Scott Gruby’s Blog

A few weeks ago in my EMT refresher class, the instructor mentioned something about the movie Airplane! to one of the students. The student, who was about 21 or 22, didn’t have a clue what the instructor was talking about. While I can’t remember if I saw the movie in theatre (probably not because I [...]

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I routinely download software that ships as a Mac disc image, but when uploaded to a web server is placed in a zip archive. The dmg file is already compressed, so the zip file doesn’t reduce the size that much and just adds one step to decompressing (when I decompress, I’m left with the zip [...]

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A recent comment on my blog struck a nerve where the commenter said that OCR would basically put a competitor to ReceiptWallet above it. While I still don’t believe that OCR is all that useful for receipts (if there is one mistake when you’re generally only entering 3 small pieces of data, you’ve wasted time [...]

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I somehow managed to spill stuff on my keyboard (not the internal one in my MacBook Pro) and have been looking for a replacement for awhile. I dried it out enough so that it has mostly worked, but I kept missing keys. So I bought an Apple keyboard from CompUSA a few months back (when [...]

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With all my problems with my server, you’d think I’d give up and just host my server somewhere else and make it someone else’s problem. After a little thinking, I’ve come up with the pros and cons of running my own server.Pros————–Physical security of serverMusic server - I need a server to run my SqueezeboxesUnlimited [...]

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I realize that IMAP isn’t new, but I just started using it yesterday. I’ve resisted for years as I’ve always had one main store for my email. However, lately, I’m checking email using web based email and everything I’ve heard about IMAP make it sound like it is perfect for using in multiple locations. So [...]

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Yes, it’s true, I do have a heartbeat and this EKG proves it:

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I downloaded and installed Little Snitch today to give it a spin as it was part of the bundle of software I bought it (which brings me to the question, why did I buy it?, but that’s another story). The program is well implemented, but just about every application makes outgoing network connections these days, [...]

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When I setup my store, I sued FastCGI to get acceptable performance which was fine as I don’t get many hits. Today I installed BrowseBack because it came as part of the software bundle I purchase through MacHeist/MacUpdate. As I hit my store a lot to check stats and such, BrowseBack kept loading the store [...]

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I went to install a new hard drive in my server today to pre-emptively avoid a disaster as the drives in my server have been running 24/7 for 1.5 years and the drives are so cheap, that replacing it should save me time later. I thought all I had to do was power down, yank [...]

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