13.12.2003
Ok, so what happened?
Work, that’s what I will blame for the lack of an update of two months. Blasted work has been stupidly busy and has been eatin up anything I would call free time (even so-called free time at work).
So what is new:
- Potentially, I may be able to be released from my current job in Windows2000 AD and move to another team doing Linux this time
Very very much looking forward to this but it depends on a rather large number of things, none of which inspire much confidence. - Spent a fair amount of time using the excellent groklaw to follow the latest in the IBM/SCO train wreck. A wreck for SCO that is, and it is certainly seeming much more likely these days. Particularly since the 2 requests to Compel that IBM presented were both accepted by the Judge (even with Kevin McBride rambling on).
- After all these years, discovered the joys of wiki - have been using phpwiki to do a lot of documentation on my home gateway. A lovely, simple tool.
- Another thing I have recently discovered in my travels is the joy of bash scripting. Spending most of my time doing Windows AD admin, everything ends up looking like a perl script Probably even when it shouldn’t
However, the Linux Documentation Projects excellent “Advanced Bash Scripting Guide” is re-introducing me into the simpler world of bash scripts (but potentially a lot quicker to write). - The Safari online Library (or whatever you wish to call it) from O’Reilly is proving invaluable. I’m using the 10book library and currently have a number of wonderful books that I am spending spare time reading and getting into my thick skull. The latest two are very impressive - Linux Server Hacks and Active Directory Cookbook. Highly recommended (both safari and those two).
- Re-read the Neal Asher, Janny Wurts and Richard Morgan books again. Both Neal and Richard are excellent British hard sci-fi writers and all of these books are well worth it (2 from Richard and the 3 from Neal) - I’ve re-read each of these 2-3 times each this year. Janny Wurts rarely fails to keep me coming back and “To Ride Hells Chasm” is a deep, detailed fantasy novel that I’ve just finished again for the fourth time (while waiting for the next of her “Wars of Light and Shadows” to be released).
- My Zaurus continues to be very useful - what with Opera for a web browser and the good e-book readers, it is a handy way of having a lot of data with you at all times (using a 256meg memory card of course). And a seperate CF card for music means listening pleasure at the same time. Very happy that I got the Zaurus rather than a Pocket PC.
Now to return to re-writing my bash init files - just for light entertainment on a lazy Saturday afternoon (not oncall this weekend…)