Monthly Archives: August 2007

Domain lost to spammers

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Scott Gruby

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 … Continue reading →

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A new sport

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Scott Gruby

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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Driving a pedicab with a large passenger

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Scott Gruby

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 … Continue reading →

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The GSM buzz

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Scott Gruby

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 … Continue reading →

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iPhone saves a parking ticket

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Scott Gruby

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 … Continue reading →

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Faster than a speeding bullet

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Scott Gruby

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 … Continue reading →

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Toll Roads are your friends

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Scott Gruby

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 … Continue reading →

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Virtual Server – Day 2

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Scott Gruby

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 … Continue reading →

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Trying a virtual server

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Scott Gruby

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 … Continue reading →

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UI has gone to the birds

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Scott Gruby

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 … Continue reading →

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