Last weekend I took the time to enable my phone’s WiFi and download Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. It has been a few months, but these days I rarely turn on WiFi on my device. After a reboot, large download, and another reboot my phone initially looked like an HTC One. This experience was unfortunate but […]
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Proxy external images
One of the potential factors to a website’s relevance is the number of images that display on your site, that are actually hosted elsewhere. This doesn’t happen often on normal sites, but can be factor on blogs or forums where users insert external links to images hosted on other sites. A common example would be […]
How to Remove iTunes and all things Apple
While I was out, an Apple iTunes update failed to work properly and created interesting errors at boot. They weren’t critical, but I couldn’t fix the issue simply but just re-running Apple Software Update. It was a bear to get Apple’s software to uninstall. If you’re an older iTunes user, it is likely that you’re […]
Trying out Nginx
One could say that I’m out of the trial period for Ghost, due to having written more personal blog posts than on previous platforms. So I moved my blog out of the AWS EC2 infrastructure and relocated to a data center in San Francisco. I must have created/terminated at least six instances on EC2 to […]
Malware for the Holidays
Nothing quite like setting up your child’s first computer. I opted for Windows 8.1 primarily because of how my child responds to it. Microsoft knows what it is doing by leaving us old folks behind. We were tag-teaming the addons and software programs, and our inexperience with free mods for games and learning software exposed […]