a propane heated pot, but I think that it will be ok for electric. This was the only straight sided keg that found.
Here is how it went. I took the keg down to my uncle's shop and had my cousin Larry help me:
1. Cutting the top. This proved to be the most difficult. I wanted an approximately 12" opening in the top. We started by removing the top layer of rubber. Scoring it with an utility knife, and prying it off with a large screw driver. Then we drilled a starting hole and used a reciprocating saw to do the cutting. It was not going very fast. Actually it wasn't going at all. We discovered that there was a layer of metal, then a 1/4 inch layer of rubber, and then the keg wall. I gave the OK to use the plasma cutter, we filled the keg with water to prevent the slag from messing up the inside, and less than 15 minutes later we had a ragged smoking flaming hole in the top of the keg. The rubber was burning and it was really awful smelling.
2. Cleaning up the top. This took a lot of time. Larry, finally got it so it wasn't like a razor blade all the way around the top. The OCD in me wishes that it was more perfect. It is 11.5" in diameter and has a 1/2' rim so if anything was to spill or condense it will not run in the pot, it will run off. Since this keg was rubber coated, it realy complicated this process, as we had to fiddle with the rubber.
3. Prepping the couplings. I decided to put three couplings in the keg. One 1" for the 4500 watt electric water heater element. I chose a RIPP style element, and this made the process more difficult. The 1" coupling had to be cut shorter because it would not slide around the curves of the element. We cut about a 3/4 inch piece off with a bandsaw and faced it with the lathe. Next was a 1/2 inch coupling for the drain. And last, a 1/4 inch coupling for a thermocouple. These didn't require any modification.
4. Drilling the holes. We drilled the keg with a slightly smaller bit than the actual coupling. We didn't want to make the hole to large, as I wanted a really nice weld job. The element hole and the drain hole we enlarged with a reamer in a die grinder, and then pulled the coupling through from the inside. This yielded a thight fit, but the last coupling turned out perfect. For the 1/4 inch coupling we drilled a 5/8 inch hole for the coupling that measured 3/4 inch. We didn't enlarge the hole, and pulled it through. It was hard to pull through, but it was perfect.
5. Welding. We chose TIG welding as the means of welding the couplings in the wall. Larry did this while I wasn't there, and did a nice job. He said that he burnt through a couple of times, and had to use filler in those places. We didn't have the necessary equipment to back gas, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I told him that I didn't want chunky bumpy yucky weld on the inside. This is bad because it can harbor bacterial and is impossible to keep sanitary. I was impressed with what he did, the only less than perfect spot is where he tried to TIG it on the inside around the element coupling. He did all the welding on the out side, and it looks good to me.
6. Leak test. We cleaned up the threads with a thread tap, and screwed in the element, valve, and a plug in the thermocouple coupling. We filled it with water and it didn't leak a drop. We drained ti through the drain, and I'm glad I used a 1/2 in valve, as a 3/8 inch valve would take forever!
Lessons learned:
1. Don't try to use a rubber coated keg, it isn't worth it. We would have been done in less than half the time and had a much better looking finished product if we had used a all stainless keg.
2. Use a straight folded water heater element. We could have left the 1 inch coupling full length. (and saved even more time)
3. Leave the holes 1/16 inch smaller than the object you are putting in, and pull it through with a bolt, nut, sleeve arrangement.
When all was said and done, I had a 15.5 electric brew kettle for only the cost of:
$ 0.00 - Keg
$10.00 - Stainless Steel Couplings
$ 3.00 - 1/2" Brass ball valve and coupling
$24.99 - 4500 watt RIPP water heater element
and the welding and machine work cost me our old coffee maker.
There will be more costs for the electrical stuff needed to drive the element. I have a few things on order, and will do another post when they get here and I get that part finished. I also am going to make a dip tube for the drain so it will empty the kettle.
Fixed Screen Resolution on Ubuntu 9.10
I restarted my ubuntu machine today and was presented with a glorious 800x600 screen resolution. After a few minutes of looking for the xorg.conf file and not finding it, I found this which got things working again:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8595940
Now if it were this easy to fix the mac keyboard that the cats spilled water on...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8595940
Now if it were this easy to fix the mac keyboard that the cats spilled water on...
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Countdown to the big day!
Things are really gearing up here on the home front. My wife, Beth is due Sept 23rd, so we are in full swing of trying to get the last things done.
Tonight we met with our doula, Laurie Flower, for the second and final prenatal visit. I'm very excited!! Beth and I are sooo happy that we decided to go with a doula. I don't know if it is a first-time parent thing, but she brings us so much comfort. (and we haven't even got to the labor and delivery yet!)
Even though we went through child birth classes, our doula has helped guide us through our expectations, and the reality of childbirth. She is such an encourager!
So as the excitement builds, I hope to get the time to post things to the site!
I'm starting to wonder how these spoiled guys will take the arrival!
Tonight we met with our doula, Laurie Flower, for the second and final prenatal visit. I'm very excited!! Beth and I are sooo happy that we decided to go with a doula. I don't know if it is a first-time parent thing, but she brings us so much comfort. (and we haven't even got to the labor and delivery yet!)
Even though we went through child birth classes, our doula has helped guide us through our expectations, and the reality of childbirth. She is such an encourager!
So as the excitement builds, I hope to get the time to post things to the site!
I'm starting to wonder how these spoiled guys will take the arrival!
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Here come the kittehs . . .
Meet Nemo and Sheldon:
Nemo
Platinum Mink Tonkinese
Named for Marlin's son in the movie Finding Nemo. Nemo is curious, affectionate, and wants to be center of attention at all times.
Nemo
Platinum Mink Tonkinese
Named for Marlin's son in the movie Finding Nemo. Nemo is curious, affectionate, and wants to be center of attention at all times.
Sheldon
Champagne Mink Tonkinese
Another character from the movie Finding Nemo. Also, named for a character from The Big Bang Theory. Sheldon is the prettier, smarter, cooler of the two. However, he isn't as affectionate, and likes to spend time by himself. (Ironically just like the Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory.)
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