Dennis Hedegaard's Blog

I’ve been quiet a bit nervous about the exam, I like the rush it gives me but the 30 minutes before are extremely long for me =)

However, the result was a 12, which is the highest grade on the scale we use in Denmark. I actually did not expect that at all, but it’s really nice to see good work getting rewarded.

The project was a group project, the 2 others in my group both got 10, which is really nice as well. I sincerely thank them for their work and for the great cooperation along the 6 weeks period.

The project is still in the git repository if someone should be interested in seeing the work behind it all:

http://git.neo2k.dk/?p=danfoss.git;a=summary

Feel free to send patches, if you feel like something should be changed, all the documentation and so on is in danish, sorry about that

Welcome to the website of Dennis Hedegaard, computer entusiast and open source supporter.

This blog is the center of the webserver, which hosts gitweb repositories, some abandoned svn repositories and random public files.

The last 6 weeks, I’ve been busy with a project with a couple of others. The last week or so we kinda just wanted to whole thing to be done.

We use a subversion repository which I host on this server, for the last 1½ week or so I started seeing some of the possibilities in git so I used git-svn. This means I have my own local git repository and can commit to it etc, when I feel it’s ready I can push commits back to the subversion server.

Here’s a picture taken from my phone of the reports, just before we hand them in:

We actually had to print the entire codebase on paper, it ended up being ~180 pages times 4, what a waste of paper.

Anyways, now that all the stress I away, I leef like I need a few days to slack and then I’ll start posting more regularly again

The subversion repository has been converted to a git repo and will be made publicly available around 1pm (gmt +2) tomorrow friday, after eveyone else had their chance to turn in their project. We got it all the way to 1200+ revisions, the codebase if one of the biggest I’ve had to deal with, and it was overall a very nice experience, but also a bit daunting at the end.

Stay tuned for the git repository of the project ^^

EDIT: Here’s the repo from gitweb: http://git.neo2k.dk/?p=danfoss.git;a=summary

To checkout use: git clone http://neo2k.dk/git/danfoss.git

This is regarding internet anonymity, with the use of the tor network.

Add the following to privoxy’s config, before starting it:

forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .

For wrapping commands with tor, use torify. It does this in a LD_PRELOAD manner.

Privoxy is a web proxy server, you run locally, it filters most cookies, sending info about your browser and so on, it can be used as a HTTP proxy combined with tor.

I’ve been a bit fan of Tool for some time, I stumbled over this music video on youtube today.

Weird and entertaining at the same time x)

Felt like i really had to post this:

http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/06/1419259

It’s a fake report about the new ablle macbook which consists of only a wheel and a giant button.

As they say “everything’s just a few hundred clicks away”.

genious !

Vacation from wednesday, I haven’t written anything in some time now. Been a bit busy in school ^^

The new server is in place, all the services that the old ones fulfilled are now fulfilled by the new one, I’ll monitor it real close for at few days to see performance and finetune the last pieces of software.

If you had your domain hosted on this server before the upgrade, there might be some things you need to look into, all the vhosts configs from the old apache have been merged, but it’s not the same version of mysql, php and apache.

The new server is running Debian, hopefully this server will serve me well for many, many years to come like the old one did.

The old server will be taken completely offline within the next few hours.

Enjoy

The old server sure has a lot of memories, both bad and good. Gentoo’s been really stable and secure to the last bit, I’ll most likely be missing features like GrSecurity and so on.

The new server features a Dual Core Opteron cpu able to run in long mode, so I’ll be running x86_64 architecture.

It consists of 4096 kbs og DDR2 800 mhz rams accross 2 Dimm ports (2 free for upgrades later).

A raid controller configured for Raid-0 (stripping), so that my 2x 500 gb discs make up a total of 1 terabyte of data.

the increase in power and storage will make up for the flaws on the old server, I’ve chosen to go with debian as server os this time, first of it had to be something different and secondly CentOS would have been the only other logically choice, and I’m not really that happy with the speed and redundancy of yum and rpm.

More of, Lenny is soon to be stable, and etch is still rather far ahead in apache, vsftpd, phpmyadmin versions. Ever since I started running debian it’s never let me down, Ubuntu’s been on the table, but their release cycle is smaller unless you run the LTS version. If I want frequent software updates later, I’ll just run testing.

For obvious reasons there will be some downtime during the upgrade, all of the mysql db’s as well as the 300-400 gigs of data shattered around users will have to be transfered.

If you’re one of the few lucky to have a user on my server and would like to get further information.

The debian setup with modules and sites in apache is still a bit “weird” to me, but I’ll get it eventually. I’m messing with a vm running etch to see how vhosts etc are organised.

the new vmware 6.5 got released yesterday, it features something called unity, which is sort of vm applications on your desktop.

Since I emulate itunes through vmware to get my iphone synced, this is a nice cosmetic change.

Here’s an image of how it looks so far.