I couldn't get KeePassX to import my PWManager files natively, so I needed a way to do this in a multi-step fashion (I want to use keepass format so I can have the same password program/database on my computer and G1). The easiest appeared to be:
I've written a little shell script I'm calling gajim-pinger. If you use gajim for IM and ping.fm for updating your social networks, this simplifies things by:
It does this by using zenity to ask you what you're doing, then gajim-remote to …
read moreI like to my rewrite rules performed in the central Apache config (well, individual vhost files) so it can be revision controlled and centrally managed. The recent upgrade to the Gallery 5.x-2.0 module broke the rewriting rules I was using. Below are my new rewrite rules for a …
read moreI've had this little script laying around for awhile that I use as a wrapper for RCS to check out a group of files in one batch, edit them all, and commit them. So I setup repository for rcsedit in case others want to try it out.
It should be … read moreThis is a big step for me. It's the first time I've used a non-custom CMS.
Since I've owned silfreed.net it's always been a custom app. I used jogger (then jolem, then blogstar) to create blog posts through a jabber/XMPP bot. However, this lacked the flexibility to create …
read moreDue to comment spam, I've had to disable trackbacks. I don't think this is a big problem for anyone; the technical implementation was really bad. I don't have any approved trackbacks, but 1,938 non-approved trackbacks - all spam. This should hopefully slow down the flood of 'approve this comment!' emails …
read moreWhile some other blog software has had comment moderation before, since I use a completely hand-written CMS, I needed to implement it myself. I've been having quite the problem with comment spam recently (as any of you with RSS readers has seen, I'm sure), but hopefully my solution will fix …
read moreAlthough I'm not part of any cool group like RPMforge.net, I still do like to build packages. Unfortunately I've been a little lazy recently and have gotten behind in some that really should be done.
I've been working trying to get a bunch of different Jabber-related packages together …
read moreI recently upgraded both [NetMRG]'s and my own CVS repositories into subversion repositories. Everything seemed to go pretty smoothly. I setup ssh access for developers, and have both the webdav stuff setup for anonymous checkouts and the new ViewCVS setup for tree browsing. The only thing I recommend is …
read moreIn NetMRG's bugtracker, I always thought it'd be nice to have a comment every time a commit to a bug was made. That way everyone involved would know when changes were being made, and what changes. Luckily, Mantis allows for this via its Source Control Integration.
If only it …
read moreYep, released another version of this website. Although I still think it needs some work, I'm much happier with it at this point than my old website, and wanted to stop looking at it. Feel free to leave me comments; I plan on updating it a bit more to fix …
read moreIt almost even works now! Things don't time out (thanks Daniel!), and it looks much better with everything else. In case you're wondering, I called the package 'phalbum', and I should be releasing it soon (once I get viewcvs setup). In the mean time, check out my online photo album …
read moreYes, it's time to redo the look of my website again ;)
You'll probably find broken links, if you do, please email them to me. I've moved my articles into a database now (finally; the guy that loves databases and still has flat files laying around) and reorganized my downloads, so …
read moreAnother version of everybody's (well, [Brady]'s and mine anyway) favorite graphing software, NetMRG, has been released! This is mostly a features and bugfix release; FreeBSD support has been improved, Group History Navigation was added, Graph titles and options were added, an user preferences are notable. Enjoy!
read moreWell, [Brady] and I have been making great strides in NetMRG, which you can follow in the NetMRG CVS Tree. We're working for an 0.9 release - but we still have a number of showstoppers (see TODO).
We hope to have this done in a couple weeks, but no promises …
read moreWith [Brady] here watching the TNN ST:TNG thingy tonight (prepping for Nemesis!), I got bored and started working on the frontend for the gabber + tkabber database logger. Well, it got pretty far along, and wound up being a pretty decent frontend, I think. Check out the latest version, and …
read moresilbot has been retired - but only in name. It is now known as 'jolem' - the Jabber Golem. I thought it was different the the boring old *bot scheme. I'll release the code soon, as well. Just some minor cleanup to do, then we're ready.
read morein preparations of (maybe) releasing silbot code for others to enjoy (mostly for educational purposes), I've been hacking it to do xml config parsing and to start using the 'show' (online, away, dnd, etc) and 'status' (text messages describing your 'show'). You can see this in operation on my site …
read moreI've updated the mod_auth_mysql plugin to have real md5 support (as opposed to md5 crypt or whatever its called). You can download my new version while I try to get with the developer to figure out what to do.
Also, this project combined with mod_auth_cache can do some cool stuff …
read moresilbot now has category support. Just ask it. Really. Say things like "help log" and it will tell you all about it. Pretty spiffy, eh?
read moreI've been working on a AT&T Wireless Bill Parser. Things are going pretty well so far. I'm able to jump though all the login hoops and download the invoice page - now I just have to parse the invoice page. At that point I want to be able to stick …
read moreNow I have a chatbot (of chatbot fame) running on duo's jabber server, and is very nice. You can read all about [Brady]'s conversations with chatbot at my chatlog
read moresilbot has slowly gain more and more functionality. It can now ping, traceroute, log messages (ie, blog), and now has my sms-splitter functionality. I intend to add category support to the blogging; this way you can update multiple sections of your website from one place. I guess I need to …
read moreSo, I've finally gotten rid of that PoS jogger stuff. I've written my very own bot to handle my updates called 'silbot'. If you'd like to talk to it, just point your jabber client at 'silbot@silfreed.net'.
read moreFinally have the latest jabber server up and running. I've still been trying to get the latest Jogger (from CVS) to work correctly. It dies with the error:
I've written a Nagios SNMP Gauge plugin. It allows a person to check a series of mibs (oids) for data out of bounds (min and max). I mostly wrote this to do remote disk checks, but it could be used for cpu on some devices as well. It also has …
read moreI've written two nagios/netsaint plugins. They can be found in the downloads section.
The first is check_snmp_counter - it's purpose is to watch counters via snmp and make sure they don't go over or under a certain range.
The second is check_tcping - it's a tcp ping for when udp or …
read moreI'm not sure this new jogger is all its cracked up to be..
When I subscribe to jogger using 'jogger@jogger.jabber.silfreed.net', jogger dies without allowing my subscription to its presense.
When I subscribe to jogger using 'jogger.jabber.silfreed.net', it allows me to see its presence …
read moreWell, I'm testing out jogger v0.8 from cvs. I hope this version works a little better...
read morewow.. it took almost 30 seconds for jogger to do that last update.. I guess jogger needs updated itself...
read morephpAIM has changed it's name to phaym - I think it stands for something like 'php aim - AOL Yanks Monkeys' - or something like that.
read moreokay.. this is a little better. maybe it just needed nudged...
read moreseems jogger is getting finickier to configure. ick.
read moreThis is what I wrote to my SourceForge account about the development of phpAIM (AIM is (tm) AOL).
Unfortunately, development has stalled before it really started. I was originally going to design a PHP script that modeled the Perl Net::AOLIM module, but I think I'd rather write an extension …
read moreYou know, I really think PHP could be a really good scripting language, but there are definitely some things holding it back.
For one, there is no support for SIGnals from the OS. Things like SIGKILL and SIGHUP. These would be really useful. I love PHP's native database support and …
read morenote: readme for installing jogger needs a little updating. doesn't even mention that you need to modify the jabber.xml file and add a component for it.
read moreThis is my first update using jogger. If this works, it's pretty sweet.
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