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The problems with virtual

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

The problems with a Virtual Private Server (VPS) is that it isn’t Unix as you know Unix. I had this with my last virtual server that was FreeBSD based, but it wasn’t too bad. All of this is different with Ensigm and VPS on Linux. And none of this was helped by lack of documentation.

Bad boy, bad boy. Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do… when your customers come for you because the documentation that comes with your fully released commercial application has “To be done” for most of it. They shoot people in Texas for this, you know.

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However, after a chat with a supervisor to find out I have to specifically ask for certain things to be installed, such as Tomcat, they’re now installed. And I now have root access, and a pretty good idea of what I can, and cannot touch. But since I don’t normally customize the kernel for kicks, we should be okay.

Let’s say that the customer service experience today was a mixed bag, but alls well that ends well. I am what is known as a tough customer. Just call me Burning Bitch.

I can do so much damage on this new system! Expect frequent crashes and mayhem as I experiment and play around. I love the smell of fresh burning wire insulation in the morning.

It’s fun even going through this type of activity, rather than a count down of the hours until the site goes out for the count. And it’s fun playing with the technology again. So thank you all for this delightful headache. It’s good to be back in the mess again.

And see, I’m back into the threadneedle, ThreadsML stuff over here, too. Busting balloons, being a pain in the butt. You know, the usual.

Bad boys. Bad boys. Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when I come for you. Bad boys. Bad boys…

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