Okay...
I'm definitely not bored anymore...
My first day back, and I dunno...
It was pretty interesting.
I came home pretty sore and worn out. It was a good worn out though. I love factory work, actually. Things change enough every day to keep it interesting, and they're mundane enough to give me a sense of routine. I dig that balance. I never realized how much I missed it until I got back into it.
By the way...
I know people are actually READING this stuff. Server logs don't lie. Don't be shy - gimme a yell so I don't feel like a duck quacking in an empty void here! Actually, it's okay if ya don't. Sometimes I think I write this stuff more for myself than anyone else.
I forgot to mention before that my best friend, who had the aneurism, is home from the hospital in Philly - which is great. He got home about a week ago and he's doing well.
Damnage is doing well. The computers that run it survived their little freak-out from the power surge. I really do need to get that redundant power supply, don't I? Uptime is EVERYTHING for a server, and NOT buying one is pretty much neglectful on my part.
damnage.com from the outside
Okay...
That's actually an older picture of damnage. My desk is almost never THAT neat. Actually, that picture is about a year old. Damnage is on the other side of my desk now, and it has a bigger monitor. It's still a Compaq Deskpro EN though. It amazes me that that little box does so damned much. I can't wait until I can scrape some money together to get the Systemax tower servers I want. Damnage was built on a severely tight budget. I paid (after a one-hundred dollar rebate) ninety-nine bucks for that little Pentium III deal. True, I sunk a few hundred more in for a better hard drive, optical drive, memory, and a monitor, but its level of efficiency astounds me sometimes. Linux is a wonderful thing, isn't it? It allowed me to take an otherwise fairly useless computer and convert it into a very powerful server.
I'm dying for the chance to build another one for damnage.net...
Which yeah, I'm not totally sure about what I want to do with d-net just yet.
My hope is to build d-net into a top-level domain name server where I can rent gigs of space and bandwidth out to people. I have the level of expertise to accomplish it - I just need some cash to put it all together. I would also like to build a DNS machine and test it out. I know the principals behind one, but it's all just theory to me. I won't really learn about it all until I actually get to BUILD one and run it.
All I can say, after years of dealing with hosting providers and free servers (like Tripod and Geocities) - runnng the show by myself is KILLER. I wouldn't trade it for ANYTHING.
Oh well...
This is more of a ramble than a blog/post.
I should probably get some sleep...
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I'm definitely not bored anymore...
My first day back, and I dunno...
It was pretty interesting.
I came home pretty sore and worn out. It was a good worn out though. I love factory work, actually. Things change enough every day to keep it interesting, and they're mundane enough to give me a sense of routine. I dig that balance. I never realized how much I missed it until I got back into it.
By the way...
I know people are actually READING this stuff. Server logs don't lie. Don't be shy - gimme a yell so I don't feel like a duck quacking in an empty void here!
Actually, it's okay if ya don't. Sometimes I think I write this stuff more for myself than anyone else.
I forgot to mention before that my best friend, who had the aneurism, is home from the hospital in Philly - which is great. He got home about a week ago and he's doing well.
Damnage is doing well. The computers that run it survived their little freak-out from the power surge. I really do need to get that redundant power supply, don't I? Uptime is EVERYTHING for a server, and NOT buying one is pretty much neglectful on my part.
damnage.com from the outside
Okay...
That's actually an older picture of damnage. My desk is almost never THAT neat. Actually, that picture is about a year old. Damnage is on the other side of my desk now, and it has a bigger monitor. It's still a Compaq Deskpro EN though. It amazes me that that little box does so damned much. I can't wait until I can scrape some money together to get the Systemax tower servers I want. Damnage was built on a severely tight budget. I paid (after a one-hundred dollar rebate) ninety-nine bucks for that little Pentium III deal. True, I sunk a few hundred more in for a better hard drive, optical drive, memory, and a monitor, but its level of efficiency astounds me sometimes. Linux is a wonderful thing, isn't it? It allowed me to take an otherwise fairly useless computer and convert it into a very powerful server.
I'm dying for the chance to build another one for damnage.net...
Which yeah, I'm not totally sure about what I want to do with d-net just yet.
My hope is to build d-net into a top-level domain name server where I can rent gigs of space and bandwidth out to people. I have the level of expertise to accomplish it - I just need some cash to put it all together. I would also like to build a DNS machine and test it out. I know the principals behind one, but it's all just theory to me. I won't really learn about it all until I actually get to BUILD one and run it.
All I can say, after years of dealing with hosting providers and free servers (like Tripod and Geocities) - runnng the show by myself is KILLER. I wouldn't trade it for ANYTHING.
Oh well...
This is more of a ramble than a blog/post.
I should probably get some sleep...
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