Small Update
I haven’t written in here for a few days and after being subconsiously prompted by Sara I will. 
What’s been happening? Not much really, I’ve been working on ANRPOS as usual, I’ve so screwed a part of that up. I’ve had control and audio data flowing down the same TCP channel in the same packet structure.
That doesn’t work for the input_oss plug in, the memory allocation/deallocation just isn’t good for it. So I’ve decided to seperate things. I’m moving the control protocol back to something that resembles IRC protocol (it’s simple and addressable) and moving the audio to a frame based UDP or TCP connection in a fixed size packet.
Why fixed size? It means I can malloc a shared stack of these structures at the start of the program and just keep reusing them, and passing them around into functions, so essentially there’s only ever one memcpy, as it comes in.
On a radio note I spent Monday up in Lancaster which was fun as always, didn’t get to leave until 2:15am as I spent time getting the temporary night sustain running as ANRPOS is again delayed. 
Andy and I spent an hour getting the volume levels right, bloody standards, there are to many… What did Tannenbaum say “the nice thing about standards is that there are so many to chose from”.
On another radio note, I was shocked and sadden by the news yeasturday of the death of John Peel the last remaining DJ from the original Radio 1 line up. He was essentially single handedly responcible for the shape UK music took. In some respects (at least to me) that Bailrigg kinda follows what he did, exposing new music. It’s very sad, and I found it very much in my thoughts on yeasturday.
Whatelse, I’m still jobless, there’s a suprise. I’ve got my Jobseekers Allowance meeting tomorrow. I’m guessing I’m gonna have to get some temporary Christmas work to survive.
My parrents are going away for a week this weekend, so I think I’m going to take the opertunity to go up to Lancaster for a week and spent some time there. The rabbits going to it’s animal hotel things anyway, so I’ll be free to.
Well that’s about it for now.
P.