Category Archives: Ranting

Cheap Security Certificates from Dreamhost

Posted on May 28, 2009 by jjmelo2012

I’m a sucker for funny and informative newsletter and blog posts, and the latest blog post from Josh Jones, head of Dreamhost (great hosting – read more here) is both of these characteristics and it introduces a new product (or just a deeply discounted one) – $15 SSL certificates. After a long rant about how flawed internet security is (and our reliance on them SSL certs) he makes the announcement that Dreamhost will now offer 100% trusted and signed SSL …

Why aren't we seeing hybrid hard drives?

Posted on February 27, 2009 by jjmelo2012

I’ve been seriously considering replacing my MacBook’s regular spinning hard drive with a fancy new SSD drive, then sticking an external case to the old 320 GB hard drive and using it as external storage. I can get away with just 32 GB on the SSD drive, more than enough for the OS and all my apps, and I would put all the other space-taking media on the spinning drive. Not a bad idea, seeing as I travel a lot …

What I want for my IPhone

Posted on February 1, 2009 by jjmelo2012

1. Push notifications I want this just because of instant messaging. I use AIM, MSN and Yahoo Messenger, and even though Palringo does a good job, it isn’t enough. I’ve been looking at BeeJiveIM but I’m hesitant to spend $16 on an app with functionality that should be built into the IPhone. 2. Slingplayer Sling announced many months ago that they were developing a Slingplayer for the IPhone but they haven’t delivered yet. C’mon Sling, it can’t be that hard! …

Iphone blogging

Posted on August 3, 2008 by jjmelo2012

So I’m watching the new Mummy movie (as I type) but I’m so bored that I decided to try out the WordPress app on my iPhone. This has to be the cheesiest movie I’ve seen in a very long time. All the cliches and corny lines you can imagine.

Why I traded my Pantech Duo for 3G iPhone

Posted on July 24, 2008 by jjmelo2012

    This post is in response to an older one I wrote back in January titled “Why I won’t trade my $99 Pantech Duo for an iPhone”. Well, I’ve done it, I bought an iPhone, although I haven’t received it, I reserved on at an at&t store, and I should have it in about a week. I refuse to stand in line for hours at an Apple store. I will address the reasons why I didn’t want one:

AVOID AVG 8.0 AT ALL COSTS!

Posted on February 29, 2008 by jjmelo2012

I hate to use caps in a title, but this time I’m forced to. Whatever you do, avoid AVG 8.0 which was released yesterday (2/28/08) . For that matter, avoid AVG altogether. I installed AVG Antivirus Network Edition on all the workstations at a clients’ and everything started to crash. EVERYTHING! Servers and workstations. I can only blame myself for installing a brand new version without testing (bad, bad mistake). I’ve used AVG extensively in the past, and I’ve never …