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Sun 17 Jul 2011

Moving back to Debian, like I never left

Last night, I tried to upgrade from PHP 5.2 to PHP 5.3 on my Arch Linux install on this server. I ended up replacing it with Debian instead.

Fri 20 Nov 2009

Adventures with Dreamhost, MediaTemple, and (ultimately) Linode

After struggling with Guestbook spam on benandmaggiegetmarried.com, I realized how slow Dreamhost had become; after moving to a Dedicated-Virtual account at MediaTemple on Monday, I ultimately migrated my sites to a Linode virtual machine running Arch Linux & lighttpd.

Thu 12 Apr 2007

If only I could find my feet, I could drive

Hrm, let's ignore the fact that I neglected this blog for the entire month of March. Time for one of my marathon bi-monthly updates in which I try to bring everyone up to speed with my goings-on.

Tue 23 Jan 2007

Emergence from the land of technology

I've been working a lot these past few weeks.

Sat 11 Jun 2005

Greetings from Filesharing Configuration Hell

I *HATE* SAMBA! Why can't I get this to work? The only method of file sharing in my home network that actually seems to work right now is SFTP, but it maxes out around 5 Mb.

Tue 7 Jun 2005

Dist-upgrade ... because I can!

While I dist-upgrade my Debian box to sarge-stable (unbelievable... never thought it'd happen), I thought I'd update my Quicken records.

For the record, I spent $109.91 on gas to go to Bloomington and back. Which makes me right: it was cheaper to drive than fly.

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Update: I had an uptime of 10 days 2 hours. But the kernel-image was updated, so a restart is required. Bummer.

Mon 16 May 2005

The New BenClark.com

Details about the new Benclark.com:

Hardware
AMD 64 3000+ (Socket 939)
MSI K8T Neo2 motherboard
1 GB DDR400
80 GB hda
200 GB hdd

Software
Ubuntu Linux (based on Debian) -- amd64 native port
Apache2 + php4

Wed 6 Apr 2005

Linux Stuff

Software RAID versus hardware RAID -- are there any discernible differences? I can see the merits of both: hardware RAID could be much faster (in theory) since all RAID functions are performed in specialized, secondary hardware (i.e. outside of the main data processing bus). Software RAID has the flexibility of integration with logical volume management (LVM) and daemon-based monitoring . . .

Fri 25 Mar 2005

I broke my GUI

I can't believe I broke KDE.

I don't even know how I did it!

I even wiped the partitions and re-installed . . . which is a big no-no in Linux, simply because it's really not necessary . . . but since I didn't know what I did, I didn't know how to repair the damage . . .

Tue 11 Mar 2003

Connecting Your HP Jornada to the Internet Using Linux & PPP

So, yeah, this is really cool stuff.
(Ignore the fact that I spent all afternoon on it.)