Welcome to the new PlanetBean

Mon, 11/19/2007 - 04:07 — sean
Hello and welcome to PlanetBean. The site has been almost exclusively family oriented for about 7 years now. I decided that it is about time I modernize by moving to a new content management system. I've selected Drupal as the CMS of choice. So far so good. Hopefully I can now update entries with minimum hassle and greater frequency. Thanks for stopping and come back soon. Sean

December 2008 Update

Tue, 12/02/2008 - 17:53 — sean

Well, it's been a long time so I am trying to clean things up a bit and thought I'd update.

Things are good here in central PA. Alex is funny, walking and babbling alot these days. Hard to believe he's almost 2 yrs old. Cole and Lucas are growing like weeds and getting more and more sarcastic, just what I need.

Larina and Ollie

Thu, 06/05/2008 - 21:41 — sean
Larina had some face time with Oliver North and has video to prove it. Here is the Video

Alex is walking!!!

Tue, 03/18/2008 - 15:02 — sean

As of March 14, Alex has finally started walking! I took some video and you can see it Here


This is a 22 Meg video and I can't upload very fast so this might take you a while.

Lenovo automute fix for 300N100 on linux

Tue, 12/04/2007 - 15:05 — sean

I love Linux but I do get frustrated at the issues that should be far simpler to fix. I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy on a Lenovo 300 N100 with the AD1986A chipset. After a ton of searching, fixing, and re-booting I have finally gotten to a point where the internal speakers auto-mute when I plug in headphones. The method for doing so is as follows (which is a combination of a couple articles I've found).

I followed the ALSA compile and install process identified in the article http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=455147 with one critical change ...

Going Live

Mon, 11/19/2007 - 23:43 — sean
I've moved everything to the server and am currently doing some testing. Once things are tested out I will change the domain name records and we'll be live on the new and greatly improved Planet Bean.

Open Source CMS has come a LONG way!

Mon, 11/19/2007 - 15:52 — sean
Wow, I've now combined the Drupal CMS system with the Gallery2 image gallery package. Together I'm able to do pretty much whatever I want. It takes some getting used to but hey, I think it's worth it.
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