Author: cjtrowbridge
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Migrating our Enterprise Production Environment From ESXi to Xen
When I started developing software at my current workplace, our web app server was running Turnkey Linux on Debian 6 inside a hypervisor running VMware ESXi 4.5; all of these tools were already very obsolete when I joined the development environment, and after over two years, it was time to make some changes. I decided…
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I’m Paying $10/month for Unlimited Everything
I am paying just $10 a month for truly unlimited calls, texts, and data; and they mean it. A couple years ago I switched to T-Mobile primarily because they had the Nexus 5 and Verizon didn’t. I got lots of perks along the way like a free $180 router and no-interest financing for lots of…
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Moving My Phone Number to The Cloud with Google Voice
Recently, I was sitting in a cafe in St Thomas and I was very frustrated to learn that even though I could browse the internet on their fast, free wifi, I was not able to call or text without spending huge amounts of money because I was outside the continental US. This struck me as…
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How I Got a Free $180 Asus RT-AC68U Router
Last year, I switched to T-Mobile; a choice which has come with lots of perks. One of them was that they gave me a free router. This router supports the 802.11ac standard which means it forms very good connections to devices because of new nanotech in the antennas that allow “beam-forming” to focus the energy…