Paul's Journal

In response to Joey’s IPv6 autoconfiguration troubles:

Over the years I’ve gotten IPv6 autoconfiguration working just as you described: load the module and bring the interface down and back up. Though, I suspect you may have been running Debian’s linux-image-2.6.18-3-{arch} kernel which seemed to drop/neglect/whatever (I haven’t checked the specifics) IPv6 multicast (link-local) traffic over which the autoconfiguration is done. When 2.6.18-4 arrived in Sid, all worked fine for me after a reboot too.

Hobix

There were some issues concerning Hobix and the new Ruby (1.8.6) that entered Sid recently. I’ve solved the problem, as you can see, and uploaded a Subversion snapshot package to experimental.

Update: It seems that hobix 0.5~svn20070319-1 accidently was uploaded without share data. This was spotted and fixed by Arnaud, thanks! A new version (0.5~svn20070319-2) is on its way to experimental!

Ruby D-Bus

A few weeks ago I wrote to Arnaud Cornet about the fact that it is quite amazing that there is no up-to-date implementation of D-Bus for Ruby at all after such a long time. This resulted a few days ago in our Ruby D-Bus project. Some stuff is working already, quite low-level still, but really nice. I’m looking forward to designing the high-level API.

I found out that other people had the same thoughts as us and also started to work on an implementations on their own without telling anyone. So, it seems there are three implementions now (as far as I know) that all have specific features working. I hope we can merge everything into one project. We’ll see what happens…

OpenID

I have taken some interest into OpenID, having to register some accounts on arbitrary forums. I ran into the fact that Rails recently got OpenID support and that support for phpBB is coming up, which is nice. Finally it could be over with all the logins and all the password. At the moment I haven’t found a statisfactory identity provider yet, so I started working on my own service. Ruby OpenID has an example server implementation which I am working on to become FLOIDS: the Free Luon OpenID Service.

Koditoj

Recently, I inventoried all the programs I authored or co-authored in the past 8 years. There is some stuff in there that maybe deserves a second life or at least some description. So, in a series of posts that I’ll call ‘Koditoj’ (free translatable from Esperanto to ‘things that have been coded’) I want to go over all these programs and libraries and give them some attention. More to come soon…

After wanting to go for 7 years, it is finally happening: I’m attending Trance Energy tomorrow! Yay! Trance has been commercialised a lot in the past four years, but it is going underground again and it is losing it’s populair appeal, which is a good thing IMO.

My tentative schedule:

 22:00 Menno de Jong \o/
 23:15 Mark Norman
 00:30 Markus Schulz
 01:45 Joop versus Leon Bolier
 02:00 Rank 1
 03:15 Gareth Emery
 04:30-7:00 unplanned!

I’ll probably meet up will all the Intuition guys and girls over there. It’s going to be one hell of a party! I’ll write again next week, when I’m alive again. :-)

Last Tuesday I finished my paper about Space Efficient Algorithms and Histograms that will comprise most of the grade of my last remaining Master course, Advanced Algorithms. While I’ve been mostly enjoying writing this paper, I am glad it is finished for several reasons, one of them being able to do other things than just working on it and another is that it allows me to focus fully on my Master Project which is starting to progress nicely. (More about this later.)

FOSDEM 2007

Due to the amount of time I needed to work on the paper, the need to save money (I really would like to go to Debconf7) and that the scheduled talks didn’t seem to interest me that much, I decided to break with tradition and not to go to FOSDEM this year.

Just before FOSDEM, however, it seemed that lots of the people I would have liked to meet did go. While that was a pity, I hope to meet them in three months at Debconf7.