Getting up is becoming more difficult. The hotel beds are firm but comfortable and suit my back, perhaps a little too well. The number of alarms I have set to rouse me is perhaps a little excessive, but they are doing their job and I was out of bed by 7:45 for SST
New trainer today, Peter. Nice chap – a freelancer that I think also works for ExplorIT.
We looked at the requirements for servers like HVAC and power, Disks connectors etc.
Learnt about the commands for remotely accessing a file server booted from DVD and using diskutil to partition the drive from the CLI. All useful stuff.
Break for lunch and fish (again – not sure what type!).
Order of business every day goes like this:
7:30 Breakfast (Actually it is more 8:30)
9:15 Meet up
9:45 Morning training session
11:30 Coffee
11:40 Continue training
13:05 Lunch (Déjeuner)
14:15 Activities
16:30 Afternoon training
18:00 Coffee
18:05 Continue training
19:50 Finish
20:00 Dinner
21:30 Bar/Etc.
Repeat
Long days. I am getting a little tired now, what with all the food (it is so rich, but really nice) and the heat, I just want to sleep, (I can’t believe I am moaning – what an ungrateful sod!).
How the training company Agnosis break even on the event is beyond me, I was speaking to the head of the company the other night and he said they make a little out of it but mostly do it for fun and the goodwill.
I fell asleep after lunch and was called to go down for the afternoon session. A round of applause for turning up and all was forgiven. I wasn’t the last to class anyway.
Headless server builds via the cli were the order of business in the afternoon and the use of diskutility via the cli to prep the disk. creation and restoration of dmg’s images and a better understanding of the boot process. Interesting stuff, but challenging at times.
Dinner tonight was a quarter of a rabbit (yes, I ate Thumper – I have no heart – that was in someone elses quarter I think)
There was barely enough meat on the scrawney thing to be worth cooking. I am sure it would have made a good soup. One of the other guys wisely plumpped for burger and chips.
I am wondering what they will serve us next, perhaps Whale or Panda or something (sic.).
I hear horse is nice and a local dish (Cheval). 
Classmembers
Despite our backgrounds, we have become quite a tight knit group on the course (something that happens when you spend so much time with people I guess). However what has impressed me, is the support and respect we have given each other. Some of the other classes, especially ones populated by people of predominantly one country (UK) are a bit boisterous, there is none of that in our group, just politeness and patience, I think it is because of the different nationalities and everyone speaking English, we are all being careful to follow the rules of engagement and try to be understanding of the non english speakers needs.
My training class-mates:
Richard, Originally from UK
Edu. UK. Richard worked at a Saudi school for 20yrs but has given it all up and going to oz and find a position in IT.
Maciek, (Pron. Machec – Polish) based in the UK
Edu. Admin
Plays guitar with a band and writes music professionally. Looks after and teaches in the music/rich media department at a University near London Docklands’ city airport.
Tom, from the UK.
Comm. A contracter working for an education supplier. Has a degree in Cryptography and is studing oceanography
Hilton, from Portugal (not Paris)
Christian, from Germany
A businessman/IT consultand from Frankfurt
Dennis, from Stockholm
Edu. – University
300+ Macs. Has a secret room in the University with loads of old mac in it.
Evald, from Denmark
Comm. Director of a computer company. A self confessed Windows person, we are working on him to see the light.
Our trainers:
Richard.
com. Trainer for the DS course – Left for England today and back to Kenley and the rain.
Peter.
com. Trainer for the CL course
I hope we can all keep in touch after the boot camp and with this in mind I have given them the ideasplace forum address.