Simon Butcher

Like it or lump it, our hands are tied at work to continue using ARCserve as our back-up software. It's horrible, but the alternatives are also horrible in their own ways. It's become a case of “better the devil you know” and to keep our auditors happy we need to use the ARCserve backup agent on our Linux boxen now too.

That's all good and well if you're running major “corporate friendly” distributions like Red Hat or SuSE, but for the rest of you: Computer Associates will tell you that it won't work at all and you're just going to have to reinstall your server with something “not used by kids in their parents' basements”.

Them's fightin' words!

It's coming up to six years of living in Belgium, the perfect launch-pad for travel around Western Europe due to the number of European institutions based here, and yet despite promising myself to travel while I'm here I haven't really done much.

One of those glaringly obvious places to go is London, being just under an hour's flight away (and with the time-zone difference you land a few minutes before you take off), or just over two-hours on the Eurostar high-speed train. What excuse could I have for not going yet?

This long weekend I've finally managed to go (following a lot of encouragement from A), so here are a few photos and stories of the visit.