So here's one I just don't understand..

Quite some time ago, pharmacy direct was either hacked, or knowingly handed out my email address (which was a one-off address created to register on their site) to spammers.. - I'm getting the usual lot of viagra, penis enlarment, etc spams to the address.
I've emailed them quite a few times requesting an explanation on a) why/when my email address was given out, and b) what other information they gave out at the same time. Never had a response!

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What a whirlwind couple of weeks it's been! Relocating the office interstate, setting up colo'd servers in Sydney and Canberra, but it's all settling down now! We've got a couple of big beefy compaq boxes in Sydney, running vmware with a bunch of virtual machines on them, as well as our primary DNS, and our secondary is sitting in canberra. Next step is to start migrating services currently hosted in the US down into Sydney, and decomission our US boxes.

Of course there's some US services which will always stay there, such as email, as that just has WAY too much bandwidth overhead to be economical in aus, but the plan is to get all our webhosting servers migrated back here by the end of the year :) Our colo provider likes the sound of that too ;)

And of course, I'd always rather be putting my hosting money into .au business rather than overseas!

So I've just posted the last of the first batch of stuff I put up on ebay.. Not too bad, though i must have spent a good 15 hours photo'ing, and googling specs to build up the ads.. Still have an absolute bucketload of stuff, though most of it now is scsi cards, usb/firewire cards, scsi hdd's, and old 8x4.5 and 8.9gb raid cabinets.. Oh, and ram, and motherboards, and old 4RU ATX rackmount cases.. Will put that that stuff up when I get back from the christmas break.. Would be *really* good to have everything gone, and the garage/server room basically just containing the stuff I'm keeping, by the time I head up for Sharree's birthday at the end of jan..

Fingers crossed - there's a lot of work there :)

So just finished upgrading the Law Foundation's FirstClass server from 8.2 through 8.3 to 9.0. Seven and a half hours to back the bastich up (pointed out it needed a damned good defrag.. have fired that off..), then FIVE MINUTES to do the upgrade! Gotta say I was bloody impressed!!

Couple of hitches - most notable being it removed 'WWW Client' access from the 'All Users' group.. That would have caused a few hiccups, but sorted now.. Also, will be interesting, it remodelled all users desktops to force them to their group's model desktop layout... Will see if we get any complaints about that!

Gotta say I love the automatic client upgrade feature.. Finished the upgrade, and then logged in with my 8.2 client, and bingo, it goes 'you need to upgrade your client, click OK to continue', and voila, 5 mins later it's downloaded and upgraded me to V9.0!

You know, this month, it's 13 years since I first started using Firstclass - originally on version 2.6 on a 300 baud manuall-dial modem using the IEAust's EOL BBS!

Well she's all done (except the headlights/high beam takeoff, but that can wait for a week or so :) ), and road tested!!

Ok, the roof basket is on, and wired in (though the under-bonnet wiring still has to be done) - just have to align the lights tomorrow night once it's wired.. I've mounted my 45 degree corner lights, and run cables for them, and I've re-cabled the bumper-mounted driving lights.. Some pics :)

So I just finished mounting up the 'offroad' (i.e. they aren't exactly adr compliant) driving lights to the roof basket.. They were a little larger than I'd judged.. Will have to add a couple of extra bits of steel to mount the side lights off!

Good lord, I'm almost done! Fuses went in, cutout switches were turned on, and everything works!. Some photos ;)

So the shelf is done! head units installed, wiring run through the dash, and have pulled the cabling through under the carpet to the rear..

Woohoo!! Have been hassling myself over this one for days, as I did other bits, trying to figure out how to do it - now its done!!