December 13, 2011
Is There Room for More Software Giants?
By: dab
We have so many software companies out there already. Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, EA (and a few more). A few of those maintain a very heavy market share if not completely dominate their market. This brings me to my question. Is there room for more software giants? That saying “This room ain’t big enough for the both of us” is typically a fitting phrase for most situations. If another search engine became popular that would steal thunder from Google. If another advertising network became popular, goodbye Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google. Social Networking? Goodbye Facebook. The real question is, how likely is it that another software firm can create a product killer? People like brand recognition. Brand recognition is where all the money is at. The way I see it, if a large firm like Google or Facebook saw your company, they’ll simply buy you out or bankrupt you one way or another. They have larger funds, and a larger span of employees. They can push updates and features out faster than you can plan your features.
So really, what’s the point in attempting a start up of software programming, hoping to hit it big? You know that if you get anywhere, a larger company will either replicate what you’ve made or buy you out. Sure, being bought out isn’t always a BAD thing, but there goes your dream of doing what you love doing (unless you did it purely to be bought out 
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So what do you think? Do you think that there is room for more/a replacement software giant(s)?
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August 16, 2011
New School, new site, new lifestyle
By: dab
So, I recently moved into Pullman, WA to begin learning at Washington State University. The campus is huge, the school spirit is larger. I’m hoping to be getting my Bachelor’s in Computer Science. Time will tell I suppose.
In other news, I’ve launched a new site called Referral Roulette. (http://referralroulette.com). Referral roulette offers you the chance for 4 hours of fame. You view ads, on the site. 1 ad every 15 seconds gives you 1 credit. After so many credits, you can choose an ad to create yourself. Currently the ad options are Plain text, image and url ad, Youtube video, and adsense ad. Coming soon will be Facebook and Google+ buttons, and a 1 time ad that requires 1 click for the user to continue (Costs for this ad will be extreme fyi).
I’ve also applied for a CPALead account. It got rejected but I intend on replying with my reasoning. I misunderstood one of their questions so I’ve got to explain myself!
Anyway, stay peachy dabbians!
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June 17, 2011
IRC Contest + School
By: dab
So, in regards to the IRC contest I am holding to earn a free $50 iTunes gift card is postponed. I wish to end it some time after dabbit is completed. It shouldn’t be too long though. While the contest deadline is postponed, now is the perfect time to enter!!
In other news, I have finished school at the community college I’m attending! I have applied to the University of Washington, however they have yet to respond to me about getting in or not. So I will just have to play the waiting game a bit longer! With the completion of my 2 years, I shall earn my Associates of Science. 
That’s all for now!
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May 11, 2011
Get a free Server for a month or more!
By: dab
Hey everyone, I’m here to talk about a a Xen VPS host that I beta trialled a while back. They are offering a free month or possibly longer of their 512mb VPS package. The server was awesome. I don’t have any stats as it never crossed my mind to actually test the specs of the server. But I do remember it being snappy, and nothing seemed to lag. That’s why I’m posting this. Chunkhost is a great host that should be given a try. Their packages stack up similiarly to Linode.com, however I can tell they are doing their own spin on how that should be done with their control panel. Their panel is very simple, but seems to do everything you really need it to do. I suggest you give them a try. You should use my referral link to help me out. So take a spin with ChunkHost. All it costs is your time: http://chunkhost.com/r/dablog
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April 10, 2011
Linode, Cloudflare, IRC Contest, Life, and dabbit
By: dab
So, I recently lost my main server, dab Hub due to a spurt of DDoS attacks. This lead me needing a new server. I searched and searched. I wanted a powerful server, at an affordable price, with reliability. I had to be realistic. I knew that I had to drop one of those requirements, to get anything. I know that I was willing to drop a bit of power for the reliability. I don’t want my server on an oversold dedi. I don’t want my server to be run by some startup 12 year old who was given a dedicated server and a range of IPs. I wanted a host with experience and price. I saw an ad on Facebook about Linode, and realized “Oh yea, I should check them out”. So I went to Linode.com, and saw their servers. My goal was to be under $30/month and have more than 256mb of ram. I wanted Xen virtualization, since that disallowed simple over selling, I also wanted it to be reliable. Linode offered everything I needed. So a few weeks went by, and thanks to several donations from http://thebotnet.com and http://foxtrotwebhosting.com/ I was able to purchase this new server. It was activated instantly, I chose a location in Fremont, CA, USA, and away I went. I linked it to dab IRC, and things were good. Then Hurricane Electric had some packet loss issues. I realized my second IRC server, fox.dab.biz was also hosted in HE’s DC. So, I desired to move my Linode box since I had that option, the host didn’t allow for fox.dab.biz to be moved, they only had 1 DC. So I made a ticket. No more than 45 minutes later, I had my server set to be allowed to be moved. I moved to my panel, and it said “You have a pending migration, please shut down your server to proceed”. I shut down my server, clicked the button, and Linode’s control panel took over the rest for me. It moved my image there, and I was set to go. Turned on my machine, updated my DNS, and everything worked great! I have to say, so far I am impressed with Linode. Uptime is great, speed is great, and Support is AWESOME. Very fast response time for a Sunday evening.
In relations to my DNS host, I was using Cloudflare.com. I liked the idea of having my stuff protected from bots and attacks. I did not like however the fact that they went down frequently. It wasn’t the entire client base that went down. It seemed that only I was the one with the issues to connecting. During these spells, the site also took forever to load, when it did load. So I decided to move back to Dreamhost’s DNS management. Goodbye Cloudflare. You were pretty cool, just I need something up as often as I’m online. 
Also, due to the lack of entries in my IRC 50$ iTunes giftcard contest, I’m extending the date to June 15th 2011. This is so I can promote it a bit more!
I also moved into a new location this week. Moved from McCleary to Olympia, thus giving me a faster connection. YAY Comcast! I can’t complain about them so far! I love their support, I love their speed, I just plain out love this upgrade in speed. I went from a MAX of 1.5mbps to 30mbps. SUCH a difference. I’m honestly shocked I survived so long with my previous, terrible host, Centurylink.
Finally, I shall be releasing dabbit very soon! I’m upgrading my comet server to be able to support a more flood of users, so you can have the most performance available! I’m utilizing node.js, using my dabet protocol. I first made a Comet server using PHP, but it felt sluggish and I’m worried about the performance on a large scale. For this reason, I’ve moved to a node js, where I can host on 3 possible servers, which will alleviate the stress from 1 server.
That’s all folks, until next time!
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January 5, 2011
IRC Nerds, dabbit, School
By: dab
So school’s started back up. Taking a C++ programming class in addition to my Calculus II and Physics class. Makes for an exciting quarter. Due to school starting back up, dabbit is put on hold until I take my SATs Jan 22nd. So yea 
In other completely unrelated news, I just had a pretty nerdy IRC discussion about using terminal In real life. Here is the log:
http://terminal.pastebin.com/mQQteaQJ
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September 21, 2010
School, SoftModded PS2, DVD Burning, IE9!
By: dab
So, school started yesterday. I bought the eBook version so as to avoid lugging around 500 pounds of books everywhere I go. Not only is the weight difference better, but it is also cheaper. The heavy book cost about $200, while the ebook was only $50-ish. Physics books aren’t light, neither are Calculus books. The Statistics book isn’t that bad, but I still don’t want to be lugging around books this year. I have a laptop, I’m going to rape the beneifts (Macbook pro FTW, am I right?).
Anyway, I’ve also soft modded my Playstation 2! I really wanted to get back into game programming, and I figured the PS2 would be a great way to get some programming in. Plus it’d be for an ex popular console. I think it’ll be a lot of fun. Of course, this fun comes after my IRC client dabbit of course. Which is currently being designed by a friend of mine!
This morning, I got an email from Ashampoo subject: “Free: Get 50 Yiggles by opening this email”. Typically I check the email, hit delete and never think of it again. This title had me curious. I clicked it, and saw they were giving me 5 free software to me and my friends. I always wanted a piece of their software, but never could find the heart to purchase it (Especially when freebies alternatives exist). I figured this was the perfect excuse to try it. So I’ve downloaded it, and will fill out a review of it. I downloaded “Ashampoo Burning Studio 2010 Advanced”. Seen here: http://www.ashampoo.com/en/usd/pin/2610/Burning_Software/Ashampoo-Burning-Studio-10.
On a final note, I’ve downloaded the beta version of Internet Explorer 9. They boasted a new updated UI. Intrigued by this new statement, I wanted to find out. I gave up hope after IE 7. IE8 didn’t help my endorsement either. I downloaded the 45mb installer; on my internet, that is a PAIN! I finally get the download done, and run the exe. “Downloading Internet Explorer 9 install files…”… Seriously? So 20 minutes later, it had finished installing. “Sweet”, I thought to myself. Getting ready to open IE9, I was greeted by a popup “Windows must restart your computer”. Seriously? I hate restarting my computer in the middle of my session. When I use the computer, I have several applications open, and none of it wants to be stopped (train of thought and such). So I waited till the next day to try out the new IE9. The next day, I opened it up. First of all, just like FireFox 4, they stole the Chrome layout, with the tabs not drooping, and the Menu bar gone. Friefox did it well. Internet Explorer, not so much. The placed them next to the URL Bar. So we have [==HTTP://google.com==] [TAB x][ TAB2 x ] etc…. WHY ON EARTH WOULD THEY DO THAT?! That’s what I want to know. Open more than 5 tabs and you start clipping most of the title. Faulty, faulty stolen idea. I mean, I know Microsoft tends to not re-create ideas properly (Windows), but this is sad. Not only this, but it doesn’t even render HTML 5 properly yet where as Chrome 7, Firefox 4 and Safari all render HTML 5 100% (If I recall the results correctly from other websites). Anyway, I know this is just a beta for IE9, but I really hope they make some major changes. One thing I’m glad though, is that they didn’t include the Twitter client on the browser (as an interview with a team leader for the browser project said). He mentioned wanting to place a Twitter client on the browser. Does that make sense to anyone else? I mean… how hard is it to type twitter.com in the url box?
Ok, enough rambling from me. I suppose I should let you get back to your life, as I must mine. Until later!
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September 16, 2010
Curly Fries!
By: dab
Yea, so I totally made some curly fries. The Stores were closed, our local gas station put everything away (hot food), so my friend and I decided to make some Curly fries out of some potatoes. So I took 3 potatoes, used our Curly Potato maker thing, mixed them in some salt, flour, and pepper, and deep fried. It was AMAZING.
Anywho I’m wiped and tired and junk. Peace world wide web!
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September 11, 2010
Fútbol!!!!
By: dab
Yea, so soccer season for the college has started up. NOt bad, my touches are way bad, but its lots of fun. Our team sucks at communicating and junk, but we’ll get better… I hope. That’s really it on the news. I’ve been planning out dabbit chat, a new chat interface for IRC. I’m hoping it’ll become big!
Well, bye for now.
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September 1, 2010
Today Marks a new day!
By: dab
Well folks, today marks a very important day of my life. My birthday. September 1st, 1990. I have left the numbers of teens, and enter the numbers of adults! No longer do I fit in a group of teens… Oh wait…. Most of my friends are still in their teens. Scratch that! Anyway, today has been a pretty sweet bday so far. Can’t wait for next year. The good ‘ol 2-1!!!!
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