Where technology has taken us
We take a lot of things for granted, and we don’t really think about how much we actually have. I take computers for granted a lot, and don’t think about how I use them in my everyday life, or how convenient they have made things. Actually I do think about how convenient they make things, when I get those e-mails at about 11:30 at night and I end up working :/ But that isn’t the point of this story.
The other day I was driving down the highway when it hit me, I never finished setting up that users FTP account into their website. I was waiting for the DNS changes to propagate so I could test everything at once, well that was 12 hours ago, so everything should be good to go. I’m not at my laptop so I pull out my Treo and check the website. It doesn’t load, instead I get my servers default home page .. oops, I must not have the virtual host setup. So still with my Palm Treo, I log into my servers and reboot apache thinking I had already setup the config files. Nope, still wrong, the default page loads again. So I log back into my server with pssh, and then setup a config file with vim, and restart Apache .. Woohoo everything works. So I go back in and add run the commands commands with pure-pw to setup a basic FTP account and we are done, it only took me about 15 – 20 minutes.
I was pretty stoked that I could do all of this from my cell phone, but what, that isn’t the best part. I was able to do all of this while driving down the highway. Yes I know that isn’t safe, but Hell, how many people can say they setup an Apache vhost and ftp account while driving down the highway, let alone in a bash shell! It’s the small things in life that make you smile.
