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.

I installed my 1Gb RAM onto my laptop, it has about 512Mb free when running Linux, firing up VMWare takes that to more like 20Mb! Looks like the stingy Celt I was going to sell my old RAM to has backed out, he only wants half of it now and wants to pay less than half the price! I found that if you’re not connected to a network (i.e. ethernet cable into a switch) your VMWare guest can’t connect to the host and vice versa.

I just bought a gigabyte of RAM for my laptop from Crucial, so I can run VMWare with some performance! I think I’ve sold my old 2x256Mb for half the price of my new 2x512Mb to a guy at work…. I’ll be getting my RAM tomorrow, bloody good to get free next day delivery! I’m terribly irritated by the Crucial banner ads you see all over the web, but you can’t beat their prices!