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Trever Fischer is a sophomore at The University of Akron with a strong enthusiasm towards coding, writing, good music, photography, and above all: oranges. This is his site. Specifically, this is his "About" box. In addition to recently having finished his first year of college, he is also a full-time hacker who tinkers with Amarok, Plasma, KPackageKit Perl, and PHP.

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#436
15
December
08

Winter Break

Whew, end of the fall semester. It seemed to fly by rather quickly. So anyways, I’m finally at home and able to do some full-time KDE hacking. I originally came home wednesday night, and found that Kuiper (my firewall box) had bit the dust some time ago. It’s fedora core 3 (hey, remember that one?) install seemed to have eaten its root partition alive somehow, as fsck couldn’t recover it, complaining about missing superblocks and such. I didn’t really want to spend a lot of time on a fancy recovery process, so I opted to install m0n0wall on it. I eventually got that accomplished. It took a while (I’ll explain it later this week), but it more or less works now. I need to add more memory to Kuiper’s case, as 64Mb isn’t cutting the mustard for the latest beta. I’m using the beta for the IPv6 support, which is really cool by the way. Yay modernization.

My internet on campus for my last few weeks on campus wasn’t cooperating (in short, I no longer trust UA’s network with /anything/), combined with finals kept me from pouring a lot of effort into KDE into KDE/Glovebox/Pointything. I haven’t been entirely out of the loop though, as I’ve managed to keep up with the commit mail and KDE mailing lists.

I’m not entirely done settling in yet though. I’ve got a few important things to do I didn’t get done last summer:

  • Rebuild my music collection server
  • Figure out how to remove the dependency on LDAP for my network-wide logins
  • Detatch Neptune from my network and bring it to Akron next semester
  • An IPv6 tunnel
  • Dynamic DNS

I already knocked one thing off my list with my install of m0n0wall: figure out port forwarding. Right now wm161.kicks-ass.net should have my home network’s IP address, and port 80 redirects to Saturn, while ssh goes to Jupiter. Both of those machines are down right now, as Jupiter is being stubborn and not turning on. Without Jupiter’s LDAP, saturn is clueless. I’m thinking its getting close to retire Jupiter from constant service anyways, now that Kuiper is capable of supporting an IPv6 tunnel and dynamic DNS updates to permit remote access to my network.

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#374
24
September
08

wm161.net V6

Rawr! Its a new overhaul of the wm161.net design! Long gone is the artsy-fartsy and ugly chunks of words, tacky ‘view options’ tab, and explosions of crap. They’ve all been replaced with a very simple, very nice design. A basic header (complete with orange), proper typography, and a really simple sidebar.

I chose this new design because I thought about my website and realized that I’m tired of being a social networking whore. If people want to know what goes on every day or where I’m at in the world, they can follow me on twitter, or brightkite. I’m not gonna shove it in anyone’s faces, because is it really all that interesting to know what I think about the pasta I had for lunch? Exactly.

I’ve returned to the older days of the web, where it was about the quality of content, not the quantity. I’ve turned off the Twitter Tools post-a-day-o-matic feature and have opted to actually write stuff once in a while. My website isn’t a central place to stalk me anymore. It got annoying when I looked at my own site and saw just crap everywhere.

The next step in this process is to fix a few hidden bugs I’m sure I’ll find, and to update my WPWrapper template to use the new design.

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