Yeah, having a bit of fun with the program PSP Radio. For those who don’t know the program, its a homebrew application for the PSP that allows you to listen to radio streams from the Internet (surf over to shoutcast.com for a nice listing of many stations).

So anyway, while I was in the kitchen today i kinda got tired of the normal radio stations so I grabbed my PSP, fired up the application, connected to the Internet via Wifi and went searching the house for a cable to hook up my PSP to the radio (trust me, you don’t want to use the built in speakers of the PSP).

Found a cable, and in the picture you can see the whole setup.

Worked like a charm. Internet radio streamed directly into the radio in the kitchen, thanks to the PSP (and of course unofficial firmware that is required to use homebrew software).

I have some files I like to keep current between my 2 computers. The problem is that those 2 computers are about 30km apart from each other. Simply copying the files to a USB Stick manually was out of the question since the files in question are configuration/plugins/… from an application and a) I have no idea which ones change when and b) there are about 9000 files. So I went on a search in the Internet and found Allway Sync, works like a charm. I’ve been using it for the last few months, but as the number of files it has to monitor grows I more and more often run into warning messages from the program, that I should consider using the “Pro” version that costs $$$.

Since the files all aren’t big, just numerous. And since I more and more often forget to sync my USB stick I decided to build myself an own solution that works over the Internet with freeware. no more forgetting to sync the USB stick (or syncing and then forgetting to take the USB stick with me. doh.).
My new solution is basically based on 3 components. Storing the files online, connecting the online storage to the computers, and syncing the files. Storing and accessing the online storage with windows … well since my Linux server was going to be the storage and my windows clients were going to be accessing it, I couldn’t get around looking at Samba. Samba is not a good idea. Sure it’s nice for windows, just throw the IP, username and password at it and presto, it pops up as a drive letter. But trust me, anyone will tell you samba (or any windows shares for that matter) are not a good idea in the Internet. While searching for alternatives I found a program called Netdrive that allows you to connect a webdav directory as a drive letter. Very nice. So I set up webdav on my webserver and use a Microsoft program Synctoy for synchronisation.

So that was basically what I did this morning between watching comics in TV and waiting for lunch.

Here are my vim settings, makes working with vim a whole lot easier. Vim doesn’t have to be a pain in the butt, it’s just configured to be that way by default due to backwards compatibility to vi.

/etc/vim/vimrc.local or /etc/vim/vimrc.local

/etc/vim/vimrc.numbretoggle

I found a cute little tutorial here on how to create a Jigkick / Pandora Battery / Stick. Took me a bit to follow through with the whole procedure, but it was well worth it. Now I can upgrade/downgrade any PSP, no matter what firmware it is currently running. Nice to be able to switch so easily between the official firmware and the “open” firmware that allows homebrew software to run. Also nice to be able to “upgrade” other peoples PSP by simply putting my battery and memory stick in their PSP and pressing a button, takes about 5 min. tops.
Downside is that for some reason my system name and wifi setting get copied to the PSP when upgrading, as far as i can tell the rest of the setting get set back to factory default (e.g. menu background). Nice to be able to play around with my PSP without fear of messing ob something beyond repair.
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