[ from the gotta-catch-them-all dept. ]
When will those fuckwits in government learn that they are doing far more damage than any terrorist ever could. We should be supporting our allys – France, Russia, Germany, etc. etc. and not the wills of a distorted American administration – would you like Freedom Fries with that, Mr. Bush? Mr. Blair?
Jon.
[ from the that-time-of-year dept. ]
Project deadlines are looming on the horizon so it is time to get enough of the coding done before that date. I have set aside the entire weekend to make some progress on that front and have ordered a copy of “A Specification For A New Family Of RISC Processor”, the definitive guide to Power PC. I am currently wading through some Motorola documentation on the MPC7455 and hope to have a minimal boot running on my Powerbook this coming week.
Jon.
[ from the just-say-no-please dept. ]
Once again I am annoyed at the inability of the music industry to understand how to combat the issue of CD copying, file distribution, etc. Of course the answer is: Make a product people want to buy, at a price that is reasonable and offer it through a suitable medium. Rather than investing in annoying methods for breaking the Compact Disc audio standard, they could consider allowing people such as you and I to download music tracks for a sane price in a sane format to save everyone some hassle.
I thought I would mention this as I discovered another site which advocates the rights of consumers and how the music industry is screwing people over: it’s on the UKCDR site.
[ from the cool-stuff-for-jcm dept. ]
I am writing a review of SIP services for Linux, and have decided to setup a SIP gateway/registrar on the forthcoming colo box. I will very soon be reachable using sip:jcm@jonmasters.org or a similar address. The cool thing is that this is location independent and as I move location the registrar will automatically handle passing requests through to the local proxy whether in Nottingham, Reading, London or Oxford.
Jon.
[ from the Music-Of-The-Night dept. ]
Finally my housemates prodded me in to upgrading the routing within the house – I stuck MRTG and a bunch of other things in place for the sake of it, so we now have pretty graphs showing bandwidth use. There is a bug (yes, yes, there are many bugs…) in NTL’s dhcp servers protocol implementation – or there is a bug in the Linux clients, but in any case I will try to track it down sometime as it is very annoying when trying to automatically discover that one cannot renew an old lease, etc.
I am doing some project work, but it is starting to annoy me that I am not moving faster – though other things are happening of course. I am going to meet a few people soon to discuss research ideas and I think if I can sort it out then a PhD is probably going to be a good idea for me at the moment. Ideally I will continue with part time consultation on the weekend/spare time to keep my knowledge of current technologies up to date and do fun stuff like porting Linux to new hardware (hopefully that’s still happening).
I got “Music Of The Night”, a CD recorded by an old friend of mine. I enjoy listening to the tracks very much (especially the track called “Promise Me”) and wish the artist every success with her musical persuits.
Jon.
[ from the that-time-of-the-month-again... dept. ]
Happy Mailman Day Everyone! This is the day we celebrate mass flooding of mailing list membership reminders. Yay!
Hopefully within a month of today we will have printk.net up and running, and dmesg.printk.net will be known as www.printk.net. I should also have a project website hosted there – otherwise people will have to beat me with pointy sticks until there is.
I feel amazingly old at the moment, I know I’m not, but just think – in only a few years cheesy nightclubs will be playing 90s music! Not 80s, but 90s…it wasn’t that long ago…where did time go? I need to sort things out – like what do I really want to do for the next zillion years after Nottingham? I still quite like the idea of research. Arrgh.
My ADSL provider should be sorting out 4 IPs for my home boxen, thus allowing both for more real online hosts and commical reverse dns entries. I need to fill out a separate RIPE justification for printk.net to give us an IP each for a virtual host – that way dmesg.net will be a host, and jcm.printk.net will be virtual host running User Mode Linux with a separate IP address and seemingly separate machine – very useful indeed.
Jon.
[ from the pretty-cool dept. ]
I signed up as an Apple Developer, having spent several hours reading through OpenFirmware documentation in an effort to understand this concept of hardware independent device trees. It’s all pretty interesting really – as is checking out Darwin code to figure out how things work.
I’ll put stuff up on cvs.jonmasters.org as soon as we get our colo box sorted and I have more substance to make available. I think today will turn in to a project day if I inject enough caffeine – current jcm uptime is approaching the point of doing useful work.
Jon.