Nothing wrong with "rm -rf" at all if you know what you are doing and paying attention. Unix/Linux does not try to baby you like Windows does, so you have to be careful as root.

Level 01.08 got me stumped. Can't make any sense out of those numbers. Who got that one so far?

Finally got it too. Took me 11 attempts. Looks simple after I figured it out. LOL

If it goes away what am I going to use to download Firefox? LOL

I got curious... I went to GoDaddy and created NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM and NS2.MYOMAIN.COM that both point to the IP address of my digital ocean server. So once those propagate NS1 and NS2 should point to my servers IP address? Once I can ping those I will setup Bind on the digital ocean server and mess with it. Sounds to me that it should work. If I can get this set up this way I will drop my "old host" because I will save $20/month. As I said before my server is just a hobby, I do have mail for a friends domain hosted on other server but the http goes to his other site (via DNS, his domain points to my server), I'm pretty much just the mail server for him. I do need more than local DNS because of that. Guess I'm setting this up as a webhost instead of a test machine :) Randy

The more I think about it though... as long as I have a static IP address I should be able to bypass their DNS and run Bind on the server? I'm not a DNS expert though.

The other thing that bothers me is their DNS is controlled in their "control panel". I'd rather run Bind on my VPS. But I'm getting used to it. My current VPS (not digitalocean) I can create a subdomain, restart bind, and it is there! It takes about 30 minutes for a subdomain DNS record to update at digitalocean.

Yes, you get a static IP. I have deleted and started many new servers and have always had the same IP address.

I have been trying them out for a few weeks now. So far so good. I have a VPS elsewhere just for my own hobby and may switch to digital ocean after I get everything setup with one domain the way I like it. Biggest problem I have had is configuring a mail server. LAMP config is easy. The really cool part is before I start a big install of something I make a snapshot so that if I screw things up I can get back to before the screw up. You can also install a desktop and VNC and use TightVNC to see an actual desktop. I didn't like the desktop real well it hogged resources bad. (I'm on the 1G of memory $10/US plan).

We normally have to do little work arounds here and there for minor things but this issues didn't allow the whole page to work. A page written in .NET, served by IIS, and tested with IE. 3 MS things that obviously don't always work together :) LOL

One of the other developers at work today finally had a problem with ajax not working right in IE... but worked in every other browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera). It was because of that "User Agent" string that IE 10 & 11 passes (the site worked in IE9 fine). If they are going to say they are "Mozilla" shouldn't they at least have it work in Mozilla compatible code is passed back from IIS? We installed a "patch" on our dev server and it finally worked after a reboot. We can't just reboot our live server whenever we want to install this patch (we have many financial transactions per minute). The thing that makes me the maddest is that why use "Mozilla" user agent string if your not to web standards like Mozilla? Microsoft doesn't have a clue what standards are. I use IE to test sites and to download firefox when I get a new machine. That is about the only thing it's good for. It's bad that open source browsers/servers can stay more compliant to web standards than a company that has billions to spend. That is my rant for the day :)

I am the only one that thinks the C# intellisense is terrible? I remember back when I did VB.NET and intellisence was great. Visual Studio needs to step up and get this crap fixed. I had red "underlines" everywhere in my C# project and couldn't figure out why. I recompiled the code, they all went away and everything was good. So in order to get rid of errors you have to compile? I love C# but the intellisence and errors it detects pisses me off :)

The 4th Amendment is the 4th Amendment... it doesn't say "except for electronic communications". I agree they should need a warrant. But then again, this administration doesn't follow any rules of any other amendment so why would they start now LOL. Randy

I got almost all drivers working now. My USB 2.0 ports work fine, the two 3.0 ports aren't working yet. Getting closer :)

I had Windows 8 using "Classic Shell" so I never saw the Metro screen so was happy for a while since I had a regular desktop. Things that made me mad: 1.) Windows would tell me is was "GOING TO REBOOT" for an update and didn't give me choice to postpone reboot! I just hit cancel thinking it would keep asking... no it just rebooted while I was using it! 2.) When I tried to start VMWare Workstation a windows prompt came up telling me because of recent updates I need to reinstall VMWare Workstation. Why is the OS making me "reinstall" my apps that it should not touch? I'm on Win7 now. Still got drivers to download. Going backward screws you as far as the OS detecting drivers. I had to go straight to RealTek site on my other computer to download driver so I could get a "wired network" connection. Then Win 7 Update found my wireless card. I'm going to go crazy today but it will be worth it. As soon as I have all drivers working I'm using Macrium Reflect Free to backup image of a clean install so if I have to reinstall again I don't go through this.

I love it. I have VS command prompt, CMD, and powershell setup in mine. Nice to have everything in one place.

Just backed everything up on my Windows 8 laptop and have my Windows 7 Pro DVD in the drive. Time to reboot. Bye bye Win8. I will run Win8 in a VM if I absolutely need it. :)

LOL. Little under 8000 years... they better start working now. Linux probably already supports it :)

I'm always looking at this page cause I don't always remember all the off the wall date formats. I found this! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx#yyyyySpecifier[^] So their Y10K compliant as far as formatting a date? But anything over 9999 blows up. Guess MS has a little bit more work to do on Y10K compliance? Hopefully they get it done on time!

I'd like to change my personal VPS to Maria. Although I'm not sure how possible that is right now since I'm using cPanel which supports MySQL.