Chicken Shitty Salad
or remember that old saying
Can you make chicken salad out of chicken shit ?
Hell yes you can, it comes out as shitty chicken salad...
tl;dr;
50 yr old carpenter with bad back tries the crypto thing.
Just like my battle with my computer today. I could probably get things done faster if I had better equipment. Maybe a little less stress from the sword of Damacles and bills wouldn't be too bad either. I only have like less than a month to figure out how the fuck I am going to replace $1000/mo income. I'm pretty much fucked - so just gonna bang away at the keyboard until phones are shut off and power is shut off and I get fucking evicted.
So I am trying to get just a really stupid simple ripple node running - looks easy as pie from the website. Yeah, not so much - as I have only managed to completely mangle 2 installation attempts today.
My home network is a piece of shit - I have an old 10/100 hub and old hp blade server - well OK, the server isnt so bad except I only got 410gb of drive space. So even though I can make VMs - there just isnt alot of extra room to play with.
I though I would start with a super simple ubuntu server install.
It's basically ubuntu without all the x-window pretty picture and shit - so it's back to old schoool dos prompt.
I probably spent 90% of my day hunting google for linux commands - what a fucking nightmare.
So here I am - reinstalling for the 3rd time today - at least it's only a VM so no problems there - maybe I should clone the clean install before I mamke modifications this time - then at least I won't have to do that step again.
OK, had dinner - new VM with clean install (and clone) is ready...Let's see if my dumb ass can figure this shit out.
