Ah, another Friday. Glad that the week is over. It was
another very long week. At least Melody (my daughter)
is getting into more of a schedule, and she's also much more
responsive to the world around her.
I bought a IEEE 1394 (FireWire) PC Card today at Frys so
that I could transfer a bunch of digital video I took of her
onto the computer. Unfortunately, there are no Linux
drivers, AFAIK. Heck, it froze my wife's copy of Windows
98J (well, not like that's hard to do...)
I have been getting used to this new IBM 600E that I got -
it's got its own wierd tweaks (like hibernation mode) but
damned if IBM doesn't still make the best keyboards in the
business. And I have to say that I just love the
touchpoint/nipple/whateveryouwanttocallit. Always have. I
just hate touchpads.
I spent all day down in the south bay today meeting with
clients, that's always fun. Sensing the traffic would be
killer on the way back because of the opening night Giants
game tonight, I drove up to Palo Alto and went to Stacey's
and Borders and loaded up on a bunch of books - Got the
O'Reilly Perl/DBI book (just to brush up on advanced
topics), Open Source Development with CVS (I liked the GPL'd
chapters so I decided to support the author), The Book of
IRC (totally silly, but what the hell), a MySQL book, the
GNU Emacs pocket reference (just to keep an eye on the
changes since I really hacked on emacs, v18) and the Linux
Core Kernel Commentary (looks very interesting). I wonder
when I'll get any time to actually READ the books, but what
the hell, we can dream, can't we? And I think sleep is
highly overrated.
OpenFlock is really coming along, I think the initial server
is pretty much ready, time to start coding the sample
client. I was trying to figure out an easy client that
would show off the power of the protocol, make a good
example client, and actually WORK, and then it hit me -
cal! So I'm going to rewrite cal to include
groupware scheduling. It's so moronic it's funny, and what
the hell, somebody just might find it useful!
So tomorrow I begin hacking together cal on steroids. I
feel like I'm welding an armored gunship on top of a mattel
toy car. Hee, I like that.
Had a great lunch with Jeremy today, thanks for lunch, big
guy! Got some good feedback on my authentication scheme,
too. I'm going to look into sasl as an
authentication
solution. I'd never heard of it, but Jeremy recommended it,
so I'm sure its of some use...
Let's see if I can make this in before april fools begins...
Well, I guess not, so April Fools!