Mike Carlson

stopping the feed

m87carlson — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:55:41 GMT

I've had Alive not Dead subscribe to my real blog, http://www.mywushublog.com/, so when I write a post on my own site, AnD posts it as well.

I've stopped that now, I'd rather keep my data within my control.

Thanks for visiting!

Using Amazon’s S3 for Backups

m87carlson — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:47:31 GMT

I don’t have a backup system for home (which is where this site, and others are located), and I have generally relied on duplicating enough of my important stuff between friends and other computers. That, and I have a RAID5 setup for my large sto

Samba 3.0.28a vs 3.3.3 on FreeBSD 7.1

m87carlson — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:30:58 GMT

Lately at work, I’ve been involved with a very large file system that is being export from Solaris 10/ZFS to windows and OS X users via Samba. Even with a very large Sun server (T5220) a lot of users are complaining about the slow performance of

Wushu West, 2009-04-14

m87carlson — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:32:41 GMT

Tonight was Mark’s last class before he leaves for Idaho for a month. Last week, he joked that he wanted everyone to still be recovering when he gets back in June… He tried his best to make that happen, and I think Patti bailed us out in th

Easter

m87carlson — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:00:25 GMT

Sunday we celebrated Easter, as well as Owens 1st birthday (its really April 22nd, but we took advantage of having most of the family in one place), at my parents place in Knightsen.

Here is a link to the gallery on my other site, m87-blackhole.org

CMAT 17

m87carlson — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:17:12 GMT

Saturday was the 17th annual Cal Martial Arts Tournament, at Cal Berkeley. For the 4rd year in a row I went, and as the last three years I was solely a spectator. I took some footage, and snapped a few pictures, but I wasn’t into staying from 8am

Ip Man - Movie Day with Wushu Geeks

m87carlson — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:03:17 GMT

Ip Man It’s long overdue, but Mark, Shahaub and I finally got together for a movie. All three of us

Back filling some older blog entries

m87carlson — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:09:05 GMT

I’ve gone from using Movable Type -> Roller Weblog -> Wordpress over the past 3 years. I’ve missed converting a few entries so today I went through my old MT blog (which is buried on m87-blackhole.org that I even forgot about it). So below

Harman Kardon AVR 254

m87carlson — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:03:20 GMT

HK AVR 254

It is no secret that I love watching movies in the comfort of my own living room. I get to

Let The Right One In

m87carlson — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:00:18 GMT

Let The Right One In

Let the Right One In is a very memorable horror movie. I