February 11, 2003
It’s nothing a little Ibuprofen can’t take care of.
Friend Ian told me that posts documenting my attempt at getting Movable Type and company set up on my Qube “… are getting painful to read”. His suggestion that it would be easier (and truth be told, faster) for me to set up a previous loved PC with Linux, Apache, PHP, Perl and whatever else strikes my fancy, than it would be to solve all of the issues with the Qube, are not unfounded. But where’s the fun in that? Moving to something tried, true, and in his words “more mainstream” would certainly be simpler. But I’m in no rush to roll this out. As mentioned before, the main issue I’m facing is maintaining the integrity of the 900 users on the Qube. There is no way of moving them to another box without hiring some *nix jock to do an exotic filesystem/useraccount migration finagle. So as it sits, there’s this cute little Cobalt Qube running an admittedly obfuscated version of Red Hat Linux, and that’s all I have to work with. If I indeed manage to figure out how all this stuff fits together, it’ll benefit me (because I’ll have hopefully learned something in the process) and it’ll benefit other poor souls (because I hold fast the belief that there are indeed other people out there with the same weird-ass machines as I). Naturally, documenting all of this silliness along the way helps immeasurably. Even if what I have been doing doesn’t help anyone solve their problems, it might just discourage them from descending into the mess in the first place.
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