These are older entries. I'll see if I can find the ones before August 2006 and add them back. Not that anybody cares ;)
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!
Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
(because I'm bored ;)
July 25, 2008: I cleaned things up a bit and simplified the layout. Sure, it's still primitive, but at least it should be entirely xhtml strict. I need to write about a few things I've learned recently while learning Python, C#, and a bit more of the Windows world than I really ever wanted to know.
January 1, 2008:
Before the holiday break, I was working on a little problem at work that has been bugging me for a while. I haven't found any good tree widgets for some AJAX apps I've been working on. Preferrably,
I'd like them to integrate with prototype.js since I already use that a lot. So, I threw a simple one together for the app I was working on at the time. This weekend, I decided to rewrite it to
be more dynamic - the original had a lot of cut & paste code that I wanted to do away with while allowing arbitrary depth.
Here is the result of a couple hours' hacking.
I've also put some of my open source work into a git repository on this webserver. That can be found here: http://tobert.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi.
Happy new year!
November 26, 2007:
Starting to update this site some more. I've moved to a new webhost and am working on some nifty improvements that may or may not see the light of day ;)
I've gotten involved with the Cobbler project. It's once of the nicest pieces of software for provisioning Linux to date, including a lot of the commercial tools. If you've thought that it'd be nice if somebody nicely integrated PXE, yum, kickstart, and templating, this is it.
I wrote the initial web interface for it and a few odd patches besides. I may eventually have a public git repository to host my patches in while I test and refine for upstream. I'll update this page when it's available.
January 8, 2007:
I'm working on an update to my initramfs building script under the Unix Stuff tab. I have a VIA "hardware" SATA RAID box in my posession that I'd like to configure using dmraid rather than mdraid just for the heck of it. This isn't a problem on some distros but I was trying to install CentOS 4.4 and decided that this was exactly the situation I was directing that script at. Unfortunately, there's a lot of different work it needs to work with Redhat-style OS's. I'll post it when it's reliable. It boots into an interactive shell, but still needs a lot of hand-holding to get booted into the full OS.
I haven't done a lot with the scheduler in a while, since there hasn't been much interest and I haven't had time to make it into something useful for other people. If this were a blog, I'd write a long article about how your own code from 3-4 years ago is embarassing to look at, but this isn't a blog ;) The more I look at it, the more I see a need for an easy-to-administer remote execution daemon that can safely run as root. The concept I want is like "sudo with an SSL socket." I think kerberos might be the right way to do AAA. SSL/TLS would work well for transport security. Then something very much like sudo underneath to provide an "approved command" list would be nice. At this point it starts to sound an aweful lot like SSH+sudo again, so I'm back at square one.
August 29, 2006:
I've updated a bunch of stuff here, namely the picture galleries. They're now generated by Google Picasa, which does a much better job than my old Image Magick script did. I added some hooks to my header.pl script to hack the Picasa html so navigation doesn't get horked. Regular expressions rock.
I've been quite busy lately, having overcome an extended period of laziness and sloth. I convinced my employer, Priority Health, to let me open the source to a scheduler I wrote for them. It's new name is Perl Asynchronous Graph Executor, or more commonly, PAGE. The source is kindly being hosted by the Third Lobe Corporation. Subversion Repository TRAC
New stuff (09/22/2006):
PAGE scheduler Rel0: "Scheduler"
New stuff (09/08/2006):
multi-kernel initramfs script: "Unix Stuff"
May 30, 2005: I'm guessing a few newer people (*ahem* Hello.) will find this soon that have much better taste in web design than myself. Oh well, layout isn't my thing. Anyways, I've updated a bunch of stuff to improve XHTML compliance and clean up some stuff that I've been neglecting. It probably won't pass validation yet, but it's a lot closer. As I get pages fixed, I'll add the icons you see at the bottom of this one. Then, I can work on getting XHTML 1.0 strict instead of transitional.
March 28, 2005: Doing my yearly update of this site. I always have grand plans to gush all of my useful knowledge to this little place on the web, but never can get myself motivated. I guess writing websites is not my thing. Anyways, way back in July of last year, I rewrote it all to use the header you see at the top of this page. I added CSS for that top bar purely for the sake of using CSS. Heck, it might even look stupid in IE, not that I care. As part of that project, I took the header out of all the HTML files and wrote a small perl script to put it all together for me. Even with all of that, I still loathe updating 360 or so days out of the year.
*takes breath* Really all that's new with this update is my Jeep Project page. I'll probably change some bits on the other pages (like About Me), but there probably still isn't anything interesting for a casual reader. See you next year (hopefully sooner on the Jeep page!).
July 30, 2004: Posted Nagios-Object 0.05 to CPAN and here.
December 02, 2003: New update to my shell version of bootprofile.sh. All of the Nagios:: modules I've written have been updated. Click "unix" on the left to check them out.
See my O'Reilly hack: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/363 or just go to http://hacks.oreilly.com/.
November, 29 2001: Uploaded my Netsaint quickview script. You'll find it by clicking "Linux" under "UNIX" on the left navbar.
November, 19 2001: Moved to www.tobert.org on a Linux Webhost server. Still getting stuff moved over. I hope to have my pictures of my Ultra-Hacked S-15 Jimmy up today. The images are sorted and stuff, but need to be scaled (from 1600x1200) and thumbnailed. I'll try to document the process this week, too. It was fun, overall, but a lot of work trying to decipher GM's wiring codes using only Haynes manuals. Maybe next time I'll get an official shop manual and thus have more time for the webpage.
June, 20 2001:
Well, this page has been resurrected after a long hiatus (almost a year!).
I now have three images in the gallery in case you wonder what the hell I look like. Trying to find pictures made me realize that I don't have many and I will probably forget what I look like before too long.
I'll try to fill in other parts of the page over time, but no promises.