I dropped in on the travel agent this morning… After telling her that I wanted to book a holiday her comment was ‘I bet you have it all planned’… You bet I did. Well, except for not being sure if I will go via New Zealand or not. I am expecting an email soon with the pricing… And I fully expect most of it to be booked already when I get the price.

My firewall seems to be working well… Skype has been having some issues in the past and I am thinking that some of this was the firewall causing issues with delays. It really is still too early to tell though. I need to pull power on the machine and make sure that it auto-starts. Right now my Linux box does not for some reason. I think it might have a dead CMOS battery. If so it will be an easy fix. If not things are much harder. I might just swap the HDD between this box and my windows server anyway. During a thunder storm at the beginning of the year the in-built network card in the server died, and I needed to put a network card in. I would rather have this in the Windows box, and the Linux box being the one with working NIC and battery.

I will have a look at that a little later…