Other cool stuff– I have been trying to build R/C planes from scratch.  There are lots of forums and videos on how to build them.  The first one I tried to build was the R/C Powers Extra 300.  They have a lot of really good info on there and so I thought I’d give it a try.  I learned a lot from making that plane, but it was not flight worthy at all.  I didn’t brace it enough with carbon tube and it just fell apart when I first tried to fly it.

The next one I tried to build was the Sumo 3D.  There’s an rcgroups.com forum thread about it, and it looked really fun.  I built it, and appllied a lot of what I had learned with the Extra 300 but it still didn’t fly very well.  I think the propeller was on the motor backwards cause there just wasn’t enough thrust to keep it in the air it seemed.  I think I also learned a bit about hand launching and giving the plane a bit more speed.

Since then I have purchased the AXN Floater Jet / Cloud Sky.  So far this thing has been a real adventure!  The first day I took it out to the soccer field near our house to fly it- there were 15+ mph winds.  I brought it down quickly after take off realizing that things weren’t going smoothly.  The landing was fine into some tall grass…

Last night we took it out again– much calmer wind conditions and everything seemed like it was going well at first.  About a minute into the flight or so the plan got down wind from me and I was having a lot of trouble turning it around to come back towards me.  It was up pretty high too, so I cut the motor and was going to try and land it slowly.  I landed it…. but it was in the middle of a giant, unkempt cow pasture.  Michelle, Lucky, Rylee and myself looked for the plane for about 15 minutes… we were wearing shorts in grass up to my waist.  We quickly decided we needed to go and get jeans on… So after a quick change, and about 30 more minutes of hiking through brush and trees looking for the plane, we found it!  It was still in one piece too! 

Anyways- that was our adventure last night.  Life is good… chigger bites are bad.  Michelle and I are both doing well.

Then end.

Here’s is Slyse… my Rogue that I spend far too much time playing and not spending time with the love of my life.

My guild, Vibe is progressing pretty well through Icecrown Citadel (ICC25). We got Professor Putricide and Valithria Dreamwalker down last week and 38% on Blood-Queen Lana’thel after only 3 attempts. We’ll get her down this week for sure and then we’re just one more boss away from The Lich King!

Amazon

Why wasn’t ‘ifconfig en0 promisc‘ working?

….  Turns out the ethernet jack I was plugged into was en1.

There’s my blonde moment for the week.  Anyways- that’s fixed now.  :)

1024mb GTX 280.

“VRAM,totalsize”,

Buffer (0×04)

{

0×00, 0×00, 0×00, 0×40

},

Things that are working:

• Full 1920×1200 resolution with full accelaration on my GTX 280.
• Ethernet
• Sound
• 64bit kernel
• Wireless!  (this one took some work!)

I even got wireless working with My Belkin F5D7050B (v3000) USB 802.11g dongle!  That one took some doing…  Belkin doesn’t release OSX driver so I had to download drivers from Ralink who makes a USB dongle with the same chipset.

Things that still need work:

• System Profiler only shows 512mb on my graphics card.  Is it using the full 1024mb?
• See if I can get wireless to be treated as an “airport” card.

Here she is!  :)

Snow Leopard on My PC

Michelle got an engagement ring worth as much as a small car… and she doesn’t even bother to post pictures of it on our blog.

What’s up with that?