Proof of Life

Joachim Nilsson - June 7, 2013 - 1 min read

There is a certain “burstyness” to the way I work on my open source projects. It seems it often coincides with intense work loads during new release cycles at work. However, I’ve just finished restoring two pages that got lost in the big server crash: mrouted pimd Big thanks goes to the Wayback Machine for maintaining records of the original pages I lost!

Resurrection

February 17, 2013 - 1 min read

Quite some time has passed now since our old site, http://vmlinux.org, crashed and burned, and with it much of my previous Open Source work and blogs. Tech blog entries, archives for the projects I maintain, lost. Backups? Of course not. This all happened in 2011. Since then we also managed to lose the domain and I kind of lost myself for a while, including my motivation. Fortunately, at this point in time I had migrated most of my projects from CVS and Subversion to DVCS’ like Bzr and GIT, so I could easily setup new homes for most of my Open Source projects at GitHub.

Announcing pimd v2.1.7

January 9, 2011 - 1 min read

This is a followup release to the security fix in pimd, v2.1.6. The change to use /var/lib/misc/, instead of the insecure /var/tmp/, has now been refactored into using the proper FHS recommended /var/run/pimd/ instead. As always, check the homepage, the ChangeLog and the GIT log for more details.

Announcing pimd v2.1.6

January 8, 2011 - 1 min read

This is a security release of pimd, v2.1.6. The following fixes are included: CVE-2011-0007: “Insecure file creation in /var/tmp” Build error on GNU/kFreeBSD Thanks to Vincent Bernat this time for the CVE fix! As always, check the homepage, the ChangeLog and the GIT log for more details.

Use Ubuntu to Serve iTunes

December 31, 2010 - 3 mins read

OK, so we finally got an iPad. The effective marketing droids of Apple are doing a good job, even the Linux zealots are starting to use their products :-) So, how to serve the immense music collection of our family to the iPad? Well, it seems the magic integration with iTunes is not enough (yet), so you need a Simple Daap Client app on your iPad to get the most out of this HowTo.

Announcing mrouted v3.9.3

October 11, 2010 - 1 min read

Here is another bug-fix release of mrouted. This time with a couple of really nasty bugs fixed. A big thanks to Dan Kruchinin for tracking down a NULL pointer dereference in the conf file parser and an overzealous check of netmask that made mrouted useless over tunnel interfaces or point-to-point links (OpenVPN, PPP, L2TP and PPTP). See the ChangeLog or the GIT log for details.

Announcing pimd v2.1.3

September 8, 2010 - 1 min read

I’m very pleased to present the next bug-fix release of pimd, v2.1.3. The real announcement for v2.1.2 I never really got around to write because the diligent Debian maintainer, Antonin Kral alerted me to some problems. Which is great! I do not have the resources to test the build on all those platforms. I sure appreciate all the help I can get. Thank you Antonin! As always, check the homepage, the changelog and the GIT log for details.

Finally, NetBSD Boots in KVM!

August 29, 2010 - 1 min read

Compared to OpenBSD and FreeBSD the NetBSD install was hard, really hard. It wasn’t until I stumbled across this that I managed to convince myself to try it again. The trick seems to be to ignore as much as you can from other Internet tips. NetBSD runs fine in KVM, so if someone says you need to run it in Qemu mode — don’t believe the hype. OK, in virt-manager there is no preset defaults for NetBSD, so I went with a generic OS and tried starting the install from there.

Minix editline v1.14.0

August 12, 2010 - 2 mins read

It is with great pleasure I announce the next release of the editline library by Simmule Turner and Rich Salz! This is a popular library, it exists in several forked versions. This release marks the end of a huge effort where archaeological methods have been applied to recover fixes and improvements developed independently over several decades by the following projects: Heimdal, Festival speech-tools, Debian, as well as patches by Mr. Steve Tell.

Micro Tetris™ v1.2.0

August 2, 2010 - 1 min read

New release of Micro Tetris™, v1.2.0, available for download now! Noteworthy changes and additions: Preview display fixes by Mattias Walström Next level triggered after every 10 cleared lines Speed increase by each level Display high score at game over High score recorded to save file Pause key fixed, again by Mattias Walström Online GIT repository and release tarball available at the usual places: github:tetris.git (Main GIT) vmlinux:tetris.git (Backup) tetris-1.2.0.tar.bz2, MD5 (FTP) See also the Freshmeat page for a more consistent updates.