03.06.2003
A not-so-good week
Hmmm, so much for the posting regularly lark - last week was not a lot of fun 
My new manager called our first team meeting last Wednesday - not a lot of surprises in it. He doesn’t really know what most of us do and will probably be more than a little concerned when he does find out.
In other news, the windows2000 platform that I look after the AD for, has gone very very unstable for one particular business unit which is proving rather ugly. Fingers being pointed in various directions (even a laughable suggestion that our Domain Controllers were proving the bottleneck due to the some applications making LDAP calls). Interesting though, the amount of information you can pull out of Windows2000 ntds object from withing perfmon.
Spent the last couple of days and the weekend doing my chemistry assignment which is almost over now, thank goodness.
And have had a lot of fun playing with mrtg. I am now graphing apache, seti and an awful lot of squid counters. Simply amazing the amount of information you can get from snmpd and with perl, any log file you can parse can be graphed - for some reason, that appeals to me.
And in site news, I pushed up my first screenshot in a year - and what a change from my old setup. I am now running Debian unstable on that desktop with Kde 3.1 - mainly due to the change in focus in Gnome2 to a “simpler’ model didn’t suit me. KDE is very very nice and, to be honest, I find myself more productive in it than Gnome2. I still love gkrellm though as is quite obvious from the screenshot.
And a very nice application for taking screenshots - scrot from Tom Gilbert aka LinuxBrit (you can find it at his site). Lots of other good things at that site - it was what first got me into procmail, bash stuff and other interesting things.