Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
So a large part of my day job consists of hacking on a small PHP application intended to run on an ARM device. We chose PHP for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the "ease" of development (PHP is not one of my favorite languages) and ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Welcome to episkey!
I've started to transition my primary services (starting with the web stuff) from my home network to my new server installed at Red Rocks Data Center in Morrison.
I will be moving more stuff over the weekend.
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
While I might not be such a do-it-yourselfer around the house, I certainly am when it comes to the Internet.
Case in point: my email, web, and IRC infrastructure.
When I moved to Fort Collins, one of the first things I did was obtain a Comcast Business Class cable connection for my ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Over the last few weeks, I've been doing some shuffling of my computer equipment. It's been an interesting process to optimize everything.
Recently, I setup a 500GB mirrored array in valiant (an IBM PC Server 325 ; P2 300/192M). I found that in this configuration, I maximized at 10MBps writes ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Cheers to Microsoft for IE 8!
An unusual thing for me to say, to be sure. Those of you who know me best have likely been the victim of my railing against Internet Explorer, Microsoft, and all things silly between the two in my profanity-laced description of how web design actually ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
No sooner do I mention the possibility of my connection flapping, that it actually happens.
Turns out that about 1130 MST today, the Comcast/Level3 interconnect in Denver started seeing errors. It took Comcast about an hour to publish an outage notification (as the business services tech received it as we were ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
My IRC server has become one of my more consuming interests for the last few weeks. From nearly the first day (the interim being to instrument what follows), I've been tracking statistics from the aggregate bandwidth usage for the machine (IRC server and all other services combined), the number of ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
If you're reading this, welcome. You're on my new webhost -- me.
With the recent addition of aphelion to the network in the basement, I am transitioning my hosting to my own (diminutive and slightly rustic) data center down in my basement. For most, this should mean faster and more consistent ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
I gave up Beer Fest on Friday. "Something" came up.
That something has been one of my newer hobbies: energizing the EsperNet IRC Network with some new life. I started off by redesigning the website, but on Friday, something even more special happened: snowdrift.esper.net was linked to the IRC network from ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
According to c|net (and dozens of other news outlets), Verizon Wireless plans to open their network to third-party developers. While no concrete details have yet emerged, this announcement holds the potential for a sea change in the mobile communications industry.
Today, mobile carriers commission phone manufacturers to produce phones specifically for ...
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