| Formula for running Juniper "Network Connect 5.5.0" VPN under OS X Leopard |
[Nov. 5th, 2007|02:11 am] |
Upgrading from Tiger to Leopard broke my VPN client. A friend sent me a fix which involved moving around system libraries in /usr/lib — it seems that the only problem is that it assumes that it will bind with OpenSSL 0.9.7 when it asks for 0.9 and that's no longer a safe assumption.
This was welcome information, but I certainly didn't feel like changing things in /usr/lib. Who knows what else would break? I really want to change this library association for just this one app. ( Here's how you do that... ) |
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| Tonight's nerdy project |
[Jan. 4th, 2007|10:59 pm] |
In any large C/C++ program with many tiny functions, there's bound to be at least a few that are actually opcode-for-opcode identical. I wrote a simple script that tries to find them
I'm really enjoying programing in Ruby — I just started playing with it in a few weeks ago and I'm already way faster in it than I am with perl (and that's after 11 years of perl programming) I think I'll be using it quite a lot in the future. It's got everything I loved about perl, and nothing of what I hated in Python!
I'm going to try to come out to Blackmail for at least a little while but I'm already pretty tired. |
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| gitfs 0.04 |
[Dec. 11th, 2006|04:42 am] |
I forgot to mention it earlier but I finally got around to releasing a new version of my gitfs filesystem last week. I really haven't done much work on it in the last year but I wanted it to at least work with the latest versions of FUSE. I really want to spend some more time working on it soon. Hopefully I can get a more feature-filled 0.05 release out the door in a reasonable amount of time. |
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| Recipe for setting up mDNS (Bonjour) under Fedora Core 6 |
[Oct. 27th, 2006|02:12 pm] |
Background: My home network consists of a mix of Macs and Linux boxes. The Macs autodiscover each other's IP addresses via mDNS (what Apple calls Rendezvous Bonjour) For awhile I've been thinking it would be nice if the Linux boxes were also mDNS-capable. Years ago I looked into setting this up but the mDNS tools didn't seem very polished back then. I've heard that it's gotten a lot better. This week I upgraded to Fedora Core 6 so I figured I'd give it another shot.
Turns out it was fairly painless.
( Step 1: Publishing mDNS entries )
( Step 2: Resolving *.local addresses ) |
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| Another gitfs release |
[Nov. 18th, 2005|04:35 am] |
I released yet another update to the gitfs filesystem I'm working on. This one is pretty extensive — the code has grown from 2334 to 8276 lines in the last six weeks! At this rate maybe it'll be a real program at some point.
I'm actually pretty proud of this release — I had to add a lot of really complicated code to allow asynchronous filesystem requests and it all seems to actually work (Hint to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jwz: this is the part where you tell me how much easier it would be if I were using a language with proper closures) |
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| linux in a browser |
[Oct. 2nd, 2005|03:13 pm] |
This is a pretty cool hack — Java VNC client that connects to a public-access linux machine, giving you a full GNOME desktop inside your browser. It's running a little slow right now (load average around 3.5 when I connected)
ETA: looking around the site it looks like its been around since 2003. |
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| Geek stuff: gitfs pre-release 0.01 |
[Jun. 25th, 2005|09:23 pm] |
GITFS pre-release version 0.01
gitfs is a FUSE-based filesystem for working with source trees stored in
git repositories. Currently only very basic functionality is implemented
but I'm hoping to expand it into a useful tool for managing many builds
and patches.
(full info here)
Anyway, with that out of the way I'm getting ready to head to Pop Roxx for my birthday celebrations. See a lot of you soon! |
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| Living in the future |
[Apr. 14th, 2005|07:01 pm] |
1. My new DSL line arrived today. (Insert much rejoicing) Speakeasy is currently doing a promotion where your first two months are really cheap if you agree to start with their more expensive 6Mbit service. After two months you can downgrade to the plan you originally wanted at no extra cost, so on paper there's no reason to not go for it. Of course the hope is that you'll find yourself addicted to the faster service and decide to keep it. Unfortunately this seems to be already working. Goddamn this is fast.
Readers outside the US: please skip telling me "I pay $2 for my 50 Mbps connection" Let me enjoy my moment of geek joy.
2. Via slashdot: Brainwave alarm clock! I've been wanting one of these for years and now someone is finally building it.
Bonus points if it comes with an ethernet port and can speak NTP. My telephone does this, why can't everything else in the house? |
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