Random Musings of a Random Geek
Happy Holidays everyone! Sorry I am late, but I was to busy playing with my new Nintendo DS Lite, speculating about what we will see at MWSF on the 9th, mourning the worlds loss early on the 25th, and very slowly becomming motivated to work on my projects again, and learn ruby! Wish me luck, and you all have a happy new year!
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Only 17 hours left to get your MacHeist Bundle! I got mine yesterday(payday! woohoo).
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So I moved over to a Media Temple(mt) Grid Server(gs) about a week ago and have made the transition over pretty smoothly. There have been a couple problems, but nothing major, and nothing I wouldn’t put past such a new product. If anybody is looking for hosting I would highly recomend (mt). They have an awesome control panel and even greater customer service.
*disclaimer* - I am not affiliated with (mt) in any way.
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About six months ago now I took a break from technology and the web in general. I stopped blogging, I closed my feed reader without any intention of re-opening it, I unsubscribed from a lot of the mailing lists I was on, and I closed a lot of the constantly open Firefox tabs I had. I set out into the real world to see what ‘normal’ life was like for someone my age. Partying a lot, meeting lots of people, being social, working a job just for a paycheck, procrastinating my education, etc.
Looking back now, I did this for far to long. I enjoyed it sure, but it wasn’t the same without technology. Luckily I worked for Cingular so I got to geek out about cell phones a lot. I missed blogging. I missed the masses of information at my fingertips. I missed the new technologies. I missed it all.
I remember when I first got into computers and technology. When I got my first computer, I refused to install anything on it but Linux. I spent a month and a half trying to get a distro to run on the POS Pentium 100mhz(not a Pentium 2, a Pentium) with 32MB of ram and a 2.2GB hard drive. I learned more about computer hardware having to test and replace most of the parts in it than I ever would have learned in a classroom or out of a book. Ever since the first day I got it working and booted that box up into X running KDE 1.something I have been in love with the idea of experiencing something new, and figuring it out, for the most part, on your own.
About 6 months ago the whole technology ‘fad’ caught up with me, and I forgot about those early days. I wondered why I still did it, did I really still love it? Had I learned as much as I could on my own? Had I grown lazy to the idea of learning? So I took a break from it all(almost).
I gave myself the project of moving my website to a new host and setting up a decent development environment for coding and designing(trying to at least heh) when I got back. I fell in love all over again. I have done almost nothing for the past 4 days except sit in front of my computer, updating stuff, fixing stuff that broke, researching other things. I’ve got a lot of stuff on my plate now, but I put it all there. And I will love every second of it now.
After a long stint at StartLogic, irgeek.net has moved to a new home at Media Temple. Their new Grid Server is exactly what I have been looking for in a hosting account. It is a mid range between a dedicated server and a standard shared hosting account. It offers SSH access and a lot of the server control that you want from a DV, but it is a managed server so you don’t have to do any of the sysadmin stuff as with the DV. I spent about 45 minutes on the phone with a tech support rep last night and he was spectacular, had a good answer to every question I asked. He didn’t sound like a monkey, actually sounded like he knew what he was doing. Thanks a lot Milton!
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