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Amazon is going to help me get fat, by letting me buy fattening snacks on their website. Couldn’t resist Haribo Gummi Candy Gold-Bears, 5-Pound Bag. Also subscribe to Planters Trail Mix, Spicy Nuts & Cajun Sticks, 6-Ounce Pouches (Pack of 12), couldn’t subscribe to the Gummi Candy Gold-Bears, think those will last a while hopefully. Hopefully we don’t move in six months, cause that’s when amazon is going to ship some more, guess I’ll have to update it, which I might forget to do.

There’s a pic of iPod touch on top of my new Nokia E63, as you can see the iPod touch is skinnier. The case I have for iPod touch makes it look fatter then it really is.

Sister has been having problems staying connected, not sure why. Funny now DHCP reservations works, with the latest trendnet firmware it wasn’t working. The D-Link firmware has a lot more features anyways. Oh yeah my phone can connect to it again, wasn’t connecting to trendnet router with trendnet firmware, it use to, but all the sudden stopped. All you need to do is use a hex editor and modify the last line of the D-Link firmware to match the last line of the trendnet’s firmware. I used HexEdit, free mac hex editor.

Basically you need to change “AP81-AR9130-RT-070614-02″ in D-Link firmware to “AP81-AR9130-RT-080609-05″.

Note: I have an iPod touch, so I don’t know if everything is working, no microphone or second generation touch. I do hear message saying I need call out credit from gizmo5.

If your on a mac like me, then you need cross over games, as you can’t setup SIP with their shitty web interface.

After you have cross over games, or cross over office installed, install Nimbuzz for PC.

Now all you have to do is login to PC version, and setup SIP, really simple after logging in go to Settings | Calling Settings. And enter your SIP settings.

After you set it up, go on your iPhone and open Nimbuzz, and select phone calls, click the No operator selected thing and click Other VoIP Account.

Just bought a Amod ABG 108 Bluetooth GPS Receiver from semsons.com. Was $26.99 after shipping and added the AC charger. Found the name of them on amazon, they sell stuff on amazon too, not that bluetooth GPS receiver, but more expensive ones. Saw it on ebay, but not worth it, cause you can’t get AC charger, and probably cheaper from them anyways. Should work with my phone, they even have instructions on their site.

Ahh there we go sent the pdf instructions to phone.

Just got my Nokia E63-2 today from amazon. Guess the battery came charged, still haven’t plugged it in. Fring works on it, mobile version of gizmo sucks so deleted it. Put opera mini on it, probably won’t use it for browsing really, so the default browser is probably good enough.

Some 13 year old won apple’s stupid 1 billionth download contest. 13 year olds don’t need MacBooks or any of that other stuff. Well maybe the 10,000 iTunes gift card, so there parents never have to buy em anything from iTunes store again. They should go ahead and send me that 17″ MacBook Pro, so I can sell it on ebay or keep it. Probably better to sell it though, so I can save up and buy Mac Pro.

Got my Trendnet TEW-652BRP today. Haven’t had any problems with it yet, updated the firmware, which adds the ability to set static IPS to different MAC addresses. Well had one problem, put my mac’s MAC address in wrong, so I had no internet, but setting the IP manually let me get to router’s config, took a while to figure that out. Thought I put in everything right. Thought MAC address filtering made it so people couldn’t access router at all, it should disconnect not allowed MAC addresses. Not sure if all routers let you get to config page if the MAC isn’t allowed, maybe its a setting, you can probably disable router page from all wireless users. Oh yeah it seems to be smaller then the D-Link router it replaced, not much smaller though. Oh yeah you have to use firefox to update firmware, didn’t work in Safari, didn’t even seem to send the firmware using Safari, maybe it works in older Safari. Still using Safari 4 beta. The login seems to use some javascript encryption thing too, so don’t bother telling 1password to remember password, won’t work. Hmm guess you can’t tell it to not allow wireless clients to access router config. Pretty sure you can with DD-WRT, don’t think that works with this router, don’t care. Trendnet’s firmware seems to be stable, at least so far. Oh yeah the firmware tells you the router uptime too, just like DD-WRT, D-Link didn’t say that.

Looks like I killed ubuntu while trying to upgrade it using alternative CD method. Now going to put the iso on a thumb drive, and try booting from it. The upgrade thing looked like it crashed or something, so I tried killing it, and ended up trying to reboot. It didn’t look like it did anything, I guess it did. Ahh well, maybe don’t tell it to include internet updates. Was going to do the online update, but it seems as their servers are slow right now, a lot of people must be trying to upgrade all at the same time. Using parallels to put ubuntu on thumb drive, no mac program that I’m aware of that does it, suppose I could try dd, but that doesn’t usually work for me.

Update
Just reinstalled ubuntu, its working now. Takes longer then normal to download packages though.

Couldn’t resist the price of $199 on sale today from amazon. Unlocked so can use with t-mobile, or any other provider. Can get apps for it, VOIP would probably work on it, if I needed it, which I don’t. Maybe skype, its free, or gizmo which is free too. It has GPS too, or it says it does, one review says it doesn’t. Other review says no warranty, but title says otherwise… Good thing I didn’t buy electric bike… Otherwise I’d have to file for bankruptcy. Haha. Oh yeah and don’t like how paypal works when hooked up to bank account, takes long ass time for anything to show up in bank when it “instantly” takes out money. Only have it hooked up to bank, so I can get money from paypal into bank account. Debit card shows it as pending right away, at least it shows up, easier to keep track of money. Keeping track in head isn’t exact, at least not for me. Good thing amazon doesn’t use paypal.

Forgot about fring, it can do skype and other stuff too. Don’t see skype for Nokia E63-2 on their download page, found on google that there’s some lite java version. Rather use fring, its probably native.

Just bought a DSTTi card from echostore.com. Probably could of got it cheaper somewhere else or different card for cheaper, but echo store probably has faster shipping. Also payed by paypal, which is nice. Got a 2 GB microsd card from them too. Dealextreme has the DSTTi for cheaper, but slow shipping, uncle ordered an R4 from them once, took like 2 weeks or something, don’t want to wait that long.

Update
Cancelled the order, and they cancelled it really fast. To paranoid about how long paypal takes to show the money they took out of my bank. I will definitely consider echostore.com in the future, very fast communication.

Just bought Dragon Nintendo DSi System 18 in 1 Starter Travel Kit from ebay. Didn’t have to pay tax or shipping, so cheaper then amazon, would of had to pay tax for any starter kit from amazon, that one isn’t on amazon anyways. I think I like what this 18 in one starter kit comes with compared to the one on amazon (after tax it’d be more. ahh saved a $1.) anyways. Would be nice if they had more pics though, other then the box. I’ll be sure to take some pics with my DSi though once I get it.

My sister said her computer is crashing a lot, thinking it might of been all the dust in there. Used vacuum cleaner to get it all out, or at least all the chunks out. Should of asked when is it freezing, like just browsing internet, or playing a game etc. Its still running a virus scan, and it hasn’t crashed for me yet. After the scan I’ll give it back to her. Also finally plugged in the other wireless N card I bought a long time ago into her computer, she had old wireless G card in there, that only connects to router because I changed the xmit power or whatever. I think that card got messed up when I was trying to get it to work in linux along time ago. I don’t have any use for this extra wireless N card I bought, when I bought them they were on sale for $20, now around $30, so I bought two. That is what I was going to do anyways, give other one to sister. Now all computers are on D-Link router, it’ll be funny if when she plays world of warcraft if it crashes shitty D-Link router, might have to reboot boot is daily till I get new trendnet wireless N router.

I got a mountain bike a long time ago for free, was given to me by one of my Uncle’s, the one on my dad’s side. Went to walmart and got helmet and tire pump. Took it for a short ride, easy to go down hills, was to weak to ride it all the way up the hill. The chain fell off on the way up the hill too. If I had an electric bike I probably would of made it all the way up, not really a steep hill, it goes in a fucking circle, so if you walk your bike up, don’t bother going in the circle, unless your to weak to pick bike up. Rather carry it up some short steep hills then walk around a fucking circle. Don’t have to carry it much, just a little anyways. Oh yeah saw one of those e-zip bikes at the wlmart we went to, we didn’t go to the same one as yesterday. They had one for $399, $350 on their site, so guessing if they had the $299 one, it’d be $350 at the store. Probably won’t bother getting electric bike, one reason being is they weigh a lot, so if you have to peddle you won’t be able to go very far without getting exhausted. I have bad judgment, so I’d end up pedaling it a lot probably, and I’d need two batteries cause I’m a fat ass. The batteries are $129.99 on amazon.

Oh yeah will probably take my current bike to shop and have em fix it up, or see if they think I should just buy new one. Bicycle Butler is where I’ll take it, says on their site they can rebuild em, build you a custom bike, looks like they pretty much do everything that can be done to bike. Wonder if they can turn it into an electric bike, haha. It’d probably be cheaper, I think you can buy electric bike kits. Hmm bikes don’t really look that hard to work on, maybe I should just buy parts myself, and do it all myself, then I’ll have something to do all day, other then sitting on ass. Wait I can sit on ass while I very slowly work on it, take about 2 hours to remove one bolt… haha, better off taking it to shop, it’d take me to long, I’d be to busy staring at it. Hmm did google search for “electric bike kit”, looks like those kits cost more then $299.

Could just have two bikes, one electric and one non electric, only ride electric when I want to go up a hill. Hmm wonder if it’d make it up a big hill without pedaling. Probably not, so I’d be going in reverse, haha. Oh yeah and I wonder if you can modify one of those e-zips to have 4 or more batteries, probably 8 would be good, would be expensive though to do that, maybe buy another battery every month. Then maybe it’d make it up a big hill. Probably be cheaper just to save money and buy more expensive electric bike if I wanted 8 batteries…

Hmm wonder if any of those e-zip scooters can have two batteries. Think I rather have scooter and non electric bike. And those aren’t the big scooters that you need license to drive.

They only sell it online, found it on amazon, but on the right says you can order from target. To bad you can’t buy at the target store, says on page online only. Maybe I’ll go look at bikes tomorrow at local stores. Should probably look local first, doubt I’ll find a cheaper price then that.

Looks like walmart has an EZIP looks the same, has same features, for $299. And is at “limited stores”, would have to call to find out, which sucks. Wonder how much shipping would be, can’t you have em ship it to a walmart for free or something? and go pick it up? Shipping is $29.97, no option to ship to local walmart, still cheaper then everywhere else… So its $325.01 after tax. Amazon charges me tax too, so even after the shipping, if I order online, walmart is cheapest. Might be able to get it at local walmart. Hopefully I can. If I get it, I’ll eventually buy another battery for it, so I can go farther.

Update
Walmart I went to didn’t have it, or I didn’t see it. Not sure if I’ll get one or not. Might as well think about it until it snows, and then decide not to get one, because its snowing. Hmm I should use that same thinking process before buying anything, that way I won’t ever buy anything. Same with electronics, power might go out, so no point in those, might become a bum, electronics won’t do me any good then. Don’t need food, cause I’ll die eventually anyways, so why waste valuable paper on food, when your going to die anyways?

Damn D-Link 615 router isn’t very stable. Sometimes iPod touch will disconnect mac from internet. Just rebooted it and changed the channel, now Airfoil seems to be working right. I got it for $29.99 from compusa.com. Hmm wonder if this router lets you assign IPs to different mac addresses, like D-Link. Hopefully it does. Read you can put D-Link firmware on it.

Update
Not on sale anymore. Good thing I’m on their mailing list, signed up for it sometime ago, probably when entering a sweepstake from em.

Just bought Airfoil for $25. There’s a linux version of Airfoil Speakers, which works in ubuntu. So now I can use iTunes instead of MPD for playing music through receiver. Playing videos doesn’t seem to work very good, there’s a 2 second delay, if you read their FAQ. Not a big deal. iTunes through receiver without airport express is good enough for me. Could output internet radio to it too, like pandora.com.

Oh yeah to get it to work in ubuntu, you need to install libmono-cli or something like that. Wait its “libmono2.0-cil” or “libmono1.0-cil”. I have both installed. Also have “libmono0″ installed. and a whole bunch of others, just use sudo aptitude install libmono2.0-cil. And hopefully it’ll install everything it needs..

Update
To get airfoilspeakers to work in ubuntu run the following command:
sudo aptitude install libavahi1.0-cil libmono-winforms2.0-cil libmono-system-runtime2.0-cil

Didn’t think backblaze would cause 360 to lag online when limited to under 40 kb/s. Transmission is idle, not uploading anything, just open. Could be the router slowing down. Doesn’t really look like comcast is up to the task of backing up all my data over the internet. Maybe if they ever provide better speeds it will be.

Nice. Wonder if Microsoft will buy me one of those head covers, I’d rather have the money too, but it looks like it makes a good head cover.

Yesterday I got an email saying somebody installed wordpress, and had a url to some spam username on some forum. So one post is missing, did a database restore, which put it back how it was, excluding that one post. Wordpress thinks it needs to be installed if it can’t connect to database, so guessing my host was having problems or something. Simple solution would be to delete /wp-admin/install.php?step=2. And the other most important solution, is to ban the asshole. Not that it’ll do any good, it appears as though their in India. Better off banning everybody inAsia, though I’d think my host would take care of that. What’s really funny, it appears as though their using windows.

164.100.43.41 - - [14/Apr/2009:16:24:48 -0400] "POST /wp-admin/install.php?step=2 HTTP/1.1" 200 360054 "http://vanvalkinburgh.org/2007/03/07/godaddy-cant-login/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)"


Must be an outdated zombie computer in India.