RasterWeb!

Yo… We’re looking for a Linux Server Admin who wants a full time gig. you should know Apache and Tomcat and MySQL, and it would be nice if you knew a bit about JSP, PHP and Perl as well. When I say “know” I mean “know how to keep these things running and optimized on a bunch of Linux servers” and not “know how to write code in PHP, Perl, Java…”

So anyway, are you a Linux Server Admin? Do you know one? Get in touch with me… Thanks…

I know, living on the lake is nothing but pleasure right? Summers swimming, winters ice fishing, or skating… Skating you say? You think it’s easy building a good ice rink?

At first, it was just a matter of shoveling the snow off of the ice, but as you walk across the ice, and sled across the ice, and (attempt to) skate across the ice, the ice gets pretty unsmooth, which makes the skating part a bit difficult…

Oh sure, we’ve tried sweeping and shoveling, and it’s not like we have a zamboni laying around, so next we’re going to try watering the rink, and hoping that it freezes smooth.

Now I’ve got to go find all of the hoses, some duct tape, rubber gloves, and a copy of The Mighty Ducks…

In the process of attempting to finally install the iLife ’05 (why oh why is it not 2005?) suite I managed to have it fail, but still fill my drive, so I attempted to clean things up and make more space and that failed and the system got a little hosed and so I ended up finally installing that new larger hard drive I’ve had sitting in a box for the last few months so I could do the Mac OS X 10.4 upgrade…

Installing Tiger was not a huge deal. It failed twice until I cleaned the DVD real nice, then it went pretty darn smooth, and the install process managed to pull the data from my old 10.3.9 system which was on old hard drive #1. Yay for Apple. The G4 is a nice machine to work on, so swapping in a new drive is pretty painless. I used ditto to copy old hard drive #1 onto new hard drive, then pulled out old hard drive #1 and put in old hard drive #2. I still have to wipe and reformat old hard drive #2 into a single partition for nothing but media files (podcasts, videoblogs, music, etc.) but that should be painless. (old hard drive #1 is going into the kitchen iMac.)

Installing iLife ’05 was simple, and I can finally play with Garageband a bit. (Whee!) Other than that, I’ve still got the under the hood stuff to do, like install Fink and all the *nix tools and utils I need.

Luckily, I moved almost all of my web apps over to my Linux box running XAMPP a while back so those are not affected. Best of all, I can now let my aggregators download at will without worrying about disk space on a daily basis. (Well, for a few months anyway…)

As for the Little Sleep? I got about 4 hours…

Oh sure, first it was the Zombies, and now it’s the Santas…

Sadly, I can’t make it to Madison to videotape this Ho Ho Holiday Event, but I’m hoping someone can…

(Note: I may have to revise my plan of moving to Madison in 2017.)