A simple matter of…

Well it looks like it’s time to plan a replacement server. My trusty Ideq Biostar which I’ve had since 2004/2005 is still fine, however there are some bugs for which I need to upgrade the kernel and it’s stuck at 2.6.18 since Xen hasn’t been ported to a newer kernel. I’ve backported a [...]

Gosh. I’m almost in shock - a company whose support was helpful. In fact, two!
It’s about time to renew my domain name and although the whois records say easyspace.co.uk, it’s another company I’ve actually registered though. I phoned up easyspace and (once I’d got past the queue) they told me within about [...]

That’s how much power my house uses “at idle”.
Mostly from:

server downstairs

desktop upstairs (monitor powersaved)

humax PVR

misc items (oven, microwave, fridge/freezer)

Switching one monitor on jumps it to 317W, switching a light on 362W.
I’m now going to have to keep track of how much each appliance uses.
I can’t quite bring myself to switch off either PC yet [...]

So Windows XP (due to go out of support in 2008) has had its support extended to 2010 for mini-laptops. Odd given that service pack 3 has only just come out for it. Now they announce it will also be extended for desktops.
I have this picture in my mind of Microsoft adding a [...]

16:27 <blueGremlin> Any company that has an employee ‘pizza preferences’ page

                   on their wiki is off to a good start.

However did I survive without a nice coffee machine I just don’t know. I’m sure that it’s the freshly ground coffee that makes the biggest difference. I can hardly stomach regular coffee now!
Steve from

I’ve decided to play around with asterisk a bit more, partly for interest, partly as we could do with cheaper conferencing at work - we spend a fair amount of money on it. I’ve started making notes on my setup but they are very rough ATM.
Things I’ve discovered so far:

xen DomU’s can’t run ztdummy [...]