Cherry-picking Pearls in San Francisco

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I was looking for a while for something like that.

I didn't made my mind yet, but i'll really consider the offer.

• 1GB DDR2
• 160 GB SATA2
• 2 GHz CPU
• 100 MB of bandwidth no limit on traffic
• remote reboot

http://www.dedibox.fr/

france, paris, dedibox, freebox, hosting, iliad, free

Stock ILD +13% : new freebox

No wonder with such an announce from Free.Fr

Let me introduce you to my next :
- multimedia center
- wifi box
-  numeric TV center (VOD + terrestrial + adsl) (40Gb disk rumored for recording + timeshifing ?)
- adsl modem (ADSL2+)
- entertainment center
- ethernet hub
- mobile phone relay via wifi

check out : the pictures and  the press releases (fr)
already a free subscriber (30 euros per months), so I should get this really soon. I'm a Niel's admirer (Mr Niel is the CEO) since a long time... The company looks really healthy with a very strong strategic steering. (Very focused, using and supporting linux since a very long time, videolan too, etc)

YAY for them

adsl, fibre, france, free, freebox, linux, love, stock

My 2 cents of the day : deleting unversioned file in your subversion working dir

Say you want to remove all unversioned files of your working directory (for subversion, but CVS should also work) very quickly. I'm not aware of such a command in subversion. But you can use this instead :

svn st | awk '/^\?/ {print $2}' | xargs rm

(I'm not responsible of any loss of data ;)

dev, developement, script, shell, subversion, svn

Thinks I like and I dislike about Fedora Core

It feels good to shout that out loud sometimes.

- I like typing “foobar I Own You” instead of “linux” on lilo prompt (at cd-install) to make it work with i915G -- so funny to have Kernel Panic if you don't !
- I like the clean minimalistic grub boot splash
- I like the name (... but I don't know why)
- I like the efficient linux-text install
- I have no fucking idea of how to install package pre-selections again (@Editors, @Office Productivity, etc...) -- but that's probably my fault
- I like chkconfig
- I really hate /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/* ifupdown is so much more intuitive.
- I don't like yum nor rpm:
  - why does it take more than 2 seconds to do a package search ?
  - the *second* search call could at least be cached ! ( | less)
  - rpm -qXZY is _so_ intuitive
  - rpm --contents packge.rpm doesn't work ? wtf !?
- I dislike installing vim-enhanced and don't have vi aliased to vim automatically

Haaaa. I Feel better now. back to work.

debian, fedora core, linux

Maemo.org for the new nokia 770

Nokia has just released a new Linux based Internet Tablet product category :

The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet enables easy broadband access to the Internet over Wi-Fi

There's a site about the developement plateform called maemo. It sounds exciting ;)

Openwrt and WRTG4GS

OpenWrt looks really nice too (currently, I'm using dd-wrt ...)

but it seems my revision of the WRT54GS isn't fully supported yet. What is very cool is the package system tool (ipkg) that you get. For the same price you also get a package tracker system

A few hardware modification on the WRT54G

This small linksys router (linux embedded) is really cool. At it is well spread there are some really geek hardware hacks around!

Add  a smartcard reader :  http://kiel.kool.dk:27/

Or add a serial console (lot of potential uses) ! http://jdc.parodius.com/wrt54g/serial.html http://www.rwhitby.net/wrt54gs/serial.html

How to get freeradius, WRT54G and a OS X client working with WPA Enterprise

This work with Panther at least, and is based on Freeradius 1.0.2  Once you get Freeradius installed (for instance using ubuntu on AMD64 - link ). I advise you to follow the section 3.2 of this how-to. Thus you get working clients.conf, radiusdb.conf, users and eap.conf.  To generate certs you can use the interactive CA.all script which comes with freeradius (under scripts). I've chosen to user the certs.sh script after making some customization in CA.certs.  The WRT54G (here it's a screenshot of DD-WRT (talismen)) is straightforward : In "Wireless" > "Wireless security". Enter "WPA Radius", leave TKIP selected, enter the IP address of your radius server and the secret key declared in the clients.conf:

  For OS-X, just select the SSID of the WRT54G in the list. It ask you for a login and password. Enter those in the users file of freeradius...

 

For the first time he should ask you to add certs in OS X. Once accepted, you should be online. Hurra!  You can save the connexion settings (and get more settings) using the OS X "Internet Connexion" utility :

If you don't want to setup a radius sever on your own you can get dedicated firmware for the WRT54G with TinyPEAP inside, which seems cool (not tested). Especially for user management.  Other cool links :

1. http://oriol.joor.net/blog/?itemid=1631
2. http://www.alphacore.net/spipen/article.php3?id_article=1
3. http://www.alphacore.net/spipen/article.php3?id_article=4
4. http://homepage.mac.com/andreaswolf/public/wpaeap.html

The mailing list archive is usefull too.  By the way, I'm really impressed by the FreeRadius implementation... I'm considering buying the book.

How to compile Freeradius 1.0.2 on Ubuntu x86_64 (Hoary)

Freeradius hasn't been ported to hoary yet (in the 64 bits version)

I hope freeradius package is an exception ! Nonetheless, it's possible to install it cleanly on Hoary

1. Get the tarball at http://freeradius.org. Luckily enough you have a ./debian directory so you can craft your own .deb with dpkg-buildpackage
2. Once you have installed the dependencies... The build process will fail (If it has been that easy, I imagine you would have a pre-cooked .deb in the distribution...)
3. The first problem is the libtool dependencie (<1.5) Don't try to build a libtool1.4 .deb it's seem really hard Instead edit ./debian/rules and remove --with-system-libtool
4. Unfortunately... this is not enough. Indeed, the build will succeed, but you'll end with a linking issue on rlm_eap.  (This is precisely the module I wanted to use). The solution of copying missing .so or .la from source tree to /usr/lib/freeradius won't fit because, the freeradius server will complain about a undefined symbol: eaptls_process
5. Everything is working fine if you add

--disable-shared --without-rlm_smb --without-rlm_perl --without-rlm_krb5 --without-rlm_python

--with-experimental-modules (I've added this one, althought it's not  related to the fix)

update: There is a patch (see FreeRadius bug #75) which should help but it doesn't work for me...