I got my USB missle launcher working. The C driver is a bit flaky, but the Python one is fine. You can only fire one rocket at a time it seems, unless that’s because the batteries aren’t charged yet. I might take the Python module apart to get rid of the GUI and write a web frontend instead. I upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.1.2 because of the vulnerability, although previously it was 2.

Urgh, I feel rotten again – just as I’d gotten over my cold I think I’m getting another one. I’ve got a really bad headache, sniffy and came home from work and went to bed for three hours as I was freezing cold. And being able to sleep with a 1U server in your room is no mean feat! Update: just watched Wicker Man 2006, which has got to be the worst movie ever, it was even set in America instead of Scotland, although there was a homage to Edward Woodward from the original.

Not done much this weekend, had a touch of the squirts 🙁 I’ve pretty much given up with trying to get Jumpstart working on the Netra, I might look for a CD-ROM drive on eBay, or maybe borrow a SPARC from work to try, I think it’s either a hardware issue (PROM?) or an NFS incompatibility. I watched Edison, which was OK, about police corruption, I also watched Red Eye, which was very good – about a woman on a plane blackmailed to help kill a politician.

I’ve spent about five hours tonight fighting to get the Netra to Jumpstart from a Solaris x86 VMWare install and just keep getting the same result as I did from Linux – it gets IP/hostname/boot image, but then doesn’t seem to fire up the installer, it does the odd NFS transaction, but otherwise just sits there on the LOM saying “38e00” I’m actually quite getting to like the svcadm stuff, it’s nice to type a command to enable/disable a service and it’s set permanently, no editing rc.

I was quite busy at work today, did a couple of tests, fixed some code and cleared up some paperwork. The Netra should arrive tomorrow. I’m still trying to get colo’s to respond to me, I’m currently looking at ServerShed. I got my new RAC membership, luckily my old landlady forwarded it to me, I’ve changed the address for now to Ipswich as they won’t accept a French address. I just watched Eragon, which I really liked even though it got pretty bad reviews by the die-hard book fans.