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Mail server bashing, Evolution bugulating*, LVS configuring, coffee drinking, phone bill paying, beer anticipating kind of a day...

Got our mail sweepers to reject mail from invalid hostnames & email addresses and did further setting up of our LVS boxen.

Also did some chasing up on company stuff, dull dull dull...

Going out for a beer with a good friend tonight, kind of makes the day worthwhile I reckon.

*I like this word, I may have to use it more often...

Survived the weekend ;-)

No hacking done, but muchos TV watched and take-away food eaten.

Back to the same-old same-old today.

Spent much of the day trying to sort out stuff relating to connections to partner companies - what fun.

Also did some Evolution bug triaging, which passed a bit of time over lunch. Awaiting the onslaught of spam as Louie moves target milestones in Bugzilla.

Wow, it's been nearly a week since I posted an entry! So, what have I done this week? Well, I've been loving having my car. Had a day off work, which is always good, although I did seem to be even busier than when I'm in the office! went out for a superb curry on Tuesday night. Nothing like a good Duck Balti :)

My mother's arriving this evening for the weekend, which gives me an excuse to cook my famous lasagne, which is bound to go down well.

However, she'll be sleeping in the same room as my PC, which means I'm going to have to shut it down - bye bye uptime! :(

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.