These stupid numbered lists of random untrue information about a select group of people annoy me when it fills my e-mails inbox. This is a different story though. I was looking for best driving roads of Long Island so I can go on a random adventure when I came across This Page. It is mostly true when it comes to driving on is island.

I am trying to show people that I am not the only one with a VW with a German plate on it. See, here is proof:

This was not planned on my end. I left class and found him parked like that next to mine. I had to share this. Of course, I blanked out his license plate.

So as you can tell, I have been quite the busy bee. I have not had the time to post in quite awhile. Currently, Biggs, Ialacci and I have been trying to get a small bidness running. (Ialacci calls Business Bidness for no real reason. I think it is more that he can not spell it.) Anyway, it’s been that, school, work, and just random other adventures in my life holding me back from posting on this site. So here is my almost month old update post.

Thursday, me and Ialacci went to check out a “Virtual Office” off Motor Pkwy and the east bound service road off the LIE. When we first walked into the building, I swear that we both almost, well, I think you get the idea. The whole place was completely new; it was only built like 4 months ago. If you look on google maps, its still under construction. But hey, most places close by are like that. If you look at Island 16 off Nicoles Rd and exit 62 off the LIE, half of the movie theater is under construction and the other half is done. That place has been there for quite a while now. Like a good 6 years or so. Well anyway, this place we found is completely amazing. It comes with everything we would ever need plus the whole building is completely biometric. I can go on for hours about the features and amazingness of the place but I have much more to talk about.

I am still using Windows 7, build 7057, on my laptop and boy, is it amazing. I have to admit, I hate Windows and this is the first Microsoft product that I actually like, a lot! It has a quality feel to everything it does and it runs much faster than Vista ever will. There are still a bunch of bugs that need to get worked out and driver support is still not up to par but what do you expect to a beta product. I think I will actually buy a license for this when it gets released.

I am again working on a new server. In the past 3 weeks, I actually already have rebuilt my server. Right now it has a E6600 Core 2 Duo with 8GB DDR1066. I thought it was complete overkill and using to much power for what it is doing. So I went Newegging. I bought a Jetway ITX socket AM2 board with a AMD Athlon x2 4050e 2.1GHz and 4GB DDR800 Ram. I figure that I will only be using about 60-70 watts average. I am mostly doing this to save space and make my mom happy with the power bill. I got all the parts except the board so I really can’t do anything about it right this second. The one thing I am doing is changing my Drobo from HFS+ to ext3 so I can use it on my server instead of having it on my iMac. I figure that it would be better since it will always be shared over the network and I don’t need to worry about my iMac having to be running. As an added bonus, I also bought 2 more 1.5TB drives for the Drobo for a total of 4.5TB. I mean I do actually need it. Right now I am currently using over a TB and I still have about 200GB more to move on to it. Ill give you updates on how that is going when I get to it.

My mom is selling the family camper. It is sort of sad to see it go. I did not really spend much time in it since we are always busy doing something. One person is doing that when this person is off and vice versa. My mom needs the money so I do understand it but it is still the point. My mom just a few days before said that she would like to take it to Massachusetts for a weekend or so. I am all up for it since I like driving around with the car and such but hey, its not my disission.

Also, I got my new sneakers for my Bora. I don’t know if I have already posted a picture of it on here yet but I might as well do that now. I have had them on it for a few months already.

Also, I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out why my blog page is unhappy near the bottom of the page. If you look, the background is all not right and the sheets overlap and underlap. If you can, it would be great.

I finally set something new up for my computer network. Recently, I thought about the idea of trying out VMWare Server 2 since it is free and all and it’s easy to run. How it works is that you have to have a machine with either Windows or Linux in either X86 or X86_64. All you do is run the installer and after you configure it, you log into the web interface to control everything vmware wise. It works amazing and it is easy to figure out. If you want to try it, sign up and download from here “VMWare Server”.

So for my server, I built a system from my old AMD 64 machine and installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 x64 on it. The hardware I used for this project was:

• Board: BioStar T-Force SLI
• CPU: AMD Athlon 64 +3500
• Memory: 2 Gig DDR400
• Hard Drives:
  1. Seagate 20Gib IDE – OS
  2. Seagate 120Gib SATA – RAID Drive 1
  3. Seagate 120Gib SATA – RAID Drive 2
  4. Hitachi 250Gib SATA – Extra Storage (Not used yet)
  5. Hitachi 500Gib SATA – Soon to be RAID array with another 500Gib
• Case: Antec Sonata 1st Rev with 380w PSU
• Network:
  1. No name brand PCI Realtek 8169 Gigabit card
  2. Zonet Realtek 8169 Gigabit card (File server)
• Video: EVGA MX4000 PCI card

I have the two RAID drives in RAID 1 using MDADM and it works perfect. The 250Gib drive is empty but it is there just in case I need more storage. Also, I am in the process of setting up another RAID 1 array that will hold my servers files on it using two 500Gib drives from my new Drobo box (I’ll explain in a bit). What that means is that I am going to be moving my main ITX server into a virtual machine to run on my VMware server but using it exactly as it is setup right now so I won’t have to start all over again setting it up. On the plus side I get to use my ITX server as a small machine for my living room. Mostly so there is a computer for my mom to use to work on school work in the living room instead of her desk which is quite small. Another plus is the fact I will be gaining more space on the server since it will have the new RAID array.

Next up I have a new file storage device called a Drobo. They call it a storage robot that essentially is a non-RAID RAID array. They have their own system called BeyondRAID which is RAID like but not true RAID. How it works is place any size drives you have in it. From them it will completely build a new drive from all the drives. No need to match size and brand, it just builds it into an array. When you run out of space on it, you just pop a drive out and install a new one. It will automaticly set-up the drive and rebuild the array. So far I love it, even though it is quite on the expensive side hovering around $450. As of yesterday (1/25/09) it now has 2x 1.5tb and 2x 500gib drives totalling 2.3tb and it is fully backed up.

Now car news. I am still modifying my car. Now it now has a BORA and euro 1.8T emblems, German plate with replica registration sticker, and it will soon have black euro VW emblems. Also I ordered and received the matching German “HN F1744″ plate for when I finally have the money to get a genuine VW BORA trunk lid with the wide plate opening. For now it is going to be chillin on my desk waiting for the day to be mounted.

Well that’s it for now. Finally I get to post this post. Hope your happy and if you have any questions on how to do any of this or about something else, just sign up and post a comment.

Finally I get to post my my christmas loot. I got quite a few things but not much as I asked.

1. HAVA Platnium HD Box
2. BORA emblem
3. This BlackBerry
4. Some T-Shirts and Clothing
5. Some Gift Cards for random places
6. Hitatchi 500GB drive

That is all I can think of for now. Now I have to wait for my other new emblems for my Jetta/Bora and post pictures of it.

Recently I have come across the new Volkswagen Sirocco on VW Vortex and I really really like it. It has quite a few engine options and it just looks good. Here, have a look:

Now the next thing they need to do is release it to the American market. In Europe, there are three engine options and two gearboxes. The first one is the 2.0T, which is the same that is used in the Passat, GTI, and EOS. Next two are 1.4 Liter TSI gas and 1.9 Liter TDI diesel engines. The two gearboxes are either a 6 speed manual or a DSG 6 speed semi auto. I just love the look of it. It is very aggressive looking a lot like the GTI W12. I’ll never have the money for it but hey, I like it.

Next, I have setup, for the FD site I have been working on, the wordpress message board. I made a theme that matches the site perfectly with less links and options. All that is on it is the post title, date, post content, and a “Log In” link on the bottom. Simple and clean. That is what I was looking for. It is not on the site yet since I am using all my SQL databases but it looks really good.

With my Jetta, the code was caused by a very lose vacuum line. Today again the light turned on while on Nicoles Road (I don’t remember how to spell it but it’s late and I don’t feel like checking it) and I brought it right back to Paul’s shop. For now it is just turned off. He said that the light might have been a ghost code that never got flushed. I am hopping that is what it is.

Not much of an update with school but I know for a fact that I passed CISCO and NOS with at least a B. Not much could be said about the other two classes, Accounting and Algebra II. Accounting I have taken the final but I do not know what the grade was and Algebra II is tomorrow at 11:40. I have this feeling that I am going to completely fail this class. Well wish me luck than.

Ok, I have gone on way to much tonight. I’ll try to post something new tomorrow.

Sorry I have not posted in quite a bit. Finals, work and all the car related stuff has really set me behind. I did try posting on this a few days back and there was an accident with my BlackBerry’s browser where a link opened up over the post. I figured that it was saved as a draft but later I found out that it completely disappeared and was lost forever. Bah. What am I going to do.

So class wise I don’t think I am going to fail anything so far. Math and Accounting are very iffy but it seems to be getting somewhat easyer. NOS I am completely done with and an easy 90+. CISCO should be having the final thursday or something. I hope it is not tomorrow.

Car still has its CEL on and I have an apointment wensday morning and I hope it is done before my doctors appointment and work. Maybe ill try to change the appointment for thursday or something. I hope so. My guess it is a stupid lose vaccume line or something. I hope it is not my MAF because that is a good $200 for a refab one.

If only you saw how the “putting up the xmas tree adventure” last year was and how much of a disaster it turned out. This year, some how it all just sort of worked. Not the fake small one that my cats distroyed within a day of being put up but the real one that we got last night.

The license plate is deffenetly getting quite a few looks. Also I just ordered an replacement registration sticker for the plate to make it look more real (my grammer is best!).

Well that is all I can think of for now.

I just finally got my Jetta back yesterday but that night, it already something turned my CEL (Check Engine Light for über n00bs) and my fog lights just did not work. I brought it to my mechanic first thing this morning to get this all checked out. The OBDII scanner gave a P0171 code “Fuel Trim,Bank1 System too Lean” meaning that there could be like 10 items that could be causing this problem. Shane cleared the code and said “Come back if it turns on again”. By the time I got home it was off but as soon as I started the car to leave for class, light flickers back on. So I am in my accounting class currently and as soon as I get out, I am going right back. I hope it is nothing.

In better news, the new plate is fully mounted and ready to go. I had to drill some new holes to get it mounted right but if needed be that I have to replace the original plate bracket, the bracket will cover the holes. Than I zip tied the NY plate to the lower driver side corner so it doesn’t block anything. Ill take a picture later and edit this post to show it.

Edit: The second CEL was because of a missfire. Simple to fix. I just ordered NGK Laser Platinum plugs to replace the current ones. It’s only like $45 so it is not completely bad.

Again somehow I found myself out with random people again but this time not at wallmart but Applebees with Spoo, Biggs, Forty and, Danille. (Spoos girlfriend). I will get home right after this meeting to finish watching Califorinacation.

It seems like I might actually be getting my car back tomorrow. I mean this is an “I hope” situation but it should be either tomorrow or monday thw worst.

I stopped at my mechanic, Paul’s, shop today and my head was back from the machine shop and mostly back together. This is now going to be about three weeks to get my car back up and running. He says that there should not be much longer to get it back, about two more days. Makes me happy. Now I also have a few things to mount on my car when I get it. The German license plate, a few stickers, and the finished engine covers. I also want to remove the dampener on the hood because most of it is falling into the engine and I am not taking any chances anymore.

About the German plate. Today I actually saw two VW’s with them mounted. A grey MK V Rabbit and a black MK VI. Lucky for them, I think one of them actually had the registration sticker on it. Mine was all ripped off and I ended up removing the rest of it. Next I would like smoked taillights and maybe even a euro trunk lid so I can even mount a rear license plate and have a matching set. The trunk will probably never happen but it is a wish.