Time, Time, Time
Like everyone else, I’ve been so buried with billable things, community things, work things, health things, relationship things, travel things, and survival things, I haven’t had time to update my diary entry, so here’s a much better attempt at it.
Plucker Feature Freeze
Well, we’re once again coming up on a new release of Plucker. Lots of new things in this one, but we’re freezing the code this weekend (figuratively and literally, the cvs server is in the middle of a 48cm-laden town full of snow).
Some new things:
- Possible to configure all hardware buttons for different actions
- Fixed memory leaks
- The database name is shown in the category form (Chris)
- Unfiled is unselected when selecting categories for a “new” DB
- Screen depth is set to the default screen depth for the device when the main form is closed (fixed several IIIc problems)
- When showing a “large” image the toolbar (if any) will be removed temporarily
- Beam directly from CF now (TRG Pro, requires their devkit to compile this feature in)
- Fixed other minor problems
The website is coming along well, but I’m still stuck on a few things. I’ll manage to squeak them out in time though.
BBC Errata
It seems some of my slides at LWE on the BBC were actually wildly inaccurate. Erg. I hate last-minute project completion where some things get in, and some don’t. Much work to go on this, and on the website. Lucky for me, I’m not doing the website side of things this time.
Not yet anyway…
Truth
I’m glad we can finally feel open enough to get things out, at any expense. In this, we will find power.
i-CVS
There’s been some interest in my talk on “Secured CVS” configuration/etc. at Linuxcare’s main offices being multicast across the web. Not sure yet how or if we can pull that off, but at the very least, we can slap it in RealVideo.
So far, the topics I’m proposing for my talk are:
- Using cvs over ssh with anonymous ssh (no credentials)
- pserver installation, configuration, and current exploits
- CVS over ssh with a trusted user accounts (credentials)
- CVS and box hardening techniques
- CVS tricks and tips (pre/post commit magic)
- Using CVS for daily work, web development, codebase maintenance
- Web interfaces to CVS (ViewCVS, cvsweb)
- GUI clients for CVS under Windows and Linux (pharmacy, WinCVS, JavaCVS, TclCVS, others.)
- Establishing quotas on unsecured cvs accounts using ssh
- chroot jailing your CVS repositories
- Multiple repository maintenance and administration
- How do use CVS with your /etc and ~/ directory to provide backups and security of data
- rsync’ing a CVS repository, anonymous and trusted
OpenFlock, GCTP
Time to get cracking on some fun projects, including <project>OpenFlock</project> and gctp for Group Calendaring. Anyone else interested, please email us, or check out the project’s homepage.
No, we are not trying to reinvent the wheel.
Advogato Wishlist #739
Why do we not have a <project>Foo</project> element, and a <code>for i in foo;</code> element? Anyone listening?
PROJECT{n..10}
So much to do, and still more fun projects coming around. I hope those people who flipped me their cards at LWE were genuinely serious about me speaking at their conferences as well. I was terrified in our booth talking, but I can definately present the material, if I’m familiar with it, and PDA and embedded devices, wireless, handhelds, serial protocols… these are things I know. We’ll see how it turns out.
Independant Author
A new tangent in my writing career could be soon on my horizon. I’ve received nothing but good praise about my recent work in writing. My ability to clearly articulate thoughts, feelings, “move” the reader. Might be time to start a column somewhere.
Perhaps “Celiac Times” or something similar. Erika, you with me on this one?
Enough for now, my body needs food. Much more to do tonight, and even more to do tomorrow.