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My inevitable switch to Android - December 12th, 2010

Earlier this year, I wrote about my departure from AT&T and the cult of iPhone, in which I extolled the virtues of simpler technologies like those found in Blackberry devices. It was nice to leave the App Store and its countless fart-apps. It was nice to have an indicator light to tell me when I [...]

Tags: android, cellphone, cyanogenmod, froyo, g2, google, htc vision, iOS, iphone, mobile, phone, t-mobile
Posted in Android, google, hardware, mobile

 

A line-by-line guide: Setting up Nginx, MySQL, PHP-FPM, phpMyAdmin and properly functioning WordPress on an Ubuntu 10.04 VPS - October 4th, 2010

I’ve been using Media Temple for well over a year now, specifically the Grid Service. While it’s a great service for people looking to get hosted on a budget, it’s a bit lacking on the control side of things, and I really felt the need to move out of the cloud and into a VPS. [...]

Tags: (ve) server, lemp, linux, lnmp, media temple, mysql, nginx, php, php-fpm, php5, phpmyadmin, pretty permalinks, server, ubuntu 10.04, wordpress
Posted in hardware, linux, useful

 

I Finally Gave AT&T the Finger (and My iPhone, Too) - March 19th, 2010

About three months ago, I decided that I was officially sick of AT&T. It wasn’t just their crappy cell-service, and it wasn’t just their extremely hit-or-miss customer service that really pushed me over the edge, either; it was the highway robbery they call a monthly bill. I was paying upwards of $100 a month simply [...]

Tags: apple, at&t, blackberry, iphone, t-mobile
Posted in apple, hardware, mobile

 

Retro Hot - February 7th, 2010

I don’t generally have cause to praise LG for anything; they’re not a bad company, and they make some great stuff, they just don’t usually come through with anything I particularly need or want. That’s changed now, because they’ve put together a retro styled CRT television that makes all the snazzy flat-screens in the world [...]

Tags: CRT, korea, retro, tech, television
Posted in hardware, international

 

If You Need This Many USB Ports - January 29th, 2010

You’re doing it wrong. Image: kiske.

Tags: ads, fail, hardware, japan, lol, usb
Posted in fail, hardware, lol

 

DOCSIS 3: So This is How Modems Should Work - December 31st, 2009

We picked up a new Motorola cable-modem lastnight, and it changed everything. It’s a SURFboard model, but not the common 5-series, this one’s their new DOCSIS 3.0 standard-compliant beast, the SB6120. Using the old, hand-me-down pile of crap that Comcast originally gave us, we were lucky to attain downspeeds of 10 Mbps, while upload speeds [...]

Tags: comcast, hardware, internet, isp, modem, motorola, win
Posted in hardware

 

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