{"id":38,"date":"2005-08-11T07:58:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T07:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/?p=38"},"modified":"2005-08-11T07:59:13","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T07:59:13","slug":"sorry-i-cant-hear-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/sorry-i-cant-hear-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, I can’t hear you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, after some tortuous effort and a lot of patience, I’ve finally wrangled the new kit into submission and its now running nice and stable with a brand new and shiney installation of Debian<\/a> on it. I’ve still to transfer over the Subversion and web repositories, or to get the Samba stuff working properly so that I can do backups simply by copying over the network, but its all looking good. Only slight problem is the volume of the fan<\/em>, which unfortunately means anyone coming in to talk to me has to speak in a very loud voice<\/strong>. But such is the price to pay for shiney new toys, and it only has to wait until I get a new (quieter) fan delivered soon. Also new is a better printer and a flatbed scanner, meaning I can hook up a PC-based fax machine as well, which should prove useful.<\/p>\n

On an unrelated note, we’re actively seeking new contracts to pitch for again, and advertising ourselves to the various games companies in and around the UK; to let them know we’re here, what we can do, and to see what they need done.<\/p>\n

Also managed to finish Peopleware and give the Design Patterns bible a good going over as well – both highly recommended, and I think I’ve gotten a lot out of them. I must admit, it was a bit scary to see all of the bad management pitfalls mentioned in Peopleware were represented to some degree in my previous jobs. Still, they’re in the past, and hopefully I can avoid making them for our company in the future. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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