aKademy 2006 - Day 0
Posted by George Wright Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:06:00 GMT
I arrived in Dublin last night, but because my flight was delayed by about 40 minutes (which is about the same as the duration of the flight…) I didn’t meet the KDE people at the airport I was supposed to meet. Thankfully, Chris Howells turned up about 20 minutes after I did, so we managed to get lost together.
The hostel is nowhere near as good as the accommodation we had last year, but it’s better than the hostel was in Ludwigsburg - so it’s not too bad.
So far there has been one talk - the keynote by Aaron Seigo. Charismatic as usual, he played really bad music whilst showing a slideshow of KDE developers’ photos. Luckily he only found one photo of me.
Trinity College Dublin seems to be a fairly nice place. There’s wireless access throughout the campus (it seems) and the we seem to be getting around 2Mbit/s of bandwidth. NX is rather speedy to my home ADSL line (which is on a 1Mbit upload). However, there is an issue with the network such that I keep getting my ssh connections reset randomly, which NX doesn’t like too much.
Lunch, however, was more of a disaster. I tried to hotswap the main battery in my ThinkPad (I have two batteries), and it managed to corrupt all the filesystems. After 4 hours of fighting I managed to get it back together though - without resorting to reinstalling Kubuntu.
I also get my SSH connections reset all the time on the aKademy network. A workaround I found is to connect to a VPN, if you have an account somewhere. My VPN connection to Germany is much more stable and I can run SSH, etc. across it.
Whose your ADSL provider? I need more upload…
My ADSL provider is Bulldog.
As for the VPN thing - yes, I managed to get it working by using OpenVPN (with the UDP protocol) and tunneling all my data through that. UDP doesn’t have reset packets! :D