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I released a new version of Linkped late last night, which finally contains the new inbox.  I went through a very heavy testing period before this was ready for public use.  Thanks to the beta testers who helped me a lot with tracking down some odd bugs.

The biggest change is removing the hide button.  This button honestly made things confusing and didn’t work very well.  Its one of the oldest sections of the code base and needed a rewrite badly.

However, its now even easier to find what you have missed in the new inbox. There are filters for All, New and Viewed.  (Sorting is in development)

There are a number of UI improvements that I will be introducing over time, however there are more critical section that need a rewrite first.  My sent links and send link are coming down the pipe soon, but they are also going to require an intensive beta test.

Enjoy!

After all the shit that happened to me this week, I finally get a glimpse of what I have been looking forward to for ages.  I am really pissed I didn’t see it in the theater, but at least I get to see it

1080p Terminator 4 teaser

Normal blogging doesn’t work out well for me since I hate to type large amounts. I am lazy, what can I say.  However, I am going to give this opensource alertnative to twitter a try.

http://identi.ca/joped

Lets see how long it lasts for me, I will need some iPhone 3G support this week.  I will go to which ever provider supports the iPhone 3G with GPS and pics.   Not to mention, I need OpenID support.

Depending on what happens I might just work on it my self.  I am already maintaining 3 sites.  I have a complete rewrite of Jokeped coming out in a few days.  To the user not much has changed, just a few minor fixes and clean ups.  Its mostly backend code and SEO.

Ran into this 5v5 team that was 4 shamans and 1 pally.  Obviously, this guy was boxing.  Great focus fire damage, but any group with a clue can take them out fairly easy.

I had a part in a silly video we made at work, and of course I have to spread it around every where

After the credits, there is a few minutes of music … Don’t worry, I don’t get it either.

BTW, I am in the lab coat …

Someone took the Garfield comic strip, removed Garfield out (with Photoshop) and posts it on a blog. Everyday I get the newest comic from the RSS feed, I really look forward to it.

It takes looking over a few to get it … without Garfield, John is completely nuts!

Go check it out at:
http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com

A recent work around has been posted on a number messages boards. I am not sure where it originated because a few people are claiming they found the hack. Either way, the following was NOT found by me

On the Mac type the following at a terminal:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

On the NAS server, create a file named .com.apple.timemachine.supported in the root of the shared partition.

This has finally allowed me to see the mount point using SMB. However, I have still not been able to make this work using AFP. I would rather use AFP because it is a huge performance boost.

As I started getting closer to a solution, I started to run into quite a few problems with my home server. To start off, its a very old copy of Debian that is in a very strange state. I was experimenting with apt pinning a while back, which failed pretty bad.

Its a raid 5 system with some of my more important data on it, so I can’t just wipe it. To make matters worse, one of the drives is in a degraded state and needs to be replaced. Of course, it just popped out of warranty a few months ago. I need to wait a few weeks before I can afford to purchase a new drive for it. In the mean time, I have powered down the system.

Now, I am using a very old and slow AMD system. This was a backup workstation I used a few years ago for some basic web browsing. After running it over night, I was shocked when I found it was only at 25% of backing up 80GB.

On the system side of things, it does have a gigabit network card. However, the iowait time was pegged at 80%. After some digging around, I found out the system only has a USB 1.1 port! Needless to say, I am working on getting a slightly newer system that I have up and running with a new version of Debian. It is the system I was previously using as a MythTV system when I lived back in NJ. The bad news is that it is going to set me back a few hours doing the entire setup again.

I have heard reports of the images that are created over NAS getting corrupt after disconnects and such. Since my data is so critical, I will be backing up to 2 separate devices until Apple releases a fix. The great thing is, that Time Machine can work using multiple different drives. You just need to change your backup location when you switch devices and no you can’t use more then 1 at once.

iLife ‘08 for the Mac came with a new gallery feature. Its a much nicer interface then the iWeb version. Its perfect for people like me that don’t plan on using the “web site” feature of .Mac and only want to use the picture gallery.

I still have a lot to move over, especially the descriptions. With my busy schedule, it could take a while.

If you have come here looking for the memorial day pictures, you can find them here.

After you check those out, feel free to pop over to my Joke site for a good laugh.

Lots going on in my world, which is why there haven’t been any updates in quite a while. Short version of it, is that I am moving and trying to promote my joke site. The site is starting to pick up some speed, getting a nice steady increase in traffic.

Also, since I switched away from AdSense to AdBrite I have almost doubled my weekly ad revenue. (Which isn’t all that much currently)

Anyway, go check out the site. http://www.jokeped.com.