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Oops forgot about profile I created long time ago, never used it, should delete, but to lazy.

Bought a zBoost YX300 cell phone booster on amazon. Seems to work sort of, I can talk on the phone without loosing signal if I move. I can browse t-zones sort of, kind of slow. Doesn’t really give me anymore bars, before I had one bar, but would constantly loose it. Seems to stay connected better now. Sometimes my phone says no bars, but it works.. So perhaps my phone is a dumbass, and doesn’t know if it has any bars or not. Don’t think I’ll send it back, seems to work good enough. Probably won’t really increase battery. It was only like 60 bucks on amazon. Would be funny if I sent it back though, I had to spit on suction cup things to get it to stick to window, haha. Oh yeah I’m not very far from the antenna that goes to cell phone… Sending text messages is instant now, even know it says I have zero bars.

Update
Think I got it working better now, put antenna on desk, where I’m at most of the day, if I go to tv, I can bring antenna with me. Don’t think I’m even a foot away now from it. Hmm think I get how it works now… Think your phone has to have at least one bar for it to work. cause phone works better still when sitting on desk, always get one or more bars while its just sitting on desk. So I guess it does give me more bars, when its on desk. Guess speaker phone works, haha.

There’s the antenna. And that is old cell phone.

So signal is pretty good while sitting on desk… Pick it up and it goes down to one or none. Hmm wonder why it doesn’t work on top of desk. guess it has to be right by it or something, haha. No big deal for me.

Pic of home screen with good signal. Wonder if you can get longer cable with antenna… or maybe a better antenna too. Guess I’ll find out after I trip on it and break it.

Update
Found this review, looks like they get five stars when holding their phone, wtf I can’t one or no bars when holding phone. Phone has to be sitting right next to antenna, maybe its because I’m more then 10 feet away. Pretty sure when I have it 10 feet or less away from base, I still don’t get signal when holding phone, at least not at desk. Maybe my thing is crap and doesn’t work right, to lazy to send it back. Or maybe my $200 cell phone is a dumbass. Going to try $80 cell phone. And then if that doesn’t work I’m going to get tape measurer.

Wait I should try calling somebody, hmm its 11:21 pm, I’ll try calling VOIP number. Maybe it only works for calls, which sucks if that’s the case. Other phone does same thing, if you put it right by it or under it, you’ll get full signal, now to call VOIP number after I look it up.

No green light blinking.. Damn it guess I need tape measurer.

Its about 10 feet away from fucking base thing, and desk is about 6 feet from antenna, but even right by the antenna it doesn’t pick up call, might pick up call if I put phone right by or under the fucking antenna.

These reviews must be written by the people who made it or something. Rebooting my phone 20+ times doesn’t work either.

Are you supposed to get “Network busy” with this thing? Haha, light still not blinking green. Changing settings on phone doesn’t seem to be helping either. The thing doesn’t blink green when it is handling a call, at least not for me. If I put phone on antenna and make a call, it doesn’t blink green, full signal then. So if you want to tape the antenna to your phone, this thing should work great for you. And putting it more then 10 feet away works. To bad I can’t hold phone.

Maybe there is interference, so maybe I should unplug routers, turn mac off, turn iPod touch off, turn blue-tooth off on phone, fuck that.

Looks like I need to send it back, either get money back or replacement. Hmm wonder if I can get new antenna only. I should email support.

Emailed support, now to wait and see what they say… Well amazon doesn’t offer an exchange program anyways… So I will have to return it and wait, then re order it. Won’t re order if it the price goes up though. Should wait for them to email me first though.

Update
Turned it off for a short time, it does blink green when it uses it, but will only use it if phone is under it, not touching it. When at desk it doesn’t use it. Ahh if you put it side ways you might be able to go farther then a foot. But only one bar according to phone. From the pic on that review they don’t have there’s on its side, strange. Sitting right by it and holding up to hear doesn’t use it. Think a foot would be the max distance if that, might be less then that. If you use speaker phone or a blue tooth thing it should work fine. Don’t move phone though. Wonder if there’s a way to reset it or something. Probably not. Oh yeah the window I put it in, my phone gets a full signal. So that isn’t the problem.

Nice reviews on newegg… One says antenna needs to be six feet away from base, and another says it needs to be as far as possible, one says they can be 20 feet away, another says less then a foot. So I guess less then a foot like I thought is right. Not sure how far the antenna should be, seems to work right on desk. So if I don’t want to use speaker phone, I’ll have to be right by antenna, almost touching it with my hear to phone, and phone to antenna. Oh yeah and its deactivated on newegg, maybe they are making new on that works.

It doesn’t always blink green either, guess only at random.

Maybe I’ll just use speaker phone or one of my bluetooth things that I don’t use. Hmm it would be cheaper to put phone in window and use bluetooth, perhaps that’s what I’ll do, or better do nothing.

Optimal conditions would consist of but not limited to; adequate connection to your service provider as the more the device has to work to keep a good connection, it will drain the battery more, using other types of connection such as Bluetooth can affect the battery life and optimal usage. I recommend turning off the Bluetooth and not accessing any internet services through your provider to see if this assists in battery life.

The up to 18 days of standby is if the phone is operating under optimal conditions. Which mine isn’t… I have crappy signal in basement. So I guess its working harder to try and connect, that would make sense, as I do loose connection a lot in basement, works for texting sometimes. Just put it in offline mode, now it won’t try to connect to t-mobile.. Also turned bluetooth off. Now it should last more then 2 or 3 days.

Thinking about buying an ASUS Eee PC 901, or some other netbook with linux. Had aspire one, but that one had small SSD low ram, wasn’t worth it. Now there cheaper and better, Eee PC 901 even has a better battery then my aspire one had. Would be nice to have bigger screen then touch to browse web while watching tv, and a full featured browser. Maybe apple will release a new iPod touch with bigger screen… Probably not anytime soon. I think I rather buy a netbook from amazon, easy return policy, fast free two day shipping. Depends if ubuntu will run on this without any problems, need to look into that. Ubuntu netbook page. Hmm looks like the HP works pretty good on it. Wait that HP model that works, can’t even find it. But the 1000 that HP lists on site has a sound bug. Doesn’t look to hard to fix, HP mini has real HD and bigger screen then the Eee PC 901. Hmm strange their site says different then what amazon has… Pass on HP mini, want one that comes with 6 cell battery. Hmm maybe this aspire one.

Update
Bought Acer Aspire One AOD150-1165 10.1-Inch Sapphire Blue Netbook – 6 Cell Battery instead of ASUS Eee PC 901. Will put ubuntu on it, once I get it. Same price that I payed for old aspire one that had crappy SSD drive, this one has a real hard drive. Hmm maybe I should of bought that newegg DIY bundle instead, ahh well I can buy that next month. haha. Or send netbook back and buy it. Don’t want that bundle, rather get a quad core processor, if I get AMD. So I’d have to manually pick everything out. Ahh well I have 30 days to try netbook out, if I don’t like it I can send it back.

Update
If I get it and it doesn’t work, or ubuntu is to much of a pain to get working on it, I’m going to send it back to amazon and get refund, have 30 days. Also I’ve read that acer’s supports sucks, and to get an rma is a pain, also heard from somebody else that somebody they know has an acer and they break down a lot. Must of got lucky with last Aspire One, good thing I sold it on ebay.

Just got my Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapters today, put one on ebay, to see how much it goes for, before I put the rest on.

Update
Put another one on there. Not sure if either will sale, as when searching it doesn’t show either of em. Perhaps ebay is a dick and doesn’t show it in search results till the next day or something. Or maybe their search is crap.

Damn thing crashed, it can’t handle to much local network traffic, otherwise it’ll crap out. At least revision A. Mom’s computer was copying an almost 4 GB file to it from linkstation, and then I was trying to play on xbox live, and got started lagging like hell, and then disconnected, went upstairs and the file transfer crapped out too. Had to reboot the POS. Won’t be buying any $40 wireless N routers again. Wouldn’t buy a linksys as their support sucks ass, if you ever have to deal with em. I had a wireless G game adapter made by em, updated firmware, and then it no longer worked, their shitty update broke it. And even if I sent it back under warranty, I doubt I’d have any luck getting a working one. The apple airport extreme might be the best wireless N router.

No point in buying a new router yet. Will just wait for her computer to finish copying the file before trying to do anything that uses a lot of bandwidth.

What a useless false article, surprised google news links to it. I didn’t pay over $1,000 for my mac, I payed about $599. Pathetic article, don’t listen to morons, that don’t know shit. Mac’s may be expensive, but I’m glad that I won’t need to purchase another computer for sometime. The new windows vista OS, makes older computers useless, you will either have to stay with xp, or use linux, I’d personally be using linux on a normal pc. My mom’ s laptop can’t run windows vista, glad it can’t, that means I don’t have to be the one fixing it, though even if it could she probably wouldn’t upgrade it. She isn’t even done paying it off, and it can’t run the latest winblows OS.

Older ppc mac’s can run leopard, my uncles old iBook could run leopard, if I didn’t sell it. The person that bought it, might of put leopard on it. If the next version of OS X, still supports ppc macs, then that tells you something about apple. Apple likes to support their systems for a long time, non like microshit. Don’t forgot, microsoft has to lie to get people to like vista, they tell them that the OS their showing them is new, when its the crappy vista, they should mention how much the PC was, that is capable of running such a bloated OS. Well the price for new systems might of went down.

Just think about all the people who bought a windows computer a year before vista came out, and it can’t run vista. So their year old PC, can’t run the latest pathetic OS by microshit. Now do the world a favor, and stop buying windows PCS, buy a linux PC, or a mac. Or don’t buy a computer at all.

Oh yeah my uncle is still using a first generation macbook, and it runs leopard fine. Not having to buy a new computer as often, results in you saving money in the long run, and therefore you can buy a quality product, rather then a piece of shit. Ahh my uncle got his macbook in 2006. Now lets see how long he waits, until he buys a new one.

I got my mac mini almost a year ago, the anniversary is coming up in September.

Macs Averaging Twice the Price of PCs || The Mac Observer

I don’t want to have to get another permit to practice driving, that’s why I need to start practicing, and then take the test. Rather get a real license then another permit, at least knowing my permit is going to expire, might motivate me into getting my license, yes you can get another one, but why, if you just need to practice, and take the test, and get your real license. Its also a waste of money to keep paying for a permit, when you could get your license.

Update
Maybe I should change the title to “Need to practice driving until 8/10/08″. Pretty crappy driver. Probably because I haven’t done it for many months. Damn driving makes me more tired, then I was when I was driving, haha, might need a medical exam, before I get my license. You don’t have to have a permit to take the driving test, you just need it to legally practice driving, on the street.

* Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher
* Intel Core Duo Processor
* 1024 MB RAM
* ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100
* At least 4.7GB of hard drive space for installation, plus additional space for creations.*

My video card is the crappy intel gma 950, so no spore for me.

This game will not run on the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.

Hmm the windows version supports GMA 950, that’s bull shit. Guess I could use boot camp, and then play it in windows.

This is some simple javascript for use with the Adobe Air SDK. The below code will show the progress of the download too.

var fileName;
var swfArg = [];
 
// Get the file name.
 
function getVInfo(url) {
		var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
               req.onreadystatechange = function() {
                    if (req.readyState == 4) {
                        var str = req.responseText;
			var stra = str.split("\n");
			var n = 0;
			var n2 = 0;
			var n3 = 0;
			while (n < stra.length) {
			if (stra[n].indexOf("title") != -1 && n2 == 0) {
				n2 = n;
				if (n3 != 0) {
				n = stra.length;
			}
			}
			if (stra[n].indexOf("swfArgs") != -1 && n3 == 0) {
			n3 = n;
			if (n2 != 0) {
			n = stra.length;
			}
			}
			n = n + 1;
			}
			swfArg = stra[n3].split(',');
			fileName = stra[n2];
			fileName = fileName.replace("<title>", "");
			fileName = fileName.replace("</title>", "");
			fileName = "YouTube Downloader/" + fileName.replace("YouTube - ", "") + ".flv";
			fileName = fileName.replace("	", "");
			downVideo(document.getElementById("yurl").value);
                    }
                };
                req.open('GET', url, true);
                req.send(null);
 
			}
	function downVideo(url){
		var n = url.indexOf('v=');
		var n2 = url.indexOf('&', n);
		var len;
		if (n2 != -1) {
		len = n2 - 1;
		}
		else {
			len = url.length;
		}
		var vid = url.substr(n + 2, len);
		la = swfArg[3].split(': ');
		l = la[1].replace("\"", "");
		ska = swfArg[4].split(': ');
		sk = ska[1].replace("\"", "");
		ta = swfArg[5].split(': ');
		t = ta[1].replace("\"", "");
		ha = swfArg[6].split(': ');
		hl = ha[1].replace("\"", "");
		pa = swfArg[7].split(': ');
		plid = pa[1].replace("\"", "");
		var url = 'http://youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=' + vid + '&l=' + l + '&sk=' + sk + '&t=' + t + '&hl=' + hl + '&plid=' + plid;
		var request = new air.URLRequest(url);
		var urlStream = new air.URLStream();
		var fileData = new air.ByteArray();
		urlStream.addEventListener( air.ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, doProgress );
		urlStream.addEventListener(air.Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
		try {
			urlStream.load(request);
		}
		catch (error) {
			air.trace("Unable to load URL: " + error);
		}
 
	function completeHandler(event){
	urlStream.readBytes(fileData, 0, urlStream.bytesAvailable);
	var file = air.File.documentsDirectory;
	var fileStream = new air.FileStream();
        file = file.resolvePath(fileName);
	fileStream.open(file, air.FileMode.WRITE);
	fileStream.writeBytes(fileData, 0, fileData.length);
	fileStream.close();
	document.getElementById("crap").innerHTML = "Done downloading " + fileName.replace("YouTube Downloader/", "");
				}
			}
function doProgress( e )
{
	var loaded = e.bytesLoaded;
	var total = e.bytesTotal;
	var pct = Math.ceil( ( loaded / total ) * 100 );
 
	document.getElementById( 'crap' ).innerText = 'Downloading... ' + pct.toString() + '%';
}

Call the function getVInfo(url), which will call the other function. Below is an example of a button that calls that function.

<input type="button" id="downb"  onclick='getVInfo(document.getElementById("yurl").value);' value='Download'/>

There is also a text input box with the id of yurl.

Never knew mail had a bounce feature, mail is included with OS X. Just right click any email in it, and click bounce. Hopefully the morons from some virtual learning crap, won’t email me anymore. Don’t need the email, as I’m not doing the virtual learning thing anymore, thought it was supposed to delete my account after inactivity for so long, maybe it hasn’t been long enough.

My uncle just got his first wii, he accidentally ordered two on ebay. I remember getting that error when I first tried to connect to the internet with my wii. The first thing is obviously to go to nintendo.com and search for it, yet there “help” doesn’t help or fix anything.

The solution for me and my uncle was to set a static ip address on the wii, also set a static dns server, and change the mtu to 1400. Might have something to do with the ddwrt firmware. For the dns server, you can probably put in your routers ip address, 192.168.1.1, for me. Then assign it an ip that isn’t in use like 192.168.1.126. The gateway is the address of the router, so for me 192.168.1.1.

No more windows or sabayon on it, I wiped it clean, and put mythbuntu on it. Finally got the picture to look right, made the screen resolution 640×480. Now I only need an ir blaster, or a tuner with a ir blaster, so it can change the channel on the cable box. With comcast you can tell it to read a show, all it does is change the channel for you, but then you also have to set it to read in mythtv. Kind of a pain, setting it to record two times. My tuner did have a ir blaster, but the crappy cable broke. Kind of want a pchdtv card, it supports digital tv. Only problem is I don’t have any money, so I won’t be buying anything.

If you want free tv guide data for mythtv, then you can follow my how to here.

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Walmart.com crappy customer choice bundle (Only $677.38)
Newegg.com bundle ($569.99)
Yesasia.com wii system + wii sports (Only $449.99, ships in 7 to 14 days.)
Gamestop.com (Pre order bundle.)
Craigslist.org

You can always go to the store and see if they have it or call them, but most likely the ebay assholes already bought them all, and are now selling them to idiots who are willing to pay more then $250 for the system.

I got OS X leopard yesterday, and my uncle wasn’t lying, when he said Safari is faster then firefox. I made an apple script to do most of the work for me, but not 100% automatic. Now I can mess around with the new features. I setup spaces, you can assign applications to the spaces to. I’ll upload the apple script eventually. Maybe in a week or two. Or maybe my uncle will post it on his blog. Hmm Gimp 2.4 is released. Wait only the 2.4 RC3 is available for OS X, and I already have RC3. Could compile it myself, but I don’t want to.

Easter Egg

Just think if you were on a network with thousands of pcs, sharing their computer… I would probably fall off my chair.

Pretty Box

Why didn’t I just pirate OS X Leopard?

They took the time to put that on their box, non like microsoft.

Install

By the time I was done taking a dump, it was almost done. I didn’t take a picture of it when it was almost done though, only took two pictures of it checking the dvd, one with the flash on, and the other off.

I have received 4 hits from them. Sweet free traffic! Just become a violator! Hmm wonder if schools use their database, if they do, my site won’t be accessible at school. Well it will be if you use tor.

* Hateful material
* Blasphemy
* Offensive political material

crapulent.com violated more rules then me.

* Pornographic material
* Hateful material
* Blasphemy
* Offensive political material
* Bestiality and/or interracial relationships

No it wasn’t photoshopped, because I don’t have photoshop. If I edited the image, it would be obvious, because it would look like crap. I’m not an artist.

I finally uploaded mythfrontend 0.20.2. I have a crappy upload speed, so it took about 25 minutes. This is the universal binary from here. Hopefully it’ll download faster from my site. Don’t link directly to the file, if you do anti leech will be turned on.

Download MythFrontend-.20.2-Universal.dmg

Update
Hot linking has been disabled. Also moved the file. Link has been updated.

Update
You can find svn packages here. For intel only unless otherwise stated in the filename. If you’re using leopard, your remote should work in all of those svn packages.

To use the svn versions your backend will have to be using a svn version too. If you’re using mythbuntu then you can follow these instructions for upgrading to the svn version. Might work with the official ubuntu too.

Mythtv release-0-21-fixes (Intel only.)

Download video

Cool comcast made uploading better, now I don’t have to limit the upload speed, they cancel the upload for me, then it comes back, and then cancels again. My uncle might not like this, but I don’t use bittorrent very often, so I don’t care.

Comcast Tries To Sterilize, Decapitate BitTorrent

Youtube blows “Rejected (length of video is too long)”. Probably because its an ogg video.

“All videos uploaded to YouTube have a 100MB file size limit. The longer the video is, the more compression will be required to fit it into that size. For that reason, most videos on YouTube are under five minutes long and there is a 10-minute length limit for all videos.”

The video is around 2 minutes, youtube is a dumbass, they can’t determine the length of the video.

Solution use tinypic.

Update
Changed port, might work now.

Didn’t know a geforce 2 card could handle beryl. Window decorations don’t work, not sure why. Still amazed that it works, the cube works too, without lag. Take that vista! Vista is a POS memory hog load of crap. Using yoper linux, if you’re wondering. Hmm now I need to get window decorations to work.

Update
Add Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “1″ to xorg.conf. Need to restart x to see if it works now. Didn’t work. Now to delete .beryl, think I read that a long time ago, it should remake the .beryl folder anyways.

Update
Yoper only has outdated packages, beryl and compiz merged. Would be a pain to compile the new compiz. The only solution is to use a non outdated distro. Not sure if I want to reinstall freespire, last time it crashed, and I couldn’t boot into it.

Update
Installing freespire again. Going to compile the latest version of ndiswrapper, the unstable one, which is what I did in yoper, and it seemed more stable then the stable one.