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For FreeBSD I am busy creating a CUPS article, written by Chess Griffin and being moved to article format by me. I did some minor rewording already; and a preview can be found here:
/cups/index.html. Apart from that I am also updating the documentation set to read more information about our CSup application and demote CVSup as client side CVS client a bit (it will still be used, and it’s -the- tool to offer CVSup facilities, since csup is not yet capable of doing that, though clientside can and should be taken over if you do not need to mirror the entire cvs tree for others). I’ll hope to finish that as soon as possible! (Yes Martin I know that you are waiting for it ;-))

So, one of my little personal posts that will popup every now and then. I have a new look, and a new car :-), and a brandnew laptop! I am very happy with the three of them, if you are interested in knowing more about this, contact me and I could probably share a few details here and there :-).

Well well, All my services are migrated from the We-Dare colocated facilities to Germany, where I obtained a couple of accounts through hetzner.de, delivering me faster machines, more bandwidth, better agreements etc, for more or less the same price. I found myself a fool if I wasn’t going to persue this. So my personal colocated services and JR-Hosting colocated services moved over to Germany now, residing on dual core machines with a bit more ram then before, a lot more diskspace, and better bandwidth agreements.

Everything had been moved over now; so if you spot something interesting, please let me know so that I can fix it.

Sadly this will also call the end of the days for a couple of websites run by friends of mine, whom didn’t want to move over to Germany, so they will be resting in peace soon (since the contracts will be terminated at We-Dare), they are www.grunn.org, and www.elarial.com , with all attached subdomains with them. I think the three of us learned a lot with those mentioned websites, and I would like to thank HuMPie and Kees (Elarial founder) for their continues support and trust in me maintaining our shared colocated machine. I’ll post updates about the new machines soon (in the my machines list) and mark the soon to be dismantled onces as *A(rchived).

On a work related note: I obtained my CCSA exam today. I passed with 81% out of the required 70%, so this is a nice start of the weekend!

So, Saturday and today I spend a bit of time updating my honeynet check mirror application, which retrieves information from various mirrors to do an educated guess on when the mirrors did a last sync (all in perspective ofcourse because it doesn’t tell the actual status, but at least it’s a guide, and if properly done, we can see what happends).

That ofcourse doesn’t mean the tool is honeynet only, you can easily change it for your own needs to enlist several own mirrors etc. It’s just that I named it for the honeynet project: check_honeynet, one could argue to name it “evil-mirror-validator” or something (evil- are prefixes of most of my projects).

Anyway: back to the discussion: v1.7 has a new way of parsing configuration records which is rather straight forward. I will be implementing the same for 2.0 (which is actually just a continued development on top of 1.7). This makes use of the Config::Simple module, which enables me to write it all ini-style based (it was already like that, but then resolved more ugly then it is now).

If you browse to the downloads section, you will find it there, with a published web-frontend and so on. If you have any comments please let me know. From what I saw from my local tests this just works fine.

For 2.0 I will be issueing a seperated statistics file, which I will write ini based (from the application) to gather statistics about [ok] [bad] [banned] hosts. This way we can more selectively send messages to the bogus mirror, and even ban them (which could result in an automated removal from the main site for example) if they trigger the (adjustable) thresholds.

Hello,

It was a time ago already that I posted some updates to the site, I had been very busy with work and things around that, so E_NOTIME to bring in updates. Because I dont see that change anytime soon, I’ll stick with some Technical Contributions to the internet. I am playing a lot with Checkpoint at the moment, and I would like to document some trivial things, as well as some other things that are not as trivial as they seem. I know that others can use the information (hence even Elsevier contacted me recently to help write a book about Checkpoint NGX) so lets try to share and document it properly.

In the menubar you can see that I moved a lot of technical items to the “Technical” menu, I’ll place nice information there. I will probably bring in a seperated category for Checkpoint under the FAQ as well so that it’s even easier to spot.

I am also writing up more for FreeBSD in the near future (if time permits) and I am pondering in documenting a few PoC’s that I did recently.

So expect information back on the board soon, but not regarding my private life anymore, I just dont have enough time to do so.

Allthough I am a die-hard FreeBSD enthusiast, lets congratulate the NetBSD group with it’s 15th anniversary!

FreeBSD and NetBSD always have had a friendly competition with regards to implementing new technology, I hope we can both learn and adopt from that for at least the next 15 years

For more information about the NetBSD Operating System: www.netbsd.org
For more information about the FreeBSD Operating System: www.freebsd.org

Since somewhat more then a week ago I decided to give a burst of energy back to the FreeBSD Dutch Documentation project again by making the current translations up to date and submitting them towards the main project. As you could have seen there were a lot of commits because of this lately, and I also setup a personal p4 workspace for this so that I can better maintain the documentation at hand…

Roughly said that I did more then an entire chapter in the last few days since the backlog is so huge, it seems like entire translations at one go, but it seems to be worth the effort.

Dennis also hooked up and decided to translate the Virtualization chapter, which will be included in perforce first and then will be imported into the official tree (after ripping out any possible error).

I also commited work in progress for the mail chapter and advanced-networking chapter (Benno van den Berg, thanks!), they need a little TLC (Tender, Love and Care) before they can be in, but if they do not give any real problems I might as well import partial revisions after making sure they maintain the high quality level of the FreeBSD Project.

That said, the rest of my projects are still ongoing and I keep being busy as usual, more updates probably to follow!

I would like to wish you all a happy and terrific 2008!

After 1st christmasday (which was just casual at home, hacking around in FreeBSD Sources and documentation (nl_NL had been updated again… :-)), 2nd christmasday followed, the day that I spend largely at Denise and Luca’s place

I got some really nice gifts from Denise, Luca and her parents which I can use very well :-), together with Denise’s brother and the three of us we played several games with Luca which he liked most of the time

We also went outside for a little and walked around in the Nothern part of Spijkenisse, here we saw some nice nature and we bumped into some Scottish Highlanders along the way, very interesting beasts to see. It was a bit tricky to cross the beast-fence though, but we found out later that we could normally bypass that by using the “door” (which was a door to prevent the beasts from escaping the scene, but letting people go in and out)

Later on Luca ate dinner already and we ate a bit later (including Luca) and after that Luca went to bed and we started building up the “hotel“ game. Luca needed to tell Denise (and later me) something about the birthday of his nephew, and then finally went to bed :-).

We played hotel for a little (I played with Denise because there can only be four players) and suddenly Denise and I realised we had won the game.. every other player overbought him/herself and needed to get rid of their property and we had enough money to make sure that we could collect the hotels where needed. The teamcombination was brilliant