Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
Break out your pens my freedom loving friends and write your senator. It seems that it is illegal for me to modify a piece of hardware that I own. That’s right, today the USDOJ siezed control of isonews.com. The owner had been selling mod chips…
Do you want to get married in the middle of the Sahara Desert but you can’t because there isn’t a church? Not a problem anymore, simply get the Inflatable Church and be on your merry way. You still have the whole problem of pumping the…
So I went all freaky about the fact that I thought my box at school was compromised today because school was filtering packets for a couple of well known viruses. I’m quite relieved that I don’t have to reinstall the whole mess again. But I…
I managed to insert Chipless using a key. This means that some other person can’t just easily overwrite it with some random crap they want to put up there. You can find it at freenet:SSK@WlOHUM05CM1SanXCO8qu1vGZGCQPAgM/fiction/chipless. Have fun.
I’ve been playing around with the FreeNet Project over the past night as part of an assignment examining peer to peer systems. I’m pretty impressed with it so far. It does take some time for your system to build up it’s routing tables, but overall…
Now both my desktop at school and my desktop at home have KDE-3.1 (at home it was thanks to apt for redhat). I was going to set up some NFS stuff to share my files at home with my computer at school, but that is…
Just a little update. As of right now, I’ve heard back from two different Ph.D. programs and I’ve been accepted into both of them. I guess that means that I’m 2 for 2. Which is far better than I fared last year. I should count…
I’m currently typing this from my KDE 3.1 desktop on a sunblade at school. I’ve got to say, it’s a very nice setup to have. The antialiased fonts really help out a lot. The desktop also seems fairly zippy (well, relative for a 500MHz machine…
I went a redid my little seti@home script to take data off the XML version of the pages. Also, it dumps the data into the MySQL database now too. You can see more information about how I’m doing in SETI, along with my brothers, at…
I think my broadband connection might finally be working, but I can’t be wholly sure. I haven’t any problems for the last 20 minutes while I’ve been using an SSH session. Ping times from campus to my home computer are back down to their usual…