While data backups at AppCove are taken very seriously, my personal computer at home has, well, been put off for a bit too long…
A recent bite by the Vundo virus lit a fire under me to better be able to recover from a catastrophic loss of a personal computer. I did some research on online [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Backup Solution for Home
Posted in Life, Reviews, Service Providers, tagged Backups, SugarSync, Virus on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Crayon Physics Deluxe is out!
Posted in Fun, tagged Crayon Physics, Games on January 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This has to be one of the coolest games to arive since Wolfenstein 3D first came out. If you were around for that, remember how revolutionary that was?
Crayon Physics Deluxe is is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be [...]
Basics of telnet and HTTP
Posted in Engineering, Technique, tagged Apache, HTTP, Python, telnet on January 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Say you want to request a webpage… Normally, one would use a web browser, right? But sometimes you just need to see what is really going on… In this blog post I will show the basics of using the telnet command to work with the HTTP protocol.
For reference: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html
Most of these commands were run on [...]
File Extensions and Apache, a win-win solution
Posted in Engineering, Technique, tagged Apache, mod_rewrite on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the problem… Either the developer loses, or the end user loses. What possibly could I be talking about? Allow me to explain…
Long ago, websites were authored using .html files. Developers would hand code them to make sites which served their purposes quite nicely. But as time went on, more was demanded of the [...]
Fedora or RedHat Enterprise Linux in a production environment?
Posted in AppCove, Linux, reSearch on January 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
[UPDATE AT http://blog.gahooa.com/2009/02/08/update-on-fedora-vs-redhat-enterprise-linux/]
At AppCove, we run RedHat Enterprise Linux on all of our servers. RHEL is great, because:
It works
It still works
Automatic security updates
Did I mention, it just works?
RedHat, as far as I know, takes a very serious perspective on patching all of their RPM’s and automatically pushing them out via the update agent (up2date). They [...]
Dolly Sods
Posted in Life, Nature on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The (current) header to this blog is a picture that I took with my wife when visiting a very secluded area in West Virginia. We were staying in a cabin at Harman’s North Fork Cottages which was right on the headwaters of the Potomac. As we were taking a drive one day, I noticed a [...]
New Blog Started
Posted in AppCove, Life, Perspective on January 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hi, my name is Jason Garber.
(Not to be confused with the other Jason Garber in MD, or the other one in DC, I am the one from PA.)
Being born and raised by good parents in central Pennsylvania has given me a great appericiation for life, family, and nature. I currently live in Altoona with [...]
