06/22/13
TSN is offering live streaming of the 2013 Wimbledon tennis tournament starting at 7 a.m. eastern and 4 a.m, Pacific on June 24th. Coverage continues starting at 7 a.m. each day until July 3rd, at least that what TSN shows on their streaming schedule. I'm not sure why they aren't streaming the semifinals and the championship games for the men and women finalists, maybe sending an email to TSN and asking them might be a good idea. Maybe TSN figures that when it comes to the semi's and the finals that Canadian tennis fans are better off watching on a real TV. TSN hasn't published the link to the stream yet, when they do I'll update the fans. Be ready to go to bed early if you plan to get up and watch the early morning coverage before heading off to work. For those of you who are Bell subscribers you can watch TSN on your smartphone or tablets with the TSN mobile TV app.
06/16/13
Canadian football, or soccer if you prefer the American pronunciation fans in Canada can thank the CBC for providing live streaming of all the FIFA Confederation Cup 2013 games for football fans in Canada . The Confederation Cup is taking place in Brazil from June 15th to July 30th, 2013. You can find the 2013 Confederation match schedule and the live streaming at http://www.cbc.ca/sports/fifaconfederationscup/watch/cbc.ca/sports/fifaconfederationscup/watch/
Fingers crossed that this bodes well for football or soccer fans for thw 2014 FIFA world cup which will also take place in Brazil. If you miss the games the CBC Confederation cup site also offer highlights from the games. Kudos to CBC for offering Canadian soccer fans who can't get to a TV streaming coverage of all the games.
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.
