With the New Year fast approaching I thought I’d share a few of my plans for developing the site over the next few months - First off I plan a major server overhaul some time in January to upgrade to Slackware 9.1 (Kernel 2.6) and add a new big HD (250 GB min!). This should make things faster and better organised as well as sorting out a few minor problems. Hopefully by then I’ll have a digital camera as well and I’ll be updating the gallery with new stuff as often as I have time. I’m also planning on documenting my installation procedure so anyone can get a perfect slack desktop/server running with minimum fuss!
The fate of the Norwich server is still undecided but it will defiantly still be around in some form or other, just not necessarily serving web pages to the wider public!
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Had a bit of trouble with my PowerBook over the last couple of days after the installation of the Mac OS X 10.3.2 system update patch hung half way through and left me with an unbootable system. The only trouble is my installation CD’s are about 250 miles away up North so I’ve been forced to re-download them again! Unfortunately this hasn’t left any time to compile the new kernel 
Proper update coming soon.
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As just reported on Slashdot the Linux 2.6 Kernel is finally here! This marks a pretty big milestone for Linux as a whole - it’s really the first industrial strength version to compete against the big Unixies like Solaris and Aix head on!
With full 64-bit support for the newer Opteron processors, full G5 support for the new PowerMacs, access to files that are up to 2 terabytes in size on 64 bit platforms and support for up to 32-64 processors this is certainly a neat bit of code!! For a desktop system it brings real time support with low latencies, improved USB and Firewire device support, better I/O and less race conditions during heavy disk use. It just feels a lot faster and performs much better.
It’s a big upgrade with mostly new server oriented features but it should be a nicer desktop OS and it can perform a lot better under heavy loads. But remember do not install it if you do not have a real up to date distro! Module tools have been upgraded and are incompatible with older versions. You can wreck your system if your not careful!
Check out kerneltrap.org for a good guide on how to upgrade your system and here for more in-depth info.
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Only one more lecture left till its time for me to head south for Christmas tomorrow. Students are migratory animals really with their defined patterns of movement around the country - Durham is always noticeably quieter when its ‘out of season’!
I’ll hopefully making a few small changes to the site over the holidays with some new cool features on the way assuming of course that the house doesn’t receive a direct lightning hit, a power failure or some sort divine intervention which kills the server!
P.s. don’t forget to go see this.
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