{"id":528,"date":"2011-06-02T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T13:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=528"},"modified":"2011-06-02T13:51:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T13:51:22","slug":"nothing-day-dedicated-server-good-day-journal-exercise-server-installs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Day! (Dedicated Server, Good Day, Journal, Exercise, Server Installs)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday, as I mentioned on Friday, I made the leap from simple webhost to dedicated server.\u00a0 More accurately, I called my webhost (1&1<\/a>), got a few questions answered, and then ordered the Dedicated Server hosting service.\u00a0 By Thursday evening, my server was ready.\u00a0 I then started to move my wizards-palace domain from old host to new host.\u00a0 This finished on Friday, although it disabled my email in the process.\u00a0 This took some effort to restore–nevermind the details, but I succeeded in restoring it on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of Sunday, it was an especially Good Day.\u00a0 First, I took the day off.\u00a0 Not just from work, but from church.\u00a0 I just stayed home.\u00a0 This was my goal, and for a change I actually succeeded.\u00a0 Attempts in the past to just stay home have often found a need to go outside, but this past Sunday I went nowhere.<\/p>\n

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Sunday was Indy 500 race day.\u00a0 Before and slightly during the race, I worked on my email problem and, as mentioned above, got everything functional again.\u00a0 After the race, I set to work on restoring my websites.\u00a0 This took less time than I thought it would.\u00a0 Then I went into EverQuest.\u00a0 Keeping in mind it was mid to late afternoon at this point, I accomplished a lot in EQ.\u00a0 My friend Mags joined me on his chanter before I made my first pull.\u00a0 Said chanter wanted to gain a level and was about thirty percent away.\u00a0 So we churned away in my favorite experience-grinding spot.\u00a0 Shaka and Dan both completed an AA line and got good starts on the next ones in their list, while Boom completed two<\/em> AA lines.\u00a0 Day off, Race, Email + Websites (full server migration complete!), EQ progress; amazingly good day!\u00a0 Oh, and Mahe, Mags’ chanter, got his level.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, I bought an ebook about lucid dreaming last week.\u00a0 Lucid dreaming is where you’re dreaming and you know<\/em> you’re dreaming, so you can control your dream.\u00a0 I have done it a couple of times before, and would like to do so regularly.\u00a0 So I got this ebook and started to read it.\u00a0 I came across an instruction I have seen many times before:\u00a0 Start a dream journal.\u00a0 I have resisted this idea before, although I can’t say why.\u00a0 I bought a blank book, and on Tuesday I made my first entry in it.\u00a0 Today I made another, somewhat lengthier entry.\u00a0 We’ll see if it helps me have lucid dreams.<\/p>\n

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I also am making another attempt at starting an exercise program.\u00a0 I did a routine on Tuesday morning which involved jumping jacks (yes, it shook the house a bit), crunches, squats and leg lifts.\u00a0 As I have not yet repeated this routine, I can’t call it a habit yet, but hopefully I will motivate myself (see Tuesday’s post) to do so.\u00a0 I am aiming for exercise freak in hopes of achieving daily exercise.<\/p>\n

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To make today’s post a circle, I will come back to my server upgrade.\u00a0 The biggest advantage of having a dedicated server is root access to said server.\u00a0 With my original hosting plan, I could upload all the data I wanted, but I couldn’t make the host server do anything more than host that data.\u00a0 With my new hosting package, I can remotely log into my server and install \/ run things.\u00a0 This is through what’s called an SSH interface, which is a new level of nerdiness for me.\u00a0 I have long heard of Linux nerds doing all sorts of fun things through a command prompt; now I understand a little more about that as SSH is just that.<\/p>\n

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I am first endeavoring to get my server to do some things in Java.\u00a0 There’s an interface for this called Tomcat, and that’s where the fun begins.\u00a0 First, I had to figure out how to get Tomcat onto the server physically and unzip it.\u00a0 Unzipping in Linux is a little different, but I figured it out.\u00a0 I also installed the Java SDK for Linux so that Tomcat can do the Java thing it was designed to do.\u00a0 So far, so good.\u00a0 I ran the “install” for Tomcat, which complained there was no compiler on the system.\u00a0 This should have been an alarm to me, but I am still a Linux newbie.\u00a0 Tomcat recommended GCC, so I went and got that.\u00a0 The configuration mechanism for this told me the same thing Tomcat did, that there wasn’t a compiler available.\u00a0 That’s right, I need a compiler for my compiler.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 That’s my task for today.\u00a0 If I manage that, I’ll move onto getting Tomcat configured and maybe even creating a “servlet” (small application running on the server).<\/p>\n

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So it’s been a busy week.\u00a0 Yesterday was, work wise, the height of this.\u00a0 It was not back to back calls all day long, but there wasn’t more than a ten minute gap between calls when it wasn’t back to back, and usually it was much less than ten minutes.\u00a0 That lasted right up to 10:25, five minutes before I left work.\u00a0 No pattern, no big outage type problems, just random problems.\u00a0 Ah, well.<\/p>\n

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Enough for today.\u00a0 See you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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