Saturday, February 24, 2007
Ktorrent, Coding & Dusk 'Till Dawn
So Aaron got me into Ktorrent. I've never really been into using torrents, but do know somewhat about them. Aaron started raving about watching TV shows, and he sent me an invite to tvtorrents.com with a 5GB download. (Thank you BTW). So I checked it out a little bit. They have TONS of television shows in torrent. From Knight Rider to ER and the latest episodes of Lost. Whatever you happen to be a fan of they seem to have. They have m,maintainers, and the torrents are verified, so it's not like there is garbage videos in them ... which is really nice. Works on a credit system, so you have a limit, and if you don't share your downloaded torrents, then you run out of credits, and that's it. It induces sharing ... which is what I'm all about. :D
Anyways ... I'm getting used to Ktorrent. And actually I found a bug on my first torrent. I tried to download an episode of Fraggle Rock (yeah ... I'm a Jim Henson fan). "Dance your cares away, Worry's for another day. Let the music play, Down at Fraggle Rock. " ... heh ... so as I tried to download the torrent, Ktorrent crashed, and would not start again. Repeated Kcrash dialog. So I checked into things a little bit, grabbed output, and the backtrace. I asked Aaron to look at it, and decipher some output for me first. He recommended I submit a bug report. It seems there was a problem handling the torrent's files with non ascii characters (Someone else already submitted the bug report). But since then I have had no issues.
Aside from watching episodes of Third Watch ... I have been insanely busy writing code for the bikerpak. Amongst other duties, and backups, and support, and customer meetings, and ... well it's been busy. We are leaving to Montreal on Monday Morning (++excited). So we have to have some things up to speed for our demo. I have it to the point where the quoting engine is working, and the point of sale (quote input) is working. Binding information collected, the policy is issued and printed to PDF, as well as pink cards. That's a lot of stuff in there. It gets pretty large when dealing with legal data. I can't just leave everything tied in the DB based on ID (if the values change, it wrecks the historical data) ... so I devised and export / import scheme from a quote to a policy, and back into a quote for any modifications. That means more processing power, and more coding is required, but life goes on, and it means things are correct. *sigh* ... my head is starting to hurt, but I keep telling myself just a few more days.
We'll blow off some steam in Montreal.
From Dusk Till Dawn ... it does describe my working schedule lately, but that is not the reason I mention it. It is on TV right now. I know it was weird, and basically 2 movies in one. I mean ... robbery, criminals on the run. Then ... bam ... coven of vampires! I can't help watching it though. ¶ 11:35:00 PM
Anyways ... I'm getting used to Ktorrent. And actually I found a bug on my first torrent. I tried to download an episode of Fraggle Rock (yeah ... I'm a Jim Henson fan). "Dance your cares away, Worry's for another day. Let the music play, Down at Fraggle Rock. " ... heh ... so as I tried to download the torrent, Ktorrent crashed, and would not start again. Repeated Kcrash dialog. So I checked into things a little bit, grabbed output, and the backtrace. I asked Aaron to look at it, and decipher some output for me first. He recommended I submit a bug report. It seems there was a problem handling the torrent's files with non ascii characters (Someone else already submitted the bug report). But since then I have had no issues.
Aside from watching episodes of Third Watch ... I have been insanely busy writing code for the bikerpak. Amongst other duties, and backups, and support, and customer meetings, and ... well it's been busy. We are leaving to Montreal on Monday Morning (++excited). So we have to have some things up to speed for our demo. I have it to the point where the quoting engine is working, and the point of sale (quote input) is working. Binding information collected, the policy is issued and printed to PDF, as well as pink cards. That's a lot of stuff in there. It gets pretty large when dealing with legal data. I can't just leave everything tied in the DB based on ID (if the values change, it wrecks the historical data) ... so I devised and export / import scheme from a quote to a policy, and back into a quote for any modifications. That means more processing power, and more coding is required, but life goes on, and it means things are correct. *sigh* ... my head is starting to hurt, but I keep telling myself just a few more days.
We'll blow off some steam in Montreal.
From Dusk Till Dawn ... it does describe my working schedule lately, but that is not the reason I mention it. It is on TV right now. I know it was weird, and basically 2 movies in one. I mean ... robbery, criminals on the run. Then ... bam ... coven of vampires! I can't help watching it though. ¶ 11:35:00 PM
