29 Jun 2001 logic   » (Journeyer)

NAT
Interesting discovery: my problems getting various online games working properly through my Linux router/firewall/proxy appear to not have been due to any fault of my own. Rather, it was because my 56kbps connection simply sucked rocks; at 1.5Mbps, things are running exactly as they should, without any modification from what I was trying before. It's rather reassuring to find out that you really did know what you were doing, and the problem was simply something out of your hands.
Rumors
The layoff rumors are abounding again, and I'm hearing that a fellow IS staffer is being considered for the cut. The word is that the axe will fall on the 16th, giving plenty of time to finish up the product release and get all the necessary knowledge transfer done before letting people know they're no longer needed. Which also coincides with the middle of my vacation, which means I won't have the ability to walk out in protest along with said fellow staffer, should it happen (thus partially losing my ability to help leverage my threat of leaving against cutting him; we can't function effectively without him, and they can't afford to release me because of my intimate knowledge of how everything works around here). *sigh* Round two; you'd think I'd be used to this after the first time this happened, but I still think the lack of ethics when playing with people's livelihoods is unconscionable; "Thanks for busting your ass for the last six months to get this product release out the door; here's your pink slip!".

Latest blog entries     Older blog entries

New Advogato Features

New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.

Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.

If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!