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• is twittering again #
• is ready for home time, it’s getting dark #
• is twittering from his desktop #

It seems that the guys at Wikipedia are migrating their servers from a mixture of fedora/redhat to ubuntu, well thats great new Read more here

Well after seeing this desktop [it's the image i'm interested in], i think it’s about time i updated my laptop to the Ibex.

Finally got my internet connection back last night, the engineer came on time [he even phoned me 30 mins before arrival] replaced my old ageing modem, ran a couple of speed tests and bingo, back as normal. Quite impressed to be honest….Good Job NTL.

** UPDATE ** ok ok so maybe i over reacted and blocking all slicehost customers isn’t the way to go at all…Sowwwee

Stop being a prick and trying to connect to  my server.  Yes i have reported you to slicehost, if you don’t stop then i’ll just block all of slicehost it’s not a problem for me

Sep 04 14:39:53 xen-web-ubuntu proftpd[19634] localhost.localdomain (209-20-87-244.slicehost.net[209.20.87.244]): no such user ‘Administrator’
Sep 04 14:39:53 xen-web-ubuntu proftpd[19634] localhost.localdomain (209-20-87-244.slicehost.net[209.20.87.244]): USER Administrator: no such user found from 209-20-87-244.slicehost.net [209.20.87.244] to 10.10.10.220:21
Sep 04 14:39:53 xen-web-ubuntu proftpd[19634] localhost.localdomain (209-20-87-244.slicehost.net[209.20.87.244]): Maximum login attempts (2) exceeded, connection refused
Sep 04 14:39:53 xen-web-ubuntu proftpd[19634] localhost.localdomain (209-20-87-244.slicehost.net[209.20.87.244]): FTP session closed.
Sep 04 14:39:53 xen-web-ubuntu proftpd[19635] localhost.localdomain (209-20-87-244.slicehost.net[209.20.87.244]): FTP session opened.
Sep 04 14:39:53 xen-web-ubuntu proftpd[19635] localhost.localdomain (209-20-87-244.slicehost.net[209.20.87.244]): no such user ‘Administrator’
Sep 04 14:39:53 xen-web-ubuntu proftpd[19635] localhost.localdomain (209-20-87-244.slicehost.net[209.20.87.244]): USER Administrator: no such user found from 209-20-87-244.slicehost.net [209.20.87.244] to 10.10.10.220:21

• Working the bank holiday is the most fun :s #
• @pleia2 send me some, i’m falling asleep at my desk here #

I have a domain name that i’m interested in doing something with, ubuntuskills.org, i’m thinking of some kind of “i use ubuntu desktop/server and here’s my skill set” site, but other than that i’m not sure….any ideas?  Answers on a post card to……

• listens to Pink Floyd, maybe it will provide inspiration….. #
• is getting excited and nervous, 2 weeks on Saturday until baby is due….. #

• can now update twitter from firefox using twitbin #

• loves working on sundays…..NOT!! #