Category Archives: IT

eBooks + DRM = Fail

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Richard Nichols

Yesterday I made the mistake of buying 2 e-books from a site called “PeachPit”. I chose the eBooks because in the past, having an electronic PDF that I can read on my desktop, Linux netbook and iPod Touch is way … Continue reading →

Posted in General, IT | Tagged drm, ebook, pdf | 1 Comment

The Results Are In…

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Richard Nichols

And as it turns out, Linode is far, far faster as well as being more consistent for the hosting of this site. Take a look at the graphs, the first was captured from this site in the last couple of … Continue reading →

Posted in IT | Tagged performance, servers, tips | 1 Comment

Move to Linode Complete!

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Richard Nichols

The blog is now happily running on my linode instance! I had previously been hosting the blog on Dreamhost, and had been pretty happy with the service. Recently though, I signed up for a free Pingdom account. Pingdom is a … Continue reading →

Posted in IT | Tagged IT, performance, servers | Leave a comment