’tis a new year…
Well it’s a new year, it’s also been nearly three months since I last blogged. I guess I’ve been a lazy naughty boy, although the real reason is that I just haven’t had time or felt the need to, not that I feel the need to now, well not on an emotional level. To quote Andy, I’ve been a “non blogging tart”, an accurate description to be sure.
It’s the new year and as such time to make resolutions that the chance of keeping is slim, there are two this year, one serious and one fun. The serious one is to get fit, I’m about two stone heavier then I should be, so it’s time to eat more sensibly this year, and to buy some hidiously expensive exercise equipment. I’m tempted to get an eliptical cross trainer. After using my mothers step machine last year I was able to reach a decent weight, but I could never easilly loose it off of my chest, with a cross trainer I should be able to.
The non serious resolution is to blog a lot more. Even if no one reads it, I’ve found it nice to have a history that I can go back and read on. To that end (until hiddenblog is sorted) I’ve installed WordPress and removed the old narwar.net. Sara said she liked the old one, which I’ll agree it was nice, but the only used part of it was the blog.
So it’s time to catch up… whats happened in the past three months?
First thing is I’m still living with John and Ali, and really intend to for the next five or six months until Sara is in a position to move in with me over summer, we’ll have a look for a house two months or so beforehand. Work is still good and enjoying it every day, it’s always different.
I haven’t had a huge amount of time for personal projects, I’ve got myself a Soekris 4801 which I intend to make a missionable FreeBSD machine. So far I’ve got FreeBSD down to about 16Mb with plenty of usable utilities on it. I intend for it to do routing and nat when it needs to, as well as other things such as monitoring and logging.
I’m also in the process of setting up a proper routed VPN between several sites, on which I’m trying to run OSPF to distribute the routes automagically, however I’m having issues atm. I have two Quagga servers set up and they are (or were atm) swapping routes correctly. They arn’t however sending or recieving routing information from a Cisco 2620 I have also connected to the VPN. It’s causing some issues.
As for projects I’ve kinda accidentally involved myself with programming (or attemping to) the new version of LuBBs. Looking interesting so far, although it’s only in planning stages.
Ah well that’s about it for now, I’ll try and write more stuff soon!
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