Moved out, partied hard, now what?
So I’ve moved out, gotten the new place all setup and have started sort of getting into the groove here. My first revelation was to find out that my internet service here isn’t as nice as it was at the old place. The outside plant here is old and oversubscribed so it’s tough. I finally threw down and colocated a server with DigiNex and as such imladris.ub3rgeek.net was born. I’m busy moving things off my server here at home onto the colocated box. This is a good thing though, because it’s time to audit a lot of that crappy old code that I have running all over the place. It’s running OpenBSD, so many things are different. But most of the websites I host are over there, as is most of my e-mail stuff and my irc client.
Last weekend was the annual Halloween party that a couple of my friends have been trying to get me to go to. I blew it off in 2005 and 2006… but wentthis year. It was a fantastic time, lots of really awesome people. A co-worker and I camped out in the back yard of the hosts’ house and despite the wind and rain it was a relaxing, refreshing weekend. We went hiking, there was a ton of fooling around with DDR, Guitar Hero and some kick ass old school Roland electronic synthesizers (a 303 and 808 were on hand along with a Moogerfrooger MF-104 ANALOG delay / feedback pedal, a Micro Korg and a MetaSonic Scrotum Smasher). I didn’t even unpack the laptop once throughout the whole weekend, which is a pretty crazy thing if you think about it. The only downside is the fact that reality is a harsh mistress and coming back to the real world after such a great weekend is a total bitch.
That said, I’ve been having a good time with the MediaTomb transcoding feature. It works really well and I’ve watched a bunch of stuff on it, including the season of Top Gear (so far), a bunch of Bleach, and the last episode of the new Doctor Who. I still have not gotten mencoder working on the damn thing, so I still don’t have a few media types playing, but if I ever get that done, I’ll post the stuff here somewhere.
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