We finally got SharePoint installed today, also migrated the fileserver to a Netapp Filer. I downloaded a bunch of ebooks today – SQL, PHP, Java, XSLT etc. I’m up to 19/23 of Lost 2 now….

Didn’t get much done at work today – well we did, but we have to do it all over again 🙁 Dad said someone possibly wants to rent my house out for a year, I’m not keen, there’s not enough money in it to be inconvenienced for a year. 3-4 months would be fine whilst I’m working next year, I guess it would pay the mortgage….. I’ve watched like five episodes of Lost tonight I think, it’s getting really weird with everyone halucinating.

Been trying out PHP 5.1, MySQL 5.0 and Apache 2.2 today, which seem to require libxml2 v2.6.24 to compile on Solaris 9. PHP 5’s new OOP stuff it a total rip-off of Python, in fact it even has the same dodgey visibility bugs, which makes me suspicious. The exception handling is not as good either – it’s only try…catch, there’s no else/final. MySQL 5’s transactions are nice – just like being in Oracle, with rollbacks and commits.

I’ve spent all day at work installing Windows 2003 Server Standard SP1. I’ve done one on the hardware and 2 under Virtual Server 2005 R2, which I must say is an absolute joke compared to VMWare – it’s slow (on a 4Gb dual-core Opteron 2.6GHz with RAID0+1 SCSI-320), has no accelerated graphics and uses some crappy ActiveX interface, which uses non-standard widgets and even window furniture – I guess that comes from being an old MacOS app.

I’m back from my weekend at Kev’s. We got his PC and router working, although it seems one of the OCZ memory modules is iffy, which is odd for OCZ. We went to a lovely pizzeria, played some Xbox, had a few drinks whilst watching Dr.Who and Eurovision – I thought it would be between the UK and Sweden, but Finland winning was a complete surprise. We had some lovely shish kebabs and bhaji’s too.