RasterWeb!

Now this makes me peeved… I’ve been trying to install jabberd, the Jabber server. Now, I try on Mac OS X, no luck, I try on Yellow Dog Linux, no luck, but that’s a whole other problem involving GCC that I won’t get into. I then try under Red Hat Linux, and while things seem to work, there are some firewall issues I haven’t resolved yet. I decide, against my better judgement, to try the Windows version. It works. And, it was easy. Damn. I hate you Windows…

Officially the Windows version is ‘unsupported’ and I don’t plan to use it for anything more than testing… So there.

And yes, I’m once again looking into Jabber as a presence and IM platform.

(Try me at rasterboy@jabber.org if you must…)

It’s nice to see that Mark is now providing a mobile edition. It’s a good thing he didn’t decide to provide a Mobile Edition, or we might have had to unleash the lawyers…

We installed ethernet in the house recently. For those of you unfamiliar with network cabling, here’s some background: In the old days networks had to be built using ‘wires’ to carry data from one point to another. I know, it sound strange, but I swear it’s true. While today you might be able to just open your iBook and be on the internet, some of us actually have to plug a ‘network cable’ into the back of an old Wallstreet in order to connect it to other computers or download RSS feeds…

So luckily I got an electrician friend of ours to help. Beside having the right equipment, he also had a spool of Cat5 cable. That helped quite a bit. Another friend supplied a jack crimping tool, and after spending somewhere under $15 for jacks and connectors, and way too much time trying to make our own network cables, we’re wired. (Or weird, depending on who you ask.)

Yes, now we can send email from the basement to the bedroom, we can run an aggregator and alert others to our presence while on the couch. It’s all quite amazing, and fairly affordable as well. (Not to mention the 100Mbit speed of it all…)

The next step is to move the office back into the basement. I don’t even want to calculate how many times we’ve moved the office, but I’m guessing it’s well into the double digits…

My children got to see their first anti-war protesters over the weekend.

(That’s something I wished I would never have to say…)

Time to break things around here, and by that we mean new features. Or is it new bugs. Or Both.

Anyway, we’ve added a strip of photos on the main page. We’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but haven’t quite gotten around to it. So like most things, we’ll throw it out there and refine it as it goes. Things of note. It’s not done but that’s ok, things on the web are never really done, right? Also, it looks like things are borked in Netscape 4.x in a most peculiar way, which might be just fine, though it is a puzzle as to how the borking manifests itself.

On the bright side, you’ll start seeing more photos around here. Yay.

In other news, I’m close to patching ht://Dig 3.1.6 to produce valid XHTML output. Just… need.. more… time…

Ok, on with the show…