The Purple Penguin

heavy Rain this afternoon so the mud is back. A few pics from the on going set up ( note some of these are in side dry places to head for 🙂 ).

A dry an bright start to the morning most of the mud dried up. A dry wind blowing this morning witch was like last night a pleasant end to the day. With a nice sunset

The backhall connecton was off most of yesterday, only coming back on in the evening. But we got more done, so two more configs and a flag, well every one else has one 🙂 .

So we will try to mount the remaining APs to day, and clean up for every one else that will be in the cabin. They just add two more editors this morning.

We are getting a steady stream of people wanting to use are network, mostly from the volunteers, and other people around the site area.

We’re doing very well the on-site ip is a bit flaky and tends to go up and down a bit. We’re still waiting for the BT man to put our link in; we managed to configure three links to day, a good days work all in all. We got a 5 Ghz frequency out of the on sites. I also did a first scan of the site to see the current coverage we are giving This is the result so far.

So meet the crew of Greenpeace IT for 2007, Olly “we’re running out of whisky”, Dan “and stake” and Joe, that’s me. Today the weather has been kind, the site is mostly not there situation normal our first customer is wandering around with his laptop showing the site to some one (and it’s still working.) So sign off for now, may add more later.

So breakfast had and now down to work, the first set of antennas is up, the office rearrange we now configuring the server and the first access point. The weather is not wet almost sunny.

We have made it to Glastonbury field. So i,m blogging from the stone circle. 🙂

picture may or may not follow.

Or going down to Glastonbury field, does not have quite the same ring to it as strawberries fields, the the sentiment of nothing is real is the same. So first thing was to check-in with the site office for adsl line, and wireless frequencies. It all sort of when down from there 🙁 It turns out (as usually i have to say what was promised was on delivered, so rather than setting up a mini network for are site workers, i spent most of the day trying to get the bandwidth required, so we are trying several routes to get this done.

I did manager to setup some stuff, for basic printing and so on. The after lunch at the goose hall

is was on your bike (well firms bike or was that death trap, I,m shore brakes are ment to do some thing) to look at the various parts of the site ware equipment should be locate, well i would have taken some picture of this but all you would see is nice green grass with white lines painted on it. Situation normal then, back to the site office through the dust, good job i waring karkey to day 🙂 . The weather was bright and sunny (so i’m a bit burned to day). More conversations on what to do next, we have a plan, that will teach olly to say quietly confidant! then back to the Greenpeace field, before heading back to London.

Today is about adsl lines, a kit getting all together for shipping down to the site.

This year the organisers have said don’t bring loo roll. So you can take that off your list. It’s being provided on site by Nouvelle and is environmentally friendly. So no soap and no loo roll. But definitely wellies as the met office are still predicting showers. It wouldn’t be Glastonbury without a bit of rain.

Frog Blog

So get out the tent, and put it up (which we nearly could not) the tent is bigger than our patch of grass in our back garden. That need some repair, sewing with fishing line a new book out soon by Kathleen. Air out the sleeping bags shortly followed by wash the sleeping bags, pile the mats chairs and bit for packing.

Next book the train ticket, to Castle Cary (the closes raily station), and book your taxi as those buses only run when the festivals is on.

Final the work stuff, tools spares more cable, make a stack to be Carried to the site. Will be down on Tuesday for the first look and see whats up.

So a list of things to bring,

1 Wellies

2 Ear plugs

3 Loo role

4 Rain gear

5 Sun cream

6 Some thing to eat off, some thing to eat with and drink out of).

7 Change of cloths

8 Wash stuff (but not soap its provided)

9 Beer (plastic only)

10 Tools , Spares

11 Alarm Clock

12 Torch plus batteries

13 Tent, pegs poles sleeping bag sleeping mat, pillow

Got to work Friday morning to find no Internet connectivity, so down to the server room to investigate only to find water dripping out of one of the chilled water coolers. A quick bucket under it and turned it off, how ever this had no connection with the lack of connectivity on are lease line. So quick check on the monitoring software (it had failed about 10 in the evening, ) and a phone call to the suppliers some fault in the fiber line. It still was not fix when i left in the evening. So between doing all the work around getting the first round of people on site for the festival, a busy day was had.

So at the end of the day the IT dept when down to the pub The Mucky Pup, we had a drink before we meet with some friends and partners. We then went looking for some thing to eat, ended up trying a new place Say Pasta. Witch was a er pasta place, reasonable place a bit small, food was ok nuffing to blog about raily 🙂 .