My Purpose for this Site

Asterisk, domestic surveillance, Google, Internet, Linux, Microsoft, Postfix, Virtual Web Servers
I've decided to host my own servers and to do all the setup and maintenance myself for hosting this site and other services.  I've been working up to this for years with most of that time just having thoughts in passing about it.  In the past couple months I put together the infrastructure.  The servers, the software, the security, the maintenance tools the development tools, the backup tools and such to get it running.  I also put together a plan to hold it together. I decided to do it because I can.  I decided to do it to test my knowledge.  I decided to do it to integrate it into much of what I already have. (more…)
Read More

Who am I

Asterisk, History, Linux, Postfix, Virtual Web Servers
My experience with desktop computing goes back to the early years of PCs.  I began working with desktop computers in the early 80s.  I worked on some terminal based systems in the USAF and in college, yet any computing interest never took hold.  They seemed costly (expensive) and impersonal. (more…)
Read More