So, how can I help you to find your way around here?
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Some interesting(?) and historical information about this Web site:
This site officially opened on 1-Jan-1999.
The site used to be spread around on different 'free' locations.
That includes CompuServe (2 sites),
GeoCities,
Xoom,
and a few more spots in the Web.
Finally,
I just had it with banners, watermarks, limited ftp connections, disk quotas etc.
That's why I decided to create my private site.
That's when schaffter.com was born.
Between Jan-1999 and May-2004,
the site was hosted by
SoftCom.
Since SoftCom is a Canadian company,
the site was physically located on a server in Canada.
Furthermore,
I was limited to 50MB disk, anonymous ftp but no shell account.
The price was interesting, though.
In May-2004,
the site moved to
Bytemark,
a UK based company.
I fell for the phrase "Full root access on your own dedicated host".
And I have so far had no reason to regret that decision.
The guys managing the host service are excellent!
I have my own User Mode Linux virtual computer on the public Internet.
There was a choise of Linux based operating systems,
so I chose
Gentoo Linux
in my virtual machine.
As a result,
I compile, recompile and configure the software that I chose to have installed.
The only limitation under User Mode Linux is that I cannot re-compile my own kernels,
nor can I load any kernel modules.
I have a set of pre-compiled kernels to chose from,
provided by the
Bytemark
administration.
So far, they all work perfectly well.
Most of my pages assume that you have a decently modern browser.
You are also supposed to have JavaScript enabled.
Some pages will also require that Java is enabled,
to give you some value.
Some interesting(?) and historical information about this Web site:
In May-2004,
the site moved to
Bytemark,
a UK based company.
I fell for the phrase "Full root access on your own dedicated host".
And I have so far had no reason to regret that decision.
The guys managing the host service are excellent!
I have my own User Mode Linux virtual computer on the public Internet.
There was a choise of Linux based operating systems,
so I chose
Gentoo Linux
in my virtual machine.
As a result,
I compile, recompile and configure the software that I chose to have installed.
The only limitation under User Mode Linux is that I cannot re-compile my own kernels,
nor can I load any kernel modules.
I have a set of pre-compiled kernels to chose from,
provided by the
Bytemark
administration.
So far, they all work perfectly well.
