But first, I'm still chewing on the idea of server colocation. I definitely like my virtual colocation arrangement with Rimuhosting. It's cheap, and I do get a system that's more or less real. However, and this is a problem intrinsic to UML systems, you get very little disk, and more problematic, even less RAM. I have 4G disk and 128M RAM on mine, and frequently am pushing the limits of my swap. The cost difference between the $40/month I pay for it and colocation ($80+/month) isn't that huge, and if I were to use real hardware, I could actually have a decent amount of RAM/disk in the thing.

Also, next weekend, Debb and I are making a trip to Cincinnati to see a soccer game. Fun!

And now... the tale of .. actually, a few sysadmins. Sysadmin A customizes the hell out of Linux, bypassing the package manager for most things, adding its own, ill-behaved replacement package manager that happens to enjoy removing(!) files that it doesn't know about. Sysadmin A also frequently breaks things, and because all of its strange additions to Linux are undocumented, and a fair number of them are unique to its organization, users, even quite sophisticated ones, are generally helpless to fix problems or install additional things they need, and when they do get involved, because the system is already poorly documented, they tend to add their own, even more fragile hacks on top of the hacks sysadmin A uses.

Sysadmin B doesn't customizes the system as much, but all the critical parts of the system are wrong, more appropriate for an experimental 'toy' system where the bleeding edge is danced upon.

Sysadmin C is conservative, dislikes software that hasn't been around for several years, and follows a very traditional way of how systems should be organized, deviating from 'vanilla' configurations only after a lot of pushing.

I'm sad to see that the effort by some to be able to own more types of information in the United States is moving forward I only hope that the Information Hoarders' efforts continue to be thwarted by Information Liberators :)

Similarly, the prudes are almost done with their push to make obscenity more finable on radio and TV. Very frustrating.