Verbosity 2.0 ~ Talking about life on Drupal

The national firewall of China is starting to show it's age. Long since western organizations put together this mythical beast meant to keep the public ill-informed the walls are coming down. Well, figuratively at the least.

The root of my network will be restarted today, the server "mcluhan" acts as my main file server for all things media. The network services like web serving and email continue running, as does the desktop in the apartment.

Today's reboot was a success. The TV tuner card is now firmly embedded in my network. Thus far not a single frame of video has appeared. I'm saving the configuration for another day. Reason being: I need to recompile the modules (drivers) for it. That sounds really scary but it's just a matter of knowing the special incantation to make it work. This will require some browsing of my notes from the ol' kernel compiling days.

It's been a long time coming. With all the changes happening at Apple these days it is becoming hard to imagine how bad it really was for the company back in the 1990s. So much has changed since then, OS X has indeed brought the fortunes that Steve Jobs predicted.