In high school, I’d spend my evenings toiling away solitarily at a computer, punching the keys to get a thing done. Intent on building a thing that nobody will possibly see, but by god, if they did, they’d be impressed. I guess, 30 years later, it’s good that nothing changes, right? Right?
Category Archives: Technology
Twenty Years
Ah yeah, forgot to post this. $ whois phaysis.comDomain Name: PHAYSIS.COMCreation Date: 2000-04-14T14:49:59ZUpdated Date: 2020-03-06T01:19:03Z Phaysis-the-domain is 20 years old this week. Twenty. Phaysis-the-site exists for about 21 years, since I switched from my The Farm subdomain hosted at my dialup ISP to my first CGI-enabled subdomain at a proper webhost oh so long ago. …
Icosiennial
Twenty years ago, I remember feeling hope. Was working a shit job doing overnight front desk at a hotel, night audit. Living in my mother’s rented house. Scratching my ankles every day because the carpets were still tainted from the flea bombs we set while moving in nine months prior. Glaring at the daylight streaming …
Dropped
Well, damn. The old music workstation that I was going to repurpose into my radio desk workstation has a copy of Windows 7 which is now out of support. There goes that plan. I mean, I can still use it, but why spend all the time and energy integrating onto a platform that’s beyond end-of-life? …
Owncloud and Fail2ban Mismatch
For the past mumble years at home I’ve had an installation of Owncloud running, and one thing that’s been on my To-Do list is to put fail2ban in front of it to inconvenience any bad actors attempting to bruteforce their way into the Owncloud server (use random passwords, yo). I initially installed F2b on my …