Hugh's Worthless Blog

Now that we are trying to incorporate contemporary music into our services I was hoping there was an online resource to link bible verses to popular Contemporary Christian songs. Unfortunately, most artists do not give bible verses to go with their songs... but one very prolific one does!! Yes, it is Steven Curtis Chapman, so I have begun to compile a list of his songs and what bible verses they match up with. You can find my search engine here . So far I have just added his latest albums since "Speechless", but I plan on going back and adding older ones too.

Another Ubuntu success story! We just bought a loaded $4,000 Dell Precision 690 to perform some digital imaging of moon and Mars image data and we were going to set it to dual boot to run Windows XP Pro 64 and a x86_64 version of Linux to run USGS ISIS 3.0 . They recommended using OpenSUSE 10.1 so I downloaded a copy and tried it out. No luck, it didn't like our SAS RAID driver and wouldn't see our boot 80GB drive, and would not touch our dual 500GB RAID volume. I found some hints on trying to load an older MPT Fusion driver with the new 10.1 kernel, but thought I would first try a couple other distros lying around my office. The next attempt was CentOS 4.3 since the USGS site said RedHat EWS 4 was the "alternate" distro for them, and I knew CentOS 4 was pretty much RedHat EWS 4, just open and cheaper, so I gave it a shot. CentOS was able to deal with the SAS RAID controller just fine, but its NVIDIA driver was too old to recognize the spiffy Quadro FX3500 in our Prec...

Well, firstly, one of the cool things about winning from HearItFirst.com was I was able to tell them 6 CD's that I wanted and they would send three of them. That makes what actually showed up in the mail being a surprise, and I love surprises! But instead of telling them 6 CD's, I told them in late October that I wanted 6 current CD's and 2 pre-releases, hoping for a good break. Well, luckily for me, they took their time sending the CD's, so the 2 pre-releases turned into two NEW releases, which they kindly shipped to me! Those two NEW CD's were Jeremy Camp's "Beyond Measure", and the newsboys with "Go". I will have to say since it has only been one day I have mostly listened to (and am currently listening to) "Beyond Measure", but I had earlier listened to selections from "Go" on the newsboys site and it sounds like a good album (much more catchy and interesting than their recent "adoration/devotion" albums)...

Well, last week we held a seismic imaging workshop in our department and we needed to convert our 16 XP machine classroom/laboratory into a X-windows/Linux classroom for the workshop. We were supposed to have only 40 attendees but the demand was high so 70 showed up and they were all supposed to be running X11 for them to work on specific seismic applications. So how were we going to do this? We booted all 16 Dell PC's (ranging from 733 MHZ P-III's with 256MB of RAM to 3.0 GHZ Pentium D systems with 1GB of RAM) and whatever Intel laptops people brought with Xubuntu CD's (version 6.06.1 since the guy in charge was too paranoid to go with the just released 6.10). So for a total cost of about $5.00 (25 CD's at 20 cents each) we converted 16 PC's plus a handful of laptops into X11 desktops, all with the same desktop which we could also convert back into XP systems in 5 minutes by just rebooting them all without the CD's. Plus anyone who walked in with a laptop wh...

Yes, I didn't want to mention anything about the Redbirds during the playoffs since I was afraid I would jinx them, but they amazed everyone (including myself) by winning it all. Unbelievable! They certainly did not play like the lethargic Cardinals we saw August and September. I know I never thought they would make it (as my blog states!) but I am glad I was wrong!