Published on November 24th, 2009 - 9:11 pm - by Josh
Category: Internet Findings | No Comments »“Godfather of Spam” goes to prison for four years.
That made my day.
Published on October 25th, 2009 - 8:40 pm - by JoshCategory: Technical Stuff | No Comments »joshandmeg.net is now officially migrated from my shared hosting account on Site5 to my own server, affectionately dubbed ‘Cortana’ (technically cortana.keppynet, where keppynet is my network name at home, and cortana is… ).
Since you’re still reading, I’m assuming you want all the nitty-gritty details. All in all, it went remarkably well, much better than I [...]
Published on October 17th, 2009 - 2:13 pm - by JoshCategory: frontpage | 5 Comments »Development has begun on the third version of joshandmeg.net! The current iteration of the site has been active for nearly two and a half years now, and it’s beginning to feel a bit dated.
The new design is going to be a pretty drastic change from the way the site has looked and felt for the [...]
Published on September 3rd, 2009 - 8:05 pm - by JoshCategory: News | 1 Comment »joshandmeg.net just broke 20,000 SPAM comments. Quite an achievement I think. Seriously, 20K! We had less than 100 a couple years ago. 30,000, here we come.
Published on June 17th, 2009 - 9:28 pm - by JoshCategory: Technical Stuff | 2 Comments »The server HDD started acting flaky at the beginning of the week, so I decided to be pro-active and start prepping a new drive for the system before it failed completely. I did have our Western Digital external HDD hooked up and it was holding all of our pictures, videos, and music. I decided to [...]
Published on June 10th, 2009 - 6:01 pm - by JoshCategory: Internet Findings | 2 Comments »FTC takes down a spam provider « Akismet.
Man, I totally called this a while back. I hope those people get the death sentence.
Published on May 15th, 2009 - 10:21 pm - by JoshCategory: Technical Stuff | No Comments »I just had a nice pain-free upgrade of my Ubuntu server from 8.10 to 9.04. I had been holding off upgrading for several weeks because I was positive something would break and I’d spend hours getting it back up and running. Much to my surprise, everything went off without a hitch.
Ryan – Let [...]
Published on May 11th, 2009 - 8:20 pm - by JoshCategory: Technical Stuff | 4 Comments »So here’s something interesting I’ve noticed over the past few weeks: SPAM seems to be slowing down a bit. Not just email SPAM either, but SPAM comments on this very blog have seen a very steep slow down over the past several weeks. The chart below shows the number of SPAM comments posted to [...]
Published on February 28th, 2009 - 8:42 am - by JoshCategory: Technical Stuff | 1 Comment »There really is a good excuse for the lack of posts and pictures lately. I dropped our camera onto our kitchen tile right after we got back from our Ohio Christmas trip. After it happened I messed around with it for awhile and eventually determined that it was still mostly functional, but the screen was [...]
Published on February 22nd, 2009 - 8:25 pm - by JoshCategory: Technical Stuff | 4 Comments »Awhile back I posted the sad obituary of ze5170, my old laptop that bit the dust several months ago. Since then, Meg and I have been surviving on her equally old hp a610n desktop. We lived with this for as long as we could, but I, being the geek that I am, couldn’t go on for much [...]
Published on December 3rd, 2008 - 12:16 pm - by JoshCategory: Random Ramblings... | 1 Comment »So it has now been 4 days since we have had a computer at the Kephart household. I don’t know how much longer I can take it…
Published on November 7th, 2008 - 11:07 pm - by JoshCategory: News | 1 Comment »Today is a sad day for me. ze5170, my six year old hp laptop has finally passed on. He was with me through thick and thin, good times and bad. It all started shortly after my high school graduation in June of 2002….
I was just like every other middle class graduating senior, I received my [...]
Published on September 6th, 2008 - 9:20 am - by JoshCategory: Internet Findings | No Comments »Comcast’s Attack On Downloadable Content – Opinions by ExtremeTech.
An excellent insight into the Comcast debacle.
Published on August 24th, 2008 - 9:29 pm - by JoshCategory: Internet Findings | No Comments »Video: Lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games – Times Online
Published on August 18th, 2008 - 9:01 pm - by JoshCategory: Technical Stuff | No Comments »Whoa! I finally got the blogs updated to WP 2.6. A few of weeks ago I attempted it and had major headaches, and it has been driving me crazy ever since then. So I gave it another shot tonight and finally got it up and running.
Anyway, not really too many changes you guys will notice [...]
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