Recent content by scott2020

Probably not.  It just looked like a good tool to make it a little easier and see a snapshot of what is going on.  I came across it on OpenVZ's site and it says it is consistently updated, but then I noticed it looks to be around 2 years old.  That's why I was concerned about the security of it.

Hi all, Just for fun I took my old PC and loaded CentOS 6 on it, along with Openvz.  I downloaded a few of the preconfigured machine templates and have a few VM's running on it.  I don't plan on getting into the VPS market or anything like that, but just like to play around.  I have a single...

BuyVM = 2 Crissic = 2 Anynode = 1

What do you do for spam filtering?

I have a older Honeywell TE 923 setup.  The accuracy of the wind sensor is questionable, but OK.  Temperature and rain seem to be OK.  They don't make them anymore and they sell under many brands.  I have it connected to a Sheevaplug small box which runs Debian and the great WView software...

I have had good luck with a combo of Plex and PlayOn with my Roku's.  PlayOn does good on transcoding but it does take a decent machine to do so.  It has a lot of cool plugins too. I have a cable modem to  Asus WiFi router and a 16 port gigabit switch.  I also connected in a few DECA adapters...

This story would have lasted 2 seconds in the mainstream news if Tony Stewart wasn't involved.  I feel bad for the dudes family, but it was dumb to try and be Billy bad ass walking out on the track like that.  unfortunately it is something the young kid learned from watching his "heros" do it in...

I use Zoho on two of my domains and it works well.  Spam filtering, Activesync support, IMAP/POP3, etc, plenty of other features.  5 free users with 5 gig mailbox size each. Polarismail is also pretty good, although their spam filtering left a lot to be desired. Rollernet.us has several email...

A local place here has a great Apple Pie Moonshine.  Mix that with a bit of cream soda and it's great if you like sweet stuff!  Otherwise Captain & Coke, or single malt scotch like Macallan 12 a the youngest! 

This.  And, not knowing it is a datacenter..  :)

I guess they are cracking down on 3rd party apps who are "unauthorized". http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/10/31/google-shut-unauthorized-google-voice-apps-may-2014/#!rl09q I wonder if my Obihai box will no longer work?  Doesn't look like it.  Oh well, back on topic.

Crissic has been great.  Very fast response to support requests and very reliable VPS.  Shared hosting experienced some growing pains but that has been resolved for over a month and very solid. Anynode has also been very quick to respond to requests and VPS there has been very solid, fast, and...

On call starting Friday night, but enjoying food, family, and watching my Detroit Lions kick the crap out of the packers!

Like others have said, hosting your own mail server is a pain. If you want to just forward, pobox would work well. For 1 user it is I think 35 dollars a year with outbound services included, for multiple domains and has spam filtering. A decent hosted service for $12 a year is polarismail...

Spam filtering is pretty tough.  Things like spamassassin and realtime black lists and all of that works OK, but I was spending a lot of time tweaking things and it became frustrating. For $3 per year per user, I ended up using Postlayer and it has been working well.  I have Postlayer send good...