July 2009
25 posts
CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL →
While this is hardly the end of CentOS, it’s not something I want to see with two servers running CentOS right now…
IMAP Works For Me... →
After a week or so of having used IMAP exclusively for my e-mail needs, I’m rather impressed. There were some initial configuration issues (switching to Maildir server-side for performance reasons,…
GMail Push for iPhone is here! Sorta. →
caseyliss:
This is a service that (apparently) uses IMAP IDLE to get notifications of new messages, and then proxies those notifications to a fake Exchange account. Your iPhone is set up to use this Exchange account, and thus get the push notification.
This is clever, and I’d be totally into it, excepting that the iPhone only supports one exchange account at a time. That one account is my...
2 More Reasons To Not Watch TV
1. 3 Doors Down - Let Me Be Myself
2. Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
Two piss poor excuses for music that make commercials even more unbearable, and Tivos (or the like) all the more necessary…
random letters on a page > twilight
(via cyn1cal)
Amen.
How To Reset a Password (The Hard Way) →
It was kind of bothering me that there was nothing that I could do to get my Indigo2 working again, so I took a look at a few other options I had to be able to login. I thought that despite having…
How Palm Re-Enabled iTunes Sync →
marco:
(via my favorite RSS filter)
One important aspect of this that most people are overlooking is that Apple probably needs to undertake reasonable efforts to prevent devices outside of their control from masquerading as Apple iPods to protect applicable trademarks, patents, and agreements they’ve made with content publishers.
They’re probably not just trying to block Palm out of resentment...
Pot, Meet Kettle... →
It amazes me the number of Apple fans who have come out over the past few weeks to “protest” Palm’s usage of iTunes in syncing the Pre. Now, I’ll admit that Apple is within their rights, if they…
Using Google To Avoid Using Google →
I uploaded all my old e-mail to my server via IMAP, and all the “Received” dates (based on the file’s time stamp) were wrong. Entourage gave me the option to sort by “Sent” date instead (located in the headers of the e-mails), which works great, but that’s just for Entourage. My iPod Touch doesn’t give me that option. This handy link, when run on the...
What I'd Like My Office To Look Like →
I don’t have as many computers or servers as this guy, but I’d eventually like a setup to rival this guy’s.
E-Mail Is a Tricky Thing →
When you have a few different devices for accessing e-mail, POP3 just isn’t good enough. Especially if you want to be able to have consistency in all e-mails (sent e-mails, multiple folders, etc.)….
It Must Be Nice to Be Verizon →
caseyliss:
Interesting article not as much in support of AT&T, but in contradiction to everyone (including me) saying “Verizon’s network is best”.
I’m not so sure the article is suggesting that Verizon’s network is not the best, but that their practices are just the same as AT&T’s, which I would agree with. Coverage issues aside, this is how I view the three major US...
WatchOne of the millions of reasons to love The Onion, assuming you’re not easily offended…
I Like Nagios →
My Linux servers generally run without issue for months or years at a time, but a few days ago, I needed to restart the LDAP daemon on one box to apply a change. In doing so, I set off a cascading…
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Envy
Casey: your new best friend
Me (Autoreply): Who the hell has a classic yellow Ferrari on my road???
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I Like Drupal →
I’ve used Joomla quite a bit, both at an internship I had last summer, and during my last semester of college for a senior seminar, and I always had mixed feelings about it. It’s very simple to…
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What Makes a Car Fun to Drive? →
I’m very particular with what I like when it comes to most everything, but cars near the top of the list. It’s very rare for me to find a car I have a hard time finding plenty of faults with,…
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Old Boxes and Forgotten Passwords →
One of the many bad things about collecting old computers is the inevitable forgetting of passwords. And when you have somewhat esoteric hardware, this can become problematic rather quickly. My case…
Carrier dynamics
marco:
There’s an interesting dynamic between the U.S. cellular carriers, Apple, and Palm if you pay attention and read between the lines a bit.
Sprint has been teetering on the brink of death for years. But they managed to get the Palm Pre exclusive, seemingly for at least 8 months.
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Think of how different the Pre’s launch and first year would have been as a Verizon exclusive,...
AT&T's massive iPhone blunder
marco:
Some numbers:
Verizon Wireless has about 87 million subscribers. (ref)
Before the iPhone’s release, Verizon had about 61 million subscribers (ref). Much of their growth to 87 million was from the recent acquisition of Alltell, which brought about 15 million. (ref)
AT&T has about 77 million subscribers. (ref)
Before the iPhone’s release, AT&T had about 62 million subscribers....
Something New
I’ve started reading one or two blogs here, and I really like the format, especially for replying to other blogs. So here I am…