Proverb

Every day a manager must email the slowest employee about his faults or else his employees will become lazy.

Every morning an employee must email his reports faster than the slowest employee or else he'll be berated for his faults.

It doesn't matter who you are, when the sun rises you must start emailing.

Kinect

So I might not be going back to a static IP yet and may be delaying getting a new phone, but I've been tempted into buying Kinect (impulsepurchaseyayyayyay). Initial thoughts are that it's actually pretty awesome. The user interface is pretty sweet and it just feels so goddamn futuristic.

The "Kinect Adventures" game it came with seems pretty average with the occasional odd response in-game. This could also be due to the cramped environment I was working in at the time however.

The girlfriend gave Kinecticmals a shot and it seems like one of the most adorable games I've ever had the pleasure to watch (with Snowy the Black Panther as the main star) and Jaynnie said it was pretty awesome to play. There was a weird glitch at one point where the Kinect system showed a second hand hovering on the screen as well, however we have ascertained this may have in fact been interference caused by one of my girlfriend's breasts.

Now I'm waiting on the arrival of the Proprietary-to-USB+Power adaptor to arrive from Microsoft Support (as the Xbox+Kinect bundle doesn't contain one) and I'll be able to hook it into my computer and see what can be done with it!

Regards,
Adam O'Grady

New Projects

Alright, I can pretty safely say that my ftp/fileserver (\\MILF) seems to be working pretty well. My "general/dev" server (\\JAILBAIT) is working mostly as a Minecraft server but it seems a bit underpowered and restrictive (old hardware, showing signs of possible faults, bitch to reformat). It doesn't help that \\JAILBAIT also seems to drain a heap of power unnecessarily. To combat this I'm thinking of building a new low-power special-purpose & development server.

Mainly I would want it to act as a router, which would be possible if I could get extra usable public IP addresses from my workplace. I could use the upstairs router to assign it to the server with all traffic flowing into the first ethernet port. The router could then act as a layer three device (including providing DHCP and NAT services) over a second ethernet port (connecting through an 8port gigabit switch to "my" section of the network). This gives me that whole bunch of fun chances to explore things such as network monitoring, proxy implementation and the like.

My main problem at the moment is I need to work out what hardware would be best for a 24/7 low-power router/server? Intel Atom or cheap AMD Athlon?

Regards,
Adam O'Grady