Nov 02
The project is doing rather well recently. Mostly that is because Rene had done a lot of work (and Wouter also started joining us) on translating and updating the current versions. I am running a little behind on his updates because of busy days, which seems to happen more often. So I decided to take the opportunity and request a commit bit for Rene. The Documentation team reported that they had received the request so far, but no progress had been yet there. Hopefully they will agree with the bit so that I have a bit more time and options to work on different things.
Will keep you posted about this!
Nov 02
As most people I am a fan of good music (Rock in my case) and movies where possible. I do this to relax and make sure that I can keep managing things 
For this I had setup an cool environment in my room to make sure I can enjoy that experience. First of all I have a linksys 24port managed switch (with 4 gbit ports) which makes sure that all my hardware can be attached to it and have some spare ports. These are splitted into a few VLAN’s to make sure there are certain barries that one has to cross before being able to use resources
Within one of those vlans is a fileserver (Guardian) together with a tiny device from conceptronic. This device is connected to my television (the device is HDMA ready) and connected with digital coax to my Logitech speakerset (500watt’s sustained, 1000 watt peak).
I have stripped many of my DVD’s and the DVD’s within this house towards the fileserver, and I play them throgh the conceptronic device. With that I gain digital quality for the sounds (Which is obviously better then the stereo output that I normally have for my movies) and I am able to easily select which movie or music I want to experience through the multimedia setup.
The connection from the multimediabox to the fileserver is arranged through NFS, which makes streaming media easy. Playing a movie takes around 8mbits of data, which is a good ratio for the amount of data that is being streamed.
I didn’t need to do a lot to set this up, just attach a few cables and make sure things are visible through the shares (Which is dead easy if you used nfs before).
