Dan Pereda - What you were looking for.

New B-Spec Racing website…. coming soon

Danpereda — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:30:37 +0000

Hello all, I am working on launching a new website dedicated to the new b-spec racing series. I will be adding more info of where you can find the site shortly. I am trying to do more of the “Social Network” thing where I am blogging while developing. :)

How long would it take you to spend 1 billion dollars?

Danpereda — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:39:28 +0000

How long would it take you to spend $1,000,000,000?

If you spent a thousand dollars an hour ($1,000).

That is 24 thousand dollars a day ($24,000).

That is over 8,7 million dollars a year ($8,760,000)

It would still take you longer than you will live.

It would take 114.16 years.

That is a long time, long, long, time

DanPereda.com is going Dark tomorrow in protest of SOPA/PIPA

Danpereda — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:07:11 +0000

If you like the internet at all, you must contact your congressmen right now to stop SOPA/PIPA.

Sani Tred Vs Drylock – Feedback to Comments – Part 3

Danpereda — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:30:45 +0000

WOW! lots of feedback on my original post Sani Tred Vs Drylock

I think it is funny how some people read my post get different viewpoints out of it.

I think Sani-Tred is a good solid product, but for me it was not DIY weekend worrier friendly. For me I got acceptable results from Drylock with with much less effort and cost.
Where ever I have since put a hold in the Sani-tred, I do get water leaking there, so I know it is doing’s job.
In regards to the recent Hurricanes in the Northeast. Yes I got water in my basement. The ground was so wet it seemed to come up from through the floor. That said it only affected the unfinished side of my basement (where I have know water problems.)

Ubuntu 11.04 – Ruby on rails – RVM Gems and Rails

Danpereda — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:42:22 +0000

I was having issues with RVM, gem and Rails not being detected after I had installed them.

The issue was that my. Bash_profile was not being loaded.

Ubuntu 11.04, Ruby on rails – zlib

Danpereda — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:26:01 +0000

I have spent hours trying to get rails installed.

I kept getting a zlib error, but I had installed all known packages for zlib.

I then tried apt-get install libruby ad that fixed everything.

I also tried this

rvm package install zlib
rvm remove 1.9.1
rvm install 1.9.1

Windows 8 Download is now active.

Danpereda — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:21:54 +0000

The is the Windows 8 Dev Homepage: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/

6:00 Pm download Completed.

5:25pm PST- I am downloading the 4.9GB file, it has taken 8min to download 1gb, expected download time shown in chrome 31 mins left.

As of 5:20pm PST -

Here is the webpage content with links:

The new Windows Dev Center is launching soon

The Windows Developer Preview is available to download now! Come back to the Windows Dev Center soon to get the Windows Developer Preview guide, samples, forums, docs and the resources to build on Windows.

Download the Windows Developer Preview now

The Windows Developer Preview is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers. These downloads include prerelease software that may change without notice. The software is provided as is, and you bear the risk of using it. It may not be stable, operate correctly or work the way the final version of the software will. It should not be used in a production environment. The features and functionality in the prerelease software may not appear in the final version. Some product features and functionality may require advanced or additional hardware, or installation of other software.

Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64)
DOWNLOAD (4.8 GB)
Sha 1 hash – 6FE9352FB59F6D0789AF35D1001BD4E4E81E42AF
All of the following come on a disk image file (.iso). See below for installation instructions.
64-bit Windows Developer Preview
Windows SDK for Metro style apps
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview
Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview
28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app

Windows Developer Preview English, 64-bit (x64)
DOWNLOAD (3.6 GB)
Sha 1 hash – 79DBF235FD49F5C1C8F8C04E24BDE6E1D04DA1E9
Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 64-bit PC.

Windows Developer Preview English, 32-bit (x86)
DOWNLOAD (2.8 GB)
Sha 1 hash – 4E0698BBABE01ED27582C9FC16AD21C4422913CC
Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 32-bit PC.

Live Connect
Sign up for the Live Connect technical preview.
Live Connect provides developers a set of controls and APIs that enable applications to integrate Single Sign On (SSO) with Microsoft connected accounts and enable users to access information from SkyDrive, Hotmail, and Messenger.

System Requirements

Windows Developer Preview works great on the same hardware that powers Windows Vista and Windows 7:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch

Notes about installing the Windows Developer Preview

You can’t uninstall the Windows Developer Preview. To reinstall your previous operating system, you must have restore or installation media.

Install on:	Windows Developer Preview with developer tools	Windows Developer Preview (32-bit or 64-bit)
Windows 7 and Windows Vista	Clean install only	You can keep accounts, files, and settings
Windows XP	Clean install only	You can only keep accounts and files
A clean install is supported on all builds. You will only receive the full set of installation options when setup is launched in Windows.

How to install the Windows Developer Preview from an ISO image

The Windows Developer Preview is delivered as an .iso image that must be converted into installation media stored on a DVD or a USB flash drive. On Windows 7, the easiest way to convert this file is to use Windows Disc Image Burner. On Windows XP and Windows Vista, a third-party program is required to convert an .iso file into installable media—and DVD burning software often includes this capability.

Note: The .iso file that contains the developer tools requires a large capacity DVD called a DVD-9, as well as a DVD burner that can handle dual-layer (DL) DVDs. Most modern burners should be able to handle this format.

Are you an MSDN Subscriber?

Go to the MSDN subscriber page to see additional developer preview downloads available.

Network sites

24 Hours of Lemons – Live feed – Thunderhill

Danpereda — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:44:18 +0000

Hopefully I can get the live feed up on here.

First Test at home was successful, tomorrow is a test day at the track and hopefully we can set something up for the full weekend of events…. Stay tuned.

Watch live video from DanPereda.com on www.justin.tv

Samsung Vibrant – ROM Team Whisky

Danpereda — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:10:44 +0000

Since my problems with CM7 and the gps., I have moved on to Team Whisky ‘s Bioniox 1.3.1 and have been very happy.

The room is fast and stable and the gps works. I did have to flush the gps settings to get the gps to work, but now it locks on lighting fast.

This rom has made me like my phone again and I have written these last 3 post from it. I was starting to shop for a new phone, but it looks like I will hang on to this one for a while.

Samsung Vibrant – cyanogen mod 7

Danpereda — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:56:38 +0000

I have run CM7 on my other phones and my tablet. CM is a known quality provider so they were the easy choice, but I jumped without looking.

I installed CM7 with no problems, the lag was gone and everything ran smoothly…. Until the next day….

The next day I had to visit a friend in downtown San Francisco, so I fired up google navigation on my phone and couldn’t get a gps lock. The whole 30 min drive it showed searching for gps.

I managed to scrape by and find my way, but when I got home I found some very disturbing information about CM7 on the vibrant…… The gps doesn’t work.

Buried in the faq they state that it doesn’t work, but this should be big bold letters at the top, but it is my favorite trusting them and not doing all the research.

I went on to find my next ROM…………