A project a day…

Keeps the boredom away. So with this week break coming up, I’ve decided to do something once a day each day so that two things happen:

1. I get to finally do the things I have been putting off while school was still going on
2. By putting a time limit, I’m more likely to get something to work and not spend the next twenty years obsessing over each detail. I hope.

So what are the projects? Well. Glad you asked!

• Set up a self-hosted DNS
• Install horde groupware on my server
• Create a utility multi-boot USB, for emergency situations and as a reliable source for ISO.
• Set up a private bank and finance management system, primarially with Wesabe.
• No offence WordPress, but I also want to move to a Jekyll set up.

Beyond those, I have a few script ideas, like pulling more information from my scale and pedometer, or running a log server on my LAN to aggregate and analyze everything. Smallish things like that. I also really want to set up DD-WRT and FreeNAS but I don’t have the hardware to do so. Ah, dreams.

A basic summary of the server

So I’ve been blabbering on about my server, but what do I really mean when I mention it?

10:08 <micahjohnston> elliottcable: so is there anything interesting about your memory besides just you forget things?
10:08 <micahjohnston> elliottcable: you said it works differently
10:08 <elliottcable> I don’t forget them; I have a perfect memory. I have a broken *indexing* system.
10:09 <evaryont> elliottcable: all of humanity has a broken index system. I hope to fix it’s contact list…

That works well. I want to fix the contact list, to start off. Then remembering dates, or tasks, or that interesting thing from somewhere. Notes should not have to rattle in the head, either.

Humanity’s indexing system sucks, so let’s build one that doesn’t.

Out of pocket change, full of fun.

So the latest Steam sale was a lot of fun. And, I think that some people have noticed…

Nuclear Rhino: holy fuck, what game did you not buy?!

-FAP- Mr Razzle: Um
-FAP- Mr Razzle: hmm
-FAP- Mr Razzle: What?
-FAP- Mr Razzle: I cant find what you want of me
-FAP- Mr Razzle: OH SHIT
-FAP- Mr Razzle: THAT
-FAP- Mr Razzle: HOW THE FUCK
-FAP- Mr Razzle: O.o
-FAP- Mr Razzle: My screen isn’t big enough
-FAP- Mr Razzle: >.>

So yeah. Today, today was a good day.

Lulz in the Cyber Security Cave

The Game Desgin students are scared of some text on a black terminal. Sheesh.

It’s the network security lab. It’s a shitty name.

Anyways, in the latest photo I’ve uploaded, I’m scaring all the game design students with my “l33t hax0r skillz”. Of course, my one-man show is nothing compared to the awesome orchestra that some of us from [Buffer]Overflow did earlier.

I whipped up a script (you can see it in the upper left corner of the screen) that displays “HACKING …” and a progress bar. Nothing bad, really.

And a lot of pings and trees. ‘Cause that’s how we roll at UAT.

A previously undisclosed theme…

So with the release of Twenty Eleven, I decided it was time to ‘upgrade’ the to the theme. Obviously, if you are on the site, I opted to go with the dark theme.

The header image is not mine, but instead from Simon Carr on Flickr. Thanks for releasing the image under Creative Commons!

Now time to update my main page. At least now I don’t have to resort to ‘hacks’ to customize the header bar, which is nice.

EDIT: Now it’s updated. Go take a look!

Cheap gaming: $10 Amazon credit after Pre-ordering Pokemon Black/White

Well, I found out from CAG that Amazon is offering $10 credit to everyone who pre-orders the latest Pokemon game, either Black or White. (Perhaps you can nab a $20 credit if you pre-order both!)

I just pre-ordered Pokemon Black, how about you?

More links to financial sanity while still saving: Cheap Ass Gamer and Get Rich Slowly’s “Gaming without breaking the bank”.

Update on the unified server project: RoundCube in, SOGo out

From my previous post, I mentioned I would use SOGo for webmail and such. However, trying to compile it and actually set it up was too much of a pain in the ass. Probably because it’s based in Objective-C and GNUStep, and apparently the compiling process is very foreign to me so I couldn’t get it tracked down. Oh well.

Instead, I’ll use RoundCube, which is PHP based. As a proof of concept, I had already gotten a trial 5-user of AtMail installed, via nginx and php-fpm. Along with that, I’d use DAViCal and the Calendar plugin for RoundCube to manage my appointments and such.

That’s about all the new news for the project. I’ll get along to describing the LDAP integration everything has, but it’s pretty sweet. And, of course, RoundCube already has LDAP integration. And other awesome stuff. Till next time!