Back on the job...
Oct. 14th, 2001 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpBeen here, actually, for almost two hours.
Sleep was fitful... I think I got a total of two good hours. Then I tossed and turned for about three more, got up, washed, got dressed, and cranked back into work. Mark L. and I are here until 5:30 tomorrow morning. We'll be covering the day's activities until just after today's EVA starts, then we'll be relieved by the next shift.
As far as the rest of the day is concerned, my primary goal will be to print out my tax return and get it in the mail. After that, the only thing I need to do is get enough sleep to be functional for another "day" of work starting at midnight tonight.
* * * I tried out the iVISTA software last night. It seems to work okay, but I'm leery of buying yet another program for camming. One thing that was interesting about the software: When you run it, it goes out to the inetcam website and creates a server name for you (e.g., alexpgp.inetcam.com) and dynamically modifies the inetcam website's DNS to redirect any requests for this machine to your machine, so that your computer actually behaves like a web server in this capacity.
If I had a high-speed connection, this might actually be a usable capability, but in Pagosa - where 19.2 kbps is considered "high speed" if you're out at the end of the copper the way I am - it's not really feasible. First of all, it'd be slow. Second, if you're not online all the time (and at 19.2, who is?) the link goes nowhere when you're not connected.
OTOH, I have two more days to play with the software until it stops working, so I may - between comm passes - set up my cam again and put the program through its paces. Unlike yesterday, though, I'll try to get the program to load images onto a hastily cobbled-together cam page on my website, which should always show some image of me hard at work in the simul booth (even if it's not current).
Cheers...
Sleep was fitful... I think I got a total of two good hours. Then I tossed and turned for about three more, got up, washed, got dressed, and cranked back into work. Mark L. and I are here until 5:30 tomorrow morning. We'll be covering the day's activities until just after today's EVA starts, then we'll be relieved by the next shift.
As far as the rest of the day is concerned, my primary goal will be to print out my tax return and get it in the mail. After that, the only thing I need to do is get enough sleep to be functional for another "day" of work starting at midnight tonight.
If I had a high-speed connection, this might actually be a usable capability, but in Pagosa - where 19.2 kbps is considered "high speed" if you're out at the end of the copper the way I am - it's not really feasible. First of all, it'd be slow. Second, if you're not online all the time (and at 19.2, who is?) the link goes nowhere when you're not connected.
OTOH, I have two more days to play with the software until it stops working, so I may - between comm passes - set up my cam again and put the program through its paces. Unlike yesterday, though, I'll try to get the program to load images onto a hastily cobbled-together cam page on my website, which should always show some image of me hard at work in the simul booth (even if it's not current).
Cheers...
