Some notes on getting MultiUserJingle / Mingle working
I’ve been very excited about video conferencing on Linux for the past few days. Currently the gold standard is, in my opinion, the Jingle protocol, which runs over XMPP (aka Jabber). This is the technology that the video conferencing on the Nokia N800 and N810 Internet Tablets is based on. Jingle is a point-to-point protocol, [...]
NetIdentity aren’t smart
Up until recently, I was a customer of NetIdentity for my old email address (ted@carnahan.com). I left their service, because for $60 a year I was getting a 1G email inbox and really lousy webhosting. Contrast that with Dreamhost, which offers 20G of storage, unlimited domains, IMAP access, and a bunch of other features for [...]
Miscellany Abounds
Now hear this: I got news from Wartburg Theological Seminary that, provided that my last recommendation form and a stray college transcript get turned in soon, I will get my provisional acceptance to the seminary. I also found out that I will have to take Summer Greek, so I can expect to start the third [...]
Migrating from Dreamhost email to Google Apps
After moving my church to Google Apps, I have decided that I like the GMail interface so much that I want to use it for my own personal email address. I want to move my copious existing email archives to Google, and that’s where the complications kick in: First, my mail archives are in a [...]
A new unit of measurement: the “DreamHost”
After experiencing load averages over 50 on two DreamHost servers, gummi and hyperion, I would like to define a new unit of measurement: the “DreamHost.” One DreamHost is defined as a server running with a one-minute load average of 8. Hence, my server has been running at between 6 and 7 DreamHosts today. But I’m [...]