Virtual Wake for St. Jude
07 Aug 2003I was sad to hear that St. Jude passed on. Lots of intresting reading at her virtual wake.
I was sad to hear that St. Jude passed on. Lots of intresting reading at her virtual wake.
On Tuesday, my friend’s ISP where this computer is hosted was hit by lighting. Everything was protected, but it knocked out the power and UPS. So K92 (this computers name) went down. We had LILO as a boot loader and it hung just saying “LI” on the screen. Steve was too busy with paying work to get to fixing this.
This morning we put the drive in misfit, the mail server and I fsck’ed and then installed GRUB, a mo’ betta bootloader, and now everything is happy, and the bunnies jump thru the field.
After spending much too long trying to figure out if I wanted to deal with the greif of implementing a UPnP Gateway with Twisted, I thought of another idea: Use Zeroconf to advertise a SOCKS4 server. That shouldn’t be too hard to do in Twisted, just need a zeroconf module, and a mDNS server.
And client developers could probably make use of Howl to do the zeroconf stuff. SOCKS4 is even easier (or so I’m told). Also Howl seems to have a mDNS server for linux… so we just need debian packages.
On a side note, now that I look at the howl tarball I see that it’s GPL’ed… why oh why do you GPL a library. :(.
[ Later: I heard back from the Howl developers that the license supposed to be BSD and will be in the next release. ]
jwz and co (because the comments are the best part) figure out how to make a custom ringer, among other things.
Aaron does a great job showing why Compulsory Licensing won’t work.
Also he should read Linked: The New Science of Networks to learn about all that crazy power law stuff.