Every morning when I arrive to the office I have a ritual; check all my email accounts, then check LifeHacker for any new info.
This LifeHacker post caught my eye - DreamHost offering 2 year domain hosting for $11.00.
I was late by one day, so the promo code only granted me the 2 year deal for $42.00. What the heck. I signed up.
I already have 2 Google Domains. One for work, and one for the family.
They suit what I need very well. Actually, they more than fulfill all my requirements; except the need to GEEK.
I have enough equipment and internet accounts that I could have set up my own server and done it all myself, but that takes time. This was easy - sign up - set up ssh access - good to go.
Now what to do with my DreamHost account. Don't really want to set up a web page. Ok, maybe this was a bad impulse buy. But, I do have unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth to NOT use.
DreamHost bosts 'Single Click' installations for a variety of web applications. I had some time Saturday night, and Sunday during the football games to give it a whirl.
First install: Wordpress - Easy - Just as advertised. See it here.
Next install: Gallery - Easy - Just as advertised. See it here.
Final Install: MediaWiki - Easy - Just as advertised. See it here.
My domain is jedijf.com, and the hardest, and still ongoing process so far, has been trying to get a favicon that I like. It is still a works in progress.
DreamHost ++ So far, so good.
Also, I would like to let you know about Dropbox. Another LifeHacker find; before the DreamHost find. Finally started using this as well this weekend. I like having things 'in the cloud' as I use computers at home, in the office, and on the road (literally). Using Dropbox for some photos for now.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
New Year's Day Treo 650 Sync and Bluetooth File Transfer
Pet peeve. Works; stops working. That's how it is with syncing my Treo 650 cellphone with jpilot.
Actually, had it working with my iBook G4 and Gutsy; maybe Hardy, can't remember because I gave up on Ubuntu PPC and the iBook. I do remember that it involved creating a new udev rules file so that the usb cable would be recognized when plugged in. Info here.
The Sunday after the Ubuntu US PA LoCo Intrepid Release Party I helped get someone else's Palm device syncing before I could get my own to sync. All the while acting like it would be a piece of cake and then being shocked as hell when it worked.
The following week I worked on my own sync. Googled. Read. There was a known bug, and a fix had been released. Use the proposed repos; a patch had been added. It works. I sync my Treo. Fix info here.
New Year's Day, January 1, 2009; it's time to sync again. No go. What the heck. It's 8:30 am, I have plenty of time.
It's now noon. No sync. I remember talk in irc of bluetooth. This laptop doesn't have bluetooth, but I do have a dongle. I think I'll give that a whirl.
Bluetooth is recognized. Kensington dongle. Pairing is straight forward. Now Google and learn.
hcitool - hidd - lsping - rfcomm - all good stuff.
Bluetooth File Sharing. It's a Gnome thing. Supposed to allow right click nautilus file send to devices. The nautilus part doesn't work. But, if you use the bluetooth applet and right click the applet you can send files that way. Very nice. Jpilot is great for calendar and phonebook, but for files it was lacking.
In Xubuntu and with Thunar, right click bluetooth send to WORKS.
Ok. Bluetooth is a success, now to the usb cable, the Treo, and the Jpilot sync.
Open a terminal and issue the command: tail -f /var/log/messages
Open another tab in the terminal now. In the new window type: sudo modprobe visor
Now plug in device. Initiate the sync; nothing will happen until the sync is initialized. Switch to the first tab and hopefully you will see your device getting recognized and a device assigned. Note the second device, that's the one you need.
Open Jpilot and set that second device in File - Preferences - Settings - Serial Port.
Start the sync on your DEVICE, then hit sync in Jpilot. You should hear the sync tones.
Now we want to make this permanent, so sudo /etc/modules and add
visor to the end of the file.
So what started as a bummer, ended up being a bonus. Learned a little about bluetooth and got bluetooth file sharing to and from my phone working.
Next phone project: Bluetooth Sync.
Actually, had it working with my iBook G4 and Gutsy; maybe Hardy, can't remember because I gave up on Ubuntu PPC and the iBook. I do remember that it involved creating a new udev rules file so that the usb cable would be recognized when plugged in. Info here.
The Sunday after the Ubuntu US PA LoCo Intrepid Release Party I helped get someone else's Palm device syncing before I could get my own to sync. All the while acting like it would be a piece of cake and then being shocked as hell when it worked.
The following week I worked on my own sync. Googled. Read. There was a known bug, and a fix had been released. Use the proposed repos; a patch had been added. It works. I sync my Treo. Fix info here.
New Year's Day, January 1, 2009; it's time to sync again. No go. What the heck. It's 8:30 am, I have plenty of time.
It's now noon. No sync. I remember talk in irc of bluetooth. This laptop doesn't have bluetooth, but I do have a dongle. I think I'll give that a whirl.
Bluetooth is recognized. Kensington dongle. Pairing is straight forward. Now Google and learn.
hcitool - hidd - lsping - rfcomm - all good stuff.
Bluetooth File Sharing. It's a Gnome thing. Supposed to allow right click nautilus file send to devices. The nautilus part doesn't work. But, if you use the bluetooth applet and right click the applet you can send files that way. Very nice. Jpilot is great for calendar and phonebook, but for files it was lacking.
In Xubuntu and with Thunar, right click bluetooth send to WORKS.
Ok. Bluetooth is a success, now to the usb cable, the Treo, and the Jpilot sync.
Open a terminal and issue the command: tail -f /var/log/messages
Open another tab in the terminal now. In the new window type: sudo modprobe visor
Now plug in device. Initiate the sync; nothing will happen until the sync is initialized. Switch to the first tab and hopefully you will see your device getting recognized and a device assigned. Note the second device, that's the one you need.
Open Jpilot and set that second device in File - Preferences - Settings - Serial Port.
Start the sync on your DEVICE, then hit sync in Jpilot. You should hear the sync tones.
Now we want to make this permanent, so sudo /etc/modules and add
visor to the end of the file.
So what started as a bummer, ended up being a bonus. Learned a little about bluetooth and got bluetooth file sharing to and from my phone working.
Next phone project: Bluetooth Sync.
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