by Dennis Clayton | Jan 1, 2010 | General
May 2010 be a more prosperous year for everyone. For me 2009 was a depressing year of government bailouts and indecision. Where are the flying cars and trips to Jupiter I’ve been expecting since childhood (2001 & 2010 movies). Instead of space exploration,...
by Dennis Clayton | Dec 31, 2009 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff, General, Linux, Microsoft, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Ubuntu
Over the past few years, I’ve become a big fan of Virtualization technologies like VMWare, VirtualBox, XEN, Microsoft Hyper-V, etc. So much so that I moved ALL my hosting operations (20+ clients) to providers like Slicehost, Linode and CrystalTech for Hyper-V....
by Dennis Clayton | Oct 24, 2009 | General, Microsoft, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Windows 7
First Install I am usually not big on Microsoft releases, but since Vista was a disappointment, and XP was getting old, I decided I would do something I’ve never done before. I actually purchased a version of Windows. Now don’t get me wrong, I have...
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,...
