Having trouble booting this version of the network installer for Debian under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1? Supply it with the following kernel options at the “Press F1 to install” screen: 8042.noloop clock=pit If you want to know why this works then carry on reading.. Still here? This is probably quite boring, so I don't blame you if you give up half way through! Generally an OS gets the current time from the CMOS during startup, and then sets up a timer to generate periodic interrupts.

Some of you may be aware that I “maintain” a how to guide for the Live For Speed community, briefly detailing how to run a dedicated server. Within this guide is a section on running it on a Linux based system, under Wine. As good as this guide is (obviously - as I wrote it :P), there are a few issues that I feel need to be addressed, predominately; Most distro's packages of Wine have X.

Having broken my non-production mail server a few days ago, I decided it was about time to actually get around to fixing it. I don't intend using it as my primary mail server, but more as a mirror of my ISP's account - at least until I have a private colocated box again, on a decent line that can handle my mail. Some how I don't think my home line (read: me) will be happy with all of the various mailing lists coming at it.