Well in my defense, I think every weekend since my last update I haven’t been all that sober…
For the 4th of July weekend we created a Floating Glowing Engraved Beer Pong Table. I think we’re missing some random keywords there, but it is awesome. That semester ended quite well, now I’m suffering through my first class of Java and finding that half the content I already know from C++.
I’ve moved almost all my stuff to a Rackspace Cloud image, DraconRose, NexLusus and Maedondias.com are all now on the same virtual image. Awesome, root access, new projects are appearing in my head… lol My learning Java and plans for writing my own frontend for Tech(car) are spawning some interesting ideas with my cloud image and dynamic syncing.
My running todo list as of now:
Tech:
- Setup SilverBox to be Tech’s Win7 Home Brain, BlackBox to be it’s Linux Home Brain and the Cloud to be it’s Internet Linux Brain. It’s mostly a MySQL structure and setup thing, then figuring out how to manage data across a collection of systems. The Internet Brain being an SQL DB that knows how to talk to all other brains(ok nodes… but I like brains… BRAINS!!!) as well as either it or the BlackBox being the master backup/clone of all SQL DBs from each brain. Wooo MySQL Replication! lol Assuming I can figure it out correctly. It’s just a project that’s going to take a while to conceptualize and ever write.
NexLusus.com:
- Get new Legion logo image
- Photoshop a new background for the Blog theme
- Finish/Redo the scheme in the forums, either to look awesome or to match the blog(not going well)
- Drag myself through the rest of my summer programming class…
Web Sites:
- Switching over to nginx since I dont wanna pay for more RAM since apache2 and mysql like to eat it all….
Car Related:
- Reinstall Garmin GPS, and hackup some OSK for it — OR dump Garmin for a while and buy iGuidance
- Setup rsync and wippien — It’s installed… but needs to be reconfigured, I think the carPC will get another reinstall
- Silence the SilverBox, tweak it’s power settings, add a DDWRT router to it(for WOL), and move it to new location — Got another DDWRT Router for it, modded it for AutoAP only to find that I can’t figure out how to get the scriptable-controlable version of AutoAP merged into the latest versions of DD-WRT, so I’ll get around to trying to use the old AutoAP firmware and just load some presets into the firmware incase of setting wipes.
- Pick up a 20/24pin PSU extension cable and hack it up with some switches and a project box for the car to power Tech while in the garage from a desktop power supply. Mostly simple, just dreading opening back up my dash to fix up some wiring. — Got the PSU cable… still dreading the effort and haven’t gotten around to it.
- I’ve started over my music DB with the SilverBox, so I need to dump my music from Tech and resync it all — Ahh…. yep still need to do this
Things I need:
- New phone, my Fuze is crying under my usage, still waiting to see if the HTC Desire is going ATT or not. Otherwise I think I’m going Samsung’s Captivate.
- New car battery, I’m told it doesn’t have many cranks left, but I don’t really wanna spend $100+ on a new better battery when my CarPC is showing me it works fine. As in it is turning on.
- My laptops sound doesn’t work… And I’ve run out of ideas on it, so I may end up just reinstalling Windows at some point to see if that helps.