Computing

2005-02-22 00:06:00
On search for a cellphone
After two months of determining to put up with cell phone shortcomings and get one…I …rather the cell phone industry has failed me. Verizon has the coverage and network I want (CDMA) but falls behind with free minutes that start after I stop talking to people. Morever their tri-mode phone (LG-6100) doesnt have complete functionality with bitpim.

Sprint (also CDMA) has a decent phone (PM-8200) with full bitpim support with good pricing, but lacks service in some areas.

Both companies fail to offer good no-contract deals. I am not really considering GSM networks because of where I live (America). 

In related news T-Mobile has been hacked twice recently. See T-Mobile hacked again! [Removed dead link, no archive available]

2005-02-19 19:10:00

Introducing…
Only one man who walks this earth.
Has ability to rival me.
Now I am proud to introduce.
My sworn enemy.

…I now introduce the website of my archenemy, ntheory.org

FreeBSD VPS

After nine months testing we are now offering FreeBSD VPS Hosting on the SAVVIS network.
Among the most difficulties was developing a way for in-Jail quota support (as far as I know we are the first to offer this on FreeBSD) without UID/GID conflicts with other jails. This was accomplished by creating a memory disk device (see man 8 mdconfig) for each jail and mounting them as partitions. See falconhosting.net

2005-01-20 21:01:00
Google Dictionary Update
It appears as though google switched back to dictionary.com …this is interesting. 
URL that google was using for answers.com:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi;=dict&q;=http://www.answers.com/hello%26r%3D67

2005-01-19 20:51:00
I claim first blog covering this!
Google Changes Dictionary Service
Google has ditched dictionary.com for answers.com! 

2005-01-11 14:01:00
First Day of Classes
Well, here it is the first day of classes and the teacher didn’t show for the first one (snowed in I guess). So I’m getting some work done in the library using the old IBM 600E connected to the internet via Asus pocket wireless ap/adapter (in adapter mode now, I just wanted to see if it would work). …and yes I did get the shifter fixed.

2005-01-01 23:38:00
Happy New Year!
The 6 month switchover completed on schedule. All data is off the Falcon so its ready to go down. Hosting is now completely California-free.

Take a look at Jon Clede’s new kidbritish.org for the new year! 4 days of Christmas left.

2004-12-28 15:04:00
Power Restored
All systems back online folks. We’re hoping to have all our servers out of California by end of year.

2004-12-28 12:27:00
Power Failure
We have a power failure at our California datacenter. The Falcon server has been taken down (154 days uptime). Most people are on Hobbes (in the Florida datacenter) so this is not likely to effect you.

2004-12-11 02:17:00
.plan
Before End of Year. 

1. Get all of my hosted sites into the Fort Lauderdale or New Jersey datacenters.
2. Wrap presents (finished shopping!)
3. Think about inventing a meta-markup language for b3n.org
4. Finish 2005 budget