Windows Vista... so far I haven't been too impressed. I recently purchased a Dell M1210 Laptop with it preloaded. Right off the bat it had bugs, such as drivers that were factory shipped crashed the moment I powered it on. Also I noticed it phones home to Microsoft - a lot.
While I was looking at the hits on my wireless honeypot, there was one url in particular I started to notice showing up with more regularity:
http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt
Doing a quick search on Google came up with this knowledge base article:
Internet Connectivity in Vista
From that article, it seems that by default Vista tries to either ask for that webpage or result by dns that domain name. It is interesting though how this effects my wireless honeypot. Before when a Vista box tried to get that webpage it would show up in my reverse proxy hits but then nothing else would show, which probably means Vista then flagged my wireless point as not being connected to the Internet (which is sorta true, hehe).
To get around this, I added a url rewrite for what Vista requests and have that ncsi.txt page loaded off my website directly. So then Vista will get the page it desires but still not get directly to the Internet. From there, the illusion that the user wanting to leech off my access point is presented from the start and they can discover warring kittens, wikipedia, the info that using unsecure wireless points isn't the best idea.
One of the banes of blogging I found is spam. About a year or so ago I had a database driven blog on the front page of this website. Unfortunately, bots scoured my blog and added spam to it. Then later on the blog software I chose had a security vulnerability, so I took it out completely.
Today I was looking at the site, and wanted to get back to a dynamic system again. This would make it easier to update. Instead of using someone else's software, I wrote my own in php. Also, I added access controls so the only way to access the script is in my home network or through my VPN.
It seems to be working well so far. It isn't exactly full featured, but works ok and since I wrote the code, it should be easy enough to add enhancements.
Modified the wireless redirect page that folks trying to use my wireless get. Now They not only get the Kittens of Doom, but they can get some useful info that Microsoft provided on using hotspots and go to Wikipedia. I may as well point them in the direction of some good info while I'm at it.
Why the interest tonight in changing that page? I noticed a large amount of hits by the firewall. From my guess, it is someone trying to use Kazza or Gnutella. There is no way I'm that stupid to let someone actually use the wireless for something like that, espeically since then the RIAA or MPAA would send the legal letters to me. The only stuff I'm allowing through the wireless points are the VPN and the above websites I told the proxy server to let through.
After about a week of leaving the wireless open, I had about ten hits that looked like Windows XP machines trying to get to Microsoft's Windows Update, and only 1 person yesterday around 7 am trying to get to Myspace.com, Google, and UNL's website. I think the low amount of connections may be because I'm halfway under the ground. So today I went to Best Buy and grabbed a new wireless router. This one I made sure it had an SMA connection for the external antenna. With that connector, I was able to put my wardriving external omnidirectional antenna. The old wireless point was probably only about 1-2 dbi - really poor. The external antenna I now have hooked up is about 6 dbi. I can usually pick up other folk's access points with that from about a block away when wardriving.
After about a week of leaving the wireless open, I had about ten hits that looked like Windows XP machines trying to get to Microsoft's Windows Update, and only 1 person yesterday around 7 am trying to get to Myspace.com, Google, and UNL's website. I think the low amount of connections may be because I'm halfway under the ground. So today I went to Best Buy and grabbed a new wireless router. This one I made sure it had an SMA connection for the external antenna. With that connector, I was able to put my wardriving external omnidirectional antenna. The old wireless point was probably only about 1-2 dbi - really poor. The external antenna I now have hooked up is about 6 dbi. I can usually pick up other folk's access points with that from about a block away when wardriving.
Wow, long time since I've updated this front page. This past summer I've been having lotsa fun with VMware Server now that it is free. I virtualized a lot of my home servers and added a few more. With the ability to quickly setup boxes or copy existing ones, I decided to have some fun with my wireless network. Now everything on the unencrypted, broadcast ssid'd wireless point goes through a virtual firewall, and all web requests are sent to a transparent proxy. From there, I insure that all requests are sent to my website (also on a virtual machine). I'm curious as to how many folks snap at the bait to log onto my "unsecure" wireless. Everything else is denied.
Merry Christmas! Had a wonderful time with Kate and family. Have lotsa photos in the photo gallery. Hopefully the rest of the crew can find them ok, I've moved it to the front. Later on after the new year I'll put it under the personal photos/family section. As a special treat, there is a about a 8 minute video clip in there where Santa came for a visit! It is about a 175 meg download though, so it may take a while. Update: I re-encoded the file and adjusted the lighting. Much brighter, and it is now only a 117 meg download.
Wow, this page is really old. Just got the website back up and ditched the old blogging software (clucky and had some vulnerabilities). I'll update later on, but here goes. Welcome back ranko.homelinux.net!
Finally posted an update to one of my fanfics after nearly a year of being idle. Happosai Chronicles started to kick in after I starting to get the ideas running.
As for my other pasttimes this past few months, I've been engrossed in City of Heroes. Feel free to look me up on the Infinity server as Zine and if you want, prod me to write some more. We've got a small supergroup website started at Guns of Paragon.
Ok, I changed the site back to the old one. I just wasn't getting anything done on it.
I'll get back with you later about what I've been doing lately. Updates on the fanfiction and online gaming will be coming.
I posted a review up on Slashdot, I'll just copy-paste that here.
Went down to Best Buy and just bought it after work. Typing in this reply on the freshly installed system.
My system specs are:
AMD Athlon 64 +3200
Nvidia Geforce4 MX 420
1 gig ram
MSI K8T Neo with Via K8T800 Chipset motherboard
Anyhow after backing up my data I put the DVD in. It was labeled 64 bit on one side, 32 bit on the other. I had put it the wrong way accidentally, but it was smart and told me "Cool system! But you are about to install 32 bit software on a 64 bit computer." Flipping it around I rebooted and went into Yast without a problem.
It didn't look too much different from Suse 9.0 for the installer at first. I went with the regular install of packages plus the compilers. Network, video, and sound appeared at first to be found correctly - minus that there weren't any Nvidia 3d drivers (just 2d) included in the box. The 3d drivers had to be installed via the online update tool. Haven't tested it yet in Unreal Tourny 2004 or Neverwinter Nights.
After the first reboot the audio didn't come up right. One more reboot (with me making no config changes) the audio came up right.
I use Lotus Notes 6.5 at work, and I use the web interface at home. Trying that out turns out that Java wasn't installed in Mozilla or Firebird. It did come up with the download plugin, but you'll have to make sure you are root in the browser to have it install right. I'll see later if Yast has a package for Java.
As for enterprise features that may come in handy with our Novell environment the installer had the option to authenticate to LDAP for users.
Getting deeper into the details of the box I pulled up what version of the kernel is from /proc/version:
Linux version 2.6.4-54.5-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #1 Fri May 7 16:47:49 UTC 2004
Good, 2.6 as advertised. Going into other apps everything appeared to be very KDE based like in pervious versions of Suse. Doesn't appear to have much influence from the integration of Novell+Ximian. In the programs menu everything was not based on program names, but on purpose. For example Gimp 2.0 was labeled as "Image Editing".
One of the few apps linked to on the desktop was Office, which opened up into Open Office 1.1.1. It still appeared to have a limited set of fonts that I've seen in other OO installs. That is more a limitation of OO than Suse.
About X, SaX2 (Suse's X11 config editor) reports the version is:
XFree86 Version 4.3.99.902 (4.4.0 RC 2)
I was interested in seeing in SaX2 some config options for Tablets and Touchscreens. Might be a nice item for work's graphics department to try out.
Other items included in the package were Rekall (a database frontend), Samba 3.0, KDE 3.2.
Going through the manuals (remember those?) there were two volumes, each about 440 pages. One was the user guide that went into basic installation and the individual programs. Examples of programs with screen shots in the manual were Open Office, Gimp, KGPG, Xmms, gtKam, Mozilla, Audacity, and a full chapter on the command line toward the back. The admin volume went into the details such as troubleshooting the install or using logical volume manager (LVM). Other chapters were also on networking, ipv6, NIS, Apache, Samba, Squid, SSH, Kerberos, filesystems with acl's, and development in a 64 bit environment. Needless to say I was impressed with their manuals!
Good for the desktop in the enterprise, perhaps also the end user at home if the install went well on their particular hardware. That is probably the sticking point to turn anyone off is how well the install goes. That's where buying the package with support comes in. In the "Support at SUSE" pamphlet in the box it says on one of the supported items: Installation on a typical private workstation [non-networked] or laptop equipped with a single processor, at least 128 MB RAM, and 2 BG of free hard disk space. Other support items are resizing Windows partitions, config of the GUI, etc.
I'm a big Debian fan in the past, and ran Gentoo on my workstation for a few months. At work I've used Suse and Redhat. Of the bunch Debian seems to shine best on the server, Gentoo for the hobby, Redhat seems be out the door, and Suse on the enterprise especially in a Novell environment.
That's my $0.02, I'll let you make the final call.
Where I work we use iFolder for doing file syncing to home PC's for employees that don't use the VPN. Anyhow, when Novell decided to GPL the iFolder product we were very interested in seeing what would happen. Here is what I dug up...
Remember the peer-2-peer software Aimster that ran through the instant messaging client AIM? Well, this could be a ligit replacement for it, and not even meaning it. And, it gets some use out of it legally most of the time!
What the new GPL'd version looks like is you run it on a Windows, Mac, Linux system (anything that can run Mono basically) and it uses a central repository. What makes it similar to P2P and Aimster is it does the sharing selectively using people that you know in your address book.
This is the scenerio -
Bob loads the iFolder software on his machine. He then specifies a certain folder to be the repository. Then he picks people out of his address book and sends out invitations for people to use the repository that is hosted on his box. Each person he sends an invitation to can have rights assigned like read only, read/write, and even admin rights to invite others to the repository.
Each person installs iFolder and syncs the remote repository to their local drive. They can put files into their local folder, and if they have write access those are automatically uploaded to Bob's repository - then synced to everyone else's drives.
In the music sharing world, this would work great for a small amount of people with common tastes. In the legit world where this is probably more useful is to do collaborative work as a team, or to work on stuff at the office and have it automatically sync to stuff at home.
I did try to run the latest alpha version from their website at: http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?ifolder
On my Suse 9.1 Pro system it ran, but didn't work at all for creating repositories. That was using the 5/14/2004 daily snapshot rpms and the Mono Beta 1 rpms. Ah well, I'll try later. *grin*
Back in January I started doing some RPG gaming. Sure, I've done Neverwinter Nights before but in my opinion that doesn't count. I am brand new to the RPG field. I hadn't even toughed D&D or any other RPG system.
Now I'm playing a session about once a month with a five person group using the Hero system. Set back in the fantasy era, I'm playing a character named Ran Tsuname. I sorta modeled him after one of my favorite anime characters Ranma Saotome, but he is unique to the point I can call him my own.
One of the points about the Hero system is you can create your own moves and really customize your characters. For example you can add disadvantages to a character to gain abilities. On my character I have him a 15 point disadvantage of "Overconfident" and another 10 point disadvantage of "Bad Liar, Foot in Mouth". Those points I could then construct my own martial arts style.
The flexibility can go a little farther than just moves. Professional skills, contacts, knowledge, are all part of the system.
So far I can say I'm hooked. I've started to look into finding another group, mainly because the one I'm in now has started to have less frequent sessions (now approaching the month and a half mark between) and some of the people are not showing up at all. One person has only shown up once out of six sessions.
Anyhow, if you are interested let me know. I might feel gutsy enough to GM a game. With my writing skills with fanfiction I feel confident in my story telling skills, don't know about how it would play out the spontaneousness of guiding one in person.
Have another idea that could apply to neural networking. This time in the area of network security instead of dance dance revolution. The idea is to grab a bunch of "good" data with Ethereal or tcpdump, then grab a bunch of "bad" data and train it. Sound simple enough? Problem is how to train it to easily add in new bad and good data. Another problem is what segments of the data do you train it on (header only, data, combo, how much is too much data?). Also, how do you form this into an IPS or IDS system? I'll mull on it a bit, maybe try to implement something (or not).
I've been working a nice php project this past few days at work and at home. It is the next version to a little open source item I have called logcorr. The old version to put it mildly was cr*p. Well, now the next version is coming along very nicely. The features that it should have are:
* Database support - everything goes through a MySQL database for correlated events, rules, settings, multiple users and alert rules
* Ability to merge different syslog messages based on regular expressions, source machine, ip addresses found in the message, port numbers, protocol, regular expressions and even how closely matched the messages are to each other. This makes watching firewall logs a reality. In my test environment I've consolidated 200,000 syslog messages to a workable 100.
* Regular expression selection of display messages. If you don't want to look at firewall stuff, just regular expression them out and see everything else. I'm thinking about adding the ability to save display settings in the database too.
* Color coding of messages based on severity levels. You can define your own severity levels and what it takes to match them. Then in those severity levels you specify colors to display on the screen.
* Alerting to several different destinations - email, snmp trap, windows popup, novell popup, play sound on the server, or instant message to MSN/AIM/ICQ. I could probably add a lot more easily. Also it will only notify you once for a correlated message. For example, you won't get paged 5000 times for a firewall hit against your server just once if those messages are correlated together.
* Multiple users with password protection. Time permitting I might add different levels of access and what messages each one can see.
* Totally web based, no remote client required except a browser.
Also, I'll be putting it under the GPL on sourceforge and my website. If you would like to help out with bugfixes and future enhancements let me know as soon as I put up the initial public beta of this thing.
I was browsing one of the stories on Slashdot about Redhat. Several of the posts on the story mentioned Novell quite a bit. In the past few months with SCO, IBM, SuSE, and their change in direction Novell has turned it around 180 degrees. They've been in the Linux game since early last year at least but now the publicity department has kicked in gear.
On their website they've mentioned the community on their Linux pages, including Redhat. A few of my coworkers were at Novell's Brainshare conference in Salt Lake City last week. They talked with engineers directly. From their feel it is an invasion of the Linux folks (SuSE and Ximian) instead of the other way around. All the engineers are excited about what is going on and opening up. For example they have opened up iFolder and Yast (I haven't seen them open this one up as of this post yet though) under the GPL and have their own development area similar to Sourceforge.
I'm updating the download pages to use Bit Torrent. This way you can download the contents much faster, and so I can offer more. Should be updated over the weekend.
I've begun to put together my sister's online website. She is interested in doing some manga/art work and I decided to launch and host her. Not much right now, but I'll keep you posted when she updates. Her site is located at www.jess.shacknet.nu.
Finally got around to updating chapter 22 of Chaos Energy Times Infinity. This ends the Diginux saga, and now begins the next!
I thought I'd pass this on from an email I got from work. My boss and a co-worker are at Novell's Brain Share conference in Utah. From their descriptions of many of the sessions they've attended, Novell is very heavily bent on Linux on the desktop and had many --working-- apps and tools to show off.
Also I might be able to get my hands on some of their apps in advance that may be in beta form. I'll keep you posted on this when this materializes.
A side note about iFolder if you don't know what that is. In the Windows world you can load this on a client. It then talks https to a remote server that is part of the Novell network back at home base. Your iFolder storage on the Novell servers is synced locally. Then any new changes remotely or in the original storage is synced anytime you connect. It even syncs the moment you save a file if you are connected. VERY NICE, especially since you don't need VPN to do it and it talks a fairly standard protocol over ssl.
I'm moved in, now waiting for Internet. For the moment I am cataloging all bazillion anime cd's I have.
My laptop is working ok with the DDR software when I finally had a chance to plug it into the pad and television. For some reason the video is slower when using the rca video out jack on the laptop. Also, the screen is missing about a half inch on the sides of the screen. Otherwise, it is still playable. To get some extra speed out of the box, I'll try installing Linux and using a lightweight window manager like fluxbox or window maker.
I've configured Pydance on my PII 300mhz laptop. It works reasonably well especially after I installed Pysco for Python/Pygame optimizations. I've been pulling a lot of links and songs from BemaniStyle. If you know where I can pull more songs from, or if you have some of your own plus steps I might be able to host them on my site.
I'm using the Boom PS2 to USB adapter. It works great in Windows XP, but I'll try it out in Linux as soon as I get power to the apartment. (EDIT 15:49) I now have power, so I'll probably try it out in the next few days or even tonight.
I had this idea for a dance dance revolution addon. Looking at Pydance and its competitors, I was having some difficulty getting songs and dance steps from the Internet. My idea was having the program automatically create the dance steps for you. Using a neural network, it may be possible to train a net with the limited selection of songs on the Internet. Then for songs that the user has in their personal collection or even streaming off the web the program would generate the steps on the fly as the user plays. This could also be used with mpeg or divx music videos, where the video is used as the background and the music is in the front.
Well, it has been a week sense I signed the lease on the apartment. No power -still-. I was told by the land owner that the power would be restored on Friday or so with LES (Lincoln's power company). I was growing very frustrated with not having anything today when I checked in, so I called up the power company. Turns out that Jeffery Rentals Inc. of Lincoln, NE didn't even contact them yet! Taking matters into my own hands now I have requested power to be activated at the apartment. A little late now that I've signed the lease, but let this be a warning to any others out there.
I've updated the site to use a dynamic blogger. This should allow me to update on the fly, even emailing the web server remotely to do updates!
Anyhow, I'm currently in the process of moving to a single bedroom apartment. That should be finished in about a week or two as soon as I can get Internet in the new place.
Ok, I'm back to Gentoo and trying to find a workaround for the Samba 3.0 in 64bitness lockup problem. The Knoppix/Debian chroot environment to compile a 64 bit kernel just wasn't working. I even tried compiling in Gentoo then moving the kernel over to Knoppix and that didn't work well with Debian's init.
The system is working in KDE with the dual head system and networking. I've gotten a sigfault with konsole, but not system fatal faults. I haven't attempted to get sound working yet.
I'm trying another chroot environment with the i686 32bit stage3 installer, but wonder if there is an easier way to do this.
I did an ld on a 32bit binary (Neverwinter Nights actually), and it gave me:
ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file `nwmain' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000000407900
This enabled me to run the binary, better than where it got before with simply bombing out. I might have to do that with every 32bit game I have, which I kinda want to avoid especially when it comes to doing wine stuff.
Now doing ldd on the binary, I got:
libm.so.6 => /emul/i686/lib/libm.so.6 (0x5557c000)
libpthread.so.0 => /emul/i686/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x5559e000)
libGL.so.1 => not found
libGLU.so.1 => not found
libmss.so.6 => not found
libSDL-1.2.so.0 => not found
libc.so.6 => /emul/i686/lib/libc.so.6 (0x555f0000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x55555000)
I'm getting close, I figure a recompile of all the X libraries and OpenGL in the /emul/i686 chroot environment should get it. I just don't like sitting around for another 6 hours getting every kde, xfree, etc library recompiled. The /lib/ld-linux.so.2 one I copied over to the /lib dir from /emul/i686/lib per the instructions on the website I linked above.
Well, I'm to the point where I'm comfortable with my system. I have the following working:
sound using alsa with oss legacy support
xfree86 4.3.0.1 with dual monitors
OpenGL direct acceleration for 64 bit applications
OpenGL in-direct rendering for 32 bit applications
KDE 3.2.0
\nhybrid 32/64 bit system - which was my main goal
The 32 bit apps (ok... games) I've tested so far:
Neverwinter Nights + Hordes of the Underdark with patch 1.61
Quake 3 Arena (sound doesn't work)
Unreal Tournament
The key to getting 32 bit working was to have a chroot'd Gentoo install. I did the emerge on xfree and sdl using the same USE variables in the 64 bit environment. Then I added those libraries in the chroot area to my ld library config. The link I posted earlier was bad, use:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~tester/amd64-tech-notes-orig.html
Then to get the 32 bit GL games to work with my Nvidia Geforce 4 was to use this export variable:
export __GL_FORCE_DIRECT=0
That forces the games to go through X instead of the hardware for GL rendering. It -definitely- slows down the performance, but I thought it was about even with my 800mhz. The reason I couldn't use the nvidia 32-bit gl libraries that I compiled in the chroot 32 bit area was the gl libraries make calls to the kernel. Those calls are 32 bit, while the kernel only supports the 64 bit versions. Till Nvidia puts in a wrapper for those calls into their drivers I'm stuck having X be the middleman.
I haven't done anything with wine.
finally had the equipment in hand Friday. First up - Gentoo. I used the AMD64 livecd lite version. The first stage of getting gcc and all the bootstrap programs compiled it locked up in one of the scripts. Looked like it was referencing the /dev system that the livecd didn't mount or create.
Anyhow, second up - Gentoo AMD64 livecd full. This one went better. I followed their install instructions to the letter and actually got my dual head X-windows screens to come up. Granted, I didn't have any window managers but at that point I was estatic. Then compiling kde and/or downloading files via samba it locked up tight. No keyboard action, couldn't change console. The exact lockup occured when I was trying to copy a file from a samba mount to another samba mount. It may have just been an issue with the samba 3.0 and kernel 2.6.3 and being in a 64 bit environment.
I'll never find out - I reformatted again.
This time I went for Knoppix 3.3. When booting into it neither of my vid cards were found. Thankfully I had saved my XF86Config from the second Gentoo install and sftp'd it into Knoppix to use. One of the x-screens came up, good enough for an install. The first install failed due to a rather nasty ink blot I missed on the cd, so the next bootup on another knoppix cd and install went fine.
I'm now in that install and downloading a Debian chroot environment so I can cross compile a 64 bit kernel. The instructions I'm following are located at:
https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/1314/21/debian-amd64-howto.html
Anyhow, I'll keep you posted.
Happy new year! I have been relaxing now - now that I finally have my degree. Guess it hasn't fully sunk in yet when I go in to work that I won't be going back to school this next semester, or year even. Ah well, on to bigger quests!
Home stretch, last bit of projects, presentations and tests. Then it is finals week and then finally graduation from the university. From the looks of it, it will be a kickass party - lots of goodies going into this one including free food! If you think I forgot you in the invitations, let me know. I need to know how many people are coming to give the estimate to the caterers.
Home stretch, last bit of projects, presentations and tests. Then it is finals week and then finally graduation from the university. From the looks of it, it will be a kickass party - lots of goodies going into this one including free food! If you think I forgot you in the invitations, let me know. I need to know how many people are coming to give the estimate to the caterers.
It is my last semester, finally. One more semester and I graduate with my Bacholors in Computer Science! Muahahahaha! Classes start tomorrow. In other news, I'm looking for a way to deploy Windows 95/98 patches and MS Office patches automatically just like Microsoft's Software Update Services for Win2000/XP. I know, it is Micrsoft - but this is also work and I have an obligation to maintain system security. I've got an idea on how to put these things out automatically by writing a program for it, or I could use Novell Zenworks. Well, if you have any ideas, let me know. I may not like Microsoft, but I would hate getting cracked even more.
It is my last semester, finally. One more semester and I graduate with my Bacholors in Computer Science! Muahahahaha! Classes start tomorrow. In other news, I'm looking for a way to deploy Windows 95/98 patches and MS Office patches automatically just like Microsoft's Software Update Services for Win2000/XP. I know, it is Micrsoft - but this is also work and I have an obligation to maintain system security. I've got an idea on how to put these things out automatically by writing a program for it, or I could use Novell Zenworks. Well, if you have any ideas, let me know. I may not like Microsoft, but I would hate getting cracked even more.
During lunch. Full time this week at work. I noticed that the 2.6 test kernel for Linux is out. One thing I noticed is that the smbfs has support for files larger than 2 gigs. I've had a need for that recently. I'm trying to have my main "enterprise" home file server to automatically every night send a tar of all user directories to another file server I have on the network. It would stop every time at the 2 gig mark - and I need it to go to 64 gigs! Ah well, I might also trying to go to Samba 3 to see if that fixes the problem. On the fanfics, thanks for the review on the Ranma Layer that I have received! Ranma has an ego, but doesn't seem to put to much confidence (I think) in much anything else. Sorta the untrusting type after what his father, fiancees, etc did. So, him getting over that and putting confidence in his angel and those around him will be a major theme in that fanfic. Well, I'm off to work!
During lunch. Full time this week at work. I noticed that the 2.6 test kernel for Linux is out. One thing I noticed is that the smbfs has support for files larger than 2 gigs. I've had a need for that recently. I'm trying to have my main "enterprise" home file server to automatically every night send a tar of all user directories to another file server I have on the network. It would stop every time at the 2 gig mark - and I need it to go to 64 gigs! Ah well, I might also trying to go to Samba 3 to see if that fixes the problem. On the fanfics, thanks for the review on the Ranma Layer that I have received! Ranma has an ego, but doesn't seem to put to much confidence (I think) in much anything else. Sorta the untrusting type after what his father, fiancees, etc did. So, him getting over that and putting confidence in his angel and those around him will be a major theme in that fanfic. Well, I'm off to work!
I've updated a few fics. Also done with one of my summer classes. Next up, certification for the summer!
ARGGGG!! Must find more time to get away from work... must work on fanfics... Anyhow, I finished watching Angelic Layer a second time through. I'm also starting on Ranma 1/2 seasons 4,5 and 6. Also catching up on the Ranma 1/2 manga. Basically, research. I really need to purchase the rest of Rayearth to continue on Pillars of Strength.
ARGGGG!! Must find more time to get away from work... must work on fanfics... Anyhow, I finished watching Angelic Layer a second time through. I'm also starting on Ranma 1/2 seasons 4,5 and 6. Also catching up on the Ranma 1/2 manga. Basically, research. I really need to purchase the rest of Rayearth to continue on Pillars of Strength.
Finals are done. Spring semester is done. Homework out of the way. Now, I have some free time between studying for techs certifications, LAN parties and work to actually do the website and my fics! Bwuahahahaha! Later on this coming week things will pick up once more.
Finals are done. Spring semester is done. Homework out of the way. Now, I have some free time between studying for techs certifications, LAN parties and work to actually do the website and my fics! Bwuahahahaha! Later on this coming week things will pick up once more.
Projects and finals are around the bend. Very busy, especially since most are due this coming week. On a side, I've started a sole propietorship on the side for security services. I've been getting more and more requests from those around me for help with their network security, so I thought to make some legit cash on the side from it. Check it out! www.wessels.homelinux.com
My how time flies. One moment I'm stuck in one project, the next war, the next another project. Graduation is now in site (less than a year, muahahaha). Gotta go, I'm still working on the fics, just taking a while.
My how time flies. One moment I'm stuck in one project, the next war, the next another project. Graduation is now in site (less than a year, muahahaha). Gotta go, I'm still working on the fics, just taking a while.