Older blog entries for riggwelter (starting at number 10)

Nearly killed MySQL this morning, very scary time, don't want to go through that again!

And after that, this monkey tried to hack our network! Well, after that he tried to steal my caffeine mints, so I shot him.

Car was written off finally, found out on Wednesday. So tomorrow, I'm going car shopping. The dealership have got the one I think I want in, so hopefully by Saturday afternoon I'll have my new car.

That'll be nice.

Especially as I want to do some work on the diary - cookies for username retention, and theming.

Likelihood is it'll have to wait though.

Yet another clunky day, mail admin - *yawn*

Worked on the diary last night. Merged in some changes from Martin Bateman and made some changes myself. Finally have a TODO list, time to start knocking items off it.

Looks like my car is going to be written off, should finally find out for certain tomorrow morning, so looks like I'll be car shopping at the weekend, I can think of better ways to spend a Saturday, but hey ho...

Great weekend, after spending Saturday morning planting bulbs on one of the estates in Watford, I spent the rest of the weekend lazing around, which is always nice.

I was amazed at the number of responses I had to the article on Gnotices, 99% were positive too, which was nice. The general consensus seemed to be that more positive reviews of Linux desktop apps are needed, so watch this space ;-)

Today was a real sys adminy housekeeping type day, but also our copy of SuSE 7.3 arrived, took my boss 10 minutes (!) to install and get logged in and using it from scratch - kudos. My box is already more up-to-date that it, so I'll not be using it myself at work, might upgrade my home boxen though.

Bonfire night. Remember remember the fifth of November, debugging, caffeine and code. While everyone else is outside watching cleverly mixed gunpowder explode into coloured shapes, I'll be tucked up warm inside in the glow of a CRT. The only place to be.

Pretty cool day. The DeCSS ruling is great news.

Can't for the life of me remember what I did this morning, although I'm sure it was probably really important :)

Had an article linked on the GNOME News site about Galeon, I think the Galeon guys are going to link it to their site too.

Been robot-building today too, we're building a robot that comes with a fortnightly magazine in the office, and it moves now, which is fun.

Managed to get side-tracked from hacking last night by another box with a Cathode Ray Tube in, I'm so weak...

...blah... ...radius... ...blah... ...Apache... ...blah...

Turned the cam off, it was hammering syslogd on the web server, so I need to come up with a better solution

Balls.

Put up an article about why Galeon is the perfect browser, and did some karma whoring on /.

Still no news on the car. Might do some diary hacking tonight if I can be bothered.

2-0 and into the next stage we go, seeded too... nice.

Not an exciting day, fixed a slightly fubar'd MySQL setup, and did some sendmail work.

Messed about with Mozilla source & .spec, might build a 0.9.5 SuSE RPM & devel RPM if one doesn't appear on ftp.suse.com before long.

Played with ffmpeg too, having a cam is schweet.

Tired, didn't sleep great last night, dreaming of big, BIG spiders - not nice.

I've now not had a car for nearly two weeks, the insurance system is so slow, it's doing my nut.

Off to get the bus shortly, what fun.

Wasn't sure what I was going to put today, not really done a lot, except monkeying around with the cam and some *dull as* BIND work, then I noticed I got certified as an Apprentice!

Nice.

Liverpool v Dortmund on Radio Five tonight, hopefully this time tomorrow we'll be in the next stage of the Champions League...

Home time in 1 minute, time to save this...

Great weekend, got home to find the bathroom redecorated! Sheer quality, I hate doing the DIY stuff. Nice to have the I/L's with us too, always top to see them.

My webcam came today - very quick delivery, kudos to Dabs.

Spent the day beating rsync into submission as well as getting the cam up and going. For some reason rsync insisted on dieing on a certain file in the directory I was trying to transfer, always the same file. Google was oddly useless, but I sorted it in the end.

16:50 < 1 minute downtime during the migration!

OH YES!!!

Scary database day!

Have spent the day getting ready to do the DB migration, and on the way have migrated a Radius service!

It's now 16:30 and the backup DB server is going to be on for the weekend, I'm too scared to risk migrating back at the last minute before I go home, I have much better things to do with my Friday night.

Ordered the webcam, should be here in 1 - 3 working days, which is quite exciting.

The in-laws are staying for the weekend, so hacking time is going to hit zero for a couple of days, which is a pain, cos I was going to try and get the new release of my diary ready.

About to do the migration, probably put my views of how it went up on Monday.