[brlug-general] Slicehost?

[Joe Fruchey]

> What else while I'm giving unsolicited advice...

It wasn't unsolicited. I asked for opinions, right?

Now, Laserjet III and 4? Seriously? Granted, I've only been in IT for ten
years, so even when I started, those printers were old. In fact, I've only
ever seen two LJ III's. But to me, the 4's always just been the old, slow,
smelly dinosaurs that you give to people you don't like.

Joe

I once saw a LaserJet 4 in the stack of equipment to go out (it was sent to
us or repair). The note on it, under "description of work done," said
"normal smell for old laser printer." That's classic.

On 6/29/07, Daniel Webb <lists at danielwebb.us> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:00:14PM -0500, Joe Fruchey wrote:
>
> > Getting excited about server admin... does that make me a geek? =P
>
> Yes.  Welcome to the club.
>
> Here are the servers/services I run on my slice:
>
> HTTP:   Apache2 of course
> HTTP proxy: Privoxy
> Website templating: simple custom system in PHP
> Website photo gallery:  Gallery (should probably change this to something
> else;
>                         Gallery has had way too many exploits)
> DNS:    Bind 9
> SMTP:   Postfix (there was a long email tread on the Boulder LUG that
>                 convinced me to switch from Exim to Postfix)
> Spam blocking: combination of Amavis-new and Spamassassin with Razor
>         (long thread on Boulder LUG on why I think that is best for home
> setup)
> VPN:    OpenVPN
> RCS:    Subversion (keep your important documents and files in a RCS!)
> Printing:  CUPS
> IMAP:   Dovecot (I think it's easier to setup and understand than Courier)
> Webmail: IlohaMail (switched to this from Squirrelmail)
> Database: Postgres (any database that doesn't consider transactions an
>                         essential feature is really just a filesystem)
> VNC:    RealVNC 4 (the GPL version, switched to this from TightVNC because
> it
>                 is better)
> Backups:  rdiff-backup (actually not running on my slice but on my home
>         machine)
>
> What else while I'm giving unsolicited advice...
>
> Ratpoison with a heavily-modified config is my window manager.
> Mutt is the best email client ever.
> Vim is the best editor ever.
> The Thinkpad 600E was the best laptop ever made.
> The HP Laserjet 3&4 were the best black and white printers ever made.
> Microsoft Windows and Office are still extremely flakey (no joke: I
> blue-screened Windows XP once by trying to login, and I can crash IE or
> Office
> on any computer by simply using them normally for a few minutes.  I know
> most
> people don't have such experience but I must be "special").
>
> I tend to be opinionated about software, although if you have a good
> argument
> I will change my opinion (like I did with Postfix, Dovecot, RealVNC and
> IlohaMail).  I highly value stability and robustness.  Of the packages I
> use
> above only Apache, Bind, Postfix, OpenVPN, and Postgres meet my standards
> as
> something I would call stable and robust.
>
> Daniel
>
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