We have a big backlog of movies and today we went to Ashta-Chemma. I expected a decent movie, but this one turned out to be much better than what I expected. The “melodrama” in the movie is so enjoyable, I kept on laughing through the entire movie. The twists in the plot closer to the end of the movie add the right icing on this nice cake. Our entire family liked the movie. Worth watching.
Took 2-3 hours to unplug and rewire all my home computers, routers and related equipment. One of the powerstrips gave away last week due to a heavy transformer plugged to it. So bought a couple of power strips today and restructured the power cabling. Now kids have a separate power strip for all the computing equipment they normally use. All the routers, wireless and VOIP equipment has a separate power strip. The third power strip powers all the Unix/Linux gear I have. Now the wiring diagram (the one in my mind) looks lot simpler.
Last week, I started full throttle on Seetaphal and Haleem. This year, I got haleem only from Hyderabad House. There is an outlest just about a mile from my home, so it is very easy to get a take away. So this good season is going to last just a few more days. Let me make the best out of it.
Need: Use Solaris zones to test large number of connectivity hops. Installed OpenSolaris on a DELL Vostro laptop, but bitten by this bug. Had to revoke.
VMWare ESXi doesn’t detect the harddrive on this model. So couldn’t install Solaris on top of ESX too. Now I need to think of other ways of having a solaris zones install.
Today’s lunch is at Bowl O’China in S. R. Nagar. The cake, as usual, is from Just Bake. This time we tried Chocolate Chips Cake. Photos from the day are here.
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CERN’s scheduled tests in the next 24 hours are the talk of the town today. BTW, while talking about CERN, we better visit GridCafe.
Starting Sunday evening, my back started hurting badly. Took some medicines and headed to work as usual on Monday, but the pain increased by lunch time. Headed to Care Hospitals at Banjara Hills in the evening and visited Dr. B. N. Prasad. He suggested a couple of x-rays in the lumber area. After the x-rays are inspected, he suggested that there are no slip disks or other unusual injuries of that sort. Prescribed ten days of medication and a few workouts to follow. Also suggested a couple of days of rest, so that the back would heal a bit. The pain became worse by the evening, but probably the medications would take care of it a bit in the next few hours.
I love this thingy called Pizza Scissors. See here too.
Finally, the long silence from Jonathan, the avid blogger, is broken. Aug 08 is a month in which he didn’t post a single blog entry. Very unusual. Today, after a silence of about 38 days, he posted a new blog entry. Welcome back, Jonathan!
Pretty much the whole weekend is gone to VmWare and VirtualBox 2.0. Not a decent success in making ESXi work on my laptop, but VirtualBox 2.0 is running simply fine. The ESXi hypervisor is not detecting the hard disk on my laptop. This is something that I need to look into and see if this can be patched. Have a hectic work week ahead, so next weekend should be another round to fix the gaps here.