I’d just like to announce that the OwlCam has been revived, thanks partially to me trying to setup a WUSB11 and failing, but figuring out why I could never get kernel modules to compile properly.
You can check it out by clicking owlcam on the side of the page.
It’s powered by camE. Whee.
Attention oppressed peoples, I am willing to provide you with hosting for a blog (I’ll set up WordPress or MovableType in a subfolder) on OwlManAtt.com. It would be appreciated for you to e-mail me if you are interested.
For those interested, this is the project homepage.
Well kids, the monthly archiving has stopped being a monthly event. It’s now more of a ‘whenever the hell the page gets to full’ event. Needless to say, the old posts have been dumped to the archive, and I’m now going to get on with some news.
Last Thursday was my final required day of school. School actually ends on Wednesday. If I, for some reason, find myself awake at 6 in the morning tomorrow, I may just pack my laptop bag and go in just for the hell of it. Maybe not, the fact that they filter ssh traffic might piss me off too much. If I go in when I’m not required, I damn well want to IRC from the classroom.
So yea. Last night was the monthly SCOSUG meeting. Al presented on this really nifty thing called Xen, which is sort of a framework for other operating systems. It’s like the holy grail of virtual machines. I gave a quick talk on security features of OpenBSD. John discussed MyDNS, a MySQL-driven DNS deamon, and Steve showed off some OS X stuff. All in all, a good meeting. Next month, we’ll probably have the Horde guy.
We had this one guy who just decided to come in. He seemed pretty nice. He’d never used Linux (or any other UNIX) before. He was talking to Al about trying Linux out, perhaps we shall see him again.
So afterwards, we went to dinner, as SCOSUG tradition dictates. When we were leaving, John offered me an aging iBook. I can’t say no to free stuff, especially when said free stuff is a new type of item that I haven’t played with before. (The fucking 486 just doesn’t count as a laptop, alright? It has to actually DO SOMETHING to be considered a laptop.) So we went to his house and retrieved it. I downloaded Ubuntu PPC (2 hours), burnt Ubuntu PPC on my 4x (30 minutes), installed Ubuntu PPC (25 minutes), retrieved the packages it wanted (1 hour), and finally booted into GNOME. GNOME runs nicely on it, amazingly enough. I don’t think this is more than 400mhz, but it has 128mb of memory.
So I fiddled with it until about 4:30, when I finally noticed the time and went to bed. I’ve spent most of the day tweaking things, and I still need to do a bit of hardening.
I also ordered a Linksys WUSB11 wireless adapter for the iBook. I’ve set this thing up before for someone under Linux (Aaron) via SSH, so I doubt it will be that hard to do again. (Famous last words…)
My wireless dohickey will arrive sometime between Friday and Monday. I need to find a little strip of velcro with an adhesive back for it. See, it gets connected to the laptop via a USB device cable (or some sort of custom USB cable specifically for it, whatever), so I want to be able to stick it to the case so I don’t have it all over the place.
Now, NaNoWriMo, let’s just see about those 50,000 words. I’m sure it’ll be a lot easier now that I can work on a novel wherever I am. And I’ll be all…connected. Everywhere. I’ll be impossible to get rid of, haha.
Mmkay. That’s all for now, folks.
I’ve got quite a few projects to work on. And I’m now going to share what’s on the owlmanattian TODO list. Each item is seen as a seperate project.
I didn’t want to post until later today, but this just requires an ‘oh /shit!/’.
