Friday, November 18th, 2005
- Back in the land of small bosoms and pretentious girls. For a good greeting, I got massively sick - flowing nose, sneezing, tearing eyes. Its hard to believe I was born here, and yet I get all these complications everytime I rock up here.
- Oh, and Streamyx, in both my houses, suck. Its so slow in comparison to what I’m used to sitting at home via cable. And look, their QoS is hopeless too. Sigh. Flickr uploads are slow, at best. And I’m supposed to have at least 256/384kbps upload speeds here.
- Spent some time fighting the VPN, and it eventually succumbed. OpenVPN on Linux is a breeze (go Fedora!), but Tunnelblick took a bit more massaging to get working.
- I have also fixed my VoIP, so you can now reach me 4528@sip.mysql.com or via the MySQL phone number at that extension. On OS X and Linux, I’m using X-Lite. I haven’t tried linphone/kphone yet, because last time I fiddled with it on PPC, it had some endianness issues.
- I’m actively reading the PHP Manual; its very cogent.
- Those mysterious Powerbook vibrations of the screen. I’ve seen them. They really do exist. I wonder if Apple’s gonna fix them, or if my screen dies, I have to take it in. This ultimately, isn’t good.
- Caught Ditesh & Dinesh last-last night for food, then hit Backyard. Was trying to use their wireless to no avail. Ow’s bachelor party dinner thing was last night… small crowd, but fun nonetheless.
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