October 2008 – Jon's View

Slicehost Aquired by Rackspace

Posted on October 23, 2008January 24, 2010 by Jon Stacey

Yesterday Slicehost announced their acquisition by Rackspace. Both companies provided web hosting services but targeted drastically different client bases. As the Slicehost tag line says “built for developers,” their core clientele

Getting Around a College Firewall (Windows Edition)

Posted on October 17, 2008September 28, 2014 by Jon Stacey

This is a continuation of the getting around a college firewall and bandwidth throttling how to geared for Windows. I’ll walk you through setting up an encrypted SSH tunnel and a local SOCKS server on Microsoft Windows. Keep in mind

Installing Windows Vista 64-bit on an iMac

Posted on October 16, 2008January 24, 2010 by Jon Stacey

I am surprised to discover that 64-bit Windows Vista is not supported on the latest iMacs. The hardware to support it is all there and it even runs on the Mac Pros and MacBook Pros so I would have thought the same would apply to the iMac, but alas this is not the case. There…