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I don't like putting 2 hackepedias back to back. Oh yeah I relased beta_5 of wildcarddnsd and a patch to that on sourceforge, that's what I've been doing mainly these past few days.

Random Hackepedia

The RH for this week is netstat.

WildcardDNSd, new features

In the last 2 weeks or so Wildcarddnsd has gotten 2 major features. TXT RR support is one (which I did today) and NS delegations work now. Before they weren't working right. Also I extended the region support to IPv6 which was interesting.

Although these features are in HEAD I'm reluctant to CVS tag for BETA_5. It's too close still to the last BETA_4 tag. Perhaps in a month, I can consider this.

Random Hackepedia

This weeks RH is Dsp.

Clear skies, no camera

Well. We had clear skies tonight but I had no chance of making a picture of the southern sky. Also looking out I cannot make out the constellation Leo with the bare eyes. Too much LP (light pollution). However as you can see I have the Xephem program doing magical things. In the southern sky at 11PM tonight one should see Mars and Saturn as well as the Moon (further up). Xephem is really a great astronomy program.

Hackepedia changed its look

The image for hackepedia will change to this one as the old one is probably not relevant anymore.

Happy Equinox

It almost went by without me remembering. Happy Equinox! From Wikipedia:

An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth's axis is 
inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the Sun being vertically 
above a point on the Equator...

Digital Camera

My birthday was a few days ago and I got an Olympus X-925 Black camera from my parents. I never had a digital camera before and this one has 12 Mega Pixels! It's not a professional camera but the test photos I took turned out well. Perhaps I'll blog with some photos in the near future.

Here is a picture that I took of the sun with a welding filter before the lens. It didn't turn out great and I had to digitally remove all light and it's still bright which tells me the filter isn't all that great. But it's worth experimenting a little on what the cameras limits are.

OpenBSD 4.7 song pre-released

Well OpenBSD has been pre-released. Pre-orders are being taken directly from the OpenBSD site or through OpenBSD Europe (which I did this time). The song was released to the public yesterday and can be heard here. I think the song is good, but it's not as geeky as the other ones IMO.

One thing about the song is the "I'm still here" which in my opinion is a take on the project leader who has been loyal to his project and hasn't gone off and made money elsewhere. I don't know how much he makes but I suspect the house is paid off and his salary is decent. It's nice that OpenBSD is still the way it was 10 years ago. People come and go though but the leader and focus is still the same.

Random Hackepedia

The RH for this week is Windows.