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05.15.0812 Signs That The Recession Has Hit The Internet
humor, perspective, php, shared hosting (30)digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/12_Signs_that_the_Recession_Has_Hit_the_Internet'; The United States economy is in a funk. Food prices are up, oil is through the roof, real estate has collapsed, and credit is becoming scarce. Here are 12 signs to look for when the recession hits the Internet: Digg.com moves their server over to Dreamhost Jeff Bezos delivers his TED talk with a GoldenPalace.com tattoo across his naked chest i can affordz cheezburger? Drew Curtis switches to Pabst Blue Ribbon For $20, Rick Astley will show up to do it in person. Woot.com ...
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07.25.07Why I Wrote *that post*
distros, perspective (6)One of the first posts I wrote on this site was about my frustration with getting good data on the difference between linux distros. It was titled, "Linux Users Are All Crazy Fundamentalists." It has generated a ton of traffic, and comments from all perspectives. I've held off on responding to the comments here because, for the most part, the article stands on its own. I feel like I need to respond, however, to Nick and James, and some of the other comments, to clarify my intent and purpose. I do not expect anything to be handed to me. ...
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07.14.07Back from Italy!
perspective (0)Flew from Milan to LAX yesterday. Got off the plane, and could literally feel the itching in my fingers to turn on the Treo, fire up the mobile ssh client, and do me some server-administratin'! If sorting out the group permissions on your apache virtual hosts has you a bit batty, I highly reccomend 2 weeks of wine, cheese, and prosciutto in the beautiful Tuscan hills. Call it therapy. Bill the client. So, CLIdiot is back. Good times ahead, my hapless friends, as we foolishly stumble forward into that great fire swamp that is linux, armed only with our dauntless ...
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06.25.07if at first you don’t succeed, blow it up
perspective (11)I'm on build #28. 28 times that I've blown up and re-imaged my server slice with a fresh Ubuntu install. I sit down to the command line with the intent of building a stable install, and I'll get to the point where something goes way left, blow up the server, start over. I haven't found a way to back things up cleanly, to uninstall a package, revert config files to their defaults, and remove the files and folders associated with it. I get very nervous knowing that some package has left trash all over my server. So, I blow up and ...
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06.17.07linux users are all crazy fundamentalists
debian, distros, perspective, ubuntu (69)I've spent the last two days googling the different linux distributions (or distros, as the too-cool-for-school developers themselves refer to them. distro. rhymes with disco.) to figure out which of the options offered by my VPS hosting company (slicehost.com) I should go with. I've been trolling through linux users forums, hanging out in IRC chat rooms, and just generally starting flamewars everywhere I go. Hint: want to start a flamewar in a linux chatroom? Just casually pop in and ask people which distro you should use. People will light up the channel with everything from the helpful, Ubu4lif: There are a ...
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06.01.07command line idiot
perspective (2)I'm a reasonable intelligent guy. I scored at 1450 on my SAT's, and that was back in the old days, when SAT scores really mattered, not these bitchy little "how does multiplication make you feel?" SAT questions that you kids have to answer nowadays. I'm not an idiot. I only mention this to impress you. So, after a week of nearly complete downtime at my awesome shared hosting plan (I won't mention who it was with, but it rhymes with Ream-host.com), I decided that I could probably build a faster, more reliable server than the one I was paying $5 a ...
CLIdiot is not a professional geek. He's just a slightly geeky guy who thought it would be neat to setup his own server. These are the rants, tirades, and occasional insights of an normal person trying to figure out linux.
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