After dinner tonight, I’m going to start setting up my Xen VMs and installing some monitoring software. I’ve decided that Hyperic and OpenNMS will be the first round - mainly because their free versions seem to be the most heavy-weight, and will probably take more installation time. GroundWork Open …

I’ve been toying around for a while with the idea of creating a software package for handling Electronic Patient Care Reports for EMS (Emergency Medical Services) agencies. There are a few popular packages around, but most of them are web-based. In the event of a disaster - or even bad …

Since we moved into our apartment at the end of last summer, my roommates and I have had a Brother 5170DN monochrome laser in the hallway as a communal printer. Last weekend, two new printers arrived - I got a Xerox DocuPrint N4525 - a big surplus student lab printer that handles …

I know I don’t update anywhere near often enough - then again, I update a lot more here than I do on my Sun blog. But I’ll do better, I promise - and I’ll setup a new template, too. Maybe tonight.

So I was just thinking about my software …

Part 2 of today’s thoughts…

Blacklists, Blocking, Reverse-Validation - Yes, they have some uses. I use Daemon Synchronization in DenyHosts and plug-ins like Pyzor in SpamAssassin. However, I’ve also been the victim of blacklists, and the new Internet order, many times. There’s a conspiracy between ISPs - simply put …

Website - In personal news, I’ve finished migrating all of the information content of JasonAntman.com to a wiki, based on MediaWiki. I’m still getting some kinks ironed out, and working on customization, but it seems to be coming along very well. It’s wonderfully easy to update information …

So, after many hours of investigating potential bug/issue tracking packages, I have chosen one. And gone live with it, all in one weekend. After much evaluation, my final choice was Eventum from MySQL (I’m using the current version, 2.0.1). I will admit that it is not …

I recently posted the following to the DevShed forum in hope of an answer:

I’ve spent the last 48 hours reading up on bug tracking software. At the moment, I’m using the SourceForge tracker for my public projects and a custom (lightweight kludge) system for internal and customer-specific …

ViewVC (www.viewvc.org), a popular web-based frontend to CVS and SVN, has no access control mechanism, nor does CVS. As a result, when using ViewVC, anyone who can see the web page can browse, download, and view files in the entire CVS repository. While I initially loved this, as …