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

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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 to have backed up and also configured email alerts. I’ve had no problems with Jungle Disk … Read more

Groovy (Grooveshark) Plugin for Apple TV2 4.2 Firmware

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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. http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/22489-groovy-app-for-apple-tv/ Download com.atv.groovy_0.4-5_iphoneos-arm.deb – [download id=”4″]

Mac Tip: Create a Solid Color for Desktop Background OSX

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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 “Macintosh HD/Library/Desktop Pictures/Solid Colors”. From here you can add PNG images and they wil be … Read more

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

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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. http://cassandra.apache.org/ I also dug up another Facebook related project called Hiphop, which compiles PHP into native C to boost performance. Also used … Read more

Adding APC to MediaTemple Grid Service

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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 like shared hosting, why? It’s either slow at time for hours or always slow, so … Read more

Ubiquiti Bullet M2 and Some Random Long Omni-Directional Antenna

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So I purchased a Bullet M2 made by Ubiquiti, you can find their site at http://ubnt.com I grabbed it from http://www.xagyl.com/ which is located in Ontario, there are no places in British Columbia that I know of that carries Ubiquiti or Microtik Products. This device supports POE (YAY), but I had to get a POE inverter. … Read more

New Workspace Setup

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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 I turned it into a workspace. So now I have my Macbook Pro, 27′ monitor … Read more