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03/04/2003 Archived Entry: "Not sure if you can read this, but I'll rant anyway"

...been working on moving all my crap over to a cheap-ass 200Mhz computer to do the home serving for me. Unfortunately, I had problems getting it all to work so this blog and Jen's were kind of half out of commission for a day or two.

Some interesting things to note:
Debian doesn't turn a damned thing on for you, even if it makes sense to do so. Take the Apache webserver for example...the Alias directive allows you to link over to a directory on your server that is not in the directory specified as your 'webserver' directory. The configuration file that you use to make this happen is only editable by root, and you have to actually use the command (and therefore know what it is) to have anything happen. By default the command isn't used. Yet, the -ability- to use it is turned off by default. So in order to do what you want, you have to turn on the ability, then turn on the command, then reboot the server. All of the above require that you are root, so it doesn't make sense to not turn the ability on by default because if you are worried about someone using it in negative ways, well, they are root, so they can pretty much screw your server in a 1000 ways anyway. This is 'protecting the user from himself' in the worst way, which is something I utterly hate about the Windows platform.

So...I switched to linux to get away from that crap, only to find that the distro I have to learn for work does it. Other distros do not. Hence, I will prefer other distros.

Anyway, that's my rant...spewed out whole and un-edited and probably not even understandable.

I've been reading the best page in the universe.

We got the apartment! We got the apartment! I'm going to live in a cool place instead of a drug-infested, crime-ridden, 'neighbourhood' in Surrey.

We're going to be living in Steveston (Living in Steveston means never having to say you're Surrey!) right on the damn ocean. How damn cool is that?!

...an I'm going to get a tattoo...an drink lattes...an start smoking pungent indian cigarettes...an buy a beret...an talk about the neo-beourgeois...and decry the capitalist imperial hegemony...an subscribe to a communist newsletter...an leave it on my coffee table (made of un polished wood or painted black with cigarette ash streaks) so that all my aquaintances will know how cool I am...

Just kill me now...Really, I just want to have a place I can relax at.

...an maybe spew some non sequiturs on occasion...

Replies: 3 comments

Congratulations!!! That's so awesome, Steveston is such an awesome place, I envy you. Plus it's a convenient jumping off point for the island. R Posted by Bleachdrinker @ 03/05/2003 10:28 AM PST

Cool -- sounds like a good new place to live. Posted by Chuk @ 03/05/2003 11:14 AM PST