Things have been a bit rushed at the moment - I'm settling into my new role as a Toolsmith/Network Admin.

 My past experience has given me a couple of amusing problems .. like the first day I was working in the company alone. The external webserver was dead - and the machine was spewing lots of error messages to the console.

 None of the flashy lights on the router were on, and the machine, running Debian, was full of error msg's complaining about timeouts on eth0.

 So I dived in, changed the network card. Same problem.

 40 minutes later - I change the ethernet cable. Problem solved. After running flawlessly for 6+ months, and not having been touched, somehow the cable had died.

 Moral: Its always the simple things that go wrong ;)