Site update
I’m currently working on updating this site. It’s going web1.9.9, it’s almost like web2.0. I got a ton of things I want to add as well, so I’m taking the opportunity to remake this whole site, hopefully in a logic way so that it will be easier to add small projects and texts in the future. For the time being, I’ve started a blog at http://frozentux.blogspot.com for those that wants to keep up, and twitter.com. I’m trying out pretty much every web2.0 buzzword or site I’ve heard about. I’m hoping to have a beta out within a week or so… hah!
Keeping promises
Well, I did. I did write today again. Hah! 🙂
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy,
All play and no work makes jack a mere toy.
Working again, working on a report of some kind, how to do an embedded linux project properly. It’s hard to define. I know how I would love to have it, but defining it in words is not. I know it should not be hard, but it is. A paper that is very good imho, Tips for planning an embedded Linux project. It gets all the errors down that we made, but it doesnt really define what makes a embedded Linux project great, or even good for that matter.
I also read anatomy of a hack earlier, it’s some interesting stuff, but I’m not sure this is what I would give out to people who really needs it. I’ve tried handing that short thing to a few relatives, we’ll see if anyone of them gets it.
Also, this is the real kicker today, I love Ted Dziubas writing, it’s the best tech stuff I’ve read in quite a while :-). For an example, read his Cloud computing: A catchphrase in puberty.
I’m turning into a real blogger, ain’t I? 😛
Easy stuff
Filed under: Development, Frozentux.net, General
Ok, I started recoding frozentux.net today finally. It’s rather ugly and messy code, so i’m starting by cleaning it up a bit. It’s kinda nice getting a goal again, I’ve lacked a bit of it. Also, I must say, this feels soooo easy. PHP code is a breeze, and way to forgiving, especially without 10+ guys looking over your shoulder once in a while to make sure your code is good enough *cough* .
That said, I’m not planning to use too much cross site stuff or any other heavy stuff, so it will be easy to get it to a working state again. Basically, I’m going for a simpler design, with larger flexibility as I want to add a lot of small code samples and projects to the website in the future (I kinda locked myself down there last time).
Also cleaned the fan over the stove, built more on the model (wow, you can almost see that it’s an airplane body right now 😛 ). I got a lousy glue (so sorry mac and heather, it was an awkward glue you gave me :)), need a new one, and I also need some sandpaper. Taken a walk, looked at an episode of systm. A cool show about mythbuntu tbh.
Workweek ahead. See if i manage to get into a habit of writing here or not?;)
Slow grasswidow evening
Filed under: Configuration Management, Development, Frozentux.net, Personal
What do you do when you are home alone a saturday evening? Personally, I web2.0’d my life (i got facebook, a blog, remember the milk, dipity, evernote, and decided to rewrite/update my webpage). Also, I really got started building the Fokker DR.1.
To update frozentux.net, I screwed around a bit with eclipse pdt. I want to do this since I think the whole site looks pretty awful. I was ok with it “back then”, but not any more. I’ve been using eclipse for a few months to code c, c++, qt and I’ve grown rather fond of it. My first time with eclipse left me… well, let’s just say i went back for a few years to vim and loved it. Still wish there was a decent vim/eclipse plugin as i love vims command/edit mode.
I digress. Basically, what I did was Install subversion, make a copy of frozentux.net in subersion and a few other projects in there. I setup subversion with apache2. I know I suck that haven’t done this before. After that, I installed pdt, subclipse and a few other modules in eclipse and got it all working together. I think I might like the subclipse module, but still got a few things I need to find out.
I’m gonna get started on rewriting frozentux today I hope. Now, going for a walk first.
First entry (a.k.a. I’ve joined the dark side, I’m blogging)
Ok, I’m blogging? Now what? 😉 . Nah, I’m hoping to use this site as a place to collect information about what I’m currently working on etc. Maybe an introduction?
Yes, I’m the idiot behind frozentux.net, yes i wrote the iptables and ipsysctl tutorial stuff a long time ago. It’s unfortunately a long time ago, and rather rusty. I grew very tired of it during the last update of the iptables tutorial (even earlier actually, but lets keep it simple). I’m not sure at this point if i will try to get it rolling again, but it is possible, depending on how much work it will be to update it.
Other projects i’ve been boring myself with as of late:
- Coding (trolltech qt/qtopia calculator, notepad, other stuff to learn the qt api etc). I love QT to be honest, wonderful so far, and you can do hilarious stuff with the stylesheets. Need this for work.
- Working on some model aircrafts (a balsa built RC one in the countryside which i only have access to very seldom and a guillow’s balsa scale Fokker DR.1 at the moment). I need relaxation from computers once in a while, this is _awesome_ stuff to relax with.
- Still some general security stuff, been a while since, feels nice to be back on homefield once in a while.
- Started web2.0’ing my life, Ie I now come with shiny buttons and instead of tcp sockets i come with a http api. Seriously just trying this blogging, twitter, dipity, ping.fm stuff, some stuff will stay, some i’ll get bored with. EverNote will stay, _awesome_ stuff. Remember the milk will be investigated… it has potential;).
- Some testing to do with my HTPC, using ubuntu and mythtv… this will get a lot of attention soon as I got seriously pissed at mythtv some time ago. To those gurus at it, apologies, but it sucks as far as ive seen so far, and it was a while since i did any work on it, but it needs to be revisited. Graphics was horribly buggy, some weirdness with unpacking/loading images etc which took close to 5-10 minutes on startup and so forth.
Iptables-tutorial 1.2.1 released
It’s time again for a second release of the iptables-tutorial. This consists mostly of bug fixes, updated/improved images, and improved printable formats and rewritten introduction to the tutorial. A lot of work has been done to the print quality of the tutorial since I am planning a release of the tutorial in bookform. The current version is at a major print on demand site right now, and I have ordered a first copy for proofreading. Once this is done, I am planning version 1.2.2 to be released. This should be in 2-3 weeks, maximum. Once this is done, I will contact everyone who has signed an interest in the bookformat. I'm sorry for delaying this for such a long time, but now it is finally happening!
Iptables-tutorial 1.2.0 released
The iptables-tutorial was previously released on the 20th of July for beta testing. Since no mayor objections has been raised, here is the final version! I hope that people will enjoy reading this version containing
100+ new A4 pages, 5 new chapters, and humonguous amounts of uPdates and fixes. Please take the time to report any rough edges that you find!
Netfilter workshop 2003, Budapest
Just got back from the netfilter workshop in Budapest, and there is most definitely a lot of interesting things going on right now. In short, <A
HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/nf-hipac/">nf-hipac/hipac</A> looks extremely interesting, so does pkttables and the current development on the connection tracking systems. It was a couple of days filled with information. Hopefully there will be a protocol of some kind up at <A
HREF="http://www.netfilter.org">netfilter.org</A> soon with more details.
Nebraska CERT conf 2003 presentation
I attended the Nebraska CERT conference 2003 after a lot of troubles getting there. The presentation has been added under the presentation tab. Overall, the conference was really good, and if nothing else, it was worth attending only for the excellent food they served. My only resignation must have been the troubles I had with security while entering the states, and with United Airlines. United Airlines kept delaying the flight from Chicago to Omaha for 10-15 minutes during 7 hours, and finally cancelled it. They where unable to get me another seat for 2 days, so I winded up driving by car together with 12 others for 8 hours through the night. Big kudos to the people I went with! Of course, a big military boot to UA for being a nightmare.
Updated Kodak CX4230 & Linux section
I’ve gotten a lot of mail from different persons on the net asking about the CX4230 camera together with Linux, and hence I thought it may be worth adding a few extra last minute notes about it.