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rss commentsI’d like to offer a weekly spot on the Inflatable Soapbox for a guest post. Anyone who’d like to share his or her views on an Open Source topic (Linux, WordPress, GIMP, MySQL, GPL, distro review, etc.) is welcome to submit a post. You must register first to gain contributor status.
Since I don’t have a guest lined up for today, I’ll tell you a little bit about the Inflatable Soapbox.
My friends and family have come to accept tolerate my style of communication: lecture. I don’t actually discuss an issue, I pontificate. I can frequently be seen standing at the virtual podium, left arm raised, index finger pointing skyward, “…and furthermore…”. You get the picture. I grew weary of lugging my soapbox around, so I did what any other pompous, didactic ass would do: I invented the Inflatable Soapbox. I carry it with me everywhere and can inflate it faster than Microsoft can pervert an open standard.
I’m currently running this on a ten year old Compaq DeskPro with a 500MHz Celeron, 384MB RAM, 10GB IDE HDD, from my home office on a Comcast high speed (1.5M down, 20M up) connection. This is far less expensive than a co-located setup, although my power situation leaves much to be desired. Thankfully, the ext3 file system and Ubuntu Linux (7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, LAMP server) recover nicely from the inevitable outages here at the shore. The second drawback is redirecting the domain from my hosted space at Hostway’s Chicago data center to my static IP (six month lease) on Comcast. That is why you see http://timkissane.com/ in your address bar instead of http://timkissane.com/.
Finally, as an experiment in traffic generation, I’ll be posting a photo of Lindsay Lohan nude (don’t worry, as you can see, it’s safe for work, the kids, whoever) that I found on Alexa while checking site rankings. Do you think this will help? 
Don’t forget to submit posts in time for next Wednesday’s guest spot!
Peace.
Tim Kissane, CEO and founder of Timbury Computer Services, has 20 years of industry experience serving large corporations (including Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, and IBM), small businesses and home users.
An avid proponent of Free and Open Source Software since 1994, Mr. Kissane is concerned with maintaining low-cost, unregulated publishing access to the Internet for small business and individuals.
Pompous I get but what’s “didactic”? I could look it up but figure I’d let you have a go at it first.
Where’s the sign up sheet for the guest write spot? I’m game. Ahh, there it is….
di·dac·tic (d-dktk) also di·dac·ti·cal (-t-kl)
adj.
1. Intended to instruct.
2. Morally instructive.
3. Inclined to teach or moralize excessively.
[Greek didaktikos, skillful in teaching, from didaktos, taught, from didaskein, didak-, to teach, educate.]
See, I’m doing it again…
I look forward to your post. I enjoy your writing style on MerlinsMinute; fluid, casual, informative without being… didactic.
Peace.
After all this time, “accept” your style of communication is accurate!
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Hey tim.
I luv that pic!!!! ESPECIALLY MONOCHROME SHOTS!!!
WHERE DID YA GET IT?? TOTALLLY SEXY
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About your redirecting …
Have you tried a Linksys router that will automatically update your IP with DynDNS? Whenever ComShaft gives me a new IP, the router updates my domain automagically.
@mich.linux.guy: Thanks for the comment! I don’t have to worry about the IP changing, because I’ve upgraded to a biz account. It;s not a true ’static’ IP, but the lease is 6 months. So, as long as I’m not disconnected for half a year, my IP stays the same.
This will change soon, however. I’m starting a new Timbury Hosting company. (That’s right, folks, you heard it here first!) All my domains will be hosted there and I’ll be offering low-cost shared hosting with tools for both the tech-savvy and the not-so-tech-savvy. More on this later.