Drew Burden

A nerd showers you with his opinions.

Entries Tagged ‘vafo2240’

We can rebuild it. We have the .config

Configuring and compiling a kernel under Linux is one of the rites of passage of geekdom. This will mark go number 3 for me, but only because I messed up last time. You see, for the past few weeks my DNS server has been bombarded for root nameserver queries in an apparent DDoS attack on [...]

Back home.

Due to a seriously baffling chain of events this morning, my web site is now back on my very trusty server at the Loch Raven Building. Shortest. Blog post. EVAR.

The migration continues

CIMG0806, originally uploaded by nedrubwerd. I apologize for writing so much about this. It seems like it’s so unimportant to other people but right now it’s the only thing going on. It’ll eventually stop. So to follow up, I looked at how hard it would be to implement virtual email hosting on this server. It’s [...]

On managing a server manually

My web site was the latest in a string to find its way to vafo2240.indgeek.net, a 2U rackmount server sitting on a table on the first floor of the Loch Raven Building. Since I’m too poor (and/or lazy) to have a Web-based control panel on this server, all the VirtualHost nodes and zone files are [...]

A new home

If you can see this blog post, you are accessing DrewBurden.com at its new home on a server owned by me. I’ll have to see how things go before posting a status update sometime soon. Maybe now I’ll blog a bit more.