Posts Categorized "Projects"

SSH on your iPhone with TouchTerm

I’m about to walk out the door to catch a movie this evening and I get an SMS alert from Pingdom that my server is down. “That’s strange, I haven’t even logged into the server today,” I think to myself. I hop on my Mac to check things out and it definitely is down. I hurriedly attempt an emergency console connection but that doesn’t work. Not being able to do anything nor be late for the movie, I shoot off an email to the Slicehost support staff that I can’t login to my slice and head out the door. Half way to the theater I get a response that the server experienced a drive failure but for some reason did not gracefully failover, requiring a hard reboot, and that all slices were running again. Read more

So Long Mediatemple, Hello Slicehost

For about a year now I have been running all of my projects on various mediatemple servers and while I have not had any trouble with the services I have always had to opt out of the upgrade program which essentially meant that I was paying a premium for a self-managed VPS. Last weekend I sat down and did some calculations and discovered that I would Read more

iScripture.org v3 Development Begins

I have started working on the next update to iScripture.org. Here is what’s on the roadmap for the upcoming version: Read more

New Design for JonsView.com

I finally got my act together over the weekend and whipped out a new design for jonsview.com and it is a big improvement over the old (non)design I think we can all agree. The new look is based on the popular k2 theme with a few tweaks. Besides a new face there are also some new “Web 2.0″ features which are Read more

Kernel Panics With New Crucial RAM

I never have had much luck with RAM. It seems for all of the computers I have built I would always get at least one bad stick in every batch and this one was no different. After installing the new 4GB of Crucial RAM last week I started getting kernel panics. One of the most common causes for kernel panics is malfunctioning kernel extensions or bad hardware. After false positive stress tests, I was finally able to confirm that it Read more