My desktop machine has been crashing a bit lately, with no errors or anything, just hard crashing. I thought it might be one of the hard disks, but just tested them using the WDDiag program and they’re fine. I think it might be the heat, as it just crashed again whilst it was at about 52c running at 70% CPU. I’m currently downloading the VMWare Server Release Candidate 1, and installing Ubuntu 6.

Went out to a pub in the countryside last night with my landlady and some friends, we sat outside by the river until it got dark then went inside and had very nice fish/prawn platter, and some cider, and some John Smiths, and some Guinness, and some Southern Comfort, and some lager….. Had a very good time, and don’t seem to have a hangover – I didn’t roam the streets naked either, which is good!

I can’t believe it’s Thursday night already! Pip got another Freesat card working, so that’s 2 out of the original 4 so far, plus this new one. Phil got a contract starting in 2 weeks, so I won’t see him for months now I expect as I’ll be back in France whilst he’s over here, and when he’s back in France, I’ll probably be back in England! Hopefully he’ll fix my XBox beforehand 😉

I’m currently downloading IBM’s DB2 Express-C database for Linux, and trying to download their WebSphere Application Server Community Edition. Hopefully that will include libraries to build Perl and Python clients with, I’m pretty sure it includes a PHP client from Zend. I noticed that VMWare have quite a lot of Partner Applicances, that are basically pre-built VM’s running RHEL3 or SLES9 with Oracle, BEA WebLogic, IBM DB2-UDB Express, Apache Tomcat 5 etc….

Ubuntu Linux 6.06 “Dapper Drake” (where do they get these names?!) is released tomorrow, I must remember to download the DVD. I might install that on Greivous instead of Fedora 5 as I already have two FC5 boxes, and CentOS5 or FC6 won’t be out until Sept/Oct. It’s billed as a server OS with 5 year Long Term Support, and is getting quite a lot of commercial interest these days, certainly from VMWare, IBM, Freespire and Sun, so might be an idea to get some real experience with it (and therefore Debian).