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Stay away from UltraHosting
Jul 5th
Today I have been burned with UltraHosting.
They want me to pay $75 just to boot a rescue CD on my machine which failed to boot a new kernel, around 24 hours ago (it has failed, because they initially set only 46mb to my /boot/ partition, which is not enough for modern kernels). So basically, my data is being held hostage for a $75 ransom, until next month where I am entitled to another 15 minutes of free support. Then I will be able to ask them to spend the 2 minutes to boot a rescue CD. Then I will be able to SSH into the box, and get my data.
Besides, Their support staff takes hours to respond, their billing staff even longer, and they are not helpful at all, leaving you on the edge, eating your own fingernails. I mean, around 18 hours until receiving the answer from them that they won’t help me without me paying the $75…??
Why anyone works with them is beyond me, especially when there are so many superior competitors in the market, with Remote Boot and KVM-IP features (Hey, With those features I could have fixed my own server in less than 10 minutes! been there, done that!).
Goodbye Ultrahosting… and “good luck” surviving as a hosting company…
RabbitMQ for Beginners
Mar 12th
Or shall we call this “The missing beginner walkthrough”? Another name I liked and saw on the web was “The Attention Deficit Disorder Guide to …” 
In this short post, I describe how to get RabbitMQ up and running very quickly, on Ubuntu 9.10 Server. Although this will probably apply to other operating systems, since most of the issues are with RabbitMQ configuration and principles.
Singularity very near
Jun 27th
When you read articles such as this one: Will a Computer be Implanted in Future Human Brains? you can’t help but say: Ah, the singularity is closer than ever.
For me there is no doubt that eventually, small parts of my brain will be enhanced and replaced, and eventually, all of it will be replaced. It will create a new me out of me, with extra dimensions. I’m betting it will also help me revive very old memories that lost certain associations and are stranded (Some brain “doctor” software will find and fix corruptions in my memory).
It is at this point that I will have the option to become immortal, by uploading my consciousness to a central hive mind, where I will be able to live in a virtual reality, and later, as more advanced robots exist, I will be able to inhabit a body that looks and feels like a real human body (kinda like what the Cylons did, in Battlestar Galactica).
I’ll try to cover more on this subject in my blog from now on, since this subject interests me a lot!
Update: Another article about controlling something with the mind: In the Future You Will Control Machines With Your Mind
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