It's almost Christmas time! (adrian's home)

Well, I passed the LPI Level 2 combined beta exam, which is pretty exciting for me, and surprising... All I need to do now is pay $200USD to write and pass the two LPI Level 1 exams, and LPI will actually issue both certifications. Yay!

Had a good weekend, it was a great shopping weekend! So much for Christmas shopping, but Kelly and I both treated ourselves. Kelly got a fantastic deal on a leather jacket from Danier in Kanata, and I got a grand deal on a new 3-in-1 winter jacket from Bushtukah down the street from Mountain Equipment Co-Op. A great store, with great service, good prices, and discounts for Mitel Employees, so we couldn't go wrong! It's the best winter jacket I've owned, by a Canadian company in Concord, named Misty Mountain, who don't seem to have a web presence. :(

Otherwise, up to the usual, I've been slowing down lately with at home administrative stuff... As Tony keeps telling me, I need to hire a SysAdmin to manage the multitude of computers we have here. I manage to break something at least every few days. Anyhow. Got a new gadget a while back, a 3Com SuperStack II 24 port manageable 10/100 switch. Manageable by way of SNMP, web, and telnet. It's a pretty sweet device. That, and the fact that my previous D-Link 8 port switch topped out at about ~3000kB/s, while I've managed to do ~11,000kB/s on this baby. I guess you get what you pay for!

Over the past month, I implemented yet more changes on the UT server, including compressing all textures and maps for faster download, co-hosting most of them at Jer's server, and also DNS round-robinning downloads.enfusion-group.com. Also been testing out the MapVote mutator, and HolyWars, a new game type. We've really started to slow down though, there's not much action on the server these days. Ah well...

Upgraded IMP/Horde to the latest (2.2.7/1.2.7), to keep up with the latest security patches... I'm testing out IMP 3.0 which is looking pretty darn good... I'll probably force a switch on everyone at some point soon, but I'll wait until 3.0 is released as stable.

I've also been running a Jabber server for the past month, which is pretty darn cool... At some point I'll get some documentation and links up. This was in response to ICQ no longer working on anything except Windows boxes... Which was the final straw. At least Jabber's native protocol has respect for firewalls, and was designed to co-operate with them. Something ICQ could learn from after 8 versions.:) Actually, I should add that as of last week, it looks like ICQ is working very well through firewalls. Not sure how, but I no longer have to send each and every message "through server".

On an important note, the wedding plans are coming along pretty well! We're pretty sure we've picked our invitations, so now it's just a matter of figuring out wording, text, and font styles for the invitations. If only Paperworld in Westgate Shopping Centre had decent staff working for them.

Friday of this week, I'm off to Kingston with Kelly, which should be really fun! Other than that, Christmas is just around the corner. We've got the decorations on our tree, but no lights yet. Soon... Still waiting for the snow!

It's almost Christmas time!

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