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).

Work was pretty quiet today, lots of people off sick or on half-term. I’m fighting off a cold myself. I chatted to Pip and she’s done my taxes, I’ve got to send off some paperwork tomorrow. Pip got one of my Freesat cards working, so with the one I’ve bought, I will hopefully have five, and can sell the Welsh card with the Amstrad box. Phoned Mum, she’s working on a quilt or something for my new house.

Just watched Jarhead, which was pretty good, showed just how pointless the Gulf War was – 5000 Marines sitting in the desert for 6 months, only actually at war for 5 days, many never even fired their guns. I’ve been trying to install MS-DOS 6.22 and WFWG 3.11 in VMWare, but can’t remember how to install and boot that old shiz! Chatted to Pip earlier, apparently none of my Sky Freesat cards work, so I just bought another one off eBay, and might be able to get hold of another two.