Server Crash…

Very strange one. I went to my brothers for dinner tonight. I left home at just after 5:30PM. At about 5:40PM my Linux server rebooted. I have not been able to work out what happend. The logs tell me nothing apart from the fact that it rebooted. There have been some hackers just ‘trying the doorknobs’, but that is it.

I just cannot work it out. The other strange this is that one of the other laptops here also crashed, but has been having some greater problems rebooting. I am just wondering if there was some sort of power problem about that time. No matter what the situation, something strange has happened.

The laptop is having huge problems booting. First thing this moring it worked better, coming closer to booting, bringing up the “Do you want to check the disk” screen. And then stopped there. And now it is not going any further. Sounds like the HDD has failed.

Oscars

The Oscars, also know as the Acadamy Awards are on this weekend in Hollywood. It would be good, sort of, to be over there to see the awards; at least as a once off. I suspect that being in the audience would be somewhat like being at a school presentation night where you dont know any of the kids, and where the presentation goes on far too long.

I have a friend with an acadamy award. He didnt get a statuette though for some reason. Bill Kovacs got his award for the work he did with starting the computer graphics company Wavefront which really was the pioneer for computer animation. Bill also worked on the movie Tron. Around that time of Tron, Arnold Schwarzenegger did some work for the company Bill was working for. The company needed a new reception area built, and Arnold and his mates from the Hollywood Gym came in to do the carpentry.

The location of the Kodak Theatre is on the corner of Hollywood and Highland. This is about a block from the Holiday Inn where I normally stay. The new Highland centre is probably the nicest part of Hollywood, but the entire area is really not what someone would expect. I mean, it is not as sophisticated, clean or as opulant as I would have expected. Think of somewhere like downtown Kings Cross or Redfern, or maybe Newtown and you will not be far off. It was a shock to me.

This first photo is of the entrance to the Kodak Theatre where the Oscars are being held.

This last photo is of Sunset Blvd looking south. It is one of the nicer photos of the area. The Kodak Theatre of to the north-east of the where the photo was taken and I didnt get any good shots. This was taken from the top of the CNN building, from the roof. A friend of mine took me up there to let me take some photos back in 2002.

Music: I have been listening to the 2CD Phantom of the Opera. I will be buying this when it comes out on DVD. But in my opinion, the 2nd CD is more boring than the first. The 2nd half of the movie is far more visual, with the fright at the cemetary, and the decent under the Opera House. These scenes were designed to be more visual and therefore they are not as pleasing to the ear when placed onto a CD without pictures. I think that is the best way to describe it.