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December, 2008

Looping youtube videos!

Sat, 12/20/2008 - 09:57 — shoaib

A couple of weeks back I posted a blog entry about caching all youtube videos on to your squid proxy server. This is working great, but now youtube lacks the ability to loop your video again and again and again... unless! you add the same video a million times in your quick playlist.

Nevermind, Greasemonkey script to rescue! You need to make sure you have greasemonkey installed. If you do you will have a little monkey icon (bottom right corner).

Greasemonkey can be installed from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

Once you have greasemonkey you will need to restart firefox. The thing I like about installing greasemonkey scripts is that I don't have to restart my firefox :D

Now you can install Loopy for YouTube. Once installed, go back to your youtube video and hit refresh.

Car PC project Part #1 : Initiation

Mon, 12/15/2008 - 18:24 — shoaib

This is where all my freelancing money goes in to. Projects!
Touch screen in place
Ordered a brand new touch screen with built in tv tuner of eBay. I just wanted to try it out, how the LCD would fit in the dash. Took me 5 minutes to install the LCD. No cutting required, no modification, no screwing around. I've seen people spend millions of hours just to get this part right. More details on how I did it will be posted when I have finished the project :)

For now here is quick peek. Sorry about the picture quality - next pay i'm getting a better camera.

Car PC LCD Touch screen with TV Tuner

Next step for me is to find an appropriate CPU+motherboard with PSU to suit my needs. This is going to be the hard bit. I have been seeking advice related to rules/laws and regulations of such project - again will post details at the end of project.

Honda.co.nz FAIL!

Mon, 12/15/2008 - 18:08 — shoaib

I have been having a lot of trouble with my car lately. It's a honda so no surprise there, never the less I like my Honda Prelude XX 1989 4WS 2 Ltr twin-carb. I wish it wasn't made by honda. You don't find a car these days even NEW with these features

4WS (4 Wheel Steering) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4WS#Four-wheel_steering
ALB (Anti-Locking Brake) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-lock_braking_system
Cruise Control
Manual
Sunroof

Find me a car with all the above under $2K NZD.

Anyway, recently I have been noticing some roughness in the cars RPM and idling speed. It didn't drive smooth either. The possible cause could be

Ignition Control Module | Distributor | Ignitor
Vacuum leak
Ignition Coil

I replaced the ICM from Pick A Part, but it was still troubling with its annoying rattling idle rpm. While I was driving the module failed. Lesson learned : Never trust or rely on parts from second hand/ damaged cars i.e Pick A Part

Luckily I own two of these preludes 1:1 copy. So, I was able to get the distributor out of the other prelude and stick it in and was back on the road. Not only that, the idle rpm was smooth as well.