Year: 2011
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Scary Functions: rawmemchr
Recently I received a bug report for psmisc that basically supplied a patch so psmisc works in a cygwin environment. Nothing terribly exciting in that and the changes are pretty uncontroversial. One of the changes is in that instead of using rawmemchr to find the end of the string, cygwin doesn’t have that function and…
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First Look at Python
When the programming language Python came out while it seemed like an interesting idea, I didn’t really see the point. I already know Perl, PHP and C (plus a few others) why learn another language? So until recently, I didn’t Recent frustrations with PHP and how “loose” it is with things like variables made me…
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psmisc 22.14 Released
The upstream and Debian packages for psmisc version 22.14 were released tonight. This version has a lot of bugfixes. I’ve also taken some time to clean up some of the minor compile warnings I used to get which were mainly variables set but not used. Two bugs that I’ll concentrate on getting fixed for the…
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Debian Linux on HP DV6-6023TX
It was time to update my creaking old laptop. I ordered HP6-6023TX online and after a few days it arrived just before a long weekend. I first backed up Windows 7 onto a set of DVDs and found that either my blank DVDs are old or this new DVD drive is far more fussy. There…
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JFFNMS 0.9.1 Released
JFFNMS 0.9.1 has the database extracts and updates missing from 0.9.0 This is the most problematic part of the project release; ensuring that the database updates correctly. Version 0.9.1 is functionally the same as 0.9.0, it is just with less bugs!
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What happens without software testing
Well JFFNMS 0.9.0 was a, well, its a good example of what can go wrong without adequate testing. Having it written in PHP makes it difficult to test, because you can have entire globs of code that are completely wrong but are not activated (because the “if” statement proves false for example) and…
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JFFNMS 0.9.0 Released
After 3 release candidates JFFNMS is now at version 0.9.0. Both the web frontend and backend (engines) have had extensive re-work done to them to cleanup and tighten up the code. There should be a lot less warnings and errors from PHP when you set to a higher error level. Fixed error in syslog consolidator…
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JFFNMS – 3rd RC lucky?
I’ve just uploaded to sourceforge the third and hopefully last RC for JFFNMS network management system version 0.9.0 The reason for the delay was easter as well as I wanted to test the engines for a long while to make sure I was not getting any orphan children or items. Previous versions had processes that…
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IPv6 and address translation
We’re in that in-between place where there is plenty of IPv4 out there, but sometimes you either need or want to get to IPv6 addresses. With the IPv4 address allocations out of ARIN now empty there is going to be an increased need of NAT either between the address families or within it. This is…