I released, rsachal, a little C program to attempt to solve the RSA Labs RC5 Challenges.
I've become very interested in challenges and puzzle games and such things lately.
I've also stopped registering my projects on freshmeat until they hit v1.0.0 just incase I don't finish them in a timely manner, or at all.
I wrote some C code to solve the google billboard challenge. I didn't send in a resume, though.
I also jumped on the LiveJournal bandwaggon when Advogato went down.
I've released a few new versions of the keyserver and Simon merged his DNS Keyservice code in. We're almost to a beta release (which will mean all that is left to do is bug fixes as they come up).
I also got my Kerberos HOWTO published in the LDP. I need to update it for the new Kerberos functionality in OpenSSH.
I have become addicted to Gentoo. It is like crack. I have installed in on everything from my portable and workstations to a random computer that accidently happened to be wheeled by my cube.
I've quit my job with e-Tech and I'm now working for UF Network Services. I'll also be going to school to study molecular biology. This change should give me allot more time to work on cool stuff in the free software world. Yay! Life is good.
I made a release of cpwc, a web cache to help gnutella peers with their initial connection. I also wrote some code for a p2p network I'm planning on calling MetaNET. I got to spend allot of time coding this weekend it was great.
Personal
My resolution for 2004 is to be more focused and productive. I made a clear description of what I wanted to accomplish with my life and made a list of goals to help me get there. It's helping already.
I checked mozilla out of CVS and built it. I'm trying to get involved as a janitor in the project. We'll see, I'm not sure my skills are good enough for me to produce any worthwile patches for them.
Personal
The move from Miami, Fl. to Gainesville, Fl. went smoothly. I've been here for about a month now and it's nice to be back. My internet is provided by a wireless project sponsored by the city and aimed at mending the digital divide. It's really nice.
I spent Christmas in Boston with friends and family. It was really nice to get up there. I had a few days to enjoy the city so aside from the requisite pub crawls, I went to visit the MIT campus and Harvard Square, and where the Novell offices and (old) Ximian offices where. Of course, I visited Fenway too and a bunch of other places and spent some time just walking around the neighborhood, the houses there and the baseball field remind me of when I was a kid. I love the T. I love that city. This is gonna be the year for the sox. I wish it wasn't so expensive to live up there, damn gentrification.
Work
I think I've finally gotten the "hang of" work. Hopefully this should result in more free time for free software. I'm already finding myself with more time now that my major project is done, most of it so far has been spent catching up, but I'm almost caught up. It's so weird to look back and see like this 2-year hole in my life where I gave up everything and just focused on that project. *shiver*
I've been so busy with work I haven't really done anything other that some bug reports related to deploying open source in the real world. Hopefully, that will change very soon.
Personal
I'm moving this weekend from Miami back up to Gainesville, Fl.
I've been continuing to work on the projects related to the p2p technical goals that I'm trying to accomplish. Another release of cgWebCache was made and I've started working toward a release of a related project called cmp - a peer which will bootstrap through cgwc.
Community
I found a volunteer to help me create some wireless freenet resources. I see WiFi reviving the old, formerly
dial-up, freenets that used to exist in communities. What a great way to close the digital divide!
Advogato
Why are all of the diary entries rated so low? If there's too much censorship it's going to kill this site. Many people have already left, let's not loose this great resource. I personally liked when people discussed their personal life, and their thoughts on currently events and movies and music and books on here. It was interested to me because I have many of the same influences, inspirations, and problems as others on here due to my involvement in free software development and the influence of the hacker culture on me. Do we really need to focus so heavily on software development? I don't want to have to keep two blogs.
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