I finally got my hair cut – I had to wait an hour as there were loads of people there, including one couple whose whole life seemed to revolve around their mobile phones – how much battery life they had, what startup sounds, how many SMS’s they sent that week…… I got some 15w40 engine oil and wiper fluid, filled that up and the water, pumped up the tyres, they were all fine except the front passenger side one, which was at about 20psi instead of 30.

Today is Mum’s birthday, I had a nice long chat with her on the phone. The weather’s lovely and they went out for a shopping trip and Chinese. Work was busier today, had a few calls to do and stuff, signed and sent off my new contract. I got my new Netra AC200, the good news is that it came with two 18.2Gb SCSI drives, so the one from the ST-D130 can replace the dodgey one in the T1-105.

I’m writing this on our freshly-colocated Netra. Phil and I are busy migrating our websites over, I’ve done the gallery and now my blog, gotta change the DNS over when I’ve done a thorough check. We’ve got to sort out some routing issues too. Update: I just bought an AC200 from ebay, so can use that as a development/backup server, as there’s a few things I need compiling (Perl modules etc.

Phil’s been jumpstarting the Netra, he’s 99% automated everything including add/removing software, patching, setting up RAID, turning off crappy services like rsh, all we’ve got to do is copy our websites across and eventually migrate our domains. It doesn’t look like I’ll be taking it to Redbus this weekend though as the colo people haven’t got back to us yet. I’ve been scrounging spares from people – ethernet cable, console adaptors, rack screws, IEC leads….

Phil found a bit of a bug in VMWare Solaris 10 guests. It seems the VMXNet driver is has some kind of error with large I/O, which we hope is what’s stopping the Jumpstart from working. VMWare have acknowledged it and every release they say its fixed, well it ain’t in Server 1.0.2 I’ve installed Solaris 10u3 on my laptop, I was quite surprised how well it detected everything – now weird screen issues when running Gnome, no issues with the Synaptic touchpad, no network problems with my Realtek NIC, although I doubt my USB-to-RS232 cable will work.