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Mediacom, stop messing with my packets!

December 4, 2009
Mediacom - We Edit Your Packets

Mediacom keeps getting worse and worse. As I’ve mentioned before. Mediacom is my ISP at home. Unfortunately, it’s the only service of reasonable speed at a decent price available for my address.

Tagged as: Customer Service, Mediacom

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Google launches new public DNS resolver service, OpenDNS competitor

December 3, 2009
Google Logo

Google recently launched a new Public DNS resolution service. I’m very excited to see this.. the most commonly-used public resolver up until now has been OpenDNS, which works fairly well, but has some features that I do not likely — namely, it will (by default) redirect any requests for non-existing domains to a host on [...]

Tagged as: DNS, Google

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under construction..

November 6, 2009

You may notice a few changes around here; I’m changing my entire site to be managed by WordPress. If you find any links that are broken, hate the new design, or just want to tell me I’m crazy, please leave a comment on this post. Thanks!

Tagged as: Wordpress

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nexenta/opensolaris on a dell 2850 with drac 4 – virtual media issues

November 3, 2009

I recently tried installing both OpenSolaris and Nexenta Core Platform on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with a DRAC4 card. The installation process goes fine, but when rebooting into the installed OS the kernel goes into a loop of trying to reset an ATA device (‘Bus Reset’ errors — if I have a chance, I’ll repeat [...]

Tagged as: Dell, Hardware, Nexenta, OpenSolaris, Storage

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colocation post updated

November 3, 2009

I’ve gotten quite a few questions about cheap colocation in Minneapolis via my old post here, where I was soliciting people to help fill my rack at ipHouse. Unfortunately, I no longer offer colocation services, but I have updated the post with the providers I am currently using and recommend.
This brings to mind another thing [...]

Tagged as: Colocation

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don’t we all love airlines?

July 8, 2009

via @weierd.. airlines blow. “Let’s smash a guitar, then refuse to pay for it!”. I’m glad I never fly United. Not that any of the airlines I *do* fly would be better, but hey, it was United in this case. ;)

Tagged as: Travel

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odesk – online melting pot for consultants/contractors

April 2, 2008

The other day, I ran across oDesk, which is a site where contractors (“Providers”) can offer their services and clients (“Buyers”) can find them. Providers can take free tests to show their skills. The site also facilitates payments, etc.
Quite interesting – I’ll have to try it out at some point. One thing I notice is [...]

Tagged as: Contracting, Work

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mosso – “the hosting cloud”?

March 14, 2008

A few weeks ago, a coworker pointed out Mosso, which bills itself as “The Hosting Cloud”. Looks like a really interesting service – basically like shared hosting that will scale forever; no need to worry about individual servers, etc.
If you are just hosting a generic php/rails/etc site that gets a lot of traffic, it looks [...]

Tagged as: Cloud, Hosting

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Bust your phone? Need a temp replacement quick? AT&T customer? You’re in luck!

February 24, 2008

Last week, my HTC Kaiser dropped off my belt in a cold, cold parking lot, and sat there for about four hours before I was able to come back and get it. Gah! It worked OK, except for a big crack on the bottom half of the screen. Gah! After a couple days, the crack [...]

Tagged as: Cell, cheapskate

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¡unɟ sı ǝpoɔıun ‘ʍoʍ

February 11, 2008

ok, this site is cool:
http://www.revfad.com/flip.html

Tagged as: Funny

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interesting concept in recruiting

January 22, 2008

A friend invited me to a new site – Notchup. Basically, you set up a profile, post some details, and in theory employers who are looking for employees like you will actually pay to interview you. Interesting! I might be a little bit more interested in listening to recruiters if they are willing to pay [...]

Tagged as: Work

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at&t is just rocking! 3g in minneapolis/st.paul

November 1, 2007

AT&T (ex-Cingular) has now turned 3g on in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area! What a pleasant surprise after getting the WM6 treatment yesterday. ;)
They’ve made me a happy customer.

Tagged as: AT&T, Cell

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at&t finally releases wm6 for their 8525

November 1, 2007

Windows Mobile 6 is *finally* available for the (HTC-built) AT&T 8525! Yeehaw!
It’s available from here:
http://www.america.htc.com/support/8525/software-downloads.html
First impressions:

It’s fast
The GPS sharing feature works nicely
Looks about the same. Menus are very similar.

Upgrade was easy [just back your stuff up!]; highly recommended so far!

Tagged as: AT&T, Cell, Windows Mobile

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bandwidth.com outage

October 24, 2007

Bandwidth.com had an outage last night, from around 4:10pm central to around 6:30 central. It affected all of their SIP trunks. Interesting! Apparently, it was attributed to a Level3 outage, but it doesn’t appear that other VoIP trunks with other L3 resellers went down. We’ll see…

Tagged as: VoIP

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cisco 2801s use standard laptop memory

July 17, 2007

This one is purely for the geeks, and I’m just posting it because I couldn’t find a definitive answer on the web: if you have a Cisco 2801 and want to add more memory (there is 128mb soldered on the board), standard pc133 sodimm memory (ie, the same kind you use in older laptops) will [...]

Tagged as: Hardware

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new resume format

April 7, 2007

I’ve gotten tired of my custom-written MySQL app to handle my resume, so I decided to scrap it and try out xml-resume-library to maintain it. It’s quite interesting, and I think the results are pretty good.. my resume page has been converted over to it, check it out!
One of the really cool things that this [...]

Tagged as: Work

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tomtom pocketpc rocks!

January 27, 2007

Tiff and I are taking a trip to Texas in March for a family reunion thingy, and I really wanted to get some sort of navigation system for while we are down there. On a whim, I tried out TomTom’s PDA edition, with a QStarz bluetooth GPS. I’ve been really shocked at how well it [...]

Tagged as: Cell

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google calendar is fun!

January 27, 2007

Tiff and I recently decided to start using Google Calendar to start organizing our lives.. it’s been going pretty good so far. I’m currently using a Cingular 8125 Pocket PC for my cell phone, and wanted to be able to sync the Google calendars down to the phone. After experimenting with many programs, I finally [...]

Tagged as: Google

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nbcsports.com goes live

August 21, 2006

Well, my pet project (from an infrastructure perspective) for the last couple months is finally up and live — check it out. Note I can’t take any credit for the coolness of the site — that’s the excellent design team down the hall from me.
In any case, I was fortunate(?) enough to miss the blood, [...]

Tagged as: Work

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finally, a decent pair of earbuds..

July 18, 2006

I’ve always hated earbud headphones because the sound just wasn’t that great on them, and they always fell out of my ears. At the same time, I loved them because they were small and didn’t get in the way. The other day, I noticed a deal that Amazon was offering on the Shure E2c isolating [...]

Tagged as: Music

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[spam] more colo space available

May 9, 2006

For those of you who have contacted me regarding my last post on cheap colocation, I have space available again, since I’m upgrading to a full rack. The gist: 1U of colo space in Minneapolis for $50/mo, in a good datacenter. For more info, see my colocation page.

Tagged as: Colocation

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