byon’s blog – my daily rant!

I’ve migrated finally from my home server over to wordpress service. alright gonna blog here soon when i have the time. lol!

I can’t afford wasting anymore electricity pumping up a server that only serves afew services that practically generate no income..

well if you’re interested on what my runs on my server in the past,

Compaq Desktop
Pentium II 300MHz (Deschutes) 512KB
768MB PC-133 SDRAM
ATi Rage PRO

psybnc, ircd, httpd, bittorrent, squid, mysqld, ventrilo, samba file server

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 8.9G 2.4G 6.1G 28% /
/dev/hdc 19G 14G 4.1G 78% /hdd2
tmpfs 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm

This server is going down in 3-months time, hopefully that’s when most people updated their blog links/etc.

A good old story in my collection,
She is 92 years old, petite, well poised, and proud. She is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with her hair fashionably coifed, and her makeup perfectly applied, in spite of the fact she is legally blind.

Today she has moved to a nursing home. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making this move necessary.

After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home where I am employed, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet curtains that had been hung on her window.

“I love it,” she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.

“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room … just wait,” I said.

Then she spoke these words that I will never forget:

“That does not have anything to do with it,” she gently replied. “Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not does not depend on how the furniture is arranged. It is how I arrange my mind. I have already decided to love it.”

“It is a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice. I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or I can get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do work. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I will focus on the new day and all of the happy memories I have stored away … just for this time in my life.”