I got another interesting piece of mail today, this time from the Hunting & Shooting Sports Heritage Foundation. They encourage me, as a hunter and gun owner, to "vote my guns."
I really don't know that I own a gun. I do support gun-owner rights, though.
I got a catalog today from a place that I ordered something from a while back. Unfortunately, the catalog will most definitely do me no good, as I have no clue what "Dual-Band SiGe LNA+Mixer IC Has Highest IP3" is going to do for me. They do give out free samples, though.
It's not often that I watch a large block of television. Tonight I did. It started with Ghostbusters, and then continued into Action, which is definitely my favorite show at the moment. Fox cancelled it after only a couple weeks, but once again FX fills my viewing needs. After Action comes The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Another must-watch. Tonight I even stayed watching to see a little of Al Gore on The Tonight Show.
Now back to reality, which has me writing an English essay about a book I really didn't like.
So last night (using that tutorial I linked to) I started learning GTK/Perl stuff. I actually made decent progress on my first goal of writing an MP3 player that works how I want it to. Currently it sets up most of the GUI, and picks 20 random songs and their info out of the db. Not bad for a couple hours last night.
Right now I'm working on getting proficient in writing Perl apps with GTK frontends. Stephen Wilhelm's Gtk-Perl Tutorial is a huge help. It's hard to find good GTK/Perl documentation, and Stephen does a great job of going through each object type with the assumption that you know nothing of how GTK works.
This is why I hate cable modems:
[eric@coredump docs]$ ping ericrichardson.com
PING ericrichardson.com (206.132.163.11): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 206.132.163.11: icmp_seq=0 ttl=243 time=988.8 ms
64 bytes from 206.132.163.11: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=95.4 ms
64 bytes from 206.132.163.11: icmp_seq=2 ttl=243 time=98.9 ms
64 bytes from 206.132.163.11: icmp_seq=3 ttl=243 time=943.4 ms
64 bytes from 206.132.163.11: icmp_seq=4 ttl=243 time=99.8 ms
64 bytes from 206.132.163.11: icmp_seq=5 ttl=243 time=968.6 ms
64 bytes from 206.132.163.11: icmp_seq=6 ttl=243 time=88.9 ms
I've tried this against a bunch of sites, and both from the proxy machine and mine, and they all act like this.
Gar.
I've always been disappointed by how plain and boring my site looks from the outside. I mean, it's easy for me to talk about how cool the stuff I'm playing with is, but I think it's hard for anyone on the outside to really see what goes on under this little outer shell. Click for more.
I've got one camera back up and running. Enjoy. At least it's the good camera... And, please, nothing about the hair.
The old mp3 log is back. Things are starting to get up and running here in the new eWorld labs, and services are gradually beginning to be restored.
I now have the Internet in my bedroom. I am a happy man. I'm also now the owner of my old workstation (as well as the two Indys), so I'm getting back into the habit of 1280x1024 and my big SGI keyboard (big and solid). It's the perfect complement to my big black leather chair and large desk.
I think I'll take a go at putting a camera back online sometime soon. Definitely only selected times, though, as this is my bedroom, and the thought of people watching me sleep isn't a pretty one.
So I'm trying to install Redhat 6.2 on an old 486 with a 420mb hd. Theoretically, that shouldn't be a problem. I've had Linux on the thing before (X and enightenment, even). Not so, however.
SO I've completely changed my phone situation. I now have an Ericsson T28World (the phone I orginally said I wanted) and service from NPI Wireless. It's a long story, but basically I think this'll serve me much better, and NPI seems to have a lot going for them. Step one is for them to get an email SMS gateway up. They have a webform for sending SMS's, though, so I could write my own email -> webform thingy.
As if yesterday's wireless accomplishments weren't enough, I've now one-up'ed them. This post is coming to you via Proxyweb on my PalmIII, online via an infrared connection to the L7089. Muah haha. Now to get ssh and play more...
I'm writing this post logged on to the net via the wireless modem in my Motorola Timeport L7089. It's a little sluggish (9600bps), but it's very cool to have.
Since I got back from down under both SMS and data calls have started working for me, causing me to decide to stay with VoiceStream. I'm experimenting with using uReach as my access means for Muskegon people. I get my own toll free 877 number, and I get email to my phone when someone leaves a message. It seems to work great, and it's really cheap (free if you only use the included 30 minutes/month).
I was downloading something from sourceforge today (MySQL RPMS), and noticed that the download was going insanely fast. When I say insanely fast I mean like 1200KB/sec. That's like 9.6Mb/sec.
Apparently it's not just my imagination:
--- sourceforge.net ping statistics ---
19 packets transmitted, 19 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 3.4/4.0/5.6 ms
The crazy thing? It's still 7 hops.
Things are finally starting to return to normal some. As you can obviously see, the box is back up and serving. My email's working again, too, which makes me a lot happier than I have been. Still some stuff to get back into shape, but things are looking up.
What is it with me and never being able to have a machine with the clock set right... I actually posted that sourceforge message now.