About

I started this site quite simply: to help. I want to help educate others by sharing what I know and help provide a service to those who are in need. Everyone learns from the experience of others, whether it be film or computers. I wouldn’t know anywhere near as much as I do if it hadn’t been for others sharing their knowledge. Humanity as a whole can only progress if we build on the knowledge of those that have come before us.

I am a web hosting administrator and a professional production sound man. Working in web hosting, there are a lot of questions I see come up time and time again, and there are a lot of errors that have simple fixes. I will post the answers to problems I encounter, articles on how to do certain things, and maybe share just a few fun thoughts. No one likes contacting tech support no matter how friendly the tech support representative may be. If the answer can be found online, you’ll learn how to fix it yourself and faster than asking for help. Well… usually, but not always :)

Best regards,
Jacob “Boom Shadow” Tirey
(my email is in the link below, masked with ASCII art to prevent spam harvesters):
http://boomshadow.net/ascii.txt

Jacob "Boom Shadow" Tirey

A linux web hosting administrator, a professional production sound man, and a renegade cop without nothing left to lose.... Ok, that last part is made up. In all seriousness, my passion in life is to help people; whether that be with help running their sites or with their productions. The name Boom Shadow was given to me by a great group of filmmakers called Star Wipe Films. back in 2005 and has been with me since. One of these days, I will post the full story, and many more, here. As a side note, I love my mac for video editing, my CentOS for web hosting, and my Windows box for Stepmania. Don't give me any OS hate, cause I don't care :P Also, nano is still the bomb!

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