Delay between jabber.belnet.be and amessage, back in full force
Seems there's some delay when sending messages from a jabber.belnet.be JID to someone at one of the amessage-servers (or in the other direction but not in both). Very annoying. I emailed a belnet-admin, who replied with the message they know about it and are looking for a solution together with the amessage and jabber.org admins. Let's hope they fix it soon. After a previous problem with the server2server connections of amessage, there seems to be some work to do on it.
My gentoo is kind of complete now B-) Today, I connected the harddisk of my previous computer to my laptop with a IDE-to-USB2.0 connector cable I borrowed from our faculty-admin Jeroen. Very fast :-) Now I have everything to work back in full force. Maybe just some little tweaking on gnome or gentoo will be necessary. So I should search how I can make my system detect if there's a cable connected at boot time of if there's a registered WAP in the environment to connect to. This may not take a very long time, so I don't think in terms of dhcp-timeouts. If you use windows and plug out your networkcable, there pops up a message your cable is detached, all without dhcp- or ping delays. If you know a good solution, please be my guest.
My girlfriends final year thesis is finaly complete. She wrote the last things today. Tomorrow she has an appointment with her mentor for some final touches.
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ifplugd detects when ethernet cables are attached/detached and can automatically bring the network up or down. 'emerge ifplugd'. It is supposed to work with wireless networks too, but I had a bit of trouble with that (specifically, it was way too sensitive to interference and it would bring down the interface if the connection went down for even a second).
ifplugd is rather deprecated when jumping on the Project Utopia train :-)
You should check out RedHat's NetworkManager.
@Rohan: thanks man! Seems to work very good. I also don't use it with wireless networks, only the wired interface is listed. For the wireless part, I think I'm going to give wpa_supplicant a try. Despite of its name, it's more than just some stuff to enable WPA-encryption. It also has roaming capabilities and is the continuator of waproamd.
@Ikke: Project Utopia is what it's named: not in reality. But it'll come ;-) RedHat's network manager isn't that easy to install on Gentoo, so I think the solution above seems to be the best one for now.
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