First entry to this thing.
I've a few small projects underway. Xenocide is a Netrek style game,
hopefully with a lot more functionality. Alas, though I've
started it, I'm trying to do so much other stuff, that it's
just not getting there. The server has some cool stuff;
- Clients use a text-based network protocol, which is
actually a stream of TCL commands
- When a client connects, the server creates a thread for
just it, and a TCL interpreter for each thread
- You can then run TCL commands directly. These can be
anything from variable setting/recieving (which is what a
network protocol should do) to SQL select statments from the
database that stores client config info
- All clients get a "prefs" command, so that the client
program can save session data, or preferences into a
database. So, no storing prefs locally anymore! (it's not
ACAP, but not bad
The other big thing is that I'm trying to setup a company of
my own, "Magic Blue Smoke". Once it's all worked out, we
should be a proper co-op, starting with seven people. More
on co-op's, once I learn what they are supposed to be. We
will be providing pretty much any service to (mostly) Irish
business people that
want to use free software, starting with some software
development, writing commerical apps that run on free
software, and changes to existing free software apps, for
cash. It'd be nice to be able to fund development of things
like Kronolith, by
installing IMP for
people.
The nice people in Aladdin have sent me
their SDK for their eToken, a cool little EEPROM on a USB
socket. The idea is that they store digital certs and keys,
so you can use them as part of authentication. I've a module
initialising it, and printing stuff to the messages
file....but until I get more info from them, that's as far
as it goes. Kinda strange that it took me less time to get a
linux driver that far, than it did to get the Windows SDK
installed (Windows 2000 still doesn't detect my USB bus).
There is a really nice project starting
up - Wannabees. They are trying to get people to share how
they made a career/life/profit/fun from free software. It
always staggered me how people could devote so much time to
the movement.