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This is normal operation if your signal at the window isn’t strong
enough.
This amplifier is our lowest powered product and requires a good bit of
signal to get the job done.
Make sure the wires are also fully extended, reboot the unit, and test
it again.
If it’s still doing the same thing then I recommend looking into our
YX510-PCS-CEL which covers 4-5 good sized rooms. If you decide to do
this, then let me know where you bought it and when.

So according to them it is normal for you to have to keep phone sitting down to antenna to get a good signal. I already sent it back. Not worth 60 bucks to have to keep phone sitting down by the antenna. I can keep my phone in the window if I wanted to, and use bluetooth, but I don’t want to do that.

My old mac mini still works and is fast enough for me. The only thing I can’t do is play newer mac games. I’ll just play games on my 360 and wii for now. Maybe I’ll consider getting new mac if starcraft 2 is ever released. Maybe I’ll buy an expensive SSD drive to speed it up even more. The 7200 rpm drive I have in it is fast enough though, so don’t really need a new drive. I will be getting a new superdrive, so I don’t have to use external drive to burn DVDs. Could always buy a cheap PC for gaming, if I want to play computer games.

Might end up getting a new mac mini, and upgrading the ram myself. I upgraded my old one without a putty knife, though I damaged the case by doing it the way I did it. So maybe I’ll have to buy a putty knife if I do it myself.

Update
Maybe I won’t get a new mac, as my current mac mini just froze again. Seems to freeze to often, more then I remember my PC with ubuntu crashing. I might decide to try ubuntu on the aspire one I ordered before sending it back, maybe I’ll keep it, if it doesn’t freeze as much as mac.

Nice looks like acer is making bigger netbook with bigger keyboard. Probably won’t buy it though. Will be either canceling or sending back aspire one that I bought though. Nice retail suggested price is $350… So the price of the one I bought might go down. Make sure if you buy one you order from amazon, so you can use it for a week or two and then send it back, you have 30 days to send it back.

Acer Challenges Rivals With Larger Netbook — PCs — InformationWeek.

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.

People like to ask me that question.

She wants a computer she can surf the internet on, download music and photos, burn CD’s or DVD’s, email, use excell and word on.

Computers that would work:

Mac Mini
Make sure you add 2 GB of memory, you can configure the cheapest one. Oh yeah but you’ll have to buy a monitor and stuff too…

Dell Inspiron 530s
I’d recommend getting one with a monitor. They have better specs. Vista is a memory hog from what I’ve heard. Make sure you get Intel Core 2 Duo for the processor.

Dell Popular Laptop Deals
Any of those would work, just make sure you get an Intel Core 2 duo processor and a 9 cell battery.

If you want to buy it locally, then Best Buy has some computers that will work too.

Dell – Inspiron Desktop with Intel® Coreâ„¢2 Duo Processor E7400

Gateway – Desktop with AMD Phenomâ„¢ Triple-Core Processor 8400

HP – Pavilion Desktop with AMD Phenomâ„¢ X4 9550 Quad-Core Processor

Compaq – Presario Desktop with AMD Athlonâ„¢ X2 4450e+ Dual-Core Processor

Dell – Inspiron Desktop with AMD Athlonâ„¢ X2 5000+ Dual-Core Processor

eMachines – Desktop with AMD Athlonâ„¢ X2 Dual-Core Processor 4050e

Pretty much any desktop will work… Just make sure it has at least 2 GB of ram, if buying a PC.

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…

Said they only had one left, like the fact that you can use any headphones you want with it. But the headphones they come with will probably work fine for me, if not I’ll probably buy some really expensive in ear headphones. I think the iPod touch 2G has built in bluetooth, Apple said you’d be able to enable it in firmware 3.0. I’m waiting for the next iPod touch though. Might need an 8 GB microSDHC card soon. I like being an ass and buying the last one in stock, looks like they’ll have more on the 6th. Wonder if there’s anything else I want/don’t need that only has one left in stock. Hmm maybe I should just get the fasted 4 GB microSDHC card I can get… The cheap one I have is kind of slow. But works, so not a big deal. Might take all night though to copy all the music I selected to it.

Motorola s705 Stereo Bluetooth

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.

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.

Amazon will have Warecraft 3 Battle Chest 3 in stock on the 9th for only $20. It might only be $20 today, its on the video game deal page, some other great games on there. I have starcraft, not battle chest though. Maybe I should get Diablo Battle Chest too. I can get em all three for $50. Might be worth it, never really played Warecraft 3 that much. Better think about it all day before going to the checkout.

Update
To cheap and don’t want it bad enough to get it.

FInally got my EyeTV Hybrid to work in linux, on netbook, only computer with linux on it right now, will have another one soon. Doing dmesg, said Hauppauge WinTV HVR 950, and also said 980 for the product ID, not really sure why. Finally decided to search google for “linux hauppauge wintv hvr 950″, and found these instructions. Well it found some other instructions, which had a comment to that link, that is better because you don’t need mythtv. Don’t want to install mythtv, was doing it to see if the card would work in linux.

From EyeTV Hybrid on Acer Aspire One

Acer Aspire One doesn’t have big enough screen for HD…

Just bought a MSI Wind Nettop 100 Desktop PC (1.6 GHz Intel Atom Dual Core N330 Processor, Barebone) Black from amazon.com, not sure what I’ll do with it yet. I wonder if it could record HD, probably not. Don’t even know if my USB eyetv card works in linux. Going to plug it into netbook, and see what linux sees it as. Also bought 2 GB of ram, the max it can have. Already have hard drive, have CD drives, won’t be putting any CD drives in it though. Might put xubuntu on it, or maybe mythbuntu, to see if it can handle HD. Should get it all on the 17th, free two day shipping for prime members.

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

Looks like for a limited time you can get a Everex CloudBook for $299. One review says installing windows make it better, that is a false comment, installing windows on a linux laptop, defeats the purpose of the linux laptop. I probably wouldn’t keep the pre installed OS on it, I’d put a better linux distro on it. I won’t be buying one though, don’t need one, iPod touch does enough for my portable needs.

I can’t comment on how well its made or anything, I don’t know if its a good buy, the Asus EEE PC’S, I think have better reviews, and are more popular, so probably getting an Asus EEE PC, would be a better buy, though installing windows on any linux device, should void the warranty, because windows suck, face it, and get over your fucking windows.

Though the best buy would be an iPod touch, because it has a touch screen, and its only $299, and its made by apple, and the 2.0 firmware is buggy, and apple might have a price drop and new products soon, so you might feel ripped off.

Just bought a new hard drive for my mac mini, bought it on ebay, free shipping and no tax. Bought a NEW Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 HTS722016K9SA00 Hard Drive. Argh I’m an idiot, should of bought it directly from buy.com, rather then their ebay store. Would of saved $10, if I payed by google checkout. Guess I’ll buy some crucial ram directly from buy.com, and save $10. Need the $10 in July, for the iPod touch 2.0 firmware. Oh yeah I also bought an Iron Man shirt on amazon.

Why does paypal and google charge $1.00? Now I only have $9.58, not enough for the update. Damn you paypal and google.

PCSX version 1.6 works on intel macs. The other version I tried didn’t work, because it was ppc only.

Download PCSX 1.6
PCSX 1.6 mirror

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.

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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Everex is making a CloudBook, which will be sold at walmart.com on 1/25/08, which will sell for $399. It uses a via processor and has a 30 GB hard drive.

1.2GHz, VIA C7®-M Processor ULV, 512MB DDR2 533MHz, SDRAM, 30GB Hard Disk Drive, 7″ WVGA TFT Display (800 x 480), VIA UniChrome Pro IGP Graphics, VIA High-Definition Audio, 802.11b/g, (1) 10/100 Ethernet Port, (1) DVI-I Port, (2) USB 2.0 Ports, (1) 4-in1 Media Card Reader, (1) 1.3MP Webcam, (1) Headphone/Line-Out Port, (1) Microphone/Line-In Port, (1) Set of Stereo Speaker, (1) Touchpad, (1) 4-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery

Found out about that on eeeuser.com, and they had a link to their new site cloudbooker.com.

Downloading gOS, the operating system the CloudBook will use. Downloading from bittorrent is to slow, thanks to comcast.

Update
gOS is based on ubuntu 7.10, it uses e17 for the window manager. I like the look of gOS compared to the OS on the asus eee pc, hell install gOS on the asus eee pc. If you go to run command, you can type in xterm, and run xterm, if you need a terminal. It already has the synaptic package manager installed.