I just initiated a domain transfer of thingelstad.com from Register.com. I finally got fed up with their lackluster service and outrageous prices and am moving away. I’m just posting this because if something goes wrong my site might go off the air temporarily. It shouldn’t, but …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Transferring thingelstad.comHad last morning with hMailServer. This morning it was SquirrelMail’s turn. Decided to use this contrary to my firmly held belief that PHP and Windows just don’t belong together. It actually installed really easily, I even got a fair number of plugins to go with it. SquirrelMail is a very nice webmail client, gotta admit.
I’ve been a longtime user of Xmail for my home email services. Xmail has been stable, reliable, etc. But it lacks IMAP support and configuration is entirely driven on text files. I decided to take the plunge and change over to hMail this morning. So far everything is working …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Switch to hMailMy frequent visitors (all two of you! :-P) likely noticed that my site has been down since Saturday morning. I took some extra time this weekend to rebuild my terabyte server. When I put the server up the first time I filled the RAID with 6 200G SATA drives and created one RAID5 …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: thingelstad.com Server RebuiltI have to withdraw my endorsement of the MacMice 2-button wheel mouse for the Mac. There are two main issues with it. First, it takes it far too long to come out of sleep mode and to wake up the iMac. The Apple mouse does this instantly and the MacMice takes as little as 5 to as …
Keep reading · 1 minute: MacMice Not So GreatI’ve been trying to order this Dell 2005FPW monitor for a bit now and there is this (amazingly stupid) Dellf game that Dell has where you can win coupons. One of the coupons is a 25% discount on the monitor I’ve wanted so I’ve been banging on it over and over. I’ve won $50 off a …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Dell Coupons & eBayI’ve now entered the world of digital video in addition to the digital photography one I’ve been in for some time. My wife was cool enough to get me the Panasonic PV-GS400 digital camcorder. This is a very slick 3CCD unit with more bells and whistles than I know what to do with …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Panasonic PV-GS400A little piece of heaven was waiting for me in my mailbox tonight. A few weeks ago I purchased an iMac G5 and it’s been a lot of fun. Apple has made an amazing machine, and finally the OS is good enough to stand on the same stage as the hardware. However, Apple’s stubborn …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Mac Mouse Done RightDo you know what a googol is? A googol is a very, very large number. 1.0 * 10100. Or, in long-hand… 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 I remember googol from some trivial bit of …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Special NumbersIn February I upgraded my home network to Gig E. The speed is great. However, a couple of days ago I woke up to find a bunch of my machines unreachable on the local network. I went downstairs and my SMC 8508-T had croaked. It looks like at 10:30pm on Thursday evening it just …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Trouble in Gig E Land