intuitive engineering

  In Linux, “netstat -apn” will list processes versus ports bound to: dsm@dali:~$ netstat -apn (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.) Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp [...]

  Robert Heinlein answered fan mail with a form letter (article by Kevin Kelly; he found an actual copy of the form letter in his own files), sometimes an index card, up until around the early 1980′s. Virginia Heinlein made a comment about the form letter she and Robert used to reply to fan mail [...]

  I moved off of hostgator.com last week on Labor Day. I chose dreamhost.com as the next hosting facility. I’m really going to try and stay for at least a year in one facility, even though moving only takes a couple of hours now, plus time for DNS to point to the new nameservers. Dreamhost [...]

  I revise writing, a lot. I’ll revise after I’ve posted something, if it doesn’t ring quite right to the ear, rereading and tweaking a word here or there. Usually simplifying and deleting. I highly recommend William Zinsser’s “On Writing Well”… Having used Microsoft Word for DOS 6.2 in ancient times, and watched my work [...]

  I checked just for grins. If you are running Linux or some variant of UNIX, /etc/hosts is your (testing) friend. I placed an entry for the hostgator IP address pointing to my primary domain. A UNIX host will check files first, DNS second [1]. If I point the browser to https://primarydomain.com, I get: an [...]

  from hostgator…     On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:59 AM, wrote: Hello Douglas, Your account appears to be a recent addition to the HostGator family. If there was a problem with the service you were receiving, I’d like to see if I could help you. We would like the opportunity to resolve [...]

  I’ll never get a response – the email to hostgator support was blocked. Somehow, that’s just perfect.   This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: support@hostgator.com Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We [...]

  I moved my websites off my home servers several weeks ago. I have Verizon FIOS and for some reason they finally got around to adding port 443 to their blocked ports, outgoing. They had always blocked port 80. I chose hostgator.com to host the sites. I did some research, most of the reviews of [...]