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I needed a proper scope and had NO idea what I need. Really, I know nothing about scopes. I wanted a Trijicon Accupoint (super cool illuminated scope) but am not so sure I want to spend $700 on one sight unseen as they’re hard to find. So I went to Cabelas with a fist full of cash to look at their scopes. Cabelas is the only place to go for this and even if it costs a bit more as they have everything (like 400 scopes in stock) to look at. I figure if I go to their beautiful store and handle their merchandise, I better buy there…

So after some time, some good advise from the Cabelas folks, giving blood (the blood mobile was there and I had time to burn,) I chose the 56780 Leupold VX-II 3-9×40mm scope. It appears to be a good all around scope. Its reviews around the web seem to verify this. Even if it doesn’t work on the AR-10 it appears to be something one would want in their safe.

Bottom line, for $280 it should be an excellent tool for gauging the 100 yard performance of my AR-10 with various types of ammunition.

UPDATE: Its performance has been excellent on the AR-10.

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ffmpeg -i “movie.VOB” -f mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -maxrate 1000k -b 700k -qmin 3 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 -g 300 -acodec aac -ab 192k -s 480×368 -aspect 4:3 /Volumes/data/share/temp/3.mov

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I’ve always wanted a rifle and now that Obama’s elected I figured that if I was ever to own one, I’d better buy now. Apparently, the rest of the US population thought the same so the biggest gun buy in US history took place. I finally found the one I wanted, one year after the election and here it is. My favorite part is the white eagle stamp on the front indicating this is a complete Armalite rifle, not a parts gun.

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Hottest day ever in Seattle.

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The best write up for lean and mean paravirtualization configuration for Xen Centos 5.3 DomU’s on a Centos 5.3 Dom0 is at: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU

…and for HVM I like this site: http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/Configuring_and_Installing_a_Xen_Hardware_Virtual_Machine_(HVM)_domainU_Guest

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This is one of those week or so long learning experiences that you must go through whenever exploring a new technology.

I installed Centos 5.3 and Xen on a hot new piece of hardware with the intention of runnig paravirtualized Centos 5.3 images on it. I’d probably be running a half dozen images at a time and with disk images at > 4GB I thought I’d run XFS as the Dom0 file system to speed the file access/create/delete times.

Big Mistake.

Every time I’d run a DomU guest, the host/Dom0 machine would consistently, but at different time intervals, crash. That’s right, the entire server would crash/hang/freeze. After a week of goofing around I finally tried a guest on a stock ext3 file system and Shazam! everything worked.

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I followed this great article: http://henning.schmiedehausen.org/wingnut-diaries/archives/86

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A simple challenge: Install a stock Centos 5.3 Xen host/Dom0 and a paravirtualized Centos 5.3 guest/DomU. After weeks of frustration, detailed in another post, I got this going with the help of this guide:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU

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As I’ll explain in a later post, my e1705 died under warranty. It was the hottest e1705 you could buy at the time (7900GS, 2GB Core2Duo 2.2GHz) so Dell quickly replaced it with an unbelievably hot XPS M1730 (2x 8700, 2.8GHz Extreme, 4GB.) That was too much machine for me so I switched and bought a late 2008 aluminum Macbook Pro 2.53GHz. Here are some pictures of the machines together.

Here’s the M1730 and e1705 side by side:

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The Ultra Enterprise is a Dual 300 and 768MB Ram.

The Sparcstation 20’s got dual 390Z50 and 128MB Ram.

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