Mar 26th, 2007
another one bites the dust
Another weekend bites the dust. What a shame weekends just aren’t long enough!
I spent saturday upgrading some Linux servers for a client. It went well. Two machines. From Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 6. The only snag was that one of the servers (intranet server) refused to run the php intranet app after the upgrade. Bogus. ezPublish requires PHP4, Fedora Core 6 is packaged with PHP5. ezPublish refused to work. Two options left, downgrade (reverse) the machine, or remove PHP5 and hack PHP4 onto the box. I think I’ll downgrade it, it’s way easier. Glad I made a backup of the databases before I took the plunge *sigh*
I’m heading back on-site this evening to rectify the situation. *grumble*
Sunday was a bit of a relaxing day. I headed down to Ryper Hobbies to race the XRAY T2 (tourning car) it’s been a while, a long while. I was recently showered with gifts from a sponsor so I figured why not go try the gear out at the track.
I got some of those ‘RP’ tyres made by Take Off. Chen says “mate they are pure race tyres, they wont last long”. He was right, after race 4, they were down to the canvas, I wasn’t happy! *grrrr*
I also played with some new ‘MUCH MORE’ gear. Including the power distribution block, battery heatsink II, car stand, and a few other things. Pretty neat gear. Lets hope the fan’s inside the new heatsink keep working. MUCH MORE fan’s are known to fail easily.
The T2 handled like turd on a stick. The track was a bit slippery due to the dirt all over it, no setup changes I made could make this thing handle nicely. Oh well, soldier on! I managed to TQ and win, although probably due to the other guys having the same kind of problems as me (handling, breakages, etc)
I tried my new Novak 4.5R brushless motor, it’s super fast, too fast, infact it’s silly for the Ryper track, I don’t know why some of the other guys use it there, the 5.5 is plenty. Maybe I’m just a wuss! heh
Tuesday night I might head to PRECC (carpet) and run the 1/12th. it’s fun and fast.