Older blog entries for riggwelter (starting at number 17)

I finally get to collect my car today. This makes me happy.

Spent most of my morning arranging meetings, am I turning into a suit in my old (ahem) age?

More LVS work done this afternoon, security stuff mostly, and load test preparation.

Just looked at my diary, I'm busy every night this week and just about every night next week, when's a guy meant to hack?

At this rate I may find myself doing diary work at work during my lunch. It'll make a change to have a lunch break of any sort actually...

Well, what a day, not a great deal of work done...

Spent most of the day in meetings (including a very nice lunch meeting in a pub - my favorite kind...), then playing golf upstairs to raise money for Children in Need. Never picked up a club before, but I made it onto the leaderboard, which I was chuffed with :)

Did some Papaya testing and helped iron out a bug in the Preferences dialogue.

Did some diary work last night, the username cookie is now set, but I can't manage to get the CGI module to retrieve it - most annoying.

Well, don't understand that, I did a make uninstall && make distclean && ./configure && make && make install on libpcap and then snort was able to find it.

Taken some silly pics with my cam for a "guess the objects" competition we're going to run at work tomorrow to raise money for BBC Children In Need.

More LinuxVirtualServer work. Getting frustrated with snort. Keeps complaining that I don't have libpcap installed, when I know full well that I did it. Gah!

Fax server done - hyperschweet, another route for us to get Linux in.

Got back involved with Papaya today. Helped the lead developer get it working with HTTP proxies. I've not some across any other Linux MUD client (and I checked every one listed on freshmeat) that supports them, so that's nice.

Think it's an Evolution bug day tonight, and I also have plans to do some Rubber Turnip Diary hacking when I get home.

Spent much of today working on our LinuxVirtualServer cluster, and adding notes to our (increasingly) huge documentation. We're putting together instructions & scripts to aid in the creation of multi-name and multi-IP clustered web sites (with SSL). The intention is to produce a sort of idiot's guide, which we'll then feed back to the project maintainers.

Also spent some time setting up a new fax server at work. It's a SuSE 7.3 box running hylafax and SAMBA. Found the photo of the SuSE developers during the install quite disconcerting, but otherwise it's a damn fine installer. YaST2 does seem to get better and better with each release.

Been thinking a lot about the diary, and the next release. Going to try to include using cookies for user-remembrance, and theming in the next release, so I'll probably jump to 0.1 at that stage, and pop it on FreshMeat.

Another day, another wild goose chase :)

Finally did the MySQL relocation. It now resides on a partition of a decent size. Pity about the architecture.

Sent my car-related stuff to my insurance company today with my claim form and acceptance of their offer on the salvage of the car, with any luck the cheque will be on it's way to me before long, which will be nice, as I need it to cover the deposit I've already paid on the new car I've ordered.

Hoping for a relaxing night tonight, might cook something nice and then chill with a beer.

As I type this, New York is on fire again. An Airbus A300 has exploded and crashed in Queens. While the cause is not yet known, the possibility of another terrorist attack can't be ignored. My thoughts are with all those involved, their families and their friends.

Spent the whole of this morning trying to track down a non-existent problem with our mail servers, and the afternoon preparing for an abortive MySQL relocation. None of it seems significant in comparison with the incident in NY.

I need a beer.

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.