Today apple approved a ping pong app for the iPhone and iPad. Almost two years ago I made exactly the same app! And it was rejected! And I know mine didn’t have any sort of iPad tie-in, but no fair, there WAS no iPad back then! So I say, Apple, you’re slipping. And I say [...]
Well, our contest should be up. I mean, the iPad came out a week ago. And the contest said it’d end when we got 20 (16GB wifi models). So, we must have them by now. You’d think. Well, I’m not sure what the hold up is. I mean, *I* got one no problem on launch [...]
As I’m sure some of you have noticed, the stability of some of our PS servers has been spotty at best from roughly the end of November. What started out as an emergency kernel upgrade to fix some pretty serious newly-released exploits turned into months of non-stop bug hunting that resulted in the discovery of [...]
This day has been a long time in the coming. A long time. A long long time. A loooooooooooooooooooong long time. A looooooooooooooooooong looooooooooooooooooong loooooooooooooooong time! A really long time. In fact, at this point I’m starting to get a little tired of hearing about it. Actually, I’ve been tired of hearing about it ever [...]
For some reason .info is the only TLD besides .com/net/org that we offer for registration (of course you can host any domain) at DreamHost. They were just one of the first “new” TLDs I suppose. Back before we got burnt out on them all. Of course, there were a few people who got burnt by [...]
Way back in March, one of our sysadmins Terri attended the Australian linux conference to give a talk about sysadminning at DreamHost as well as the open source distributed file system Sage’s been working on called Ceph! Blah blah blah, on to the IMPORTANT stuff. Apparently there’s some country or island or state or something [...]
Well, that’s it. Yahoo! is finally shutting down GeoCities. This is a sad moment for the Internet in general, and it’s especially sad for us. I’ve always felt a sort of special connection with GeoCities.. lemme ‘splain you. GeoCities was one of the first web hosts on the Internet, being started as “Beverly Hills Internet” [...]
After my freshman year in college I went back home for the summer and had a strange job at a little two-man pre-press graphics shop in Vienna, Virginia called “Color Graphics Network” (not the inspiration for New Dream Network – parent company of DreamHost). The guy who owned it was named Ricky Dee (awesome name), [...]
Sucks Sites. I’m sure you’ve seen them. Wikipedia calls them gripe sites. They’re usually set up by disgruntled customers and then typically disappear a few weeks later once the creator has had time to cool down. Oh yeah, they’re out there. NoDaddy.com, for example…but in their case it turns out they may actually be on [...]
Disclaimer: This post isn’t really about camping — unless you’re talking about the kind that really passionate nerds do — so if you were expecting to read about bug spray, beans and campfires, you might want to ignore everything below. As the resident WordPress nerd around these parts, I get to spend a lot of my [...]