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July 3, 2001

Happy Birthday Canada! Where's my bike?

  • Went home this weekend to visit the folks, and attend a barbecue for my birthday. Had a great time! There was an unbelievable amount of food at the barbecue, including ribs, about 100 chicken legs, beef and shrimp kebobs, and salads, rice and pasta. It was a good time, until it started to rain, and we had to make a mad dash to clean up and get everything inside!
  • On Sunday morning, Kelly and I had made plans to head out with my folks and my brother and his girlfriend to Alliston to pick strawberries. Little did we know when we put on shorts and t-shirts that it was going to be 10 degrees outside. Wow, was it ever cold! But, on a side note, we picked about 40 pounds of strawberries, at .99 a pound! Was a good deal!
  • When we got back to Ottawa on Monday night, we were cleaning up and decided that we'd go check the bike room to see if the illegally parked bike that was in Kelly's spot had been removed yet. While down there, not only did we find that her spot was still taken, but my bike was gone, and there was someone else's in its place. So, we both thought that for sure my bike had been stolen. Turns out that there was some kind of mix up, and the building cut my lock and put my bike in the mechanical room because they didn't think the spot was registered to me. Never mind that the description of the bike recorded in the management office matched mine. Bay Laurier Place can pay for the $40 lock they clipped off.

    • Posted by Adrian Chung on July 3, 2001 2:12 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

    Seeking in streamed MP3's!

  • Well, with some insight from Lincoln Stein, author of the Apache::MP3 Perl module, I've successfully implemented seeking in my MP3 engine. Turns out that out of XMMS and WinAMP, only WinAMP supports seeking in HTTP/1.1 streams so far, but XMMS will follow I'm sure. So you can now jump to different parts of a song, even when it's streamed!
  • The trick is that when you move the seekbar in WinAMP to seek in a song, WinAMP sends an HTTP/1.1 header that looks like:


    • 
Range: bytes=192345-

    to the server, which I can then parse, use the byte offset to do a seek on the file handle, and then send that back to the client.

    w00t! as some might say. :)

    Posted by Adrian Chung on July 3, 2001 2:18 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

    July 9, 2001

    Artificial Intelligence?

  • Went to see A.I. this weekend, Sunday night to be exact. Despite some great acting, the movie was too long, and left me wondering what the point of the entire movie was as I left the movie theater. Not sure how it rates a 7.3 on the Internet Movie Database. So after the movie, we all felt like a good drink, but when we tried to get in to O'Connor's Irish Pub, the wait staff told us that they're closing early for renovations today. :(
  • Ventured out to Northern Micro Outlet with Kelly to pick up an ASUS P2B-DS motherboard for $125! Then we went to IKEA and bought a new dining room table. It's coming in really handy!
  • Upgraded xinetd to 2.3.0 on rogue.

    • Posted by Adrian Chung on July 9, 2001 12:12 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

    istop.com restructuring -> Peer1 networks.

  • istop.com is in process of converting their main outgoing link from Magma to Peer1 Networks in Toronto. There was a quick changeover this weekend and I'm happy to report that both latency and bandwidth look good on the new provider. Unfortunately, there were some routing problems and istop.com had to change back to using Magma temporarily. Hopefully it won't last too long, expect some network turbulence here. :)

    • Posted by Adrian Chung on July 9, 2001 12:15 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

    July 13, 2001

    Weekend Getaway.

  • Taking off this weekend with Kelly to Montreal. Won a free trip including transportation and accommodation to Montreal courtesy of e-smith, back in December at the Christmas party. We thought it would be nice to get away. Tony's generously accepted puppy-sitting duties this weekend at our place while we're away. ;)
  • rogue and wolverine are now switched over again to Peer1 addresses. Routing through Peer1 is *much* better than it was through Magma. Reverse DNS has also propagated, so everything should be good to go, barring any further changes at istop's end.

    • Posted by Adrian Chung on July 13, 2001 11:59 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

    July 16, 2001

    Montreal!

  • Montreal was lots of fun this weekend, but we're still recovering. We stayed at the Delta Centreville, which turned out to be a very convenient location. Very close to the main entrance the the underground city (which houses something like 11 shopping malls, connections to hotels, and restaurants), and Saint Catherine Street. We did lots of shopping, visited the Insectarium, and caught "The Fast And The Furious" at the Paramount -- a good movie! We even gave the "Metro" a ride. :)
  • Happy to be back in Ottawa, we're off to Sarnia to visit The Stevens' this weekend!

    • Posted by Adrian Chung on July 16, 2001 6:31 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

    July 18, 2001

    "Unreal" Routing.

  • After playing UT on the EG server the other day, some people on @Home noticed a bit of latency. On investigating their latencies while playing on the server, I noticed that some were as high as 350ms, and bouncing around all over the place. So, I endeavoured to try to rectify the situation -- we still have a Rogers@Home connection, and latency must be better when traversing from an @Home connection to another @Home connection, right?

    The goal was to have people connect to our server on the @Home network, and port forward all UT ports via the LAN to the UT server. For everyone else, connecting directly to the UT server via our DSL link should serve them better.


  • It took a while, but it's finally working properly. For all the gory details, click here.

    • Posted by Adrian Chung on July 18, 2001 4:22 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

    July 22, 2001

    A Fatal Exception 0E Has Occurred. ;)

  • After a long drive on Thursday night, we finally arrived in Sarnia! After a good night's rest, I had a quick look at Kelly's folks' computer... Seemed to work fine after reinstalling the video drivers, except for the fact that anytime I dialled up to the internet and used IE 5, after a random time, not longer than 30 seconds normally, I'd get a page fault, or fatal exception. After restarting IE, I'd either get another error, or the system would just reset itself. Not sure what was causing it, but I even tried replacing the RAM, to no avail. Interestingly enough, installing Windows ME has managed to suppress the problem.
  • Other than trying to fix the computer, we've been having a good time down here! Went across the river and did some shopping in Michigan, then tomorrow, we're heading to Oakville, via Guelph.
  • Saw "The Score" tonight. Was entertaining. Had a slow building suspenseful plot, that came to a rather quick and abrupt end. But all in all, it was entertaining. Edward Norton's a great actor!

    • Posted by Adrian Chung on July 22, 2001 2:59 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

    July 31, 2001

    The Legacy Lives On!

  • So the Legacy broke down this weekend. I've been thinking to myself, "How exactly does a car just break down dead at the side of the road?", and then it happened. There we found ourselves, at the Eastbound offramp at Maitland Road and the 417. No cell phone, at 4:00PM on Sunday afternoon.
  • Luckily, there was a Hertz rent a car, and we had our CAA cards handy. Otto's BMW and Subaru is in the process of repairing the igniter, which appears to be the culprit.
  • Not knowing what an igniter is, and even how a car engine works for that matter, I learned a lot at howstuffworks.com. A new bookmark!

    • Posted by Adrian Chung on July 31, 2001 12:38 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

    {E,Web,Hot}Mail and Virus Scanning.

  • Had some fun playing around this weekend, and set up virus scanning for all inbound and outbound mail that traverses our SMTP gateway. The last straw was receiving a couple copies of the "CodeRed" worm that's supposed to destroy the Internet tonight at 8:00PM (GMT?).
  • Upgraded Horde and IMP to 2.2.6, and also gotmail (a program to fetch Hotmail email) to version 0.6.6 which works with the new Hotmail layout.

    • Posted by Adrian Chung on July 31, 2001 12:43 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

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