First day back to work after vacation, so of course I spent way too much time on email. It seems no matter how short of a time I'm gone I get a ton of messages. The email server of course was complaining again - I think my box grew around 60MB while I was gone (even with the automatic cleanup). A few hours to go through and that's with lots of filtering. :( Other than that I tried to track down an issue the library kiosks are apparently having with printing, but everything looks fine from my end. There seems to be some weird issue with network connectivity though which is inconsistent. It seems like it started before the big switch this past weekend. Hopefully it'll either go away or be easy to track down in the next few days. I ended up resetting all permissions on home directories on Usonia2 with a script since we had so many problems. Even though the box is slower and there is more raw data, the files are bigger so it was thankfully much faster than avalon. Shouldn't really have to do either though, but oh well. After going home I decided to watch Sneakers, but only got an hour into it because I was tired and a bit annoyed by the bad transfer. I need to watch some of the classics more often though - if I hadn't just watched Sum of all Fears this past weekend, I wouldn't have caught that there is actually a rather funny obscure reference to a character from Sneakers in that movie (the name is unique). Anyways, the DVD transfer is bad in the darker scenes. The bitrate is low for some reason (around 3Mbps), and even the bright water has very bad color banding - I even tried multiple DVD players. You can make it go away by messing with the settings (to around the average TV brightness/contrast settings), but then you lose the details in normal scenes too. I think this is one I may have to dig out the laserdisc to finish. :( Maybe I'll try reencoding at a higher bitrate just to see what happens...