Someone set me up the bomb!

Someone set me up the bomb!
Originally uploaded by TheScream.

My loan car while my Lotus is being serviced is a Citroen C4. *shudder*

It was like they took a Hyundai Accent, tried to turn it into a Mercedes... and failed miserably.

Final Muster

Final Muster
Originally uploaded by TheScream.

One of the more difficult "blue" runs at Falls Creek, Final Muster was indeed the last run I did on this holiday.

Falls Creek 2007

Villiage
Originally uploaded by TheScream.

Well, I'm having a blast with Lexi & Friends at Falls Creek (VIC, Australia) and my snowboarding skills are improving quite well. I can now carve and get up quite a lot of speed.

I'm rarely falling now and I've even given the terrain park a little go.

Dinner @ The LAN House

Dinner @ The LAN House
Originally uploaded by TheScream.

Cooked roast lamb for dinner tonight... and there was much rejoicing.

Coffee Setup Completed

Coffee Setup Completed
Originally uploaded by TheScream.

My kitchen is nearly complete. I purchased a Sunbeam "Cafe Series" Espresso machine today. It makes awesome coffee and has loads of POWER!

Glenelg, Starbucks and Interwebs

Glenelg, Starbucks and Interwebs
Originally uploaded by TheScream.

Its great to be able to just sit back and relax in such nice surroundings. The MacBook Pro is going wonderfully and the quality of the built in iSight webcam is brilliant as you can see.

Gentoo, VMWare, vhosts and Windows

Last week, my Windows server died. It has served me well for over 3 years and now the motherboard is dead, out of warranty and no longer available.

As it hosts some critical sites, services and files, I needed to replace it but didn't have either the time nor the intention of buying and building another server.

A few months ago, I set up a rather nice Gentoo Linux server to act as a file, mail, web and database system using the following hardware

• Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
• 2GB DDR2-800 RAM
• Promise EX8350 PCIe RAID card
• Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Motherboard
• Thermaltake Kandalf Full Tower Case
• Thermaltake Toughpower 750W Power Supply
• 7 x Seagate 320GB SATA-II 16MB cache HDDs

Overkill for a file, mail, web and database server, but my plan was longer term than that. Next, I installed VMWare which is a piece of software which allows you to run one or more "virtual" computers inside another.

As I only have one IP address for my house, hosting websites on both my Gentoo box and the virtual server within was a little tricky. With a little help from my mates, I managed to configure the web server on the Linux side to forward requests to my virtual Windows server for any sites hosted there.

So now, my new Windows server is running inside a virtual machine, under Gentoo Linux. I think Linux is finally starting to "click" for me.