asciilifeform: i don't recall ever installing gentoo, for instance, any other way
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, pete_dushenski , trinque , et al : here's a top from asciilifeform's house of horrors : don't bother selective-booting the things. just yank the drive and put what you want on it ~directly~, then put back.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: what kind of box was this
asciilifeform: ( it'll be interesting , however, if i ever actually turn 'nqb' into something like a btctron, to see what it'll run on, with the programmable memory footprint and hard-realtime mechanics.. )
asciilifeform: i could picture a water-cooled thing with a very short loop, and good seals (i.e. no expectation of ever being able to disassemble it: welded copper pipes, like your fridge) not leaking.
asciilifeform had a water-cooled box, with around six litres, for some years. (it ~did~ eventually leak.)
asciilifeform: if you ever do find -- fill it with fluorinert.
asciilifeform: here in northern monkeystan 'no papers' is a guaranteed trip to the station.
asciilifeform: who ELSE could've possibly complained lel
asciilifeform: ( in usa it is just short of armed robbery , afaik, though ianal )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is that even a ticketable offense in mircea_popesculandia ?
asciilifeform: i set up a lisp in there once, even (i forget which, may have been clisp) but it was a pain, whole process had to be born when page is loaded, and promptly die
asciilifeform: the thing is hyper-optimized for hosting well-ddosed blogs. and specifically ones running on 1990s-style software, where the cpu is idle except when somebody is actually loading a page. but other than that imposes no restrictions on proggies you run, last i saw you even had gcc in there, could build own, run.
asciilifeform: certainly nobody ought to suffer any delusion of crypto-isolation, when buying vpsolade.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: we are speaking of simulacra. i have nfi if it is physically a 'whole' process.
asciilifeform: wholly custom, made by perhaps long-dead gnomes.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: it suffers -- besides the obvious minuses described earlier -- from the martian problem. i.e. if it ever dies, there is no ready replacement
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: you get a postgres process tho. by ticking a box in the www acct panel; it then magically appears in your pseudolinux.
asciilifeform: for all i know, they wrote from scratch.
