12Sep/030
Skype!
Me and a friend gave Skype a try and I must say its amasing. He was on a ISDN in South Africa and I was on my ADSL in London. My firewall blocked all incoming connections and it worked a charm. Sound quality was comparable to a phone if not better.
I am keen to try it against a lesser connection like a modem in South Africa, but so far its awsome.
About R.I. Pienaar
Systems Administrator, Consultant, Linux Guy, Automator, Ruby CoderLinks
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Tweets
- Really not getting on with any of the Ruby AMQP clients, I want a blocking pop/read function
- Dear web 2.0 tards, stop breaking my back key!
- How FarmVille Scales to Harvest 75 Million Players a Month http://bit.ly/9WajIg
- Nice article about small company networks http://srt.ly/7
- Snow? WTF when I left it was practically summer
- Back in England after fosdem. My MacBook is getting pretty ripe for replacement. Battery life not what it once was
- Queued up a lot of articles on AMQP and RabbitMQ for eurostar reading, time to give rabbitmq support in mcollective another try
- Fosdem was great. As everyone told me it's about the chats with people and nit the talks.
- Listening to Isabel Drost about Apache Hadoop #fosdem
- Listening to Andrew Tanenbaum talk MINIX 3 at #fosdem
Reading
Planned books:
- The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain by Daniel Gardner
- Relentless by Dean Koontz
- Mind Over Ship by David Marusek
- The New Space Opera by Gardner Dozois
- The New Space Opera 2 by Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Strahan
Current books:
-
Ariel: A Book of the Change by Steven R. Boyett
Recent books:
- Hacking Vim: A Cookbook to Get the Most Out of the Latest Vim Editor by Kim Schulz
- Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design by Diomidis Spinellis , Georgios Gousios
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