New release of radns. Bug fixes.
New release of radns. Bug fix.
I released radns, a small program that listens for IPv6 Router Advertisements with the Recursive DNS Server (RDNSS) option and stores the address to the DNS resolver in a file. See RFC 5006 for more about the RDNSS option.
The program is released under a two clause BSD license. Thanks to Stickybit AB for letting me release this.
Added an embryonic page describing the mosig mailing list (Swedish) for hackers in and around Malmö, Sweden.
Finally started categorizing my Interesting Documents and now list several of them under retro-computing instead. Also added some new texts to the retro-comp archive and moved the links to their own page.
Next up: Retro software. I'm going through my archives and trying to figure out what can be freely published.
I've been thinking about providing a sitemap as a service to my visitors from the World Wide Wait for some time, but hadn't found a nice enough program to do it. Now I found Daniel Naber's nice tree sitemap generator. And, so, without further delay, here it is: The Sitemap.
I discovered by accident that the hack.org domain has been entered into Websense's Master Database of suspicious sites. They have categorized the hack.org domain under "hacking" which they define as:
Sites that provide information about or promote illegal or questionable access to or use of computer or communication equipment, software, or databases.
which is clearly preposterous if you compare it with the content of this site.
I wrote a text about Websense vs hack.org.
Changed the image of myself on the front page and in the bio. The old image:
was taken in 1997 and I guess it was time for an update.
Also updated some of the Swedish vegan guide.
Minor changes to my Swedish vegan guide, my short biography and my text on FreeBSD on the Thinkpad X60s.
I'm keeping a calendar for interesting events in and around the city of Malmö, Sweden. The calendar is written in Swedish.
I have started on a journal of sorts. It's mainly made up of notes I make in my calender anyway for URLs I need to investigate more, perhaps analysis of current events and interesting tidbits in the fringes of technology, arts, music and Reality Hacking in general.
A small warning: My journal is written in Swedish.
I have made a new release of my ACL Support for the INN News server.
This release fixes a bug where a data item in a table wasn't always NUL terminated. It also includes a better installation description (INSTALL-ACL) and some test programs.
Started on a small page with retro-computing links.
I wrote a text on installing and running FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad X60 laptop.
The hack.org web site and (almost) all services connected with the hack.org domain have been down since May 31st due to ISP troubles. Most services are now available again, but some DNS servers are not yet updated.
Apparently our ISP, PRQ, was raided by the police, possibly having something to do with the Bit Torrent tracker The Pirate Bay. Apparently, all servers were taken by the police when the PRQ datacentre was raided. This, of course, included the router the hack.org traffic went through.
Please note: Neither I nor The Temple of the Moby Hack have anything to do with The Pirate Bay. Our only connection is that we were a customer of the same ISP.
A Swedish text to help vegans in Malmö, Sweden.
Swedish: Jag har börjat skriva på en längre text med veganinformation; om hur det är att leva som vegan, var man får tag i det man behöver, inte bara råvaror till mat, utan också sådana saker som tvål.
Added some new entries in Interesting Documents on the Dartmouth operating system DTSS, the Fortran 77 standard, PCLSRing, the ITS operating system, E2E systems, Burroughs Algol, crash revovery and fiction manuscript hints.
Some key servers (notably pgp.mit.edu) had my former PGP key marked as expired. The key server didn't respond well to an upload of a PGP key where the expired subkey was exchanged for a new one. I have no idea why.
Since I had no signatures on the old one, I decided to create a new key altogether. I also revoked the older key and an ancient one I found on the key server.
I touched up etrade, a Payment Service Provider System I wrote in February, 2000. The only change is that I made it runnable out of the box on most systems, if they only want to test it.
It's a rather simple proof of concept written in Python that uses simple HTTP requests for the entire seller - payment system - consumer transaction.
The scenario it covers is that a seller has an online catalogue where the consumer chooses what to buy. Both contact the Payment Service Provider who handles the transaction. Think of it like Paypal or, well, VISA or Mastercard.
The system includes both the seller side and the Payment Service Provider side.
I wrapped up greycheck and friends, a greylisting daemon I wrote in Perl that speaks to the Exim MTA (hairy Exim configuration example included in the tar ball). The greycheck daemon has been running for a couple of months on the hack.org mail server and seems to work fine; a lot of spam never gets delivered.
I started working at Axis Communications on September 1st. Updated CV accordingly.
I wrote a small Perl script to generate File Listings with file descriptions as static HTML files and used it on my public files. It's called flist.
I added the Perl script above along with two scripts to help cheat in Nethack, or, well, at least keep several saved games at once. They are called nhsave, to save the game under a descriptive label, and nhgames to list and recall the saved games.
I have re-organized the collections a bit and added a new category, Other Public Files.
Swedish calendar settings for Emacs by Daniel Jensen added to Interesting Software section.
Wrote a short biography with a link to my much longer description of myself (warning: lots of pictures).
I implemented a simple stylesheet to force the breaking of paragraphs at 40 ems. Since a lot of people seem to use their WWW brower in full screen mode on large screens, this should increase the legibility.
My only worry is that some people might have less than 40 characters visible at the same time, which means scrolling a bit. However, most of those people won't use CSS anyway, so it's a non-problem (think vision impaired users with Braille displays).
I remade the index of my personal archive and splitted my English writing from my Swedish texts.
Updated a lot of facts here and there.
I hacked the INN News server to support Access Control Lists for newsgroups and to use Berkeley DB for user handling. It also contains From line rewriting on postings with the address taken from the authenticated user.
There is a patch for the canonical 2.4.1 distribution. The full release is also available.
To manage the access control lists, I have written a perl module, News::INNAdmin, and a CGI script to be used in a Web server. I call them NAF, as in News Administrator's Friend.
This work was funded by the Fruktträdet network and FSDB, the Association of the Swedish Deafblind.
Horrid but fun evening hack I did after a discussion at work: scheduler.c. It's a cooperative multitasker inside a Unix process, using the GNU C extension addresses of labels and local per-process stacks.