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Nunyas

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yeah, I kind of dropped off the face of these boards sine I lost my B last year. I'm starting to get that "itch" again. Though, funding isn't willing yet.

Resto mod'ing a '75 would be great fun, IMO. It'd be the perfect model B for me to get when the time is right. It's old enough that I won't have to deal with Cali laws keeping it "smog legal", and new enough that I wouldn't feel bad about modifying it to be what I think it should be or want it to be. Plus those big black bumpers gotta work wonders at driving its price down relative to its CB counter parts...

I was thinking about a Lotus Elan for a while (vintage model... not the 90's version) or even Lotus Esprite... but I don't think I can wait long enough to be able to afford to restomod one of those.

Another year or two might be a different store... who knows...
 
Welcome back, Rob...don't be a stranger - help some of the new guys out while you look for a decent '75.
 
I'll do what I can.

I don't have quite as much "free" time as I did a while back. I was part of the Disney Axe Job a couple of months ago. My new job is on a "10/4" schedule which is really 12.5/4 thanks to the commute times. On my work days, I barely have time to eat before it's my bed time.

I'm up at Doc's wake up time these days.
 
YAY!!! I wuz missin' the mornin' COFFEE club. Haven't brew'd up this AM yet but will now have "Rob's cup" as soon as I do. Glad you dropped in. Now don't be such a stranger.



Looked at my firewall uptime yesterday and thought of ya, BTW:

"4:22am up 206 days, 2:34"
 
DrEntropy said:
YAY!!! I wuz missin' the mornin' COFFEE club. Haven't brew'd up this AM yet but will now have "Rob's cup" as soon as I do. Glad you dropped in. Now don't be such a stranger.



Looked at my firewall uptime yesterday and thought of ya, BTW:

"4:22am up 206 days, 2:34"
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nice uptime! My current ubuntu box doesn't have an uptime like that yet. I'm running 8.04, and it seems to want to reboot after security updates too often.


Got my 24oz cup-o-joe waitin' to be filled! :laugh:
 
Funny thing... we got a horrendous thunderstorm pass over us at 9AM today. Tornado warnings, heavy t-storm warnings, the works. ~RIGHT~ after I wuz braggin' on uptime. UPS held it thru the spikes tho.

I unplugged everything but that one. :wink:

Now some rumblin' off inna distance and drizzle here. Nasty half hour or so at 9:30 tho.

Second pot is brewin' as I type. :thumbsup:
 
nice! I know my old Slackware box would have never had an uptime like that if it weren't for the UPS I had it plugged into
 
Have ya looked at CentOS? It's what I'm on now. With a KVM and a Fedora Core 6 box as a workstation beside it. Fedora is a bit less demanding as far as setup but I seem to stay on the CentOS server anyway. :shrug:
 
yeah, I work with it a LOT at my new job. CentOS and Debian are the OS of choice for servers at my new employer, and they're currently looking to start deploying Ubuntu boxes in the server environment as well, or at least give our clients the option to use Ubuntu instead of CentOS. They seem to have a thing for Macs on the desktop though...
 
Weird.

...or is this new place staffed with those artsy, right-lober folks as worker-bees?
 
hmmmm... I think it's the owner of the company that's the right-lober... according to people I know have been in meetings with him, the guy is all over the place. He had to hire people that were willing to say "NO" to him so they could actually complete projects they've started.


The worker bees in my Dept are mostly techie types, or just ~really~ good at Customer Support.

I work for a web hosting company now
 
Interesting. I figger'd a hosting outfit would use CentOS/Apache and put CPanel on for th' customers' use/misuse.
 
They use CentOS to provide a "LAMP" (Linux Apache MySQL PHP)environment on the dedicated machines w/ Plesk to give the clients GUI management of the server. Currently considering giving the clients the option of having their dedicated machines provisioned with Ubuntu instead of CentOS.

Shared environments are running Debian.
 
Ah. So the clients get full control of their domains. I've stitched together a few LAMP "appliances" for CRM stuff. I found I hate PHP/Horde as a combo...
made me feel like a dinosaur. :wink:

Haven't run into Plesk as management stuff yet.

Red Hat has to be scratchin' their heads. I attended a RHEL geekfest a while back. They really want to SELL ya!

...I did get a pair of nifty red "RED HAT" flip-flops tho. :laugh:
 
lol nothing wrong with scoring free schwag! :laugh:

The "dedicated" machines are "unmanaged" so the clients are responsible for running their server and ensuring it doesn't crash. :wink:


Shared environments they don't get access to Plesk or anything that will effect the operation of the server.

The company I'm working for is cutting-edge for shared web-server environments. They basically have Beowulf clusters running the Apache server, and MySQL server. Then they have a load balancing system that dynamically assigns systems to handle all the traffic... really cool stuff.

And then there's the add-ons for people that want to run Ruby on Rails or dJango...
 
oh yeah... you'll probably want to steer clear of Plesk being the seasoned veteran that you are. It's a good tool for the newbie, but it's a resource hog to rival anything that MS has put out.

It might be fun to poke around with and evaluate for potential clients. But if you're going to manage the system, I'd steer clear. Just sayin' :smirk:
 
Yup. Heard that from others.

The new work sounds like fun.

Ruby?!? hmm... :jester:
 
'tis fun... it's the challenge. A different thing to figure out everyday. Though, a lot of stuff likes to repeat itself, like email and DNS issues. Some people just can't wrap their heads around DNS taking 24 hours to propagate unless they changed their TTL 24 hours before making a change.


I'm not up to speed on Ruby... and dJango is like voodoo to me at this point.

I just got rewarded for excellent work with less than 4 weeks "on the floor" ... got a $50 Visa gift card out of that. Strongly considering using it on a couple of Perl books. Like maybe Learning Perl, Programming in Perl, and the Perl Cookbook...O'Reily books of course :smirk:
 
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