latest updates

A few quick updates, Kari and I are finally married. We got married at our home at a small party at our house here in cedar hill. Everything went very well and we will have a bigger wedding at some point once we get organized and my family can come down from PA. Amazon released their mp3 download client for Linux with .deb package to boot!! WOO WOO!!. So i finally dug into the checkbook and got 2 more Starflyer 59 cd's that I've been jonesin for a few months ( I hate buying music and Ill address this in another post). The next few days are going to be crazy at work as we are updating all our servers, PHP libs, apache servers, and windows updates across 50 servers. I don't know why I just don't deploy Wsus but i don't think it would do me any good as I hate to reboot even a single machine as we have them loaded down so much. We need windows to do our rendering as for right now we are reliant on windows media and direct show for the creation of our videos along with flash. We are currently looking at a few things including H264 and then we can render with linux boxen. We have gotten away from serving with the macromedia flash server and now just do direct progressive streaming from 3 load balanced web servers. I've been playing with server 2K8 on a vmware server i currently have set up and so far I like it actually. It seems to run pretty decent even with the limited resources that it has. Anyways, got to run..