Not sure what the /. deities have been tweaking but I've received mod points twice this week after a few years of never getting them.

Ohhh the power... it's going to my head already. Grovel, swine!

I've got some larger projects around work, mainly networkish things (SNMP trapping, {Squid|PIX|routers|switches|WLAN|VPN} log parsing, nmap, etc.) and I'm at a crossroads between what language to use. I'm most comfortable with plain ol' C but that would be overkill for these jobs

I've done a fair amount of Python and am happy with it but have read great things about Ruby.

Basically I'm wanting something that works well with SNMP, has a good networking library and plays very nicely with Apache & PostgreSQL. The ability to script telnet and ssh stuff (ala Expect) would be a definite plus.

Simply put: I want to settle on a language for these types of projects. Input from anyone would be appreciated!

EDIT: Perl need not apply, I'd rather use awk.

Yaayy!!!

Kim and BabyAnna went to Edmonton for a week to visit Kim's sister and brother-in-law. The house has been so damn quiet I was going out of my mind. For a week there was:

- No calling home "as I turn onto Colony St."

- No asking if we need anything picked up

- No Anna smiling and bouncing in her chair as I walk in the house

- No kisses when I get in (Kim's still on mat leave and usually there when I get home)

- Too many "dinners for one" :( (That one hurts)

- None of Kim's laughing and joking (she has a deliciously evil sense of humour)

- No feeding Anna her dinner at 6:00

- No putting our little girl in her crib together and just smile at her before we quietly scuttle out.

- No waking up to Anna's smiling face.

- No going out to the store "as a family"

Our home became quiet as a tomb.

Going straight home was a total drag so a couple of times I went out for a beer(s) after work. Then the "Man, what would I do without them?" mind tricks happened. That kind of crap started up. So I'd leave the pub feeling worse than I did before I went in.

I'm so domestic now but I wouldn't trade it for anything.

btw, be sure to visit Anna's Homepage :) No homepage for Kim (yet?)...

edit: 12:20 CST Just got mail from Kim, she sounds happy about coming home too. :)

I'm always looking for invites to private trackers. Hey, it never hurts to spread out one's bets. If you have something interesting email me (slashdot at grub dot net) and put "TORRENTS" in the subject and perhaps we could reciprocate invites.

Please don't bother mailing me if you aren't a Fan or Friend. Mention your /. ID in your email.

Cheers!

I resolve to be outspoken and obnoxious.

If anyone knows Swedish and would like to translate a video for Swedish audio->English subs please let me know.

It seems there's a Swedish expose on Landmark Forum which would be great to have English subs for.

Any takers? You'd be doing free-thinking a great favour!

Drop me a msg here with your address or, if you're worried about cultish threats, mail slashdot (at) grub (dot) net or grieder (at) gmail (dot) com.

THANK YOU!

Here's the poop:

I used Linux a lot "back in the day" when Slackware came on a stack of 3.5" floppies for my 486. I moved on to FreeBSD and (my personal favourite) OpenBSD.

I'm setting up a machine for my workbench to work with JTAG and BDM interfaces and a lot of the info out there seems Linux-specific.

I'm not looking to be converted from OpenBSD, that isn't going to happen, I just want a decent distro of Linux to hack about on for this application and I don't want to do porting or debugging. If I screw up a piece of hardware through JTAG or BDM it can be rendered pretty useless, hence my desire to stay close to home.

Recommendations anyone?

1 minutes, 25 seconds of WTF?

I've always looked for the silver lining in a cloud, here's mine for 9/11.

In '01 I was working a 6 month contract doing network security stuff here in .ca. I had my TN visa in hand so I could move to Austin, TX to work at ud.com (they're the guys who assimilated the distributed.net crew) once my contract here was through.

We had a realtor lined up to sell the house, moving company arranged, etc.

My contract had ~6 weeks left when Sept. 11 happened. The immigration lawyer which UD supplied told me that the border was effectively closed.

Oh well, I still had a month and change of work in the contract, surely it would be settled by then, right?

The contract finished, the border was still tight. I wasn't working. So I took a few weeks off to basically play games, fuck the dog, whatever.

In Feb. 2002 the place I was contracted to on Sept. 11 heard I was still in town and offered me a position. Very soon after my ex and I got a divorce.

Fast forward a bit and I met Kim. And now we have Anna who will be 13 weeks old tomorrow, Sept. 12. I'm still working at the place and love what I do.

If it weren't for Osama's boys and their flight plans there'd be no Kim in my life, Anna wouldn't exist, and I probably wouldn't have this job that I love doing.

Weird how life works....

Have you had anything good come from what happened on Sept. 11?

rah1420 (whoever that is) made me his first foe. I've been fairly innocuous lately, wonder what did it... oh something shiny! Have to run...

A link to this article was posted as a reply to a post of mine yesterday. I've re-read it a couple of times and it just disturbs me the more I read it. There's a group of gay people who actively look for getting infected by HIV.

Bug Chasers: The men who long to be HIV+

This is just fucked up.

BabyAnna.net

Quick 'n Dirty page (generated by a wee shell script). More to come.

3 weeks, 1 day early!
June 13, 2006 12:33 PM.
Running back to the hospital now, more info and pics later.

I have a Google spreadsheet called "Unintelligent Design" to which I'm freely giving edit access.

The reason? I'm wondering what will happen with no controls over deletion, editing or content. Will people leave crappy poetry? Goofy graffiti? Countless goatse links? Will whistleblowers from Roswell surface? Will those who hate our freedom use it against us?!

You can view, edit, modify or delete cells. Think chmod 777!

Go for it! Mail grieder at gmail.com or put your address in this JE for access.

NB: You'll need a gmail account, mail me for an invite. Once you get your spreadsheet invite in gmail, logout and back in. Once logged back in click the link to share the spreadsheet. From then on just go to http://spreadsheets.google.com Note that these invites are a 'backway' into Google's spreadsheet service, no need to go to their signup page, very much like a gmail invite.

Little Anna is due on July 5. This morning Kim wakes up full of energy and wants to go swimming right out of bed, very odd. While we're doing that ~8:30 AM, she's looking around the backyard and talking about what to do to the gardens and yard. Then gets out, pops up an umbrella and lounger then chills for a while. [fast forward ~7 hours] She's gone through all of the wee one's clothes, washed everything and is filing it (by size) in the closet. Also told me that I have to put the car carrier base in her car soon. And during this, has been packing the suitcase to bring to the hospital with stuff for all 3 of us.

She's crazy right now, I hear her upstairs working in the baby's room. Is this the 'nesting instinct' people have been asking me about? ("has she started nesting yet?")

(whoa, while editting something I see the new CSS layouts have kicked in... that freaked me out) ah.. I see the [i] tags are broken.