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Greivous - main workstation/virtualisation box.

Hydra - backup workstation/virtualisation box.

Vader - fileserver.

Solo - backup box.

Yoda - media centre.

Skywalker - Dad's PC.

Voyager - Mum's PC.

Misc hardware - shared peripherals.

I like to fool around with emulators, checking out different operating systems, I've got about a dozen versions of UNIX and Windows running under VirtualBox right now, I used to run about every version of RISC OS from Arthur to Select on RedSquirrel, I've also played with Xen, VMWare, Parallels and KVM; MS VirtualServer sucks of course.....

Here's a hint for people with computers - don't ship them using UPS! I shipped a computer from the UK to the US and it got trashed - new for old it would be worth over 500ukp, but they gave me 150ukp! I've sent some stuff to France via the USPS and most of it got stolen before leaving America, I'm pretty sure Customs or the post office open all packages.

Another hint, don't use TotalNIC (aka Capital Networks Pty aka Pacnames aka Domain Monkeys....) as your domain registrar, as they lock your domain to their service, so you can't transfer it away, you have no legal recourse either, thanks to the useless organisation know as ICANN. I've recently found that Godaddy are almost as bad, mainly due to restrictions put on them by ICANN.

I enjoy programming. I used to be into BBC BASIC and ARM assembler (and a little C/C++) but now I mostly code Python for pleasure and Perl/PHP/Bourne for work. I hate Java, C#'s not bad. I do like to laugh at people who call Javascript and HTML programming languages, especially when they implement them using Dreamweaver!