by Dennis Clayton | Sep 27, 2009 | General
Browsing around the various forums, I saw VPS.net mentioned as a good VPS provider. Signup and provisioning of the initial VPS server was relatively painless. I chose the Ubuntu 8.04 image. It seemed relatively fast (at first), but seemed to fluctuate. While compiling...
by Dennis Clayton | Jun 30, 2009 | Cool Stuff, General, Humor, Technology
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan near the town of Gospić, Vojna Krajina, in the territory of today’s Croatia. He was an ethnic Serb subject of the...
by Dennis Clayton | Apr 23, 2009 | Cloud Computing, General, Linux, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Ubuntu, Web
I ran across a webserver called Cherokee a week or so ago while looking around for “light” alternatives to Apache on VPSes. It looked pretty nice, so I downloaded it and compiled the latest version 0.99.9 and started it up. The nicest thing, I think,...
by Dennis Clayton | Mar 19, 2009 | Microsoft, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Web
Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 8.0 is just downright pitiful… To the extreme. After spending so much time “improving” IE8 to make it more standards compliant, it failed miserably. Screenshot (in native IE 8 mode) So I...
by Dennis Clayton | Mar 18, 2009 | Cool Stuff, Linux, Review, Software, Technology, Ubuntu
Left Slicehost, joined Linode I moved my sites (2 servers) from Slicehost to Linode due to no 32-bit support at Slicehost and am VERY happy with the service I am receiving from Linode. They have been excellent at answering the few questions I had during setup...
