In a word: Moof

Back home; and, in general, bored.

Spent too much time milling about with the relations yesterday. The food wasn’t worth it. Came home, slept for 10 hours or so. These are the first two nights I’ve been able to go to bed before 11 in months.

Ugh. So boring here without my roommates’. I might head up to Toledo later tonight; maybe entertainment will be found there.

So everyone’s seen the posters everywhere advertising TV on your computer. Well, I can’t get that with my linux box (of course), so I spent some time looking into it.

When you select one of the channels on my.case.edu, you get sent to a (useless redirect and then) a nsc file. This is cisco’s shittily encrypted means of pointing a client to a stream. I messed with it a bit, and finagled the actual streams out of these .nsc files. But there’s no bloody way I can get anything to display the video on linux, because it’s WMV3/9 (two different numbering schemes). So until someone can come up with a reliable wmv9 decoder, OSTN is still useless with linux. Oh, and interesting thing to note: 129.5.109.55 is a Rensselaer IP. Another IP mentioned in the file is 233.127.154.14, which is some multicast IP.

I’ve been fighting this too long. I need to calm down with some strawberry fig newtons.

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