Archive for August, 2006

Still at Maidstone

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Yep - he is still stuck in Maidstone.
For several days now they have been waiting for the MRSA test to return before being able to transfer him to East Grinstead. This test they have been told several times takes two days….and was taken on Saturday. Still, finally, it returned/was found today and it’s all clear [...]

more crap nhs service :-(

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Last weekend after our trip to the dogs my brother in law was complaining of an odd lump on his finger. By sunday lunchtime it had swelled up somewhat so on the advise of NHS direct he went to the emergency doctor who gave him some antibiotics and told him not to worry about it.
Later [...]

Dear Sun

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Dear Sun,
When we log a call with you, one of the first pieces of information that we *have* to give you is the output from the uname command. This is obviously an important piece of information - without it we can’t even get a call logged.
FYI
# uname -a
SunOS yaddayadda 5.9 Generic_118558-28 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210
the bit [...]

Who let the dogs out?

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

A few of us spent a pleasant evening yesterday at Sittingbourne dog track. Not something I’d done before (but something that I’ve been meaning to do for years - I had planned to go to the Canterbury dog track!). Turned out to be quite a laugh.
Spent the first couple of races attempting to work out [...]

thumbs up to T-Mobile so far…

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

well, as promised the memory card arrived. Insanely small…

Thats on my (very small) laptop….mad
Coverage so far is worse than orange as expected but better than I was worried it would be - looking promising so far. I’ve got a couple more days yet to decide if I want to send it back and no sign [...]

New phone time

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

It’s got to the time again - my contract has been over for a while and finally Orange pissed me off enough to make me jump ship. Why? No one reason - more several small irritations over the last couple of months.
Firstly, since their takeover/merger of/by Wannadoo their customer service appears to have taken a [...]

Way to go Sun :-(

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

So, finally after much dithering we get to patch messaging server on Tuesday. Patch installed, system comes back. Job done.
Except, as always with JES patches all is not well. Having finally got a patch afew months ago to fix a huge memory leak in mshttpd it seems that this patch has now undone that. Seems [...]