Dave's Archives » Linux http://davec.org Has he gone yet? Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:47:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Old computers http://davec.org/2009/08/old-computers/ http://davec.org/2009/08/old-computers/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:59:34 +0000 Dave C http://davec.org/?p=875 The Linux boot up message of the moment:

/ has gone 49710 days without being checked, check forced.

This would place the manufacturing date of the computer in question at around 1872 or earlier; a century before the UNIX epoch (the official Dawn of Time for UNIX-based computers) and at least 86 years prior to the invention of the microchip.

]]> http://davec.org/2009/08/old-computers/feed/ 0 Redeployment http://davec.org/2008/04/redeployment/ http://davec.org/2008/04/redeployment/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:17:00 +0000 Dave C http://davec.org/?p=27 Sadly, due to seemingly increasingly frequent downtime at bur.st, I've shifted Dave's Archives over to a paid service - Jumba. In the process, I've discovered to my amusement and mild shock that one doesn't actually need to use the command line anymore in order to set up a website on a Linux machine, even if you have PHP web applications with database backends. Jumba (and, I'm informed, most other web hosting services that run Linux) lets you use a web-based interface called cPanel to manipulate just about everything you could possibly want to manipulate. It even has a web-based file manager built in, which actually works in Konqueror. It even has an add-on called Fantastico, which will install and configure web applications (like WordPress) with little more than a couple of button clicks on your part. I've shifted the entire site - database, theme and other miscellaneous settings - without even glimpsing the command line.

I suppose a few seasoned web developers are raising their eyebrows wondering how I managed to find a rock large enough to hide under for the last five years, or for however long this sort of thing has been going on. This is a new thing for me. My brain associates "using Linux" with either GNOME, KDE or the command-line, the first two of which are (generally) irrelevant if you're accessing the computer remotely. Nostalgia be damned. I have seen the light, and it is good.

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