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Bluetooth Dongle on Windows
I bought a Parrot CK3100 handsfree kit in the hopes that I can get it installed and working with my Samsung A900 (there are a few issues so far, one being that Parrot is trying to figure out how to get it to work with the A900 and I'm waiting on another connector as I have a wacky factory installed stereo). I wanted to see how hard it was to upgrade the firmware over Bluetooth. The utility, of course, is Windows only. No problem, I'll plug my Bluetooth dongle into my Windows box and do the update. Not so fast. I had purchased a D-Link DBT-120 dongle awhile ago to use with my Mac before I got one with built in Bluetooth. Apple's firmware update manages to do something to the adapter such that it can't be used on Windows. After much searching and futzing, I was able to install an old firmware on it and convert it from HID to HCI mode and then got Windows to recognize it. Hooking up the car kit using a 12 volt adapter was pretty simple once I checked a few wiring diagrams. The firmware update went fine.Now all I have to do is wait for a firmware update (crossing my fingers that they can get it to work) and one more connector I ordered on eBay (I don't want to cut wires to install this, so I bought a bunch of connectors to try to hook it all together.)
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Installing Windows XP
My sister wanted to wipe down her husband's old Windows XP machine so that he could just run WordPerfect on it (he's switched to a Mac for everything else), so I offered to do it for her as she'd probably call me for help anyway. I started the install with a hard drive re-format around 7:30 am. I didn't finish the install and applying all the patches until somewhere around 2 pm. Holy cow there were a lot of updates and each time I applied one, I had to apply another one. Luckily I only had to click a few times to get it working. I'm so glad I don't deal with Windows on a daily basis.
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Useless comment
I was quite excited to see a comment on my blog today. I read the blog and the person tried to contact me via my contact form and couldn't (I messed up the Apache permissions). He wanted to contact me about a product I wrote years ago for a client. Why contact me? It's not my product and I don't have it. It's like if I contacted the original author of HyperCard and asked how I could get a copy. How would he know?
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Stupid hackers
I periodically check on statistics on my server and noticed that for the last 1.5 hours, my bandwidth was constant even though I wasn't doing anything. I started checking the traffic on my network and saw that some Chinese hacker (or script kiddy) was trying to get into my machine via SSH. I've seen a number of hack attempts into my server and normally write them off, but this was chewing up bandwidth, so I blocked the IP address of the attacker. I realize it is kind of pointless as hackers will use different IP addresses and there will be more later.