Just blogging around….
Parent's pond in Brunswick
So, I haven’t blogged in a long time. Since the family vacation in Maine I got a job, but that’s probably not the only or even the main reason. I just haven’t thought about it much and never made the time. I’m doing it now as I’m setting up a new server to replace my old Pentium HT that I bought in 2001.
Elvis has been up and running for almost a year and a half and I started thinking about all the energy it has been burning just sitting there responding to the occasional HTTP request. I also happened to have the need for a laptop on a temporary basis so I figured the two would dovetail nicely.
The laptop is a Dell Inspiron D410 subnotebook (Blackcow) that I bought used for a few hundred duckets. It’s more than capable of hosting this site as well as about a half dozen other sites that Elvis has been hosting. Some do get quite a few visits, but not enough to tax the Apache2 webserver nor the MySQL database on which most of the sites (this one not included as it’s an output of Mac OS X iWeb) use.
Blackcow is currently running Xubuntu Desktop (Gusty) with the LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) packages installed. It’s only a few days until Hardy comes out and I’m running the beta on another machine, but I figured since it is a laptop with some restricted drivers and that I’m not really using it for the GUI that I’ll wait until a few months to upgrade it to Hardy. In the meantime, I’ll use Elvis and my other machine (homebrew) to muck around with Hardy and even the Gusty to Hardy upgrade process.
Let me get it up and running then I’ll post a blog about the process and also post a blog about life and Picabo (Stacie’s filly out of Salsa).
The photo was from my parent’s pond on Christmas Eve 2007 in the evening.