Today I took down my KVM-host machine, rebooting it and restarting all of my guests. It has been a while since I'd done so and I was a little nerveous, as it turned out this nerveousness was prophetic.

I'd forgotten to hardwire the use of proxy_arp so my guests were all broken when the systems came back online.

If you're curious this is what my incoming graph of email SPAM looks like:

I think it is obvious where the downtime occurred, right?

In other news I'm awaiting news from the system administration job I applied for here in Edinburgh, if that doesn't work out I'll need to hunt for another position..

Finally I've started hacking on my console based mail-client some more. It is a modal client which means you're always in one of three states/modes:

• maildir - Viewing a list of maildir folders.
• index - Viewing a list of messages.
• message - Viewing a single message.

As a result of a lot of hacking there is now a fourth mode/state "text-mode". Which allows you to view arbitrary text, for example scrolling up and down a file on-disk, to read the manual, or viewing messages in interesting ways.

Support is still basic at the moment, but both of these work:

  --
  -- Show a single file
  --
  show_file_contents( "/etc/passwd" )
  global_mode( "text" )

Or:

function x()
   txt = { "${colour:red}Steve",
           "${colour:blue}Kemp",
           "${bold}Has",
           "${underline}Definitely",
           "Made this work" }
   show_text( txt )
   global_mode( "text")
end

x()

There will be a new release within the week, I guess, I just need to wire up a few more primitives, write more of a manual, and close some more bugs.

Happy Thursday, or as we say in this house, Hyvää torstai!

Tags: jobs, kvm, lumail, misc, spam | 1 comment