Continuation

I’ve been looking to be able to code a bit of RoR while on the go. From a few devices which I have, N810 has the longest battery run time.

So… Google gave me a nice How To from Jon Ferrent, it talks about N800 but it’s the same.

I was trying to do all the steps but I just managed to install ruby and sqlite3 packages. After that Gems package installed well but it wasn’t too useful, any attempt at

gem install

or

gem update

nothing worked, left it over the night, nothing happen.

So…

Uninstalled the gem package, downloaded Real Ruby Gems in a zip file ( you will need the unzip package ).

Unzipped the file, went inside the directory. then:

ruby setup.rb --no-ri --no-rdoc

wow it installed something, now doing :

gem update

told me nothing requires update, great, now lets go with rails:

gem install rails

Amazing, installed really quick ( I would recommend not installing the ri and rdoc as well here )

Just created some test rails app and it works!
Now it’s time to find a decent text editor for it and client for Mercurial.

gadget, hacking, programming, ruby, website

After, not much over 1 year, I am retiring my Media Vault .

Having a network attached storage is a briliant idea. I am staying with it. It’s just the Media Vault product.

Slow death. After half a year, a small fan has broken and since then it became loud, I have contacted HP to get it replaced, but they asked me to ship the whole unit to them, even when I was perfectly fine to replace it my self. I said ˇNo, thank you˝. That was my first experience with HP Support for dummies (home user). Months later, I have moved to a new place with a dedicated computer closet and I bought a proper server, the ML110. From there, I started experimenting with OpenSolaris, which with ZFS and NFS - SMB sharing, it’s soo much better and extremely flexible solution.

Two 750GB drives later I have my first Sol(aris)NAS. Very nice creature and actually faster than the MV. Last week I started migrating data on to the SolNas, and today I’ve finished migrating clients to it. Nice!

MV is switched off, my energy consumption lost a 35W sucker and I have no idea what to do with it now. Just gonna leave it where it is. Maybe you want it ?

geek, hacking, household, solaris, story

I’ve spent most of the long weekend playing games and working.

Finally, after around 4 years of having the AA Account ( AAA I’ve finished Special Forces training! This gave me access to some neat weaponry in the game. Also unlocked SF exclusive deployments. Most of the time i was playing SF Hospital, but now SF Snakeplains is my favourite. The only training which I didn’t finish is for becoming a Medic.

I have also lost about 1.5 days over the weekend replacing old Monowall FIrewall with a state of art CIsco ASA 5510 Security Plus. I have some suspicion that current SysOp has a bug in regard to Port Speed. When, you boot the box, ports, which are connected to gigabit start, to glow orange, as they should to indicate 1Gbps connection, but after the system has finished booting, they are back to green, telling me that they are 100Mbps. After disconnecting and connecting back the cables, they are back to orange .. 1Gbps.

Oh, also replacing the firewall and extended period of time of dis-connectivity caused Windows 2003 DNS server on AD controller to crash in a way that it wasn’t serving any queries any more… that is MS for you.

cisco, gaming, hacking, windows

hacking

I have downloaded Foresight Linux 2 with a hope to see some really cool and up to date Linux distribution.

Yes, it has GNOME 2.22 which just came out ( was it yesterday ? ) and yes, this is cool. But if you are matured computer user, you have your favourite tools. Naming a few for me: gkrellm and unison(this one is new for me). Now, gkrellm is longer on the marked than most of the current cool distributions, Unison is not a toddler as well. They are both missing from Foresight Linux … not only standard installation but also the software repository … c’mon!

I have also learned that Foresight is based on rPath as well as Asterisk Now…

I am worried that I will have to ditch it , like I have done with Asterisk Now, rPath and conary is not really production mature! - at least for me.

asterisk, foresight, geek, hacking, linux, rant

I have just discovered a XRDP , which is a RDPv4 server for Linux/Unix.

I am well impressed! Especially that it saves your session  between connections.  Time to incorporate it into my systems.

geek, gentoo, hacking, idea, laptop, linux

I have started using voip systems something like a 3 years ago. First casual for calling abroad as advised by my former boss I have registered with SipGate. First used it with linphone, later actualy bought a hard phone  the Grandstream GXP2000. It was always fun.

Later I have installed Asterisk server for my self to play with … and this is where the real love for VoIP started.

At the moment I have local numbers in 3 countries if my family wishes to call me from their regular phones  a few phones around my flat, phones in my parents place, as well as my cell phone can SIP in

Now I am working on commercial solutions with Asterisk at the center and Grandstream, Sipura/Linksys and Cisco clients. Asterisk is brilliant and strait forward… worse with the clients, Grandstream phones are OK to provision while their gateway is just full of confusions and you do need to know a lot about the environment which it will work in - without documentation, unable to configure. Sipura/Linksys phones have a strait forward documentation for provisioning … but it does not work … use VoIP Info website. Cisco Phones … you do need to dig out some documentation and IRV codes to make them go …

Why I am writing that ?

cisco, hacking, rant, voip

After years of consideration I have acquired  a Bluetooth HeadSet - finally something what doesn’t screen rob me.

Sound quality is decent! There is one but - outdoor, music source has to really close to your headset , there is shit loads of interferences out the in world. Indoors is perfect, I can roam around whole flat without loosing signal.

I have hooked it up to my E61 which does not do stereo and it shit ( good it’s my last month of a contract ) .

I have hooked it up to my Music Player the StormBlue A9+ which I had for a while and until yesterday I was disappointed with it  - now I love it, it works with my headset perfectly.

I have also connected it to my computer at home and now I am about to connect it at home. It’s dirt easy - thanks to Audio Devices How To from BlueZ

btw headset is Motorola S9

e61, gadget, geek, gentoo, hacking, laptop, linux, music

About two weeks ago I have moved to a new place. One bedroom flat, no flatmates ! Perfect.

Got my phone line sorted in 3 days, just a reconnection no installation fees. ADSL was 4 days later on the line, thanks to really good support from my ISP the AAISP. After a few days I realised that I can download faster than 2Mbps … little poking around tells me that ADSL synchronized at 7.8Mbps! but BT gave me 2Mbps profile. Simple email to AAISP, next working day I have my 8Mbps allocated. Really like that kind of service, no fuss with script reading clueless bots.

Today done final installation of network cabling … my thumbnail hurts. Couldn’t hide them well so I have used white cables … just forgot that I have ordered 50 feet … not 25 feet long ones  and now I have a lot of slack.

Oh mate, it is so relaxing and cool without all these flatmates.

broadband, hacking, household, internet access

I have been complaing about lack of nice CA GUI for PKI with OpenSSL.

So I have found gnoMint :

gnoMint is a x509 Certification Authority management tool for GTK/Gnome environments.

gui, hacking, openssl, pki