hotel

The hotel network seems to refuse passing through Adium connections. HTTP, ssh, SMTP, etc. all work, but Adium cannot make a connection to the jabber server or the msn server.

Anyway, I'm in Barcelona for the HiPEAC Computing Systems Week. I'm cutting it short, returning Thursday morning.

To put it briefly: it sucks. We have little or no connection in our room, even when using a hotel provided WiFi connection device. We can get access in the hotel lobby, but uploading anything larger than a few KB does not work. Opening a secure shell to a machine outside the hotel, e.g., at work, is not possible. Thus, SVN access is simply fubar, as is pushing patches to a darcs repository. Uploading to flickr ... no way. Not even through the HTTP interface.

And to think the hotel is hosting a few hundred geeks attending OOPSLA.