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HP DL180 G6
Ohh, playing with a shiny new server at work. This beast has 22TB of usable RAID5, 8 cores and 12GB RAM. Ok, so the ram is a bit skimpy, but the rest is good. Running Windows 2K8 alas (but heh, we have plenty of Linux). For some reason the video driver was a pain to find, couldn't see it on HPs site, it claims to be a Matrox, but Matrox don't ( Read more... ) -
Japan
I'm feeling really down about the Japan thing and I think I worked out why. Sounds horrible, but I realised that with other humanitarian disasters in the world they seem far away, part of another world, just another onslaught off bad news on the TV. Because they are poor dishevelled people who never had much of anything anyway, and have lived a ( Read more... ) -
MX5 is mine!
Me and Ang been back together for a while now! Yay. I still have my house though and intend to keep it that way ( Read more... ) -
Gravity's Rainbow
My blog is named after the Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow. Known for being almost unreadable and challenging I decided to see if I had the mettle. It got put down quite a lot at first, for months on end, but recently I found that once you got over it's initial "hump", it's really an incredible book. Smutty too, but then who am I to ( Read more... ) -
Fool's Payback (Stuxnet)
Over the years, us computer pros brought up on proper computer systems have watched with dismay the increasing march of that hideously insecure desktop operating system "Windows" into the data centre and beyond. When occasional media scare stories would talk of impending doom many of us would smirk and say, "yes, but nobody runs critical ( Read more... ) -
End of an Era
So, I moved into my new house, I'm no longer staying in a B&B. The owner of the B&B Jan has been so good to me and she gave me loads of stuff like plates, cutlery, towels, all sorts for my new home. Its even starting to look like a proper home now, so I'm living out in the sticks, not far from Mossley ( Read more... ) -
Life in the B&B and my Dad
Dad's been in intensive care for over a month, thankfully he's getting better, and may be back on a normal ward by next week. The poor fella, he's been through a really, really tough time. So glad he's getting better, because the first night he was admitted the doctors thought he might not survive the night ( Read more... ) -
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Like many geeks and mild aspergers people I have a profile similar to a potential terrorist :D ( Read more... ) -
More crashes
After the last update when I saw a car on its side in a ditch, we saw another one in almost the same spot. This time Ang witnessed it, and as I saw everyone was OK, I was pretty blase about it, this being the second time. I failed to get straight away that this wasn't Ang's first time seeing an accident in that spot, and so was at first ( Read more... ) -
RX7 beast is back
Can't believe I forgot. The RX7 is back on the road! First step was finding another battery as the one left in it was well and truly dead. I pinched the good one from the Pug 106 before it went to scrapland. Next step, well I'd lost the remote locking/immobiliser fob hadn't I :) That's the sort of thing I do you see. Went to an alarm shop and ( Read more... )