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splork is currently certified at Master level.

Name: Gregory P. Smith
Member since: 2000-03-23 21:39:07
Last Login: 2008-08-18 19:42:29

Notes:

I am a happy C, Python and Perl programmer.

Need a firewall or wireless gateway at home? Get one of the many devices that can run OpenWRT linux!

Some contributions to open source projects include:

* pybsddb - A Python interface to modern BerkeleyDB.
* The Linux USB project. I wrote one of the early iterations of the OHCI host controller driver and have various bits and pieces of code scattered through the usb stack. I stopped USB development in early 2000.
* perl-cfd. This is a better implementation of a cfengine daemon designed to be stable and perform well under high server load.

-- greg at krypto dot org.

Projects

Lead Developer on Mojo Nation
Contributor on Evangelism
Contributor on Linux
Victim on Perl
Slave on CVS
Bitch on Mozilla
Developer on Python

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24 Oct 2002 »

Places where policy doesn't belong...

A former boss asked on a mailing list if anyone knew how various OSes chose their source ports for TCP and UDP connections. we got answers. i decided to look at the code and supply an answer for linux 2.4.18 and found the following default source port ranges:

  If the system has >=128mb of ram:
     32768-61000
  If the system has 64-127mb of ram:
     1024-4999
  If the system has 32-63mb of ram:
     2048-4999
  If the system has <32mb ram:
     3072-4999

Sigh. Why? This is a policy decision. If someone has a system with low memory and thinks that this will actually make a difference to their system: Run sysctl in a startup script! sheesh.

Note also that the IANA standard for source ports says to pick a number between 49152 - 65535.

Maybe I'll write up a patch, post it and be laughed at. Or maybe i'll be lazy...

7 Oct 2002 »

daniels i don't keep up with the lkml these days but I went looking when you mentioned bitkeeper annoyances. heh. i couldn't agree more. larry mcvoy is an asshole. i don't care how good bitkeeper may be; its attitudes like his that make bitkeeper pointless to use.

8 Jul 2002 »

yippee. i like the new posting indicator and trust metric score displays.

31 Jan 2002 »

*please* can't we simply prevent duplicate story postings in the advogato software! computers are good at that kind of thing.

19 Jul 2001 »

Joined the EFF using paypal today with the "DMCA" listed as the reason. (thanks for the reminder in someone elses diary, I had been meaning to do that).

Also sent a suggestion to paypal: I would like a way to show proof of payment to third parties. (so that Alice can prove to prove to Cathy that she paid Bob).

It could be done either requiring Cathy to be a paypal user (they would like that I'm sure) or alternatively to anyone not even being a user by making the page a "one-shot" that after the viewer clicks a "confirm that i have read the proof" button it goes away [so that one proof couldn't be used multiple times].

I suggested it for the purpose of selling items saying "proceeds will be donated to the EFF" (or charity of choice that accepts paypal). That way buyers could be sent proof of the truth in that statement.

The alternative "fun" use would be for thugs to get proof from you that you made your weekly blackmail payment to the thug's boss.

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