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Re: geeks talk

jangro — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:59:19 -0000

Good stuff guys. Worth the price of admission to learn that OpenOffice.org 3 is in Beta.

Re: Deep Linking: It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult

jangro — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:28:41 -0000

What do you mean by "clean affiliate links"?

Re: Toddler Chinpose

jangro — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:29:34 -0000

remove

Re: Jangro’s Gone Green (For Real)

jangro — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:56:00 -0000

We work in miles and gallons here, so it's hard to compare without thinking too hard. :)

I was getting about 23 mpg on the bmw.

Re: Affiliate Marketing Annoyances: CJ’s Reports

jangro — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:03:09 -0000

No, those aren't stats for jangro.com.
Thankfully, I don't rely on this site to put food on the table!

Re: How To Replace the Color Wheel in Your Samsung DLP Television and Save $400

jangro — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:29:16 -0000

It sounds like there is a problem with the color wheel based on the sound,
but my color wheel got really bad and still didn't cause the TV to shut
down.
I suppose if it is really locked up and won't spin much at all, it could
cause the blinking lights. Sorry I cannot be more certain.

Re: Toddler Chinpose

jangro — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:35:11 -0000

yeah, isn't that wrist angle great?

Those are mosquito bites actually. The poor kid's a mosquito magnet. the bad kind!

Re: Toddler Chinpose

jangro — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:34:00 -0000

yes, I guess I am, Steve.

Re: Toddler Chinpose

jangro — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:21:41 -0000

you're not kidding, especially since I never throw away t-shirts. I've still got threadbare software company giveaway shirts from the COMDEX heyday in the early 90's.

Re: Deep Linking: It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult

jangro — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:22:10 -0000

Sometimes things are easier than we make them out to be.

The trick, of course, is to figure that out before making an entire
lookup table to do what already exists. ;)

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Scott Jangro

Re: Coda 1.5 is Available. Wish I Could Use It.

jangro — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:19:24 -0000

Thanks Aaron. I'll give that a shot.

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Scott Jangro

Re: Deep Linking: It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult

jangro — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:28:53 -0000

Hey Ras, yeah, I've been building the same, and this came out of my effort to get template lists for the many merchants we work with.

Unfortunately, it's still a major effort to figure out an a merchant-by-merchant basis which supports deep linking.

Re: Deep Linking: It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult

jangro — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:18:41 -0000

Ah, you're on to me! can't get anything by you Pat.

Good point about using others' tools. That's why I built this for myself years ago. I'd be happy to post the code. I just did a quick job of it right in the tool for you.

Or view it here http://www.jangro.com/tools/urlencode.php.txt

thanks.

Re: Geek Birth 2008 and Social Media

jangro — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:44:49 -0000

mmm, first sentence.

It's Jason.

Re: Coda 1.5 is Available. Wish I Could Use It.

jangro — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:14:39 -0000

Yeah, this was quite a let down.

Thanks for the twitter-plea, Sam!

Re: Trying out Virtual Private Servers

jangro — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:53:53 -0000

Thanks Matt. I'm impressed that you guys keep an eye on stuff like this and post a quick reply.

Is that you on twitter as well? http://twitter.com/slicehost

I'm glad to see you guys (you and linode both) get that this matters. Well done.

Re: Trying out Virtual Private Servers

jangro — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:51:10 -0000

Thanks AltJ.

we'll be investigating S3 for image serving soon. That's the first step. Then yeah, as we get to the point where we're running on clean, required-software-only server configurations, we'll be investigating EC2 as well.

Re: Trying out Virtual Private Servers

jangro — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:49:21 -0000

Looks Good, Pat, thanks for sharing what you use.

Their specs do look good. I'm really looking forward to being able to get away from a server with CPanel or Plesk. As I mentioned, they are getting more an more in the way. For example, fairly recently CPanel took complete control over the apache configuration file. If you rebuild apache, it overwrites the httpd.conf virtual server settings based on the domains you have configured in Cpanel accounts.

I like getting in there and adding vhosts and server aliases by hand. After having some of my hand-edits disappear on me, I've been a bit snake-bit.

Re: Trying out Virtual Private Servers

jangro — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:32:09 -0000

Excellent. Thanks tom!

Re: Trying out Virtual Private Servers

jangro — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:04:56 -0000

Expense is definitely a concern with these services. I don't think they're great for the blogger or hobbyist who doesn't have a revenue stream on their website or business.

But, on the other hand, when you're making money with your website, the last thing you want is for it to go down because of success! That's why I don't get cheap with hosting.

Good point on the contention. We'll see how they do there.

Re: Trying out Virtual Private Servers

jangro — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:02:42 -0000

Michael, thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't come across gogrid yet. Here's what I gathered in my 5 minute look.

Instead of starting from a bare system, gogrid has a set of basic configurations with a few different operating sytems. At first this looked discouraging as I've rarely met an apache/php configuration that I didn't have to rebuild in a CPanel environment. But, they do provide full root access, so it seems that you can customize to your heart's content with the exception of the Kernel (which is fine, even good if they keep up with security patches themselves).

The server deployment and even built-in and free load balancing look very nice.

The wild card is the pricing. They price by RAM/hour so it can be difficult to envision what the cost will be. They do have pre-paid plans that are very competitive with the other services that I reviewed, so I'm sure it works out.

Re: My Big Fat Affiliate Paycheck

jangro — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:19:07 -0000

Approve

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Scott Jangro

Re: Geek Birth 2008 and Social Media

jangro — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:02:13 -0000

bathroom floor, that's right!

My god man, I'm thinking the stress levels were a little different between our kids' births.

Had the stress gone up any, I'm sure my iphone would have disappeared MUCH sooner than it did. If not into my pocket, then through the window.

thanks Ras.

Re: Geek Birth 2008 and Social Media

jangro — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:38:05 -0000

Thank you Pat. I do indeed feel very rich these days.

Re: Geek Birth 2008 and Social Media

jangro — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:30:46 -0000

thanks for the thoughtful reply Joe. It means a lot.

I've been through the same trepidations about going so public with not only me with my silly t-shirt pics, magazine interviews, and otherwise opening up about my business, but especially pictures and videos about my family. I finally got over the concerns and felt that the new level closeness that we can achieve with people from all over the world far outweighs them. I really do feel that opening up and being real with both personal and business stuff has been a really good thing for me.

Your reply here exemplifies that as much as anything else.

Even though you and I haven't met, I liked you from the start thanks to the Red Sox hat and your friendly online persona. I do hope to meet in person someday.

As for "brand involvement" there was just one failed attempt. I forget who it was, but if I remember correctly someone wished me a happy birthday triggered from some post about Jason. I'm sure more of that will come soon.

Congrats again on your own new baby!