What's New On These Pages: June 2006

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• Friday 30th June
  Bought two more tickets (online) for tomorrow's main Lotto rollover.

• Friday 23rd June
  Bought two more tickets (online) for tomorrow's main Lotto rollover.

• Wednesday 14th June
  Shifted this site from one HP-UX server to another very similar one (by use of rsync and bringing down the "new" IP on the old server that I added last week and bringing up that same IP on the new server, for only about 3 seconds of service disruption!). I'm now listening on both the temporary "new" IP and a more permanent virtual IP on the new server - the old server's IP no longer serves this site. I've also switched the DNS to use the permanent virtual IP on the new server for lottery.merseyworld.com, so next week, I'll stop it listening on the temporary IP as the final step of the move.

  In case you're wondering what all of the above is about, it's just part of server consolidation we're doing at work that will free up a box to be reallocated.

• Saturday 10th June
  Had yet another Camelot employee claiming to me on the phone that the official Web site has the number of UK winners in each category of Euro Millions. And this was after she read me the top three tiers' number of UK winners out! Yes, I had to persuade that those three figures aren't on the Web site and eventually she gave in and got the info off her manager. You'd be amazed how often this happens...

• Friday 9th June
  Bought two more tickets (online) for tomorrow's main Lotto rollover.

• Thursday 8th June
  Changed the numeric IP address that lottery.merseyworld.com looks up to, but it still will work for the moment on the old and new IP address. This is in preparation for the move of the site onto a different (but very similarly spec'ed) HP-UX Web server machine next week.

• Friday 2nd June
  Bought two more tickets (online) for tomorrow's main Lotto rollover Super Draw.

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