Well, the last two days have been very good to
reply-o-matic. Several new security features,
and version 0.99.0 is now out. 1.0 should be out in one
week.
On the personal side, I'm getting a CD-Writer (finaly!).
Life is still good :-)
Well, the last two days have been very good to
reply-o-matic. Several new security features,
and version 0.99.0 is now out. 1.0 should be out in one
week.
On the personal side, I'm getting a CD-Writer (finaly!).
Life is still good :-)
Well, as of 2002/01/02, I'm no longer working on Conectiva,
even tho I still do work for them, once I'm now working on
TIS, which is a
Conectiva Business Channel.
I started the project Reply-O-Matic, which is going
quite well and almost ready for version 1.0
All in all, life is good. I received a good money when
leaving Conectiva, and I didn't even have to change my desk,
once Conectiva branch office in Belo Horizonte used to be on
TIS's office :-)
One a side note, my Cable company decided to do things right
(finaly). No more filters and no more two-times-a-day
crashes. Lets just hope things continue to improve.
This was a sleepless weekend.
Oh buy, CodeRed II is hitting hard. Not that I use Windows,
but it's eating up my bandwidth. And you know what is even
worst ? My cable provider charges me if I use it too much (I
have a 4GB/month quota).
Of course, I have send a <sarcams>nice
little</sarcasm> letter to my cable provider, but
don't know if it will help.
Anyway, CodeRed II is a pain, no matter if you use Windows
(in which case, you already have lots of other problems) or
not. I'm getting 10+ hits an hour only from my cable modem
provider backbone (80/tcp is blocked from the outside). I
can only imagine what other people without these filters are
getting hit by. And no, I'm not defending this kind of
filters. They suck...
Current statistics for the last 40 hours: 195 hits from 39
unique IPs (with the hit rate rising pretty fast)
Actualy, I'm getting pretty sick of my cable provider (which
is Virtua, if any of
you want to know). They pretty much stinks. Filters all
around, transfer quotas, high prices, slow. Not considering,
of course, that they take at least a full week to answer any
e-mail you send them, and that their support phone line only
works from 6am to midnight.
The problem is that I don't have any other choice. ADSL here
is if anything worst (you have to access one specifig
homepage before being allowed to use it), and even more
pricy. I'm simply are lost here. It's a plain abuse to
charge something like US$35/month for a 128K connection,
where you can get (with luck) transfer rates like 10Kbps
(the average is little better then 5Kbps).
Well, thats enough ranting for today.
Well, things are getting a little better here.
First, my IPv6 connection is up and running. Now, I only
need to find out how laforge managed to
make apache 1.3.19 bind to IPv6 addresses, and I'll be a
happy person. The best part of it is that I managed to get
my cable provider to remove some filters they had had in
place that prevented the IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel to work
(ip-proto-41). And it only took me 3 weeks to make they
understand what I was talking about lol ...
Also, things at work are improving. I'm managing to get some
companies and schools to partner with Conectiva for Linux
software development. All we need now is to get the
partnership contract (or whatever other form it takes) done,
so we can start working. I'm accepting sugestions about
softwares to assign development to them.
Oh, almost forgot ... My new credit card just arrived, so I
managed to order some books. Amazing enough, Amazon still
have the best prices on the books I usualy buy.
I just received a letter from my ISP (in Brazil, you have to
subscribe to an ISP plus the Cable provider... ouch) telling
I can get a copy of WinXP for only R$ 29,90 a month (about
US$12.50). Lol ... Really funny. I'm just entertaining an
idea about writing to tell them that they can get a copy of
Linux for only R$ 0.00 a month, but I'm afraid they will not
know that I'm taking about. It's amazing how stupid people
can be sometimes.
Ouch. Things have been so chaotic lately that I simply had
no time to post anything here.
Well well, lost of things have happened, both on personal
and professional basis
First, my fiance finaly got a job at Conectiva. She is taking
care of our training centers on Minas Gerais, but hopefully
someday in the near future she will be up to advogato
:-)
Lemme see, I have been working on a set of filters so
procmail can filter the SirCam worm. If anyone wants it:
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Well, I'm back coding. Well, almost. I'm taking a good look
at my
projects source code, to chcek that I have not forgotten
anything important :-) They have been on hold for so long,
that I'm not sure they are as ok as I suppose.
Thursday I'll be taking a trip to Campinas to install a
Firewall. Cross your fingers for me, once I'll be installing
it using Conectiva Linux 7.0 BETA ! Yes, I know I should not
be using it, but it's a developing network, and no other
version of CL works very well with kernel 2.4 (and they need
stateful package analysis). Will report here how it
worked.
On the buggy side of the world, I just found out that
xinetd, then compiled with IPv6 support, crashed on linux
unless I have the ipv6 module loaded. This is just plain
wrong. I guess I'll have to make a patch for it, if they
don't work fast :-)
Well, one more unslept night, one more sleepy day ... I
should be sleeping a little more. 4 hours a night is really
not enough.
Anyway, today promisses to be a samewhat boring day ... unf
...
This afternoon, I have to whatover some peolpe taking
certification tests
this afternoon. Quite boring. Have to stay sitted on a chair
for an hour and a half, without doing anything, while some
grownups keep trying to figure out why they haven't studided
a little more.
I finaly managed to upgrade my coworkers machine to CL 7.0
(with kernel 2.4) while she is tarveling :-) Hope she likes
the surprise. I know that after I started using kernel 2.4,
going back to 2.2 is a nightmare (what can I say, iptables
is so much better then ipchains ...).
Lunch time ... I'm really hungry, and my wife is waiting for
me with the food on the table.
... some time later...
Well, things have gone pretty well. Not only the guy passed
the certification test (he finished it in about 40 minutes,
thanks god), but he also told me his company wants to ship
Conectiva Linux with their product. It's was not a bad
day.
So much, so much have changed ...
First, I'm not living in Curitiba anymore. Now, I work at
Belo Horizonte. And no, I have not left Conectiva.
The catch is that now I'm no longer a full time developer.
Now I have to share my time between development, consultant
and linux advocacy. The good news is that now I get paid
also for being a Linux Advocate !
What more can I say ... humm, let me see ... it has been so
long ...
Oh, yes. I have reviewed the certifications I granted here
at advogato. The reason, I have certificated sone persons I
don't know enough. I don't remember having changed any
certifications. I only removed a few.
Humm, just noticed one of my last posts mentioned I was
trying to get a Palm Handheld. Well, I got one (Palm M100).
Not a ferrari, but I does what I paid it for. So I have no
regrets.
I have not had much time to code these days. Well, what you
want, with me moving towns and all that stuff. I hope to get
back coding in the next few weeks. Things are almost settled
now.
Almost xmas :-)
I'm still waiting for an aproval so I can spend the next
week on my parents home. If I do get it, this diary will not
be hearing from me til Jan 2nd.
Nothing more to report, AFAIR.
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