FINALLY! I have dsl! 28.8 dialup was getting really
tiresome. The hookup took longer than it should have due to
either Qwest's incompetence or the fact it was the
Christmas holidays. Still, I have it now and I'm impressed,
the Cisco 675 modem/router is pretty cool.
So, as this is my first diary entry I'll write a bit about
what I've been doing recently. Up until Aug 2000 I was
working for 3dfx in Dallas, then I moved back to my home
town of Belfast, N. Ireland before leaving the company in
Oct. Trajically since then 3dfx had to close it's doors and
sell what it could to nVidia. The engineers who worked
there are extremely talented people and fortunatley a lot
of them have found work either at nVidia or elsewhere. Some
are still looking though, so drop me a line if you are
recruiting and I'll put you in touch with them. Although I
have respect for nVidia and they deserve every success I'm
sorry to see 3dfx go.
In Nov I moved to Boulder, CO. Getting settled in has
occupied all my spare time meaning I haven't been able to
do any 3dwm development since I left Belfast, however this
is about to change. Now I have decent internet access I'll
be setting up my development machine and get back to
hacking. nickelm and I have agreed to move
the texture loading/decoding from the server to the client
to make the interface cleaner. Now the server will only
accept textures in one (TBD) format, and it is the client's
responsibility to handle the various image formats with the
help of libNobel++. This sounds like a good place
to pick up development again after such a long break.
On an unrelated note I was interested to learn from
gman that Sun's GNOME development team is
in Ireland... cool :)
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