flying monkeys

Been playing Halo lately, if anyone wants to play against me, look for the server named '1337 h4xx0rz'.

Edit: 2014-02-03 Most of these providers are no longer, but I'll keep this table here for reference.

I was in the neighborhood in buying VPS but I wanted something under $10 a month. Anyway, here are some choices for VPS's under $10/month (all in USD). 

So around 11:49 (or so) I woke up, checked 4Box Hosting's email to see if there was any new stuff. Every two hours, a cron job runs so I get a shitload of emails. Anyway, so I finally see an email notifying me that I there is a new support tickets. Great. Wonderful. The last thing I wanted to do was to get my ass out of bed. Finally answered the ticket, well not fully but good enough. One of our best customers ordered another package, which is fine but he/she wanted their old WordPress DB backed up and then restored with us. More fun! 

There, done with my rant.

I created the Rokke Script Store last night, using RazorCMS and some PayPal buttons. Although, I think I'm going to use osCommerce or Zen Cart just to automate things.

WorkSimple 1.3.0 needs to be released, nevermind finished.

Here's a list comprised of the tools and techniques I used to promote this and other sites:

1. Twitter

Millions of people use Twitter, why don't you?

2. Forums

Target your niche of blog or site by joining the appropriate forum and post links in your signature.

3. Directories

Submit your site/blog to a link directory.

4. BlogCatalog
Connect with other bloggers and promote your blog.

5. Comments
Post comments on other peoples blog; chances are they'll post comments on yours.

6. Backlinks
Trade links with other webmasters/bloggers.
7. Dofollow

My blog is quite...boring. Monotone. Uninteresting. You name it. So, the next couple blog posts are gonna be 'helpful' you could say. Tutorials (PHP, GIMP, Linux skills, etc..), news, hacks and so on.

Just got back from a nice tiring bike ride. Only -2C out side, so it wasn't too bad. Anyway, I think I'm gonna go work on my Twitter-clone, or sleep. Sleeping sounds better.
 

I was thinking about getting a new domain, preferably something...unique. I was thinking about getting www.leetness.eu but...meh. easton.gl would be cool to get, but I don't exactly have $129 to shell out. 2500mhz.info will expire in about 40 days and I felt like having something different. Comments are appreciated :)

This past week has been a blur. It's like this week never happened. I've done nothing really, other than promoting ShareItUp, try to get stuff done with WorkSimple and mess around with my servers. I still need to get $7 from somewhere to renew this domain (2500mhz.info).

Seems like one of my NIC's on roppie (yes, horrible name) is only getting 10mbit/s which...sucks. So maybe I'll do something about that. I was thinking of setting up NIC teaming on jlap (another horrible name) for better bandwidth redundancy.

Anyway, I think I'm off to bed soon considering I havn't slept in 24 hours or so.

I added a Digg button module to the site, so incase you find something interesting you can Digg it! I'll also remove the Donate button from the site, makes me look desperate. I'll have to renew this domain or else it expires in 43 days.

I was sorta (meaning, not commited) to working on WorkSimple. Version 1.2.3 should be released soon, a minor release.
 

Yargh, me be loving me jailbroken iPod Touch! The Cydia store is pretty cool, it's going to be PayPal supported (or so I read) soon.

:)

Finally spring break. Now I can finally get caught up to all the [half-ass] work I gotta get done.

My web hoster  needed a status script to show which server was online and offline. I whipped up a little script for them, check it out here: http://www.web-hosting-service.org/status.php

You'd have to use four cronjobs with it (for each server) but it works fantasticly. Every hour (or whatever the time is) it runs the script for each of the servers. It stores that info (whether the server is up or down) in the database and displays it on a page.
 

Comments are appreciated ;)

Sitting on the couch, I came across a Lifehacker article about the 2G being jailbroken. I almost shit my pants, I got up off the couch and did some serious Googling. An hour later, I had mine jailbroken too. Anyways, I'd like to share some links with you guys (who ever is reading this) for those who have a 2G and know nothing about jailbreaking their iPod.

Heres the tool that I used: QuickFreedom
Follow the onscreen instuctions (which are easy as hell) and you're good to go. It should take just under an hour. Where you create your custom firmware, you can choose your own boot image (I tried a custom one, but it wouldn't build the firmware).
Once that is finished, where do you go now? Update Installer and some of the repos.

What about installing 'cracked apps' (which in most cases is illegal) ? Check this link out: http://tinyurl.com/cdql9y
In a nutshell, you update your "MobileInstallation" file, download & install any app from the AppStore and install any app of your choice via iTunes (by supplying the .ipa)

Here are some pics of my homescreen and various other screens: