December 2006 - Stay N Alive

How to increase your internet speed

I’ve recently been battling Comcast. They tell me I’m paying for 6 Mb/s downstream speeds, when Broadband Reports tells me I only have 2-3Mb/s. I would call their tech support, they would run me through the whole “disconnect everything from your modem (has that ever worked for them?), wait 30 seconds, and reconnect the modem […]

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Open Web Hosting?

Okay, so I can’t make up my mind on hosting lately. Unless you get a fully dedicated solution that’s practically hosted on your own server, there’s really not a ton of options out there that satisfy all my needs. Either they have too few options in one area, but lots in another, or they offer […]

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LDSCIO.org

As some of you may know, I founded a little group called LDSOSS.org. It’s basically a group of LDS developers, all supporters of Open Source Software, on a single mailing list to discuss using Open Source to build the Kingdom of God. There are quite a number of developers working for the LDS church on […]

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Server Issues

I recently switched to Media Temple for my hosting – I got tired of worrying about uptime, etc. on my own server. I tried WestHost, here in Utah, for a couple days, but they just didn’t have enough flexibility, in particular for Ruby on Rails support. Media Temple even has a page for how to […]

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Living in the Vista

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m starting a new section called reviews. I figure as a tribute to James Kim, who was known for his CNET reviews, this was a better time than any to start. We’ll see how much time I have to maintain this and how long my posts are, but I figure […]

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