It has been seven days since my holidays started. Until now I have been at home but tomorrow morning
we will start our two week trip to Italy. In addition to us two there will be
four friends going with us and I am looking forward to have a good time.
Monthly Archive for August, 2006
For one or two years now I am looking for a new naming scheme for my computers.
Currently they are named after characters from Simpsons, Futurama or Lord of
the Rings depending on when I named the machine or what name it received from
DHCP.
But a few days ago a colleague told that he names his computers after PPC
assembler opcodes and I really like the idea because we both do quite some PPC
assembler coding. It is not very creative to just use the naming scheme of
somebody else but I really liked the idea. So I have now renamed my laptop from
localhost.localdomain to dcbz because it is a opcode I have
used surprisingly often in the last few months. My WallTop which hangs in the
living room and displays our pictures has been renamed to eieio.
There are still enough computers in our house to be renamed and I am positive
I will find an opcode for each that matches.
So after having moved in December and now living over half a year in our
new house I have finally managed to (re-)activate my
WallTop
again. It is now hanging on the wall in our living room and the only cable to
it is the one from the power supply. I have finally managed to get the
wireless card working (using orinoco_cs, orinoco) but only with a static IP
address. I have no idea why DHCP does not work but I found out that the wired 3Com
PCMCIA card previously used does also not work with dynamic addresses. So it now mounts our
pictures via NFS from the fileserver and displays pictures using
feh from Fedora Extras.
With only having 32MB feh seems to be the only application being
able to display our pictures without lots of swaping. The only other
applications now running on this machine are portmap (for NFS),
sshd and my own little network osd server (xosd_server).
The osd server listens on a network port and prints any text coming from this
direction on the screen.
I am still thinking about replacing the OpenSSH daemon with the SSH daemon
implementation dropbear
which seems much smaller and therefore much better suited for my needs because
everytime I try to make a SSH connection to the WallTop most of the time is lost
with swaping.