Trying to be productive tonight, or at least getting low hanging fruit. So far I've gotten the following done.

I figured out the upgrade for the Fedora desktops has a flaw, the X configuration breaks in some kind of weird way. I've verified this twice, tried rebuilding the VM's video drivers, and that failed. So I'm going to try building Fedora22 from scratch and seeing if I can build it then. Maybe later tonight or tomorrow.

I've updated all the server VMs, with the latest 4.3 kernel on one. Working on the Ubuntu/Mint desktops now. Nothing too fancy on them, though Linux Mint should have the latest Mate desktop in unstable shortly, looking forward to playing with it.

The plan for the trip to New York is to bring Uxía the laptop. I'm not sure how much internet access I'm going to have while in the big city, but if I do have access I want to have all the tools I use on Dagon. So I've configured my CLI clients for LiveJournal, Wordpress, email, and IM. Not that I plan on spending much time on any of them, but I want to have the options and the ability. I still need to test email and IM, but they should just work...config files are the same. I normally can hit everything via ssh to Château Innsmouth, but since I'll be gone a week, I'm planning on shutting everything down here to save my electric bill. And I've been meaning to have Uxía setup to do everything I do at home, just in case.

Speaking of NYC, I reserved a rental car for taking my parents to the beach. I thought about using public transport, but since it's not summer, the buses to the beach aren't running. Also, it gives us some flexibility about getting there, getting back. Also means I don't have to rely on relatives, which given my issues was really not an option. Was fairly easy to do, and while it's kind of pricy, it's dealable. Especially if it lowers my anxiety about the trip (which is pretty high).

I'm looking at changing Hydra's VM management software from VirtualBox to KVM+QEMU. VirtualBox is rarely used in a corp environment, especially for servers. So I've cloned the two VMs on Hydra, installed the software, I just need to make the changes and see if I can import the server VMs back. If not, I can import them on Dagon while I work things out. I've always meant to use Hydra to host the servers, and I can always use more experience with KVM.

So that's what I've gotten done tonight, I still have a huge laundry list of things to do in the next week. But I'm not feeling as discombobulated as I did earlier today. Catch you all later.