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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.

Looking at spam comments, some moron keeps posting a comment, about how they make money, yeah by scamming morons probably. Me I make $0 per month by doing absolutely nothing other then sitting on my fat ass. Google ads doesn’t work btw, you have to get $100 to get check, and your site has to have better content then this shitty site. And amazon’s associate program doesn’t work all that good either, and neither does shareasale. So I’m loosing money every time I renew this domain or pay for hosting. Now go take your shitty spam comments and shove it up your fucking ass. Maybe when hosting expires I won’t pay bill, keep the domain for sure though.

Oh yeah forgot to say, their shitty site is .no-ip.net or whatever. Sure you could get their IP, would be funny if their using windows. Wait not on no-ip.info anymore, they probably learned their lesson, dumbass.

Doesn’t look like they want any calls their whoise info is protected. Their host is rathost.net, maybe they allow scam sites.

Ahh their IP is owned by iWeb Technologies Inc. That proves it is an automated post spam comment, guess they aren’t using a zombie computer, they rather pay to do their dirty business. Hmm do those guys allow spam? Probably, so no point in complaining to em.

That’s because many observers don’t expect a new iPhone will be unveiled. The Cupertino company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is about software, not gadgets. Some prognosticators say a new device – perhaps even a new family of iPhones – will be launched later this month or in July.

Good cause I don’t care about the iPhone. Not buying any phone that is locked down to a service, hell I don’t even need a cell phone or any phone for that matter. If I had to pay bill, I’d have no cell phone.

Might not have to buy OS X Snow Leopard, as I’ll eventually get an iMac. Doubt Snow leopard will be released immediately.

Funny how everyone is expecting hardware, does anyone realize the name of it is “World Wide Developer Conference”? Sounds like software, not hardware, at least to me.

A number of analysts expect Apple to hold a special event in coming weeks to launch a new family of iPhones, and to announce lower prices.

Ahh there you go iPhone humpers. Maybe they’ll lower price of iMac, still have to wait 2+ months, will want some money left in bank, and will be buying refurbished.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster speculates a device that is somewhat larger than the iPod Touch will be launched in the first quarter of next year.

That is what I want, then I won’t bother getting a new touch if they make a new one. I still have the first generation touch, waiting for third generation or tablet like mac.

Apple’s annual developers conference: Don’t expect a new iPhone – San Jose Mercury News.

Didn’t know there was a mac version, as I tried the trial from amazon games. Bought it on sale for $0.98. They charge $20 on their site, so no point in buying it directly, rather use windows version in crossover games. And save about $19. Funny new review says amazon’s downloader thing froze their computer. Haha that’s what you get for using a PC, oh wait this is for PC only. Amazon downloader works perfectly in crossover games, they should give ubuntu a try, and get free trial of crossover games, doubt it’d crash whole computer if it crashed, just crossover games. Or better if you use ubuntu, try wine, its free and based on crossover games…

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″.

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.

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.

Just pre ordered the Nintendo DSi black from amazon.com, the link is to the blue one, but you can select black on the page. Funny how the page says:

As you may know, the Nintendo DSi is in great demand, and there are shortages of this product across the U.S. In an effort to provide as many customers as possible with the opportunity to purchase a Nintendo DSi, we are limiting the total number of Nintendo DSi units that can be purchased. As a result, each household may only purchase three Nintendo DSi units. See additional policy details here.

I guess amazon is psychic, though I wouldn’t be surprised if that is the case. It might sell out too, just like the Wii did for a long time, you can get that easily now though. Maybe I should of pre ordered three, so I could sell the other two on ebay, and maybe make a profit.

Hopefully the DSi supports WPA… Non like the DS. Not changing security on router, just so DS can connect, and won’t do it for DSi either.

I talked my mom into getting me an iPod touch before Thursday. Got it at Hastings refurbished for $250. Typed this from my iPod touch. Need a case for my iPod touch though, will probably get a Marware Sport Grip brand case. Hmm funny amazon sells it directly for $24.99, why would you pay that, when you can buy it from somebody else on amazon for $9.26 $7.76.

I like the channel Feel Good TV on Miro, but the only problem is the shows download by bittorrent. One episode downloaded after many tries. Then I tried to download another and it didn’t work, so I did a search on google, and found this. Then one of the comments mentioned your-freedom.net, which you can use for free 6 hours a day, 18 hours a week. I setup openvpn, I followed their instructions. Then I was wondering what would happen if I start downloading it and then stop the openvnp program, well then the download speed went down, and then it went up, and then it finished downloading. So I tried it again, and it didn’t work. I hate comcast. Maybe you have to let it download a certain amount through your-freedom, or I was just lucky. They don’t care if you use their service for file sharing, as long as you don’t use a US server to do so, or any other servers that say don’t use it for that. To bad you can’t configure a proxy with miro, that’s why you have to use openvpn. Could always use a different bittorrent program.

You might be able to use anoNet as a proxy for bittorrent, as it uses openvpn.

Hmm using azarus you can make it use a proxy for only the tracker, doing a speed test with encryption and the tracker proxy might of fixed it.
Use tor as a proxy for bittorrent (Says how to use it only for the tracker, and for downloading and uploading.)

You can get the classic interface in the latest version of azureus by going to options and clicking Interface and then start and then clicking show by display azureus UI chooser. Might have to be in advance mode to see it.

Download Feeel Good TV episode 20 (Not newest but funny.)

Update
Using a tor proxy for the tracker only and encryption seems to have fixed the downloading problem. I don’t think I can seed or upload though. But at least I can download at 500+ KB.

Encrypt bittorrent traffic
Use tor as a proxy for only tracker communication

Can’t wait until firefox 3.0 is released, its a lot faster then the stable version. Don’t want to loose any data, so I probably won’t be running the unstable fast version. Oh yeah and fireftp, doesn’t work with it, but no script does.

Download firefox 3.0

Download it at your own risk! I take no responsibility for any data you loose, neither does mozilla. Now I need to backup my profile, so I can run the alpha again.

Looks like I’ll be testing this, until its stable. I can’t provide any pictures or videos on how fast, and sexy the mac version is, you’ll just have to download the mac alpha yourself. Make sure you backup your profile though. Its under yourname/Library/Application Support/Firefox.

Hmm might of just found a bug, sort of, doesn’t really effect anything, the sidebar just looks funny, when scrolling.

I’ll provide one screenshot, of the download manager.

One warning though, stuff seems to open to fast, like right clicking an image, and clicking properties, or even copying and pasting, it’s way to fast. Hopefully the stable release will fix this issue.

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.

Now there’s going to be an iPod touch, basically the same thing as the iPhone, except it isn’t a phone.

iPod touch

Oh well the mac mini has more space, faster processor, can do more. The guy in the iPod touch video, looks kind of funny, his eyes look closed or something. Might not be a real person.

I got my mac mini today. Using vnc to use my other computer, because using freenx, my keyboard doesn’t work right. Wouldn’t recommend going to pig out in the park. Didn’t know how crowded it would be, but now I know, and I don’t ever plan on going there again. Figured out there’s an option in iTunes to tell it not to copy files to your iTunes folder, so if you add files manaully.

Need to turn album art work off too.

Cool I can watch tv in a floating window with mythfrontend. The iBook couldn’t really handle that. Damn it, mythfrontend still crashes when watching recorded shows with no commercials. There’s a newer mythfrontend build, but its for ppc only.

Vnc is slower then freenx. Just found this, which is the same problem I have. Funny it should be fixed, but it isn’t.
Found the solution here.

I’m liking the remote it came with. Easy way to pause and play the music. Now I need to download tremulous.

Not sure if the Intel Core 2 Duo E6750, is worth $50 more then the Athlon 64 X2 6000+. Looking at Tom’s hardware, 50% games and 50% applications, the AMD processor has a smaller number, not by much though. Smaller number is better. Looking at lame and xvid, the difference isn’t enough for me to care. Considering my current computer with an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ can handle everything I do, I don’t think the intel processor is worth $50 more. None of the benchmarks that I looked at have a huge number difference, not enough for me to care, rather save $50. I’m not buying anything for a while anyways. Don’t know when I will either. Probably after another price drop. Since AMD’s new processors are coming out soon, intel’s processors price might drop. Then hopefully they still have the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ and the price drops on that too, so then I can be cheap, and buy the cheapest processor. Or maybe I’ll buy one of AMD’s new processors.

Hmm wonder why Tom’s hardware bothers having a Windows Experience index – Memory Score, they all scored 5.9, because they all have the same memory.

Tom’s hardware doesn’t have benchmarks for the Intel Core 2 Duo E4400, want to see if its faster then my processor. It would be if I overclocked it, but I want to know if it is, without overclocking it. I’ve had a bad experience with overclocking, and therefore won’t do it again. Funny that people give it a bad review, because their to stupid to research the power saving on it. The multiplier is 10, it just goes down to 6 when under power save mode.

I wonder if it’ll work. Wonder if my wireless card will work without using ndiswrapper, in ubuntu it won’t. Read that on their forum, so I downloaded the windows driver that is linked to on the ubuntu forum, just in case. I rather not use ndiswrapper. Will have to make sure everything works before killing windows. The download is almost done.

Freespire

Update
Damn the quick restart didn’t erase everything I did on the livecd. Need to retry and get wifi to work.

Update
Bye bye windows. I need a newer version of ndiswrapper, I think. According to what I’ve read. Already put it on my thumb drive. Hopefully it’ll work.

Update
Trying freespire was a bad idea, it isn’t really that stable. Slow at booting, can’t compile ndiswrapper. Followed the info on their forum. Downloading kubuntu. Oh yeah its funny that the live cd boots faster then the installed system. Changed my mind, I’m going to try simply mepis instead. I was using a live cd of it earlier, but its an old version. So downloading the newest one, and I was almost done downloading kubuntu. Simply mepis seemed fast, not sure how fast kubuntu would be, not sure what the difference is either. They’re both based on debian.

Update
I might try freespire again when version 2.0 comes out.

When I was on my way home, I was searching with my ds, and found many “liksys” access points, with no security. Kind of funny, connected to one or two, but since we were driving, I couldn’t browse the web, but when I tested the connection it said it was a success. If I had a nice big antenna, I’d have me a lot of free internet. Including the hot zone downtown. I could walk down the street a ways, and get access to the hot zone, ds must have a nice antenna. I don’t want to use any unprotected access point for personal use, as I’m paranoid, they could setup logging to log everything you do, log cookies, and everything else.

Hmm is that satanic music? No I’m not satanic or anything else. But I do like the music, liking music doesn’t make you anything. If you believe that way, go fuck yourself.

Warning: Don’t post on the digg post, about hd dvd, they are using it to collect ip address, you will soon receive a letter from your isp! You probably shouldn’t digg it either. Its a trap!

Good thing I don’t have a digg account.

I get a 404 then it works, then it doesn’t, and then it does… All after a certain post, was on there. It still is on there though.

“Digg was down for 10 mins from 9.25 pm to 9.35 pm CST because of the rate this story was getting dugg. Whoa!! First saw 404 when trying to reach Digg!!” comment on the certain story.

Digg got digg fucked. How many diggs is that post going to get before it gets deleted?

Oh yeah the post that I’m talking about, has something to do with HD DVD. Man they have a lot of people to sue. Now me too, I just linked to it. Somebody edit it and put “which is a secret” where it says about the key. I don’t want my ip address on the edited list, and to lazy to setup tor.
Piratebay (Using tinyurl so the secret isn’t in the address. Don’t want a take down notice, now tinyurl, can get a take down notice.)
Well somebody put it up there. Now lets see it get taken down. I can’t wait to see the piratebay’s reply to the take down notice. They should put it right on their homepage, that would be funny. Better they should put in in their banner. Oh yeah they should be sharing the hd dvd backup program.

Was the one from google video, but they are a jackass, advertising their website full of porn ads. I think the one I replaced it with from you tube is the official one, the one with no editing.

Google one

As you can see they added their shitty porno website to it. I thought the website was going to have funny videos or something, but it turns out its not in english, and it has a ton of porno ads.

I just watched “South Park – Fat Butt and Pancake Head”. I was laughing my ass off during the whole episode.