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It had been driving me a little buggy for sometime now that the
bandwidthd app I use wasn't treating my soulseek traffic as P2P but
instead lumped it all into TCP.

Today it finally resulted in a hair so far up my ass that rather than
bug the actual developer about it, I dug through the source code til I
found where he was defining P2P traffic and added the soulseek port.

Then recompiled and installed my modified binary.

After a wee smidge of testing, it appears I have a bit more work to do
yet.... damn. I suspect it's just a bit of tweaking in the actual
configuration file in specifying the various directories it needs to
use. I can launch it just fine, but it's apparently not updating the
local webpage with the data.

Doh.

Related, and a bit of a call for input... anyone out there on the
intertubes using OSX have a favourite editor for coding in? Ideally I'd
like something that has syntax highlighting for html, sh, perl and c.
You know, the biggies :)

Discovered I'd copied my music over to the macbook The Wrong Way (tm)
and am now in the process of adding it the Apple Way (tm). It is gonna
take a long time for it to bring in 16298 tracks... it's currently on
track 853. Eep.

What with the shenanigans and goings on with glassapples car, I'm also
poking the old employer who she had purchased it from to see if
something can be worked out. She <i>could</i> donate it to the Kidney
Foundation, but I don't know how much good that really does her. She's
already spent $2000 trying to fix everything up and make it hers, and a
tax break doesn't do a student a lot of good right now. Rather hoping
he can just buy it back from her and take the tax advantage himself.

He may not be legally obligated to do so in any way, but it'd be The
Right Thing To Do (tm), what with having essentially told her it was
driven under 50km/hr and babied since it was purchased lo those many
years ago.

It looks like there is a short term work possibility for a coder. A cry
for help to finish off a Joomla project went out to the Calgary PHP list
and I haven't seen anyone reply to it thus far.

Anyone out there in my many acquaintances and friends interested in
taking on a weeks worth of work?

<a
href="http://php.meetup.com/159/boards/view/viewthread?thread=2592825">help!</a>

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We have contracted a company to develop our new website using Joomla.
Work started last May and now almost a year later it looks like this
project might never be completed. Would you be able to direct me to
somebody who would be capable of finishing such a project? I?d say we?re
about 80% done but there are some missing critical elements that prevent
us from going live. It will probabbly take a couple of days to a week's
worth of work to cross the finish line.

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Contact details are in the link.

I am so tired of this nasal congestion. I finished off the prescription
like an obedient monkey a few days ago, and it hasn't cleared up. This
morning is particularly bad.

Yesterday at work, I didn't make nearly as much progress as I was hoping
on my phpip hack job. Doh. I do think I know what I need to change/fix
though, so I'm hoping I'm right. I also committed a heinous act of
office torture on some of my teammates. I brought in my french press
and coffee grinder, and treated them to a pot of the Panamanian coffee.
Bwahahahaha. They are forever ruined!

After work I killed a bit of time, dropped in an said hello to OID, and
then headed off to Deliiria's birthday party.

Welcome to the TriCentury club lass *grin*

It was a relatively low key affair, with some very tasty munchables
prepared by her mom. Hun, your mom kicks multiple kinds of ass. Many
thanks to her for having prepared the tasty spread! I didn't know many
people there, but it was a friendly bunch. Any group that finds itself
watching Firefly and laughing in the right places is A-Ok in my books :)

This morning is off to a rough start, but I generally find that mornings
and nights are the hardest with $malady. The congestion and coughing is
strenuous and leaves me short of breath. Fortunately it seems treatable
over a short period with coffee, and I have that particularly treatment
covered off in spades. Hrm. You know, I have no idea where that phrase
comes from, and it's an odd one.

The roomie is playing country. I'm just telling myself that people
grieve in their own ways. I will grieve for my ears :)

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Well this has been a vaguely complicated day. Due to futzing about til
12:30am this morning/last night, I didn't get a lot of sleep. Because
it was so late when I got to bed, I didn't dare take a percocet... which
means today my shoulder and back were hurting like hell.

Spent the day fixing code and trying to troubleshoot a rather
problematic sql query that just has me stumped.

If anyone out there happens to recall how to enable general type query
logging in mysql (in the my.cnf file) it'd be much appreciated if you
shared ;) It's MySQL 4.1 on RHEL4. Even broke down and fired up
tcpdump, and got nada. Right at the end of the day it suddenly occurred
to me that the reason I was getting bupkis in tcpdump is because I'm a
security freak and it communicates via sockets, not the network ;)

Then the end of the day rolls around, and I'm almost home... friend
phones me up with a flat and in need of a partial rescue. The car
actually broke down close enough to home that he got himself and his
munchkins to his place thank goodness. Ended up hanging around there
with him for about 2 hours while he waited for AMA to show up. His kids
have discovered the happiness of naked. Heh.

Picked up my sweetie from work, headed home... crisis. <a
href="http://glassapples.livejournal.com/482047.html?mode=reply">glassapples</a> has not had a good night of things, and we headed off to help her say goodbye to Frodo. We'll miss you bunnay.

I am hoping tomorrow is filled only with good things.

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The Noodly Appendages were kind today, and I got the magical email
around 10am informing me my laptop was in and I could pick it up. One
rushed meeting later, and I was out into the frozen urban wasteland to
face the subzero windchill.

All for a good cause, even if my fingers were so cold when I got back to
the office it slowed me down in opening up the box.

First up, on booting up the Macbook, it was a HELL of a lot more
straightforward to configure for my own use than a fresh out of the box
Windows install. Not many updates to install either.

Next up in the land of knifty was the remote and how Mac OSX handles
media. Oh my god. If someone out there who wasted the money and
frustration on Windows Media Centre saw this, they would freaking weep
at how smooth and sexy it is.

It dealt with my laptop wheel mouse with nary a blink or whimper.

It dealt with my USB docking station with a quick prompt to determine
what my keyboard was.

World of Warcraft is a thing of beauty :)

I am currently rsync'ing about 80+GB of music across our network, have
apache up and running along with php (it's there by default!) and am
downloading Bootcamp so I can make this slick baby triple boot.

Not honestly sure how much I'll find myself spending in linux/Windows at
this point though. Most of the dev/testing stuff I want to do appears
to be possible in OSX Panther.

Also, the Macbook is so light it's not funny. I mean *really* light.

I am ridiculously happy with this purchase.

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Been feeling like hell for a few days now, what with the shoulder and
stuff. Add into that a sore throat that is making it very uncomfortable
to swallow and you have a grumpy assed mofo on your hands.

Despite that, today should be a good day. I'll be watching my cell
phone obsessively today waiting for the phone call from the Mac dealer
and the arrival of my laptop.

Also praying for the arrival of the MotoQ phones that Kim and I have on
order. It's going to be nice not being in the stone age anymore on the
tech side of things.

Listening to some new to me music right now by OhGr. The name of the
group was reason enough to grab a few tracks :) If you're looking for
something new to listen to, this would be a good pick.

Also, the Panama coffee has arrived! What with my spectacularly unhappy
throat and everything, particularly this morning, I'm putting off making
a pot until this evening when I get home from work. One more thing to
look forward to *grin*

Today is promising to be a busy day. I've scheduled one of my projects
to go live this morning, so hopefully that goes smoothly. It should,
I've tested it pretty thoroughly :) It'll be nice to get all that data
out of the Excel spreadsheet it currently lives in and into a handier
web app like phpip. After that comes the NFS mount of doom, and making
those bloody snmp scripts my bitch.

The learning curve after that it going to be a bit steeper as I try and
then get that SNMP data into the phpip db, and correlated against phpip
data. Whee!

Damn. I need someone to invent a sourceforge/freshmeat dictionary of
some kind. I hate being told I have a spelling mistake when I don't :)

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