Today I release a new version of ipt_recent (0.3.0) and created a mailing list for it. I also created a patch and sent it to Harald to get the latest version of ipt_recent into the Netfilter CVS repository for the next release of the patch-o-matic module.

I finally got around to adding my own picture gallery thingy. I'm using igal for now and it seems to work well enough for me because I'm lazy and didn't feel like messing with anything to get the pictures and stuff up. So, I moved the baby pictures link to point over to the igal setup here and added a bunch more baby pictures that Megan and I took recently. I also changed the picture setup around some and added the camping pictures into the igal setup. Feel free to let me know what you think.

Silly perl. Fixed the timestamps on here being off by an hour due to silly timezone stuff. Of course, there's probably quite a few better ways to get the timestamps for these things that I'm doing than what I'm actually doing, but oh well. Maybe I'll worry about that some other time. No, this is not really an update beyond me changing some stuff.

Ryan Matthew Frost was born at 6:54pm on January 15th, 2003. He weighed in at 10 lbs 8 oz! He's 22" in length and mom and baby are doing very well, dad is still trying to catch up. :) Everything went well, Megan delivered Ryan via C-section and so we will be in the hospital till Saturday. We've had lots of friends and relatives come by and I have to say everyone finds Ryan just adorable. He's been a wonderful baby and hasn't given us any trouble. Many thanks to everyone for all the congradulations and flowers and chocolates and everything. :)

Upgraded the webserver to a 500Mhz PIII w/ 128M of ram and other stuffs. It's definitely faster now and stuff and I'm gonna look into fixing up the logging stuff which I think is busted at the moment. NS will be getting upgraded in the somewhat near future, if I can manage to find time for it. School's almost over with, only have one more final this semester and then only two classes next semester and I'll be all done (yay!). Other things are progressing, slowly but at least there's movement. Kerberos/LDAP stuff may happen soonish, Debian AM work is getting done slowly, etc, etc, check the .plan.

Okay, so, yeah, I've been slacking on the website updates. I've been busy damnit! We're into the new house, it's cool, though I have to admit it gets kinda cool in the basement. Need to clean my junk up, still have lots of computers on the floor in the basement. Need to run a power circuit into the laundry room and alot of other stuff. I've got finger working so if you're really curious you should be able to finger sfrost@snowman.net and check out my (rather large) .plan and stuff. The network is doing decenlty now at least. I'm up on an ADSL connection from Speakeasy. My only real complaint is that it's not really fast enough on the downlink side to keep me totally happy and it's RADSL, so the rates change depending on the line quality and stuff, and lastly but probably the biggest issue is that Speakeasy will only give me 10 IP addresses, and they want to charge me for having more than two, and they'll only bridge them to me and not route me any. Pretty sucky overall, oh well, things are working well enough for the moment. I'll try and update sooner than 2 months from now. :)

Megan and I own a house now! Everything went very smoothly with settlement and everything and now we've got keys. :) We don't move in till November of course, but it's still nice to know that it's *our* house now. :) Megan and baby are doing well, we're really looking forward to moving into the house. School is kicking my butt at the moment but my head is still above water there, which is nice. Havn't missed any big stuff yet. Doing some new stuff for Debian (being an AM) which is kinda neat. Work is really busy now since we're short people but that'll be changing before too long with some new blood. Soccer is being fun, we're undefeated so far this season, but we also havn't played against any hard teams yet really. :) Also planning on going to the Netfest is a couple of weeks, that'll be pretty cool, nice chance to get away for a weekend.

Finally, Megan and I have found a house we definitely want. It's under contract and everything already which is really cool. Settling date is Sept. 27th and we're doing a rent-back for a month so we should be moving in either late October or early Novemeber. Yes, that means all of you folks in the area better not be planning on doing anything 'cause we're gonna be coming after you to help us move. :)
The house is a 3 level, 3 bedroom townhouse in Centreville. It has 3.5 bathrooms (one in the master bedroom, one in the upstairs hall, half on the main level, and one in the basement, very cool!). The basement is fully finished and has sliding glass doors out on to the lower deck. There's an upper-level deck as well which is a good size and we're thinking we can probably even fit my 6'x6' table on it. And, yes, we can get DSL there. O:) Megan and I really love the place and it's just turned out *very* well for us that we found it.

The hunt for the perfect house will be continueing this Saturday. When we last looked (two weeks prior) we found two places we liked but they were a bit more expensive than we wanted. Hopefully we'll find something we like more in our ideal price range this Saturday.

Did a keysigning last night with a few folks, including Raul Miller, whose existance was questioned by some. :) Brian Almeida and Aaron Ucko were there as well, we're slowly getting all of the local Debian developers to form a complete mesh. There are a few sets of signatures that still need to happen for it to be complete.

The Debian syslog-ng package has a knack for driving me insane it seems. I don't know that I will *ever* be able to use the actual package. There used to be the issue with klogd but now I think that's finally fixed and all of a sudden this message-splitting junk comes up. Talk about enough to drive you insane. Add to that that the maintainer doesn't seem to like to actually close bugs, even when it seems evident that they've been fixed, and you've got a combination that makes me very reluctant to ever want to even try and use the package again. Oh well, maybe after this latest round of stuff the syslog-ng package in Debian will be useable.

Summer semester is over for me, has been for a couple weeks actually. Got my grades a little while ago, not too bad this round, A in Numerical Methods and a C in Statistics. Fall semester is starting in a couple of weeks (the 26th). I'm taking 12 credits, all of the actual class time packed into evenings Mon-Wed each week. I'll update my 'College' project with the actual classes/times. One nice thing is that this will be the first semester where I only have CS classes. I'm hoping that makes things easier. :) Megan and I are going house-hunting this saturday, I expect that to be fun. We're also going on vacation starting Thursday next week and will be back the following Sunday. We're going camping at Natural Bridge here in Virginia.

I'll probably also be releasing a new version of ipt_recent which is just a small change to allow you to set the permissions on the /proc/net/ipt_recent/* files. I also upgraded ns2 to a 486 and put it into a rack-mount case and put that into the rack. It looks pretty good. I tried to put phoenix into one of the same rack-mount cases but it turns out that the motherboard is too big so that isn't going to happen right yet. I'll probably buy a new rack-mount case for it later. For now I'll probably put it back into the case it was in and see about setting it up to be the 'user' server, perhaps with an ircd running on it.

Megan and I have been together for about a year now and things have been going well in general; we have our disagreements here and there but we're happy. We're starting to look for a house in the area to buy together, we're planning to buy around October. We're going to be needing the space because we're expecting. The baby is due January 20th 2003 and we're looking forward to it. So the big news is that, yup, I'm gonna be a dad! :) Megan and I have been spending the past couple of weeks letting everyone know; she's about 14 weeks along now. All in all I'm pretty excited about it. Although an unexpected suprise, we're happy about it and things are going well.

The little news is that I released a new version of my ipt_recent module which you can check out on the Projects page; it'll probably be in netfilter CVS before too long.