TTimo's blog

my QuakeLive dashboard

Ql-dashboard

DRCP saves some jiffies

Drcp

That's what happens when you enable DRCP in your web application with Oracle 11g

weekend relaxation: the dupinanny backup script

I always have a few side projects, things I write and maintained on my spare time. Earlier this year I started using the duplicity backup system, which I augmented with my own dupinanny script.

I got around to cleaning it up and documenting it a bit after the duplicity website started linking to me in their user contributions section.

Prey for Linux!

Just relaying this cool bit from Ryan "icculus" Gordon: http://icculus.org/news/news.php?id=4467

GG icculus for pushing that through. Prey is based on tech 4 / doom3 engine. I had a great time playing it.

software watch: scons hits 1.0

One of my favorite pieces of python software has hit the symbolic 1.0 release last week. Congratulations to the scons developers for such a powerful and innovative build system. I use it on pretty much all my projects.

QuakeCon!

QuakeCon is next week. Between that and QuakeLive I have been way too busy to make posts on here (I'm doing that one while Oracle completes installation on a system we're bringing to the convention). Too bad, I would have had some good material about all the stuff we've been running into.

Wanted to relay a post on another blog that just saved my life: Installing Oracle Database 11g release 1 on Debian amd64

Another day, another DSA..

Debian has published Security Advisories for two consecutive days, trying to get a grip on what looks like a massive security hole in their SSH and SSL offerings. I spent 4 hours yesterday and another one this morning going through all the systems locking things down.

Details are still surfacing, but this time it seems they outdone themselves, making the key space apparently very, very small (we're talking '5 minute brute force' small). There are some bits of info on http://wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys

git, duplicity and dupinanny

We use duplicity at work to manage backups for a few Linux systems. I maintain a script to automate the process (error handling, email report, rolling backups), which I've dropped into a git repository at github.

The script may be useful to other duplicity users. I mostly set this up to get a chance to play with git, and so far I'm quite pleased by the experience. Maybe I'll find some other code to release which I'll drop in a mercurial repository.

Those new SCMs beg for some stress testing against large asset trees, to see how they would hold up for say, game development. My experiments with yam already hint that SVN 1.4 works nicely for large data trees, but suffers in checkout/update performance and distribution. If I ever get a few weeks of free time I'll get some more serious testing done with git.

Foo Fighters - Dallas 1/23/08

Foos_ESPG_4

Big ecstatic smile on my face. They totally made up for the schoolgirl rock of the pre-show. Shouts to Vincent, Shawn and Lindsey.

That pic reminds me of the Who in their own time. I like.

COD4

Well I played through Call of Duty 4 in pretty much one sitting, which took me to 4am last night. I usually like my games one bit at a time, at least I think I enjoy them most that way. Last I played was Half-Life 2 Episode 2, over about 2 weeks.

COD4 however took me all the way through. Nothing groundbreaking about the game, but it's brilliantly done and the continuous mindless rampage is very addictive. Plus it looks great, and it has those cool Ooh-ah moments.