Up early. I'm supposed to have researched berkley db2/db3/xml/ldap and any others as a means of data distribution.
Lets see,... said meeting about this was on Friday at 19:00ish,... so, during the weekend that I was busy fixing the mistake that broke the piranha errata horribly (mixing version 4 and 5 to make a mess) I'm also ment to do the above a security redesign, a configuration change/enhancement and an outline of Monitoring and administration.... Humm overtime?? I think not.. Bah.

Lord,.. soo many things to do today.

• Have a presentation to give to ewt
• Have to sort out BellSouths phone deposit
• Have to get insurance sortted out so I can buy the car.
• Have to leave the hire car back to hertz
• Have to get cashiers cheque ($3000)
• Have to do loads of miscillanous items

First off, in the office and rechecking the piranha-gui errata. Convinced the build is good and go looking for Christian to get the package re-signed and up up on the updates archive. Meanwhile a battle of language has broken out over ISS's wording of the security errata 'Intentional backdoor' which is a load of cobblers because the piranha account as initially installed isn't even meant to have a password!. I hope this is resolved.

Wanger points out a mechanism that may have been the source of the src tree contamination. All I can say is that CVS is annoying and that knowing about 'cvs -A' may have saved all the problems *sigh*

A bit before 12:00 I called up BellSouth to find out where exaclty I can go to pay off the deposit they wanted for the phone connection, which turns out to be $90 payable at Western Union on the Airport Road. So I gathered up all the bits I required and set out to pay off the deposit at the bank. I eventually find it ahving missed it twice, because instead of the modern brick bank building I was expecting, I find out that BellSouth wants it's bills paid into a bank that uses a wooden hut for it's premises. Umm,.. Worse still, the bloody bank was shut for Easter. It must have been the only one that did.

Returned to redhat miffed.
Ok, The presentation for ewt isn't going to happen which is a good thing as I'm utterly out of time and haven't had a time to dig out everything on LDAP/db3. This still needs doing though 8(. Called ford for find out whats was happening about the car, Told I needed the full insurance. Humm,...
Also need a $3000 cashiers cheque too. Made a dash for the bank to get the cheque as I had sudden visions of Wachovia being closed as well. I wasn't so got the money fine. That just left the insurance. Much annoyance as Allstate were the only ones that would talk to me without a NC drivers licence, and that was only if I could prove up to 6 months previous insur4ance with another insurance firm in the UK. This being a bank holiday in the UK direct line wern't available and the time ment I was outside their normal office hours to. Called mum up to hunt down my insurance policy's and have them faxed over,. Finally Allstate are assured that I'm a sucker for their insurance rate of $576 for 6 months *ouch*

Vanish witha friend to leave the hire car back to Hertz. Drop off the car and then proceed to ford to finalize the deal and sign my life away to ford credit. ... long waits etc later I finally get off the forecourt with the car (hurragh!)... got back to Redhat and realise I don't have the apartment key
DAMN! (actually I said a lot of other words too..)

Made a dash for Hertz to see if I can rescue the key from them. Unfortunately I left the car back at 8:56 and I got back again at 10:25. They've either thrown the key away as an 'unwanted' or have it still on the key fob that would be in the safe upstairs that one one could get into.

DAMN DAMN DAMN

Evening made worse by MSBNC/ISS security announcement about piranha which reads like I've somehow knifed Redhat in the back. Pity they have almost zero intelect and didn't bother to check their story properly. I wonder if I can sue them for slander. Basically they negected to understand that the 'rogue' account isn't even ment to have a password on it and that the package isn't even installed by default. We'll thats what happens when everyone tries to throw togther a package right up to the deadline of printing the CD's.