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.

I Was up until 3am this morning, I’ve got the programming bug I guess! I’ve downloaded a lot more ebooks too. I converted my DVD database to PostgreSQL. It wasn’t actually that difficult, I just changed the following: PHP: mysql_connect to pg_connect mysql_fetch_array to pg_fetch_array mysql_query changed to pg_query SQL: LIMIT x,y changed to LIMIT y OFFSET x NULL changed to DEFAULT on the serial column Schema: auto_increment column changed to serial

Just watched X-Men 3 at the cinema, it was pretty good, seemed a little rushed – maybe they’ll make an X-Men 3.5 like they had to with 1.5, as they left so much out of the theatrical realease. It was better than X2, and despite being called “The Last Stand”, there could be an X4, especially if you see the bits just before and just after the end credits, Halle Berry alluded to it too.