Aperture

Hi, the name is Langouste, former IIS production machine. Why Langouste? do not know. That’s how the “techie” around the house called me. Why former? You’ll see… Me, I don’t even exist actually. I’m virtual. Puzzled?. You see, I’m a virtual machine, and rely on a physical machine (our big brother that everyone calls “Shark” on our small network here) to borrow CPU power, memory and storage. I’m nothing more than a file on a hard drive, how kinky is that! I’ve been hosting around this blog and other sites for sometime now.

But about a year ago, something started to stink. OMG! We’re on fire “Help! Dude!, We’re frying in here!” I shout! No answer! “Shark, bro, what the fuck was that?” “Stay calm kid” Shark replied. “Nothing out of ordinary. Just a voltage spike. Heh! Nothing your big brother can’t handle!”.

Shark was brave. And he was very careful not to worry us “kids” when things went bad. He put up a lot of effort to ensure our small virtual network is protected from the outside threats. One day the spikes stroke again, and Shark’s PSU started to weaken. Some of the voltage regulating capacitors around Shark’s brain fried. Shark was sick, but never admitted to us, the “kids”. We all knew it, because the poor fellow was occasionally vomiting strange messages on a blue background. The fearful BSOD. The guy was slowly dying. It was not a matter of what, it was a matter of when…

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