Well so much for blogging more in the new year, been a very busy time lately since my last post a lot has happened. First off I am no longer a tech support nerd, I now train tech support nerds. Training is great and I really feel like I'm making peoples lives better, several of my student are nerds and we have talked Linux several times. Also at work they have started a linux server project, the IT staff consulted me on which linux distro to use, despite my temptation to recommend debian I ended up recommending CentOS, due more to corporate acceptability of Redhat and the fact that there are likely some admins familliar with Redhat then anything else.

Iriver Instanity, after frequent pimping of the Iriver on Lugradio, I got my new T30 home only to discover that Iriver are no longer compatible with Linux. further research show that the Iriver folks have switched from USM to the MTP protocol in Windows media player 10. Luckily the MTP protocol appears to be based on the PTP protcol used for digital camerasand is suported in the latest developer build of Gphoto2, I'll have to compile from source but should be no problem, plus plus geek points.