I finally got my interior LED set for my car in last week. Makes a huge difference now inside. The only issue I have with them, which 42DD states is normal, is that the two dome lights are still lit while the lights are off. I don’t know about them but that should not be normal but whatever. Ill get used to it.

Also, I have been toying with the site again. So far little tweaks here and there. Have to still add some CSS code for this part of the site for how it works with images. The major change I made was the links. I had them such a close color to black with no underline, you could hardly see them. So I added the underline for most links but not all. Also I am still in the process of getting my SSL cert working though the entire /wordpress/wp-admin directory with no avail. That’s it for now.

What started as “Let me test my summer wheels to see if they will or will not rub since the car is lowered” turned in to “Dam, that looks hot! I think I’ll just keep them on”. Ill show you what I mean.

It went from this (Which is an amazing picture):

to (Blackberry camera):

You can’t say it doesn’t look good. I mean I like love my BBS wheels but the Euro R32 reps are just so perfect for it. Now I need to sort out the reverse rake it has. I plan on getting my front fenders rolled than cutting a coil or two off the front struts. Who knows when that will happen but that’s the plan.

After hating OptOnline for the longest time since they capped me for a yearish, they are really shining performance wise. I am spiking at 18Mbps download now and its making me happy. Downloads are awesome fast now but the only thing that slacks still is the Upload. Here is a screen shop from my router showing it.

Found this searching for color codes and came across this. It’s a mouse pad that has all the basic web color hex codes. It is quite cheap too for only $15. I plan on getting it soon but we will see.

It is found here: http://www.visibone.com/color/hexagon.html

Yesterday my friend Rich put together a nice little Audi/VW get together last night. The picture set/forum entry is located at this address: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4726068.

I had a great time and made a few friends while I was at it. Was such a crappy night though. It rained the entire time and became extremely cold which sucked. I still can’t completely feel my feet. Me and Rich are going to try to setup a weekly thing of some sort. Still a few things that need to get worked out but we will see.

A few days ago I opened up the comments to non registered users. I figured that might be a reason why no one was commenting on posts, but it could be more the fact that no one even looks at this and I am wasting my time. Anywho, I opened them up to non registered users. Also, for registered users, I setup a self signed SSL cert for the login and admin page. Since it is self signed, what ever browser you are using will complain that it is not signed. This is ok. Just hit accept and you are good to go. If you have any issues, let me know at admin@bankshouse.org.

Finally was annoyed of always having to update my iTunes db with the new music I add so I looked for a new solution. I now have a DAAP media server, called MT-DAAPD (Project Site), running on my Linux File Server. So far it’s working as it should but I noticed that on iTunes end, it sort of sucks. I like how when iTunes has local files, it sorts all the music into Albums using Album art and whatnot but using a media server doesn’t do that. It just shows up a giant list of every song in alphabetical order of artist which is very hard to navigate. It’s not all bad because iTunes is smart enough to order it by album in the artist sort. What I mean by that is if I have two artists, Ex. Arcade Fire and Silversun Pickups. What it will do is first sort the two bands out in alphabetical order. Than it will sort the albums out for the artist in alphabetical order within the artist. Anyway, now my next step is to find out how I could do how a local DB for iTunes handles files for the server, if that makes any sense.

I had a problem at first trying to get it all setup. Ubuntu refused to let it start throwing up errors and such saying my avahi-daemon (mDNSresponder) (Project Site) was not using the howl layer for some reason and the sqllite3 database could not start. Tried recompiling newer version of avahi-daemon from source but all I got was missing dependencies which I could not install since I have 8.04 LTS. I ended up finding a nice little compile attribute that will compile MT-DAAPD that made it work.

This would be:

./configure --enable-avahi

As soon as I did that and did the usual:

make
make install

and it worked perfect. Than I found the next problem. For some reason the init.d scripts did not want it to start. At all. It would say it would start but it just wouldn’t. So I did the next best thing, made my own. I opened nano and made:

#!/bin/sh
exec mt-daapd

I than saved it in the /etc/init.d directory as mt-daapd.sh. Ran:

update-rc.d mt-daapd.sh defaults

and everything worked after that. Now it up and running for the time being. I will rewrite the script at some point that will enable to be used at different runlevels and support the start|stop|restart commands.

That’s all I got for now. I hope this helps someone.

So again another year has come and gone. I don’t see why its such a big deal for a New Years party. Tonight was the first time I saw the glass fractal sphere shaped glass light on a flag poll slowly get lowered to the bottom in two years now. It bored me than; still bores me now. Lucky, we went right back to the games right after. Played some Pain on the PS3 and than Left 4 Dead 2 on 360. Good fun.

Well at least this New Years was not a complete waste, just wish the roads where less icy.