Eject CD/DVD in OS-X from the Command Line
drutil eject
or
drutil tray open
My Shared Items - December 2, 2008
- VMware CPU Host Info
- Buying “Made in America” Left a Woman Hungry, Broke, and Half-Naked!
- Of White Whales and Dark Energies
December 1, 2008
December 1, 2008
November 28, 2008
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Windows “net use” commands
net localgroup administrators <- See who is part of the adminstrator group
net use g: \\nas\media <- Mount share as g:
net use g:\\nas\media /USER:cainmanor.local\gregcain <- Mount share as g:, for user gregcain in domain cainmanor.local
net use g: \\nas\media /DELETE <- Delete share
net use /PERSISTENT:yes <- Make current connections persistent across reboots
Why I’m voting for Obama, part 2
Earlier when I came up with original “Why I’m voting or Obama” post, I saw this picture. Over the last few days, I’ve thought more about this picture, and what I think it says about him as a person. This is the same week that Sarah Palin’s $150,000 shopping spree came to light (and a week after umm.. anonymous sources said Michelle Obama ordered Caviar and Champagne at a high end NY hotel, which was false), but it’s not really about that. This is about someone with the ability to wear brand new shoes, but doesn’t see the need to spend the money. Right now this is what our country needs.
Ultimately, it came down to the fact I want to remember this picture. If you’ll read the blog, you’ll see one salient theme - it’s about stuff I care to remember.
This photo came from the same photo essay as earlier. You need to hit “show more images” a few times to get all the photos. It’s great work. The original caption was:
Senator Obama was doing press interviews by telephone in a holding room between events. Sometime later as he was getting ready to begin his event, he asked me if I was photographing his shoes. When I said yes, he told me that he had already had them resoled once since he entered the race a year earlier. Providence, R.I., 3/1/2008.
Homemade Peanut Butter
We needed Peanut Butter for the West African Peanut Soup I’m going to make tomorrow. Justine and I don’t eat a lot of Peanut Butter, so I thought…Let’s make Peanut Butter. It’s crazy simple, and we have Peanuts.
The Recipe -
2 cups of Peanuts, salted and roasted (in other words, peanuts you buy most anywhere.)
1.5 teaspoons of some type of oil. I’ve seen vegetable, peanut and olive recommended - we used Olive Oil.
Add half of the peanuts and half the oil to a food processor. Use a metal blade, and let it run for approximately 2 minutes. Then add the remainder, and mix for another 2 minutes. If you want thinner peanut butter, let it run for longer, or you can add a little more oil. Be very careful, as a little additional oil really thins it out. It will thicken when you put it in the refrigerator.
According to what I’ve read, it will keep for approximately three weeks.