My iPod Mini’s battery is once again dying (it’s been replaced once already). I can replace it again or switch over to a newer iPod Nano (3G) we have hanging around. I’ve been trying out the iPod Nano to see how well it works as a replacement. more…
So the bad news is you can’t just download the Quassel binaries for Mac if you’re running 10.6 
The good news is that since I had to download the source code and build it, I was able to turn off stupid things like link previews and fix the longstanding initial-size bug that’s been annoying me for ages. more…
I have a problem. My internet connection is slow. It’s not too bad for light use but downloading anything more than a few megs means waiting. Worse, while I wait for the download to complete, everything else is slow.
Some years ago, someone came up with a great script called The Wondershaper. Of course, it’s Linux only and to be most effective, you need to run it on your gateway/router box. I did try running it on my Linux box but it slowed down LAN traffic too. I tried to come up with a Mac version but all I could get was a simplistic version that again, slowed down LAN traffic. So I really needed to get it running on my router. more…
The good folks over at nosupportlinuxhosting run a nice operation. I appreciate that I’m only paying for what I need, rather than for support people to answer stupid questions. What they do make clear is that they don’t do site backups for you. The thing is though, you can never really trust your hosting company to keep a reliable backup of your site, as I found out at my last hosting company.
So in the interest of helping you keep a good backup that you can restore in the event of site problems, I’m sharing the scripts I use to keep my site backed up. more…