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The hinge on my titanium ibook broke last week. I was in sitting in a fairly long lecture on nutrition this past weekend when I opened my laptop to take notes. A crack was heard. It sounded like someone cracking their nuckles. I knew it was a bad sound as did my friend sitting next to me, who said “that didn’t sound good”. I couldn’t immediately assertain what the damage was until I closed the machine, and there it was staring me in the face.

When I first got the machine, from my employer. I did some research on it to find out more about it. When I asked wikipedia, it warned me the hinge was a congenital defect, of this particular version. My last mac died from a congenital defect of the video card, so I was prepared for something like this to happen.

I’ll be taking the machine to the local mac guys in Allston over at the Computer Loft. They are my go to guys when something Like this happens. I hope it doesn’t cost too much to fix. It’s not in critical condition. I can still use it. But I don’t like opening and closing it because I have to lift that side of the monitor over the break. It’s simply disconcerting, and I don’t want to cause more damage to the machine.

Incidentally it was a bad day for the computer overall. About 5 minutes later the power source I was using stopped working. I was able to test and be sure it was my power source because my other friend sitting with me has the same kind of plug for her machine, and hers worked fine for me, but my plug did not work for her. I got a replacement charger for $35 including shipping. It’s working right now, so that’s one less thing to worry about.

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export zones cvs

export zones cvs

Well I finished the download/install of Xcode, and started the youtube tutorial. I’m going to have to find another tutorial, because the one I linked to is done entirely in Microsoft visual studio 6.0, which is only going to cause me agony to try and translate the instructions to the program I’m using. At the moment I’m a little overwhelmed by all the options simply to start a project. I’m going to have to read more, before I feel comfortable with what I’m doing.

I know the information is out there though, so It’s just a matter of time to find it.

I’ve decided I want to learn C++. It’s a sort of challenge that popped up between my boyfriend and me. We were talking about how a new job opportunity would require him to learn C++. I was curious what tools were out there to help one learn this language with out paying for them. To my surprise I found a very good rudimentary video on youtube.

Thus the challenge came about. I bet him I could learn C++ faster than him. I have no idea if he’ll find this motivating or not, but now I’m curious and want to do it for myself more than anything. I’m hoping the video will be relavent help for me as I’m using a mac and the person in the video is using windows. If not there are plenty of resources out there. For me getting started is going to be hardest part. Setting up one’s environment is daunting for a total n00b.

The first thing I need is a compiler. I’m currently downloading one from mac called Xcode I hope it’s the right thing, because it’s taking a while to finish downloading.

UPDATE: The download finished, and now I’m installing. I really hope this was the program I needed.

new file for exporting comma separated zones, still need to remove ...

fixed names in headers

Ugh, I don’t need vzquota (I’m sure some do, but I don’t). I’m sure there is an easier way to do this, but at the moment I’m stuck with:

vzquota off 101

only show iframe if there are a bunch of records

only show iframe if there are a bunch of records

adding bulk form, updated sql

adding bulk form, updated sql

adding bulk form

adding bulk form

adding bulk form

adding bulk form

default_zone_records

Recently I blogged about bringing my pfSense firewall along, and while it was first a bit of a pain to use, its working really well now.

I’m still hoping to use one of the older, slower WRAP boards, but I keep running into issues with the pfSense CF card. I’m not sure if its caused by an incompatibility with pfSense and the WRAP, or I’m just getting bad luck with my CF cards. Hmmm. I might need to switch to m0n0wall at some point if the problems persist.

Today I was thinking of setting up a VOIP phone, but I am not able to setup a switch for the phone to be a part of the VPN - yet!

I admit, I do have a Windows box. At least its a dual-boot. Its a simple laptop, an Everex NC1500 which came with XP Home. I installed Ubuntu on it, and kept XP Home to do testing from time to time. Since Google’s Chrome browser doesn’t work in linux yet, I downloaded and installed it on XP Home.

Maybe I’m missing something, but it didn’t seem much better than Firefox. Hopefully Firefox (and Iceweasel) will get to benefit from Chrome, at least by creating a multi-threaded process and a faster javascript engine. As a developer, one of my favorite things about Firefox is that it is cross-platform. Webkit is getting there, but still isn’t there yet.

How will Chrome help developers? My guess is that it will mostly have to do with javascript, and their V8 engine. How does it stack up against the SquirrelFish?

Docunext Wiki Page on Google Chrome

Now we’re up to four drivers:

• Via - old
• Unichrome - floundering?
• Openchrome - progressive?
• Chrome - new, limited

The new one, Chrome, is not to be confused with Google’s Chrome, and is just the video driver, no OpenGL or video acceleration. I’ll give it a try since I’m a glutton for punishment.

See: http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2008/08/29/

I did a “dist-upgrade” on my kFreeBSD debian / gnu test machine today, and upon restart, X11 failed to start.

I realize that this debian port is incredibly volatile and experimental, so I don’t want to sound like I’m complaining, just reporting my experience. I’m confident that in good time the problem will be fixed. I had just gotten iceweasel to work on it, so I’m looking forward to getting back to that stage.

topic movement is on

working on topic edits

work on ability to create new redirects

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new file, for editing topics - moving / sticky

Ran out of disk space in /var/… canceled dist-upgrade, resulting with:

Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: error processing base-files (--configure):
 package base-files is not ready for configuration
 cannot configure (current status `triggers-awaited')
Errors were encountered while processing:
 base-files
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Ouch!

So what to do… looking in /var/lib/apt/status:

Package: base-files
Essential: yes
Status: install ok triggers-awaited
Priority: required
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 432
Maintainer: Santiago Vila 
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.0.5
Replaces: base, miscutils
Provides: base
Depends: base-passwd (>= 2.0.3.4)
Pre-Depends: awk
Conffiles:
 /etc/debian_version c3a1f14e3cfb4e2a815ff14692258219
 /etc/host.conf 4eb63731c9f5e30903ac4fc07a7fe3d6
 /etc/issue c5b47f7de972ac3f083cc6349bcb23db
 /etc/issue.net ad006ab49199770f760dac332209cb27
Description: Debian base system miscellaneous files
 This package contains the basic filesystem hierarchy of a Debian system, and
 several important miscellaneous files, such as /etc/debian_version,
 /etc/host.conf, /etc/issue, /etc/motd, /etc/profile, /etc/nsswitch.conf,
 and others, and the text of several common licenses in use on Debian systems.
Triggers-Awaited: man-db

Going to re-install man-db:

dpkg -P man-db
apt-get install man-db
apt-get dist-upgrade

Yes! It worked!

Debian’s lenny repositories are now featuring linux 2.6.26 - nice! I updated my Acer Extensa EX5620-4025 last night, but I’m still having some issues with hal and wifi.

The mini-pci-express chip is causing kernel oops, and I have no idea how to deal with that, other than submitting the error report.

Besides these issues, I’ve been leaning a ton about pfSense, ALIX boards, and hal in general. Good stuff indeed.

I’ve been working on my portable VPN gateway, and I have to admin its been a tough nut to crack. Not only did something get screwed up with my compact flash card, but I managed to totally disable two compact flash cards. I didn’t have a compact flash card, so what was I to do?

Thankfully, the new ALIX boards can PXE boot. I did this using debian, and then downloaded the pfSense image and flashed it to the compact flash card. So far so good!

My raw notes:

Having a heck of a time with my portable wifi VPN firewall setup. Not sure if
this type of thing is possible, if not, that's too bad. 

Infrastructure - a connection to the internet - a client to other wireless provider

Ad-Hoc - a mesh node

Access point - a "Server" for wireless clients

=== Upgrading Embedded ===
Had to upload file via command page, then used /tmp/filename to upgrade via
the terminal. 

console=ttyS0,38400n8

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/478
http://cmrg.fifthhorseman.net/wiki/embedded/alix
http://linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/pxeboot.html
http://www.sigsegv.cx/diskless-2.html

I’m currently reading the “Linux Networking Cookbook”, by Carla Schroder. I chose this book as I’m constantly working with networks, primarily with linux workstations and notebooks, Mac OS X desktops, as well as FreeBSD based (pfSense and m0n0wall) firewalls and routers.

While pfSense and m0n0wall make setting up a firewall and VPN pretty easy, I stil have many questions about routing, sub-netting and network architecture best practices. I hope by reading this book, I’ll gain a better understanding of how “good” networks are built, and how to avoid potential problems with an uncertain future about how a network will evolve and be used.

zone notes, expiration date

zone notes

starting to work on metadata for core data

This was driving me crazy!! Every time I’d try and use nm-applet to configure my wireless internet with WPA, it would connect, but then be unable to save or retrieve the password afterwards. Grr! That essentially caused it not to work at all.

Thankfully, I was able to fix it. Thanks to the Ubuntu forums (Ubuntu is based off of debian), I found a solution which worked for me. I moved the keyring folder inside of ~/.gnome2/, and then tried again. It asked me for a new password, and so far so good!

Thanks: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=130192

Not sure what’s up with this error - I’m trying to connect to my office VPN from the Rockville, MD library, using a portable pfSense gateway.

I tried changing from aggressive to main line mode, but now I get:
racoon: ERROR: not acceptable Identity Protection mode

Right, you must use aggressive, according to the m0n0wall docs by Chris:

You must use aggressive mode, as only IP addresses can be used as identifiers in main mode.

^[*]

I never was able to get the VPN to work from the library, probably a firewall issue.

This is always a fun process for me:

I’ve decided to pack up a small router to bring along with me and my laptop. Why? Because pfSense works so well of course! If I’m just using my laptop to surf the web, I’ll just connect to whatever access is available, but if I’m traveling and want to dial back to my VPN, I’d love to be able to just connect to my local pfSense wireless, instruct it to connect to my VPN, and voila - good to go. How is this better than just using a software based VPN client? Its better because I’m always using different clients, reinstalling operating systems, and buying new equipment, but my network configurations don’t change nearly as often. So why should I need to reconfigure a VPN client each time I change my laptop or netbook?

To accomplish this, I’m using the smaller and more portable alix3c1 from pc engines. This little gizmo will come in handy, and I can’t wait to try it out!

UPDATE: I’ve got my pfSense ALIX 3c1 going, with one of the wireless nics as the WAN port. However, I haven’t gotten it to work yet. Might be a firewall issue of the network I’m on.

UPDATE 2: Its working now! It was a problem with the network firewall.

Just added: the ability to add extra menu items, just like in PunBB.

What else is new? I removed the default install page. I’ll work on that again if PhunkyBB ever gets popular. It was just a nuisance right now.

extra menu items

extra menu items

no env data

stub for ip addresses, lots of css work, going to ask rae to work on the ...

no profiling on text output

I’ve briefly tested the hurd in the past, but tonight I realized that there are workable Debian CDs. Amazing! I’m trying one out now, so far, it actually works.

UPDATE: Well, sort of. The qemu img is working for me, but I haven’t been able to get X working yet.

hosts

hosts

I was interested in Sycamore because it was based off of MoinMoin, but lately I’ve been interested in static files because of their simplicity and reliability. Therefore, I’ve taken an interest in MoinMoin. Its quite nice actually, so through that, I’ll likely get more exposure to the core of how Sycamore and Sycaless are powered by python.

Already I’ve figured out how the wikifarm setup works, and I like it! That being said, I’ll probably restore multi-wiki support in a single database at some point. I liked how Wordpress used table prefixes to separate blogs, but after seeing how well MovableType deals with it, I’m leaning back towards a single database.

yodns_options

grrr

grrr

fixing menu

fixing menu

adding support for user customizable options

organizing

fixed hosts template

fixed headers for hosts and redirects templates

host support

adding support for hosts

added hosts table to database model and button to main main

YoDNSConf now also supports exporting zone and record files. I’ve written some recipes for automating the process of rebuilding NSD3 databases, too.

I’ve been using LDAP for storing /etc/hosts data, but I’ll likely migrate that information into YoDNSConf at some point.

mini

my18n.

post link

I’ve been able to get MovableType and libapache2-mod-fcgid to play nicely together, and tonight I tried to get MovableType and mod_perl2 to work. Alas, I’m not sure it can happen:

http://codewitch.org/2007/10/mt-and-mod-perl-2.html

I gave up on this and decided to continue using mod-fcgid. It works well enough.

missing is index, not install

mini

zone form fiz

database model

database model

database model

database model

database model

form style

number of zones, and form to submit ns_filter value

number of zones, and form to submit ns_filter value

total number of zones

query referencing get var instead of defaults

drop down list for selecting main ns

drop down list for selecting main ns

drop down list for selecting main ns

drop down list for selecting main ns

drop down list for selecting main ns