5 Jan 2001 steveh   » (Journeyer)

FINALLY! I have dsl! 28.8 dialup was getting really tiresome. The hookup took longer than it should have due to either Qwest's incompetence or the fact it was the Christmas holidays. Still, I have it now and I'm impressed, the Cisco 675 modem/router is pretty cool.

So, as this is my first diary entry I'll write a bit about what I've been doing recently. Up until Aug 2000 I was working for 3dfx in Dallas, then I moved back to my home town of Belfast, N. Ireland before leaving the company in Oct. Trajically since then 3dfx had to close it's doors and sell what it could to nVidia. The engineers who worked there are extremely talented people and fortunatley a lot of them have found work either at nVidia or elsewhere. Some are still looking though, so drop me a line if you are recruiting and I'll put you in touch with them. Although I have respect for nVidia and they deserve every success I'm sorry to see 3dfx go.

In Nov I moved to Boulder, CO. Getting settled in has occupied all my spare time meaning I haven't been able to do any 3dwm development since I left Belfast, however this is about to change. Now I have decent internet access I'll be setting up my development machine and get back to hacking. nickelm and I have agreed to move the texture loading/decoding from the server to the client to make the interface cleaner. Now the server will only accept textures in one (TBD) format, and it is the client's responsibility to handle the various image formats with the help of libNobel++. This sounds like a good place to pick up development again after such a long break.

On an unrelated note I was interested to learn from gman that Sun's GNOME development team is in Ireland... cool :)

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