I did' the first two of my exams - uff. After 5 hours of test
it is nice to sit down and just surf arround without
always thinking "I should learn now".
Tommow there will be the third test - the hardest one -
and then at night the
Hackschiff. That will be cool! 400 Hackers going on
a cruise
on the river Rhine! Im looking foreward to this.
[Still learning not enough]
Reading people talk about
Unix
sucks; StarOffice to be free send my emotions
quite high. Tey try to make Unix something different.
The idea behind Unix are small, specialized
Programms which integrate well. If your code is longer
than a few thousand lines, throw it away. If you can't
communicate via pipes, make your data structures
more simple.
Complex things aren't build by constructing them
complex but by integrating a lot of simple things
togethte something more complex. Thats how nature
works and thats how Unix works. If you want something
different, use something different.
gnarf.
ddns was proceeding a bit the last days. I have declared it now alpha2 and build rpms and a FreeBSD Port of it. It was interesting to learn the different packaging systems end even more interesting to find out that a static linux binary is about 5 larger than the same on FreeBSD. I'll try to get an account on an AXP machine to test if my code is 64 bit clean.
The client of ddnsd is now in a state to be usable by
end-users (if they are Unix hackers ;-). I wanted to build
a GUI client for my Mac and decided to go
cross-plattform. My first try was Python but tkinter looks
ugly and there was no rijndael Implementation in
python and I wasn't in the mode to write one on my
own.
Next try: java. It sucks. Why have they mix up
programming language, library and virtual machine
under the same name? But I was able to mock up a
prototype in just a few hours. Rijndael is in cryptix so there
should be a java-client for ddns at the end of this
summer.
Then there will be the real thing (tm): a Unix console version and there will be a java version for the GUI people on all platforms.
I should write an article why I consider dynamic ddns important.
The last few days I didn't manage to spend much time learning - I got into hack mode (damm) and hacked the ddns packet into a usable state. It has still a Long TODO-list, but at least the dynamic dns client is in a state that it can be used by other people.
Now I can find peace of mind and get some sleep - and the back to learning fot the final examinations.
I will spend the next few months doing my final examinations for University. After that I hope to finish all my half done projects. Especially ddnsd could become the foundation for some cool stuff.
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