The last 2 weeks have been fairly hectic – fairly being an understatement. On the social side, we went to 5th Ave with Joe Joe and Matt again, with Fran tagging along ( ). She also gave me the bloody man flu, which is horrible – and i still have it, so cheers Fran!

On the career side, i applied to about 20 graduate scheme to hedge my proverbial bets, and ive been turned down by 4 so far! Not impressed – psychometric tests are the biggest FAIL since man and they will be so so so sorry in the future when it emerges they rejected the worlds richest man as a graduate!

Techie wise, where to begin. First of all, i saw that my gaff’ at work had a new toy – an Acer aspire one “netbook” – a 8.9inch laptop with a SSD Hard drive running Linpus Linux, a custom derivite of Fedora core. I decided to buy one (at 200 quid you cannot argue – it even has an ATHEROS wireless card in it!). I was overjoyed to find that it had Fedora core repositories in it, running a custom version desktop combined with XFCE and gnome. Main gist of this, is that you can bring up gnome-terminal by pressing “Alt and F2″ and typing “gnome-terminal”, and going to SU you can then go “yum install WHATEVER” and it will install if it is in your repo’s (wireshark worked a treat – VLC was a pain in the arse to install).

Other than my netbook, i have been clocking my Q6600 with Matts help – its up to 2.7Ghz per core from 2.4Ghz using an Arctic Cooler Freezer 7 Pro – idling at 46oC (Antec 900 case). Im upgrading my heatsink to a Xigmatek HDT-S1283 (http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=81&Itemid=1) which comes very highly rated at a lovely low price of 22 quid! Hopefully this will allow me to ramp up to 3.0ghz per core, a 2.4ghz in total overclock! (600Mhz per core).

Aside from personal tech, ive been working on VoIP a lot at work – implementing soft and hard phones over a LAN using Trixbox – this is my first venture into VoIP and i have to say im very impressed. It does exactly what it says on the tin, and the soft phone solution especially works a treat.

For the future tech, i should be recieving delivery of my Cisco 3524XL switch this week, so i can config that and get that onto our network to extend our NOC I will also be continuing with my Virtualization white paper (evaluation into the performance implications of Virtualization), testing CPU, HDD, Network, File server etc aspects of virtualization vs non-virtualization. Should yield some very interesting results so keep your eyes peeled here for updates.

Finally, a little note – its mine and Frans 1 year anniversary on the 10th December, so yours truly managed to swing some sweet tickets for Jimmy Carr at the apollo on the 5th December, row GG in the front, absolutely great tickets for a momentous occasion

Later all, Sam

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