The pace my life has taken, even after tax season has pretty much ended, is enough to bring Chuck Norris to his knees. I keed. However, I’m managing to stay busy. Check this out: During last year’s ice storm, Nathan and I started a little Twitter account we called TriStateAlerts. We mainly just used it [...]
I have spent several hours bringing back all my old projects, like the SAME encoder and MySpaceDP. It was tough getting the SAME encoder working since I don’t have SoX or lame at my disposal on this server. I guess that’s the price you pay for shared hosting. I found a PHP script that splices [...]
It’s been so long since I blogged last. This will be interesting. A lot of things around me are falling apart. Common Technologies is all but gone and I’m the one tasked with making sure the hosting customers get somewhere they’re taken care of. This somewhere will probably be DreamHost for most of them. Others [...]
Configuring and compiling a kernel under Linux is one of the rites of passage of geekdom. This will mark go number 3 for me, but only because I messed up last time. You see, for the past few weeks my DNS server has been bombarded for root nameserver queries in an apparent DDoS attack on [...]
I run this game right now. I’ll admit, it doesn’t have a large player base as of yet. At the most, we have 20 people playing and maybe four teams. If you are even remotely interested in text-based games, give this game a try. WorldWars is an extremely old game, though the format has changed [...]
I finally became fed up with Apache responding with just the 200 OK header and nothing else when browsing my web sites. Earlier, I built and configured Apache 2.2.9, PHP 5.2.6, and suPHP 0.6.3 from source on this server, and after several hours of tweaking, configuring, and recompiling, I think I have things just about [...]
Ever since I put DrewBurden.com online last year, it’s been hosted on a server about 2000 miles away in Irvine, California. That server has served (hah, served) us well, and thanks to new developments at work, we’re soon getting a few servers colo’d right here in Owensboro. Since I personally do not make the money [...]
I love this. He wrote this up for The Independent Geek. We’re totally going to record this. M-m-mouse is outta wack I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T Geek, fix it fo’ me man I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T Geek, fix it fo’ me Come to yo’ house They wire up ya car Tune up jobs, replace yo’ motherboard If you ain’t got no sound, [...]
 On a whim, I checked the January and February 2008 stats for apps.drewburden.com last night. I look at the January daily graph and saw this explosion of traffic hitting my tool called MySpaceDP. For three days straight I was pushing almost 2 gigs a day. This, of course, was on a site that normally pushed [...]
I’m sure some of you have heard of the hype behind Twitter, the microblogging service that asks “What are you doing?” and requires an answer in 140 characters or less. A lot of people use it, and I have a small herd of followers myself, including names like Brad “Sucks” Turcotte, Chris Doelle, Frank Gilroy, [...]
