my server

Last March my friend Chris and I built this screaming server with SATA drives and a flaming dual LAN with one side GigEth. I could not have put it together without Chris. That's where he excels and I suck. He also gave me advice on what components to get. I had just gotten paid from a fat (if short-lived) contract and I was dying to build my fantasy box. Well at that time there were no prebuilt Linux kernels that had SATA built in. Of course about 8 days after me and Quentin spent hours tweaking around building a kernel with SATA support built-in (hasto be, since the thing BOOTS off the SATA's) and also getting around some gotchas with the NVidia chipset, a new prebuilt kernel came out with SATA built in. Of course now it's everywhere. (Oct, as we speak). I got fed up with that server just sitting doing nothing. So I put it in a colo. and I'm just gonna let them install their favorite distro and make it work. Software wise, it will just be a workhorse, nothing fancy or cool. Chris is gonna put all his domains on it. If I can just generate a handful of domains, they can pay for my share of the colo. Any more and it's gravy. and I'll have my website on a screamin server that's way more up to date than the one it's on now. And I only have to share it with a few local mostly low traffic domains. And if they or I get popular, I think the box can handle the load. It beats the knickers off the rackspace crappola servers that my boss uses for his backup machines. If I'm really good I'll get my boss to locate his entire rack here. The colo will love me for that.

I'm pumped. Thank you Chris for kicking my butt.
This is what non-entities think about. As if you care.

workin...

Woo hoo. This invisible non-entity got a job. Web backend. Perfect. I love it. Celebrate with me.
Leave me a comment of congratulations. (Yeah right.) Except I have to spend a lot of time dealing with the users. So it leaves less for web backend. But what do I care. I am getting paid for it. Woohoo.

Boy am I invisible

I think there's a flashing neon sign that hovers over my head. It is visible to everybody but me.
It flashes the message: "Ignore this person." I'm just after busting my butt to make an update web
page for the members of an organization I belong to. The idea being, they can input their info
especially their email. Then someone else can come along and say email the list. If someone's
email changes they update it. Garrr. So we don't have to drag these big reply to lists around, and
garrrr.... someone always misses it because their email changed, or the sender of the mail had an incomplete list, or whatever. So.... Guess how many people came on and updated, besides me: one--
the person who's been bugging me to change this 'n' that on the website. Oh but of course
I'm invisible. and of course I couldnt' possibly do anything useful. Self fulfilling prophecy. Well, it will only be useful if people use it. which it appears they won't, because I (who couldn't possibly do anything useful) made it. So I guess they are right, *I* couldn't possibly do anything useful.