On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Having a playground where you can experiment aggressively is useful. I'm a > fan of Amazon EC2 because you can create servers in minutes for pennies per > hour and try things you'd never want to do with real hardware. It's nice > when you can completely restore a destroyed server in a couple minutes. Ah, in a similar vein, having a VM setup can help a lot with playing around. Look into VirtualBox and set up a VM. It's a lot easier once you get the hang of it than the old days when you almost needed a physical machine to play around. Jon Gorman