Stu's Rusty Bucket

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Photos

I have just updated my gallery software from 1.3.3 to 1.4.4-pl2. Lots of fixes and security stuff.

Mmmm which reminds me, I am running out of photo space.....

Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Gambas

Apparently Gambas has hit RC 1.0 release status. Ive been looking over it and Im very impressed. This looks like it could be a very interesting RAD tool for Linux.

I like the fact that I can write full blow KDE GUI apps in it without having to do the 100000 lines stuff for handling widgets..

hmm.. a fruther investigation is required.

Getting Mozilla Firefox to recognise your RSS feed.

I had never quite worked out why Mozilla Firefox would not pick up my RSS feed as it would other sites.

Some sites I would visit would activate the Active Bookmarks (RSS) feature and put a nice little RSS subscribe tag in the status bar… But never for my site…

So after a little fiddling around.. The code you need to add to your site is…

TITLE being the name of my weblog
HREF points to my RSS feed
TYPE tells the browser this is the RSS feed content.

The above tag goes into your index.php/.html or similar, and it must be within the HEAD tag at the top of the page…

I put mine just before I have the </head>

Now I get the snazzy little RSS button in the status bar showing up.

Saturday, October 23, 2004

Using CuteFTP-Pro’s SFTP/SSH….

I have just learned (doh!) how to get the SFTP working properly with my CuteFTP Pro.

Previously my host only supported ssh1 and SFTP would never work properly.. Sometime during my hike they upgraded to supporting ssh2…

So I spent the last 10 minutes futzing about to make sure the ftp to my host is secure.

There was only a couple of steps to get it all working properly.

Putty’s public key file is a standard ssh2 public key file, which is fine. Putty however, for its private key has its own format but puttygen can export valid ssh2 format private keys.

Unfortunatly CuteFTP Pro can only handle a single ssh key… so it has to be the same across sites which sucks but anyway, I only need one.

So, I used puttygen to export my sites private key into an ssh2 format key, which I pointed CuteFTP at, and pointed it to the public key.

Amazingly enough, it all worked fine first go! sweet.

Trivial Persuit

Helen, Stu and I played trivial persuit last night. The 20th Century Edition or something.

I won!! whooo!

I think I drank a third of a bottle of red wine. Stu had about 7 beers and Helen was doing this Smirnoff vodka+lime mix thing (its like 5% alch).

It was a close match, but I won out in the end. I think it was the brown cheese or the pink cheese that I had the most trouble with…

topical…

“America Elects World Leader, World Denied Vote”

Friday, October 22, 2004

MinixTools

Added support for ‘cd’ today with saved config file… fixed a few bugs…

Thursday, October 21, 2004

FreeBSD 5.3 RC1

So I tried the 5.3RC1 today thinking I might be able to convert over… So after a minimal install taking about 2 minutes, I was in and firing it up…

First thing I tried to do was fire up my wireless card, which worked, being an atheros based card. Everything died a sudden death when I learnt that there is currently no TKIP/WPA support… I wont switch the router over to WEP and downgrade security. Until FreeBSD can do TKIP, I cant switch over..

doh! oh well, I tried… maybe in one of the upcoming RC’s they will add TKIP…

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Hmphf.

Well I thought the interview went well. I dont think they had done much interviewing before. there were not development tests. They just asked me about the software development lifecycle.

Anyway, apparently I dont have the depth they were looking for but they are going with someing ‘internally’. Whatever bollocks that means. At least they could have given me a proper answer than fobbing me off with the above.

ohwell.. back to looking.

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Wireless

Whoooop! I am posting this from my wireless network!

Go DLink 54mb wlans…

Monday, October 18, 2004

MiixTools v0.1

Here is the first (and very basic) release of MinixTools.

(get it from my web page, here)

For the next version, 0.2, I will probably be trying to fix v2 fstypes for mkfs and
do a basic ‘cp’, that can read files, then I can work on putting files on. And maybe do mkdir/rmdir stuff etc…

This is just the first release with a LONG way to go…

Wai! wai!

I have a job interview lined up for Wednesday morning at 9:45am! whooo!!!

Saturday, October 16, 2004

Frozen Shoulder

Was feeling ok when I got up this morning around 9. Its now 2:30pm and my shoulder has gone bung for no apparent reason.

Feels like my old friend the frozen shoulder. I can feel the pain in the shoulder/back and going up my neck. Oh how is this familiar. I just hope it does not get worse and that it goes away without me having to try and find a physio up here :(

Its been about just over a year maybe a year and a bit since I had this last… Its fun when you cant move your arm at all, your neck or your head and any slight movement causes some baaaad ass pain to shoot through everything.

Apparently, one of the muscles in my back that attaches the shoulder to the neck or something pulls away from its anchor, causes me pain and has to be physiod back into place.

mmm kungfu injuries.. its always the same arm, so I guess I am predisposed to it with this one now…

I am just hopeing ‘slept funny’…

Thursday, October 14, 2004

Without Counting Chickens

I spoke with a woman at a recruitment agency just before, and _might_ have an interview for a job on Wednesday!! yay! Bring on the work!!

So I wont count the chickens until I hear hopefully tomorow, and then next week…

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Wifi and Linux..

Hmm.. what to do… I have my wifi card now, but.. do I use NDISWrapper or MadWIFI?? The MadWIFI is targeted at running atheros based cards, where NDISWrapper runs windows drivers in linux…

Have downloaded both and we will see how hard/easy it is to setup both under Yoper on my laptop…

the atheros driver is in FreeBSD by default… I cant wait until fbsd5.3 is out officially… esh. Right now I am stuck with yoper as it better supports my laptop.