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I really am. I got an iPhone 3G.

Mitigating factors are that the camera is really awesome, and also that I got root on it, voiding my warranty a mere fifteen minutes after unboxing it.

I have compiled version 1.0.3 of Xapian for Windows, and I have built and packaged the Python Bindings for your convenience.

You can find the new version here.

This time they are available for both Python 2.4 and 2.5. Enjoy.

I now have a /29 subnet at home. This is probably the pinnacle of network geekdom.

I SO feel like running a honeypot…

I have built the Xapian Python Bindings on Windows. They comes packaged with an easy, standard (distutils) installer. This may help with some of the headaches associated with running Xapian on Python and Windows.

Getting the whole thing to compile was not exactly a walk in the park, so I assumed people would be glad to have an easy Binary installer handy. I plan to use this library for a few internal projects, and I want the said project to be as multi platform as possible.

So far, they are only packaged for Python 2.5 but I will try to package them for 2.4 later on today or during this week.

See the details here.

They were built on Windows Server 2003 with MSVC from Visual C++ 2005 Express.

I hope this helps.

I am currently in the process of switching internet service providers. I was growing tired of dealing with the faceless blob that assimilated istop before it went under. Plus, IGS/Cybersurf/3web/CIA are actually routed through cogentco, for great slowness.

I found a new ISP, electronicbox. They offer me everything istop once did, and more. Expect a bit of downtime while the move order is processed, and while the DNSes are refreshing.

Everything should be back in order in a few days.

Just to let everyone know I’ve poked my head in the Apache2 hanging on digest generation problem again, and figured out a better solution than relying on rng-utils.

Check it out.

But I did it. I am now a proud member of the Free Software Foundation.

I feel good. Really good.

If you owe a lot to Free Software, you should consider becoming a member too.

I am honestly considering becoming a member of the FSF.

120$ USD a year is a little heavy on the wallet, but it would feel right. That would be giving back a little of all the great things I got. I feel like I owe so much to Free Software, most of my passion for Unix was spawned from it…

I still need to think about that… but I think I will. I can probably afford it, even with my student loan which I’m trying to pay back.

One thing is sure, were I to win an obscene amount of money, such as, say, 15 millions, i’d immediately distribute five among my favorite Open Source projects and the FSF.

I mean, what the fuck would I need so much money for? I have no interest in living large. All I ask for is a home, room for my computers, electricty and bandwidth, and a way to pay for all of this. Maybe I’d just build a small datacenter with a phat pipe and lend out rackspace, bandwidth and servers to Free Software projects. I don’t know, anything.

One thing I know for sure is that I’d keep working. I love my job too much.

Well that wasn’t really interesting, was it? I’m tired. I’m off to bed.

Turns out the latest WordPress release b0rked my carefully crafted layout. So I have been hacking the beeblebrox theme a bit to suit my purposes. So far, I quite like it.

There are significant changes planned for this blog, namely a better structure, and the migration of basically anything I posted over at underwares.org during the past year to this blog. I have a brighter future planned for Underwares.org as well.

I’m looking forward to making this more than a place where I just randomly blurt out insanities and mindless banter, and I think things are looking up.