Productive Labor Day

Perhaps ironically, I got a lot done on my long vacation! My model is coming along nicely. The saucer section is completely built, and just needs a fancy coat of paint.

jason AT parrott DOT ws is now working, and dad is moved over as well. Superiorserve’s website has been moved home, and I’ve all but canceled my HostMySite account. I have all my mail filtering into my fanatic@gmail account!

I even made some progress on Gears of War, but I’m stuck on the last chapter of Act 3. It’s seriously impossible.

Can’t wait to get back to work tomorrow. I’m looking forward to working with KVM a bit more, testing some installs and getting down to business. Also, I learned a bit about dstat and the io process accounting that RH backported into 5.4 — can’t wait to see what that’s like and how we can apply it to our benchmarking. Also, I found that we can register our servers with rhn within the kickstart. I’m excited to test that out and make sure it works as we expect it to – especially when we run very tight with licenses. Perhaps by converting a bunch of our machines into VMs, we’ll save a bit on license fees.

On my todo list for next weekend are: finish up the model and start the painting process; purchase and install snow leopard on my macbook; get to the grocery store since i’m out of snacking food; pick up some cash from a chase atm; finish up on gears of war — I’m so close; and get some high availability features working for my websites at home.  If one server dies, I need it to failover seamlessly.  Perhaps I can command it to failover via twitter. That’d be very 2009 of me.