Despite a couple obstacles coming up at the last second, I went ahead and got a phone from VoiceStream. Instead of trying to find and order a Ericsson T28 World, I went ahead and got the Motorola L7089. It's tri-band GSM, so I can roam anywhere in the world.
I'm about to start working on one of the biggest kludges I've ever dreamed up. Sometimes I wonder about my sanity...
So the cell provider I want to go with (VoiceStream) has coverage in my area, but they won't give me a local Muskegon number. Yet, since I won't be here too long and I REALLY want a GSM phone, I'm going to go ahead and get it.
What's that you say? Won't that alienate my Muskegon friends? Of course, but that's where the hack comes in.
So I've been here in DC all week, at DC/LA 2000. It's been fun, I've met a lot of people and done some cool stuff. Click for a little more detail.
Ok, it's time to go home. I've spent the last 5 hours getting everything rolling towards the eThreads 1.2 release. Tonight I've been working on bringing the ethreads.com website up to date.
Basically all that's left is some more testing and the creation of mailing lists and such so that many external development will pick up a little this time.
I just built an #{node "7"}eThreads#{/node} 1.2 distribution, wrote installation instructions, and then successfully installed following the directions.
The hour of release is rapidly approaching.
I write a lot of code. Most of the time I can go back to old code that I've written and immediately understand my logic. Other times I look at my code and cower in fear as I realize I have absolutely no clue what in the world its supposed to be doing. Click for an example.
As promised, there's a new look. I still have some formatting stuff to work out with getting CSS to play nice with Netscape, but I think it's off to a good start.
Part of the coolness with my cam architecture is that it stores images in a db, so I can access them later selecting by timestamp, host, or whatever. Today I'm playing around with taking each day's output and making it into a movie.
I have to say, it's incredibly amusing to watch an entire day at work go by in a minute or two.
Hopefully I'll have at least an example to put up here soon. I may also rearrange the cameras to get a more interesting view.
I went to fix anonymous cvs on the gonzo project, only to find out it already worked... Freaky. I swear it didn't last time I wanted it to. cvsweb through a chroot script isn't, though...
I'm thinking I really don't like this horizontal scroll look. I haven't decided exactly what to do to it yet, though. Don't be surprised if it changes.
I started playing around wth Sybase today. Eventually I'd love to port eThreads to it... I can't count how many times I've lusted after subselects and transactions. Mmmm... I think it would be a significant port effort, though.
I just hacked in support for -k and fixed the frame status stuff in freeamp's mpg123 UI.
Granted, what I did was probably trivial to anyone with any clue what they're doing, but for someone with absolutely no clue of C++ stuff it's cool.
For the first time in ages, there's a new screen shot in the Linux section. It's actually my first four virtual desktops sampled down and put together into one wide image.
Every few days I get bored and wander around the web looking for cool background images. Yesterday's searching brought me to Ronn Lund's site, which "guest starred" a couple images by Chas. I downloaded a couple of those images, and went on my way.
Today it struck me that there had been a link to Chas' full site, so I went there and found that it contains many more very well done backgrounds. Very cool.
I'm going to be getting a new cell phone soon to replace my Nextel (over-pricing and bad call quality, yippee!), so I've been looking around a bit.
Right now I'm leaning towards getting a phone from VoiceStream once they get their national plan here in MI (600 minutes/month for $59.95). When I get that, I simply must have an Ericsson T28 World. 4x2x0.6 inches... Wow. I'd get the little infrared modem, too.
I just looked at my mp3 player stuff and realized it's been almost exactly a year since I last worked on it. Check out my description of it's operation from July 10, 1999.
It's really scary that the whole setup works. Shared memory, signals... Ugh... I really should rewrite it to use true IPC and sockets.
Anyway, I've posted the current (last year's) incarnation at eScripting for your perusal.
I'm back, so the cameras are now back online. I replaced the camera on pizzabox, but it's still an IndyCam, so the image still sucks.
Also, xmms 1.2.1 isn't working for me, so I think I'm going to take that as a sign to resume work on the old mp3 player I was writing. I may even try my hand at a Perl/GTK GUI. The nice side-benefit of this is that I'll be able to log mp3 playing to SQL again, so look for my mp3 logs to return.