The alarm went off as usual, and I lay there for a bit before getting up, but I fell back asleep, and didn't wake up until after 8am. D'oh!

I had a shower and got ready, I was down at work a bit before 10am.

I worked on scripts all day, and modified the export script to try to pull the whole table out.

Network issues started occuring in the early afternoon (NFS mounts were being a bit flaky), but I decided to try exporting the whole database anyway. It will only fail, and I'll have to try again.

I started it exporting, about 2pm, and it went along fairly happily for quite a while, but the network issues got worse, and a short while later, it reduced the network to being useless.

I was still exporting the whole table (ended up being 250MB worth of data, not too bad), but it took hours, because the NFS mount I was exporting it to get going away, and then the process would wait for it to come back.

My mate rang me, he'd taken the mongrel PC back, plugged it all in, and it had done the trick of ending up with scrambled CMOS data again, so he'd brought it back home again. Oh well, I'm not interested in dealing with it again, it's obviously stuffed, and the whole reason we got these parts was to replace faulty hardware, so I'm not replacing faulty hardware with more faulty hardware, he'll have to take it back and get it replaces, or preferably get a non shit board to start with, instead of that SiS shit.

I couldn't use the internet, and the machine I was exporting the data to kept going away, which made it difficult to check things, for the script I was writing.

I was able to do some scripting locally, but I gave up, setup an export (first full export run, of about 10000 documents from the optical disks), and left about 4.45pm.

I came home, watched some tv for the first time in about 2 weeks.

Dad came in, and said there were DNS issues or something, and I said that I wasn't interested, I'd look at it tomorrow.

I went to bed about 11.30pm.