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Blog updates...
Aug. 1st, 2007 03:39 pmNew updates on LongHairedWeirdo. I hadn't been updating much (two entries in all of June!) but I've become semi-prolific again.
Aug. 1st, 2007
Blog updates...
Aug. 1st, 2007 03:39 pmNew updates on LongHairedWeirdo. I hadn't been updating much (two entries in all of June!) but I've become semi-prolific again.
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Aug. 1st, 2007 05:18 pm(Attached to the front of this neatly typed note is a post-it asking the typist to "pretty this up for me, okay?" Alas, the "neat typing" was done on the same paper as the handwritten note. And, against all basic rules of business correspondence, the post-it was included for clarification.)
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Aug. 1st, 2007 05:18 pm(Attached to the front of this neatly typed note is a post-it asking the typist to "pretty this up for me, okay?" Alas, the "neat typing" was done on the same paper as the handwritten note. And, against all basic rules of business correspondence, the post-it was included for clarification.)
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Lammas celebration...
Aug. 1st, 2007 09:35 pmI try to exercise on all of the holy days, and this day, I tried to do some journeying while working the elliptical. It worked; the spirit of the world tree had a lesson for me. (Nothing exciting, so I won't go into it.)
Then I came home for the real ritual... getting Apache working on my system with at least two virtual hosts.
I can't pretend I'm anywhere near any deep understanding of Unix right now... but I feel as if I've gained all the understanding one reasonably can without actually being a real-live admin.
I now know where to look for system log messages, and understand a bit about how to set that up.
I can set up Samba, BIND and Apache to the point that they're useful on a secure (firewalled!) local network. I don't know what security issues I'm facing... I haven't gone too deep into them.
I can set up basic security Samba and Apache - I can now access my Unix docs (/usr/share/doc) via Apache, and so can you, if you're on my 192.168.1/24 subnet.
There is a huge, huge, huge amount that I don't know.
But getting Apache set up first time through convinced me that I'm getting there. If I get a job that's mostly Windows, but willing to train on Unix, I feel comfortable saying I'll pick stuff up *fast*... because I'm now getting to the point that I'm a lot more aware of what I don't know.
I do have to confess to one thing, though... I'm not nearly as proud of my accomplishments as I thought I'd be. Linux has come a long way towards increasing ease of use and administration. I'm content to realize that I understand a lot of what's going on behind the scenes, but I don't think I could have learned nearly this much from scratch even 2-3 years ago.
So, my Lammas ritual was finding comfort that I could stand my ground in a new world. Now it's time for feasting. It's not bread made from the first harvested wheat, but it is bread dough... covered in tomato sauce, meat, cheese, and veggies :-). Hey, if they'd had pizza in ancient times, they'd have thought of this too!
Then I came home for the real ritual... getting Apache working on my system with at least two virtual hosts.
I can't pretend I'm anywhere near any deep understanding of Unix right now... but I feel as if I've gained all the understanding one reasonably can without actually being a real-live admin.
I now know where to look for system log messages, and understand a bit about how to set that up.
I can set up Samba, BIND and Apache to the point that they're useful on a secure (firewalled!) local network. I don't know what security issues I'm facing... I haven't gone too deep into them.
I can set up basic security Samba and Apache - I can now access my Unix docs (/usr/share/doc) via Apache, and so can you, if you're on my 192.168.1/24 subnet.
There is a huge, huge, huge amount that I don't know.
But getting Apache set up first time through convinced me that I'm getting there. If I get a job that's mostly Windows, but willing to train on Unix, I feel comfortable saying I'll pick stuff up *fast*... because I'm now getting to the point that I'm a lot more aware of what I don't know.
I do have to confess to one thing, though... I'm not nearly as proud of my accomplishments as I thought I'd be. Linux has come a long way towards increasing ease of use and administration. I'm content to realize that I understand a lot of what's going on behind the scenes, but I don't think I could have learned nearly this much from scratch even 2-3 years ago.
So, my Lammas ritual was finding comfort that I could stand my ground in a new world. Now it's time for feasting. It's not bread made from the first harvested wheat, but it is bread dough... covered in tomato sauce, meat, cheese, and veggies :-). Hey, if they'd had pizza in ancient times, they'd have thought of this too!
Lammas celebration...
Aug. 1st, 2007 09:35 pmI try to exercise on all of the holy days, and this day, I tried to do some journeying while working the elliptical. It worked; the spirit of the world tree had a lesson for me. (Nothing exciting, so I won't go into it.)
Then I came home for the real ritual... getting Apache working on my system with at least two virtual hosts.
I can't pretend I'm anywhere near any deep understanding of Unix right now... but I feel as if I've gained all the understanding one reasonably can without actually being a real-live admin.
I now know where to look for system log messages, and understand a bit about how to set that up.
I can set up Samba, BIND and Apache to the point that they're useful on a secure (firewalled!) local network. I don't know what security issues I'm facing... I haven't gone too deep into them.
I can set up basic security Samba and Apache - I can now access my Unix docs (/usr/share/doc) via Apache, and so can you, if you're on my 192.168.1/24 subnet.
There is a huge, huge, huge amount that I don't know.
But getting Apache set up first time through convinced me that I'm getting there. If I get a job that's mostly Windows, but willing to train on Unix, I feel comfortable saying I'll pick stuff up *fast*... because I'm now getting to the point that I'm a lot more aware of what I don't know.
I do have to confess to one thing, though... I'm not nearly as proud of my accomplishments as I thought I'd be. Linux has come a long way towards increasing ease of use and administration. I'm content to realize that I understand a lot of what's going on behind the scenes, but I don't think I could have learned nearly this much from scratch even 2-3 years ago.
So, my Lammas ritual was finding comfort that I could stand my ground in a new world. Now it's time for feasting. It's not bread made from the first harvested wheat, but it is bread dough... covered in tomato sauce, meat, cheese, and veggies :-). Hey, if they'd had pizza in ancient times, they'd have thought of this too!
Then I came home for the real ritual... getting Apache working on my system with at least two virtual hosts.
I can't pretend I'm anywhere near any deep understanding of Unix right now... but I feel as if I've gained all the understanding one reasonably can without actually being a real-live admin.
I now know where to look for system log messages, and understand a bit about how to set that up.
I can set up Samba, BIND and Apache to the point that they're useful on a secure (firewalled!) local network. I don't know what security issues I'm facing... I haven't gone too deep into them.
I can set up basic security Samba and Apache - I can now access my Unix docs (/usr/share/doc) via Apache, and so can you, if you're on my 192.168.1/24 subnet.
There is a huge, huge, huge amount that I don't know.
But getting Apache set up first time through convinced me that I'm getting there. If I get a job that's mostly Windows, but willing to train on Unix, I feel comfortable saying I'll pick stuff up *fast*... because I'm now getting to the point that I'm a lot more aware of what I don't know.
I do have to confess to one thing, though... I'm not nearly as proud of my accomplishments as I thought I'd be. Linux has come a long way towards increasing ease of use and administration. I'm content to realize that I understand a lot of what's going on behind the scenes, but I don't think I could have learned nearly this much from scratch even 2-3 years ago.
So, my Lammas ritual was finding comfort that I could stand my ground in a new world. Now it's time for feasting. It's not bread made from the first harvested wheat, but it is bread dough... covered in tomato sauce, meat, cheese, and veggies :-). Hey, if they'd had pizza in ancient times, they'd have thought of this too!