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Generations from now, they won't call it the Internet anymore. They'll just say, "I logged on to the Jim Groom this morning.
-Joe McMahon
Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
-Serena Epstein
My understanding is that an essential requirement of the internet is to do whatever Jim Groom asks of you while you're online.
-James D. Calder
@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
My 3yr old son is VERY intrigued by @jimgroom's avatar. "Is he a superhero?" "Well, yes, son, to many he is."
-Clint Lalonde
Jim Groom is a fiery man.
-Antonella Dalla Torre
“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
I am Jim Groom
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Category Archives: sysadmin
bavaserver To-do List
Get the Nginx configuration to force https Figure out why Bitninja external firewall wreaks havoc when activated (php-fpm and/or Nginx conflicts?) Experiment with phpMyAdmin versus SequelPro to see how I want to manage the database going forward Setup monitoring so … Continue reading
Reclaim Arcade: the Email Game
Things are getting serious, I now have my official Reclaim Arcade email address: [email protected]. That makes 5 email addresses! The way I run my email is foward my various email addresses from Reclaim Hosting, Rockaway, and Reclaim Arcade’s Google Suite … Continue reading
Managing Mail on the bavaserver
I’ve been on a bit of a roll with the bavaserver setup, and I am going to try and ride that energy for a bit longer before the semester gets into full gear at Reclaim Hosting and any remnants of … Continue reading
The Great Firewalls of bava
Luckily, installing both an internal and external firewall on the new bava setup was not nearly as difficult setting up the LEMP environment outlined in my previous post. For the server-based firewall I used the same one we have on … Continue reading
New Year, New Digs for the bava
I’ve been pretty good about trying to catch up and organize my photos on Flickr, more on that anon, but I got sucked into a New Year’s project that consumed me for the last two days. I decided to move … Continue reading
Excluding files from a Zip Archive
I am in catch-up mode on some blog posts, and this one belongs to what D’Arcy Norman termed the outboard brain genre of post. I was migrating a WordPress site from another hosting service a couple of weeks back, and … Continue reading
A Postscript on Server Migrations (redirecting network traffic to a new IP)
During the break between Christmas and New Year’s I migrated a server from Linode to Digital Ocean. We have just a handful left, and most of those should be gone this year. This migration was pretty straightforward, no WordPress portal … Continue reading
Adding Super Admin Access for WPMS
While I’m on the sysadmin blogging tip, wanted to record another issue that came my way this week so I can remember how to solve it. WordPress Multisite (WPMS) is probably the application I am most comfortable with supporting (which … Continue reading
Restarting a Discourse Container
We have a server that runs a kind of multisite Discourse environment that I discussed a number of years ago in this post. It is an Ubuntu server with Docker installed, and each of the Discourse instances on that server … Continue reading
Migrating a cPanel server between Cloud Hosting Providers
This post is a quick run down of the steps for migrating servers so the next time I have all the steps in one place. The scenario in this case is we’re migrating a school’s server from Linode to Digital … Continue reading