By jared.folkins
Filed in Economy, Life, Politics, housing, oregon
Tagged with bend, bubble, burden, debt, Estate, foreclosure, garage, housing, oregon, Real, sale
September 8th, 2009 @
I saw this sign over the weekend and it caught my eye, so I took a picture. Losing your personal residence can be a very traumatic event. Especially to the adult who has labored and chored to provide not just a house, but a home for their family. Yet here, in this picture, a child (assumedly) has drawn a ‘heart’ and a ’star’ to decorate the sign. And the more I thought about the event (foreclosure) and how a child perceives it, the more hope filled my vision as I looked upon the sign.
So I ask a simple question to anyone who wants to answer.
“What does foreclosure look like to a kid?”
By jared.folkins
Filed in Database, Economy, Life, Politics, bend, housing, oregon
Tagged with bend, bubble, burden, debt, Estate, foreclosure, housing, oregon, Real
September 3rd, 2009 @
The other day, I was talking with a good buddy. And like always, economics and housing came up in the conversation.
“Jared” he started “I was speaking with my wife-“ stroking his thick beard recalling as he went. “-and you know how you told me your annual wage? Is that just your wage?”
I nodded.
“Well, why don’t you go and negotiate yourself into a home? I know you’re smart. But you can’t put your life on hold just to get the lowest home price.” Our conversation moved itself forward from there. But it got me thinking.
Am I putting my life on hold?
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So I am trying to hack my eeePC in order to make it do…er…stuff. And in the process I realized my firmware was running a little behind. And do you know what happened when I tried to upgrade it? I got an error.
'1005ha.rom' Not Found
And so I took the following steps to fix it.
- Renamed my ROM file from 1005HA-ASUS-0703.ROM to 1005HA.ROM
- Formatted a thumb drive to FAT32
- Copied over the .ROM file into the root directory of the thumb drive
- Reboot
- Pressed F2 to get into BIOS
- Change the boot device priority to make the USB drive the Primary
- Went into boot settings and DISABLED ‘quiet boot’ (so that we could see POST info)
- DISABLE ‘Boot Booster’
- pressed the F10 key and saved my BIOS settings
- During POST I pressed Alt+F2
It found my renamed .ROM ‘1005ha.rom’ and Viola! All set.
By jared.folkins
Filed in Macintosh
Tagged with 106, leopard, links, Logitech, mac, Mouse, Mx, OS, Snow, symbolic, X
September 1st, 2009 @
For hard core geeks out there, nothing is more important than peripherals. Having a solid setup makes life a lot easier when your livelihood is working on the computer day in and day out.
Keyboard = link
Mouse = link
Recently we have been testing the new and (Not Really) improved Mac operating system. I use my mouse to bounce in between virtual desktops by assigning several of my mouse buttons to the applications ‘Spaces.app’ and ‘Expose.app’. After upgrading to 10.6 (Snow Leopard) those features ended up broken. The reason is that Snow Leopard moved the applications ‘Spaces.app’ and ‘Expose.app’ into the ‘Utilities’ directory. The good news is that the fix is simple, all you have to to is create a couple of Symbolic links.
This is assuming you have the Logitech software installed for the mac.
1) Open the application ‘Terminal’
2) From the command line, run the following commands. You may be prompted for your password.
sudo ln -s /Applications/Utilities/Spaces.app /Applications/Spaces.app
sudo ln -s /Applications/Utilities/Expose.app /Applications/Expose.app
And that should do it!
You may need to reassign your mouse buttons again in;
‘System Preferences’->’Logitech Control Center’
