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chicken-bacon corn chowder
this is a recipe i kinda threw together and have modified over the years. i’m quite certain there are probably 100′s of other ones out there just like this.
| amount | ingredient |
| 1 tsp | oregano |
| 1 tsp | parsley |
| 1 tsp | thyme |
| 1 | sweet onion (medium to large) |
| 2 | small garlic cloves |
| 2 cans | whole kernel sweet corn |
| 32oz | heavy cream |
| 1-2 cups | whole milk |
| 2 lbs | chicken breast |
| 1 lb | thick cut bacon |
| 4-6 | medium potatoes |
chop the potato up into small cubes and boil them. i cook them until they are soft enough to stick a fork into without much pressure.
chop up the onion and garlic into small pieces and pan fry with butter.
cube the chicken and pan fry, add the oregano and parsley. cook the bacon. add the bacon to the chicken (this helps lessen the bacon flavor so it doesn’t overpower the whole chowder). add the onion and garlic and continue cooking the mixture. i usually cook the chicken, set it aside, cook the bacon, set that aside and then cook everything in a large electric.
once the potatoes are cooked, strain and rinse. pour the heavy cream into the pot and add the potato, corn, chicken, bacon, onion and garlic. add the thyme as well.
do not boil – i cook the entire thing in one big pot on low and let it simmer for 2+ hours.
evans blue – eclipsed
the song eclipsed by evans blue. the lead singer, kevin matisyn, has a hauntingly awesome voice. this song is by far my favorite.
hp mini 1116nr
specs
| cpu | 1.60GHz intel atom n270 |
| cache | 512k l2 |
| ram | 2g ddr2 |
| hd | sandisk pssd 16g |
| graphics | intel mobile 945gse express (up to 128m) |
| display | 8.9″ wsvga led anti-glare (1024×600) |
| network | marvell 88e8040 |
| wifi 1 | broadcom bcm4312 802.11b/g |
| wifi 2 | rtl8191SU 802.11n |
operating systems
i partitioned the 16g ssd into two 8g partitions. i also used an 8g 30mbps sd card for a swap space for linux and a page file for windows.
ubuntu 12.04 lts
i installed ubuntu 12.04 using the minimal installation iso from a usb drive (the iso is only about 30m). this allowed me to heavily customize the install. the total space used on the drive is less than 2.5g – and thats with me adding in other programs and libraries. i went with xfce for the desktop environment. i had tried lxde and did not really enjoy it. below is a screenshot of htop after the os was fully loaded and running for 5+ minutes.
windows xp sp3
i used nlite and modified the stock iso from the oem cd for the 1116nr. (i will have another post with the modifications i made, including the various registry changes) the total size of the iso, with drivers slip-streamed in, was 240m. the os, with all software (including antivirus, etc) was under 5g. below is a screenshot of the task manager after the os was fully loaded and running for 5+ minutes.
overall i am quite pleased with the 1116nr. both ubuntu and windows are fairly responsive and perform far better than i had anticipated.
hp mini 1116nr antenna mod
i recently got a hp mini 1116nr from a local pawn shop. decent little machine and fun to play with.
naturally, within an hour of owning it, i was opening the case to see how much room was in it for mods. low and behold, i find the hp mobile drive bay, and an unused usb port. i took a premiertek usb wifi stick apart and cut the board down to fit in the case and ran the antenna jack out the side of the case.
here is the final result – using both my 5dbi and 10dbi antennas. i put electrical tape on the outside of the case – this is temporary until i find a similar usb wifi card that is wireless n or decide to hack something else into the case.
eric calderone’s metal
i dont typically post about music, however, this guy is to epic to not share. i found it looking around for game of thrones interviews and that led to finding eric calderone’s various ‘meets metal’ videos. here is the ‘game of thrones meets metal’ video.
testing out a fax machine
i setup and configure a lot of fax machines for work and recently discovered that hp has a fax test service.
you can check the hp fax test service here.
its great, you can test a fax machine, without bothering anyone you know!
remove leading spaces in openoffice
i was working on a spreadsheet for a customer and it had over 6000 cells in it. every single cell had a leading space. after much searching on google, i finally found the correct answer, and here it is.
ctrl + fto open the search and replace dialog box- enter
^[:space:]+into the search box and leave the replace with box blank - done!
add multiple .vcf files to gmail
so the other day i had to import an address book from windows live mail into gmail. the issue was that every time i did an export from windows live mail, it would mess up the csv, so when gmail read it it imported all the email addresses and data into the notes field. however, gmail could import a .vcf just fine. so i exported all the contacts to .vcf format and dumped them into one folder. then ran copy /B *.vcf all_in_one.vcf. this copied all the .vcf’s into one file. i was then able to import the file into gmail no problem.
power supply calculator
i needed a power supply calculator the other day and found this one.
eXtreme power supply calculator lite v2.5
its awesome, i was able to calculate the wattage used for my server in a matter of a minute or so.
awful captcha
i cant remember what site this was on, but, it gave me a good laugh.
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