I got off my arse and installed some better speakers into the wrx on Wednesday. A set of MB Quart 6.5/tweeter splits.
The process was rather painless, requiring some really beefy baffles made for the mids, which will not fit in the door without them. The tweeter fit right onto the factory tweeter mounting bracket, that bit couldn’t have been easier!
Sounds great!
I guess I’m a nissan man at heart, having built a high quality show/race nissan in the past, however my wife and I recently purchased a 2007 Subaru WRX, new.
I guess I was chasing something that handled and drove well (fast) right out of the showroom, without getting my hands dirty. Am I over modifying cars? Of course the purchase of the WRX has re-ignited my desire for racing and modifications. The need for speed perhaps. I will no doubt get back into club racing soon.
Recently Subaru released their 2008 WRX for the world to judge. Your thoughts? I dunno, it’s okay, my wife hates the look. I guess until I see it in the flesh I cant say too much. It’s not exactly ugly, but it doesnt exactly scream ‘WRX’ either.
It’s rumored that the STi will be much more agressive. Perhaps this is strategy on behalf of Subaru, to get the customer to lean more toward the STi than the regular WRX. I don’t know about everyone else out there, but $46k AUS is plenty on a new car in my opinion. I’d be coughing up around $60k for an Sti….
Here’s a couple of pictures of the sedan and hatch. Lets see how sales go when it’s released in September (apparently)
Ever wanted to setup an online electronic photo gallery but didn’t really know where to start? First you need somewhere to host your site. Then you need a framework/app to run the show.
Check out coppermine a free gallery web app.
CPG runs on an apache, php, mySQL configuration and requires GD / ImageMagick for thumbnailing and resizing. The CPG is also themeable, which is pretty cool. Many plugins are available to enhance your gallery.
Easy to setup, easy to manage and run. Check out my own gallery which also has a ’shop’ plugin
most of the time…
I do a fair bit of work with Linux focusing on administration of servers hosting production web sites (that make money).
This includes the tweeking of apache, php, mySQL, firewalls, and other misc things. It’s stressful, but the results are nice (a working production site). It’s satisfying when you have a happy customer.
Let me take this opportunity to list some of the sites that I administer for:
www.pimpin.com.au
www.pimpineuro.com
www.modyourcar.com.au
www.sms2bid.com.au
www.adtoll.com
If you need a linux (or Mac) consultant, drop me a line. I’m an Analyst by trade and it’s my job to implement the best stuff 
you wont regret it! (oh, I’m also providing some quality webhosting now….)
My business web site is www.cybix.com.au
from the transmission site
0.70 Released!
Posted by John Clay on 18/04/07
After almost a year without an update, we are pleased to release version 0.70 of Transmission.
Note: From 0.70 on, Transmission for Mac OS X requires 10.4 Tiger or newer.
0.70 (2007/04/18)
New icon
Automatic port mapping (NAT-PMP and UPnP IGD)
Peer exchange (PEX) compatible with Azureus and uTorrent
Multitracker support
Better handling of tracker announce interval
Fixes bug where absurdly huge upload/download totals could be sent
Automatic tracker scraping
Cache connected peers
Many miscellaneous bugfixes and small improvements
I really like this widget, so I figure it deserve’s a shout out on my blog.
“NoodleBoard is a Mac OS X dashboard widget that allows you to securely share your ideas, thoughts, lists, links or anything you can type with others.”
This is great news for those that have on and off peak data quota’s with their ISP (like me)
The nightly builds of Transmission (torrent client) have the ability to shape the throughput (up and down) and also schedule shaping. So cool!
Today I read a post on a forum from someone that wanted to mount an FTP server in OS X as a drive, and then do a backup directly to the drive without first creating an archive on the local machine. The poster wanted to create a .dmg file on the FTP, and feed directly into the .dmg
I did my obligatory google search on this one, thinking it wasnt possible. I know you can mount an FTP server and use it as a regular network drive however. I got bored of searching, but did find a neat link which was the first returned result in google:
http://soiland.no/doc/osx Mac OS X for UNIX hackers
This site is simple, and has a few notes regarding OS X, the BSD within, and some nice tips. Worth a look!
Today I’ve migrated this web site to a dedicated web server that I’ve setup in the USA with Superb Hosting.
It’s expensive to have the server, but hopefully I will have some web clients that will help ease the monthly costs! The server is just an Intel consumer box running Linux (Fedora Core 6)
The speed improvement should be excellent. As previously this site was run off a server, at home, on the end of my 1500/256k ADSL link. (nasty)
I’m looking forward to further enhancing the machine for even more services soon!
I know you can share your “public folder” in OS X. But what if you want users on the network to see a certain folder on the file system using Applesharing?
There is a way!
I wanted a folder on the kitchen iMac to be “shared” for use by my wife and I. I found a neat little app that does the hard work for us. It’s called “Sharepoints“.
In short, it’s a GUI front end to AFP and SMB and also lets you maintain unix user/groups. It’s easy and very simple.
check it out: http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/