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So I bought that directional antenna, but it wasnt necessary -- I get decent signal from a neighbor in this apartment with my plain ol' Lucent card. Yay. Pretty nice, tunneling aim/irc/web/sos through ssh, too, so I dont have to worry about being sniffed. :) Well, not that I'm terribly worried, but might as well. Added some new AVS effects, at mig's request. Gonna make AVS for wa5 good mmm.
Going to NYC for a week, yay. Allison's going to school there for a few months, so I'll be back and forth a bit. Bought a nice wifi antenna, for fun warwalkingaroundandstuff. ha ha.
Been a bit. Got an RS6. happy happy. Been playing with UltraVNC. It's pretty good.. just a few bugs that need fixing. Also realized today how easy it is to sniff VNC traffic using ethereal. Makes me hesitant to use it for somethings, but fortunately UltraVNC has `DSM' support. Unfortunately it's not quite ready for real use yet (features missing, and the way it is integrated is a little bit on the inefficient side). Also, there are a few somewhat annoying bugs in UltraVNC. I'll see if they fix them soon, otherwise I might need to do it myself, eheheh. Been practicing playing the drums more lately, which has been good. It's very satisfying, figuring out how to do new shit on em. Now it's dinner time, eh.
blah got about 15,000 virus related emails today. ugh. if you use my nullsoft,winamp, or landoleet email, I probably won't get your email. use the blorp one, or something. bleh this virus was mildly annoying, but easy to filter. what sucks is all of the mailer daemon errors, virus scanners, etc etc etc who seem to think that just because the goddamned mail has my email address as the return address, that it's valid. which sucks. people need to configure their mail servers to just eat virii, not reply to em. ugh ugh ugh.
Back back back. Been getting work done this weekend. Winamp5 is coming along nicely. Francis and I are both pretty excited at the moment, and Christophe would probably be too if he wasn't always drunk on bad wine. Just kidding. My laptop's HD has been dying for a few months now. At one point a month or two ago the partition table and MBR got hosed, so I had to boot knoppix and fix (it scared the shit out of me, but it worked, creating a new partition table, and writing a new MBR). Today the BIOS stopped recognizing it properly, so I put it in the freezer for a few minutes, and took it out and put it back in the laptop, after which it booted. I'm gonna call Fujistu tomorrow since I have onsite repair, but I'm tempted to go ahead and backup the drive before they get here, cause I don't really trust em, heh.
Whee in NC for the week, going to beach, yay. Good times.
mmmm I looove parallel processing
Christophe just told me about how he bought this Placebo CD in France, and it appeared to have copy protection on it. Then I read somewhere that Hail to the Thief had it too (and I grabbed my CD to check-- thankfully it did not), and it hit me how ridiculous it was to put it on CDs. It just encourages people to pirate music so that they aren't limited in what they can do with it. So if copy protection is going to work, it has to be 100% effective, otherwise it just encourages piracy, really. And of course, we know copy protection cannot be 100% effective unless we ditch the last 100 years of technology, and even then it just raises the barrier of entry. Anyway, I'm happy my copy of HTTT plays fine on my computer (hopefully people in Europe don't suffer a worse fate for that album). I mean seriously, who honestly believes putting copy protection on CDs is going to have ANY EFFECT WHATSOEVER on piracy? IT JUST TAKES ONE PERSON TO CIRCUMVENT (a good analogue rip might even pass). ONE. AND THEN IT IS OVER.
My horrible shoutcast stream is up over 24 hours of content now, yay. Put a new easter egg on nullsoft.com. A bit more difficult than the last one. Werd.
dad's with me too hehe
I'm at the airport again... bsod fun
7am in Atlanta... mmm food.
spent the weekend in sonoma for al's bday... mmm hot pool