Monday

Annexed the es40 from the QA group. It's now burried under a load of bright pink stickit notes warning of the *dire* consequences of interfering with it without approaching me first.

Tried to make do with the rebuilt dual dp264 with the 1Gb of RAM in it. Things were going ok for a while then 512Mb of the RAM went up in smoke. Deeply peeved. I have no idea what happened but between reboots one bank of ram died horribly. I'm upset about this as the machine was borrowed from API. I'm not quite sure what the story is for HW that fails when it's on long term loan. Obviously we'll replace the RAM but I have no idea who to talk to about getting the machine fixed.

Spent the rest of the day trying to make make sure it was just the RAM in the box that went the way off the blue vapour. Remeber folks, smoking HW can seriously damage your RAM... or something like that.