15 Sep 2002
Today /. had a story about certain colleges telling their students that “file sharing” is not allowed over campus networks. So how does these rules apply to Mnet? Part of the design of Mnet is that you can’t say any one node is responsible for a file. You don’t “share” a file on Mnet, you just let the Mnet software manage part of your hard drive. Little bits and pieces of a file could be on your hard drive, but you’d never know, you can’t look, it’s encrypted. The idea is that as long two people can pass encrypted messages back and forth, then Mnet could survive. It would be intresting have Mnet run over ICQ especially with ICQ/TLS or AIM. I imagine there would be some problems getting students not to use IM software.
15 Sep 2002
So with a laptop for editing from bed, my new project is to write a little each day about what happened.
Today Laura and I woke up to rain outside our window. We talked about moving to the new house (First weekend in Oct. if you want to come help :), and how nice it would be to have rain in the morning there. We had breakfast on the porch. We went to work on our projects of the day, me doing some work on the release of Mnet (version 0.5.1 is out the door), Laura working on the Ivy Nursery’s website. While I was off in computerlane she also packed some boxes of stuff in the closets. Later I finished addressing one of the last batches of Thank you notes from our wedding (I’ve managed to drag them out beyond the year you are alloted by society to finish them, so if I go to prison you know why)
15 Sep 2002
Blogging in bed… one of life’s better pleasures. Today we are doing a little rusticly, with a cat 5 snaking out of the office and into the bedroom, but no fear: Wifi is on order (AP for $60, PC Card for $35, both after rebate). The laptop is a p133 with 32mb, now running linux. 32mb isn’t enought to run galeon happily, so I use X11.
Galeon session support really comes in handy here. If you didn’t know Galeon has a feature in that when you exit galeon it will save all the urls it has open and when you start it again it reopens them. Also works if it crashes (at least 3 times a week, but with the session feature I don’t mind). And in this case it works great to move to another computer and then ssh in and do “galeon -q; galeon &”
12 Sep 2002
Second Birthday In A Row Ruined By Terrorism Second Birthday In A Row Ruined By Terrorism
HOBOKEN, NJ–In what threatens to be an annual ritual, Rob Bachman, born Sept. 11, 1973, braced himself Tuesday for yet another birthday ruined by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Glad my fellow birthdaymates are a story of national bemusement.
10 Sep 2002
Today is my birthday. Nope, I’m not kidding, it really is. I turn 26, which feels, old. But it’s been a pretty good year.
One year ago today I was awoken by the phone. It was my father-in-law, and my wife answered the phone. Intrested in what he was calling about at 11:30 in the morning (neither my wife or I had started our jobs so we were sound asleep) I listened in to the conversation. After much confusion (“What do you mean, ‘What’s going on.’ Haven’t you been watching it?” “Watching what?”) I ended up setting up this scarry media overstimulator (that link is the top google hit for my name, btw).
The warroom idea was great until the BBC and Canadian new feeds were cut off. Then it got boring. American news sucks. I want DirecTV to have a “world news junkies” package that has BBC, Al Jezzera (which is reportedly adding a english feed soon), a few channels showing all the nightly news programs from all over the world with english subtitles. I want it all…
In the following days mirrored the gpg source code and anything else I could think might soon become contraband on my hard drive. Things fortunately didn’t get that bad.
As part of reflecting on what I could do to make the world a safer place for the values that I believed in, and what my country was built on, I joined in the development of Mojo Nation, which became Mnet. I feel I’ve added a lot to the project with the GUI, and now trying to make the code more accessable to all who would like to add to it. Now if we can get micropayments back in.
One of the things I would like to do better is money. Money has not been good to me this year, most likely because I haven’t been good to it. I’m not talking making megabucks, but not going slowly towards bankruptcy would be nice.
25 was a good year. 26 will be even better.