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So thanks to a friend’s awesomeness, I have access to a proper Linux VM kicking it in a real datacenter! This means I can finally move the content off of my home server!

So Bung (the VM) will now serve my static content for the various sites I host, and Pants (local server) will be ( Read more... )

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First, an aside: Today I am a real Blogger. I am posting this from a coffee shop in Toronto!

January 10th (or thereabouts) marks the 1 year anniversary of me getting bored with a Windows XP workstation and installing Linux for the first time in many years. Since then I’ve added a wee ( Read more... )

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I usually leave my computer on over night, for seeding purposes. When I went to wake it up this morning, I noticed that I had no keyboard activity. No num lock, ctrl+alt+backspace (Kills the X Windows session) wasn’t working… nor was ctrl+alt+F12 (the DMESG view). The monitor came on ( Read more... )

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First things first. man emerge. Seriously. You’ll be using it a *lot*
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2006 was a topsy-turvy year… I went from XP installs to Vista installs then back to XP installs… but I was feeling very *meh* towards my computer. It was boring. No umph.

So a new year has started, and a friend managed to get me interested in Desktop Linux again. I’ve run a couple day ( Read more... )