July 21st, 2010
Many users have been in contact with me about a bug that caused the application to crash upon launching. I have found and fixed two bugs that could cause this. One was displaying a UIAlertView before the super view had loaded (wait_fences: failed to receive reply: 10004003) and the other was when I tried to take a char and convert it to an NSString improperly. By using breakpoints I was able to narrow that down and fix them. I have put in a request to expedite the review process so users can finally be rid of this bug!
- Trevor Mullins
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July 6th, 2010
My short time on a Dreamhost Private Server is over. I have moved all my domains back over to shared hosting, which is the lovely server named bandar. During the move I took some time to examine the files for my iphone applications and my website. I noticed that Dreamhost must have recovered files for me when the server originally crashed. The data being sent to over 2,000 iphones was about a month old but still up to date have no fear! I have updated them tonight and will check tomorrow to make sure my nightly cron jobs to update the scripts is working.
I was very happy with the private server from Dreamhost although for me it would have been a waste to keep the server for more than the free trial period. An average site like mine would cost about $15/per month for 300MB of Ram(which is more than enough!). If anyone is looking for hosting and a private server I would recommend Dreamhost.
I was thinking about backup recently due to the downtime of my websites. I decided I might every week or so depending on the amount of data changed download a copy of my websites to keep as a backup. Nothing to fancy, just a shell script. Below are the two scripts I run, first on the server and then on my computer. I might make the server side script a cron job in the future.
Backup script on the server:
#!/bin/sh
tar -zcvf website1.tar.gz website1.com/
tar -zcvf website2.tar.gz website2.com/
tar -zcvf website3.tar.gz website3.com/
Shell script to download the files to my computer:
#!/bin/sh
sftp username@thermomods.com << EOF
get website1.tar.gz
get website2.tar.gz
get website3.tar.gz
exit
EOF
echo "End of Line."
exit
Tags: backup, bandar, command line, dreamhost, sftp, ssh
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July 4th, 2010
Although the iLIRR Lite has been live for the past week due to website issues I am just getting around to posting this. The iLIRR Lite is similar to the paid iLIRR application with the exception that the Lite version is supported by iAds and does not have a trip planner or a map of the LIRR. Get it to today for the low low price of $0.00 in the App Store. Be sure to have a good internet connection and run the application to download the up to date schedules!
As always ThermoMods, Trevor Mullins, iLIRR, iLIRR Lite are not affiliated with the MTA or LIRR.
Tags: App Store, iLIRR, iLIRR Lite, iTunes
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July 4th, 2010
During my sophomore year at college I was trying to flash a firmware across the campus network to the router in the dorm. What a mistake that was! The router was a WRT54GL, and after class I returned to find it bricked. I was unable to fix it with the 30/30/30 method, and instead of spending a whole day fixing it I ordered a new one.
After thinking about getting another WRT54GL for my house I decided to attempt to recover my old broken router. After trying the 30/30/30 again and failing I looked up other methods which can be found on the DD-WRT website. Being a OS X Lover and a terminal guy I pinged 192.168.1.1 and got a response! This was the first step in getting the router working again.
Next I opened up another tab in the terminal and put the following commands:
tftp 192.168.1.1
binary
rexmt 1
timeout 60
trace
put <link to firmware.bin file>
As I watched the output of the terminal window I jumped with excitement! The router now had a very simple dd-wrt firmware installed! I could now flash the Tomato Firmware I had originally had. Now for some breakfast.
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July 2nd, 2010
ThermoMods has had some downtime and many users of the iPhone application iLIRR and iLIRR Lite have been e-mailing me for the past few days. The server I am hosted on, which is provided by Dreamhost, crashed and caused a big mess. After two days of my websites being up and then down again I was moved to a Dreamhost PS (Private Server) for the time being until my original server is stable.
Users of the iLIRR and iLIRR Lite should be able to update the schedules now. If there are any problems please feel free to contact me via the support line from within the application or from the link in iTunes.
For more information on this check the DreamhostStatus Blog
Tags: downtime, dreamhost, ps, website
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