Site Update - 7-January-2006

You might be wondering why I have a picture of Bill Gates doing the Macarena. Well, it's because I have reached my anger threshold with my hardware. You see, on the Socket 939 motherboards that have decent sound (i.e. the ones made by VIA), the LAN chipset is unsupported in Linux. I use Linux, and I use my Ethernet port, so this is a no-go. On every other board (i.e. nForce4 -- the ones I like better), the sound is some crappy Realtek chipset, which has mixing issues in Linux. In Windows, there aren't any (major) issues aside from the driver needing to do mixing. Which happens with ALSA but not OSS in Linux.

Translation? I can't stand the driver problems anymore. I am defecting. I am switching to Windows, at least until Apple starts releasing their OS as software or I buy a Mac.

Project-related.. well.. I have some news you probably already knew. I haven't done ANYTHING to ignitionServer since September 2005, and really... I wish I had time to do more. As for the site, I need to decide what I'm going to do with it. I've been wanting to make it a MediaWiki, but their theme system is so complex I didn't want to learn it. So we'll see.

Honestly, the thing I want to do is get 0.3.7 out (or, revert a few things, and call it 0.3.7), and begin working on ignitionServer NG. ignitionServer NG will be much more complex, and a much more viable enterprise communications solution. From the start, I'm going to make it integrate with directory services (LDAP + AD). It'll be managable in the MMC, and a way to manage it in Unix/Linux will be possible too (and the UI will be the same). There'll be users, groups, and groups can nest indefinitely. Users can be members of more than one group. Seriously, it'll rule. The problem is I lack time.

Basically. I'm not giving up on Ignition stuff. But I can't give you a timeline for anything.