Spurred on by Zach's slug successes, I decided to bite the bullet and move my slug from UnSlung Linux to full Debian Linux. It took forever, but I now have four complete Debian systems.

One of those systems is being shipped out this week. My current Web host is going downhill fast: bogus charges, unreachable customer service, horrible mail service, support techs who insist there's nothing wrong until I walk them through the problem every step of the way. A friend of mine from high school runs an ISP, and he's letting me hang my own server off his tubes for much, much less than I'm paying now. And I'll have complete control of the box — I'm tired of begging for upgrades to software and being denied because having a version of software compiled within the last six years could "negatively impact other customers". (You should have seen the acrobatics I had to go through to create a working pamperspective binary for the On Notice Board Generator, since they removed all the compilers from the system. Thank goodness they left the linker...)

So I'll finally have my own server on the Internets again. Way, way back in the days before the Web, I had my own leaf node on UUCPNET, but that was nothing like it is these days. Why, you young kids have everything done for you; I had to write my own mail and newsreader software! While trudging uphill through great drifts of snow!

Get off my lawn!