Robbing Peter (VZW) to pay Paul (T-Mobile)
Or, how I saved enough on my wireless bill to afford buying a new phone each year
I like technology. It's kind of my thing. I do believe human use of computers will be the downfall of mankind but (besides that minor drawback), what computers—especially networked computers—allow us to accomplish as a civilization is actually quite amazing. After the release of …
Posted by Orville Bennett on 25 November 2017
Prevent iTerm2 Profile window from showing up each startup
So this is an annoying one. After finally updating to iTerm2 version 3.0 one of the things that really annoyed me was a Profiles window that showed up each startup. I ignored this for about a year because it would only be an intermittent problem1.
I've been restarting this MacBo…
Posted by Orville Bennett on 26 September 2017
Homebrew Dynamic DNS with the Linode API
Over the years I've set up a variety of private cloud services. In addition to gaining expertise in these services for clients who would rather rely on their own infrastructure, it's also made me less dependent on web company services which could (and have) disappeared at inconve…
Posted by Orville Bennett on 18 September 2017
Troubleshooting Piwik database errors.
Do you know what's not fun? Troubleshooting database errors. Imagine you've set up piwik on a client's server. You have everything installed, configured, and running. You're testing out various features, you know, to make sure they work as advertised before handing off to the cli…
Posted by Orville Bennett on 30 August 2017
Piwik installer has PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size exhausted (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) in core/FrontController.php
For three nights I struggled with trying to figure out why I could not get Piwik's web analytics software to load it's installation page successfully. I was attempting to migrate it from a FreeBSD 10 server to a FreeBSD 11 jail and nothing, nothing I did was working. I kept on ge…
Posted by Orville Bennett on 30 August 2017
Redemption
My family and I go to church together. It's one "our things" I guess. On our most recent vacation we were going to miss being in church so my wife suggested we just do church with all the family at the vacation site. She planned the songs, got the music and words for t…
Posted by Orville Bennett on 28 June 2017