Cool Prank

Austin Riba 3 Nov 2007 && [ Entertainment ] && 0 comments

Here on Forest floor 1, we like to take our pranks seriously. We are in a constant state of war. Everyone is on their toes, everyone is watching their backs. We are warriors.

DIY Yeti Costume

Austin Riba 1 Nov 2007 && [ Bizzare ] && 0 comments

Linux Webcam Recording Script for Dell Latitude 1720

Austin Riba 24 Oct 2007 && [ Technology ] && 0 comments

Since the Latitude 1720’s webcam is only supported by a handful of applications (see the Linux UVC homepage) and none of them are for recording vidoes with sound, I decided to come up with a quick workaround. I wrote a tiny shell script called record.sh which just runs two commands at the same time, ffmpeg and sound-record so that they are synced up. It goes like this:

Journal of New Zealand Uploaded

Austin Riba 6 Oct 2007 && [ ] && 0 comments

I recently pulled all my journal entries I wrote while in New Zealand off of Facebook and put them in PDF form. They are complete with pictures, stories of adventure, danger, love and heartbreak. Be warned the file size is fairly large. Soon I will try to convert everything to HTML and make a page out of it. You can find the journal here

Ubuntu Linux Inspiron 1720 Fixes

Austin Riba 4 Oct 2007 && [ Technology ] && 0 comments

There are a few last things I wanted to get to work with my laptop, mainly the webcam and microphone. I would go into detail on how I got them to work with Ubuntu but I found this great page : To install Ubuntu-7.04 on Dell Inspiron 1520 Which is for the 1520, but should work for 1720 as well. Good luck everyone.

TSST corp Linux Problems

Austin Riba 3 Oct 2007 && [ ] && 0 comments

My installation of Ubuntu went pretty smoothly besides the Nvidia drivers and one other problem: my TSSTcorp TS L632d ATA dvdr + rw drive was not recognized by linux. In fact it was straight invisible. Hwinfo showed nothing. Dmesg | grep cdrom showed even less. I started to think that I might have a serious bug to work out. However, the fix was simple.

To The Woman that Cleaned my Teeth

Austin Riba 17 Sep 2007 && [ Bizzare ] && 0 comments

To the woman who cleaned my teeth.

LAter

Austin Riba 5 Jun 2007 && [ ] && 0 comments

See ya'll next time! Im away!

Chillaxin'

Austin Riba 29 Apr 2007 && [ ] && 0 comments

Well I havent Checked in for a while, but I thought I'd post a quick update on my life. Patricia and I are still travelling together, we did end up getting free accomodation at Cacktus Jacks in return for 2 hours of work a day (it always ended up just being about 1) so that was sweet. That was 4 days ago. Now we are taking a small vacation on vacation to the Coromandel, which some of you miay remember as being the first place I went to after leaving the big city and the first place I rode my bike. Its really nice, we are taking everything slow, enjoying eachothers company while thinking of what to do next. Theres just so many possibilities!

Goodbye to the vines, and my final revenge!

Austin Riba 15 Apr 2007 && [ ] && 0 comments

So what have I been up to? Patricia and I finished 3 weeks of worek in the vineyards, while staying in Leeways again. It was a little dull. We didnt do much but work, but Dylan and some of the other germans from last time were still there so I had some friends to reminice with.