July 25, 2008

Renaissance

July 25, 2008 – 5:09 pm
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Return of the monthly desktop screenshots. I have been asked to continue my monthly desktop postings awhile ago, but have neglected to get anything up. So here is my return.

OS: Mac OS X 10.5.4 / Wallpaper: Renaissance Apple by Stratification / Menu Bar Items: ScrobblePod, MainMenu, Time Machine, Clock, Spotlight / Docked Applications: Finder, Dashboard, Mail, Safari, Pukka, Yummy FTP, SubEthaEdit, MarsEdit, Twitterrific, iChat, Colloquy, iTunes, Chocoflop, iPhoto, Wallet, iCal, VoodooPad, Trash / Dashboard Widgets: iStat Pro, h4xr.org, Calendar, MacAdsensePlus, Weather, Delivery Status, Stickies

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Fan Run IRC Channel Still Alive

July 25, 2008 – 10:04 am
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Just thought I would let everyone know that the Punk Labs IRC channel is still alive. It is run by a few Punk Labs fans (barlas, The TAHK, and MasterStillie). You can connect using the server irc.blitzed.org on port 6667 and join #punklabs.

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July 24, 2008

When the Fail Whale Calls I Answer with Twiddict

July 24, 2008 – 6:59 am
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I have become completely addicted to Twitter in the last few months. I use it to keep family and close friends up-to-date on what’s going on in my very current life (even if that does consists of which NES games I am currently playing). And with Twitter having issues as of late I have come to find a new best friend in a client during Fail Whale attacks.

Twiddict is an awesome webclient for Twitter that saves your tweets in a queue in the event your most favorite desktop client (or the Twitter web page) can’t seem to post. I currently have Twiddict up in my Bookmarks Bar where all my important everyday accessed links are. I highly suggest adding this to your arsenal of links.

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July 20, 2008

Migration to the New Server is Complete

July 20, 2008 – 2:28 pm
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Over the past week we have been migrating each of our sites to a new server. I know the last post I mentioned the hardware and that RocketDock.com was already on its way through the mystical journey of DNS transfer. Last night we finished up migrating the few sites we had strangling. Atomac was one of them.

Quick notice to those who we are hosting email for, everything should be exactly the same except for how you access webmail. Instead of accessing the subdomain webmail, you simply add webmail as a directory.

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July 15, 2008

New Server and Migrations Already Under Way

July 15, 2008 – 1:11 am
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I haven’t had much time to talk about it, but yes we here at Punk Labs have been busy. Due to some unforgivable downtime, yet happily received growth on RocketDock.com, we purchased a new server to take on the responsibilities of hosting RocketDock and hopefully all our other sites.

Not counting the new server we have two servers with RocketDock.com being on its own. Although RocketDock is pretty popular it is ridiculous that the server it is currently on cannot support it with out going down once a day. So we took funds thanks to all our very loyal fans who have donated and bought a new setup. I won’t go into too many details regarding the old server, but the new guy is:

Running CentOS Enterprise
CPU : Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4 x 2.4GHZ 8MB Cache 1066)
RAM : 4GB ECC DDR2
Hard Drive : 250GB 7.2k RPM SATAII 16MB Cache
Control Panel : cPanel / WHM
Public Port Speed : 100 Mbs Public
Private Port Speed : 100 Mbs Private
Public Bandwidth : 2000GB Premium Transfer

RocketDock.com has already made the migration over to the new server and the DNS update should (if not already) be propagated. Once we get some good statistics on how the new server is running with just RocketDock.com we will start migrating over all our other sites if the server appears to be able to handle it (and with these specs it should).

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