04/10/13
Peter Rollins, the edgy, Irish philosopher/theologian is coming to the Toronto area in the only Canadian visit on his calendar.
April 12-14, 2013
Newmarket, Ont. Hosted by Holy Cross Lutheran Church
The Divine Magician: Christ and the Vanishing Act of God
Friday April 12th - 7:30pm
$25.00
@ Dr Denison Secondary School
135 Bristol Road, Newmarket
Peter Rollins new release The Idolatry of God: Breaking the Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction continues Rollins’ practice of turning theology upside down in his effort to subvert the religious establishment’s love affair with the status quo. In contrast to the usual answers concerning what the Good News might be, Peter insists on a radical
and initially disturbing definition: you can’t be satisfied, life is difficult, and you
don’t know the secret. Arguing that God has traditionally been thought of as a
type of product that will make you whole, remove your suffering and give
you the truth, he will contrast that with an approach to faith which invites us to
embrace suffering, face up to our unknowing and fully accept the difficulties of existence.
Spend the Day with Peter Rollins
Saturday April 13th
9:30am to 3:00pm
$65.00 lunch included @ Holy Cross Lutheran Church
space is limited to 95
Enjoy three lectures: Trash of the World, The Decay of the Idol and
The Practice of Transformance Art
Sunday April 14th
@ Holy Cross
Peter Rollins Adult Education Hour
9:30am
“Approaching the Crucifixion”
Everyone is welcome to come to our Adult Education Hour. Come early to get a seat
and stay for Worship.
Worship with Us
10:45am
Guest Preacher: Peter Rollins
“A Revelation of Darkness”
Everyone is Welcome!
Pub Night
“Christ the Bartender”
7:00-9:30pm
Beer & Wine on tap!
Passes will be distributed on request
while supply lasts.
Freewill Donations
Links to more details: http://pastordawn.com/peter-rollins-visit-the-idolatry-of-god-newmarket-ontario-april-12-14-2013/ for tickets email tickets@holycrosslutheran.ca
02/23/13
Recently I ran into a problem with the screen going black on my EL6 Linux system under normal operating conditions. A search of /var/log/messages turned up the following message that occurred whenever the problem occurred.
messages-20130127:Jan 26 12:04:44 localhost kernel: NVRM: GPU at 0000:08:00.0 has fallen off the bus.
After trying a number of solutions suggested by others on the internet without success I used the nvidia-smi tool to determine that at idle the video card temperature was 65C when normally it should have been 35C. Under load the temperature would rise to 80C and above. It turns out the fan on the Nvidia GT430 cards we were using was of poor quality and the fan was barely turning on the video card. When the video card was replaced with another Nvidia card with a better quality fan the problem disappear.
If overheating isn't the cause of your problem check out some of the solutions at http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-rhel-fedora-linux-nvidia-nvrm-gpu-fallen-off-bus/
02/11/13
Ever since I bought my nexus 7 I have run into a number of sites that really don't work particularly well with the Nexus 7 and I expect by extension with other android devices. Everyone days that mobile is the way of the future so in order to improve the mobile experience for all android users I'm going to document the sites that I find that need to be improved.
First up is http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/
As you can see from the screenshot below the grid lines don't line up.
Site #2 is actually an app, Buzztime trivia works but isn't very astetically pleasing with the background not lining up properly.
02/04/13
Linux Chrome users were jonesing for cat videos all weekened because someone at Chromium.org thought it would be a good idea to push a Pepper flash update at about 8 p.m. Eastern on a Friday afternoon. As can be seen on the Chromium issues page this had the effect of breaking flash for Linux Chrome users all weekend. A fix was supposed to have been pushed out and hour ago but it hasn't shown up here as of yet.
Unitl the fix propogates the least offensive way to fix the problem appears to be executing the command
chmod 000 ~/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash/11.5.31.138/
This is an excellent example of why you shouldn't push software updates on a Friday.
09/07/12
The short answer is if you want to watch purchased or rented movies from Google Play on Linux, use Firefox, not Chrome. Now read on for the whole story.
When I finally got video on my EEBOX running smoothly at 1920 by 1080 in Linux it was thanks to Google Chrome and there implementation of Flash using the Pepper interface. Imagine my disappointment when I found that the free Google Play movie I received when I purchased my Nexus 7 wouldn't play. This was a bit disappointing, since most of the video rental places are now closed it seemed like being able to rent movies from Google Play was a viable legal option to use on the EEBOX attached to my big screen TV. It already has XBMC but XBMC doesn't have a solution for Google Play movies, for that you need to fire up a web browser and use Flash. A bit of Googling and I found an Adobe page that discussed playing protected Flash content on Linux. The page includes a link to a reference video player and a protected video file http://drmtest2.adobe.com:8080/Content/anonymous.f4v.
I tried Adobe's test player and file and as expected it didn't work in the Google Chrome browser. I verified that I had HAL installed and running as instructed on the Adobe page so I thought I might as well give it a try in Firefox. I have abandoned Firefox for Chrome because Firefox has decided not to continue support for the Pepper version of Flash that Google has moved to since the have taken over support for Flash on Linux from Adobe. To my great surprise the test worked in Firefox and when I went to Google Play the movie played too. Though Google taking over Flash support from Linux has produced some benefits the lose of ability to play protected content on Linux is a large step backwards. The ball is in Google's court, when will protected content play in the Chrome browser on Linux? Only Google knows.
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