October 26, 2007
questions
1) When will the machine serving these plambeck.org web pages finally roll over and die?
Context: The web server that's just delivered this web page to you is an extremely old Gateway PC, originally manufactured in 1993 or so and consigned to the garage about 1997 as useless techno-garbage, but then reawakened and called to duty suddenly like some mouldering two-star general in moment of national crisis (roundabout 1999), and now sitting high over Silicon valley in a Google-friend's luxurious "machine room" like some unlikely pasha. I like to think of it enjoying the view below. About 2 years ago its network card died, but I just put a new one in there, and everything suddenly sprung back to life. Greg helped me turn off all the services on the machine except httpd so that it's basically hacker-proof, or at least seems to be.
2) When it dies, what will I do with what's here? I have something like a backup, but not really. It would take a lot of work to resurrect all the spaghetti content that's entangled on this web server. Is it worth resurrecting? And what about the stupid company name generator page, on which I decided to run Google ads and keep making more and more money, without my lifting a finger?
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