Author Archives: Jordan

Why Jungle Disk isn’t a good option for your VPS

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Jordan

I started using Jungle Disk for my Dedicated Server at Softlayer. It’s a rather beefy Dual Quad Core Xeon E5420 with 12GB of memory. It’s not a sloth at all. The setup was simple, I selected the directories I wished … Continue reading →

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How to open the Ubiquiti Bullet M2

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Jordan

I was trying to get OpenWRT working on my Bullet M2, but was having issues. So I heard there was a serial port on the board that you can use to grab debug information. I proceeded to open the sucker … Continue reading →

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Groovy (Grooveshark) Plugin for Apple TV2 4.2 Firmware

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Jordan

I stumbled upon an updated package for Groovy thats works on my Apple TV2 4.2 Firmware. The following forum topic is where I found the package. As well as a direct download mirrored on my site. forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/22489-groovy-app-for-apple-tv/ Download com.atv.groovy_0.4-5_iphoneos-arm.deb - 

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Funny Chainmail about Economics and Stimulus Packages

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Jordan

I received this chainmail recently and thought it was funny. Economics 101 = Short & Interesting It is a slow day in the small Manitoba town of Lac du Bonnet and streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in … Continue reading →

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Mac Tip: Create a Solid Color for Desktop Background OSX

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Jordan

I wanted to choose a different Solid Color for my Desktop Background on my Mac. In order to achieve this, you have to complete a couple of steps. All of the default Desktop Backgrounds for “Solid Colors” are located in … Continue reading →

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Looking at Cassandra (DB) and Hiphop (Compiling PHP to Native C)

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Jordan

I was all over the internet one day and ran into a project called Cassandra. Which was opensourced by Facebook and is being developed by Apache committers as well as other major companies. cassandra.apache.org/ I also dug up another Facebook … Continue reading →

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Adding APC to MediaTemple Grid Service

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Jordan

I have a client that wanted to start his own personal blog. He’s in the IT industry and wanted to use WordPress, he didn’t know what Shared Hosting Provider to go with. I suggested two, dreamhost.com and mediatemple.com I don’t … Continue reading →

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Ubiquiti Bullet M2 and Some Random Long Omni-Directional Antenna

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Jordan

So I purchased a Bullet M2 made by Ubiquiti, you can find their site at ubnt.com I grabbed it from www.xagyl.com/ which is located in Ontario, there are no places in British Columbia that I know of that carries Ubiquiti or … Continue reading →

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New Workspace Setup

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Jordan

So sitting in my room in the dark, I usually don’t get motivated. So I decided to make the hump to a 27′ monitor for my living space that was so awkward it I had no use for it. So … Continue reading →

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Mikrotik Routerboard Pictures

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Jordan

Here are some pictures of the Routerboard 750G, I purchased two of them. One I will be deploying in a 22 room hotel, the other is one to play with at home. This thing is absolutely awesome when it comes … Continue reading →

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