Yesterday I moved this site to DigitalOcean (referral link). I had been running on Verzion FiOS at Jeff’s house, but I think that little N54L was too overloaded. So I signed up for the cheapest DigitalOcean plan at $5/month and setup an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server with Nginx. I put it in Google’s NYC data … Read more
The other day I got a little frustrated with my Gen 8 Microserver, I was trying to upgrade ESXi to 5.5 but the virtual media feature kept disconnecting in the middle of the install due to not having an ILO4 license–I actually bought an ILO4 enterprise license but I have no idea where I put … Read more
If you are jonlumley here’s the Narnia Minecraft world that I can no longer host from my server because I’m stuck behind a Verizon NAT. The rest of you can ignore this. https://app.box.com/s/3kce0g5eap5jzz3316tg
I’ve had a few people ask for more details on my rural internet setup with Verizon, so here it is… Update 2018. It has been 4 years since I wrote this post. I would suggest getting newer equipment than what I blogged about, I know a few people running the CradlePoint MBR1200B which is what … Read more
The other day I was writing an ETL where I expected duplicate data to be accidentally sent over quite often so I needed an SHA-256 function to guarantee that a set of incoming rows were unique (notice I said the set of rows, not individual rows so that rules out using an index to prevent … Read more
Update 2013-12-23: Using the internet access on my phone I’ve moved the website to another server (thanks Jeff!) So the website is back up. My internet is going down until Jan 1st. Looks like I forgot to disable my CrashPlan backup again (unfortunately CrashPlan doesn’t offer a way to stop backing up to CrashPlan … Read more
I saw the above headline on the Drudge Report last night. I just discovered the show a few months ago and have been enjoying it, it’s a great clean humorous show with good American and Christian values. Normally I just read the headlines, but in this case I had to see what all the fuss … Read more
Dear Intuit, I’ve been a long time Quicken user, my dad taught me to use Quicken for DOS to track money in my “Bank of Dad” account. My current Quicken file which I started in college after opening my bank account has data back since 2001. For the last 12-years I’ve loyally purchased a new … Read more
Dr. Ben Carson’s excellent speech at the Values Voter Summit 2013.