Every quater, me and my flatmate pay about £80 to the Aberdeen City Council for maintainence of the lifts in our building. As I write this, I am trapped in one of these lifts. It appears that none of the buttons work except for the alarm button. You’d think this would connect you to an operator somewhere who would dispatch a repair team, but no. This sounds a loud alarm and nothing else.
As part of my job, I’ve had to re-install Linux on one of our Dell Poweredge servers. This is something I can do in my sleep, so this didn’t bother me, until the installer asked for some non-free firmware. This is quite common with Dell PowerEdge servers I’ve found. The same thing occured when I was setting up the Computing Society’s server. The files I needed were the same both times:
Yesterday on the gopher-project mailing list, Wolfgang Faust gave a Gopher link to a streaming text file showing the current server time. Today, with his help, I have got video streaming over Gopher. In webcam streaming, Motion JPEG over HTTP is the defacto standard. The problem with Motion JPEG is that it is not actually a file format but a method of sending single JPEG frames over HTTP, one after another, as a MIME multipart document.