Naomi’s Food Processor’s Chocolate Mousse

January 26th, 2008

This dessert may remind you of the traditional French Pots de creme. The mixture is very liquid when just made, but it becomes firm after chilling several hours or overnight in the refrigerator.

1/2 pint well-chilled heavy cream
1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup water
2 eggs
6 ounces semisweet chocolate bits
(Nestle morsels work nicely)
1/2 teaspoon instant coffee
Pinch of salt
2 tablespoons Grand Mariner (or 1 teaspoon orange extract and 1 tablespoon brandy)
(OR use rum, the orange gives it a Tootsie Roll taste)

With metal blade in place, pour chilled cream into bowl of food processor. Process until thickened, about 35 seconds. While holding blade down with spatula, empty cream into a bowl and set aside. Do not wash bowl.

Heat sugar and wlater in a saucepan until sugar dissolves and mixture comes to a boil. Using metal blade again, add eggs, chocolate bits, coffee and salt to work bowl. Process several seconds. With machine running, pour syrup carefully through feed tube and process until smooth, about 20 seconds. Add Grand Marnier and process 20 seconds more.

Place whipped cream on chocolate mixture. Pulse processor on and off until cream disappears. Transfer mixture to individual dessert cups or to a serving bowl. Decorate with additional whipped cream before serving, if desired.

Makes 6 servings.Chocolate Mousse

First Post

January 20th, 2008

It took about 20 minutes to identify the blog software (wordpress), to install it, install MySql and configure the database. This setup has been really easy.

in April, 2010, I copied (by hand) the posts out of Roller (Blog #1).  Posts older than this, “First Post” come from there.

Ault’s Family Farm Bacon Cure

October 23rd, 2007

cover pound of bacon in molasses
half cup sugar + half cup kosher salt (or quarter regular)
cover bacon sugar & salt mixture
put meat in ziplock bag
pour in remaining mix
press into meat
close bag
put bag in fridge
5-7 days, rinse and use as bacon (slice on demand, freeze, etc)

Linux Load!

October 10th, 2007

 13:00:42  up 243 days, 23:21,  5 users,  load average: 74.59, 35.59, 13.68
240 processes: 239 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
           total    2.4%    0.0%    3.1%   0.3%     1.2%    1.2%   91.4%
           cpu00    1.5%    0.0%    3.3%   1.5%     4.9%    0.7%   87.6%
           cpu01    3.1%    0.0%    2.5%   0.0%     0.0%    0.9%   93.2%
           cpu02    2.7%    0.0%    2.7%   0.0%     0.0%    1.3%   93.0%
           cpu03    2.3%    0.0%    3.9%   0.0%     0.0%    1.7%   91.8%
Mem:  2055464k av, 2036816k used,   18648k free,       0k shrd,   93068k buff
                   1567216k actv,  297144k in_d,   30172k in_c
Swap: 4194216k av,       0k used, 4194216k free                 1768936k cached

RHCE

March 29th, 2006

I passed the Red Hat Certified Engineer exam on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on March 10th, 2006.

Another Drive Image Recovery…

February 24th, 2006





…this time from rm on an ext3 file system. I thought I was removing a
symbolic link. When rm didn’t return after 5 seconds I looked and
realized I had deleted a 60G NTFS image file containing important data. I
pulled the plug on the server. When I brought the system back up I failed
to stop the mount so some cleanup took place. I wrote down the orphaned
inode number. It turned out to belong to the file I wanted to recover.

I bought a 200G USB disk and copied the whole 160G partition with the ext3
file system which contained the 60G NTFS image file. The operation took
50 hours over a USB 1.1 link.

With debugfs I was able to determine that the direct, indirect and double
indirect blocks had been zeroed. The triple indirect block points to 13
double indirect blocks.

Mosquito Magnet Codes

September 4th, 2005

http://www.mosquitomagnet.com/help/3000mm/ts_fault.htm

Moved: http://support.mosquitomagnet.com/help/3000mm/ts_fault.aspx

new imapd cert

June 3rd, 2005

added to mk-server-cert.sh to get this:

#!/bin/bash 
openssl genrsa -des3 -out $1-server.key.orig 1024
openssl rsa -in $1-server.key.orig -out $1-server.key
openssl req -new -key $1-server.key -out $1-server.csr
bash siwko-ca-sign.sh $1-server.csr

cat $1-server.key > $1.pem
echo "" >> $1.pem
cat $1-server.crt >> $1.pem

so then, I was able to:
bash mk-server-cert.sh imap.siwko.org
cp imap.siwko.org-pem /usr/share/ssl/certs

With the Siwko CA already in Firefox and Thunderbird, I’m ready to go.

CUPS / SAMBA / LINUX / WINDOWS Client

May 31st, 2005

How to set up the printer.
RAW, CUPS, client driver, queue commands, etc


http://homex.subnet.at/~max/comp-10_cups.php

factor

March 31st, 2005

factor 32321321321321
32321321321321: 32321321321321

I read about factor here: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/005mar05/departments/tips_tricks/

then tried it.  The first number I typed came back prime!