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Hard Apple Cider take 2

I used the following ingredients

• 12 Red delicious apples
• 4 lbs of granulated sugar
• 1/2 lbs of Brown sugar
• 2 table spoons of cinnamon

How to:

Slice the apples in to quarters and clean any steams or seeds. Place in a 4 quart pot fill 3/4 of water (adjust as needed), bring to boil for about 30 mins. After you apple have soften slowly add granulated sugar 1 cup at a time until you have added 1 lbs then add 1/2 lbs of brown sugar and your 1st table spoon of cinnamon.

Bring pot down to a simmer for about another 30 - 45 mins while adding another 2lbs of granulated sugar and at the last 10 mins add your last table spoon of cinnamon.

Ferment as normal

I used this time around a champagne yeast. I will post the results in a few weeks.

-chris

So, It’s been a while and I so got bored with netflix fast.  Limited videos and ok selection, made this media whore bored quickly.  So I have the rest of the walk thru but it only work with windows xp SP2 with windows media player 10. Yuck, anyway if you want the rest of the walk thru and a list of my feudal attempts for your own personal irritation, just email me and I will send it right over. I promise there will be more most in the near future.  and Oh i’ve been brewing my own beer for sometime now and I’m going to start putting some failure to success stories. Till then..

-chris

Ok kiddies i did it, i went back to online video rental. Netflix to be exact. First thing is first, two week free trial rental. and then the watch it now is a great thing. I was thinking… oh, oh, i can watch stuff NOW! ***before i go any further I will say I DO NOT support anything i’m about to say or show you.*** You will need a few things (FYI I got most of this info from life hacker and a few forums). 0. I use Linux as you all know at the moment you have to use windows (not even MAC) and IE. There are a few ways around this BUT I am not going to address that at this time. ( that is another post all together, don’t worry it’s coming) 1. Step one should be the easiest sign up for the $16.99 plan follow the few steps installing the plug in for IE. 2. Tools:

A. To grab the movie file you’ll need this great file transfer program called cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/latest.cgi?curl=win32-nossl).

B. (have not got to get this to work with vista yet!) To decrypt the media files, you’ll also need two handy little programs called mirakagi and FairUse4WM. - no links at this time (you may want to use the power of Google)

C. File conversion program as seen fit.

3. Before you do anything else, go to Windows Media Player to Change media licenses the way you want it to. Pop open WMP; click on Tools and select the Privacy tab; make sure the “download usage rights automatically when I play or sync a file” option is unchecked; click Apply; and close down WMP. 4. Log in and go to http://www.netfilx.com/WatchNow and click on the movie you want to download. You should now see a WMP dialogue pop up, saying ‘you do not have the rights to view this file…would you like to connect to the website…’. Hit NO. 5.You will now see an error with the flash player, (what ever) open the source code of the website (right-click in the browser window and select View Source, or go to Tools and then click View Source from there). 6.Hit Ctrl-F in Notepad (assuming that’s what the website source code opened in) and put in ‘WNPlaylistMovies’ (type that without the quotation marks and hit enter). The bit of code you’re looking for will look something like this:

ar WNPlaylistMovies = {"movies":[{"id":"7291038","title":"DCoctor who","streams":[{"url":"http://index.ehub.netflix.com/item/?x=eiujdUWJDFOEWDJEOFEYWOeUEUHF4W.","bitrate":400,"dlid":7291038,"requiredBandwidth":500},…

You’ll see a few more URLs listed, each with a different bitrate. You can pick the last URL which should have the highest bitrate and will also have the highest filesize. 7.Copy the ehub URL that you picked (including the quotation marks), and open up a new Notepad window. and put the URL in the URL area. and copy that bad boy in the cmd prompt.

(set /a 0) > movie.wmv && curl -L -A "WmpHostInternetConnection" -r 1-3999999999 http://url.that.you/found.in/step.7 >> movie.wmv

Part 2 will be posted by 5/7/08 please stand by