I got up about 11am, bummed around on the computer for a while.

I had a shower, got dressed, ate something.

Looked at a bunch of SinFest comics.

About 12pm, I went and found Dad, I then called up the guy I was going to see today, he was at his shop, so Dad and I went over there.

On the way, Dad asked me how the servers were going. Not very well, considering the Debian install kernel doesn't support the dopey RAID controller.

I figure there are a few ways around it. I can install onto a standard ATA disk, compile/install a new kernel, push it onto the RAID disks, and hope it can boot, or I can try building a custom kernel, and making my own rescue disk with the kernel with RAID support on it (on a different machine) hopefully resulting in the machine working.

We got to the guy's shop, were in there for about an hour and a half, having a good conversation about starting up, and some rough prices.

We had a laugh about the things my friend used to get up to, and a bit of a conversation about the current state the business has got into, and the nonsense that's going on.

I'm starting with 5 dial in lines, I think it will be enough for about the first hour, and then I will need more, but we'll sort that out as we go.

We left, they guy told me that he'd contact me on Monday with the proper prices.

I think I'll need to put someone on for support too, as much as I don't want to, I think it's true that people like personalised support, rather than a menu system.

If I can get all the online help (yourself) system working properly, then it shouldn't be an issue. Someone will do something wrong, and before they can find the support number, they will already be on the support pages, where it's telling them how to fix whatever problem themselves, or create a helpdesk ticket themselves.

I don't think I'll offer an unlimited account, you don't make anything out of it, and in some cases, it costs money. If I do, it will have to be like $30/month. I would rather put people on ADSL.

On the way back, we went to drive through McDonalds, and then came home.

I grabbed a spare table, and a monitor, dragged them out.

I setup the machine my mate gave me on Monday, and blasted linux on it. I'll use it as a staging server, and to build the custom kernel/rescue disk I need to install linux on the servers.

Dad built one of the servers while I mucked around getting linux installed.

I started watching a bit of tv, had dinner with my parents, then came back and started watching tv again, while I waited for security updates to download over my painfully slow dialup connection.

35MB downloaded in 3 hours.

I tried to get X working, can't.

While I was doing this, my mate I go to dinner with called me on my mobile. Apparently I've still got "divert when busy" set on my landline. I was sure I turned that off.

Anyway, he bought all the computer bits today, so I'll have to go and see him tomorrow afternoon, and put a motherboard in a case for him.

I've just spent hours downloading the lastest one (4.4) instead of 4.1 that ships with this version of the distribution.

I still need to fix up my resume. I will have to do it tomorrow, when I get back from the senior's club.