February 2007
6 posts
1 tag
Oddities
DNS issues cause widespread mayhem in the mind of a small squirrel.
You might notice that the blog is looking a bit… well, wrong. You are aware of this, and suffice to say it has to do with DNS, ZoneEdit, secondary zones, and things like that. Suffice to say this may cause disruptions with regards to accessing things around here, and potentially email. You could try emailing make-contact...
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Google Apps
Google Apps offers paid access to Google applications.
Surprising absolutely nobody Google has renamed Google Apps for Domains into just plain Google Apps.
Interesting points:
* There’s a paid option ($50/user/year) that removes advertising and bumps gmail storage to 10GB
* When you pay you get 99.9% uptime guarantee for gmail. You also get phone support.
* The non-paid version only...
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S3 Backup for iTunes
Free stuff makes you do crazy things.
bandwagon: A rather cool looking way of backing up your iTunes library.
Disclaimer: Posting this should result in getting me free stuff, but I’m sure you know me well enough to know I wouldn’t post advertising if I didn’t think it was a cool idea, and because there are no sharks or lasers involved… Flickr page for the logo.
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Red Light Neon
You were woken up at some ungodly hour (around 10am or so) by a friend reminding you that today was the day: the walking tour of the History of Vancouver’s Sex Trade. No, there’s no mistake there. You’re talking about prostitution and brothels and where it was and who tried to clean it up. (The answer to those two questions are it varied through time, and mostly politicians...
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S3 Backups
About a month ago you realised your server wasn’t being backed up in any way, shape or form. You don’t know about your readers, but this frightened you. How many drive failures will it take to learn?1
So, what is the solution to this? The criteria:
Could be automated
Had to be the most cost effective
performed
It came down to two options: store the backups yourself, or use a...
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Soapbox v6.1
Here we are, a new release of Soapbox, now powered by SimpleLog 2. It took a night of merging in (decade, movies and bits of m.ac.nz are all part of one big rails app that started off as SimpleLog 1.2.1).
Features you might care about:
Much nicer archives
Comments - such as on this post. Please try them out.
That’s about it really. The Some Rights Reserved and Colophon pages are...