Well having not blogged for nearly 2 weeks, i thought it was about time i gave a little status update! My beast machine is now a fully fledged ESX Server, using Evaluation licenses (60 Days at a time) until i get my university funded ones in a couple of months. This is running CentOS, RHEL 5, Ubuntu, Fedora and others Which is nice nice nice.

Aside from technology, ive been pretty busy with other things! It was Frans birthday this time last week, so i was busy buying presents for her; couple of bits of jewellery, books, hard drive for her laptop etc. I also organised a surprise birthday meal for her at Cosmo’s with people from work, which she seemed to like, so it all went well! At the weekend i spent most of the time drinking, watching sports and eating curry! On Saturday i went round Toma’s to watch the United game and play some Pro Evo – ended up going out for a Khyber on a Man date and watched some films after.

On Sunday i went to Cardiff to watch the Wigan game and the Hull games etc. Met Ste and co, who eventually went home early to pass out (half sesh lad!). Ended up having another curry in Cardiff, before staying over night in a hotel next to the Cardiff Wharf.

Came back home to Swindon on Monday as it was a bank holiday, and ive been working 9-5 and chilling in the sun after work since!

As for technical conquests – my next adventure now i have my VM Box sorted – is to play around with CentOS / Ubuntu 8.04 as a Desktop solution (Dual boot naturally). Im quite interested to see the driver support for Nvidia, plus WINE Capabilities etc. I probably wont stick with it – as im too stuck in my damn Windows ways when it comes to Desktop OS, but its worth a try! Anyway, more work to be done!

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