Back on the air!
For the previous eight years, the Mizzou Linux users Group has hosted my web site on their server. But it looks like a recent firewall change has removed the server’s visibility from outside campus. This is the second time it has happened. It was great having a professionally administrated, reliable server, but I don’t want my site off the web for weeks at a time due to MU’s IT bureaucracy anymore.
I decided to take matter into my own hands and host the site myself. Our friend Rie donated her old Sony Vaio laptop to me when she left for California last week. (Rie, there were two things wrong with it: The traces to the power jack were broken, and the hard disk had a couple dozen bad sectors on it. No wonder it was locking up!) I patched both problems and installed text-mode Ubuntu and now the laptop is my web server. Oh, and I finally replaced my junky old Netgear router with an equally old Linksys. Maybe it won’t lock up under heavy use.
Thanks to all my loyal readers for their patience during this time. Please let me know if you notice anything broken.