1. Into Linux & server management
2. Interested in building fail over Linux VPS solutions
3. Happy to play about creating your own hosting environment

This one might be for you…

Webbynode have a coming soon Beta. According to their blurb.

…the killer new flexible Xen VPS service for developers & for people in need of better hosting.

….advanced features to create clusters between webbys, iscsi San storage, amazon ec2, and more.

Sounds like it could be something worthwhile to test, can’t wait to have a go.

Anyway mine arrived safely about 3 weeks after the original order, and it’s an awesome bit of gear.

The mini9 does a great job as a netbook, which is what it’s designed to be funny enough

it’s far more useful than trying to view web sites on a Nokia smart phone where the browser crashes constantly after loading a few sites and the screen res is so low.

First thing I did was put a 2gb stick of RAM in and at this stage I’ve left XP Home installed. Pretty much the main thing I need is a browser and occasionally  few other tools. If I did change the OS I’d probably try the latest Ubuntu on it, apparently it works well.

I also bought a Belkin sleeve for some protection, as I’ve already had the mini9 out and about all over the place

Things I like.

1. It’s super portable, I just grab it off the desk when I leave home.
2. It’s quiet, no hard drive or fan noise!
3. Decent battery life for what I do.
4. Good construction and feel.

Things that could be improved.

1. 3G card inbuilt, saves having to bluetooth pair with my phone or use the 3G dongle.
2. Get rid of the glossy LCD, it can be pretty annoying.
3. On screen feedback when changing brightness / volume etc via the function keys.
4. Maybe a better keyboard layout, it’s a bit squished

In my in-laws back yard, keeping an eye on Luca running riot!

Out taking night photos, sitting in the car waiting for a rain shower to pass.

At the park with the kids, had to quickly do some work

If I don’t choose to go ahead with the fix, it’s still $60 for the quote, mmm. In the mean time I’ve been looking around an the options available, definitely some nice new cameras around.

Just have to keep waiting

Was taking pics as per normal, got a pic like this:

Next one was like this:

Not happy Jan.

Once I got home and did a closer inspection of the body, I see that the sub mirror (for auto focus) is not lifting when taking a photo. I had a fairly close look and found a spring that was loose and floating near the mirror assembly. I managed to extract it and was fairly hopeful that it was just something that popped out.

However there are a number of posts online that refer to this issue and in all cases it looks like a plastic pin, that the assembly swivels on, just snaps. Apparently a design flaw, and it appears that when repairing this issue Canon have been using a metal replacement part.

Link1 - Link2

I might have bit of a poke around and see what I can see, maybe it is just a spring popped out, however I’m probably going to have to do some ringing around during the week and see if I can get it repaired for a decent price.

In one post someone mentions they were quoted 200Euro in another 200USD, so maybe it’s a standard 200 of whatever your local currency is.

At present my options are:

1. Get it fixed for a decent price.
2. Glue the sub mirror to the main mirror and lose auto focus capability.
3. Take all my pics with the body upside down.

After 4 years and approx 25,000 shots I might even have to say goodbye. Sniff

rtr1(config)#int dot11radio0
rtr1(config-if)#ipv6 ?
% Unrecognized command
rtr1(config-if)#

Despite what you might read on the interwebs, you can’t actually apply an IPv6 address to either the dot11radio interface or sub interfaces.

In my current config I use a single vlan for ethernet & wireless, IPv6 works perfectly on the LAN but not on the wireless side.

rtr1#p ipv6.google.com so vl1

Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 2001:4860:0:2001::68, timeout is 2 seconds:
!!!!!
Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 408/411/424 ms
rtr1#

On the LAN side hosts get an address and have full connectivity, however epic fail awaits if you try when connected to the wireless. According to what I’ve read Cisco TAC say “Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB) does not support IPV6 at all.”

Bah, so now I’ll have to be tethered to the desk to use IPv6 or maybe I should get that Airport Extreme fired up and doing something useful instead of collecting dust

So on my first day off we did some walking around our local suburbs and spent some time having fun at one of the local parks. Photos here.

Found an auto setting (Aperture Priority) on my camera that worked well enough for Caterina to use it easily and take some decent photos, looks like when/if I upgrade to something newer there will be a use for my old one.