Office ceiling

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Well this last weekend past we managed to get the ceiling up in the office.  Now that we have it up and decided to not insulate it, a small problem seems to have occured which we had hoped wouldn’t, or should i say several small problems :)   Our 2 cats that love to play in teh ceiling (Izzy and Angus) have discovered that they can walk over between the ceiling joists and look down through the cracks at me while I work on the computer.  its rather cool to hear the pitter patter of their feet as they walk over head.

Insulation

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Well the media room has now got a completely insulated and vapour barriered ceiling.  The room is so much warmer now!  Next step is to hang the drywall, then put on the finish treatment, then the basement is complete.

After that we just need to touch up the drywall in the stairwell, put on the second coat of paint, carpet the stairs and attach the handrail and new lights and the whole thing is done!

Its so close :)

Bookcases

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Well the bookcases got started this weekend. Got to play with my router and make dado joints for each one of the shelves, even had to make a jig to do them squarely :) First case is up, leveled and squared, second case is still missing 4 shelves because I ran out of material. Each one is 89 inches tall and about 27 inches wide, for a grand total of over 14 feet of shelving per case. I got so many boxes in the office unpacked over the weekend because of the one case that is finished.

Just need to trim the cases out and paint them and then they are complete :)

Jada’s Christmas concert

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Well Jada’s Christmas concert was a sucess. For three nights she got to be one of the people playing with the pinata, and also one of the people playing a kawnza drum. I should have pictures up in the next little bit.

Ceiling

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Well what an interesting long weekend. We managed to pick up a bit of drywall on Thursday night, and started putting it up on Saturday morning. After we had a few sheets up we realized one very large problem. What we thought would stop the cats from getting into the ceiling and soffits only caused them to be more creative. We ended up having to bored up every opening that we could find in the furnace room, and then go back and be more creative with some of the holes we had already thought we boarded up already. In the end though I think we have the cats firmly blocked out of the ceiling now :)

Baseboards

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Well, we got a chance to do some more work on the basement this weekend past. We managed to get the casing installed around both of the windows and 3 of the doors as well as some additional baseboards done. Now we just need to do some wood filling and painting on these and we will be one more step closer to being done

Minidlna init.d script for Redhat based o/s

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I found this script here http://www.clearfoundation.com/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,232/catid,36/func,view/id,9536/limit,10/limitstart,20/ while I was looking for a way to get minidlna to rebuild its database.


#!/bin/sh

# chkconfig: 345 99 10
# description: Startup/shutdown script for MiniDLNA daemon
#
# $Id: minidlna.init.d.script,v 1.2 2009/07/02 00:33:15 jmaggard Exp $
# MiniUPnP project
# author: Thomas Bernard
# website: http://miniupnp.free.fr/ or http://miniupnp.tuxfamily.org/

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

prog="MiniDLNA"
MINIDLNA=/usr/sbin/minidlna
ARGS='-f /etc/minidlna.conf'
OPTIONS='-R'
#Rebuild the database on start

test -f $MINIDLNA || exit 0

runlevel=$(set -- $(runlevel); eval "echo \$$#" )

start()
{
echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
$MINIDLNA $OPTIONS && success || failure
RETVAL=$?
[ "$RETVAL" = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/minidlna
echo
}

stop()
{
echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
if [ -n "`pidfileofproc $MINIDLNA`" ] ; then
killproc $MINIDLNA
else
failure $"Stopping $prog"
fi
RETVAL=$?
# if we are in halt or reboot runlevel kill all running sessions
# so the TCP connections are closed cleanly
if [ "x$runlevel" = x0 -o "x$runlevel" = x6 ] ; then
killall $prog 2>/dev/null
fi
[ "$RETVAL" = 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/minidlna
echo
}

reload()
{
echo -n $"Reloading $prog: "
if [ -n "`pidfileofproc $MINIDLNA`" ] ; then
killproc $MINIDLNA -HUP

else
failure $"Reloading $prog"
fi
RETVAL=$?
echo

}

case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
stop
start
;;
reload)
reload
;;
condrestart)
if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/minidlna ] ; then
do_restart_sanity_check
if [ "$RETVAL" = 0 ] ; then
stop
# avoid race
sleep 3
start
fi
fi
;;
#status)
#status -p $PID_FILE openssh-daemon
#RETVAL=$?
#;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|condrestart|status}"
RETVAL=1
esac
exit $RETVAL