Author Archives: dreadpiratepj

About dreadpiratepj

I have been goofing around with computers since May 1978, when I was about seven years old. For the past decade, I've even managed to have people pay me for this! Suckers! :-)

Updates, upgrades …

I hadn’t realized so much time had passed since my last post. Mea culpa, I haven’t made time for new content. I’d been working my butt off and hanging out in Guild Wars to relax. My apologies to my faithful … Continue reading

Posted in trustworthy.computing, upgrades, windows.vista, wordpress | Comments Off on Updates, upgrades …

No more Thing A Week?

I just noticed my weekly $1 USD donation to Jonathan Coulton’s Thing A Week has been cancelled. I pay attention to all my Paypal notifications, 1) to catch any phishing attempts, 2) to make sure I really did buy what … Continue reading

Posted in jonathan.coulton | Comments Off on No more Thing A Week?

Which Hogwarts House am I in?

Congratulations on making Hufflepuff! You’re one hard-working, loyal, compassionate little thing, aren’t you?! Well, there are some good things, and some bad things about that. Bad things first, so after you’re let down and crying your eyes out, plunging into … Continue reading

Posted in sillyness | Comments Off on Which Hogwarts House am I in?

Another seamless upgrade, and visitor comments.

I upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4 in thirty seconds, just a few minutes ago. After login in as administrator and deactivating my plugins, those thirty seconds included SSHing in to my server and running this: #making an in-server backup in folder … Continue reading

Posted in hacks, ssh, tunneling, upgrades, wordpress | Comments Off on Another seamless upgrade, and visitor comments.

PJTrix.com’s Hack #1 – SSH tunneling for ultra-secure web app administration

At long last, here is the first PJTrix.com hack. It’s longer than most of my entries, so plan to read a while. Come back when you have the time if it interests you. Over the past few months, some friends … Continue reading

Posted in hacks, open.source, ssh, tunneling | Comments Off on PJTrix.com’s Hack #1 – SSH tunneling for ultra-secure web app administration

If you can see this in your aggregator …

… it means PJTrix is in its new home. I have upgraded to WordPress 2.0.3, and applied a new theme. I’ll be tweaking the layout a bit, adding my page “tabs” to the header. Why don’t you come over and … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Moving PJTrix to another server.

This is just to let you know, I’m moving PJTrix.com to another server, where I have more storage. The server PJTrix is on right now is actually owned by a friend of mine, Ernesto Diaz. He is one of my … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Moving PJTrix to another server.

It’s down to the wire now, less than 1 hour to go

Well, I got about 50% of my planned features done. I’ll just keep correcting the layout till ten minutes to midnight, check in the last changes, and them I’m gonna crash till about noon tomorrow. My dad’s Father’s Day party … Continue reading

Posted in hacks, open.source, rails, railsday, ruby, software.development | 5 Comments

Less than eleven hours to go …

… and I need a nap. I’ll get an hour of shut eye, and have lunch when I get back up. It doesn’t look like I’ll get 70% of the functionality in by midnight. It may be more like 50%. … Continue reading

Posted in hacks, open.source, rails, railsday, ruby, software.development | Comments Off on Less than eleven hours to go …

Breakfast time!

My stomach started hurting about 10 minutes ago. It could be from the coffee I had a few hours ago. But I think it’s just gastric juices from 10-11 hours without a meal (and that’s a guess. I don’t remember … Continue reading

Posted in hacks, open.source, rails, railsday, ruby, software.development | Comments Off on Breakfast time!