A new backup policy has been implemented for Obelisk. It goes like this:
/var/mail - Every night at 4:30 am
/home - Mon, Web, Fri at 2am
/var/www - Tues, Thurs, Sat at 2am
/ (excluding the above) - Sun at 2am
I've just taken a full backup of all of these, however there will be no further backups until broadband has been provisioned at my new address.
If this is likelly to be ages I'll take the backup device to work and backup to there until the broadband is online.
I've started to run the BOINC based BBC Climate Change experiment on Obelisk, I'll keep an eye on how it's going regarding taking up resources, I know there's not a huge amount of RAM to spare as it is. I may cron it so it only runs overnight when nobody is using it interactively anyway.
If you're interested in how Obelisk is getting along you can view its stats here: http://bbc.cpdn.org/show_host_detail.php?hostid=176734 (don't expect to see any results for at least a few days).
I've updated Jabber to use the new PyMSNt, which should be more relaible and group chat should work, along with avatars, if your client supports them.
You will need to remove your existing registration (should be listed as msn../registered) and re-register with the MSN Transport (msn.jabber.newswall.org.uk).