Archive for the ‘ Systems Administration ’ Category
So I started writing a netboot server for floor. I decided to start writing the web interface first, and learn myself some mason, web perl, and database-y things. Also found some things out about the process that were a little undocumented/misdocumented (now a word). The biggest issue (so far) was file uploads. So here’s a quick [ READ MORE ]
This weekend, I decided it would be a good idea to turn my Linux router/firewall into an OpenBSD router/firewall. Clockfort recommended it, so I decided to grab backups of my iptables rules, install OpenBSD, and learn pf. I learned iptables about a year ago, when I first built this router/firewall. It acts like those little home [ READ MORE ]
So lately I’ve been trying to get an IPX test network going between my NAS and my desktop. The idea was to make my NAS an emulated NetWare server, and then make my desktop a client using the Linux IPX tools. IPX setup was trivial. Getting a NetWare emulator set up is almost impossible now. First off, [ READ MORE ]
Yesterday ended up being extraordinarily productive for me. I learned GTK+ in perl, and wrote the GUI for my Omegle app. It’s looking decent, although there is this annoying issue with the menu bar that’s bothering me a bit. It’s very simple, but I can’t really think of any other features to put in the [ READ MORE ]