Matt-J.co.uk : Ramblings

Evening,

Once again no posts for days and days, Have been pretty busy with a few things. We currently have internetworking coursework, studying the joys of traceroute. Our mail server at work was pretty much DDos’d by some n00b trying to use us as a spam relay, even though it wouldn’t let spam through!

Other than that, Im currently planning on building a media center box, But maybe i’ll wait to see if I move upto reading, nice 32″ TFT and media center for the living room!

I also want to have a play with some GPL PABX software, get more to grips with solaris (especially zfs! looks amazing) aaand tackle IPv6! But all in time :P

(ooh, also watching a lot of scrubs, but ahh well).

8iuy6t7itgvo76tg7ytg67ytg87opty7 < Joe’s Input to this conversation…. chump!

Connor (to be sure) and Lucinda are always buzzing around at the moment as he’s recording his film project, tonight Lucinda’s having her eye cut out by her ex boyfriend.. who got her pregnant! (apparently)

In other news, Reformatted my Linux NAS and routing server. Realized one day that uploads and downloads to/from my server were pretty slow for a gigabit link. and connections to martins NAS (also gigglebeet) even slower. So i started to diagnose everything, client drivers, cables, switches server programs (samba, iptables etc etc) And finally decided it MUST be the linux drivers for the gigabit PCI cards I am using.

To make sure of this, I re-installed my linux server, and a hell of a lot of googling on those gigabit cards seemed to back up my diagnosis. So im currently trying to find myself some cheap Intel PRO 1000 MT Dual port server gigabit network cards. as the linux drivers are rock solid!

Anyone willing to donate one? two?

Anyway, thats about all for now, Need to finish up some coursework and maybe hit up an asda/kfc with housemates.

//Matt