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Dreamhost FAIL

January 20, 2009

If you’re reading this post, it’s no thanks to Dreamhost.  The past few days I have noticed my web traffic dropping off substantially.  I pay $15/mo. plus an annual fee for their Private Server offering in order to host this and a few other blogs.  I discovered a great many problems occurring when I checked [...]

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Backup Bliss with OS X

April 25, 2007

Recently I lost a bunch of data from a MacBook Pro that spun off of the corner of my sofa onto my hardwood floor. Ouch. My last backup had been about a month earlier so I lost some pretty important stuff I was working on at the time and had to spend hours mungeing the [...]

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Open Source PBX On Linux..

March 14, 2003

Wow… put a PBX in your home! Create your own ACD tree! -Ian. ——– http://www.asteriskpbx.com/ What is Asterisk? Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with [...]

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Another Vancouver Tech Company About To Die..

October 22, 2002

Pivotal Software, a Vancouver-based CRM company that had some success in the Enterprise market, hitched their wagon to a star: Microsoft. Now, normal logic would imply that this is a business strategy worthy of praise in any case, unless of course you are dealing with an 800 pound gorilla. And, obviously, that’s just what MSFT [...]

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SSH on Your BlackBerry…

July 31, 2002

http://www.idokorro.com/products.html If you are like most IT managers you must provide 24/7 support of networks and servers, including mission critical applications. Downtime as a result of server issues or failure can occur at any time and critical applications are not immune. When this happens, company staff and operations can be affected incurring significant costs and [...]

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Agere Sells 802.11b to Proxim…

June 17, 2002

Proxim Corporation to Acquire Agere Systems’ Wireless LAN Equipment Business, Including its ORiNOCO® Product Line FOR RELEASE MONDAY JUNE 17, 2002 Transaction Expands Proxim’s Leadership Position in Wireless Networking Infrastructure Warburg Pincus and Broadview Capital to Invest in Proxim in Support of the Acquisition Sale Will Allow Agere To Sharpen Strategic Focus On 802.11/Wi-Fi™ Components [...]

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Ian’s Alma Mater (sort of) Bought my Microsoft

May 1, 2001

Before Ncompass was spun out of Excite, I worked for Gerri and with Ncompass co-founders for a year or so. None of us had ever been able to figure out exactly what the tools they were building were until lately. It’s unlikely that the Ncompass folks are all going to be millionaires as a result [...]

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