Now that I have been treated and the sleep issues seem to be gone, I have decided to start riding again. I figured with the small amount of time that I have to ride now that I have two kids, it would be best to commute to get some miles in. This ends up being 29.5 miles a day for me.

Sunday I rode 18 miles to make sure that I could ride the miles I needed to in order to make one leg of the journey (14.77 miles). The ride was great, I hopped on my bike and made it out about five miles. I couldn’t believe how well my legs were responding and what speed I could keep for being so far out of shape. Then I realized that even though I saw the trees blowing violently, I felt no wind. Doh! It all worked out, I made it home fine, but it was a quick reminder that I need to pay more attention then I have been.

I have since made one round trip commute, and a one way commute. The second day I got soaked on the way in and it was raining when it was time to leave. It rained today, but I think I may be able to ride in the rest of the week. That will give me approx 120 miles this week. Not bad for my first week back riding after 9 months off with no exercise in between!

1. Figure out how to get vim to interact as the eclipse editor
2. Figure out how to get vim to receive debugging information from eclipse

Update: I found a piece of software called eclim that acts like a glue between eclipse and vim, but it seems to be crashing with Java 6. I’ll probably keep playing with this because it does seem like it has potential.

One of the nice things about the setup with the Cygwin Putty patch is that you are logged into the system on console, and you’re not doing a trick to ssh back to local host. This opens up some nice possibilities because you can now interact with the system as though you are on console.

The first thing that I did was to create a gvim function:

function gvim {
$GVIM $* &
}

Where I have my gvim installation defined elsewhere. Yeah, this could be done through an alias, and I will probably switch it to that, but now at least gvim functions in cygwin like it does in a linux console situation.

Secondly, if I’m going to use windows, I’m at least going to want to have access to the windows explorer. If you’re on the system, you may as well use the parts of it that you want to your advantage. So I added this function next:


function e {
if [ -z $* ]; then
path=`cygpath -wa $PWD`;
else
path=`cygpath -wa $*`;
fi
explorer /e,/root,$path
}


This allows me to open an explorer with the root dir of the explorer window set to either:

• my current directory (if I do not give a directory as an argument)
• or a directory of my choice that I pass in with the command.

The e function has probably been one of the more useful functions for me in my daily life on a windows box.

Just happy about this for a chance. On top of which all of my systems seem to be in a relatively good state. Yay.

Never mind that, just do:

apt-get install ivtv-modules-2.6.18-4-686 (or whatever kernel you’re running) as Greg says to. Just make sure that you get the firmware from the IVTV site and put it in the /lib/firmware directory. I am also putting a line for ivtv in /etc/modules and udev seems to pick it up by default.

1. apt-get the latest linux kernel source
2. load the default configuration for the kernel you just installed (from /boot/config-2.6.xx)
3. unpack the lirc source in the /usr/src dir
4. run dpkg-reconfigure lirc-modules-source and let it build the modules.

For my homebrew IR module I need to do the serial setting with the defaults for the settings. Make sure that I say no to “generate software carrier”.

This machine is replacing an OpenBSD box that I had there as my router. Although I’m sad to see that machine go, I’m happy to have a much smaller footprint for my firewall/router.

I have the basic machine setup, a firewall setup keeping the wired network separated from the wifi network, and a dns/dhcp server running. My remaining todo list is this:

1. ChilliSpot WAP Management Software
2. FreeRADIUS Integration with ChilliSpot
3. IPSec opening in the FW to allow me to tunnel into my internal network
4. Move the router somewhere to get better reception or buy better antennas for the router

The ChilliSpot software is actually installed, I just need to take the time to learn about FreeRADIUS and RADIUS servers in general to see how they work (I also supposidly have FreeRADIUS setup on my server as well, but I haven’t attempted to authenticate off of it yet).

I’m also not planning on implementing IPSec on the router because, as was pointed out by my friend Greg in his experiment, the router really doesn’t have the power to do this. I will most likely use Open/SWAN on an internal machine and use that to connect to through the WIFI (only, not the external network for now), just making sure that the router allows the traffic through.

I also either need to move the router or find better antennae for it since I cannot get reception all over the house.