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Today's handy tip for keeping my brain working: do eat lunch, don't let it be stodge (bread and vegetables; lard a bad idea), do caffeinate severely afterwards, add sugar as needed for half-hour bursts of brainpower. I got a spare web server with a dodgy serial console server running Solaris 9 with Solaris Volume Manager (formerly DiskShite) and iPlanet 6.0SP7 successfully serving 404s! (Which beats refusing connections.) Unfortunately, I have to install 6.1 instead. That can happen tomorrow.

Our DSL appears to be running on the same quality of damp string as our voice line. It's acting like there's bursts of noise every now and then that wipe out the connection for ten to a hundred seconds. That you can pick up the phone and hear background hiss and crackle almost as loud as the other person's voice doesn't augur well. I'll try swapping out all possible plug-in devices before moaning at BT. Has anyone else tried reporting a DSL that's acting like a bad dialup connection?

Also, could people please offer unqualified non-lawyer advice on the legalities of putting a sign out front that says "THIS DOOR IS UNDER 24-HOUR SURVEILLANCE. IF YOU LEAVE A CARD WITHOUT KNOCKING, I'LL HAVE THE EVIDENCE." Just a thought.