Recent blog entries for jLoki

Finally got my TiBook. Life's good. RomperStomper has stalled for quite some time now, it's time to pick it back up and tie the last few ends together before I re- release a public version. This one will predominantly be Mac OS X centric, but should work as beautifully under BSD.

Code

Started looking at Ruby a while ago and discovered the Cocoa Framework yesterday. Time to code the long needed free ipfw-coonfig.prefpane I'd planned on doing for some time now.

Life

Life's good. Period.

Toys

Now, I got myself two new Macs, a G4/800 for the office and a G4/Dual1k with 17inch Cinema-Display for home. Next step is next week when I move from my FreeBSD laptop to one of those snazzy TiBooks.

Apple booted Finlay off its Developers Program. Dorks.

Heh, rotten.com featured the wireless Airline stuff on me in its Friday news postings. Finally. More than Slashdot, kuro5shin or CNN, I always wanted to have something on rotten.com, even if it's just a picture of my dead carcass.

Whoop dee firping doo! What a month so far. I haven't written in so long, so I'll spare the world any updates. The news, as it stands, are:

a) d-fensive is profitable, thus much more likely to survive. After oozels of months, doing what we were best in and doing it damn good, we finally convinced enough companies out there, that we're a legit and damn professional company. Well, fact of the matter being, we're looking at quite some future here :)

b) Computerworld ran an article on wireless airline security and mentioned me a few times. Coolio!

c) My hate-page has moved somewhere else. I am sad, that stuff kinda made my day everytime I got around reading it (and running it through babelfish for my local friends to read :)

d) Someone puked in our frontyard last night

And, I finally converted the last machine in this system to BSD. No Linux spoken here, anymore, except for a development system for my Z and the Z itself. The hard part was not so much to convince the others but to get those Linux systems to work until we could migrate fully. Linux and GigE just don't match well :(

Whow, got my own hate-club. I feel l33t now.

Despite some semi-friendly threats from semi-friendly people over at the other monopoly, I've put my Cisco Type 7 password decryptor online. It's old news, anyways.

Went outside to see the Leonids. Jill had to work so I went alone. Swapping Linecards and updating IOSes, how's that for a night-time activity during a twice-in-a-livetime event like the swarms?

Anyways, I searched my stuff and found my old Sony Walkman and the only tape I have left (it was in the walkman). It's a collection of Haydn and Mendelsson-Bartholdy compositions played by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Just the right music to stand outside and watch particles the size of large sand-grains die in our athmosphere.

mirwin: tynux development has pretty much stalled with my (as you pointed out) company becoming something that claims 16 hours a day.

As for the "embedded" Tynux: That's a different one :). There's also a Linux based IP-Phone, called TyNuX and a Linux-on-a-floppy ditribution with a similar name. Our tynux is none of that, it's basically a distribution which slaps a kernel, a shell (ash) and some tools on your harddisk, waiting for you to compile a full glibc, etc.

Initially we all thought this would be fun to do. With a preliminary 0.8 release the problems started. Self- proclaimed Linux Experts started sending flames regarding the lack of editors (we DID include ed), Perl or Python (download and compile) or their inability to do a fdisk, mkreiserfs and lilo on their own (the installer drops you into a shell when these things are required).

I finally did it and bought a new "netwarrior", the shell server that serves some 70 users. Installed a new Linux real quick (Rock-Linux, what else?) and started migrating mail and news over to the new machine. The system istelf is a SCHWEEET box, 1GHz, 1Gig RAM, 200 Gig HD and 2.2.19 with LIDS, all in a case the size of a shoe-box.

The real pain will start when all 70 users complain that I moved them from Password to RSA-Auth in SSH :).