So, I'm a bit delayed
What with the lack of VOD testing, and some constant niggles about the boxes bouncing I decided it was better to stay here than venture to Denver to listen to the RDK meeting. And on that, hey, waddja know RDK 2.0 came out today, just in time...
And yes, my flight was put back and the hotel informed. But that was a write only device so my room was all closed up and I had to pay to cash for the night. The next day Customer contacted the hotel and put them right, but getting my money back was fun - as was keeping hold of my credit card receipt. But y'know some things are going to happen...
In case you haven't heard there's a Twitter feed with the tag @SochiProblems. It's where folk can post issues with Sochi and it has more followers that the @Sochi2014 account. So here's my picture taken on Sunday, two/three days after the show opened.
This is the fabulous Sochi Olympics Megastore - it definitely says Mega and Olympics on the front - the rest? No idea. And you can see the workmen still hiding the planks and what have. But what riches must lie within the Sochi Olympics Megastore, well for a preview check this out Sochi Online Shop but we'll return to this topic later.
So, Britain, after XXII, well XXI technically, Winter Olympics Games has managed to win a medal on snow. We saw Jenny Jones on the OBS feeds, without the BBC commentary - mores the pity, and she was a happy person that didn't know what to do with her face. Obviously her team mate Aimee was made up and I don't if they showed Aimee's second attempt in the semi-final but that was probably the run of the competition for me. Up until then the ladies had been quite cautious with the jumps but Aimee just hung one out and hoped it would stick. Sadly it didn't but more power to her for it cos some of the landings, like in today's Ski Slopestyle have been nasty.
Any hoo, Colleague and I ventured to Olympic Medal Plaza, out badges are special like that, to watch. And actually anyone in the park was allowed in, just to give it a bit of atmosphere.
We had to make do with this first:
Congrats on the 1,2 in the Ladies Mogul Skiing
Before seeing this:
Strange old thing, seeing your flag raised live. Makes you quite proud.
OK, so to help you understand how tall, long, fast things are Customer have these natty graphics:
Which means the men's downhill has a drop of almost 3 Empire State Buildings. Some people may remember Monty Python's if an orange were the size of my head, this football could fill one and a half swimming baths sketch thing. Well it's like that. You'll note that to stop the triple decker Empire State Building from falling over, they've handily skewered them on top of each other.
But just as you brain is trying to deal with that scale, they do this. For their American customers:
And I just don't understand, cos the only time most Americans see Big Ben is just before it gets blown up by aliens... So they're probably panicking by now. Or wondering where the spaceships is.
Cast you mind back to the Corridor of Doom, well here's its cousin. We've finally managed to work out that you don't need to travel all the way down the CoD just to walk up this one to get to the office. But you have to walk down this one to get a coffee. A well-known popular coffee from an easily recognized chain. Ahem.
OK, so a word from out sponsors:
But I'm not entirely sure that segregation is the word Coke is looking for.
Now, here's a picture of the park at 11:00am, it's been open since 7:00am and it's thronging.
But where is everyone?
They're queuing outside the Sochi Olympics Megastore. And it's like 1980's Russia, only even more so. You may recall that I said the colour and texture of the uniforms, and you can buy them from the above link at super-discount-bargain prices only $200 for a tracksuit top, gave the impression of '80's Russia, well this finishes it off.
So these folk have no idea what's in the shop, whether it has any stock or how much it costs. And the weather is grey. Ah, just like the good old days. I joined the queue and bought a loaf of bread and some pickles I can give to Stanislav.
Oh and inside, apart from only taking VISA, it's just one layer and looks like, well, Pound-continent. You could put a polyester trackie on, a nylon hat and some acrylic gloves, run around the place and set fire to yourself.
And some of the tat is just glorious, but so expensive it's just not worth buying even for fun value...
'K so I come back on Thursday. So perhaps chance for one last post.
Meh, y'know mostly they stay up. The ones up the mountain have issues but we think that's most likely cable related now cos the ones in the IBC and the Client Sales area are behaving well. We have a couple more kernel patches we want to try to improve the buffer depth and now we know that there's >100M of memory free on the box we're going to play with that a bit.
What with the lack of VOD testing, and some constant niggles about the boxes bouncing I decided it was better to stay here than venture to Denver to listen to the RDK meeting. And on that, hey, waddja know RDK 2.0 came out today, just in time...
And yes, my flight was put back and the hotel informed. But that was a write only device so my room was all closed up and I had to pay to cash for the night. The next day Customer contacted the hotel and put them right, but getting my money back was fun - as was keeping hold of my credit card receipt. But y'know some things are going to happen...
Sochi Problems
In case you haven't heard there's a Twitter feed with the tag @SochiProblems. It's where folk can post issues with Sochi and it has more followers that the @Sochi2014 account. So here's my picture taken on Sunday, two/three days after the show opened.
This is the fabulous Sochi Olympics Megastore - it definitely says Mega and Olympics on the front - the rest? No idea. And you can see the workmen still hiding the planks and what have. But what riches must lie within the Sochi Olympics Megastore, well for a preview check this out Sochi Online Shop but we'll return to this topic later.
A moment of Joy
So, Britain, after XXII, well XXI technically, Winter Olympics Games has managed to win a medal on snow. We saw Jenny Jones on the OBS feeds, without the BBC commentary - mores the pity, and she was a happy person that didn't know what to do with her face. Obviously her team mate Aimee was made up and I don't if they showed Aimee's second attempt in the semi-final but that was probably the run of the competition for me. Up until then the ladies had been quite cautious with the jumps but Aimee just hung one out and hoped it would stick. Sadly it didn't but more power to her for it cos some of the landings, like in today's Ski Slopestyle have been nasty.
Any hoo, Colleague and I ventured to Olympic Medal Plaza, out badges are special like that, to watch. And actually anyone in the park was allowed in, just to give it a bit of atmosphere.
We had to make do with this first:
Congrats on the 1,2 in the Ladies Mogul Skiing
Before seeing this:
Strange old thing, seeing your flag raised live. Makes you quite proud.
Useless Diagram Time
OK, so to help you understand how tall, long, fast things are Customer have these natty graphics:
Which means the men's downhill has a drop of almost 3 Empire State Buildings. Some people may remember Monty Python's if an orange were the size of my head, this football could fill one and a half swimming baths sketch thing. Well it's like that. You'll note that to stop the triple decker Empire State Building from falling over, they've handily skewered them on top of each other.
But just as you brain is trying to deal with that scale, they do this. For their American customers:
And I just don't understand, cos the only time most Americans see Big Ben is just before it gets blown up by aliens... So they're probably panicking by now. Or wondering where the spaceships is.
Another day, another corridor
Cast you mind back to the Corridor of Doom, well here's its cousin. We've finally managed to work out that you don't need to travel all the way down the CoD just to walk up this one to get to the office. But you have to walk down this one to get a coffee. A well-known popular coffee from an easily recognized chain. Ahem.
Back in the park
OK, so a word from out sponsors:
But I'm not entirely sure that segregation is the word Coke is looking for.
Now, here's a picture of the park at 11:00am, it's been open since 7:00am and it's thronging.
But where is everyone?
They're queuing outside the Sochi Olympics Megastore. And it's like 1980's Russia, only even more so. You may recall that I said the colour and texture of the uniforms, and you can buy them from the above link at super-discount-bargain prices only $200 for a tracksuit top, gave the impression of '80's Russia, well this finishes it off.
So these folk have no idea what's in the shop, whether it has any stock or how much it costs. And the weather is grey. Ah, just like the good old days. I joined the queue and bought a loaf of bread and some pickles I can give to Stanislav.
Oh and inside, apart from only taking VISA, it's just one layer and looks like, well, Pound-continent. You could put a polyester trackie on, a nylon hat and some acrylic gloves, run around the place and set fire to yourself.
And some of the tat is just glorious, but so expensive it's just not worth buying even for fun value...
'K so I come back on Thursday. So perhaps chance for one last post.
Oh yeah, the boxes
Meh, y'know mostly they stay up. The ones up the mountain have issues but we think that's most likely cable related now cos the ones in the IBC and the Client Sales area are behaving well. We have a couple more kernel patches we want to try to improve the buffer depth and now we know that there's >100M of memory free on the box we're going to play with that a bit.
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