Present Perfect

Broadcast

The broadcasts from the beach are finally going well from a technical point of view. I was able to set up the synchronization using our vendor's software by setting up an SMB connection over an SSH tunnel over ADSL, then reoffering those shares on the internal network using samba. This way it provides a more stable connection apparently for the pain inflicted by the synchronisation application from our vendor, which only works with drive letters.

In any case, it seems to be working. So my Boston experience has finally been rounded off OK.

Boston

My pictures of Boston are online. Mostly people shots, not all of them sharp. I need to learn to be an asshole and just use flash regardless of people's opinions.

Car

Finally got round to getting insurance and license plates. GQY-739, that's me. Now mulling over what to get airbrushed on it : a linux penguin, a ximian monkey, or a GStreamer logo ?

Playstation 2

I caved and bought a Playstation 2 yesterday. It's great fun. I also bought a second controller and SSX Tricky, because it was so much fun to play it in Boston, and I was hoping my girlfriend would also like playing it. Well, she did ;) She beat me in the race first time she played, damnit.

It is a nice change of pace to have a game machine that "just works" and plays stuff without having to boot, configure drivers, mess around, and so on. Yes it is closed source and all, but sometimes this is all you need. My last console was a Atari VCS 2600 so I'm entitled to a new one, right ? Right ?

And Spiderman is amazingly cool - webslinging through NYC just looks so nice.

Hope my hacking stuff won't wane too much in the next week.

Funny

Someone from XMMS got an e-mail trying to sell him the oggfiles.com domain. His first and second reaction ;)

Broadcast The broadcasts from the beach are finally going well from a technical point of view. I was able to set up the synchronization using our vendor's software by setting...