Webcast Day Two… We’re up and running on the wilds of the Canadian Internet. Took a bit of doing though. This university has pretty tight web restrictions set up, mostly to cut off people who are running illegal peer-to-peer file sharing networks and to keep anyone from grabbing huge quantities of stuff off of the web.
So when we were setting up our local copy of the remote site, which involved setting up a local file sharing network and grabbing huge quantities of stuff off of the web, we triggered pretty much all of their automated defense systems, and got frozen out of their network.
I really can’t blame them for doing their job. It certainly didn’t help our situation that one of the Windows machines on our network was suffering from a spyware infection that kept opening connections to a machine in Denmark. That’s all been take care of though. Now we’ve just got to get the webpages written for our stories and our pictures uploaded…