Wireless at last!

Well, sweet. I brought the iBook to work today, and at last I've found a place to get wireless access: turns out that [Trees Organic Coffee][1], in beautiful downtown Vancouver, not only offers free wireless access to its customers but! also allows SSH. I'm able to check my email from home and post this. Good thing I set up https for my site last night...too bad I've not generated my own certificate yet.

And advice for those who follow: the tables against the front window are really, really cute but they're up high enough to make my wrists cry out in pain. People are staring. And the signal's not great here either, though I'm sure it's better elsewhere in the shop.

Finally got the dual G5 box at work set up with Gentoo. Nice OS, I gotta say. I cheated and went with the stage 3 install on the assumption I wouldn't have enough time to play around, so I can't tell you how fast it was at compiling. But as an OS, it's nice. Very minimal; I felt like I was back in the days before I'd automated the workstation installs, doing minimal FreeBSD installs by hand and wondering how to fix the nine things that weren't working.

Emerge is cool; I definitely like the idea of using shell script functions for the various stages of adding a port (download, unpack, compile and so on). I've always thought that the FreeBSD set of Makefiles was needlessly obscure...but then, I'm probably betraying my complete and utter lack of 133+ by saying that. I want a Mister Muffin t-shirt. Piro, are you listening?

[1]: http ://vancouver.wifimug.org/index.cgi?TreesOrganicCoffee