Recent blog entries for selerius

Well, after a long time of not updating this thing...here comes the info.

Alot of things have happened since my last "real" update. Most importantly of all, CIS will be merging with another consulting/retail company soon to provide products and services. Still working on the details of the agreement, so I can't give very many details right now, but I promise I will in the future. But in general, this is going to improve services for our existing clients greatly.

All other things in life have been pretty much the same...aquiring some soekris hardware, waiting on 3.6, and generally not sleeping very much. Since winter is coming (its cold here now...ugh!), hopefully I will be more productive. Right now, I am planning on giving a presentation soon on OpenBSD's Cryptography Usage and Export Policies...more on the export laws and how they hurt more than they help. More on that later.

I never update this thing.

Ordered my new IBM ThinkPad T21 laptop from ebay on tuesday...awaiting its arrival. For some reason, I have not heard from the seller for a couple of days now...I just hope all is well, and my product will arrive soon.

Not much else has been going on...dealing with school, and the usual stuff. Been working on some tools for production use to simplify dot qmail file creation/modification/removal/etc. as well as some other useful math tools (written in pascal...yuck!).

Ok. I bought a new mountain bike. I settled with a Giant Rincon...which seems to be decent for the price I paid. Hopefully now the snow will go away soon so I can go trail riding at GRSP.

Not much else is going on...dealing with the ongoing battle of school work vs. playtime...playtime is winning so far this semester.

I don't think I am going to be doing much this semester as far as coding goes...I need to concentrate on graduating before I am 40.

OK...this is beyond being lazy. My list of things todo is not getting done for some reason...hopefully soon, hopefully soon.

Anyways, school started, and apparently we have so much snow, that the first week of school was cancelled...which is excellent in most aspects I believe. This semester is going to be pretty boring, as I am pretty much done except for a few classes, so I had to take a few extra courses just to fill my schedule up. The state of maryland did manage to make me take a chemistry course...something about "if you don't you won't graduate, and we will shoot you.." so I decided to go ahead and take "Chemistry and Society, which is a 100 level course...hopefully the professor won't expect too much work out of me. I also took an interesting history course and an International Studies course entitled "World Religons", which seems VERY interesting.

Woke up late...started to work on some silky bugs on OpenBSD...not getting very far as to the actual [de]bugging process is concerned.

Switched my OpenBSD -current workstation over to KDE 3.1 .....yes I know, several of my friends are going to shoot me in the leg for doing so..but oh well. Its cute ;-). You can check out the screenshot here.

I finally recieved my MSI TV Tuner card in the mail (thank you fedex for royally screwing up 2/2 of my last packages, and having them being 3+ days late). Popped in the 2k "media" workstation, and with a little work, worked beautifully. I can watch TV (as well as radio, video editing from camera, etc.) from the 2k machine....

...I just realized how lazy I have become. The TV is only a neck's twist away from where I set in the office now...oh well, I guess thats what technology is suppose to do: make you lazy.

finally got the damn workstation working....like 4-5 days of troubleshooting and scrounging up hardware(to further troubleshoot).

It seems my plans for the winter break have been ruined...i still have about 5-6 more days, so hopefully I can get some stuff this week.

Hardware issues resolved. After weeks of fighting problems with disk controller software, we have finally just given up. We installed a promise chipset based PCI IDE Controller on wenesday...all the problems we were experiencing are gone. I can finally start working on my other projects that should have been done weeks ago (sorry brad..).

My todo list for the next two weeks:

- port for silky
- fix emulators/freebsd_lib to use emulators/redhat style sysctl checking
- port for silc-toolkit
- linux dxr2 driver updates to compile on newer kernels
- see if the silc-server port can't be chmod() by default to a directory...it polls alot of stuff when starting up...not sure if it will work or not

Still having massive hardware problems with the main hosting server. It seems the Dell Poweredge turned out to be a bad decision...its either that, or a bad hard drive...which is highly unlikely. Its most likely something todo with the Dell IDE Controller. Solution: find a workaround to stop causing data corruption, or replace the on-board IDE controller with a PCI one.

well...pretty much all my plans for ports development has been set aside for now. We had massive hardware problems with our main hosting server, and I have spent the better part of a week picking and poking to get things fixed....everything seems to be running fine now, but I am going to wait at least a couple more days, and monitor the system very closely until I can isolate the exact problems, and elliminate them. So no development work until then I guess...unless I have some extra spare time,which doesn't look possible with it being the holidays and all...