Dmitry Dovidenko’s Blog

Microsoft’s Bing is garbage and annoys me to no end…

December 17, 2009 – 8:22 am
Besides being a crappy search engine which I can't find a reason to use, bing has been annoying the living shit out of me. I normally loathe using IE, but am forced to use it to test web designs and to visit a few sites written by idiots that can't make a site that works. Bing has taken over as my default search engine in IE on Windows 7. I set it to Google, but it goes back to Bing whenever I restart IE. If you're working on a fresh install of Windows Server 2003 and using IE6 you will find visiting Microsoft's windows update site rather challenging.

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It’s snowing today in Houston!

December 5, 2009 – 3:41 am
Houston normally sees snow about once every four years. The last 3 we have seen snow or at least ice storms! This year the snow was actually starting to stick. So much for global warming. Pictures included!

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Dedicated Server Holiday Special!

November 15, 2009 – 3:24 pm
AcroNOC Inc. - Premium Dedicated Specials :: FREE & FAST Setup! Holiday Blowout! Premium performance you NEED at a value price! You get a 100Mbit/s burstable port with a 10Mbit/s dedicated bandwidth commitment. The bandwidth is measured at 95th percentile utilization. We also offer these plans as unmetered bandwidth for the same price. Just let sales@acronoc.com know when you order!

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Cheap Dedicated Server Deals & Coupons

June 3, 2009 – 4:13 pm
Last week I decided to creat and post some sweet deals and coupons for dedicated servers from my company AcroNOC on WHT (Web Hosting Talk), but I forgot to post them here. If you're looking for an amazing deal on an entry level business server or a high performance solution we have great deals and coupons.

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Secure /tmp, /var/tmp, /dev/shm

May 7, 2009 – 6:20 pm
By default CentOS and RHEL are not very secure when it comes to temporary directories. This is a big problem because an exploitable PHP script can be used to launch many nasty processes such as an FTP brute force scanner. If you have many clients its inevitable that some of them will have such exploitable scripts at some point. This also means that you will have to deal with the abuse complaints resulting from such exploits which will cost you time that you and your staff could spend on marketing or helping customers. You should use this guide to secure all new RHEL/CentOS installs. I may release a full security script at some point when it's further tested.

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Little Bear Custom Holsters

May 3, 2009 – 9:13 am
Review of "Little Bear Custom Holsters": As all gun owners should know, a good holster is extremely important. For open carry holsters are less problematic, but for concealed carry any old holster wont do! You MUST have a quality holster if you want to be comfortable and still reach your gun in an emergency. A quality inside waistband holster should be moulded to your exact gun, fit you well, stay attatched to your belt when you draw and help "print" (expose the fact that you carry) less.  Looking great doesent hurt either! For all of this I recommend Little Bear Custom Holsters of Jacksonville, Florida.

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1TB Seagate Drive Failure

March 3, 2009 – 5:07 am
I've been a HUGE advocate of Seagate through the years (especially years that WD SUCKED!) After today I think I may use more Western Digital. I bought a new Seagate brand 1TB (1000GB) drive in December of '08 for my personal desktop. I was impressed with the performance of the drive and everything seemed fine until tonight. The day started with a mildly amusing trip to Fry's Electronics and a mostly uneventful installation of a new video card, EVGA GeForce 260 C216 Superclocked. After the system rebooted I noticed my "storage002" drive , the 1TB Seagate ST31000340AS in question, was showing only a 32MB RAW partition in Vista Ultimate.

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GOP is FAIL @ Internets

February 22, 2009 – 11:22 pm
This Thursday Republicans proved they can be "fail at the internets" just like the Democrats. They introduced two bills which would require anyone operating a Wi-Fi router to retain a two year access log. This legislature would allow a subpoena to recover a two year log of users. Known as the "Internet Safety Act" the two bills S.436 and H.R.1076 are titled "Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act" in true GOP fashion. No senator or representative would want to be up for re-election after voting no on stopping the "exploitation of youth".

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2009 Houston Auto Show

January 26, 2009 – 6:16 pm
I got to visit the 2009 Houston Auto Show at the Reliant Center and it was very fun. We should have come earlier because there was so much to see. Three hours was not enough time to check everything out, but I got to look at and sit in a lot of fun and new cars. Check out the full post to see some of my favorite photos or view the gallery to see them all.

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Barack Obama Jerseys?

January 5, 2009 – 7:55 pm
So apparently now that the new president is black he gets a basketball jersey?

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