The factory battery in the TJ finally died and needed replacing. A combination of being rather lazy and time poor made getting RAC to do the job rather tempting. I really wanted to put a better battery in the TJ though so kept putting the job off, some two months later I stumbled across a deal from Batteries Direct – $275 for a Blue Top Optima, including delivery. NICE! Not the Deep Cycle version but then again alot better than sticking a plain jane RAC battery in the Jeep. Ordered and delivered really quickly.

So happy with that transaction I ended up getting some batteries for my UPS from them as well, these batteries died some 18 months ago and I never got around to replacing them . Again well priced and simple in the delivery to the door. What more could a time poor lazy person ask for?

Apple TV 2 remote stopped working. Thought it might have been something to do with the Jailbreak/XBMC install. Nup seems looks like it got locked up. Also referred to this post a few times about installing Apple TV 2 - Arturito.net

Using MySQL on my NAS for a central Database for my two AppleTVs to share – Centralize XMBC Library

Installed SVN on my Synology NAS awhile ago, as per instructions on the synology wiki. Also just set up a repo on google code, thought that this would be handy >> jeep-monkey repo

Getting SVN working on eclipse I installed the SVN binaries from CollabNet

I’ve been lusting after a DROBO for ages. Hopefully soon I will be able to justify the expense and get one. In the meantime I’ll post a link in the attempt to win one!

Was having breakfast in IKEA when I saw these two ARSECLOWNS park in a clearly marked parents parking bay, no child or pram came out of the work van just two idiot tradies! Not as bad as parking in a disable bay, but still annoying and inconsiderate.

Been tweaking my .profile file, following additions made to make life a bit easier.

#Set Backspace key

stty erase ^?

#Set ls alias

alias l=”ls -l”

#Set ksh session to use the arrow keys for command line history control.

set -o emacs   # Sets emacs mode.
alias __A=”^P” # Sets Up    Arrow key for the previous command.
alias __B=”^N” # Sets Down  Arrow key for the next command.
alias __C=”^F” # Sets Right Arrow key for one character forwards.
alias __D=”^B” # Sets Left  Arrow key for one character backwards.

Finally bought a NAS, ended up going with the Synology DS210J, a two bay NAS with alot of great functions Picked it up off Ebay for $300 delivered. Will see how this one goes with plans to get a 4 bay version a bit latter on.

So far so good! I’ve been able to turn off my PC and stream my media from the NAS instead.

Setting up BitTorrent Client

Installed Transmission Package from SynoBlog

Flexget from http://flexget.com/

RSS Feed – http://ezrss.it/feed

Transmission Config not sticking

Need to make sure that Transmission is not running before editing the settings,json file otherwise all changes will be lost. Supposdly a known bug. Stop and start the Transmission Service by the Package Management Panel.

Flexget Config

/root/.flexget/config.yml

set up symlink (soft) to Tranmission settings.json

ln -s /usr/local/transmission/var/settings.json trans.json

UPnP Indexing Issue

Discovered a small issue whereby the files in the Video UPnP directory were not being shown on my XBox. Found that due to them being downloaded by Transmission they weren’t being indexed. you can run the synoindex routine to update the index, but figure that its just as easy for my current setup to just map a SMB drive from the XBox.

Next Step

Updating Block List via scheduled script so that it gets updated on a regular basis. (Stop and Restart Transmission?)

http://pastebin.com/jLqT3qxL

wget -q -t 3 http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz

CRON Issues

When attempting to schedule Flexget via CRON I found that me CROBTAB kept on being reset on reboot. Very frustrating! CRONTAB gets interogated on reboot and if the system finds that it is incorrectly formatted it sets it to the default CRONTAB (ie. Blank)

You need to be very exact in the formatting. Using vi as the editor and tabs instead of spaces and being very careful has worked for me.

Recently when setting up some Reporting to be controlled by ControlM/EM I experienced an issue using the IBM supplied trigger.sh script. It worked perfectly well when using a single word Namespace, but once we tried against a two word Namespace it failed.

All documentation that I found on the web and in the supplied manuals indicated that a two word Name space should work by just putting it in quotes. Nup, No Way, FAIL! This might work OK under a Windows environment but not AIX.

The problem is that the IBM Supplied script does not handle spaces in positional parameters, the line towards the bottom of the script is coded as;

${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java -classpath ${CLASSPATH} Trigger ${1} ${2} ${3} ${4}  ${5}

So it thinks it is getting 6 arguments instead of 5 when handling the Namespace of “Novell eDirectory” and instantly fails as it only expecting 5.

A quick and simple change to make it work was to change it to;

${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java -classpath ${CLASSPATH} Trigger "$@"

This retains the space when parsing the parameters. Sweet! All Good!.

In order to close any OutLook sessions, so that the associated pst file would be backed up, a script it run as a Pre Event. The script executes;

taskkill /f /im outlook.exe

To help cool down my MBP as well as get it to a good height next to my 30” ACD I decided to bang together a stand from some spare retic parts I had laying around the shed. I figured that by getting some air between the MBP and the desktop, it should take some of the heat out.

I am pretty happy with how it turned out, so much so I think I can put off buying a proper one for a bit. If I get motivated I’ll give it a quick once over some spray paint.

After my DELL dramas I bit the bullet and bought a 30” Apple Cinema Display. Love the screen real-estate, don’t love the expense! With the government Small business 50% deduction I couldn’t help myself. I did hesitate several times though, deciding whether to get the ACD or maybe push my luck a bit further with Andrea and get a 5D. I think it could be quite some time before  get to upgrade my camera body.