August 13th, 2003:

It’s all coming back to me in a blinding flash of hatred. I’m recalling exactly why I hated running a small webhosting company in the first place. There are no GOOD tools that allow a user to configure web, mail, dns, and other services easily and securely. At least not for free. And, when you’re running a small webhosting company (or in this case, a non-profit webhosting company) you don’t really have the cash to spend on a product you don’t really like anyway.

So now I’m pondering writing the pieces myself and doing the configuration manually until it’s done. Ugh.

Anyone know of decent software that allows users to configure apache, mysql, SMTP and IMAP/POP services on their own?

Toby loves to chew on wires. I don’t know if he enjoys being electrocuted, or if he just knows it’ll get him attention, but he does it constantly. I thought maybe he’d gotten past this horrible habit, because he hasn’t done it in a while. I thought wrong.

As I was sitting at my computer I suddenly heard the sounds of a USB device being rapidly plugging in and un-plugged from Jess’ computer. I spin my chair around to see Toby chomping away at her mouse cord. Ugh. What color would you like your new mouse to be, baby?

It looks like he got part of her speaker cable as well, but it’s repairable.