Aloha

I've recently created and registered a new domain, AntLinux, which I'm using as an umbrella project for all of the stuff that I'm working on that runs off of floppy/CD-ROM/ComapctFlash card.

Anywipe - one of the first sub-projects of AntLinux, Anywipe will let you scrub storage media using randomly generated cryptograpic data, in hopes that if someone were to come along and try and recover data, they would not be able to. The project is using the wipe developed by Tom Vier, located at http://wipe.sourceforge.net/. I have a floppy that holds a statically compiled version of wipe, and also uses BusyBox for just about everything else. I've got the floppy to a point where it will boot and drop you to a shell prompt, and you can run wipe from there. I would like to make it more menu-driven, which will have to be put together with shell scripts. I don't have a floppy image posted anywhere yet, if you are interested, e-mail me and I would be happy to give you what I have.

stream-db - in the middle of re-writing all of the documentation into DocBook XML. This way, I can maintain one set of documents, and output into multiple formats. Once I get docs that I'm happy with, I'll release a new version of stream-db that has some bugfixes, and suggestions from users.

PortaBoom - I've got a Perl script that will find all of the library dependencies of a dynamically linked file; I'm going to use this script to give PortaBoom the filesize diet it most desparately needs. I've also been working a lot lately with cramfs, and it's very handy for making 'packages' that can be used at runtime without de-compressing the 'package'.

Soekris - bought a Soekris Engineering Net 4501 a few months ago, someday I'll be building a mini-distro for it as well, hence the playing with boot floppies/initrd images/cramfs packages. I'm currently booting the Soekris using the built in PXE functionality and observer is serving the boot images via tftp. It's a super quick way to do development, instead of putting the boot image on the CF card every time you want to make a change somewhere. Gave this box a hostname of 'pulgas'.

misc - I'm pretty much moved into my new place, domains are all up and running fine on tfb.net, which makes me very happy. Bought a new couch so guests have someplace nice to sleep instead of the $15 garage sale futon.