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The trick to cutting squash is having a big heavy and very sharp knife. We eat a lot of butternut squash. What we do is cut it up into about 1 inch cubes then put it in a big chili pot with about 1/3 the volume of water (so the water is about 1/2 of the way up the squash in the pot) then sprinkle it with a LOT of sugar. Then you slow boil it on mimimal heat until the sugar gets all melted into the butternut squash and the water turns into a squash/juice syrup. The trick is NOT to stir it except very very slowly so that the squash doesn't loose its shape. After you have a delicious dessert perfect for the fall season.
This is a turkish recipe apparently but i have no idea what its called- we call it 'the pumpkin dessert'.


OH yeah, and thanks for all your work.

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Well, you could try to figure out what IP address your router is giving it, but presumably you have some sort of dynamic DNS setup so that www.llamaserver.net will work. Why not just ssh llamaserver.net? You would have to tell your router to forward the ssh port (22) just as you do the http port (80). That has the advantage that you could do it from work too if necessary (and if they allow it), or from a cybercafe.

If you are worried about opening up your machine to ssh from the whole internet then you could set firewall rules on the router or on the box itself to only allow in certain IP ranges, like the range from your ISP and the range from your workplace.

I'm making educated guesses here about your setup, but you did ask for advice.

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I just ssh dom3minions.com
or I ssh 63.199.8.158
which bypasses going off onto the net to convert the name to an IP I already know anyway.

But since Windows is my desktop I usually use free PuTTY anyway which gives me nice things like a scroll back window. Not that I use it much. (in general ssh has given me more problems on the server than telnet has)

Also, I have dom3minions on a KVM switch with my win desktop. They are fairly cheap. The keyboard/video/mouse switch lets me toggle which machine is "attached" to my keyboard/monitor.

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Thanks all.

To clarify, the LlamaServer itself is a different machine to the web server (which is provided by hostgator.com). That is why there is a delay in communication between the website and things actually happening (e.g. when you postpone hosting nothing actually happens until the next time the LlamaServer contacts the web server).

However, "ssh llamaserver" worked! Hooray! I would never have tried that, I just assumed the solution had to be more complicated.

I guess in principle the next step would be to set up the router to allow access from outside, but in fact we are not allowed to use ssh at work(!!), so there's little point.

Immaculate: That squash recipe sounds interesting! One question - how do you peel the bugger? That took me ages.

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Hey llama,

For me, the easiest way is to cut the squash in slices (like an apple slice) and then cut the skin away.

Don't sweat getting really close to skin.

In spanish dish - and others - a lot of times they don't bother removing the skin.

Before I discovered A.... I cleaned it all real good and threw it in the food processor. Problem solved.

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Two things:

1, Thank you for all your work llama on the server. Fantastic.

2, You do not need to peel it, it's good either way in most dishes!

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We cook a lot of pumpkin this season. Really big ones too, like 24 inch diameter. We just slice in half, scoop out seeds, put on baking sheet with a little butter and bake for 30 minutes or so. Skin just peels off and then mash into favourite recipes. Pumpkin soup with lentils, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cakes, pumpkin fritters with green onions and chick pea flour and cumin, etc.

Pumpkin are dirt cheap and great nutrition. Leftovers we freeze in big chunks. Use as thickener in stews.

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I usually don´t peel squash. I like it fried in slices with a thin layer of melted goat cheese. Or in a pie with tomatoes and whatever is left in the fridge.

Thanks for the recipies! I´ll try them, see if my daughter likes that desert. Heh, way to sneak in some nutrition with the saturday sweets...

Wonderful to have the llamaserver back! I´m actually quite impressed it´s been so stable for so long without maintenance.

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This I can recommend. Except the fridge part ;)


Also, thanks for keeping the server up, I really appreciate it :) Good work.

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Remind me not to open your fridge then:p