29 Nov
Posted by Harper in General at 01:15 AM
Tags: desktop linux, linux, osx, ubuntu, unix
I am a linux mad man recently. I was noticing today that almost all of my devices i enjoy using are unix and mostly linux based. Pretty insane. So with that thought i decided to unshackle myself from the man and attempt desktop linux for the first time.
I am scared. Hold me!
I am currently installing [...]
22 Nov
Posted by Harper in General at 06:07 PM
Tags: chicago, holidays, thanksgiving
Happy thanksgiving!
It has been a long and lazy day today. Pretty awesome. We are about to head out to a party at our friend Jill’s house. it should be fun. There were so many options this year. Quite a few people offered to include us in their families thanksgiving - it was a hard [...]
20 Nov
Posted by Harper in General at 04:11 AM
Tags: colocation, hosting, mediatemple, mosso, servers, shared hosting
For the first time in almost 7 years my servers are offline.
I just shut them down. It was pretty sad. They were good servers. They did a lot of traffic. They were slashdotted, dugg, reddited, and probably any other sited that was hot shit in the last 6 years. I installed them when [...]
05 Nov
Posted by Harper in General at 04:35 PM
Tags: employment, jobs, skinnycorp, threadless
I have been working at skinnyCorp for about 2.4 years. We have grown a lot in that time. It is really cool to think about. When I started, we had 3 servers, a lot of traffic and were selling quite a few shirts a day. Now, we are approaching 40 servers, a veritable ass load [...]
05 Nov
Posted by Harper in General at 04:10 PM
Tags: ajax, contact manager, contacts, gmail, google, hacking, isync, javascript, xml
Since Google just changed the game of mobile software - I got to thinking about my new fascination - Contact management. So the first place I go to is Gmail and Google’s new contact manager. Being an iSync freakout, I love syncing my contacts. I LOVE being able to bring in contacts from all my [...]
23 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 09:48 AM
Tags: community, evil, music, torrents
Pretty insane. Oink has been raided and the owner has been arrested.
Oink was a really neat tracker. It was apparently fast, clean and super easy. Apparently it was the biggest private bittorrent tracker. Around 180k users. That is a lot of dedicated users.
It taught a bunch of people I know about bittorrent. It was used [...]
17 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 10:16 PM
Tags: email, fear, Friends, sad, war
Awhile ago I got this email from a friend. It is about the Medical Marijuana problem with Iraq veterans. I thought you guys might like to read it. So here it is:
I just read the article you posted about medical marijuana and veterans and it definitely was intense. Its a shame that they are [...]
17 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 01:18 AM
Tags: disease, eczema, family, terrorism, trees
Today I found out that my dad was placed into the hospital to help him fight his infidel skin. Basically he has what is colloquially known as “extreme eczema,” but basically it seems that his skin is attempting to hijack his body and run it into a building. So with that in mind, he went [...]
09 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 01:37 AM
Tags: bittorrent, download, internet, music
Legally of course.
But everyday I am discovering new music and listening to interesting artists. The internet is awesome. I can’t really imagine what it would be like without it. I mean, I am able to think to myself “I would like to learn about classical music” and find a place that is offering an entire [...]
I just read this article. It is about an Iraq Veteran and his battle with post-traumatic stress. Pretty intense - but worth reading. You can check out the article here - even better, read the full version here. Its very well written and a solid read. I guess its pretty somber, but it seems to [...]
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