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Re: FPU Central - Your online companion for Financial Peace University

Matt Jacob — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:24:48 -0000

Lesson 8 tonight, "Real Estate and Mortgages". It's a good one, and you guys are gonna like Chris Hogan.

Oh, and save room for dessert... we're making some fresh peanut butter cookies.

Re: FPU Central - Your online companion for Financial Peace University

Matt Jacob — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:08:33 -0000

Nice!

Re: FPU Central - Your online companion for Financial Peace University

Matt Jacob — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:32:41 -0000

The word on the street is that there will be homemade brownies tomorrow night... first-come, first-served!

Re: Diners, Drive-ins and Dives

Matt Jacob — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:33:46 -0000

Lindy's on 4th was on Man v. Food, wasn't it? We've been to El Guero Canelo and Mi Nidito (I think those were the other two from that episode), but we've never been to Lindy's. Wanna go with us sometime?

Re: Diners, Drive-ins and Dives

Matt Jacob — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:31:35 -0000

Don't forget about La Piazza Al Forno and Haus Murphy's! I think we've been to almost all the DDD restaurants in the Phoenix area now... The weekend where we went to three in a row was insane.

Re: Rainbow Sandals: Guaranteed Not to Have a Guarantee

Matt Jacob — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:19:11 -0000

I prefer Keen sandals now. They're not made of leather, they stay on better, and they have a toe protector. It's all the benefits of wearing shoes, but without the socks, which is awesome.

Re: Macaroni and Cheese

Matt Jacob — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:07:51 -0000

That mac & cheese was pretty good. I mean, it was probably some of the best I've ever had. Almost like Stouffer's, but not nearly as salty, and without that fake sharp cheddar taste. I could eat this mac & cheese every week, but then I'd weigh about 400 pounds.

Re: Good image hosting is hard to find

Matt Jacob — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:50:55 -0000

Cool! I wasn't even aware that an API existed for Picasa Web Albums. They have a Java client library available, which is perfect. I might have to get hacking on this.

Re: iMac Surgery | jyoseph.com

Matt Jacob — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:42:31 -0000

I was actually wondering about this just the other day because I'm considering getting one of the new iMacs. I thought to myself, "Hmm. I wonder how hard it would be to swap out a dead hard drive in an iMac." Next to the Mac Pro, MacBooks probably have the easiest HD swap. Then iMacs, then Mac minis.

Re: Chicago, one of my favorite cities.

Matt Jacob — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:03:53 -0000

"The hubby"? Is that all I am to you now?

The chatty chef was Dave Samber, and he even has a website for his restaurant! As expected, the website is truly awful. I mean, it's a complete train wreck with no survivors. The neon blue is literally making my eyes bleed right now.

I swear we ate more food at the Taste, too. Did you mention the roasted corn on the cob? What about the sweet potato hash browns?

Re: How I (might) roll: off-site backups

Matt Jacob — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:37:25 -0000

True. If Tucson were destroyed, all of my backups would be destroyed as well. Then again, since I'm in Tucson 98% of the time, I'd also be destroyed, and thus, probably wouldn't care too much about not having any remaining backups. ;-) My most critical files (up to 50GB of them, anyway) are encrypted and stored in my Dropbox account.

My friend Vince pointed out that I should really have dual-redundancy backups since a 1TB drive could easily fail during a recovery operation. I think I'll add another drive to the set so that one disk at work is 1 week old and another is 2 weeks old.

Re: 4th of July

Matt Jacob — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:11:06 -0000

And to think... you were initially upset with our purchase of illicit Chinese explosives. Well, I'm buying twice as much stuff next year!

Re: How I (might) roll: off-site backups

Matt Jacob — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:25:37 -0000

Re: Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Matt Jacob — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:18:17 -0000

Your sweet tooth is gonna become a fat tooth if you keep on covering all the fruit in the house with dark chocolate. Husband of the year award? I think it's a little too premature for that, but I'm definitely in the running.

Re: Iced tea

Matt Jacob — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:13:26 -0000

Thank you. :-) I don't put any sweetener in my tea, either. It tastes fine just the way it is! I also drink my coffee black, but that's another story.

Re: Pineapple upside-down cake

Matt Jacob — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:12:23 -0000

I think the mini pineapple molds produced some awesome upside-down cake. It must have maraschino cherries next time, though!

Re: Iced tea

Matt Jacob — Mon, 31 May 2010 04:17:32 -0000

I do a lot of things well, but expanding your horizons is one of the things I do best.

Re: eyeTV Hybrid Screenshots | jyoseph.com

Matt Jacob — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:52:03 -0000

Interesting. There are a few different avenues I'm considering, but EyeTV will most likely be involved at some point. I'm thinking I'm probably gonna go with a Mac mini connected to the TV along with a MythTV box hidden away in the office. The HDHomeRun has two tuners, so I can record with the Myth box while we watch something different live on the mini. It's nice to know that EyeTV has decent recording features, though.

The other integration sounds cool, but we won't be able to take advantage of it. Neither of us have an iPhone, and there's nary an Apple TV to be found in the entire house. I'm sure they'll make a Palm Pre app any day now, though... (hahahahahahaha! What am I talking about? NOBODY makes apps for the Pre!)

That sounds about right for how much space the encoded files take up. At 720p, a 30-minute show is about 600M, and a 60-minute show is exactly double that. It's a good thing disk space is cheap, or else this wouldn't even be feasible.

Re: 12.22.2009 10:51 | jyoseph.com

Matt Jacob — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:01:19 -0000

You were close. ;-) The host key is usually generated when OpenSSH is installed. The first time you connect to that host, your local SSH client caches the host's key. Every subsequent time you connect to the host, your local SSH client compares the key being sent for that session to the one that's already cached. If the keys don't match, there's a good chance that the host has been spoofed.

Obviously, when you re-imaged the ATV, a new host key was generated, hence the scary warning.

Re: eyeTV Hybrid Screenshots | jyoseph.com

Matt Jacob — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:50:35 -0000

Since I'm about to do this myself in a week or two, I'm curious about some of the details. Are you using a dedicated box for recording, or does it also do other things? And what about storage? I imagine that uncompressed HD video takes up an epic amount of space.

Any problems after using this setup for a few months?

Re: Brita: A+ customer service

Matt Jacob — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:27:32 -0000

It's been a while since i contacted them, but you might want to check out their warranty information page:http://www.brita.com/support/warranty-info/

Re: ScanSnap first look. (Scripting News)

Matt Jacob — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:34:45 -0000

I ordered my S1300 from Newegg because even though it's listed by Amazon, the order isn't fulfilled by Amazon, and thus, I couldn't have used Prime for 2-day shipping. On Newegg, the S1300 is oddly about $10 cheaper than the S300 and about $20 cheaper than the S300M. It's a total win for me since I use both OS X and Windows at home.

Newegg listings for ScanSnap scanners: http://ma2t.me/m

Re: The lesson of Ikea. (Scripting News)

Matt Jacob — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:11:07 -0000

I think it depends a lot on what you're looking for and also on which line of IKEA furniture you end up buying. If you're careful and only buy the "high-end" IKEA stuff (if there is such a thing), it'll last a good 5-10 years or more. They definitely have some cheap crap that's only designed to last through college, but some of their office furniture (Galant desks) and entertainment center pieces (Besta series) are pretty decent.

Putting it all together is part of the fun. Why pay someone else to deliver it to my house when my vehicle is perfectly capable of transporting furniture? Why pay someone else to assemble it when I enjoy using the tools I own and would have probably spent the same Saturday afternoon putzing around on the internet instead? IMO, it's like LEGO for adults, and I really loved LEGO as a kid. :-)

My last point is that a lot of the stuff IKEA sells is modular. We were able to take advantage of this to create the exact home office layout we wanted and the exact entertainment center cabinet we wanted. We bought our couch and dining room table from a local furniture store, but we wouldn't have been able to achieve the same level of customization if we had bought our other stuff from the same place.

Re: ScanSnap first look. (Scripting News)

Matt Jacob — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:58:05 -0000

I ordered a ScanSnap S1300 (cross-platform and slightly improved version of the S300 for the same price) over the weekend, and it just arrived today. I can't wait to hook it up and start playing with it. More importantly, I bet my wife can't wait until the stacks of papers all over the place have been scanned and shredded.

Re: Google Apps: impressions after 14 months

Matt Jacob — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:08:24 -0000

The support for Google Apps customers (paying customers, mind you) is among the worst I've seen for any web app currently available. I'm amazed that businesses with thousands of accounts on Google Apps are satisfied with the level of service they're getting.

I think it'll take an exceptionally squeaky wheel (i.e., a huge business customer) for this issue to even show up on Google's radar screen. Me moving my single Premier account to a different hosted email provider is a loss equivalent to what Google spends on food and massages for one employee every day.