Dentist?

Had my second of about 5 visits to the dentist today. While I’ve always dreaded going, and I find the whole thing very uncomfortable, my teeth look amazing. He cleaned the bottom right set of teeth and they feel/look deadly. I also got 2 fillings on that side. He went hunting at a second tooth to find decay below the surface that the radiogram didn’t show :/ that was repaired also.

The really bad part I guess is the smell of burning teeth. Also with one of the adjustments to the drill you can see particals of your teeth rising. It smells and looks terrible. The teeth cleaning part hurts, but damn they look deadly!

This site??

This site is hosted on a UML server. Basically it is a private instance of a linux kernel running on top of a file system template. In this case it is a debian testing/unstable. I’ve been pondering setting up my own box. I already admin close to 200 servers as is, adding one more won’t hurt. One thing I’m interested in is Xen as a replacement for UML. UML is quite clunky and slow. It just doesn’t appear to make good use out of hardware.

However Xen is much better. A customer has replaced 3 dell boxes doing 1 job each with the 2 sets of HA Xen instances. So he has basically improved his reliability, availability and backup solutions by deploying Xen on older hardware. He is going to use heartbeat to keep his site highly available. This idea hit home and I think i’m going to look at doing this for a few of our own internal projects. If for nothing else, the online fs snapshots that you can do in Xen.

Time to start reading I guess. I’ll probably get a box in for this and do some testing. But essentially I could have this site hosted on a highly available XEN vps pair. Nice.

Public vs Bank holidays

Good friday being a bank holiday was being discussed today in the office. Mostly you think that bank holidays are days off? Well no, not quite. Actual days that we’d close our doors are know as “public holidays” not actual bank holidays.

On Oasis it clearly states that Good friday is not a public holiday, and as such is a normal working day for the private sector.

There are nine (9) public holidays in Ireland each year. Good Friday is not a public holiday. The list of public holidays in Ireland each year is as follows:

* New Year’s Day (1 January)
* St. Patrick’s Day (17 March)
* Easter Monday
* First Monday in May, June, August
* Last Monday in October
* Christmas Day (25 December)
* St. Stephen’s Day (26 December)

So we’re gona be working on friday.

ET?

Not what you think … heh. I’ve been playing the game online quite a bit lately. We’ve some spare resources on a box or two on our new network. We’re INEX and peering with almost all the members so it provides nice ping times, sub 18ms in game. Not too bad at all.

It’s mostly for intersocs users, I plan to open it up once we’ve migrated everything/everyone to the new network.

Had an awesome game tonight, 3 a side team on a custom map. We were the alies .. it was down to the wire, we had to blow their radar, we got the dynamite armed about 8 times … but with 30 seconds left in the game, we got it! Was much fun.