So I’ve applied for a job with Canonical, that wonderful company that (in cooperation with the community of course) brings us Ubuntu.
In an effort to brush up my development skills I’ve now installed Bazaar and Python on my (Windows) workstation. In theory, this means I’ll be able to learn something useful during lunchtimes and the inevitable weekend conference calls. I’ve done a little Python before, but it’s been a while and I wasn’t exactly a guru even then. This must change!
Of course, nothing is easy when you’re stuck behind a couple of firewalls — Bazaar uses CURL (or libCurl) to do it’s remote connection/retrieval stuff, and I can’t seem to get it to go through the work proxy. Some Microsoft pish, no doubt. CURL should be able to do proxy authentication, but I can’t quite figure out how you do the SSPI stuff, i.e. pick up my authentication details from my Windows profile.
Oh well, there’s always the NTLM Authentication Proxy Server. I’ve used that to good effect before.
When I get some time I’m going to try using Bazaar for my home backup scheme too (at the moment it’s Subversion running on the Linkstation). I wonder if it would work as a generic synchronisation tool for the Nokia as well? Wow, the possibilities really are endless when you start thinking about them!
We bought an apartment! A beautiful, quirky three-bedroom apartment on the ground-floor of The Malthouse, nestled snugly in the much-coveted locale of Summer Hill, a medium density community that is close to school, transport, markets, parks, and cycleways.
In the blink of an eye, another weekend has come and gone. It’s a familiar feeling that many of us experience - the sensation that time is flying by, leaving us wondering where the hours and days have vanished to.
After too many years, I’m finally building myself a NAS: network-attached storage, a device for backing up files, photos, and all the data that is otherwise in the cloud. Say goodbye, FANGs, I’m going self-hosted.