10-Feb-2005

Time for some updates
Exchanged ZIP drive in Venus with a spare disk (a small one : 2,4 Gb) to contain the page file and cache - that makes a difference! Loosing the ZIP drive is not really a problem, could put that in Diana as a backup medium (for small amounts, since each disk is just 100Mb)?
Installed XP updates on Venus, On Athene all seems to be up-to-date - I don't get it, there should be updates as well????? Or did I miss an upodate on Venus? Probably because speed problems before - now partly solved, by that extra disk.
Updated Diana with latest patches ("To be installed by all customers" so there was no way to get around it) , reboot without any problem (I guess problems arise when power is cycled).
Installed new Java version (1.4.2-24) . Database (RDB) to be updated (7.1.4), downloaded it and related files, but installation is pending.

HERA has been put off-duty: too much trouble for installing Linux on that old box (actually impossible) and FreeBsd wasn't the real answer - same trouble, since the hardware was REALLY old and there was no further use for the machine...

Shame on me!

From the beginning, Charon and Mars are part of the configuration but they were never mentioned yet. If you know your classics, you may have guessed that Charon is the firewall and Mars the gaming machine (but I'll rename it since that is no longer the case. Have to find another female name from Greek mythology that fits it's multi-personality character)

For the rest: nothing special.