This struck close to home – Birmingham city centre was evacuated on Saturday evening – one of the busiest nights of the week.
The BBC reports 20,000 people were moved out of the city center area in response to a specific and credible threat.
Still breaking news; this is my old home town.
A security update for WordPress – I got time to upgrade to 1.5.1.3 this weekend.
So far, so good.
Next on the list is a firewall rebuild and refresh. Hopefully sometime this weekend.
Update – new firewall is now in place. Now using IPcop as a vastly more friendly front-end to the collection of stuff I had before.
I posted a while ago on getting ZLM 6.6.1 to work with Oracle. Just some additional clarification in the docs.
Oracle database support is limited to the following configuration:
* An Oracle 9i database running on any platform supported by the Oracle database.
* A TCP listener running on your Oracle 9i database, which can be contacted by your client using onames or tnsnames.
* ZENworks Linux Management installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Advanced Server.
* The Oracle 9i client libraries installed on your ZENworks Linux Management server. The recommended Oracle client is Oracle 9i client, Release 2.We recommend working with your Oracle database administrator for database installation, management, and other Oracle-related issues.
Oracle 10g support on SLES will be part of ZLM 7 SP1.
It’s hard to believe that we’ve been in Utah for almost three years. That means the three year lease on my current Land Rover is almost up.
Looking around – and I’m really taken with buying a classic London Taxi.
One of these: 
Import regulations are nasty – only vehicles over 25 years old can be imported; otherwise lots of Federal regulations need to be complied with. Looks like a 25 year old import runs at just over $10,000 to get it to one of the ports – Houston or maybe Long Beach.
Diesel only, top speed of maybe 70 mph (no speeding!), no air conditioning, right hand drive only.
BBC news has a lot of information.
One interesting technology part – again from the BBC
Mobile phone services across London were jammed with all major networks reporting problems as people tried to contact relatives and friends. A spokeswoman for Vodafone said the emergency services were being given priority.
Was ACCess Overload Control (ACCOLC) put in place?
More details here, here and here.
Year 2000 ACCOLC article here.
Wow. Grandpa is selling room space within Zone 2 for $2000 a night already..
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