Well here’s just over 4 minutes of me talking about a bunch of stuff. None of it particulary exciting but think of it as a work in progress and a tech demo. Without the tech.
Feb 24
Busy evening tonight.
Had 50mbit installed, the modem is lovely, really nice compared to the crappy Scientific Atlanta we got given last year when it updated to 20mbit. The speed is immense. Clocked it at around 5.9mb/sec at around 6:30pm, I know it’ll go a ilttle faster too.
I get a free Wireless N router from Virgin, it hasn’t arrived yet though so that presented me with a problem. The current Netgear FVG 318 that I have doesn’t support 50mbit on the WAN port. It doesn’t even really support 20mbit, downloading at full speed meant the other pcs on the network couldn’t access the Internet at all.
There were forum posts on Digital Spy that said the router could be 4-8 weeks away. Me being me couldn’t even go half an hour without being able to get access to the full pipe :p
I decided to take the spare PC and stick another network card in it and install Smoothwall on there as recommended by Gareth and Steve. Set up was easy, finally got IDS installed after it took an hour or so to grab the rule downloads, it felt like downloading on a 56kb modem.
I discovered the most awesome thing in the world today, Windows Live Messenger dynamic display pictures.
From left to right we have my standard picture that has funny eyebrow movements, my 
face and my OMFG face. The pictures don’t even begin to show how funny these things are with the video. It’s certainly given me some giggles tonight and raised my mood somewhat.
So, 50mbit connection is set up and firewalled, working properly. I also managed to find the Flip Video Mino Digital Camcorder – Black (2GB)
for £117.44 on Amazon rather than the £159.99 I was going to pay for it from Firebox.
Sue’s getting me it for my birthday, I’m going to use it with youtube for making video diaries and things. Should be fairly interesting. That reminds me, I need to think about sorting out another podcast.
