ewindisch on April 25th, 2007

In my free-time (*hah*) I’ve made some further progress on zeroSSH. I have an internal beta that is running with an SSH terminal built-in, and has prep-work towards supporting Avahi. Plans are also in the works for a new feature altogether, SFTP support. Ideally, if I succeed in my goals for this project, it will [...]

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ewindisch on April 17th, 2007

It has been planned for some time now, and I never got around to it… but I’ve finally setup a public FTP for GrokThis.net.   This was prompted by the need of a private Debian mirror, due to growing bandwidth requirements.  We’re also hosting various disk images, and the sources to some of our applications. As [...]

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ewindisch on April 16th, 2007

I’ve dropped in the final KVM unit at Phl Colo #2, extending our IP-KVM coverage to all of our machines.   The servers that were not covered by KVM prior to today were not (yet) assigned to customers — customer machines had already been connected to KVM. I got to take a look at the [...]

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ewindisch on April 16th, 2007

It is great that Service Discovery is finally growing up. Today, on my Mac and Linux machines, I get a popup alerting me to any new services available on the network, I get an automatically populated list of SSH servers, my file browser shows me all of the machines on my LAN, and even my [...]

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ewindisch on April 14th, 2007

Python is my favorite language.  I also believe that my applications should be cross-platform. Unfortunately, as cross-platform as Python is, it requires an interpreter to run. Thats a problem when deploying to Windows, which doesn’t ship with Python. That is why for my latest project, all likely many from this point forward, I’m using IronPython. [...]

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