Network Interactionativity
For some reason, on certain access points at LCA - for instance the one
in the St. Mary's common room - I need to set my MTU to 1000 (i.e. down
from 1500) in order to get Thunderbird to do secure POP. Everything
else works fine, but Thunderbird just sits there timing out. I
discovered this by watching the Wireshark log and noticing packet
fragments disappearing (i.e. some packets where the tcp fragment
analysis couldn't find parts of the packet to reassemble). Hopefully
this isn't also causing Steve Walsh to pick up his specially sharpened
LAN cable and hunt me down...
posted at: 23:16 | path: /tech/lca | permanent link to this entry
On to other things
After spending four hours or so working on my hackfest entry, I was less
than optimistic. My entry had yet to even be compiled on the test
machines, and it still had huge areas of code that were completely
unimplemented. When I went into the common room at St Mary's, Nick from
OzLabs recognised me and helpfully mentioned that someone else not only
had their code completely running but was in the process of optimising
it. I promptly resigned.
I say "helpfully" sincerely there. It is a bit of a pity that my ideas won't see the light of day this hackfest, and that I won't be in the running to win whatever prizes they might offer. But since I don't have a snowball's chance in a furnace of winning anyway that's hardly a real disappointment. And I can go to bed with a clear head and prepare for my lightning talk and the Irish Set Dancing and mixing I plan to do at the Google party, which realistically are much higher priorities.
I do hope that we get to see the winning solutions, though...
posted at: 22:17 | path: /tech/lca | permanent link to this entry
Hackfesty?
I've decided to have a more serious look at entering the hackfest,
since I'm familiar with processing fractals with parallel algorithms.
Downsides are that I've only done it with PVM, I haven't done anything
with the Cell architecture and there's all these other really cool
talks to go to. That and I need to have my eyes stop glazing over
when I start reading anything more detailed than the "Fire hydrant
and hose reel" sign opposite me.
posted at: 11:03 | path: /tech/lca | permanent link to this entry
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