I finally thought of something purposeful to blog about! I do a fair amount of odd support work, and it always ticks me off when I'm researching an issue and the only other guy to ever have the same problem is a post two years ago with no replies. To appease the dark spirits of tech support , I'll post my weird one-off problems and hopefully the solutions.

So, a quick rundown of my current projects. Right now I'm working on:

One old gaming desktop that I'm repurposing into a headless home server. This is happening very slowly because other things keep breaking.
An OpenVZ VPS Minecraft server running CentOS6.2 x86_64 (that I'm glad I take regular backups of) on a provider that just got all kinds of wrecked by a brute-force attack this evening. Hint hint, this is probably the subject of my next post.
Two perfectly good machines that I stupidly upgraded to Windows 8. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Even worse, I thought I'd get it done in half an hour and spent probably six instead. I desperately hope most users had a way better upgrade experience than I did. I'll save this for a different post as well.

Based on the frequency with which I click through to random blogs while trying to fix something, I hope this can be of use to somebody instead of just cathartic rambling.