Starting Monday, you can see how regular people implement green techniques and technologies in their own homes on the new TV show, Greenovate.
Premiering Monday at 9:30PM e/p on the Discovery Home network (once thought to be changing their name to Planet Green) the half-hour show follows regular homeowners as they try to save the planet by doing things as simple as compact fluorescent light bulbs or as complex as a living roof.
The show comes from the company that makesFlip That House and Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days, so it should be a lot of fun to watch…and a lot less exhausting to sit on the couch and watch others green their houses.
The only thing I could find in the system log was this cryptic error message:
11/13/07 9:25:49 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.samba.smbd[11536]) Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 11538 PPID 1 smbd
It’s the Finder’s fault. Relaunched Finder using the Force Quit dialog box and voilà, the PC’s and Samba servers have returned.
[UPDATE]
I have solved this issue. On my computer I currently host two IP addresses through my Ethernet adapter. It appears that the Samba client would randomly choose which IP address it would use for nmblookup calls. Once I deactivated the second IP, leaving only my primary IP on the LAN (where the PCs and Samba servers live), the servers appear AND they all appear to work now. It’s still a bug, but not related to the Finder.
On Seinfeld, George Costanza went to a lot of trouble trying to save his “world-record” 860,630 high score on Frogger using a gerry-rigged combination of caution tape, batteries, extension cords, and a guy named Slippery Pete. In the end, his Frogger was mowed down in the street.
If you’re a stickler for detail, that episode never seemed quite right because it wasn’t clear how they’d gotten the Frogger unplugged from the wall and plugged into the extension cord without powering the machine down.
Now with Wiebetech’s new HotPlug you can jack into the power lines or the power strip feeding your favorite video game machine and take it away. Here’s the video of the HotPlug in action:
