Category Archives: Geek Stuff

Announcing: iTED

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Garrett

Earlier this week, I finally released my iTED application for Android OS devices. The iOS (iPhone, iPad, etc) version is still waiting for review with Apple’s app store. You can see more at www.ited.mobi. From the iTED web site: iTED … Continue reading →

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Announcing: TED_PHP

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Garrett

Another set of PHP scripts written for myself that others may be able to take advantage of. From the README introduction: This is a PHP class to hopefully make writing PHP applications to consume “The Energy Detective” (TED) API a … Continue reading →

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Announcing: Tarsnap Monitor

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Garrett

It’s really nothing too special other than it’s handy (for me at least), and my first public project on GitHub. However, if you use Tarsnap and love to use stats and/or are excruciatingly paranoid about running out of money on … Continue reading →

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Running Bootcamp using VirtualBox

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Garrett

Just wanted to put all this out there so that hopefully other people can find it. I’ll need this again as a reference for when I set up my wife’s laptop as well! Please note that anything documented here is … Continue reading →

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Monitor Servers Behind a Firewall Using Reverse SSH Tunnels (and Cacti)

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Garrett

Wow. What a subject line! It’s a little technical magic, but fairly easy to do. I won’t cover installing Cacti or the SNMP daemon. There are plenty of guides for those. However, guides for creating and using the reverse SSH … Continue reading →

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Kevin Smith and I are pretty much best friends now

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Garrett

…he just doesn’t know it. But, hey, he responded to a Twitter post by one of the @PredFans participants! Oh, and if you didn’t know, he’s a HUGE New Jersey Devils fan and a pretty active Twitter user. For those … Continue reading →

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Vista Activation Got You Down? Bypass it! (Sort of)

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Garrett

Let’s just start from the beginning (aka “the excuse”). I had to install Windows XP or Vista on my MacBook Pro for the data architect class I’ve been taking. Since this is work-related, I snagged work’s copy of Vista. We … Continue reading →

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Time Machine Backup to Samba NAS with Mac OS X 10.5.8

Posted on August 29, 2009 by Garrett

After a couple of days of struggling and Googling, I finally came across a resource that worked to allow Time Machine to back up to my NAS over Samba with Mac OS X 10.5.8. The resource I found is How … Continue reading →

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That’s Me on the Griffin Technology Blog!

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Garrett

I was featured on the Griffin Technology Blog as a prize winner from this past weekend’s BarCamp! Here’s a screenshot just in case they archive the post and it goes away.

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Networking at BarCamp Chattanooga 2009

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Garrett

We all know BarCamps are about networking. Typically people networking or social networking. The kind of networking I’m talking about is wireless networking. This past weekend was Chattanooga’s first ever BarCamp. The announcement of the BarCamp was made shortly after … Continue reading →

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