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A user (from Sweden) started to work on a HostMIB Process Table Discovery Script & Poller, which is very useful to monitor the processes on a remote host (thanks Anders). We talked a bit about our countries, money, work, etc. He is also going to monitor a huge network with JFFNMS.

The only issue left for the release of JFFNMS is no more.. it was only a bad table problem, no code modification involved. So I will release version 0.7.0 on Monday.

Also another user reports that his Debian Box is passing the '&' sign as part of the argv array on PHP 4.2.1/4.3.1 so the respawning of processes (or putting a process in the background) doesn't work, anyone saw that before?

Work

I got the Satellite Carrier Poller System working :), it's a C, PGSQL, GPIB Project, I can now measure the C/N and last plot of any carrier on 1 transponder, tomorrow I will include on-demand polling and on Monday Transponder Switch Communication, and I didnt do a mess with the pointers. I plan to make a JFFNMS plugin for this, to store the C/N of a carrier over the time.

Mozilla 1.3b is now working on my Sparc64 Gentoo Machine, this is the first time Mozilla finish compiling on sparc64 without any GCC ICE's, Thanks to the Mozilla & Gentoo dev teams (No more X over SSH to run it), I'm also trying to get MozPlugger to work fine, I think there is some config file problems.

I'm at the middle of the 'Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King' book, in Spanish ('El Se~nor de los Anillos: el Retorno del Rey'), this one of the first novels I read in a long time, I mostly read Manuals, Tech or Political Magazines, or some Science Book (The Age of Spiritual Machines).

My Brother Martin (Web Design), My GF (Translations, she is studying to become an English Teacher), and I (content, idea and direction) are modifing the SzYsZ Networks site.

Also, as some of you already noticed, English is not my First Language, so excuse me if I made some mistakes.

Hi, this is my first diary post...

So...I will introduce myself, I'm Javier Szyszlican aka szysz, 21 years old, OpenSource Developer, Geek, Fat, Boring Person.
I live in Argentina with my GF. I work as a IP NOC Operator / Coder for a Satellite Earth Station.

JFFNMS

We're at -rc1 this week, plenty of people are testing it.. that's great.
I'm only stuck with a user with only one problem... I think the problem is in his DB rather than in my code... If I discover exactly what the problem is, I'll be ready to release the final 0.7.0 version on Monday. (crossing fingers)

I've been talking with my users a lot (list & icq) and they seem to really like it :) . One of them has a Wireless Network in Australia, and are going to use JFFNMS to monitor it... other is Chip-Maker in the US which is going to install it in several locations and try the new Disitributed Polling system.

I've been assigned a project to measure Satellite Carriers (in space) with an HP Spectrum Analyzer via a GPIB connection on a Linux Server and storing the historical data in a Database, It's really interesting, and the project is half done.

I hope I still have time to finish JFFNMS this weekend.

I really need to use my bike to go to work (5 km) again. I stopped using it like a year ago and because of the lack of security at night (I'm on the night shift) in Buenos Aires and I never re-started.

We (Analia and I) went to the cinema on Tuesday and Wendsday (my free days) and watch 'Adaptation' and 'Catch me if you Can', very good movies I must say... 'Adaptation' really got me.. and the other was a nice comedy.

Analia (my GF) is very excited about the Oscars, so we are going to see most of the movies nominated, Chicago has been presented today here, so.. next week we'll go to see it I guess.

I hope I'm not being too boring, I'll try to continue posting.