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Month: April, 2007

new speakers for wrx

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 [...]

2008 Subaru WRX

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 [...]

online photo gallery

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 [...]

I make shit work…

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 [...]

Transmission .70 goes stable

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 [...]

Noodleboard Widget for OS X

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.”
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Transmission gets bandwidth shaping

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!

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Mac OS X for UNIX hackers

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 [...]

new hosting

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 [...]

share any folder in OS X

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 [...]