So I was wondering what days are public holidays in Norway, and it seems that most of them are up front in the year, the biggest being the national constitution day on the 17th of May.  This is for 2006:

New Years Day
01 January

Palm Sunday
9 April

Maundy Thursday
13 April

Good Friday
14 April

Easter Sunday
16 April

Easter Monday
17 April

Public holiday
01 May

Constitution Day
17 May

Ascension Day
25 May

Whit Sunday
4 June

Whit Monday
5 June

Constitution Day
17 May

Christmas Day
25 December

Boxing Day
26 December

Which is a shame because I would have loved them to be a bit more spread out, but we are lucky to have them anyway.

Excellent post here with lots of tips and tricks to make Windows a better experience – or at least make it easier to live with it day to day. It includes:

• How to hack windows XP admin password
• Registry Hacking
• Increasing options in add/remove programs
• Automatically Kill Programs At Shutdown:
• Speeding Up Share Viewing
• Aspi

Totally excited about this, almost as much as the upcoming Nintendo Wii.  Its a Halflife/Counterstrike mod that acts like the old Nintendo N64 title Goldeneye which I have many memories of spending happy hours running around throughing bouncing bombs and more around.

So much so that I went home and just downloaded Steam, and purchased Counterstrike Source so I could play it.

Hows that for a impulse purchase!!  -  Well actually only $19.95 but all the same, I don’t really play games on the PC but I couldn’t resist this.

Along time ago I wrote a list of things that I need to complete, well I have managed to get one thing done on the list, and that was a site I was building for a friend.  Its almost complete from his designs, though I have yet to get feedback.  The site is in Norwegian, for a Norwegain company and it is:

http://www.nord-vesteiendom.as/

Its a really simple site on the outside, showcasing new house builds, and all the import information will be uploaded in PDFs shortly.  As normal I built the whole thing on top of WordPress 2, with a custom template which actually contains quite a bit more custom PHP than the simplicity of the site actually reveals.  But Wordpress lets anyone update the site, add in pictures which are formatted properly and then attach PDFs.

I will be of course putting in more information about the build in my portfolio site.  Now on to build http://jeanettemagnussen.com

With all the nice scripts I have been writing for usenet on Linux, I am running out of space all the time on my file server.   So soon, I am going to bite the bullet and upgrade my disks.

Currently I am thinking of taking on of my machines which is a sempron, underclocking it and putting in some new disks.
Firstly if I put in 3×320Gb Seagate barracudas I can use Linux to Raid-5 the 3 disks and use LVM to create a big partition that I can add to in the future.  My last problem with LVM was that one of my disks stopped working, so I would like to get around that problem as this is going to be the master filestorage for the house.  I will use a seperate 120Gb for /boot and a few other partitions for safety.

I also have some external disks (about 1Tb worth) so I will hang these off it aswell for backing up data / pictures and music but it will also give me the opportunity to install another 3 drives in the future with whats left.

Some good points of information I have found are:

http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/raid-lvm.php

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/96509133/m/435008610831

Once I have done this the other machines will be taken apart.  I don’t need an additional 3 servers or want to waste the electricity, but I will probably run VMWare Server on this new machine to have some flexibility.  That and a seperate openBSD based firewall / snort box will be my servers for now/future.