The wireless link is now up and working. One week, three kernel builds, two SSH tunnels, and a couple of bouts with ipchains later then expected; but I'm finally Wireless Baby! Yeah! :-)
Name: Terje Bless
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The wireless link is now up and working. One week, three kernel builds, two SSH tunnels, and a couple of bouts with ipchains later then expected; but I'm finally Wireless Baby! Yeah! :-)
Woohoo! I'm being productive! :-)
By a fit of productivity -- and some decent patches from various Nice PeopleĀ® :-) -- I've managed to pare the TODO List down to 29 from 34. There are still some easy pickings left, and several new features that could be implemented with a minimum of fuss.
I'd really like to do some "refactoring" on it though. The architecture is very Perl 4 -- though I've added quite a few Perl 5 "isms" in the individual pieces -- and is becoming unmaintainable and seriously sub-optimal. A good first goal would be to make it run under mod_perl and support recursive validation ("spidering"). Once it's there it might be more fruitfull to actually design future direction.
Anyways, the plan going forward is to get rid of the remaining "low-hanging fruit" on the TODO; beef the TODO up with new features; and pare it back down again until it only contains obscure bugs and "Blue Sky" items. That should be enough to keep me occupied for a while. Once that's done, mod_perl and Recursive Validation is high priority (unless XML Schema inserts itself into the queue at that point!).
BTW, my wireless (802.11b) connection was installed today...
...and almost, but not quite, utterly failed to work. :-(
Oh, and in case anyone was wondering, the docs I mentioned in the last entry are now in CVS and pending for approval from ger.
Uh oh! My mother reads this diary... :-)
How do I get myself into these things? Thinking I'm being really clever, I muck about with OpenSP until I actually get it to build on Red Hat 7.0. Before my sanity kicks in I've volunteered to make RPMs of it. *gulp* I haven't even touched a .spec-file, much less built one from scratch!
Fortunately for me, Matthias Clasen had already made one so all I had to do was the "rpm -tb" bit. Saved by the bell! :-)
Note to self: Next time, try not to promise stuff you have absolutely no idea how to actually do.
In other news, things seem to be starting to move again over at the Validator. ger has allready applied some of the backlogged patches (the http vhost fix! *yay*) and I'm getting close to checking in some docs (no, really! I'm writing documentation too. :-) ).
Next step is to try using OpenSP -- which can report relevant clauses with errors -- instead of SP (with Liam's patches) so we can catch them and output something pretty instead. Might be a good time to shoehorn in my ESIS parser module and adopting a more OO style.
Anyways, since we've been at a dead halt here for a year or so, most of the requested features are bound to have slipped my mind. If anyone has stuff they want worked on, email me.
I love the Internet!
Absolutely, positively, adore it.
Back in September last year I posted one of my usual "link Bitching & Moaning" diary entries. In it, I happened to mention the trouble I'd had with the embedded Intel PRO/100 Ethernet adapter on my new development system. Today I got an email from the South Pole(!) from someone having the same problem and no Linux geeks handy to help, but who had found my diary entry. [For anyone else having problems, the driver can be found here or by simply going to the Drivers section of Intel's website]
I love the Internet! :-)
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