random ramblings of a crazed nerd

Some projects never seem to get done, and others get done in no time! One project at work I started was converting my live workstation which I inherited from the last IT guy, and make it a Virtual Machine for VMWare Player under Linux - so far so good, it’s running full screen over on the backup server, and I am thinking of simply leaving it there, it works, its got VMWare Tools, etc. it’s lovely and I think it’s actually a tad faster than the real thing (Backup Server has a LOT of RAM) - but the next step, after lunch (going to keep toying with it) is to make the move for the primary station to Ubuntu Linux, may do it sooner if I still can’t find anything wrong, but thus far I can do all my DOS apps, the new Windows based replacement for the DOS software, and backups seem to work too (until I hit locked files, but that’s normal).

In other news non-job related, I upgraded the home office to Road Runner TURBO, which is 15Mb/s and roughly on a good connect 2Mb/s up:

All in all it’s a nice upgrade, now I just need to complain to RR tech support to flush their ARP cache, and let newer routes converge in as about a month or so ago when there were some major backbone issues in CA they re-routed, and since then I am stuck routing through some very lagged path’s across the board - but for $10 more a month, the speed is still amazing, and when I downloaded some demos from Xbox Live, it was super quick indeed. Very nice.

More news, the Church website contract has been approved, Dan, Adam, Jake and Myself will be crafting a new website, as well as hosting it including their PodCasts etc. so it’s very nice indeed - plus a good group of friends will be fun, Dan, Adam and MySelf all worked back in the olden days of the .com slump, but now throwing Jake into the mix should add some very well crafted code and push the project to a greater ease for the church to manage and keep up the website.

Anywhoo - must get back to it, busy busy busy just wanted to take a breath and write things on my brain that were sitting there poking me - but stay tuned for more, hope to get a lot done in the next 4 days as the weather is cooler… Happy Fake Friday Folks!

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