Israel Lopez

Windows 7 Cant Click and Drag

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:25:58 -0800

Cant click and drag files in Windows Explorer? Make sure you have a explorer window selected and hit [ESC] on your keyboard.

I did this to myself while dragging files for attachment in a Mozilla Thunderbird email window. Maddening.

I guess the click-and-drag handler got lost somewhere. [ESC] fixes it.

BMW E90 328i Brake Disc / Pad Info

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:06:38 -0800

http://bmwfans.info/parts/catalog/E90/Sedan/USA/328i-N52N/LHD/N/2007/september/browse/

For newer BMW E90s … especially my 2008 328i the front rotor size is 312x24mm and the pads should be sized for such; the rear rotor size is 300x20mm.

http://bmwfans.info/parts/catalog/34116774875/

Stock front rotors have a minimum thickness of 22.8mm, and the rear have a minimum of 18.4mm.

I left GoDaddy

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:18:30 -0800

My personal domain has moved, two business accounts next. ;)

http://gizmodo.com/5870779/december-29th-is-leave-godaddy-day

I wish this was available for terminal windows or context input...

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:56:27 -0800

I wish this was available for terminal windows or context input forms. Sometimes I forget to move the mouse and I inadvertently type commands to another window that has focus.

rm -rf /home/test

Oh, damn that was the wrong server.

ilopez.com may go down for awhile

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:11:50 -0800

Reason? I’m migrating my domain registration away from godaddy to something that reddit approves. Right now, this is about what I can do to “vote with my wallet” to oppose SOPA. Curious about what SOPA is? Google it, you will find more articulate and concise blogs/research/news-articles about the topic that I could ever string together.

Server why you no fix yourself?

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:27:40 -0800

Server why you no fix yourself?

How did that corvette lose control during a slalom? Jeez. Hope...

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:53:51 -0800

How did that corvette lose control during a slalom? Jeez. Hope the guy is okay.

Japan 2005 Pictures

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:42:14 -0800

Japan 2005 Pictures

Why I like structured and programmatic music.

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:24:06 -0800

At some point in recent history someone thought Baby Einstein was a good idea. A torrent of bright colorful video and classical sounds to soothe babies into a trance? I have doubts whether this actually works.

I think it is just a way for parents to let the tv babysit their kids under the cover of ‘they are learning.’

But the idea has some kind of basis. Isnt music, inherently linked to intelligence some how? The ability to read music notes for example is could be considered as a mathematical skill. For example, Beethoven was deaf. He did not need to hear the notes, he knew the measure the notes and pitches to create a composition to stand the test of time.

So I wonder. What about modern day music? composed through what could be considered simply elevated or abstracted math, implemented as software? Music is hardly analog anymore, laden with frequency generators, fast fourier transforms, memory management and stream processing. Could the musicians of today be software engineers at heart?

Consider EDM, Electronic Dance Music, genre of music. It is a world of composers and musicians generating addictive tracks only needing a laptop and maybe a microphone for sampling. Listen to this remixed track: http://soundcloud.com/inrvisn/tiesto-work-hard-play-hard. It is a track remixed by an artist named Inrvisn, with music from an international superstar Tiesto.

To the unappreciative ear it sounds like noise. To me Jazz was the same way, after taking a Jazz Appreciation class I have learned to like it. To other generations Rock and Roll was noise too. Soon the blips and bloops, sawtooth notes, the looped fade ins and fade outs, deep bass notes for me reverberate an inner cavity of energy that makes me nod and bop to the beat.

Interestingly for me, I notice other effects as well. I begin to focus more, new ideas pop out of nowhere, and I make inferences from unlike ideas very quickly. Its like the music serves as entropy for this complex mass of brain matter. Maybe the ideas were already there, but the music shakes them out.

Also for me, this is where it comes full circle.

Music made through software and human input inspires me to create software that when executed sounds like the program execution pipeline. I’d like to think I can hear a current program stack as a musical note signature, when a method starts and ends a note plays. I’d like to think I can imagine what it would be like to hear an exception, how it is being handled, and the data that is transmitted across an Ethernet driver. Maybe all modulated by some modern encoding like 4-PSK or something more ‘musical’ like notes translated into a MIDI controller to play binary PCM waveforms.

Yeah, I’m a nerd. ;)

I came pretty close to this as a network engineer for a datacenter once. I hand compiled a linux 2.4 kernel to include a realtime packet capture patch, and connected that in to a mirrored up link port for a router that was plugged into an OC-1. With that I used a tool to capture packets, look for an MPEG header, reassembled it on the fly, and decoded it with ffmpeg. I could hear the network.

We also used this server as a troubleshooting point to ensure the networking layer was doing what it was supposed to be doing. Neat huh?

New Favorite Toy - Perfgraph 3.0

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:11:05 -0800

New Favorite Toy - Perfgraph 3.0:

Windows 8 Task Manager - SO COOL!

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:48:51 -0700

Windows 8 Task Manager - SO COOL!

PHP and C# ftw…

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:37:00 -0700

PHP and C# ftw…

Playing with C#

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:48:57 -0700

Console.WriteLine(“Using DataSets”);

FbDataAdapter da = new FbDataAdapter(); // Create a new DataAdapter

da.SelectCommand = new FbCommand(@”select * from company”, c); // Assign a Select Command to the DataAdapter

DataSet ds = new DataSet(); // Create a DataSet to Collect the Output

da.Fill(ds); // Use the DataAdapter to Fill the DataSet

DataRow dr = ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]; // Create and Fill a DataRow

Console.WriteLine(“Data Row Value” + dr[“name”].ToString()); // Pull out the field “NAME” from the table “COMPANY” and print it

Tough Mudder 2012 Southern California Route Elevation Start:...

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:23:00 -0700

Tough Mudder 2012 Southern California Route Elevation

Start: 1483 ft

End: 1462 ft

Max: 1834 ft

Min: 1355 ft

Total Gain/Loss: 2558 ft / -2579 ft

Average Slope 7.3% / -6.8

Max Slope: 44.5 % / -53.0%

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ilopezcom/ToughMudder.kmz

http://toughmudder.com/events/socal-2012/

Whats been worrying me all afternoon, thankfully this tells me I...

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:46:40 -0800

Whats been worrying me all afternoon, thankfully this tells me I found my missing server.

Driving in

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:32:36 -0800

Driving in

Finals

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:44:38 -0800

I’d rather be working.

South Salt Lake City, Utah. Dual Shot PanoProcessed in Hugin,...

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:04:09 -0800

South Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dual Shot Pano
Processed in Hugin, GIMP

Does anyone else prefer to use the Win+R to launch browser...

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:53:46 -0700

Does anyone else prefer to use the Win+R to launch browser windows?

Today I was able to climb up to 10060 feet above sea level. ...

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:27:00 -0700

Today I was able to climb up to 10060 feet above sea level. Definitely a first for me, but not without some sacrifice.

http://www.mapitnow.com/?maproute=7639

Shot with a decrepit Blackberry 8330, stitched in Hugin.