Out of Control®

If you have followed my story over the past few months, you will know that I got out of hosting. This has been an excellent move over all as it frees up a lot of my time to do what I like best, develope websites and tinker. As I have a fair number of sites [...]

Short post tonight. Really tired after fighting a long cold and stressful weak. However, I just wanted to say: Don't do it, Don't even fix it right. Don't pay the Dreamhost man! (ala Chris de Burgh's Ferry man). I wanted to try a few different hosting companies. Dreamhost looked interesting as it offered SVN repositories, [...]

Here is a quick little how-to on merging separate Subversion (SVN) repositories into one, while keeping the history in tact. Note that the checkin ID's will change, but you do have a little control over how Subversion will show the change logs. For this tutorial, we want to merge: old1, old2, old3 and old4 into [...]

If you haven't yet downloaded Google Earth 4.2, then now is the time. I won't tell you what it does, but trust me on this one. Download Google Earth 4.2, launch it, and then on the Mac press Command-Option-A, wait a second and then, Voila! Complete instructions on how to use this cool new feature [...]

Last time I looked at the way things usually went in the tech industry, internet included, companies would offer more services for a lower price over time. You can imagine my surprise when Videotron cable (Quebec) sent a letter informing me that starting October 1st 2007, I will have less services unless I wish to [...]

Do you ever really get the advertised bandwidth from your ISP? Read on to see how far off Videotron's advertised bandwidth was compared to what I actually got. Three weeks ago, my ISP Videotron called one day as a courtesy call, to see if everything was okay. I told him over all yes, I am [...]