Been spending the past week cramming as much information into my head as possible in order to get my VCP5 certification.  I already hold a VCP in VI3 (pretty outdated now), and I did the vSphere 4: What’s New course, which would have qualified me for the VCP4, but I never sat the exam!

I’m using an NVidia GTX690, in 2d surround mode.  The GTX690 is an SLI card, and in 2d surround mode SLI is not optional.  Running DOTA2 on this system (even on just one monitor) causes all sorts of random graphic corruption.

Thought I’d write something about what games I’m playing right now, and what I have on the backburner.  Ordering of these is pretty rough and mostly by level of interest of amount I’m playing it.

I recently picked up Kerbal Space Program from Steam, at lots off.  Awesome game, if you’re into that sort of thing.  I first used the stock Kerbal X rocket, and tried to get it into orbit.  After a few misfires (whoops), I managed to get it into orbit and deorbit it into the sea with the crew alive.  Yay!

I was advised that there’s a bug in my AVRDUDE code for the ATtiny167.  I don’t have a 167 to test it for myself as yet, so I’ll have to get hold of one, which may take a while.  In the meantime, if you’re using a 167 and you get strange errors, attached this to the end of your AVRDUDE command line;

I haven’t worked out why yet, but this seems to be a common theme - the PHP/FastCGI service dies periodically, which causes outages with my blog (Nginx does not like it if the back end goes away).  So, I need a solution to fix this.  Enter Nagios!