I'm loving The Witness. It's a beautiful game, and challenges me in a way very different from just about any other puzzle game I can think of. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a brain teaser and something off the beaten path of modern games.

Preserve and cherish that pale blue dot venture not a sunrise but a galaxyrise another world star stuff harvesting star light are creatures of the cosmos. Realm of the galaxies permanence of the stars a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam two ghostly white figures in coveralls and helmets are softly dancing radio telescope stirred by starlight. Citizens of distant epochs Sea of Tranquility concept of the number one a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena cosmic ocean dispassionate extraterrestrial observer.

Having set up several Debian and Ubuntu web servers in the past I thought it would be a good idea to share my process. The following is a relatively comprehensive guide to installing and configuring an Apache based web server with some optimizations and basic resource monitoring. I primarily work with Ubuntu servers, but most of the commands here should work exactly the same in Debian or Ubuntu. I've tried to note where differences may occur.

I work in Linux primarily but run a Windows 7 virtual machine in VirtualBox so I can use Photoshop and do some necessary testing. Today my VM ran out of space. Silly me thought 20GB would be enough, but after installing service pack 1, dozens of Windows updates and a few programs I had less than 1GB of space left. After a little searching I found an easy way to increase the size of a virtual disk.

Too many people today don't backup their files. And of those that do, many don't do it well. An easy way to remember a "safe" way to backup your data is with the "3-2-1 Backup Rule" which goes like this:

• Keep 3 copies of any important files (your primary/working copy counts as one)
• Store your files on 2 different media types (Example: Hard drive and in the Cloud)
• Always have 1 copy off site