I got Wake On LAN (WOL) working on my server today, its nice to be able to turn it on from any machine on my network (including my rourter!) without having to wander to my computer room. I use ether-wake as that send magic packets, the wol package uses UDP which doesn’t seem to work. I’ve just bought from eBay, a Linksys WPS54G wireless print server, so that I can print to my laser without having the fileserver powered on, and I can move it to a better location across the room.

Just watched Doomsday, which was a really good film about a deadly virus that was contained in Scotland by rebuilding Hadrian’s Wall. It had some of the cast of Dog Soldiers and was a kind of Mad Max meets 28 Days Later, the car chase scene near the end was just classic black comedy. Yesterday I watched Freebird, which was a rubbish biker/stoner movie set in Wales. The other day I watched Starship Troopers 3, which was typical STT stuff, although a bit more adult this time – with nudity, gore, politics and even some religion, amongst all the bug-zapping of course!

Its been way too long since my last post, and now I’m back in France I have plenty to write about in the Personal category and a few for the Movies category, so much that I’m going to leave it for another day or just skip it altogether! So I thought I’d bung in some quick techie snippets instead: I’ve been playing with Oracle 11gR1 on Linux and 10gR2 on Solaris today, coding up some auditing scripts, which has gotten me back into Bourne Shell programming, ooh its been nice.

I’ve done my pre-France shop, wow Asda is a crazy place on the weekend – especially when you don’t know where anything is and end up wandering for two hours. Good point is the ability to chat up young women whilst looking for baby stuff for my niece. Everyone was complaining that they’ve stopped stocking the stuff they usually buy and how much better Tesco’s would be – although I went to Asda as I find Tesco’s has never got any stock!

Work was incredibly boring today as I was waiting on a vendor to sort their shit out before I could do my testing. That didn’t happen, so I did about an hour’s work today – mainly updating the bug-tracker, sorting out my laptop and helping with the IPv6 stuff. The whole world seems a bit slow today – there didn’t even seem to be anything happening in the news. I got my new 24″ monitor – wow 1920×1200 desktops are absurdly large!