From all that we have heard and read we think that Boulder will be the change that we are looking for, hell Boulder in general should be a change from the blah that is know as Vegas. I know that some of you are thinking “Blah known as Vegas? what are you thinking??” … while Vegas is a great place to visit, its just not the ideal place to live. We have become really bored here as in most cases you are left to venture down to the Las Vegas strip to hit up a night club while surrounding yourself with a bunch of drunk tourists and listening to some “DJ” play his iPod, or you head to a local bar and gamble your paycheck away while complaining about how hot it is outside. Overall we just needed a change.

Vegas its been real and I am sure we will be back to visit… but probably/hopefully not anytime soon.

add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable

If you are wanting to install the latest development version you can use the following source instead

add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/development

After adding the source you can then update and then apt-get install nginx and you are all set.
If you haven’t installed via ppa on your system you will likely have to install the following packages

apt-get install python-software-properties software-properties-common

So after much debating I took the plunge, I consolidated all of my mail accounts into one account within GMail.  Its only been two days so far using GMail via the browser and it hasn’t been too bad…

In order to get GMail to be part of my normal work flow I had to make some changes to my system.  First I made so that all mailto: links on pages in Chrome will now open GMail instead of the mail client.  In order to do this simply load up GMail and then paste the following line of code into the address bar and hit enter

javascript:navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","Gmail");

I also installed the Attachments.me Chrome extension so that I can continue to use Dropbox for email attachments, as well as allowing me to save attachments directly to my Dropbox when needed. Interested to see how long I can last with out an email client, I am sure future updates will follow.

In order to have all network traffic pushed through my Squid server this is these are the firewall settings I had to use on the Asus RT-N16 router. (I am not going to provide setup details for the Squid server in this post)

#!/bin/sh
INTERNAL_NETWORK="10.0.1.0/24"
ROUTER_IP="10.0.1.1"
PROXY_SERVER="10.0.1.100"
PROXY_PORT="3128"

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_westwood
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas_cong_avoid
echo 3 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas_alpha
echo 3 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas_beta

if [ -z $TRANSPARENT_PROXY ]; then
/usr/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i br0 -s $INTERNAL_NETWORK -d $INTERNAL_NETWORK -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
/usr/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i br0 -s ! $PROXY_SERVER -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to $PROXY_SERVER:$PROXY_PORT
/usr/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o br0 -s $INTERNAL_NETWORK -p tcp -d $PROXY_SERVER -j SNAT --to $ROUTER_IP
/usr/sbin/iptables -t filter -I FORWARD -s $INTERNAL_NETWORK -d $PROXY_SERVER -i br0 -o br0 -p tcp --dport $PROXY_PORT -j ACCEPT

# Causes slow loading but shows true IP.
#iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -j ACCEPT -p tcp --dport 80 -s $PROXY_SERVER
#iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -j MARK --set-mark 3 -p tcp --dport 80
#ip rule add fwmark 3 table 2
#ip route add default via $PROXY_SERVER dev br0 table 2

/usr/sbin/iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -o br0 -s 10.0.1.0/24 -d 10.0.1.0/24 -j MASQUERADE
export TRANSPARENT_PROXY="1"
else
echo "This script has already run!"
echo "If it hasn't, unset \$TRANSPARENT_PROXY manually via the shell."
fi

# nvram commit

The nice thing about this setup is that I do not have to specify a proxy server for each device on my network, and the server is configured to block ads as well.

These creepy sculptures are on the top of a hill in a park located in Dublin, Ohio and are 15ft in height… weird.

sudo apt-get install gpac

Once installed you will be able to run the following command to join the files.

MP4Box -cat part1.mp4 -cat part2.mp4 -new joinedfile.mp4

You should now be able to combine MP4 files from the command line, and pretty quick at that.

About AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule Firmware Update 7.6.3

This update is for all 802.11n AirPort Express, 802.11n AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule models. This update contains improvements and bug fixes, including:

• The ability to extend the Guest Wi-Fi network on a network that is configured with multiple AirPort Base Stations
• The ability to add a WPS-capable Wi-Fi printer
• Improved international support

In order to add the new apt source for the pre-release/nightly you will need to login to your Apple TV and issue the following commands

ssh root@appletv_ip_address
echo "deb http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/pre-release/atv2 ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list
apt-get update
apt-get install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
reboot

Once the Apple TV reboots you can enter into XBMC like normal and you will be presented with a newer faster version of XBMC.

define('WP_HOME','http://example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://example.com');

Anyways I have slowly been addressing some issues on my site, removing plugins, adjust themes the whole 9 yards.  I was initially working on a custom theme, but really who has the time to sit down and do that. The other day I went out and purchased a copy of the Standard theme which I am currently running.  Overall it seems to have sped up the site quite a bit (though this could also be due tot he fact I have removed a ton of plugins, and cleaned up the database too). Its a pretty nice theme and looks like something that I will be able to build off of as time allows.

Well anyways happy late new years to everyone and really I hope to be posting a bit more frequent this year…

/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/

Once you have opened up this folder you will see a whole slew of directories that make little to no sense.

In order to figure out which directory contains the extension you are looking for you need to enable developer mode in Chrome’s extension manager.

Once enabled you will see the ID for each extension which is the actual directory name. Now that you have that you can navigate to the appropriate directory and edit the extension to your liking.

This update includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability and compatibility of your Mac, including fixes that:

• Resolve an issue that may cause Migration Assistant to unexpectedly quit
• Improve compatibility when connecting to a Microsoft Exchange server in Mail
• Address an issue playing audio through a Thunderbolt display
• Resolve an issue that could prevent iMessages from being sent
• Address an issue that could cause the system to become unresponsive when using Pinyin input
• Resolve an issue when connecting to SMB servers with long names
• Address a issue that may prevent Safari from launching when using a Proxy Automatic Configuration (PAC) file
• Improve 802.1X authentication with Active Directory credentials

alias cp='rsync --progress -ah'

Works quite well and you now have a nice progress bar when copying files via the command line.