Greg In The Desert

All I have to do is post that I have solved my Internal Sever Errors to have Wordpress to show me otherwise.

Greg In The Desert started to become unresponsive. Checking the control panel for the Dreamhost personal server there was a huge increase in memory and CPU usage.

I didn’t do anything to my settings that could have caused this but I assumed a plugin started doing something wrong. The Wordpress admin menu because unresponsive so I spent the day manually removing plugins via FTP. Nothing was working.

Finally I checked out the database restore options in the Dreamhost control panel. I restored to a database from three days ago. Boom, back to a functioning Wordpress install. I believe I said:

Assuming no more technical issues, posting should pick up.

Steve Jobs pretty much said that a 3G iPhone will come eventually. That shouldn’t be a surprise. TheStreet is the one saying that it will be in the first quarter of 2008. I’m 100% sure it will be here in the next 5 years, within the next 9 months is a little less certain.

Navigadget says that Apple will add GPS hardware in the first quarter of 2008

The reason behind this rumor is the fact that Apple has been in touch with Broadcom’s Global Locate unit to supply chips for the phone. Global Locate, which was recently acquired by Broadcom, makes assisted GPS chips that use a combination of GPS satellites and cellular network signals to get a location fix. A-GPS will improve what’s a called TTFF, even making it possible to get acquire correct position indoors

I’m not holding me breath for either. What I am still waiting for is a minimum 16 GB of memory. I will keep my money until then.

A beta of Indigo 1.5 is on MacUpdate. It ads a few significant upgrades.

1. The ability to download macros into the PowerLincCU. The Powerlinc is the wall wart that allows the computer to send signals over the powerlinc and connects via a USB cable. The “CU” model has a memory and can run limited macros so you can download the macros and turn off the computer.
2. You can now create date time triggers from applescript

I’ve been using the beta for a while and it’s very stable. It’s shaping up to be the best Home Automation software on the Mac.

From the MacUpdate Description:
What’s New:
Version 1.5b3 adds the following:

• Added support to upload Trigger and Time/Date Actions to PowerLinc Controller (1132CU). Now you can have basic home control without leaving your Mac running 24/7.
• Added shortcut key navigation (cursor keys) of all list views.
• Added AppleScript classes time date action and trigger action.
• Added RF handling to prevent DM10A RoboDog commands from being reported as undefined signals.
• Improved communication performance between Indigo and PowerLinc USB.
• Fixed AppleScript terminology conflict between device property type and action step property action type. AppleScripts that use the device property type may need to be recompiled.
• Fixed bug that caused Time/Date Actions to not trigger at the correct time after daylight savings time spring-forward.
• Fixed bug that caused the device brightness state to be incorrect when Trigger Actions try to modify the brightness of the same device that caused the trigger.