I got my hard drives from <a href=”http://www.tigerdirecct.com”>TigerDirect</a> several days ago. All worked out well in the end. The drives were back ordered and thats what took so long. Not as long as some places when you order back ordered items. The pre-authorization charge was dropped 2 days later by the bank. Which was good.

I got my VPS up and running. It was a pain in the ass to get LAMP working but I did. Originally I tried to use Gentoo as its my favorite and it has portage. Well the networking wasn’t working with that version. So I decided to then use Slackware. Networking was working all was well, until I started trying to install stuff for LAMP. The pre-created template of Slackware I was using, was so stripped down it was missing a ton of stuff to install it. So after trying many times I ended up using CentOS4. Its fully running and comes with several of the packages I really needed. Even then I installed yum and had that grab the packages I needed as well as their dependencies.

I am happy. The power has been going out quite a bit here lately, so my mom got me a battery backup for Christmas.. So I am awaiting that so my VPS can work without me worrying if its going to destroy the file system apart. Before I got my drives the power went out and messed up the file system of the hard drive that was in. Luckily it only messed up KDE and not any of my web stuff.

The next step is to setup SubVersion and get that running good. I am new to it, but I could use it.