Posted by TK009 | Saturday 2 January 2010 23:55
I been thinking about adding a picture a day to the site, a 365 project if you will. Reading a post by another blogger today with his own 365 project reminded me I need to get mine started. I am not sure exactly how I want to present them. Do I make a blog post for each one or just add one to the front page side column everyday. I will figure it out later.
Without further delay my 01 and 02 pics.
01 January 2009 – Morning Sky – GHQ
0830 hours, behind the GHQ. I thought the clouds looked neat and took this shot. I only had the BB with me and the quality shows.
02 January 2009 – Hospital
1500 hours, leave the local hospital. Never a fun place, lets hope that is the last I see of it ever!
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Posted by TK009 | Friday 1 January 2010 22:49
Did you ever wonder why the new year starts in the middle of winter?
The GHQ being in a sub-typical climate does not experience a true winter, so I never really gave it much thought. I did read something about it though long ago and found this on wikipeda today.
” The uprisings in Rome’s Hispanic provinces oblige the year’s consuls to take office earlier than the traditional date of 15 March, a change that becomes permanent. Some suggest that, as a consequence, 1 January becomes the first day of the Roman year.”
The new year is a good time to “Refit and Re-organize”, and that is just what I will be doing this month.
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Posted by TK009 | Thursday 10 December 2009 2:03
Abode released a patch yesterday to address security vulnerabilities for the flash player. You can read the security bulletin here . Adobe categorizes these as critical issues and recommends affected users update their installations to the newest versions. All platforms are affected.
If you are a 64 bit Linux user you can download the update from Adobe here. I am a firefox user so upgrading was simply to download the libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz , unpack it move the libflashplayer.so to ~/.mozilla/plugins/ overwrite if necessary and restart firefox if running. Update complete.
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Posted by TK009 | Saturday 5 December 2009 1:06
After procrastinating for a couples months now I have gone ahead with my plan to move the site. Actually, I moved all my sites from a dedicated server to shared hosting. It wasn’t a quality of service issue that forced the change, xlhost.com is an excellent dedicated provider and I’d use them again.
The main reason for the change is fiscal, 80% to 90% reduction in costs for my on-line presence. The big trade off’s are control, resources, and bandwidth, however there are some benefits. No responsibility for the servers administration is a big one.
I’ve been a consumer of dedicated server services since 2003 and was with xlhost 2 1/2 years, moving away from a dedicated wasn’t easy. xlhost has good hardware and a fast network. Never once did my server go down and 11-12mb was common. The same could not be said of my previous dedicated provider. The price was also excellent.
Shared hosting! Limited control and resources the order of the day, but you can’t beat the price. The fact is a dedicated server was (almost) always overkill for my needs. Horsepower and bandwidth I never fully utilized or had the a real need for. This new home should be a better fit for my needs and although I’ve never been a fan of server GUI tools it does make configuration and administration quick and easy.
I originally planned to make the move on the 20th but keep dragging until I finally started the process on the 30th (the last minute ). Overall the transition went smoother than I expected it would. I had everything configured with DB and site files uploaded in about 30 -45 minutes. The DNS started to work within an hour and had propagated completely after 24 hours.
It’s been 5 days now and so far so good. It is to early to speak regarding the quality of service, time will tell with that. One of the things I like is the “control panel”, it’s nice, doesn’t lack for features and is easy to use. Here’s to hoping I don’t move again unless it’s back to a dedicated server 
.
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Posted by TK009 | Thursday 12 November 2009 2:31
Salute the to brothers and sisters that have served and are now serving.
Courage and Faith!
Tags: rememberance, veterans day
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