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It is critical to have secure backups (that you can control) of all your data stored on hosted servers

20 July 2010 By captbob 0

Last month the federal government took unprecedented efforts to shut down selected hosts on intellectual property infringement and national security grounds. One such action took a blogging site offline, leaving 73,000 bloggers without access to years of accumulated data. If they haven't backed up their work, they aren't going to see it for a while: http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-authorities-shut-down-wordpress-host-with-73...

My current Linux flavor: Ubuntu Server 9.10

27 April 2010 By captbob 0

I started with Red Hat, moved to Fedora Core (3,4,5,8); used CentOS, FreeBSD (both on my Mac and as a server install); Debian Feisty something, now have servers running Ubuntu Server 9.10 Karmic something. So far so good. I've installed both the 32-bit and 64-bit version and it's working pretty well.

Cons:
-Getting started. Had some funky issues with the full install iso. Worked great with the minimal install CD/disk image.

OS X update saga: 10.4.11 to 10.6.2, plus hardware upgrades

01 December 2009 By captbob 0

After a lot of hemming and hawing, I finally decided to bite the bullet and upgrade my laptop (MacBook Pro 2.2 ghz) to the current version of OS X.

Added a Twitter API module...lets see if this puppy posts

11 June 2009 By captbob 0

Have been checking out twitter integration tools for Drupal and am testing one particular module that looks like it will post to Twitter everytime a node of a specific content type is posted. Let's see if it works.

Consumer resolution: Never entertain any offers if any type on the offer page is less than 10pts.

11 June 2009 By captbob 0

Just got yet another DirectTV solicitation in the mail. I'd be interested as our basic cable service provides us with 12 or so channels. I wouldn't mind investing in a modest upgrade to get CNN, the History Channel, and a few others.