I'm still rather tired after yesterday at the moment - I rolled up to one of the University sites horribly early yesterday morning (about 0600) to have another look at the poorly PBX that I'd mentioned previously. It still wasn't a happy camper. I sat in the server room until 0830 when the first staff started turning up, with a monitor plugged in to it and googled for the symptoms. The equipment is a Nortel BCM (Business Communication Manager) 1000. The problem I was seeing was that any attempt to use the management network interface (NIC) - either through the web interface or telnet promptly resulted in the machine hanging, rebooting, or both. Google did produce some knowledge of the symptoms, but it didn't match the model number exactly (it had previously been seen in BCM200s and so on) - the capacitors on the base tray start to bulge and effectively render the x86 side of the unit useless - the MSC (Media Services Card) will still run fine, so general telephony services are good, but anything beyond that (ie voicemail and other features) are stuffed.
I phoned BT Business Support later on in the day and the guy said "Ah, we've come across this numerous times". I asked if it was due to knackered capacitors leaking their magic everywhere and he suggested that this was more than likely the case.

I finished early due to being a bit tired and went and did some food shopping.
Me and food shopping don't really go together. Sioned had helpfully given me a list. Potatoes. Baking potatotes? New potatoes? I picked two of each and hoped for the best. Ham. What type? Pick one. Variety is the spice of life. I hate supermarkets.

I picked up a few other bits as it's Sioned's birthday today, and then pootled home to watch the race that I'd Sky+'d over the weekend. What a *fantastic* race. Certainly the best one I've seen for a long time, with absolutely everything you could ask for. And Hungary is a bad circuit for overtaking?! Jenson well deserved that win - it was... entertaining to see M Schu have to retire. Williams' new driver is certainly going to make a name for himself if he carries on driving like that, but it was a shame to see his result disallowed due to a technical infringement.

This morning saw me going over to Llanberris to pick up a UPS for the site with the telecoms problems. I didn't realise the APC 3KVA jobbies are so heavy. Struggled to get that one out of the boot. I'll be working there late on Thursday night installing that and putting the BT NTEs onto it.

Tomorrow sees me driving down to the Eisteddfod in Morriston. I'm staying there overnight and then coming back at some point on Thursday - not sure when yet. I might take a day off in lieu on Friday since I'm likely to be just about dead.