I got my NginX server up and running. My memory usage went down by over half. We’re cookin’ with fire now.

Most Mac addicts are converts. A lot of people “switched” after Mac OSX came out. Some made the “switch” after they fell in love with their iPods or iPhones.

Not me.

Never in my life have I owned a PC. In fact, the closest thing that I’ve had to a PC was a PowerPC (Mac). My father has owned Macs since they were Apples. I remember having Apple IICs, IIEs, etc. In fact, the only computer that I have ever owned that wasn’t a Mac was a Commodore 64. Sometimes on the weekends, I would even go to “Double-Click” meetings with my dad in some far off basement. That was when DOS was an up-and-comer. I’m getting old.

I only bring this up because I am sitting at my MacBook Pro compiling scripts and reminiscing about the times when my dad would be compiling code saying, “touch that computer and it will be the last thing that you do.” Ah, memories.

Full disclosure: there’s a Dell in my basement that my mom gave to me. I, however, have never plugged it in.

Just testing out “Twitterfeed.” Go Brewers! Go Badgers! Go Home Improvement Projects!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA… Forgive me, this will be my last post on this subject. It turns out that the new Microsoft “I’m a PC” television campaign was produced (wait for it) on a Mac!!!

Metadata found on Microsoft’s creative copy used in its ‘I’m a PC’ ad reveals that the graphics were actually produced using Macs running Adobe Creative Suite 3. After the details were published on the Flickr photo sharing site, Microsoft scrambled to polish off the embarrassing details last night.

That’s ridiculously silly. I love it!

Yesterday, I told you about the new ad campaign from Microsoft that’s designed to take out Apple’s “I’m a Mac” campaign. Well, last night MS rolled out the first commercial in their new “I’m a PC” series:

The video is tastefully done and includes some humor (I like the shark and the ‘I turn #2 into energy’ parts). I still contend that talking about #2 (Apple not poo, this time) is not what the best direction for them, but they really couldn’t care less about what I think.

My theory: spend the $300 Million making your operating system bulletproof. The biggest problem with MS is the security and stability of their product. If they were to fix their problems and come out with a new, stable operating system, that isn’t rushed to market, and they would annihilate Apple.

…and that’s coming from a Mac.

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When Lunarpages decided that we were using too much CPU (central processing unit), they booted us to an “abuse server.” The abuse server is designed to stop resource-heavy sites or sites that are experiencing Denial-of-Service attacks from taking down all of the other sites on a shared-server environment.

One of the safety switches on the abuse server blocks IP addresses when it detects that too much data is transferred to or from the site. That means that if you try to FTP (file-transfer protocol) files to the site or download them to backup your site, it blocks you from having any access at all to the site. So, for awhile, both Claude and I were locked out of our server. It was a nightmare.

As of this morning, Claude was able to view the site again. Balance has been restored to the Force.

Okay, enough nerdery. Back to your regularly scheduled nonsense.

Oh, and while you’re here – check out JeffSays.com.

A few months ago, I downloaded Firefox 3 for all of the computers that I use on a daily basis. Now I am regretting that. It’s slow, buggy, and I honestly liked the old look more than I do this semi-new layout.

Any of you experiencing the same garbage?

My dad sent me a link to a new program called Jing. Check out my quick intro to it:

UPDATE: I have noticed one problem and received confirmation from the developer — you can’t resize videos. So, if you want to take a screen vid of something and throw it on your Wordpress site, it has to be no more than 440px wide before you start messing up your template. Boo!

FuzzMartin.com circa 2002!

http://web.archive.org/web/20021106191801/http://www.fuzzmartin.com/

Have fun with that one kids!

ThePlanet.com, home to over 9,000 website servers, suffered from a transformer explosion on Sunday afternoon. The explosion and subsequent fire at it’s Houston-based H1 Datacenter took all of their servers offline, though they did not destroy any servers. The radio stations’ (WBWI/WBKV) websites were among the thousands of websites that were affected by the blast, and at the time of this post, they are still not fully operational.

The creative forces behind Lost have continued their “off-season” viral advertising with a new company/website/ARG with Octagon Global Recruiting (WEB LINK). Last year it was Find815.com, and the year before that, The Lost Experience.

Sign up and see what type of info you get!

I stumbled across this site tonight. http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/generator/
It will generate and create your own barcode in a variety of file types!
What a cool application!

I am a big fan of Eminem, but not having my appetite fulfilled with The Re-Up, I have been on the look for some Shady mix-tapes.

I recently came across Diary of a Madman…which is really a compilation of 49 old Eminem freestyles, remixes and unreleased items.  Anyone who was on Napster (or perhaps Limewire) probably has some of these, but I doubt all of them, let alone at the quality that most of these are.

Check out http://www.getrightmusic.com/2008/02/28/424/ to download the .zip file with all of these great songs.

Highlights: The 97 Rap Olympics…any of my friends who are Eminem fans already have a copy of this…but let me tell you, this guy lets a few other Emcees have it.

I just received this email and thought I would pass it on to anyone out there who is looking for a business opportunity. How lucky am I to receive such a great opportunity!?!

Dear
Good a thing to write you. I have a proposal for
you-this however is not mandatory nor will I in any
manner compel you to honour against your will.

I am Silvia James,20 years old and the only daughter of my late parents Mr.and Mrs.James. My father was a highly reputable busnness magnet-(a cocoa merchant)who operated in the capital of Ivory coast during his days.

It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad year 6th.April 2005.Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by an uncle of his who travelled with him at that time.But God knows the truth!

My mother died when I was just 4 years old,and since then my father took me so special. Before his death on April 6 2005 he called the secretary who accompanied him to the hospital and told him that he has the sum of Ten million,seven hundred thousand United State Dollars.(USD$10.700,000) left in one of the leading Finance company here in Abidjan Ivory coast West Africa.

He further told me that he deposited the money in my name,I am just 20 years old and a university undergraduate and really don’t know what to do.This is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis here in Ivory coast.The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life.

Dear,I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards.Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded.

Now permit me to ask these few questions:-
1. Can you honestly help me as your Sister?
2. Can I completely trust you?
3. What percentage of the total amount in question will
be good for you after the money is in your account?

Please,Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible.Through my
private email box:

Thank you so much.

My sincere regards,

Silvia James

Ph*cking Microsoft. I installed Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 and it is giving me nothing but problems. At first, when I went to save, the dang thing gave me the spinning ball of death. I figured out that it had something to do with the “save a preview” option. So, I unticked the check box for the preview and it was fine.

Then, I tried to “add a cover page” to my report. Same h*cking spinning ball of death that I got before. Mother effer.

Screw you Bill Gates. Thank God that I save my work like people in Milwaukee vote.

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UPDATE: I dumped my plist file and repaired permissions and now it works like a charm. Booyah. Take that Bill Gates. You got served.

Google always seems to come up with some silly April Fool’s Day joke. Today it’s “Gmail Custom Time.” It’s pretty cute – but a little too unbelievable to actually “fool” anybody.

My favorite line: “Need an email to arrive 6 hours ago? No problem. ” Haha.

Do you use iTunes?  Maybe you have the same issue I do…For the past year +, in my shopping cart on iTunes, I have had 3 of the same albums recommended to me.  Now, maybe The Arctic Monkeys, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Beck’s Guero albums are AWESOME…but I AIN’T BUYIN’ EM’!  Recommend something else.  Go back to the programming and set up some kind of timer that eliminates recommendations that haven’t been purchased within, oh, I don’t know…a YEAR?!?  PS.  Check out the new album from System of a Down singer Serj Tankian, Elect the Dead. 

The MagSafe power adapter on my MacBook Pro nearly started on fire yesterday. At the computer end of the cable, a bulge had started to appear and there was a brownish burnt look to it – then the plastic started melting off- and last night it looked like it was about to start on fire. Luckily, there was no damage to my computer.

I have had this computer for about a year and a half. It does get a lot of use, but there’s no reason that even at my moderate level of usage that the power adapter should be starting on fire!

I’m going to the Apple Store as soon as possible to ask them what the hell the deal is!

Here’s a photo I took with my phone (which apparently will only focus on the floor).

I also found a page that highlights some people with the same problems: AppleDefects.com.

This one.

and

This one.

Today is the big day when Apple releases a whole bunch of cool new products. People are speculating that they are going to release an “ultra-portable” new MacBook. We’ll see! They always release these just in time for us to get our tax returns. No new toys for me this year, though. At least, that’s what I keep telling myself.