Archive for September, 02000

working hard

Wednesday, September 27th, 02000

Wow.. 2+ weeks of all-nighters at work really cuts down on the ammount of weblogging I can manage. We're almost done. It will be worth it. Watch for announcements.

Network tools II

Saturday, September 16th, 02000

Also aide.

Network tools

Saturday, September 16th, 02000

Other tools I need to add to the network:

PortSentry
ippl
Logcheck

DJB

Saturday, September 16th, 02000

djbdns is clearly superiour to BIND. Likewise qmail to sendmail.

I'll be moving to djbdns and qmail shortly on my external hosts.

Perl Articles

Wednesday, September 13th, 02000

perlmonth has some articles on HTML::Template and HTML::Mason that I have to read.

rootprompt

Wednesday, September 13th, 02000

# rootprompt.org is elite.

Alternative wireless networks

Tuesday, September 12th, 02000

Slashdot has a story on alternative wireless networks. This stuff has been around for a long time with packet radio and has been something I've wanted to for years. This article gets me really excited about it.

Eye Surgery results

Monday, September 11th, 02000

I can see without glasses. Kind of.

Weather, Python, Surgery

Sunday, September 10th, 02000

It's very humid today. The temp is in the 90s. Next week should be getting back to low 70s.

I know much more Python that I did yesterday.

Tommorow I get eye surgery.

buffer overflow exploits

Sunday, September 10th, 02000

Stop many buffer overflow exploits from being possible on Linux.

perfectioncrane.com

Saturday, September 9th, 02000

Working on bringing perfectioncrane.com up to date.

Biking across the country

Saturday, September 9th, 02000

www.adventurecycling.org's Northern Tier Bicycle Route calls me. Spenser is about done with half of it. He's went from Iowa to Washington.

Linux webcam as motion detector

Friday, September 8th, 02000

Use your Linux webcam as a motion detector.

Go II

Tuesday, September 5th, 02000

What was I thinking..

Lots of free go software that runs on Unix.

sovereignsociety.com

Tuesday, September 5th, 02000

sovereignsociety.com

For the paranoid: Spy and
Counterspy

EAI sold to UGS

Tuesday, September 5th, 02000

Unigraphics Solutions Inc. buys Engineering Animation, Inc. for $205 million or $13.75 per share.

better weather

Monday, September 4th, 02000

The weather today.. sublime. After yesterday's hellish temps, fall has arrived.

Go

Sunday, September 3rd, 02000

The Game Go. I wish there was a linux version.

Stupid patents

Sunday, September 3rd, 02000

There's a patent on a tattooed bar code to verify a person's identity. Bruce Schneier wonders if Revelation 13:16-18 is prior art.

Go anti-patents!

Sunday

Sunday, September 3rd, 02000

Didn't get to the Pookey Bleum show on friday. I gotta catch the next show in
Ames.

Went riding at the Greenbelt near McFarland Park yesterday. Good single track there (good for around here at least). Hotter than hell though.... 90s. I wish the weather that is supposed to come with September would come. Found a great site dealing with Iowa off road biking. Also found ridemidwest.com

Got a lot of stuff done around the hose... Took clothes and other junk to goodwill, cleaned, etc.

I've started to systematically convert all of my CDs into MP3. A few months from now and $400 worth of harddrives later I should be set.. I've been doing A-B comparisions on my Hi-FI between CD and MP3. The 160 bit with VBR MP3's encoded with lame do very well. More on this later. Now if I just had an empg.

I'd like to go backpacking in Iowa's Yellow River State Forest this October. The Northwest (of the USA, not Iowa) is clearly the place to be for hiking... check cooltrails.com.

Luke moved to Justin's place (the Medulla house) last week. Only one roomate
now. I get an office and a bedroom again.