Back from my break

Had a bit of a break from working on programming things to sort out my house. DIY takes a while, especially when you are doing it in between going to work. I had a week off in the middle of August but spent the time doing almost nothing as I needed some to time to just sit down and relax after the first half of the year.

I start my next college year in about a week which is exciting, after 2 years I’m finally back to where I should have been at the start of my apprenticeship. With any luck they won’t find more reasons to hold me back from the course’s that I’m actually interested in.

My retro PC build proceeds apace. I have a Dell GX110 motherboard, a 60GB IDE HDD and CD drive, the floppy drive is on it’s way and I’ve managed to source an expansion card with some ISA slots on it. Burning an installation CD and writing the product key on it was very nostalgic. I have had great success with running a Windows 98 VM in qemu on Windows as well, the only stumbling block has been setting up the VM’s network in such a way that I can access a share within the VM from the host. Once I have it working I’ll write a blog post about how to set it up.