Technical goals for this weekend May 20, 2006
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Well, since I seem to have basically failed to meet every other goal I set for myself in the previous post, I'm going to make more short term ones for the time being. For starters, I'm going to set up SSH tunneling through https by the end of the weekend. It shouldn't take too long, and I think I've found a better way that doesn't involve running a full-blown apache proxy.
Technical goals to meet by the end of April March 30, 2006
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- Have some kind of definite software solution for the CarPC system. As it is, I'm bouncing between distros trying to balance boot time/bloat with functionality. amaroK looks like it's going to be the backbone of the music-playing site since it has great plugins, supports ratings, and will sync with a music player/ipod with probably not too much fuss.
- Make a honeypot and look at some attack profiles the script kiddies generally use. Hopefully get a good idea of a rootkitter's MO
- Make and maintain a Linux distro (more on this later; it's contingent on progress in a project I have no control over)
Initial release of JSimViz January 30, 2006
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JSimViz is now out at version 0.1. Should have basic functionality and the RUU display window. Documentation is pretty bare now, but will be steadily updated.
Gyakuten Saiban 3 Translation Project January 18, 2006
Posted by spanky in gaming, japanese, programming.add a comment
So someone has finally answered the call and started to translate Gyakuten Saiban 3 (known to most of you as that silly lawyer adventure game for GBA). This seems like it’d be right up my alley, incorporating some programming, reverse engineering, and (mostly) Japanese translation. The guy is apparently working only in Windows, but he’s written the code very Linux-style with makefiles and such, so adjusting the compile options isn’t that hard. I’m still having problems with some of the quirky flags his compiler uses, but we’ll see what I can do about that. I’m sure my code monkey CS friends are already familiar with every little flag in gcc, but I’m just a CpE, what do I know? =)
The good news is that the hard stuff has already been taken care of by the project maintainer. Problems involving getting font sizes right, etc. All of Case 1 is translated, and a patch is available. I’m joining the project and adding whatever I can as much as time allows. I’ll post whatever updates are relevant here.
