Scott Gruby’s Blog

Awhile back I noticed that the amount of spam (basically a dictionary attack) against one of my domains (notifymail.com). It was so bad that the load average on my server kept going up just to reject the mail for addresses that didn’t exist. I went ahead and used the email forwarding of my domain registrar [...]

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My wife and I were watching the news last night when she started laughing. Apparently someone creating the text blurbs on the screen didn’t proofread his work.

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When we were downtown the other night, we saw a large number of pedicabs driving around. As we were sitting at dinner looking out at the street and watching the people, my wife asked what if a large person wanted a pedicab ride (or say three adult males) and the pedicab driver couldn’t physically pedal? [...]

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Now that I have an iPhone on my desk, I’m constantly reminded that GSM radios produce a buzzing sound when they’re near speakers or other phones. I’ve had various other GSM devices on my desk lately, but have generally placed them on the other side reducing the buzz. However, the iPhone is close to my [...]

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The other night, my wife and I went to downtown San Diego for dinner and to goto a dueling piano bar (we left the little one with my parents). Parking, of course, is a nightmare, and after driving around for a little bit (my wife said I wasn’t aggressive enough in finding parking), I saw [...]

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Now that I’ve migrated most of my web traffic to another server, I took a look at some settings on my server. Awhile back I added QOS rules so that I’d still have good VOIP traffic even if people were hitting my website. I turned off the rules to run a speed test and almost [...]

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Yesterday I had to drive up to Santa Monica, a drive that could range anywhere from about 2 hours 15 minutes to 3 hours 10 minutes according to Google Maps. Google Maps said to take state route 73 which is a toll road for part of the way. I usually avoid toll roads because of [...]

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I managed to move over most of my domains to the virtual server and am pleased so far. However, I had to jump up to their next plan because I was running out of memory. So due to the limited amount of memory (512 MB with no disk swap), I’ve decided to leave mail on [...]

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After the 2 hour downtime for my cable modem, I’ve decided to try out a virtual server. I decided to try VPSLink and managed to get up and running in nothing flat; there automated system worked well. So far I’ve migrated over a few sites including this blog. I still have to figure out backups [...]

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A new app called Pixelmator has gone into private beta according to TUAW and while it looks like it could be a replacement for Photoshop Elements, the screenshots in their gallery make it look like the developers went overboard with the semi transparent look. I have no idea how the app will actually work, but [...]

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