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Hi, I'm a Mac AND a PC.
2010-07-28 (21:33:37)
So it seemed rather a waste to have the PowerPC which is running as a mac network server doing not a lot for most of it's working life. I thought, heck, I could really make use of that as my secondary machine - so I did. Nice PowerPC and a Dell workstation on my desk now purring away with more processing than you could shake an Indian call-centre worker at...(oh, get off your high-horse that's a joke you over-P.C. nutcase).
So, yeah the server room needed a good clearout and clean so I started that today and moved the comms cabinet around so that I could hoover it out properly and try and prolongue the lifespan of the ageing HP Procurve kit. The office is just about coplete, couple of other items we'll need to make use of the works van to move, but other than that, job's a good-un!
Interested by my mate Aliz' blog entry on a 'Knowledge and Sharing' event. I like that idea. I like free knowledge sharing, it's what got me to where I am today (don't you dare say "old, fat, boring geek").
I've been increasingly worried by the ever increasing charging of education. Yeah, like it's elite to want to further your understanding - what is this? "The shape of things to come" ?
So, yeah I'm all for that and any way I can help and input into that so much the better. I could really do with getting my head into something useful and cool that would be interesting and challenging to me. It's just getting a little harder the older I get to throw the time and resources at a project with so many other important aspects in every day life. What would be great is, some rich millionairre gives me a wage to do lots of cool research, that would be good. They could provide funding to aid a few of us like-minded tech-geeks to come up with something really cool.
On that note - the UK Cyber Security Challenge. Yeah, erm... levels of "ooh" and "euuurk" are in equal measure on that one - "The UK needs some high tech geeks with an attitude to provide the next line of defence for the UK" or similar waffle on the site. The worrying thing is that A> It's obviously a drive to weed out those that are would-be crackers and hacker geeks and B> is the UK really so desperate as to PUBLICALLY announce that it's own electronic defences are effectively not good enough?
The jury is out on that one. I'm staying well clear of the challenge, though it does throw up enticing "step into my gingerbread house little child" threads of thought in my cranium. NO NO NO EVIL WITCH!
Anyhow, tomorrow is another day and one that will be filled with replicating user data and finalising server rooms and moving computer systems.