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So, I’ve just completed the Prototype school. Now I get to go to Connecticut and go through Sub School, so I’m prepping to move.

Unfortunately, I won’t have Internet access there, so there won’t be much activity from me on the KDE front for the next couple of months (I’ll try to stay in touch though, someone must have wireless Internet somewhere. :)

Afterwards it’s on to my next duty station, and a very hectic schedule trying to qualify on equipment which isn’t 40 years old.

I have to say that this was one of the nicer graduation ceremonies I’ve had to endure. Just about 20 minutes of speeches and recognizing honor graduates, and then we got to go.

It looks like I will have to obtain some kind of dedicated web hosting for the grammarian.homelinux.net domain where I host abakus and my weblog before I leave as well, as the computer I’m hosting it on will be powered down and very likely in a box for awhile as my poor wife gets to deal with the movers showing up where we are living now before the place we are moving to is ready to receive us.

In fact I may just take the computer with me to Connecticut but then it would be offline even sooner. So, I’ve started compiling important data that I want to backup so I can get a full backup on CD. (No, I’m not very good with backing up my data. :-( )

My Internet connection is currently horrifically spotty. I keep wanting to blame Comcast but I’m really not sure that it isn’t my router, a Linksys WRT54G, v5. This is why I was happy to hear that some intrepid hackers out there have managed to get Linux to install on my router model. I had originally bought the Linksys because I had heard it was possible to install Linux on it, without realizing that the shave costs, Linksys released a new router with the same model number, but reduced memory and… no Linux. :(

It runs on something called vxWorks instead of Linux, and from what I’ve seen on the Internet and in my own experience, the Internet connection is kind of spotty with the vxWorks operating system. One of these days I will try installing Linux on my router (my Internet connection crashed just now, great) to see if I can get the superior Internet uptime I was able to get when I lived in Jacksonville.

To make this worth the while for the KDE users out there, I have fixed a bug (bug 118550) in the CGI kioslave (which allows you to test your CGI scripts on your local ssytem). Due to some differences between QByteArray and one of its subclasses, QCString, the CGI ioslave would try to output a ” (NUL character) every 2 kilobytes or so, which the web browser would map to a space. This isn’t an issue if it shows up where a space normally would in HTML, but if it pops up in the wrong spot it will break things. Somehow I got suckered from there into agreeing to fix charset handling for the CGI ioslave in KDE 4, so stay tuned for that.

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Haven’t posted in awhile, figured I’d go ahead and update you all on what’s going on.

I think I’ve already complained about this, but I had a like, horrifically bad case of food poisoning a couple of weeks ago. I vomited more in one night than I had in probably all of 10 years up to that point. I also found out why doctors recommend that you drink tons and tons of water if you have diarrhea (as I have apparently never really had diarrhea). Suffice to say that it wasn’t a fun weekend when that happened.

I know what my next two duty stations are, and I’m not entirely thrilled with the first. The next one is Submarine Officer Basic Course (SOBC) in Groton, CT. The weather will be nice, but from what I understand we are going to be forced to stay in some absolutely abysmal housing arrangements, the Susse Chalet. It is a 1-star hotel (ranked 16^th out of 17 hotels in the area). There is only Internet access in the lobby as well, so I will probably not be online much as of next month. At least the school itself is easy.

After that I get to go to my boat. I’m just hoping I don’t end up arriving like right before the boat deploys or something. When that happens I get to try and qualify again and basically repeat the prototype experience (just with hopefully less hours. =D)

On that note, my wife and I are going to investigate finding a house to live in at my next permanent duty station tomorrow. Hopefully we can find someplace that’s not too expensive (and not too far away from the base). We’d also like to avoid living in an area where cars are prone to disappearing (referring to my wife’s car). And we don’t get a lot of time to do the search either. :-(

I also then need to get all the paperwork setup to get moved, get this place cleaned up, and try to decide if I want to move the computer hosting this weblog before I leave in July or leave it operational and have my wife move it.

On that note I should probably migrate this weblog to a real hosting provider at some point. Only catch is that either I would have to maintain the software so that I always have backups of my data, or if I go the route of just using something like www.blogger.com, making sure that it’s possible to remotely backup my data. And then I’d have to somehow migrate over without destroying all the hyperlinks already in use on the site. :-)

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