After some digging I found that when doing a “ls -l”, none of the file permissions were setup on any of the folders that were being synced.  After looking on the internet, all the articles lead me to believe I needed to set my CYGWIN variable to ntsec.

So I went ahead and set my CYGWIN variable to ntsec, but the problem was still there.  I had a little plus at the end of the file permissions list and none of them were set.  It looked something like this.

d———+

I had almost given up when I found an old program I was using before, which is a stripped down version of cygwin and rsync with a cmd file for doing the sync.  In there I discovered that they set the CYGWIN variable to nontsec!

So there it is, I set CYGWIN to nontsec and everything worked great!

For those of you who would like the steps to permanently fix this, here they are.

1. Make sure you have vim or some other editor installed.
2. Edit your .bash_profile in your home directory.  $ vim ~/.bash_profile
3. Add this line to the bottom of the file:    export CYGWIN=”nontsec”
4. Save the file and quit.  for vim type :qw
5. Restart cygwin

You should now see file permissions setup on all your directories and files!

I hope this helps out someone else who fould all the posts out there to be very confusing and not very informative!

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I received my zagg invisible shield on Febuary 10th, and recount my installation horror story here: http://www.dailyrelevance.com/iphone/zagg-invisible-shield

Im not one to completely disown a company, however, this has to be the worst product you could ever put on your iphone.  Here are just a couple of things that Zagg needs to seriously improve on before they ever consdier selling their invisible sheild to anyone!

Installation was the most frustrating experience I have gone though in a while!  Now, I can understand that it was my first time and that it does require a bit of a delicate touch, however, should it really be that hard?

Decreased touch response on the screen.  I brought this up with zagg support and they said “You’ll get use to the change in touch performance. It’s not hindered, just different.”  What is that supposed to mean?  Why would I want my touch performance to be different than if I had nothing on the screen at all?  To their defense, i never did call customer support.  But I was at this point fed up with the product and going to just live with it.

Now if those were the only problems with the product I think that I would be OK, but obviously they are not!

The cover becomes severly discolored!  I own a white iphone and after only 2 months with the zagg “invisible” shield it had become anything BUT invisible!  Take a look at this picture after removing the back cover:

not so invisible

I think you are also all asking yourselves, why are the corners black?  Well to my next point, that is lint collected on the corner guards that became semi-unglued and collected all my pocket lint for me.  Also it is stuck onto a white background so you can get an idea as to how yellow it became.  You might think to yourself that I did something wrong or I left it out in the sun.  Well i’m not the only one with this problem!  When I took it to a competitor’s cart in the mall, they had a drawer full of zagg invisible shields that had the same or worse yellow discoloration and “orange peel effect”, which is what the guy called it.

The orange peel effect is where the invisible shield is no longer flat and smooth, it actually starts to ripple and become deformed?!? ruining your view of the display.

What should you buy, if the zagg is so incompetent and discusting?  I will have to give a little plug to my installer at the Tysons Corner mall.  Its a competitor of zagg called BodyGuardz and I highly recommend their product.

How do they solve the above problems that zagg has not?

First, they offer installation services for free!  Thats all this guy does, he installs the protective cover on your phone and he does it right without any of the headache that you would have if you installed it yourself!

Second, if this thing does orange peel, discolor, or start to collect pocket lint i’ve got someone I can go to.  He also guaruntees that they have fixed these problems in their phone and with professional installation i doubt the corners are going to be peeling off too.

I took a blurry photo of the guys information that installed my bodyguardz onto my iphone but once I get home I will post all his information.  Its been a week now and I havn’t had any complaints.  However, like the zagg product I will post a follow up after a month or so to see how the body guardz for the iphone performs.

If any of you are near the Tysons Corner mall in virginia, stop by the BodyGuardz cart right in front of the L.L. Bean store and they will take care of you!  I told him that I would referr anyone I could and make sure that everyone would steer clear of the Zagg invisible shield.

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For everything to work properly, you will need to disable the asla drivers and download a new volume mixer, all of which are outlined in the documentation.

You will need to follow the documentation pretty close except for some situations where the version numbers on the downloads have been updated and you will need to change the commands accordingly.  Specifically when obtaining the OSS source files.  When the document was written they were using v4.1, when i downloaded it was v4.2.  this will affect subsequent commands and will just have to be updated.

The last part was to get the volume controller working, which was done again by following the instructions and just downloading an updated version of the *.so file.  After doing that I had to remove and re-add the volume mixer to the pannel.

All is now right with the world!!  You can check out the guide here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSound

Good luck getting the Creative X-fi drivers working on your ubuntu system!

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Today I wanted to see just how easy it was to get ubuntu installed and running from a usb flash drive using instructions found over at pen drive linux.  It was not only easy, it seemed too good to be true!

All I had to do was follow their few simple instructions, which was essentially to download their installer file and the ubuntu 8.10 iso and I was done.  The only problem I ran into was that I didn’t have admin rights on the machine I was working on so I had to perform the final step at home, which was to make the usb drive bootable.  For some reason without local admin access you can’t perform this action.

After restarting the machine I had to make sure that I selected my computers boot menu at the post screen and select the usb device to boot from.  After that I was up and running on ubuntu in just a few minutes.

Boot time was rather slow, but I guess that is to be expected on a slow 8 gig flash drive I got from radio shack.  Ive got an 8 gig cruzar flash drive, I have no idea on the stats but seems pretty slow.

The only other downfall was that the default casper-rw file is only 1 gig and its defiantly not enough space to run the ubuntu updates.  The updates took quite a while to run, which was probably because it was over 140 days out of date.  A lot of stuff happens to FLOSS in that time period.

I would definatly recomend this to anyone who has been curious about linux operating systems but doesnt want to reformat their whole system just to play with the OS.  Happy nixing!

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As always make sure to add me to your family and check out the mafia live family codes that I have posted.  Make sure to include your family code in the comments if you want other people to add you as well.

Some new fantastic things in the game include bulk buying and selling of items.  I know this was a huge pain for everyone when you start to get into the higher levels.  I’m not all that impressed with the web interface since its litterally just an iphone looking webpage.  One benefit is the reduced lagg when performing an action, but thats about it.

If you have not yet checked out the game, DO IT! its amazing addicting, and once you start you wont want to stop.

There really is no right way to play the game, just like there is no right way to sell drugs on the street!  Make as much money as possible.

For those of you that have not figured this out yet here are some of the main points that you need to understand to win fights and make money.

Mafia Live Tips

1. You only benefit from having 10x your level in family members.  If you are level 10, well you get the point.  Anymore than 100 family have no affect on fighting.
2. What does this mean to you?  This leads me to the next topic, equipment. Equipment is broken into 3 categories: Weapons, Armor, and Vehicles.
3. If you are level 10 and you have 100 family, make sure you own 100 weapons of any mixture, 100 armor and 100 vehicles.  Lower levels are probably not going to be able to own 100 vehicles but try to max out as much as you can.
4. The system should always choose the best weapons first, if you have 5 ak-47’s and 100 revolvers, it will use 5 ak’s and 95 revolvers.
5. Never fight with very much money in your pocket, always deposit to the banker.
6. Never worry about who you are fighting it takes to much time to check everyone’s stats for every fight, you just wont get anywhere anytime fast.
7. Push multiple fight buttons in consecutive order. Yes you heard me, you can fight multiple people at one time by hitting the fight buttons one by one down the list!  This gets more important the higher up you get as people have less and less health.
8. And last of all, make money take money and have fun with mafia live.  Its rivaling close to my wow addiction, but at least I have to get off the game every once and a while.

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What is the point?  Why should I keep playing? Personally, I think i find myself still playing the game because I just want to make more money and buy new things, but this is going to get old for me pretty fast.  So if the mafia live team is reading this, you really need to get more content into the game.

Has anyone tried any of the other mafia games out there for iPhone or facebook?

Fight System Updates:

If you really want to become a powerhouse fighting in mafia live, you need to forget trying to upgrade your energy.  Ive found that having high attack and defense points seems to far out weigh the overall equipment to family ratio.  Even with my 300+ family and each having an AK-47, I can still loose to someone with 80+ points in defense and far less family members.

This only seems to be accurate though when there is only a marginal difference in your family members, around +- 200 family fully outfitted.

Family Codes

649 891 506

Keep posting your family codes in the comments if you want to be added by others as ive gotten a huge uptake in users searching for family codes.  Ive also tried to keep up lists that I have found from cached google pages.

What do you guys thing about the game?  What things would you do to change it, and what do you think about the other games out there?

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Zagg Invisible Shield

Targeted marketing worked again!  Somehow they have been blasting me with advertisements about the Zagg Invisible Shield.  Boasting its scratch proof material, crazy thin construction and easy installation.  Easy installation?

I got this thing in the mail after about a week, and was pretty excited to get see what this thing could do.  I had already watched the online video and was pretty confident that I could get this thing on there.  They always make things look so easy on video don’t they!

If you know how professional window tint is installed, then the concept is very similar.  You spray on this included liquid onto your fingers and the plastic, which keeps it from sticking right away and allows you to get everything adjusted.  Then just squeegee out the bubbles and your done!

Yea, things didn’t go down like that at all!  First of all trying to take off the paper from the plastic with wet fingers is near impossible.  I ended up using a pair of tweezers.  Second, make sure you are in the NASA rocket building lab with absolutely NO lint, hair, or fuzz because this thing is a magnet.

Once a hair or fuzz does get on your unit, your screwed!  At one point I thought I had successfully put the screen cover on, just to find that a 1/2 inch eyelash had fallen to its demise in the center of the screen and was now perfectly installed with the cover like one of those quarters laminated to the bar!

Me, being horribly OCD, had to remove the cover half way to get the hair out.  At this point the cover had already partially dried and it now looks a bit stretched out after putting it back on again.

The front screen cover, was only half the battle.  I was thinking to myself, that if I was able to get that front one on.  The back shouldn’t be so bad.  Wrong!

Having the same issues removing the paper, I soaked up the plastic cover and began to install.  Now, all the movies show the user installing this on a black iPhone.  Mine is white.  This is where all the fuzz starts to show itself.

On my first round, I noticed that I had caught probably 10-15 pieces of fabric strings.  Otherwise microscopic, but apparently the combination of being laminated between my white iPhone and the plastic, made them stand out like they were under a 10000x microscope!

So after hiring the shoemakers elves, I was able to get most of the strands out of there realizing where they had come from.  My jeans!

After removing all my clothes at this point, I started again with the back piece again not having much luck.  At this point im pretty much boiling madd because this little sticker is winning!

If you have ever touched one of those sticky mouse traps, that are supposed to humanely kill mice, which to this day i still dont understand how humane and kill are allowed to go in the same sentence.  But anyways the experience is sort of like that.  Once a hair or fuzz gets caught in this black hole abiss, its pretty much going to be there for ever.

After almost scrapping the whole operation and calling in for a refund, I was finally able to calm down long enough to get this thing installed and all glued to the phone.  I’m still not sure if the whole schinanigan was worth it or not because they say it takes 12-24 hours before its completely “cured”.

Just remember, if you are going to attempt to install this thing.  Make sure you do it somewhere with the least amount of debris.  In my case it was in the bathroom.  Make sure all fans are off, no pets are around, and you are completely naked with your head in a swimmers cap and eyes covered by ski goggles.

Good Luck! And I hope someone else has a better go at this than I did.

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ONLY A MAN WOULD ATTEMPT THIS
EDIT: ONLY A WOMAN WOULD WRITE THAT…

Just try reading this without laughing till you cry!!! Pocket Tazer Stun

Gun, a great gift for the wife. A guy who purchased his lovely wife a
pocket
Tazer for their anniversary submitted this: Last weekend I saw something
at
Larry’s Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was
our
15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my
wife Julie.. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse- sized
tazer.
The effects of the tazer were supposed to be short lived, with no
long-term
adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat
to
safety…..??

WAY TOO COOL! Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home.
I
loaded two AAA batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button.
Nothing! I
was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button and
pressed it against a metal surface at the same time; I’d get the blue
arc of
electricity darting back and forth between the prongs. AWESOME!!!

Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Julie what that burn spot is on
the
face of her microwave.

Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it
couldn’t be all that bad with only two triple-A batteries, right? There
I
sat in my recliner, my cat Gracie looking on intently (trusting little
soul)
while I was reading the directions and thinking that I really needed to
try
this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target. I must admit I thought
about zapping Gracie (for a fraction of a second) and thought better of
it.
She is such a sweet cat. But, if I was going to give this thing to my
wife
to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it
would
work as advertised. Am I wrong?

So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading
glasses
perched delicately y on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand,
and
tazer in another. The directions said that a one-second burst would
shock
and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause
muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; a three-second burst
would
purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of
water.
Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries. All
the
while I’m looking at this little device measuring about 5″ long, less
than
3/4 inch in circumference; pretty cute really and (loaded with two itsy,

bitsy triple-A batteries) thinking to myself, ‘no possible way!’ What
happened next is almost beyond description, but I’ll do my best.. .?

I’m sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to one
side
as to say, ‘don’t do it dipstick,’ reasoning that a one second burst
from
such a tiny little ole thing couldn’t hurt all that bad. I decided to
give
myself a one second burst just for heck of it. I touched the prongs to
my
naked thigh, pushed the button, and . .

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD . . WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION . . . WHAT THE
HELL!!!

I’m pretty sure Jessie Ventura ran in through the side door, picked me
up in
the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and

over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position,

with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles

nowhere to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest

position, and tingling in my legs? The cat was making meowing sounds I
had
never heard before, clinging to a picture frame hanging above the
fireplace,
obviously in an attempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all

over the living room.

Note: If you ever feel compelled to ‘mug’ yourself with a tazer, one
note of
caution: there is no such thing as a one second burst when you zap
yourself!
You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand
by a
violent thrashing about on the floor.. A three second burst would be
considered conservative?

IT HURT LIKE H+LL!!!

A minute or so later (I can’t be sure, as time was a relative thing at
that
point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and
surveyed
the landscape. My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the
fireplace.
The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it
originally
was. My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching. My
face
felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, and my bottom lip weighed
88
lbs. I had no control over the drooling.

Apparently I pooped on myself, but was too numb to know for sure and my
sense of smell was gone. I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head which I

believe came from my hair. I’m still looking for my n+ts and I’m
offering a
significant reward for their safe return!

P.S. My wife, can’t stop laughing about my experience, loved the

gift, and now regularly threatens me with it!

If you think education is difficult, try being stupid

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According to a mafia live employee post on getsatisfaction, the game was updated behind the scenes during the middle of the night. Not much appears to be changed except for a few new jobs and a supposubly more stable fight system.

I still don’t see the relevance of the whole mafia live fight system in general. One end says that people can sit online all day and spam for family members, in turn making them stronger and able to beat up on people with less family. Then an update was put out crippling this factor and making items more powerful. Now someone with 1 family memeber can attack someone with 1000 family members and still win as long as they have the right amount of equipment.

So what is the purpose of the mafia live slogan, “Build your family”? Isn’t the whole premise and success of this game bent on the virality and user growth? In its current state this no longer matters, i mean really who cares if invite someone because it doesnt get me anything other than the ability to do some jobs that without family I could not.

Mafia Live Tips for Newbs:

1) Buy equipmenet, if you are not able to find yourself anyone to add online – See my previous post – then stock up on revolvers or other low cost equipment to keep yourself from being from loosing to many fights.

2) Deposit your money in the bank, if you are level 5 and up, before you leave the game for long periods of time. Nothing like coming back and seeing all your money jacked from your pocket while you were in a meeting.

3) Don’t bother building up your attack or defense points, put everything into stamina and energy. See tip 1 if you don’t get why.

4) Revolvers give you the most bang for your buck, if you don’t believe me then do the math yourself.

5) Fight early morning or in the middle of the night, this is when most people don’t have the chance to put their money in the bank because they are sleeping

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