http://blog.charlies-server.com Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:17:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As a follow-up to my previous post on dropped calls with the iPhone 3G, I'm happy to report that I no longer experience the issue. I haven't had any major problems with dropped calls on my iPhone 3G, including while switching between EDGE and 3G networks, since I got a ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2008/08/22/iphone-3g-dropped-calls-solved Since I got the new iPhone 3G, I've been getting a whole ton of dropped calls. Not just the normal amount that I used to get on the old iPhone's crappy reception, but even more weirdly so, calls would drop immediately without any warning -- no silence on the other ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2008/08/12/dropped-calls-the-new-iphone-and-3g For bandwidth shaping reasons, I wanted to be able to allow access to my FTP disk (mounted at /var/ftp) only via FTP (hosted by ProFTPd). As it turns out, this is quite easy to do using a couple of UNIX permissions tricks and some ProFTPd voodoo. Read on for the ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2008/08/10/allowing-access-to-ftp-disk-only-via-ftp Since I'm now back on Comcast as my backbone to the great intertubes, I'm able to re-enable the FTP server. I'm proud to announce that the FTP server is back and is available for immediate consumption. This should provide an added benefit over SFTP/SCP in that resuming transfers is easier; ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2008/08/08/ftp-server-back When trying to install some software updates deployed using iPatch, I found that the updater(s) would display their license/readme sheet and then exit as soon as the sheet was closed, presenting only for a second the usual 'select application' dialog that we're all used to. It turns out that NuclearMouse ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2008/04/13/ipatch-and-nuclearmouse-incompatible I use VideoDB to keep track of my movie collection. When I'm looking for something to watch out of the collection, often I like to perform a search over the database with some advanced criteria. It's no secret that the current search features built in to VideoDB are simple at ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2008/04/05/smarter-searching-with-videodb Shows/Secondhand_Serenade_Webster_Underground Last weekend Tracey, Lina and I went to see Secondhand Serenade live at The Webster Underground and had a blast. Though I was sick and probably shouldn't have gone in the first place, there was no way I'd miss that show for the world. Tracey and Lina also really enjoyed ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2008/03/18/secondhand-serenade-the-webster-underground Last weekend Lina and I joined the UConn Ballroom Team for the 17th Annual Harvard Invitational ballroom competition. While we did pretty poorly overall, I honestly think that we did better than I had expected. We didn't bother with any pictures or video for this competition, but you can definitely expect ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2008/03/11/harvard-2008-ballroom-competition-recap I've spent a great deal of time over the last few days cleaning up this blog. With too many things to really list exhaustively, I'll fire off some of the major changes: Clean WordPress Installation Updated K2 Theme Various Cosmetic Updates New, Reduced Categories More to come as I continue development and deployment. I look ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2008/03/02/major-blog-cleanup In doing some basic maintenance, upgrades and the like on the blog over the last several hours, I've installed a 'Subscribe to Comments' plug-in that will enable you to do just that. At the bottom of each comment submission form you'll have the option to subscribe to subsequent comments (on ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2008/03/01/new-blog-feature-subscribe-to-comments