22nd Sep, 2009

Back Again

Well, I’ve had some month. I’ll go into no detail, as I’d only bore you all, but I’ve not had a lot of time nor drive to think up new and imaginative ideas for blog posts, nor to retrace my configuration steps for Samurize and Rocketdock. Just wait.

In the mean time, I’ve been working all day every day and feeling fairly tired at night. I’ve also now begun to look online for flats, perhaps finally time to stop having such a long and rubbish commute. Looking forward to that.

I’ve also remembered how good Friday night TV is when Peep Show is around. On Friday I watched Derren Brown trying to make me stick to my seat (unfortunately it didn’t work), then watched a great return to TV from Mark and Jez in Peep Show, followed by an episode of the IT crowd. Fridays are going to be good for at least the next six weeks (the length of previous Peep Show series).

You may have noticed some slight downtime in the time since the last post. This was due to my much celebrated installation of DHCP, BIND and a new network card on the server: one or several of those caused a need for some re-engineering on the network. All sorted now though!

PS. Make sure to read the tags on my posts. I often leave vital clues/information/questions there which may need to be acted upon!

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Currently, I use books of the bible for names for my machines. Previously I have used names of planets for a few servers, or other exciting things: haggis, sausages, etc.

I worked for a large company once and they named their desktop machines with the employees name in a 6 and 2 format: conwaych would be the name of mine. Their servers were named with the location, the platform and a short description, then a number if there were multiple machines. So, for example, edinldev01 would be an edinburgh machine, running linux, that was used for development and it was machine 01.

Machine names = themed!

Star Wars all the way, but I reckon try to give the namesake appriopriately.

My webserver ( Vader ) is old, bulky and noisy.
Luke & Leia were two similar looking machines I got at the same time.
Wicket WAS my iPhone, until I jailbreaked it -> now its Katarn.
Yoda is my XBox (you’d know that if you’d actually used it yet ;) )
JarJar is my MacOS X parition
And the machine I use the most is Chewbacca.

I wonder what I’ll call my next device …

jailbreaked? *wince*

Does Vader also play the blues?

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