We had a good one at work the other day. One of our customer's terminal servers, from their load balanced cluster, had run out of diskspace on C:, due to a rogue update of some bespoke software and a lack of quotas. This is something which was missed from the config, but we or the customer never noticed, as we're pretty good at monitoring this stuff and resolving the issue before it causes trouble.

Transport rules are a new thing for Exchange, in it's latest incarnation (Exchange 2007), and it allows for some pretty interesting configuration and behaviour when a mail is in transit. If you're familiar with earlier versions of Exchange it's probably best to compare them to Event Sinks, only that they're much more friendly. If you don't know what that means then a more apt description would be simple to create rules, that allow you to do anything from append text to the bottom of an email, to apply filters on messages between both internal and external users.

It seems times are changing. About 15 years ago Shannon Larrattstarted something called BME, which some of you may know. This eventually flourished into the current and ever popular modblog, over the last few years. Today Shannon announced that he will be relinquishing hispart ownershipand handing it over to his ex-wife, Rachel, in it's entirety. I wish Shannonall the luck in the world in whatever he decides to do, and to thank him for what he's done for the modification culture.

Ok, so maybe not again. After all there's not much you can get that happy about when it comes to filesystems these days - a lot of the really exciting stuff has been done so far. Like Resier[3|4], ZFS is one I'd heard about, did some research on but never considered using at all. The fact that it currently only runs on Solaris or via FUSE under Linux (which in itself can be considered to be a benefit, as the filesystem is recoverable and separate from the kernel - performance supposedly sucks though), had kind of put me off a bit.

Able to connect, but appear not to beable to recieve any packets? Go into the properties of the VPN, go to security and untick “Require data encryption (disconnect if none)". In XP < SP3 this has always been ticked for my tunnels and I've never had a disconnection, but it appears that something in SP3 RC0 makes some behaviour change, but doesn't actually disconnect the tunnel. I've not discovered why this happens, but this has fixed it on my main desktop and on my virtual machines.

I've been toying with getting a laptop recently, to supplement the one I have from work. I'd finally settled on getting a Macbook, and was planning on waiting until more was announced about the new, secret-ish, ultra portable product. However, something else has been playing my mind, and that's the Logitech G25. It's an affordable steering wheel, from Logitech with a half decent H-gate and sequential shifter, 3 pedals, a full 900 degree rotation wheel with 2 paddle shifters, all with hand sitched leather.

I thought I should round this set of blog entries off, as it'll clear up some discussion I've had on various forums about this job prospect. About 2 weeks ago I got the results from my interviews with Blizzard. I received several phone calls from them whilst I was out and about for my current employer. Eventually I got an email from my contact asking what number was best to get me on and I responded, apologising and detailing my details.

Once again Castlecoombe race track in Wiltshire, which is the second oldest track in the UK, is under threat again. During the summer it was slapped with a noise order preventing the track from hosting the F3/British GT event and it's now under threat from complete closure. As always there's a petition against this, which can be also found online here. If you're in the area, or have ever been to Castlecoombe and had a good time, then you might want to spend a minute or two of your time signing it.

Earlier today I managed to find time to watch Randy Pausch's last lecture (Randy is sadly suffering from terminal cancer), entitled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. I'll try not to give away too much, just incase you might want to see it, but it's certainly one of the most interesting, and moving, lectures I've ever had the pleasure of being able to watch. Randy talks about the lessons he's learnt and gives advice on how to achieve your dreams, by recounting his experiences in life.