Thursday 12th January 2012
Welcome to Vorax
The Server
Welcome to my home online. Vorax (this server) started out a few years ago as a battered old PIII 500 running SuSE Linux 8.2. I put the box together because I was tired of paying ridiculously high fees for hosting on crippled boxes. I've never looked back. The current version of Vorax is a Micro ATX box built in a small case. The server itself has a 32bit P-IV chip mounted in an Intel motherboard along side a meagre 1GB of RAM.
Vorax is primarily a mail and web server, it currently runs on Ubuntu server. Vorax ran on SuSE and OpenSuSE for many years, but I moved it to Ubuntu after I started to use it on my desktop. Vorax uses Postfix for mail and Apache for the web server. The site itself is written using PHP.
The Point
Initially Vorax was setup as a sandbox for me to play in with new web development technologies. Nowadays Vorax is a hard working little box that lives in the garage. While I no longer use Vorax very much for sandboxing new development ideas, I do use it as a blog and as somewhere to host a couple of sites for family and friends.
See below for recent changes to the site and also feel free to poke around using the main menu to see the other bits and bobs I have here.
Recently Added
2012/01/12
Did a little work on the RPG pages, still very much a work in progress, corrected a few bugs and tried to clarify some of the descriptions. Still a lot to do in here even though I'm deliberately trying to keep the system as tiny as possible.
2011/11/17
I've been tinkering with the site, added a new theme for a change. I'm still loving my easy-to-template system. I've also integrated twitter into the site so that my random mutterings are included for your perusal.
2011/10/29
What are Blizzard thinking? Have they run out of good ideas? Check out the Pandas!
2011/09/22
I've read an interesting article on rice microRNA making it's way into the bodies of mice (and men) where it messes with the hosts own RNA in a bizarre way.
2011/09/05
I've been reading a paper about The Myth of Green Jobs, specifically looking at green power generation and government policy from an economists perspective.
2011/09/02
I found a cool little tool called scratch that will help me teach my son programming. I've created a new scratch page in the programming section where I'll keep a log of our progress.
