David and Katherine Goodwin

Obviously there isn't much difference between the two (RedHat Enterprise Linux and CentOS) - and moving/migrating to CentOS turned out to be very easy....

cp /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release-saved
rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release-notes redhat-release yum-rhn-plugin redhat-logos
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/centos-release-5-2.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/centos-release-notes-5.2-2.x86_64.rpm
yum update

Well, it's not quite Christmas yet, but it's been rather eventful already.

When younger Carter's 30 Something was one of my favourite albums, and it starts with something along the lines of :

"When you're young, you can eat what you like, drink what you like, and still fit into size 21 trousers and zip them closed - and without any warning at all, you reach that age, that golden age - 24 to 25, your muscles give up, they wave a little white flag, and without any warning at all - you're a fat bastard."

BBC News - German Finance minister speaks out against UK government's borrowing binge

Is it just me that does the following :

This slashdot article and it's subsequent comments, reminded me of my stint at a boarding school (Christ College Brecon).

One comment said :

Actually, private schools consistently get better grade averages because:

1. They select their intake
2. The parents take part in the kids education
3. They can permanently expel disruptive children
4. They can afford to employ the best teachers
5. They can afford to buy better facilities

Pale Purple is moving office tomorrow; as part of this I obviously had to sort out a new telephone and broadband etc. BT were for once quite quick in doing "stuff", and likewise BeThere seemed fairly quick...

However, on Tuesday our broadband at work died. This was not good. After half an hour on the phone, BeThere finally told me that they'd changed me from a static IP address to a dynamic IP address. Without telling me this beforehand! This means :

Right - a quick summary of the phpnw08 conference.

Last night John Pinner gave a talk at SBLug covering Search Engine Optimisation.

Here is an exceedingly random collection of points, as a collective, we came up with.

CentOS 5.2 ships with a bug that stops it booting as a guest KVM image, but only for X86_64 on AMD chips - you'll see a kernel panic, and wonder WTF is wrong.

Solution - use an older version from the vault (e.g. 5.1) or presumably wait for a newer version to come along

(This problem won't affect VMWare guest images)