Matt: I wonder if SPAM is good, I have never had it before (while holding up a can of SPAM).
Me: Ya, haven’t you ever fried SPAM before?
Matt: Only at the gateway level.
Oh the joys of working for an email company.
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Today I was thinking, and I realized something odd. My development computer is Windows. My personal computer is Ubuntu. Weird huh?
I am doing some home wiring at my parents house and Googled around for some info on wiring phone jacks. I came across this page, which strangely reminded me of my first website on Geocities 13 years ago.
It was a website on Duke Nukem, and made heavy use of frames, animated gifs, and some sweet back ground music. I also had a badass page hit counter.
Man I wish I could find that site. I think they deleted it.
I have been meaning to buy an external hard-drive to backup a lot of my data. Well, today I decided to try out Amazon S3 as my storage medium instead of an external hard-drive.
JungleDisk has proven a great program to transfer files to S3. In addition to working on Windows, Linux, and Mac, it allow the mounting of S3 buckets as hard-drives. Very good program to work with. Right now, I am backing up my Linux desktop and my Windows laptop.
Whether or not I stick with it, I don’t know. Right now, I have around 40GB of data to backup, which is $6 a month on S3 and $4 for initial upload. I am guessing, I will probably have to spend close to $10 a month for this service. Considering 500GB external hard-drives run about $100 right now, it doesn’t seem extremely cost effective. Then again, I am also paying for data redundancy and recoverability, right? Something tells me, this service will get me to organize my files better and delete files I don’t care about. Either way, I can afford to try it out for a few months, which is something you can’t really say about a hard-drive.
Lastly, here is a good guide on using rsync with S3.
Today I encountered a very weird issue with IIS 6.0. I added an ISO file to a website, and every time I tried to download it, a 404 error was thrown. After some googling, I found that the problem was because the ISO extension has no MIME type in IIS 6.0. Why IIS throws a 404 (Not Found), I don’t know…