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Dining, Recipes

Shredded Beef Slowly Cooked in the Crock Pot

Recipe:

  • 2  & 1/2 Lbs beef shoulder roast (pot roast), quartered and browned in a frying pan.

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Place beef in crock pot and add the following ingredients:

  • 1/4 cup of beef broth (if available – optional)
  • Lime juice of 1 squeezed lime
  • 1/8 cup of orange juice
  • 1 & 1/2 Teaspoons of apple cider vinegar
  • 1/2 cup of water
  • 1 medium / large Spanish onion, sliced
  • 1 red bell pepper sliced
  • 1 poblano (habanero) pepper, diced (include half the seeds)
  • 1/3 cup of canned fire roasted tomatoes (optional)
  • 1 teaspoon of ground cumin powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon of ground clove
  • 1/4 teaspoon of allspice
  • 1/2 teaspoon of finely ground sea salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon of ground black pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon of ground red pepper (cayenne)

Cook covered in the crock pot on low heat for 6 to 8 hours, or for 3 or 4 hours on high.

Use two forks to pull and separate and shred the beef, and then stir the beef into broth.  Let the beef simmer in the broth a little longer in the crock pot.  Serve the beef with rice and beans, or make a burrito or enchilada wrapped in a flour or corn tortilla with cheeses, salsa and sour cream.

Serves 4 people (or only me).

It is really hot (chemically).  You might consider leaving out the 1/4 teaspoon of the cayenne pepper and the 1 habanero pepper.

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Learning, Music

Steve Stine- Learn to Connect All of the Pentatonic Positions

Video

 

First Position:       A Minor           Notes

1 – 4                            5 – 8                   A (root) – C
1 – 3                            5 – 7                   D – E
1 – 3                            5 – 7                   G – A  (root)
1 – 3                            5 – 7                   C – D
1 – 4                            5 – 8                   E – G
1 – 4                            5 – 8                   A (root) – C

2nd Position:      A Minor            Notes

2 – 4                           8 – 10                 C – D
1 – 4                           7 – 10                 E – G
1 – 4                           7 – 10                 A – C
1 – 3                           7 –    9                 D – E
2 – 4                           8 – 10                 G – A
2 – 4                           8 – 10                 C – D

Computers, Hardware

Installing 8GB of DDR2 RAM in Dell PowerEdge SC440

See this Article from an SC440 owner in Japan:

http://usy.jp/pc/poweredge_sc440_8gb/

Use page translate.

He was using PC2-5300 ECC Unbuffered RAM.  I will try PC2-6400 ECC Unbuffered 800Mhz RAM. Hopefully, it is backwards compatible to 667Mhz and 533Mhz.

I already installed 8GB PC2-5300 ECC unbuffered RAM and it works just fine in the Dell PowerEdge SC440.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IJMyPClKJe0J:en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/956/t/18946794+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Computers

ZoomIt Screen Zoom and Annotation Tool

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Windows Sysinternals

If you are unfamiliar with Microsoft Windows Sysinternals, it is highly recommended that you visit the website at http://technet.microsoft.com/sysinternals before using any of the Sysinternal tools.

Shared from Microsoft Technet — original Publication is by Mark Russinovich, as follows:

ZoomIt v4.5

By Mark Russinovich
Published: June 20, 2013

Download ZoomIt v4.5 now from Microsoft’s Technet (296 KB)

Download ZoomIt now from Live.Sysinternals.com (296 KB)

Introduction

ZoomIt is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. I wrote ZoomIt to fit my specific needs and use it in all my presentations.

ZoomIt works on all versions of Windows and you can use pen input for ZoomIt drawing on tablet PCs.

Using ZoomIt

The first time you run ZoomIt it presents a configuration dialog that describes ZoomIt’s behavior, let’s you specify alternate hotkeys for zooming and for entering drawing mode without zooming, and customize the drawing pen color and size. I use the draw-without-zoom option to annotate the screen at its native resolution, for example. ZoomIt also includes a break timer feature that remains active even when you tab away from the timer window and allows you to return to the timer window by clicking on the ZoomIt tray icon.

ZoomIt-Options