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Put the entire Wikipedia on an iPod.
My data center just raised my colocation pricing by 50% starting 4/1. Wow. That completely blows my mind. I liked that place but am looking for another provider now.
Multi-touch interaction experiments. Check the top right video. Nice interface!
While not directly related, here's a recent Apple patent application for a gesture controlled user interface. Seems a lot more interesting in light of the video above.
Just pointed the datamantic dns at the new server. I had dialed the time to live on the old entry down to 300 seconds, but I only did that 24 hours ago, so I may get a little bitten with a delay (the old time to live was 48 hours.) But I'm just too anxious to wait. Fingers crossed.
Wow. What a fun day. All sorts of problems but I managed to sort them all out. I feel like I am starting to get good at this (I know, saying that is asking for trouble!)
Upgraded to PHP 5, but then mysql was not working from PHP. This pretty easy to solve but took me most of the day. Moral of the story is: errors are your friend - check the error logs. Getting a definite error is your biggest possible clue. When restarting apache it was telling me (via the apache error_log) that it couldn't load the module mysql.so because the file didn't exist in /usr/local/php4. Of course it didn't, since I just upgraded to PHP 5. Poking around a bit showed that the module was really in /usr/local/php/modules, so a quick edit to php.ini to set the correct location, and then another restart of apache, and everything was fine.
You wouldn't believe how long it took me to figure that out. I thought the yum install was the culprit. On the plus side I learned a bunch while sorting it out.
Anyway, outside of a few problems like that things are going very well. Should see some real progress this weekend.
Connectivity problems solved! Sometimes it pays to ask.
Copying this site to the new server now. It's bigger than I thought. I think I'll put it up on the new server (leaving the "real" site where it is for now) just to get a handle on all the steps involved in migrating.
Still having some connection issues. It's a little better as of yesterday, but now I can't get my email tunnels to work, so I'm reluctant to use my regular accounts (I'm reluctant to give away those passwords on the open network I am on.) But gmail is secure (as secure as https that is, which is probably okay for this situation.)
Actually, gmail is interesting. They only send your password over https, and then you view all your messages unencrypted. But you can encrypt the entire session just by going (after you log in) to the address bar and manually replacing the http:// with https://. Just do that once, and then your entire gmail session will be encrypted, even as you go back and forth between pages.
So, the point is, please use jmbassett at gmail if you want to get me. I'm still checking the others, but maybe only once a day or so when I make it out of here.
Successfully installed the mail server. That's the last of the drudgery. Should be pretty smooth sailing from here.
[root@ash ~]# qmailctl stat
clamd: up (pid 1957) 54 seconds
imap4: up (pid 1945) 54 seconds
imap4-ssl: up (pid 1953) 54 seconds
pop3: up (pid 1961) 54 seconds
pop3-ssl: up (pid 1949) 54 seconds
send: up (pid 1947) 54 seconds
smtp: up (pid 1955) 54 seconds
spamd: up (pid 1964) 54 seconds
clamd/log: up (pid 1958) 54 seconds
imap4/log: up (pid 1960) 54 seconds
imap4-ssl/log: up (pid 1954) 54 seconds
pop3/log: up (pid 1962) 54 seconds
pop3-ssl/log: up (pid 1952) 54 seconds
send/log: up (pid 1946) 54 seconds
smtp/log: up (pid 1956) 54 seconds
spamd/log: up (pid 1959) 54 seconds
My connectivity has been seriously degraded. I'm working on getting it sorted out, but I've been mostly offline for a day and it will probably last for a day or two more. I apologize if anyone has been trying to reach me.
Just received my Quickerteck Wi-Fi antenna. Pretty expensive for what it is. And the connection is awkwardly made through a wire that sticks out of the PC Card slot on the side of the PowerBook. But it does work. My flakey connection is now completely solid and I can see several other access points that I couldn't see before. I guess that is mostly what matters.
I don't think anyone uses it, but just for the record my @inch.com email is no more.
Every time I get fed up with still having a crappy phone from the 18th century and prepare to hold my nose and just buy something better, even though nothing perfect is out right now, I will run across some rumor about a perfect phone that is about to be released. And thus the wait continues. It's really been a long time now since the Treo 600 died.
But wait I must, because some day one of these rumors is going to come true. Like maybe this one: Treo 800p out on March 15?
Current features in the 800p will include 128MB RAM, a WiFi option, SD card, BT 2, EVDO of course, enhanced 320x320 screen, slimmer form factor and antenna, will use the same accessories as the 650, 3.2 MP camera.Shazam. That is the one. Nice nice nice. Praying this is true. And hopefully they don't mean 3/15/2007!
Very easy instructions for setting up secure email over unsecured wireless networks using the free SSH Tunnel Manager program.