I've been more productive in one-and-a-half hours this evening than I managed all weekend. I'm not sure whether I like where this is going.
In any case, I am now incredibly close to having my personal server configured the way I want it. Or at least doing the things I want it to do. In order to know how I want it configured, I still have to figure out exactly what I've actually done.
Which, thus far, amounts to getting Railo Community running on Resin though Apache,and managing to get the whole thing to work though reboots. All with a side journey of getting my iptables config to reload itself between reboots.
I've been running Linux as my main desktop for three years now, but my eyes still glaze over whenever I need to dip into the deeper system-level configurations. Too many flavors of Linux, too many how-tos that just tell you mindless steps to follow. Once I'm though piecing together what I need from three or four of them, I'm incredibly unikely to know what I just did, much less be able to repeat it on my own.
In short, we need less How-Tos, and more Why-Tos.
Oh, and also, I've installed this blog.
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