Novacaster Community: Simon's Blog - Hot news from the future!Novacaster CommunityVirtualisation City- June 29, 2008 Started the process of virtualising some of the Linux servers I've got here at home, with a view to trying to cut back the electricity bill. Decided to start with the oldest machine - a PII 233MHz with 64MB RAM and a 3GB IDE disk. It was a lot easier than I thought.http://community.novacaster.com/showarticle.pl?id=8359 Amesbury needs a museum- June 26, 2008 Salisbury and Devizes Museums are packed to bursting with artifacts and archives to the extent that curating new ones is becoming a problem. Right on the edge of the Stonehenge World Heritage site sits the town of Amesbury, almost a ghost town where rival supermarkets compete to build megastores in sight of one another in some weird parody of "the competitive market" Smack in the middle of Amesbury sits the old derelict Co-Op supermarket, a hideous eyesore of redbrick and...http://community.novacaster.com/showarticle.pl?id=8355 Solstice 2008- June 22, 2008 Somewhat drizzly :-)http://community.novacaster.com/showarticle.pl?id=8346 One for Hugo- June 22, 2008 ... though the tarzan swing is perhaps a little unlikely....http://community.novacaster.com/showarticle.pl?id=8345 No way!- June 20, 2008 Is that really the name of the Chairman of the Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust http:www.good-energy.co.ukgigha.phphttp://community.novacaster.com/showarticle.pl?id=8343 Seals can recognise constellations in the night sky- June 18, 2008 I suspected this would be the case, but nice to have confirmation from experiment.http://community.novacaster.com/showarticle.pl?id=8327 |