Well, my brilliant plan of going to the gym every morning this week were foiled, today at least, by pain in my chest and abs. Guess maybe I should take it easy the first couple of times back eh? I’m going tomorrow morning though, don’t worry. The workout tomorrow will start a day of long […]
“Sister! So you have a twin sister?” Read Post »
Just finished Cryptonomicon [archive.org link], which I’ve been working on for a while now, but only recently had the time to get it finished. It was a great book, full of pure geek-love, and lots of cool crypto, security and networking geek stuff. I only have a couple of complaints about the book. It took
Why the hell am I still up? Trying out Dungeon Siege [archive.org link]. It’s ok, a bit like Ultima Online was I assume (I never played it). While it is very nice looking, the first part, and I admit I’m not all that far along, is booooooooring. Basically you walk along, and at set times
Time to Spring Ahead! Read Post »
Slow week… sadly I can’t say what’s going on at work with you-know-what yet, but those of you who care about you-know-what already know. So what has been going on in my life lately. Well, not a lot. Tonight we were invited to Foz‘s place down the hall (I hate these get togeathers where you
“Del, why are Joe’s legs wrapped around your body?” Read Post »
Well, it looks like we’re back up, at least to some degree. I managed to convince Tom to head in to the colo and open it up for me, so I could look at the box. It looked like a random crash, and booted up just fine after hitting the big red button. I replaced
Ok, so friday I finally got the box up, going, with RAID5 all nicely going, various things restored and ready to go. Even put it through a burn in of sorts by copying various people’s home directories to my workstation here for burning. I took the box into new west after work and put it
“Like a crack monkey with a scalple…” Read Post »
Almost done the restore/rebuild, with a few glitches left to work out before I pack it up for transport to the colo tomorrow night.
Another UFies.org update Read Post »
Ok, here’s a quickie update: New hardware (case + HDs) have been got, and the hardware is all installed. I have to do some set up still, but the OS has been installed onto another drive, and will be copied across to the new one(s) which will be using software IDE RAID5 on /usr/ and
Yet another night wasted on this damn POS machine. Ok, UFies update for ya’ll who care. Looks like the brand new drive I bought at London Drugs less than 3 months ago is pooched. Ever put a marble in a tin can and rattled it around? Well that’s the sound the drive makes when it
This weekend has been slow, kinda. Saturday I got to do manly things like bash nails (and move wheelbarrows full of horseshit around, but lets not dwell on that part k?). Shopping happened as well, which was as sucky as usual, and then went to bed early. This turned out to be a mistake, as