Here is a list of the third party Android applicaitons that I have installed:

• Amazon
• Backgrounds
• Bank of America
• Barcode Scanner
• CNET Scan & Shop
• Evernote
• Jewels
• Last.fm
• LastPass
• Listen
• Movies
• OneTouch Timer Free
• Pandora
• PhoneFlicks
• Remember The Milk
• Seesmic
• Shazam
• SqueezeControl
• SqueezeDroid
• TripIt
• TuneWiki
• Ultimate Stopwatch
• WordPress
• Yelp

I took this opportunity to upgrade to a 802.11n base station, so I bought the D-Link DAP-2553.  This was one of the few dual-band, non-router, base stations.  Once I set it up,  things have been working a lot better than they were with the Apple base stations.

Setting it up was a pain, though.  The manual suggested that all I had to do was connect it to my network, and I would be able to log into the web interface.  It also suggested that I could connect it directly to a computer to do the same thing.  This wasn’t as easy as they claim.  By default the base station is configured to have the ip address 192.168.0.50.  Since out LAN uses a different subnet, just connecting it to the network doesn’t make it accessible to the other computers on the network.  Also, connecting it directly to a computer, without doing anything else, doesn’t work as the base station doesn’t have a DHCP server, so the computer ends up with a self-assigned address.

What worked was to directly connect it to a computer, then I gave the computer a static ip address of 192.168.0.49, with mask of 255.255.255.0.  This allowed me to connect to the router, and configured it to get it’s address over DHCP.  Once I did that, I was able to connect it directly to my network.

This time I was having a hard time creating a volume large enough to back up all of my data.  The disc image creation would fail and state that there wasn’t enough space on the server, even though that there was plenty.

In this post I mentioned that I was trying to uninstall Avast! antivirus and see what would happen.  It looks like Avast! was preventing me from creating a disc image large enough.  I believe that the scan was causing the reads to time out on the Mac, so the process just stopped.

This post has a some steps that worked for me to uninstall Avast! antivirus.  It looks like the disk image creation is also working better without Avast!, so I probably will not reinstall it.

I did have to modify it to make it work for my Google Apps for Your Domain account.  I just had to modify

mail.google.com/mail/

with

mail.google.com/a/{your domain}/

[via Lifehacker]

When I copied some mp3 files to an SD card, and they were not playable.  It looks like the Nintendo DSi only plays AAC files.  On their web page they link to the Nero software where they sell it for $6.  You can do the same thing for free with iTunes.

Reinstalling the software went fine, but I was never able to get it to automatically recover the data from the other drives.  Supposedly, when you do a server recovery, the data will be automatically reconstructed from the drives.

Instead, the server partition is created, and all of the other drives are just mounted, but not added to the storage pool.  No data is lost here, but you just need to copy the data back to the storage pool.  This page describes the steps required to recover data. I am using GoodSync to do the copy, as it pretty much functions like rsync, but doesn’t require cygwin.  The copying of the data will take a few more days.

Unfortunately, in Windows, you can change the display name for an account, but you cannot change the username.  In order to fix this, you need to create a new account with the right username, and then copy all of the files to the new home directory.

Since when you create a new account on windows, the control panel doesn’t offer the ability to specify the username and display name.  I would recommend that when you create a new account, you create an account and specify the username.  Then after the account is created, change the name to the name you want displayed (This only changes the display name)

The box that is installed on the compressor, has a pager network radio receiver, and when it receives a signal from PG&E, it will throttle the AC back.  It looks like it does it’s throttling by cycling the compressor on in 15 minute intervals, when the thermostat tries to turn the AC on.  During this time, since the thermostat thinks that the compressor is on, the fan will still be running to help with the cooling of the house.  Users also have the ability to opt out of the throttling in 24 hour periods.

In our case, I don’t think that we will be affected, as we hardly have the AC on.  But, I figure that we can do our part, and if turning off our AC in 15 minute intervals, can prevent a black out, we can join the program.

This blog post describes the steps needed to upgrade from ext3, without formatting the hard drive.

Unfortunately, I didn’t unmount it before running through the steps, and I didn’t pay attention to the fsck warning.  My partition did get corrupt, and I decided to reformat and do a clean install.  (At least I am able to create an ext4 partition, and it is nice to do a clean install every once in a while.)

Luckily, I was able to restore all of my data, since I have been backing up my files on Linux with JungleDisk.  Also, I am able to restore my Windows VMWare image, since it is backed up to my Windows Home Server.