Guitarist and electronic programmer, pete has worked with a number of different groups such as Delimiter, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Negative Charge. Lead programmer & sysadmin of cytoplastik.com, as well as a few others..   discography: Crystal Cloud (2001) Cytoplastik Pods Compilation (2002)
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Version 4.8.0 is hitting Beta soon, and I have moved into my new house. I really can't wait to be done with the old house's business. My body is sore from moving for a month. I think it might also have something to do with my practicing guitar more. Maybe it's from the drums though, as I have been trying to step my drum chops up. I just got them back in my house completely last friday. I sometimes think I should take off of work and stay home to play some drums. The exercise that playing some wicked double bass and or metal beats is great, and it's way more fun than most aerobic exercises. It's too loud to play at night though, unless I can figure out a way to really sound proof my studio.
Work has left me more drained than I'd like, and most nights my brain hurts too much to accomplish anything. I guess I just need some decent rest, and I'll start to feel better. I think finding the time to sleep is the hardest part though, because there are so many other things I want to do. It's like a quote I saw today on a page at my work:
Learn to see the glass as half full. Understand that as you try to fill it, the glass will get bigger.
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I have been swamped with work and moving lately. I am finally buying a house. I am buying a house at a time that the american economy is collapsing, and I am buying a house in one of the best elementary school districts in the country. I guess that is something to celebrate. My brother turned 17 yesterday. Sometimes, it seems like yesterday he was 5 and holding my hands to walk up my body and do a little flip. That's a fun tactic with little boys. So active, and so interested in doing crazy things with their bodies. It really seems like yesterday, you know that I was in the church of the resurrection watching my older brother, Matt, flipping my little brother, my 17 year old brother, over and over. He was having the time of his life. I look at these things, at these precious moments in time, that you can reallly only recreate as a memory because of lack of interneural surveillance. My Rode mic died on monday, and it's had me a bit sad. I can only send the mic away to be tinkered with in California, not but 15 minutes outside of where my friend is currently residing. Carpenteria California? Apparently it's just north of Ventura, the location of the current Cytoplastik west coast faction. I find it just a bit ironic. Soon I will be a house owner, with the opportunity of a lifetime, so to speak. I am nervously chomping at the bit.
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http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=188713&format=html
Smithsburg man killed in collision with pickup By DON AINES (chambersburg@hearald-mail.com) SMITHSBURG - A Smithsburg father of three died Friday night at Washington County Hospital following a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Smithsburg Pike and Bradbury Ave., according to the Washington County Sheriff's Department. Steven Michael Hutchison, 48, of 22814 Welty Church Road, died of injuries he sustained in the 7:03 p.m. accident, police said. The driver of the other vehicle, an unidentified 17-year-old boy, sustained minor injuries in the crash. He was treated at the hospital and later released, police said. Hutchison, a firewall security systems software developer for Sourcefire in Columbia, Md., was northbound in a 2003 Volkswagen Jetta on Smithsburg Pike and the juvenile was eastbound in a 2003 Ford F-150 on Bradbury Avenue, police said. The juvenile failed to stop at the stop sign and drove into the intersection, striking the driver's side of the Jetta and causing the car to flip end-over-end, police said. Alcohol or drugs were not believed to have been a factor in the accident, police said. Both Hutchison and the juvenile were wearing seat belts, police said. The accident was under investigation, Deputy Jasen Logsdon said. Logsdon said there was another boy in the pickup truck who refused medical treatment at the scene. The policy of the sheriff's department is to not release the names of juveniles, he said. Pattie Hutchison, Steven Hutchison's wife of 20 years, said the couple has three children, Eric, who is in college, and Elizabeth and Jacob, both of whom attend Smithsburg High School. Though he was two years older than her, the couple shared the same birthday and grew up together in Etchison, Md., she said. "He was a great dad. He loved his children," she said. "He loved to read books. He loved to go to college and learn." In addition to being an award-winning software developer, Steven Hutchison also enjoyed riding his horse and raising dogs, she said. He also was a collector of Civil War memorabilia, she said. "I'm going to miss him so much," Pattie Hutchison said. "He was my buddy."
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apt-get install linux-tree-2.6.22 linux-headers-2.6.22-3-686 gcc make libncurses5-dev
cd /usr/src
tar xjvf linux-source-2.6.22.tar.bz2
cd linux-source-2.6.22/
cp ../linux-headers-2.6.22-3-686/.config .
make oldconfig
make menuconfig
Selecting your options
select Processor type and features --->
(optional) Processor family (Pentium-Pro) --->
(optional) *select your processor*
select Preemption Model (No Forced Preemption (Server)) --->
select Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)
select Timer frequency (250 HZ) --->
select 1000 HZ
Done! okay, now at the prompt:
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --initrd --revision=RT1 kernel_image
*wait for probably at least 30 or 40 min...*
cd ..
dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.22_RT1_i386.deb
reboot into the kernel called simply "Linux 2.6.22"
Congratulations, you are now running a low latency kernel!
(apt-get install rosegarden gnusound etc...)
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1) Renoise announced they are going to definitely do a linux version. You have no idea how much I am drooling right now
2) IE8 passes the Acid2 test
3) DUKE NUKEM FOREVER REALEASES A TRAILER AFTER 10 YEARS IN DEVELOPMENT!
Watch the horizons, the 4 horsemen are bound to be drawing up soon.
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I hate my website, and cytoplastik.com. They need to be sexier. Currently they are, uhm, sucksy. Mostly I need the backend to change so it will use a database. Stupid flat file system is sucking it big time. Cytoplastik.com's interface is the fugliest. I need to change that too. But then the images load so slowly, and I need that to change too. I need a complete reworking of the backends for both sites, but I just haven't set aside the time.
I know there are a lot of things I need to do, like record. I have been writing a renoise super solo practice bass and drum track to do some of my favorite leads over. I think once I am finished and I have the whole thing sounding pretty good I will make a youtube video of it.
I need to harness the power of using off site image hosting more. That way more of my content can be offloaded from my server. It gets hit harder these days than it used to. I attribute it to cytoplastik radio, but who knows. I found this music search engine thingy called "dizzler" I'm not going to link it directly, but if you use it, many of cytoplastik's mp3s are searchable. It's kinda weird.
I made this slick little auction sniper for ebay. I tried to use their API but I haven't delved into it. I only learned they had a developer API after I had already written my script, and mine works so whatever.
I looked at a townhouse today. It was pretty nice. Bigger than my current place by quite a bit, but I want to see what else is available. There are a couple of new places in Dorsey Hall. They seem promising, but I'll have to see.
We got Isis this cardboard house that you can color. She is all about it. She and Kat have been coloring it for days. I wonder what they will do when it's finished. The lighting inside is a little weak, but it's still pretty cool. It's like the cardboard box I used to have, except it actually looks like a house. Isis can stand in it.
I ordered an XO laptop www.laptop.org and I haven't gotten it yet. Apparently I should get it between "Dec 17-31" It's a month after I ordered it, but I'm hoping it will be worth it. I can't believe I am getting my daughter an actual laptop. She's 5. But I guess that's how technology works these days. My dad told me when he bought his first 8086 back in oh, 1985, that it cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $1800. Now you may say wow $1800, but 22 years ago that was a LOT more money than it is now. My mother said "but how will we ever recover the cost?" Now I have many computers, and I am getting my daughter a personal laptop. I didn't have my own until I was maybe 18 or so. Whatever. The child of a geek shall reap the rewards.
We are supposed to get ICE tomorrow afternoon for about 30 hours straight. Not snow, but straight ice. In the form of freezing rain. Maryland is great for that. One quarter to one half inch of ice. That is a whole lot of suck.
It is sleepytime.
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