Emigrate To The Web

Notebook: Get your meta-machine
A notebook (meta-machine) will be the first utility to get the emigration going. I'll be talking about Thinkpad X60s. They are cheap on Ebay. You can add some tuning: Use it with Ubuntu at the beginning, it is easy and free.
 * Get all the RAM (3 GB maximum)
 * a second battery and
 * a second charging cable.

Servers: Your place in the interwobs
Coming up.
 * 1) Uberspace.de A server with a lot of useful stuff on it. Also gives you SSH-access. Nanooq warmly recommends it: "They are awesome in every way!" Hence, there is also a wiki-page about stuff to do there: Uberspace.
 * 2) Hook your server up using no-ip

Software

 * 1) IRC
 * 2) VPN
 * 3) PGP
 * 4) TOR

E-Mail:
Coming up. I am fighting with mutt at the moment.

Wiki: Management starts with self-management
This one is optional, but since there is web-space, one shold use it. Blogs, Redmine and so on are covered later.
 * Installing Mediawiki on Uberspace needs a few but easy hacks:


 * 1) Installation steps.
 * 2) Install APC executing
 * 3) Check (with uberspace's support) whether you can get rid of the warnings. Some programs might not be up to date because of backporting
 * 4) To get your MySQL credentials for user and password execute  . PostgreSQL is not working on Uberspace, yet
 * 5) There is a more or less accurate Change-log about settings and extensions concerning this wiki.

Micropayment:
Coming up.