Serenity @ the Click of a Mouse

I went to see Serenity last night and must say it was a good film. I do not frequent the theatres often and was pleased with this film. THe person I went with was seemed very interested in the FireFly sci-fi series and I joined him after seeing how excited he was about it. I'm glad I did.

As my mother approaches retirement and has started looking for things to engage her time in, She came to me with a request. She has never used a computer in her life (not sure if that is a necessarily a bad thing or not :) ) and asked me to teach her how to use one. So I went out, purchased her a PC and have started weekly lessons (every Thursday night) with her. It is really fun and a great opportunity to go over to their house and spend quality time with them . Even my dad has shown interest !! I can't wait until I teach them how to email and the look on my sisters faces when they open their mailboxes on the day !!!

The planets have shifted in ways I could only imagine.

XEN

I spent a few hours getting an open source virtualization package named XEN up and running http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ . The way I became aware of it is another blog entry (or two). I ran into some issues with python & my boot loader -- but nothing major. I'll report some more as I progress with package and VMs. I sort of wish it supported x86 Solaris as well -- I'll add that to my wishlist .