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This weekend i started a new project , i new idea ... (usually those that never ends up ;)) )
Problem:

The habitual method of my day work is to connect (via putty) to a remote machine where i configured the pdmenu with a interface

to administer the system and to read mail (via mutt) connec IRC (BitchX) etc ...
Recently i would like to annotate all things i just do on a day (a typical diary ) but if this diary could run on a vt100/ansi terminal, then

I can do everithing from the pdmenu interface.

solution

After trying to find a diary ncurses based (google, freshmeat, sourceforge, ...) i desist .. then i need to make one ...

I started to develope it on JAVA with the CHARVA library (first the GUI is SWING based) then i will convert it to console mode.
the style of the window must be integrable with the pdmenu interface on the capture.

I am started this project on my CVS and on Sourceforge (without link at the moment).
on a few days i put links an more technical stuff.


If you are interested on the project go to the page of the project:

/weblog/index.php?content=jdiary

The idea is to build a java client that connects asyncrony to the web /tips , and returns am aleatory tip.
I started this project a couple years ago, but (it offen happens to me) i never ends it on a nice manner ... I think on a simple interface with no window decorations (like Post-it product) and from wich you can put your own tips (sincronized with your account on the web).

The functionallity required :

Distribucion:
Debian 3.0 con actualizaciones de seguridad

Maquina :
AMD XP 2 GHz

1 Gb RAM
40 Gb Disco Duro

Tarjeta grafica ATI


1.- Downloads:
Antes de empezar vamos a bajarnos los archivos necesarios:

hldsupdatetool.bin (2.84 MB) - Location: ftp://hlserver:[email protected]/Linux/hldsupdatetool.bin
ns_v3_b1_dedicated_server.zip (132 MB) - Location: Check downloads page on natural-selection.org

ns_v30_b3_patch_dedicated_server.zip (Beta 3 update) (~26MB) - Location: Location: Check downloads page on natural-selection.org
con esto nos llega para empezar ...

Ver el howto a pantalla completa

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Este proyecto intenta reunir un conjunto de scripts para administrat uno o varios Servidores de Juegos basados en Steam (y en el antiguo HL) desde la consola de linux, de modo que con un simple SSH podamos conectarnos a nuestro server y administrar facilmente todas las caracteristicas basicas del servidor de juegos. Permite ademas varios usuarios conectados a la vez administrando servidores completamente independientes. Requiere tener funcionando el/los servidores de Juegos a administrar. Tambien requiere tener ssh instalado ( jeje parecia obvio no ??) y tener screen, que habitualmente viene con todas las distribuciones , ademas se necesita pdmenu, un cojonudo programa para hacer y manejar ventanas en modo consola (http://www.kitenet.net/programs/pdmenu/ ) (or apt-get pdmenu)
Screenshots and Features (english only) ....

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Goal :
The goal is to build a system (hardware and software) on which i can view all my collection of DivXs,MP3 and DVDs remotely, because i have all films on a big Hard Drive on another Linux System (Debian 3.0).


The hardware i am looking for is :

VIA EPIA-M 9000 Mini-ITX Mainboard or VIA EPIA M10000 Nehemiah (137 eur.aprox )
the case (look one)

512 MB RAM
wireless card D-Link 512+


the only PROBLEM i have is to boot up from a wireless network card ...

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=281

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I start to develop a new porting of Simon Says , One of the best games i like to play. The main difference with the rest of the Simon Says games is that it may be a portable game (for all devices J2ME capables, applets and java frontend) it may have a network secuence of the day, on that, people can compete for make the longest secuence, for these characterisc a user must register, and play with a mobile or PDA. on a few days I release the beta, with nice graphics and sound.

The problem :
Them work of mantain a bunch of linux servers is hard ... when you have 1 or 2 is easy to mantain it, but when the number of servers grows to 10 or more , and when each one need a monthly maintenance (upgrade packages, install new applications, ...) the problem is BIGGER ...


At the moment i could not find any solution to this problem. Beacause of that i am starting to develop a group of applications to manage these problem


the solution / the application

The application must be on java (to port to another operating systems if needed) there must be a number of clients for every server you must mantain and a server (or 2 for data reduntant) .

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This is a tryinf of build a porting of the classic game boar Ricochet Robot on a J2ME style , its my first J2ME and don\'t expect
a lot of features ...

Is developed under JBUILDER with mobileset pack, but i am currently migrating to eclipse. The test hardware is a Siemens S55 Ricochet Robot web game is on /ricochet
The objective of this game is to place the indicated robot on the finish chip, for that end you can move on 4 directions only

and the robot stop walk when it finds an object or a wall.


Screenshots and Features (english only) ....

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A new fabricant problem surges when you try to install linux (particulary debian) on some hardware .
The Hardware is a Xeon Rack , the ProLiant DL380 Generation 3 consists of :


Compaq's SMART Array Controllers

Broadcom Network Card


the rest of the hardware installs well .

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D-link has announced that Linux drivers for the + generation of 802.11b cards that produces would be published in early January 2003.
Such thing did not happened as yet. The chip that ships with DWL-650+ is acx100 by Texas Instruments, and the driver we will use is the acx100_pci from http://acx100.sourceforge.net ...

Due to the problems i find when i am looking for a HOWTO to these setup i decided to make one when i
finish configure the DWL-650+ under linux


Tested under :

I use Redhat 9.0 , and Debian 3.0 , the Laptop is a DELL inspiron 8200, the wireless PCMCIA
card was a D-Link DWL-650+ (the + is the key ;) ) and the access point is a US Robotics 2249.

the steps taken here is completly independient from the linux distro version

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