• Adium is now securely signed with an Apple Developer ID for OS X 10.8 / GateKeeper compatibility
• Updated to libpurple 2.10.4
  • AIM/ICQ: Fix communication with buddies containing periods and underscores
  • MSN: Fix messages to offline contacts
  • Fixed a number of security issues (see http://pidgin.im/news/security), small memory leaks, miscellaneous bugs
• Fixed status indicators in chat windows with only one chat. (#9620)
• Renamed “Send Notification” to “Request Attention”. (#15789)
• Adjusted the layout of the profile selection window.
• Adjusted the minimum size of the message window to be 200px. (#15794)
• Increased the size of the focus indicators so that they can be better seen when using overlay scrollbars.
• Fixed the transcript viewer not saving the user list size.
• Made “View Release Notes” localizable. (#15914)
• Corrected some MSN emoticon shortcuts. (#15926)

That brings us to today, I am getting out of work a few hours early so Kat and I can head over to Red Rock Casino for the night.  We have dinner reservations at T-Bones Chophouse which I am personally looking really forward to as it has been amazing the other times that I have been.
After dinner we will probably be wandering around in circles at the casino rather than here in the condo, and have a little hotel room party.  Not written in stone yet but we are hoping to have all of this followed up with an afternoon at the Red Rock Casino pool on friday. Looking forward to having a great birthday celebration with Kat today, tonight and tomorrow.

Resolve an issue where the “Reopen windows when logging back in” setting is always enabled
Improve compatibility with certain British third-party USB keyboards
Address an issue that may prevent files from being saved to a server
Improve the reliability of copying files to an SMB server

For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5167.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

Improves reliability of using HDR option for photos taken using the Lock Screen shortcut
Addresses bugs that could prevent the new iPad from switching between 2G and 3G networks
Fixes bugs that affected AirPlay video playback in some circumstances
Improved reliability for syncing Safari bookmarks and Reading List
Fixes an issue where ‘Unable to purchase’ alert could be displayed after successful purchase

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

Camping in 100+ degree heat is really not as fun as people might lead you to believe, most of the day was spent cowering in the shade trying to avoid mother nature while staying hydrated.

Here are some of the bands that I specifically went to see or watched with friends while I was there (In no particular order): The Black Keys, At the Drive-In, Refused, Radiohead, Bon Iver, Manchester Orchestra, Dr. Dre, Snoop, Eminem, 50 Cent… Tupac, Beirut, Gotye, Justice

If I end up attending next time I think there are a few things I will do differently ranging from trying to go to weekend 1 (or however they work it out) since there should be better weather, to maybe even just getting and RV or the complete cop out and get a hotel.

1995 – 328M
2001 – 200M
2003 – 1.1G
2004 – 1.2G
2005 – 2.9G
2006 – 8.1G
2007 – 2.9G
2008 – 1.1G
2009 – 2.1G
2010 – 26G
2011 – 30G

Found this kind of interesting so I thought I would make a pointless post about it.

Mar 01 21:57:52 node1 apf(12614): {glob} config. or .rule file has changed since last full load, going full load
Mar 01 21:57:52 node1 apf(12614): {glob} activating firewall
Mar 01 21:57:52 node1 apf(12684): {glob} kernel version not equal to 2.4.x or 2.6.x, aborting.
Mar 01 21:57:52 node1 apf(12614): {glob} firewall initialized

I saw that the APF install that was available in apt was outdated, while not by much it was a little behind. I figured I might try to download the newest build directly from their site as it was a bit newer. I removed the installed version, installed the new and it didn’t work either.  After some further searching I came across this bug report.  Per the information on the bug description the person advised editing the following file /etc/apf-firewall/internals/functions.apf and adding this code just after 2.6 check

elif [ "$KREL" == "3.0" ]; then
        MEXT="ko"

After adding the code I restarted APF and it took a moment longer to load and then it was up and running.  I took a look at the iptables and all my rules had been implemented.    Thought that I would document it here for future reference as I am not sure if the link to the bug will be removed and it might save someone a few minutes of struggling to get it working.

First make sure to create a new share on your Drobo from the Drobo Dashboard. The subversion install requires that the share name begins with “svn” or “subversion“, I named mine svnrepos. Save the share and make sure its there before you install the subversion DroboApp else you will have to remove the app and reinstall it.

Next you need to download subversion for the Drobo from the following URL: http://drobo.jhah.net/apps/subversion/start

Copy the subversion app to the DroboApps folder on your DroboFS.
Install the app by either restarting the Drobo or connecting in via SSH and issuing the following command

/usr/bin/DroboApps.sh install

Now that its installed change to the following directory

/mnt/DroboFS/Shares/DroboApps/subversion/bin

Create a new subversion repository with the following command, swapping out REPONAME for the new repo you are creating.

./svnadmin create /mnt/DroboFS/Shares/svnrepos/REPONAME

Now you need to setup the access levels for the repo that you just created. My DroboFS and repos are behind my firewall and only accessible from the LAN, so I used the simple setup that is shown below. I am sure there are many other ways to get this setup but for me this worked. Change into the following directory

/mnt/DroboFS/Shares/svnrepos/REPONAME/conf

Now you need to edit the the svnserve.conf file. Simply uncomment the following lines and save the file

anon-access = read
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd

Now you have to edit the passwd file which will hold the allowed users to this repo and their password. The format is really simple as shown below, save the file when done

shelby=PASSWORD

Now to create the initial directories and the first import before connecting to the repo with your subversion client. I created a generic project folder with the basic, trunk, tags, and branches folder. You will only have to create the structure the first time through every other project you can just run the initial import

mkdir -p projects/{trunk,tags,branches}
./bin/svn import project file:///mnt/DroboFS/Shares/svnrepos/REPONAME -m "Inital Import"

And thats all you have to do to get subversion installed, configured and ready to connect on your DroboFS. Now you can fire up your subversion client of choice (I use Versions.app on my Macbook) and setup the connection with the username and password and connect to the IP address of your DroboFS.
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UPDATE: This was originally a local story in Lansing, but has since been picked up by CBS and will be airing nationally on Feb 17th, 2012 @ 6:30pm.

1. Stop MySQL

   sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

2. Start MySQL with the following command

   sudo mysqld --skip-grant-tables &

3. Login to MySQL as root with out a password

   mysql -u root mysql

4. Replace PASSWORD with the new password of your choice.

   UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('PASSWORD') WHERE User='root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; exit;

I was able to see Tool last year and wasn’t too overly impressed with that show, but I was blown away with this one.  They stuck with a lot of their older stuff.  While the seats were kind of nose bleed it was nice to be able to sit back with a drink in hand and watch the show.

I took a few videos and uploaded them to YouTube, while they are not the best it does give you a decent view of the crowd/stage show.

Solution: Doing some reading you can actually make all of the XBMC instances store data to a central server running MySQL.  Why would you want to do that? Well there are a few reasons, besides having everything in sync across the board it also gives you the ability to resume playback from where you left off in another room.

Since I already had a server on my LAN which is providing the media via Samba and already has MySQL running for a development environment it was a pretty simple setup.  I followed the tutorial here, which pretty much calls for making a MySQL user for XBMC and then I took it a step further and have all of the actor/movie thumbnails being stored on a network share too.  I have included my advancedsettings.xml file which you need to create and add to each XBMC instance.

<advancedsettings>
    <videodatabase>
        <type>mysql</type>
        <host>10.0.1.100</host>
        <port>3306</port>
        <user>xbmc</user>
        <pass>xbmc</pass>
        <name>xbmc_video</name>
    </videodatabase> 

    <musicdatabase>
        <type>mysql</type>
        <host>10.0.1.100</host>
        <port>3306</port>
        <user>xbmc</user>
        <pass>xbmc</pass>
        <name>xbmc_music</name>
    </musicdatabase>

	<pathsubstitution>
  		<substitute>
			<from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/</from>
			<to>smb://10.0.1.100/XBMC/Thumbnails/</to>
		</substitute>
	</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>

I decided to rebuild my whole library, which takes a little but but all said and done its a pretty nice setup and being able to resume playback from room to room is nice too.  If you have a dedicated machine, and multiple XBMC instances I would recommend this type of setup.

Life – I have traveled a bunch over the last year, and attended quite a few concerts and festivals.  Had some bad times but mostly good times it was a really exciting year that allowed me to experience a lot of new things.  I hope this coming year and the years after hold just as much fun and excitement as 2011 did for me.

WordCamp Las Vegas – For never organizing a WordCamp before, I must say it went pretty well.  I am not just speaking on my own here as a lot of attendees have stated that it went really well and they enjoyed it a lot.  I was able to get a fantastic hotel deal from the Hard Rock Hotel here in Vegas, work out a great venue space with UNLV and then setup and after party at the Freakin Frog.  It was actually a lot easier than I thought it was going to be once the ball got rolling. I am debating on doing a WordCamp for 2012, if I do it should be easier now that I already have 1 under my belt.

Christmas – Nothing much to report on this front.  Seems as though I am getting to that age in life where Christmas is just yet another day on the calendar…. except I don’t have to work.

New Years – 2011 went by really quick, seemed like every day that I got up it was another month in.  As much fun as I had over 2011 I sure hope 2012 lasts a bit longer and doesn’t fly by so quick.

Projects – Over the past year I have been working on various projects and have a few more that I want to add to my list this year… and well hopefully finish up the ones I already started.

1. Performance Server Setup - I have been playing around with NGINX, Varnish, APC, and Memcached for the past year.  I cant even begin to count how many installs of each I have done and different server builds to make use of the technologies.  Its been a really good learning experience and I hope to actually apply it to something soon.
2. LED Hula Hoops – About 6 months ago Kat and I started messing around with the idea of creating LED Hula Hoops.  The idea kind of sparked in my mind after going to a music festival in Colorado where I started to notice people using these LED Hula Hoops.  After speaking with Kat about it and doing some research I thought it was a task I could take on and make a few bucks doing so.  I hope sometime this year to start mass producing them and selling them online.
3. Internal Network – Since I started working from home I started to look at my internal network that I have setup.  I have been trying to consolidate my systems and build in redundancy along the way.  I hope soon to have my dedicated server setup with RAID and everything on a gigabit network as well.  On top of that over the years I have been getting more into gathering data such as hard drive temps, and my snakes aquarium temp and logging it to MySQL and graphing out the data.  I hope to continue adding more data gathering to the mix, possibly with a Twine once released or another Arduino.

Well that concludes my first post of the new year, and as always I hope to start expanding on this site more and more with more consistent updates too.
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